So I work on building sites as an electrician. It’s okay but I don’t love it.
I have been saying for some time that I won’t be doing this for the rest of my working life.
The trouble is with 2 young children I don’t see how I’m going to get out of it. The money is not brilliant but I certainly could not afford to earn less.
Just wondering if anyone ever took the plunge and threw themselves into something completely different and how it turned out for them.
Cheers
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My husband went back to college at 40 to retrain in cyber security – he did an evening course, his HNC, and his HND. He just started 3rd year at uni a few weeks back. He’s doing zero hours security just now (36 hours) to ensure we can afford to live. The uni have said they don’t expect them to work but with the max student loan being just over 10k, we absolutely can not afford for him to not be working.
Open university may be a choice for you depending what you want to do. I’m happy to answer anything else if you want.
No advice for you mate but good luck anyway.
You could become a lecturer in college training the next generation of sparkies.
Forgive my American ignorance here, but this is a common approach for tradesmen mid career here: Consider starting your own electrical business. You would need to hustle and self perform the work to start, but once you get busy you can hire others on and grow methodically. Once you get to having a few crews, you’ll be spending time running the business, not slinging wire. If you continue to build business systems with marketing, sales, HR, etc. it’s a very marketable business and you could sell. Research the exit plan and work backwards to start. It’s risky in some ways, but you have a high demand trade to fall back on if it doesn’t work out.