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Martin Plummer
Morning all,
I will say hello first seeing as i'm new to the forum, so hello!
I want to ask all you guys on here whether you are genuinely saying that there is no point in getting into plumbing as its a 'dead trade'? I am 27 and am currently a Police officer in the UK, well sort of, i joined at 17 as a cadet, worked until i was 25, but for the last 2 years or so i have been on a career break from the Police.
Now being in the Police was never really an ambition of mine, i just kind of fell into it due to not being a classroom learning sort of person (i did fine in my GCSE's but a levels weren't for me) and having had some time away from it, i still feel that it is not what i want to do. Before i went away i would have been silly to change as i had a very good pension, however this has now all changed and so i will no longer be on a 30 year pension scheme like the days of old, but rather i will have to work until state pension age (this will be 68 within 5 years time). I do not enjoy my job in the Police anymore, as there is to much bureaucratic s**t nowadays.
I am looking into the possibility of re-training and getting a trade, now i do not expect it to be a straight forward path which i can just walk into, im not that stupid. I know it will take hard work, which i am more that happy to do, but i feel that i would be much happier in my work if i were a plumber, rather than having to deal with the dregs of society on a daily basis. I also don't expect to suddenly be earning 70k a year, so long as i can get to a level where i earn a decent wage (25 - 30k) and i am talking 4-5 years down the line which i think is realistic?? Then i don't mind. My mum once said to me 'being a police officer, you'll never be rich, but you'll never be poor', and it is my feeling/opinion that the same can/could be true for being a plumber, with some hard work of course.
So my question is... Am i completely wrong? as there seems to be a lot of negativity of this forum from people in the trade, which i can understand in terms of the frustrations of people thinking a 6 week course and away we go, but for those of us with realistic expectations, is it possible?
Thanks
Martin Plummer (Yes, that is my real surname... stupid huh!)
I will say hello first seeing as i'm new to the forum, so hello!
I want to ask all you guys on here whether you are genuinely saying that there is no point in getting into plumbing as its a 'dead trade'? I am 27 and am currently a Police officer in the UK, well sort of, i joined at 17 as a cadet, worked until i was 25, but for the last 2 years or so i have been on a career break from the Police.
Now being in the Police was never really an ambition of mine, i just kind of fell into it due to not being a classroom learning sort of person (i did fine in my GCSE's but a levels weren't for me) and having had some time away from it, i still feel that it is not what i want to do. Before i went away i would have been silly to change as i had a very good pension, however this has now all changed and so i will no longer be on a 30 year pension scheme like the days of old, but rather i will have to work until state pension age (this will be 68 within 5 years time). I do not enjoy my job in the Police anymore, as there is to much bureaucratic s**t nowadays.
I am looking into the possibility of re-training and getting a trade, now i do not expect it to be a straight forward path which i can just walk into, im not that stupid. I know it will take hard work, which i am more that happy to do, but i feel that i would be much happier in my work if i were a plumber, rather than having to deal with the dregs of society on a daily basis. I also don't expect to suddenly be earning 70k a year, so long as i can get to a level where i earn a decent wage (25 - 30k) and i am talking 4-5 years down the line which i think is realistic?? Then i don't mind. My mum once said to me 'being a police officer, you'll never be rich, but you'll never be poor', and it is my feeling/opinion that the same can/could be true for being a plumber, with some hard work of course.
So my question is... Am i completely wrong? as there seems to be a lot of negativity of this forum from people in the trade, which i can understand in terms of the frustrations of people thinking a 6 week course and away we go, but for those of us with realistic expectations, is it possible?
Thanks
Martin Plummer (Yes, that is my real surname... stupid huh!)