Discussion
I'll try to keep it brief. If your attention span is like mine, you can skip to the last paragraph.
I'm in my mid 30's and facing redundancy again, last time was 2009 so I don't feel 'unlucky' kind of 'one of those things' in the post 2007 western world I guess.
I'm not sure I enjoy what I do. I left school after A Levels, partly because my folks made it clear I could look forward to zero assistance from them for Uni and partly because I was bored senseless of education. I fell into call centre work because it was stupidly easy to get a job and whilst incredibly boring it was good money for an 18 year old. Stuck it for 2 years and left because it was giving my nightmares and effecting my mental state (seriously) tool my savings and went backpacking for a year.
Came back a year later and took a job with a bank, quite a junior role, I had little interest in banking but at least found the job challenging and got a few promotions, 5 in total over 10 years and reached a level where to my utter surprise I had, almost by accident, got myself a 'career'. Then Northern Rock fell, the big bail ours followed and I was out on my ear with everyone else who shared my job title. Luckily forgetting a few months when I was injured due to a terribly timed crash I got a job within a few weeks, simular but for a tiny company (compared to the bank) but now they need to restructure and my job is under threat.
Recruitment Agencies seem completely unaware of the term 'transferable skills' so this time around I need to focus getting something in my usual line of work. Which to them is 'Sales' or 'technical sales' if they're feeling fancy, but as I look at a list of these roles with the same old drudge of details of the role I'm really struggling to motivate myself.
The short version:
Can anyone recommend a course, night college, home study ether is fine I could complete in about a year which has some sort of career at the end of it. I'm completely open to suggestions, but I really want to learn a trade or skill that will be in demand now and in the future. It needs to be indoors, I've never worked outdoors and I don't think it would suit me, but I might be wrong.
I'm in my mid 30's and facing redundancy again, last time was 2009 so I don't feel 'unlucky' kind of 'one of those things' in the post 2007 western world I guess.
I'm not sure I enjoy what I do. I left school after A Levels, partly because my folks made it clear I could look forward to zero assistance from them for Uni and partly because I was bored senseless of education. I fell into call centre work because it was stupidly easy to get a job and whilst incredibly boring it was good money for an 18 year old. Stuck it for 2 years and left because it was giving my nightmares and effecting my mental state (seriously) tool my savings and went backpacking for a year.
Came back a year later and took a job with a bank, quite a junior role, I had little interest in banking but at least found the job challenging and got a few promotions, 5 in total over 10 years and reached a level where to my utter surprise I had, almost by accident, got myself a 'career'. Then Northern Rock fell, the big bail ours followed and I was out on my ear with everyone else who shared my job title. Luckily forgetting a few months when I was injured due to a terribly timed crash I got a job within a few weeks, simular but for a tiny company (compared to the bank) but now they need to restructure and my job is under threat.
Recruitment Agencies seem completely unaware of the term 'transferable skills' so this time around I need to focus getting something in my usual line of work. Which to them is 'Sales' or 'technical sales' if they're feeling fancy, but as I look at a list of these roles with the same old drudge of details of the role I'm really struggling to motivate myself.
The short version:
Can anyone recommend a course, night college, home study ether is fine I could complete in about a year which has some sort of career at the end of it. I'm completely open to suggestions, but I really want to learn a trade or skill that will be in demand now and in the future. It needs to be indoors, I've never worked outdoors and I don't think it would suit me, but I might be wrong.
What are you interested in doing, do you have any basic skills you could enhance and is there a demand for what you may be interested in and good at? A more random approach to upskilling may not be the best approach in terms of effective use of your time and money or for a sustainable future.
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