The truth is, if you are in contract it's generally a highly effective way of earning a reasonable wedge. If anything else came close, we'd all be doing it.
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...my quagmire of greed....my cesspit of laziness and unfairness....all I am doing is sticking two fingers up at nurses, doctors and other hard working employed professionals...
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Originally posted by Lockhouse View PostThe truth is, if you are in contract it's generally a highly effective way of earning a reasonable wedge. If anything else came close, we'd all be doing it.merely at clientco for the entertainmentComment
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Originally posted by vetran View PostI'm considering retraining, doing something completely different.
Jacking in IT and going into home automation & Electrical.
Suggestions, brickbats & abuse welcome.Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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Boiler repair engineer. £75+VAT per half an hour in London...You're awesome! Get yourself a t-shirt.Comment
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Originally posted by vetran View PostI'm considering retraining, doing something completely different.
Jacking in IT and going into home automation & Electrical.
Suggestions, brickbats & abuse welcome.
I would say Plumber over Sparky - we do actually have a good crop of home grown sparks, plumbers however there will be a shortage, also less training to be a plumber over a sparkyGrowing old is mandatory
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Originally posted by Lockhouse View PostThe truth is, if you are in contract it's generally a highly effective way of earning a reasonable wedge. If anything else came close, we'd all be doing it.
For example, I have just done 6 months of very hard work at the start of a gig. I was sick of it at the end. Now I'm through that (still in same gig), and for the next 6 months I'm focusing on exercise and property development. But I'll still be pulling in very nice wedge during that decceleration.
Once the novelty wears off any activity becomes work. In my opinion it's better to focus on the mental game required to sustain the existing well paid work, than to jump ship to where the grass is greener.
I could be wrong but that's how I'm doing it at the minute. My evidence based reasoning is that outside of my line of work I hear the same moans and groans regardless of industry and position.Comment
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Originally posted by Halo Jones View PostI would say Plumber over Sparky - we do actually have a good crop of home grown sparks, plumbers however there will be a shortage, also less training to be a plumber over a sparkyComment
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Originally posted by Grasser73 View PostPlumbers tend to be smaller and fitter than sparks. Lots of installations are in cupboards and other confined spaces. Corpulent 50-somethings would do well to bear that in mind.Comment
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My brother is coming up to his end of service after 22 years in the Army, he keep pestering me about how to get into IT so he can contract though my company, I hold him to train as a sparky and specialise in cable pulling, fitting Ethernet or fiber cables in people houses, I know everything is WiFi these days but there will always be a need for a wired backbone, suppose home automation isn't too far a stretch from that as the next logical step too.Originally posted by Stevie Wonder BoyI can't see any way to do it can you please advise?
I want my account deleted and all of my information removed, I want to invoke my right to be forgotten.Comment
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Originally posted by SimonMac View PostMy brother is coming up to his end of service after 22 years in the Army, he keep pestering me about how to get into IT so he can contract though my company, I hold him to train as a sparky and specialise in cable pulling, fitting Ethernet or fiber cables in people houses, I know everything is WiFi these days but there will always be a need for a wired backbone, suppose home automation isn't too far a stretch from that as the next logical step too.The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't existComment
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