career

Evening everyone Probably going to get slaughtered for this but it's worth asking. Nothin' ventured nothin' gained and all that. So as the title suggests, I'm after a career change. It's a fairly drastic one as I've been in retail management for the last 6/7 years(!). It's a fairly thankless...

hi guys just qualified as a plumber only level 2 city and guilds. I have been looking to do an NVQ but struggling to find anything. I know a gas engineer who has said he could help me with my portfolio if I go the gas route. I'm thinking should I take my gas course and get my portfolio done...

Hello everyone. I'm hoping to become a commercial gas engineer. I'm time served and have yet to do my Gas Safe. I have to save money myself in order to do the course. I want to do commercial gas and maybe in the future open my own business with the ability to carry out work on commercial...

hi all. The last 2 years I have been subbing to a local firm but recently left due to agreements being broken. Anyway, I'm now stuck in between a rock and a hard place. I've never pushed for work for myself and never really thought about running my own business. I have a young family that I...

Hi everyone, I'm 22 years old and I'm currently on a plumbing apprenticeship where I'm working for a company that focuses on temporary cold water and soil stack systems on commercial building sites. By the end of my apprenticeship I will receive my NVQ level 2 in plumbing & heating systems. I...

Good morning. I'm 46, ex-Army, married, in excellent health, new to this forum, and have taught chemistry and physics for nearly 20 years. I could rant for NATO about the state of the teaching profession, but I'm more or less through with putting up with the intimidation and sheer incompetence I...

Hi my names Chris and to cut along story short I currently work in the cnc machining background working on aerospace parts. I'm 27 years old an have started to regret my current career path and wish to do plumbing. So have managed to save up and put myself on an evening plumbing level 2 diploma...

Hi all, I'm currently looking at a number of industries for a potential career change. I love plumbing and working with my hands ever since i was a kid. Stuck behind a desk these days and would love to know more about plumbing. If I wanted to get qualified with both water and gas where would I...

Hi all I have posted recently about trying to get back into the plumbing game and looking for some work experience at a higher level to what I had learned. I'm now 38 years old and left the plumbing game 9 years ago as I worked for a maintence firm that had a contract with councils as their...

Hello all, Iv posted this under commercial plumbing as I am predominantly an industrial / commercial combustion engineer. I have been working for a small family run business supplying them gas work within process burner industry more specially on food ovens. I have now stopped working for them...

Hi, I'm currently serving in my last 14 months of my RAF career. I am looking to become a Plumber/Heating/Gas engineer and would like to know what is the best route/courses to start with . I understand qual's are qual's and nothing counts for experience. However, I have to start somewhere...

Thought I May as well post here too NGN are looking to take on new engineers for emergency work. In case anyone is interested in a career change!! If anyone has Q's I can possibly answer them.

Hi all , Getting to an age where installs are very hard work , been a CORGI / Gas Safe engineer since 1992 , need any ideas on changing to something else in the industry. Tried servicing and breakdown work , found it very boring and stressful ( the driving mainly ) . Anybody with advice on this...

Evening all, thanks for the opportunity to join the forum.Like some of you, my googling eventually stumbles upon content here.Recently gas qualified,first conversion from open-vented to Combi this week.What a head rush: Pipe sizing, boiler sizing, pipes in voids, controllers...

So I'm 37, working in IT since leaving college back in the late 90's and changed careers in 2013 to Sales, to say I'm not happy with it would be an understatement, so I'm looking to change, I like technical work and love doing things practical, the one thing I enjoyed about the IT work is doing...

I'm a 24 year old plumber, been doing it for 6 years now. Also have gas qualifications. Served my Apprenticeship and continue to work for a company that deals with new build housing. Looking for a complete career change and was wondering if anyone had transitioned into a new interesting career...

Hi all, my name is Chris and I have just taken the decision to train part time for a NVQ level 2&3 in plumbing. I'm told the course touches also on electronic installations like power showers etc and also on the use of gas in a boiler though I believe Corgi certification is separate. Window...

Hi all newbie so please be gentle, ok so I'm having to change job due to developing diabetes, (HGV driver) I have always had an interest in working as a plumbing/gas engineer but never had the motivation to follow it through, now it would seem i have had the kick in the backside I needed...

I'm looking for advice looking for a job. I served my time with a small company, just me and a tradesman and my apprenticeship finished last year. I was told from the start that as soon as my apprenticeship was done I had to find a new job but my tradesman never really let me do much so I really...

I've been lurking for a while so thought i'd say hello and ask my first question! I'm due to retire in 18 months, i'm currently 47 and would like to retrain as a plumber.. I know that the career change thing and fast track 6 week course has been done to death so apologies. I'm fortunate...