Reply to: Alternative Careers

[DealorNoDeal]

So what we are saying is we want some super paying alternative to IT, that means you are never on the bench, and involves no hard work whatsoever...

Trading bitcoin.

[Old Greg]

And without the shop (and little old ladies) overheads,

He has to hide in the grating now for the little old ladies overheads.

[Old Greg]

So what we are saying is we want some super paying alternative to IT, that means you are never on the bench, and involves no hard work whatsoever...

I had this exact thought this morning before looking at this thread.

[ladymuck]

We're both good in our own fields. I'm sure Texas couldn't run and manage a successful paper merchants. I couldn't do what-, well, I could do what they do, and I think they knew that, even back then. Probably what spurred them on.

[Andy2]

I think drug dealer and porn star seem like the best jobs.

why not become a drug dealing pornstar.
double win

[Jog On]

I'm making house music and going into songwriting/composing for sync (TV/film/advertising).

[heyya99]

I have thought about it but have no idea what I'd do. I'm barely competent at the job I'm currently trying to do.

If only stacking shelves paid £100k

We're both good in our own fields. I'm sure Texas couldn't run and manage a successful paper merchants. I couldn't do what-, well, I could do what they do, and I think they knew that, even back then. Probably what spurred them on.

[vetran]

I think drug dealer and porn star seem like the best jobs.

so screwing people or screwing people.

[cojak]

I chucked it in in October and became a full time Amazon seller, making around £10k a month, which is fine by me.

And without the shop (and little old ladies) overheads, I would imagine that's it relatively steady income without much of the hassle (you were always dealing with suppliers).

[DimPrawn]

I think drug dealer and porn star seem like the best jobs.

[Excursion UK]

Airline industry in terrible shape. However I reckon there will be a growth in business jets. Where more people seek to move around without the mass transit. But wages for those pilots will be rubbish. And maybe more individuals will look to fly themselves.

Feel sorry for those who spent north of 100k on training to now be on the dole.

Scrum master on a project I worked on last year was an on/off commercial pilot and took a load of time out and spent an eye watering sum to upgrade to somekindoranother of long haul aircraft.

He's cap in hand on Linked in these days...

[WTFH]

Politician?
There's a lot on here who produce hot air while saying nothing. Could be a simple move from MF to MP.

[mallisarealperson]

Always wanted to be a pilot. got someway down the route in 2006 with a cadet program for a major. That imploded with the 07/08 fiscal crash so reverted back to IT and later contracting.

By the time things had recovered, cadet programs were long gone and I couldn't justify the switch; £100K training, loss of income while training and dire pay rates for low hours crew...

With hindsight, ducked a bullet!

M

Airline industry in terrible shape. However I reckon there will be a growth in business jets. Where more people seek to move around without the mass transit. But wages for those pilots will be rubbish. And maybe more individuals will look to fly themselves.

Feel sorry for those who spent north of 100k on training to now be on the dole.

[rootsnall]

I think there's a few on here with a rose tinted glasses view of "trades". I'm massively into my DIY and I'm just coming up to plastering and second fix on a 90% DIY extension. I knocked down the old, dug foundations, poured the concrete, built the footings and some of the block work (That's the point I got in some pro help to get up to the roof), built the roof and have just finished up all the first fix.

It is *hard* graft. The thought of waking up every Monday morning and doing that tulip all day AND putting up with all the joys of public facing customers (If you think agents are bad, speak to a self employed tradesman!). No thanks, to say the least. I renovated the entire house a few years ago and the electrical was easily the least fun bit - chasing out 1930s brick everywhere, just absolutely grim!

I do agree with the thrust of the thread, though - I'm always keeping an eye on an out, and I certainly don't intend to be doing this at 67 - but my hope is to be doing something vocational as a paying hobby, not grafting it out on building sites!

A better IT motivator than any amount of courses, do some tulip manual jobs in your youth.

[vwdan]

If you can put up with the tedium there are not many cushier numbers than IT

I think there's a few on here with a rose tinted glasses view of "trades". I'm massively into my DIY and I'm just coming up to plastering and second fix on a 90% DIY extension. I knocked down the old, dug foundations, poured the concrete, built the footings and some of the block work (That's the point I got in some pro help to get up to the roof), built the roof and have just finished up all the first fix.

It is *hard* graft. The thought of waking up every Monday morning and doing that tulip all day AND putting up with all the joys of public facing customers (If you think agents are bad, speak to a self employed tradesman!). No thanks, to say the least. I renovated the entire house a few years ago and the electrical was easily the least fun bit - chasing out 1930s brick everywhere, just absolutely grim!

I do agree with the thrust of the thread, though - I'm always keeping an eye on an out, and I certainly don't intend to be doing this at 67 - but my hope is to be doing something vocational as a paying hobby, not grafting it out on building sites!