Making the leap

[AHPP]

What’s your current job?

[peds]

1 minute ago, SussexHarry said:

Yes I am tempted by it. Certainly got some perks - well paid (so I won’t have to stomach much of a pay cut leaving my current job), fully funded development, and the team seems good.

 

Only thing that puts me off is that I’ve heard utility work is akin to butchery, which is not the sort of work I think I’d like, nor the direction I’d want my career to take…. Decisions…

 

Stick it out for a few years, it's regular work and regular pay, you'll clock up the hours on a saw and all the other tools and put you in a good position to move in your preferred direction when it comes along. You'll probably get to network a bit too.

 

(Window cleaning... for realiously?)

[kram]

Window cleaning was mentioned in another recent thread. In summer, good money can be earnt, I believe. My parents* were paying £30 a time for windows and gutters, they were done in under 20 minutes and onto the neighbours. Its a job where you can easily get a whole street of return customers.

 

* I stopped that, Im quite happy to do it for them when I visit. They were not doing a good job, perhaps dirty water they were using. I use glass cleaner spray and a squeegee.

 

Supermarket delivery, or shop work, may be flexible enough to make up the odd days with no arb.

 

[kram]

I started in rail, which was 90% van seat polishing, very little experience gained. I was told the progression to climbing would be 3 years, painfully slow. I didnt enjoy being in a small van with 3 or 4 others, all day, every day. It worked out less than min wage, though I did get some PPE. While I got paid, I feel like I wasted 6 months. I dont know if utility would be like that?

Rail clearance is not what I enjoy.

 

With also doing rock climbing, I knew enough to practise in trees. Climbing in local park, then doing about 10 climbed trees for friends and family. I then got my tickets - took ages, trainers are not reliable, and I only needed the assesment. That got me enough experence to start helping out a local business, from there gained experience rapidly.

[Stubby]

1 hour ago, kram said:

I started in rail, which was 90% van seat polishing, very little experience gained. I was told the progression to climbing would be 3 years, painfully slow. I didnt enjoy being in a small van with 3 or 4 others, all day, every day. It worked out less than min wage, though I did get some PPE. While I got paid, I feel like I wasted 6 months. I dont know if utility would be like that?

Rail clearance is not what I enjoy.

 

With also doing rock climbing, I knew enough to practise in trees. Climbing in local park, then doing about 10 climbed trees for friends and family. I then got my tickets - took ages, trainers are not reliable, and I only needed the assesment. That got me enough experence to start helping out a local business, from there gained experience rapidly.

My lad is on the rail clearance and loving it . He moved over from teaching and he says he is almost on the same money . He loves it because you start whenever and finish  at so and so time . Where as teaching was 24/7 . Admittedly you are only a " slasher bomb it down " type but its a start as has been said . The boss is going to put him through his climbing tickets he says .

[Sviatoslav Tulin]

6 hours ago, SussexHarry said:

Mid-20s. Ex military. Got CS30/31, and would have climbing certs if my local college didn’t cancel the course last minute 🙄

Seems a good potential employee, for arb sector , just keep trying I would say, take any job at first , build connections and so on , sometimes it’s take longer than we want! Go in rail if you have a chance it is actually good experience, and at same time keep looking for other options !

Edited April 22 by Sviatoslav Tulin

[Sviatoslav Tulin]

6 hours ago, Stubby said:

Harsh .

But straight forward ,I know u westerners not understand that, it’s ok .Actually Harry reacted very well on my post , he just answered no fuss , no snots ,no cry , it’s probably Army training and a proper hard man 🫡

Edited April 22 by Sviatoslav Tulin

[Stubby]

8 minutes ago, Sviatoslav Tulin said:

But straight forward ,I know u westerners not understand that, it’s ok .

You said he was not good enough and came from the wrong back ground and you don't even know the bloke !

[Sviatoslav Tulin]

3 minutes ago, Stubby said:

You said he was not good enough and came from the wrong back ground and you don't even know the bloke !

Read my comment again please!

[Stubby]

4 minutes ago, Sviatoslav Tulin said:

Read my comment again please!

" I'm afraid you not good enough or from the wrong back ground , how old are you ? " Word for word .

Edited April 22 by Stubby