Thread: Should I go back in the automotive trade or try something else??

Originally Posted by Disco Sim

well i look at it as if it was my car in the shop. i would want a quality job done on it. yeah i thought you had to do a course for teaching. cheers for your response.

simon.

Yep it is a course but not really difficult and not that long. I think you can knock it over in two weeks full time.

I agree with Stevo, with a family you have to think of them so money comes first. I was in the same boat 6 years ago baby on the way and out of work (partly by choice) and really didnt want to go back to ch****** but was willing to do it just till something better came along. Grab what you can and hang in there till later in the year and hopefully there will be more choices for you.

Hey mate,

As other people have said, better to get the $$$ in to put food on table and keep the roof over your heads. Studying is a good idea - perhaps at night? Not sure how tired you would be after working during the day though!

All the best for what ever choice you make though.

Aaron

Originally Posted by dazzzler

Yep it is a course but not really difficult and not that long. I think you can knock it over in two weeks full time.

hey nice, two weeks full time, i can do that!!!

hell i did 4 years for my apprenticeship, two weeks should be nothing lol
will look into that. cheers

Stay in the trade until you get something better mate.

Well, it seems to me you have already made up your mind about whether you will stay in the trade. From your initial comments it seems you don't want to stay but you need to find a reason to change.

There's a whole world of opportunities out there, but for comfort sake you might want to look at extending your wings a little first, or you could just chuck it all in and drag the family off into the wide blue yonder.

Extending your wings a little, it looks like you take great pride in your work but do you know all there is to know about working in sheet metals. Have you considered getting into custom fabrications, for example on hot rods, customised cars, that kind of thing. Have you thought about passing your skills onto others and doing some part time training until you've made up your mind?

You know you could do training, for apprentices, and earn some cash, and learn new skills at the same time doing a course (and if the course is at the same place most institutes wont charge you for it).

There is nothing like learning and extending your skills to re-enliven your passion for what it is you do.

And look, frankly there is nothing worse than feeling like you are working your a**e off just to put food on the table and a roof over the head, doing a job you use to love for people you hate and who just f**k you around all the time. Been there, done that. It's no good for the heart (believe me I know!!), the mind, or the soul. You could love the job and the family will appreciate you all the more than if you are just some angry so-and--so at the end of every day.

Alan

Motor trades have always lagged behind everything else. Trouble with panel beating is the insurance companies control the hourly rate. They only pay the repairer something like $30 an hour and he has to pay everything out of that including wages so there's not a lot left over. The only real passion left in panel beating is doing classic cars or making gear from scratch.

Originally Posted by Fourgearsticks

The only real passion left in panel beating is doing classic cars or making gear from scratch.

Ayup. That is what I was thinking

Alan