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tommyboy1289
Good Afternoon/Evening guys,
Little background on me, I was doing a plumbing apprenticeship and was doing really well, around 10 years ago, right near the end of the Level 2 course I went a bit doolally and made some terrible life choices, nothing bad but basically jacked in plumbing.
Now my biggest problem was I got the certificate from the college saying I had completed said course, but never received the City and Guilds one.
Since then I've been doing various jobs but always helping friends out with their plumbing problems, just general stuff no gas work, and regard myself as fairly confident, never had a complaint ect ect.
But around 18 months ago I passed my Class 1 HGV course, and have been driving trucks since then, I've just got my P60 through and earnt a smidgen over £31k last year.
Recently though I've been thinking about plumbing alot, I can't really afford to take a paycut at the moment (paying off my doolally phase of life), but I'm wondering if it's worth starting the ball rolling and starting to go self-employed, start off with a few days plumbing and a few days driving until I've got the customers built up to do 5/6 days a week.
My theory is if I can do this for a few years then look into a gas safe course (when I was an apprentice I was forever working on gas with my employer watching over my shoulder and checking/signing everything off).
So given my situation what would you do? All comments both positive and negative appreciated.
Thanks
Tom
Little background on me, I was doing a plumbing apprenticeship and was doing really well, around 10 years ago, right near the end of the Level 2 course I went a bit doolally and made some terrible life choices, nothing bad but basically jacked in plumbing.
Now my biggest problem was I got the certificate from the college saying I had completed said course, but never received the City and Guilds one.
Since then I've been doing various jobs but always helping friends out with their plumbing problems, just general stuff no gas work, and regard myself as fairly confident, never had a complaint ect ect.
But around 18 months ago I passed my Class 1 HGV course, and have been driving trucks since then, I've just got my P60 through and earnt a smidgen over £31k last year.
Recently though I've been thinking about plumbing alot, I can't really afford to take a paycut at the moment (paying off my doolally phase of life), but I'm wondering if it's worth starting the ball rolling and starting to go self-employed, start off with a few days plumbing and a few days driving until I've got the customers built up to do 5/6 days a week.
My theory is if I can do this for a few years then look into a gas safe course (when I was an apprentice I was forever working on gas with my employer watching over my shoulder and checking/signing everything off).
So given my situation what would you do? All comments both positive and negative appreciated.
Thanks
Tom