[Closed] 25 and looking for a career.

You need to stop blowing your own trumpet for starters. 🙄

Qualifications or experience?

Medicine, GP or surgeon.

No matter what, people will always want trombones. Stick with it.

I have studied at uni and have 3 years experience at the trombone factory however I have always worked for a living (part time at uni etc).

My qualifications are in music technology so no use there! I am currently studying welding at a night class in Huddersfield.

Banking or Oil for the money

You might be right, perhaps a change would be good. Have you considered cornets?

I'm sorry, I have nothing useful to add :(. What qualifications/ skills do you have?

If you got a 2:1 or above I'd have a look at some grad schemes. My company offer a really flexible 2 year scheme which I joined with an unrelated degree in psychology. They let me choose the departments in wanted experience in and once I got set they've supported me for qualifications and training for the last 9 years!

trombone maker must be a good chat up line!

Unfortunately I finished uni with a 2:2.

This means I'm gonna struggle getting onto most graduate schemes!

Redirect your career using your music degree perhaps. Try to get with a reputable hi fi manufacturer would be my first instinct with a qualification like yours.

Do you n want to stay in music?

trombone maker must be a good chat up line!

Sounds like you might be leaning more towards skilled manual work rather than IT/ desk jockery. I dunno, I guess many people (including myself) don't start out with "I want to have a career in x" - you just kinda take a job that you like, and then the next step presents itself and you do that for a while and so on. Before you know it you're middle-aged, driving an Audi and riding a singlespeed, according to what I've learned on here.

So, very little use I guess. Have you considered switching to woodwind?

😉

Yeah, it would be great to stay in music.

I have really enjoyed being involved in manufacturing too.

I was thinking about the lack of prospect that comes with working in a small company, however much I enjoy it.

Slight hijack (apologies OP) - in order to qualify for a grad scheme, do you need to be a recent graduate? I graduated four years ago with a 2:1 in Computing but have been working in a call centre ever since.

@justatheory you can try, but grad schemes are a needle in a haystack shot is my feeling. What do you want to do? If you want to get onto a company's IT grad scheme then there are simpler ways to do it. For example, get an industry qualification, get onto a support team and then see if you can move sideways.

OP. A mate of mine makes amplifiers for a living. It started with him making amps for mates' cars and he got more business through word of mouth. He now does it full time for a living. Still relies on word of mouth for business. If you can go down this route and are more interested in having control of your life than the end dollar, then it seems a good way to make a living.

Yeah, being my own boss would be good, hence why I started the night class.

You know it makes me laugh, to qualify for a 'grant' from the government as a youngster starting up your own business you need to be unemployed..... this seems mad!

So your a bit Brassed Off!.... IGMC

Oh to be 25 again 😀

Its not what you do its the way that you do it.
Do you play the trombone?
If not why not take an interest in what you do and enjoy it. You dont have to be the best in the world but it realy helps to have apassion for what your doing.
Im into aluminium extrusion - not exciting to some but it excites me and so I get the chance to travel the world and explore it more......

Army officer. Not for everyone but maybe worth a look.

Or Reme metalsmith if the welding tickles your fancy.

@justatheory no, you don't need to be recent graduate, I qualified and then messed about, doing recruitment, teaching and working in pubs before I applied for ours.

They are competitive, but there still seem to be lots about, even in the current economic climate.

You know it makes me laugh, to qualify for a 'grant' from the government as a youngster starting up your own business you need to be unemployed..... this seems mad!

True, I don't need a grant to start a business , a leg up would be nice tho!

Yeah, i'm looking for something of a bit more of a competitive nature.

I'm 25 and have all the energy in the world-

I don't play the trombone, I really do enjoy working there but it's financial limitations are definately going to pose a threat as I grow older.

Dull fact of the day, trombone in French means paper clip.

Trombone maker + welding = Orange bike metal worker 😉

Orange 😀

Come on lads he's making trombones not girders!

Funnily enough I am on with braizing my own road bike together.

This is however a massively cloudy pipedream and is taking some time to achieve (i make trombones 50 hours!).

At the factory my duties include working with sheet brass (I make the bell).

I braize, polish etc. I am also 'the lacquerer' meaning i do all the clear coating towards the end of the process.

Military.

Free housing, good wage, free holidays in the sun!

Worked for me!

REME Air Tech, otherwise known as a helicopter mechanic. Plenty of metal work on that and good prospects afterwards. Not the easiest course to get onto and pass. When I was there for my electronics course, if you failed an exam you were re-traded. That was a while ago though!

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Hope I didn't mess this up.

Edit: yup, I done gone messed up again (bloody tablet)

Get in to the online world - web developer for example.

I run a web marketing company and recruiting here is hard. A real lack of good talent available and lots of well paid jobs on the market.

The industry has served me well for 10 years and I still enjoy it to this day.

Ten years ago I "retrained" to be a plumber at the age of 30.
I was lucky enough to get an apprenticeship with local company, I earned under 40 quid a day but did private jobs on weekends.
I work for myself now and do everything from dripping taps to complete refurbs.
I'm not rich yet but work in some amazing place and for awesome people, sure there are dicks but I don't work for them long.
No 2 days are the same and I'm always busy.

Get a trade.

Anyone else read this thinking he was a tombstone maker?

Im a cabinet maker/bench joiner.... Its rewarding but dosent pay great.. Self employment may serve you better tho eh 😉

Do you tig weld ,im assuming you can braze
do you think you could learn to work with carbon fibre,
would you be interested in learning to fabricate bikes?

Air Traffic Controller.

Best career I ever made. Fantastic job, great pay, great holidays and loads of time off. Plenty of options to move overseas once qualified (I'm now in NZ).
Nowhere as stressfull as people would have you believe. The entry qualifications are fairly low but the selection process and training is fairly intense.
Goggle NATS for more info if you are keen
Having said that my dad is a top class trombone player and teacher so he would prefer it if you stuck with your current job

You just got to look into all the suggestions on here that make you think "mmm interesting"! I used to recruit students for a foreign uni (well a call centre Mr MC called it!) hated every minute of it and used to watch the plod walk up and down Marylebone High St in the summer and I thought "that'd be good" started looking into all emergency servcies, wasn't interested in ambulance, couldn't join fire brigade due to knee surgery so joined plod. Love every minute of it, the variety of stuff to do within the police is phenomenal, do you probation on shift then specialise, firearms, dog unit, helicopter, roads policing, detective, surveillance, intelligence there are many many more! Alternatively go for promotion.

Good luck if you want info about police DM me. Good luck searching just trawl job websites seeing what is out there and what takes your fancy just think though the grass isnt' always greener there will be pro's and con's in a new job with super duper pay for example. Good luck though I remember being in your shoes and it was a bit daunting to start with.

Not read all the thread to be honest, but don't be put off by only having a 2:2 in your degree. I've many friends who got 2:2s and are doing great out in the real world as they come across in their applications/interviews much better than those with firsts.

Many graduate recruiters will be more into the fact that you've worked a little, done some extra curricular stuff (welding) and decided on your vocation (even if it really isn't and you just see the grad scheme as a step on). There is so many grads coming out of uni now that having someone still young enough to mold, but old enough to have some life experience, is see as a plus.

Good luck with the search, and if you continue down the welding route get coded to weld stainless steel, there is decent money for those who can weld stainless.

Teaching? You could enter a graduate PGCE course with a 2:2. Same advice for the guy with the 2.1 in computing, you'll get a bursary as they're desperate for computing graduates to go into teaching.

Alternatively learn your trade well, everything about it and look at setting up your own instrument making business in a few years time once you have the experience. I have a mate who is world renowned bag pipe maker (I was very surprised when I found out what he did), works for himself, doing fine out of it and seems to love it.