I want to be a building surveyor

[BigGingerBob]

Good afternoon,

I am currently an estate agent, I have a (not very good) mechanical engineering degree and I have always had a technical interest in whatever I am working with.
Anyway, I feel that estate agency isn't the full career for me and I really want to be a building surveyor, I have done for a couple of years.
But... how would I go about this? I live with my parter who is self employed so I absolutely cannot take time off to study, we need the money my job brings in and many companies require degrees (the jobs on job websites do anyway).
I managed to speak with a surveyor for a couple of minutes and he said that you didn't need a surveying degree but that's as far as the conversation got as we had to part ways.
Are there any surveyors here who could advise?

Cheers,

Bob

[BigGingerBob]

Evening all, I've just been accepted for a Masters degree course for Building Surveying!
It's with UCEM and it's a RICS accredited course. Good stuff.

[BigGingerBob]

Bikesalot said:

BigGingerBob said:

Evening all, I've just been accepted for a Masters degree course for Building Surveying!
It's with UCEM and it's a RICS accredited course. Good stuff.

Studying with UCEM is a great experience. I'm currently doing a course with them

That's great news, do you have any more info about them and what the courses are like?