Paul,let us not forget everyone starts somewere.
Your first career wasn't plumbing,
Let me see now. Left boarding school spent 4 years at uni failed on 3rd yr finals and then again a year later.
so got job in management accounts passed foundation level of ICMA but found next level too hard and job so unrewarding it was beyond belief.
So tried to make a go of self employed as photographer and despatch rode in central London for around 10 years to actually earn the only money I earned at the time.
A car rammed me head on speed of impact 70mph left for dead. Ambulance took 1hr to arrive. It was the night London ambulance went onto computer dispatching computer said ambulance was dispatched all across London but ambulance didn't get message. 3people died that night over that farce I was nearly one of them.
Decided to do something worthwhile for rest of my life so trained as a nurse.
Saved quite a few lives and made a horrible time easier for quite a lot of families. developed M.E. and ended up long term sick. While off sick a sister who was monoevering for power realised my weekness at the time and so lied about me which resulted in me leaving as, although I was exonerated I couldn't go back to work with her as I was too vulneralble to future lies which could have far reaching consequences for a man in children's work. Saw a solicitor about unfair dismisal she said "forget it just get on with your life you won't get enough to make it worth fighting" A few years later the sister had assasinated a few other careers and personel suddenly realised and asked me to give evidence aghainst her. But she left her job the day before the hearing and it was all forgoten about. I couldn't go back to work because she had turned half my former coleagues to her way of thinking with her poison so I was not safe even with her gone. By the way the union Unison took the management side against me the reps words outside the room where the meeting determining my fate was held was "i don't think you've got a case" I was ill as it was with M.E. so I just allowed them to push m,e out the door with one months pay and that's all I will ever get from the health service.
So the gas fitter who did my cp12's said how is it gouing at the hospital "not very well I am thinking of leaving (while actually on long term sick), how is your work?" he said he was thinking of taking someone on. the rest is history. he trained me properly.
bet you worked a while before you truely got to grips with the finer points
I was about a year with him and rubbish when I passed acs at which the examiner said "well done Paul you flew through that". I had passed about 95% on first pass of questions without opening books. My gas fitter told me the game of passing acs is impressing the marker with your knoweldge they don't want people who keep looking it up and also he warned me they ask verbal questions to trap you so they can find out if you genuinly have knowledge and experience or are winging it.
I am just starting to get good 6 years on from acs 7 years on from beginning my career change. But by resuklts I am a lot better than 95% of the other people I have been compared to for example in bg performance review and results at Alpha.
have thought you of all people would have understood,some one desperate enough to spend 4k and get a cert not worth the paper it's written on,might deserve a break.
Lee
I know, all of the people I have helped along the way it has been charity and it has been done because I know their situation.
The problem I have is that the field is now flooded and the reason is the race to make money out of training people. We that give the practical experience and training that pick up the pieces don't get paid.
What should happen is these training establishmensts should be closed and these cc people should be sent to us to do the proper training of the right length of time and we the employing organsisation should be paid the 4 or 5k which is going to training organsiations.
When they come out of that training they will be useful and the money spent on training them will support the actual industry; US!
