05-11-2014, 06:36 PM
(05-11-2014, 05:55 PM)Niall Wrote: Its NEVER too late to change career. When i was on my college course, there was a guy on it who was in his late 40s. That was an apprenticeship.
General building IMO doesn't pay all that well. If you can specialise in a trade related to building, you can earn a lot if you try hard!
HVAC
BMS
Plumbing
Electrics
Security and access control
Fire and life safety systems
Comms
Any of them will need qualifications and you can't just walk into unless your happy to pull cables for a few months but if you can get into any of them, you can earn a fair bit as they are all skilled trades. Depending on how good you can get and if you want to be self employed, you can be earning £300 a day in some of them trades.
Yeah just to echo this. I started as a trainee security engineer in January 2013. I'm now pretty much trained up. I trained as an electrician previously so picked it really quickly. I work on the books with 3 other engineers and 3 sub contractors. The subbies are earning £260 per day plus £55 per night working away. By mid 2015 I'll be going self employed myself. One downside is I live up North and all the work is in the South (typing this from a B&B in Swindon) I've been working in Reading for 18 weeks and TBH I'd like a few weeks at home.