I’m going crazy! I have left the Prison Service (bahhh). After 18 yrs service. My skills don’t seem to count for nout!!!
Q: I have about 5 thousand UK pounds to re train for another career, but cannot think what? My main concern is that I’ll go to all the effort of paying & training and find out that I still cannot get a job and or earn good money? Should I go self employed? Is there a National Shortfall in Jobs such a ‘plumbing’ here in the UK. Any Ideas PLEASE!!!
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1 kako
If you have the skills to be self-employed, I would go that route. Being your own boss is very attractive.
I’d go this route especially since you cannot think of another career that you want to do.
2 Twin Cities Technical Writer
Unless you have done it before, or are particularly well-suited to the work, self-employment should NOT be viewed as a serious alternative. “Working for yourself” is a long way from the idyllic dream of “independence” (and easy money) that many salaried employees fancy it to be.
The best suggestion is to make a list of your skills, then find a field in which those skills are an advantage.
“Training” is often a dead-end street, particularly in regard to “re-training for another occupation.” There are not many fields in which a relative newcomer can take some quickie courses at the local training center and emerge ready to work and in demand. That is a fantasy promoted by the marketers of the training, and is rarely fulfilled in the real world.
Again, your best shot is to focus on your strengths, and to ignore your dislike of your previous work. If you spent 18 years doing almost anything, it is likely that you developed a skill set that is far more marketable than any new skills you could acquire in a reasonably short period of time. Just find what those skills are, and what else they can be used for.