Starting a career from scratch wanting ideas

[VolvoT5]

Petrolhead_Rich said:

Quite a few people I speak to in transport say it's getting difficult to earn good money now, according to them the market is over-saturated with foreign agency drivers, and with modern rules and regs like CPC to worry about it's a bit of a nightmare apparently.

Posties are well paid because most people see it as a bit of a dead-end job, I guess in summer it's not too bad (apart from getting attacked by dogs), but I would imagine winter is a bit harsh. On the plus side, plenty of exercise and fresh air brings health benefits

Well the ones I applied for are 25 hour contracts so you are never gonna get rich, but then I guess there is a limit to how many rounds you can walk in one week before exhaustion sets in. 25 hours would leave time to do something else though. But yeah I get what you are saying it is quite dead end.


As for transport, well I keep hearing mixed things. Some lads saying they passed their test and a year later are in decent jobs earning well....... but plenty of old timers online are saying what you just said - the money is rubbish, there are too many regulations and foreign drivers these days...

[crazy about cars]

Sorry OP, I'm getting mixed signals here. Do you want a new, more challenging career or do you want an easy job you can get into which earns lots of money?

[VolvoT5]

crazy about cars said:

Sorry OP, I'm getting mixed signals here. Do you want a new, more challenging career or do you want an easy job you can get into which earns lots of money?

Not sure if you are having a dig or not but I don't think I ever said I wanted lots of money for an easy job, or a challenging career.

Mixed signals is quite possibly because I'm not sure myself. I have a lot of ideas floating around but none of them sit entirely comfortably or are practical.

[98elise]

swerni said:

VolvoT5 said:

swerni said:

Sales only turned into a career for me about 8 years ago, before that it was just something I did until I found a real job.

IT is changing massively, it's not an industry I'd be looking to get into.

When you say changing can you expand? What about web development / design?

More infrastructure and apps are being delivered as a service and this is only going to increase.
Hardware vendors, classic IT support, Integrators are all going to suffer as stuff gets more containerised.


I'm glad I'm at the tail end of my career in this industry rather than the start

PM and BA work still seems solid. Even if the product is delivered as a service, there will be a project to implement it.

A decent BA can easily earn £400-450 per day contracting, and a project manager way more.