Re-Train or Fall back on knifes?

[brownbear]

Should I go back into catering or do my nvq in mechanics or my HGV license? These are my three options!

[Lee-1984]

im about to train for hgv licence,

[brownbear]

you have a pm!

[Sloth]

sia licence, then get paid roughly £9 p/h and there are stacks of jobs .

[brownbear]

sia?

[novalicous]

bouncer security that sort of stuff

[brownbear]

Not my thing really. I'm better with my hands (any rent boy or fluffer replies will get neg rep)

[Nova_Sean]

Chef. Then you can charge when you cook of the loonaque!

[brownbear]

Chef. Then you can charge when you cook of the loonaque!

Never would never could! It's free for the PNG lot no matter what!

[bazil]

Hgv is an easy no brain required job, money ain't that great but the biggest problem would be the old catch 22, difficult to get a job due to no experience but how do you get experience without a job?
However it's always there to fall back on,

[MK999]

Never would never could! It's free for the PNG lot no matter what!

Sweet, I get well pushed for time at uni, that will save me loads

[claire6069]

Hgv is an easy no brain required job, money ain't that great but the biggest problem would be the old catch 22, difficult to get a job due to no experience but how do you get experience without a job?
However it's always there to fall back on,

if it was a no brain required job, then the foreigners would be better at it wouldnt they!!

my dad was a lorry driver for over 30 years, he was always exhausted at the end of a shift but his money was good. driving everywhere at 56mph may sound great but try staying awake when its the middle of the night, you're tired, all you see is tarmac and white lines and your heaters are on (if its winter)

[mowgli]

hgv driving is tough and there are a lot of crap jobs.... as they say, its all about experience. i've got mine as insurance, i got it in 96, so i'm an old hand.....i drive trucks most weeks.

see if you can get some agency work as a drivers mate, you'll soon understand the hours & requirements..

[bazil]

Claire, I'm a driver myself, have been since i was 21 I'm now 31+3/4, my dad was a driver all his working life, he was a van boy when he got his licence then gradually the trucks got bigger and bigger till he was doing heavy plant haulage ( ie 70 odd ton stone crushers, 45 ton cats etc )

But with the digi tachos, eu working directive it is a decent job IF you have a good employer, look at the asda, tesco, morrisson, sainsbury drivers! All done buy the book a decent rate good vehicles, smart uniforms good hours,
Then there's the continental drivers like my father in law who is lucky to get home once a month!

I do my job because I enjoy it not because I have to, it's not for everyone and bad employers can make your life hell, I have a great employer with an exceptional fleet of modern vehicles, I have very little stress in my job and it doesn't drain the life out of me by the end of the shift.

I think the key aspect to any hgv driver to enjoy there job I's to find a niche that you will enjoy, mine always has been construction and highway maintanence.

[Hobbit]

HGV driver ftw, 430 quid take home for mincing about the country side all night.

Yeah the hours are long and you sometimes you get a crap boss but you generally only see said boss for five minutes, then you're out on your own the rest of the night.

You have to enjoy your own company though or you'll get bored pretty quickly, I'm lucky as I r great :thumb:

[Jack]

Knives. Not considering a career in teaching English I hope :p

I think you have a good set of options. People will always need feeding, goods will always need moving. However both could be hard to keep work in, as fuel prices rise then haulage companies will be looking to save money, or if you're self employed then costs will rise (just look at all the truckers who were bleating about the last oil price spike). Catering is one of those luxury options again where companies will look to save money by thinning down budgets. Being part of a hotel would see guaranteed work, but I would guess the pay wouldn't be ideal. Of the two, I'd say driver would be the more lucrative option.

I always fancied being a trucker. Got the belly for it lol


[edit] Forgot the mechanic option. Fcuk that off, no money in being a grease monkey!

[Stuart]

Guns for show, Knives for a pro :)


How about Fluffer? :p

[claire6069]

well said bazil, apologies, i thought you were one of those people who sits saying everything is easy when you havent actually done it lol my bad!

[tony k]

imgoing to do my hgv class 2 soon,my brother has a class 2 aint on bad money,plus your out and about,there are bad bits like any other job,but id rather be on the road than stuck in a garage or office,im just gonna do the skips for abit then go do the tippers,get some good money on them

[Lewis.]

i'd certainly steer well clear of the machanic option, i've been on the spanners since i left school, and i hate it.
the pay is ****, the hours are fairly long, i come home every night filthy, aching and with cut/burnt/crushed/scraped hands. and 9 times out of 10 you will have to provide your own tools: hello snap on finance :( :cry:

i'm looking to get out of the garage trade atm, then spend 2 years doing anything that pays well so i can save up some wedge then do my HGV1 licence.

it all seems like a waste now though, i've spent 3 years to get a bit of paper that says NVQ 2+3, and got £4000 worth of snap on tools and now its all going to waste :roll:

on the truck driving subject: as bazil said, how do you go about getting work once you have your licence? i cant see many companies wanting to take on a newly passed 21 y/o so how do you get the experience they want?

[claire6069]

i would imagine agency would be your best option

i may be wrong in thinking this, porter will correct me if im wrong, but i think you have to be 25 to be able to be insured on a class 1 vehicle, hes lucky because he works for his dad so his dads happy to pay the excess on the insurance

[brownbear]

Knives. Not considering a career in teaching English I hope :p

I think you have a good set of options. People will always need feeding, goods will always need moving. However both could be hard to keep work in, as fuel prices rise then haulage companies will be looking to save money, or if you're self employed then costs will rise (just look at all the truckers who were bleating about the last oil price spike). Catering is one of those luxury options again where companies will look to save money by thinning down budgets. Being part of a hotel would see guaranteed work, but I would guess the pay wouldn't be ideal. Of the two, I'd say driver would be the more lucrative option.

I always fancied being a trucker. Got the belly for it lol


[edit] Forgot the mechanic option. Fcuk that off, no money in being a grease monkey!

Sorry Dyslexia! :(

[Hobbit]

Agency is the best way to start, just be prepared to get a phone call at 5am asking to come in to work and jump out of bed like a ninja. Agencys will love you then and give you lots of work. :) I did alot of removals when I started, money is crap and you spend more time moving furniture then driving but it gets the experience on paper.

[mowgli]

REMOVALS.........i bet thats not what the judge called it?????

[bazil]

i would imagine agency would be your best option

that's what's a friend of mine done. Got his cat C then done agency work for about a year, mostly multidrop for a company that supplied photocoppiers, he now works for WH Malcolm which is a very large company up here.

[brownbear]

Well I had an interview today to be chef de partie (second in command) at a hotel in manchester.... Got the job! :)

[Mike]

Well I had an interview today to be chef de partie (second in command) at a hotel in manchester.... Got the job! :)

Top stuff Tom :)

[brownbear]

Yup now to resign from bupa! :)

[Hobbit]

Nice one Tom, must've washed it very well :)

[bazil]

Well done, I hope it goes well for you.

[stupot89]

well done mate

[brownbear]

Nice one Tom, must've washed it very well :)
Oh I did! :)

[pikey1986]

well done :thumb:

hope it goes well for you

[mowgli]

is your job to bully all the new boys & chase them round with your cleaver in your hand?? or is that a Marco Pierre White sort of thing??

[claire6069]

yay, well done :)

[bazil]

How did this turn out?
Have you started? If so how's it going:)

[brownbear]

yeah did a few days. Off to Rhodes for a week then back in full time 11 Aug onwards

[MattBrown]

Well done mate:thumb:

Means you can have this bumper with your well earned coins lol

[Hoochie]

Congrats on the new job...:thumb:

[TeddyThom]

[edit] Forgot the mechanic option. Fcuk that off, no money in being a grease monkey!

There is matey I'm currently at college training to be one, and I can walk out of college into a job pretty much, well that's the plan anyways haha I'll see how things work out :thumb:

[Angus Closier]

There is matey I'm currently at college training to be one, and I can walk out of college into a job pretty much, well that's the plan anyways haha I'll see how things work out :thumb:

Things never work out how you want! You can get the jobs. Just not great pay. May seem like it when you get out of college, soon after you realise its not!:thumb:

[brownbear]

Well done mate:thumb:

Means you can have this bumper with your well earned coins lol

Oi all my coins are well earned!

[bazil]

yeah did a few days. Off to Rhodes for a week then back in full time 11 Aug onwards

good stuff, i hope you enjoy this job better than your last :)