OK had enough

[Lockhouse]

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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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.

+1. Why do we contract, nothing else pays the same with zero hassle

[NotAllThere]

I'm considering retraining, doing something completely different.

Jacking in IT and going into home automation & Electrical.

Suggestions, brickbats & abuse welcome.

Daily Mail journalist. You couldn't be worse than the current shower.

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Boiler repair engineer. £75+VAT per half an hour in London...

[Halo Jones]

I'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 sparky

[Fronttoback]

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.

Exactly. Change your modus operandi not your career.

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.

[Grasser73]

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 sparky

Plumbers 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.

[barrydidit]

Plumbers 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.

The ones I know are corpulent over 50's but they have a gopher to crawl under floors

[SimonMac]

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.

[LondonManc]

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.

Combining the two and having a wider set of services would be a good market. If you can get a house properly Ethernet cabled up while doing a rewire, throw in automation options (an extended version of hive) and you're on to a major portfolio of saleable stuff. The reduced costs to you of doing all three at once (rewire, Ethernet and automation) means that you can upsell easily.