valentino 0 Posted February 6, 2009 Report Share Posted February 6, 2009 ok,..so i was wondering if anyone has re trained into a different career, whether they were in there 20s all the way upto retirment..... why did you decide to re train,..how long did it take and are you glad you took the risk? valentino Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dogman89 0 Posted February 6, 2009 Report Share Posted February 6, 2009 ok,..so i was wondering if anyone has re trained into a different career, whether they were in there 20s all the way upto retirment..... why did you decide to re train,..how long did it take and are you glad you took the risk? valentino id love to retrain as something else. im 19 and really need a change of job, i need something challenging and something different, atm i do the same thing week in week out. not sure what i really want do though. i really wanna do something outside, possibly farm work. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
valentino 0 Posted February 6, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2009 ok,..so i was wondering if anyone has re trained into a different career, whether they were in there 20s all the way upto retirment..... why did you decide to re train,..how long did it take and are you glad you took the risk? valentino id love to retrain as something else. im 19 and really need a change of job, i need something challenging and something different, atm i do the same thing week in week out. not sure what i really want do though. i really wanna do something outside, possibly farm work. 19 is no age mate,....my advice to you is have a good think about what you want to do now,...something that even if it takes you 5 / 6 years to train to do it...then do it.... dont look at the quick fix now,..look for a future... im 24 mate, and im not in a good position career wise,....and its my fault...alot of older people will say the same to me as i have to you regarding your age,...as imo 24 is no age to,....but for me to train and have no money for 3 / 4 years doing something new will take me up to 29.....that is scary... i made the wrong choices when i was 19 / 20 and that was because i said to myself if i re train now that will take me up to 24 with no money etc..............how i wish i could go back and change it best of luck Valentino Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jayd 0 Posted February 6, 2009 Report Share Posted February 6, 2009 I abandoned my career in school for a woman, never again. Was gonna leave school and go into the forces, but forgot about that because I met someone, so ended up going to college, studying for something I couldn't really be bothered with, and then when college was over, I came out with A Levels which I had no intention of pursuing, as I had already outgrown computers. Did warehouse and Quality Control work from then on, but looking at retraining with a trade behind me. All the best. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
labsnlurchers 39 Posted February 6, 2009 Report Share Posted February 6, 2009 Im a 27 year old mother of 1 and work in the welsh assembly rural payments but i am on a course for pest control in march, nothing wrong with keeping your options open whatever your age but at the minute im loving my work, just using the pest control as a side business venture, weekend work really its more like a hobby that we get paid for! lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bignoel 14 Posted February 6, 2009 Report Share Posted February 6, 2009 i was in the building game all my life hit 40 and thought feck this turned to pestcontrol and enjoyed every minute of it great being my own boss till credit crunch nearly feckt again . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Big bald beautiful 1,231 Posted February 6, 2009 Report Share Posted February 6, 2009 did a tiling course , waste of £1100 4 weeks training and got no real work out of it, they bullshit you, saying you can get £25 a mitre a mates a pro tiler and cant get that around me. so its back to what i know best turning, milling, machining Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest foxyjo. Posted February 6, 2009 Report Share Posted February 6, 2009 I haven't but I must.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
wuzzy 0 Posted February 6, 2009 Report Share Posted February 6, 2009 Trade trained as a joiner in germany (its a long story) came back and did a evening hnc as an it technitian in the evenings while doing warehousing in the daytime cant say it was worth it but it was something different to fall back on,but ended up learning how to weld and fab and now work with sheet metal and im only 28 lifes a funny old road but if your not happy mate get out as soon as! and never look back. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dogman89 0 Posted February 6, 2009 Report Share Posted February 6, 2009 ok,..so i was wondering if anyone has re trained into a different career, whether they were in there 20s all the way upto retirment..... why did you decide to re train,..how long did it take and are you glad you took the risk? valentino id love to retrain as something else. im 19 and really need a change of job, i need something challenging and something different, atm i do the same thing week in week out. not sure what i really want do though. i really wanna do something outside, possibly farm work. 19 is no age mate,....my advice to you is have a good think about what you want to do now,...something that even if it takes you 5 / 6 years to train to do it...then do it.... dont look at the quick fix now,..look for a future... im 24 mate, and im not in a good position career wise,....and its my fault...alot of older people will say the same to me as i have to you regarding your age,...as imo 24 is no age to,....but for me to train and have no money for 3 / 4 years doing something new will take me up to 29.....that is scary... i made the wrong choices when i was 19 / 20 and that was because i said to myself if i re train now that will take me up to 24 with no money etc..............how i wish i could go back and change it best of luck Valentino cheers for the advice mate, thats excatly what i thought thats why i went into work. i walked out near the end of a course at 17 and just now im realising i wasted 2 years. im just gonna take a look and see what courses are starting in september and see where i go from there Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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