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graduated with a product design degree 3 years ago struggled to find a job after, now stuck in a dead end CAD job paying well below average salary and bored after 6 months, no house, living with gf (both skint), no kids,
good at maths, handy with a pc (not a programmer), not a bad designer but no passion for it, should have done a BENG or MENG, happy to do a post grad 2012-13, but in mid 30s (eek), looking at school mates on FB all earning 30k+,
recommend me a quick career change (not teaching), which a ladder to climb,
Window cleaner
Fireman?
Teacher. You dont actually have to teach 😉
oil sand worker in the yukon.
oil sand worker in the yukon.
what does that involve?? 😛
oil sand worker in the yukon.
what does that involve?? 😛
Looks like you need to be smart to do that, counts me out!
Why not teaching? My son's school offers Product Design at GCSE and A'Level. If you are enthusiastic about your subject it seems a good choice - It's not just Woodwork/Metalwork these days!
Current colleague also has similar design background. He's gone from technical service management in a telco to product innovation (same telco) to project management.
There you go - recommendation made!
my girlfriend has the same degree & is a barmaid, maybe try that?
Oil sands actually in Alberta; not the Yukon 😀
Trader in london village.
Care Worker.
Money's a joke, hours are ridiculous, but it should be compulsory, like National Service used to be.
Best thing I've ever done.
World would be a much better place if everyone spent a couple of years doing it.
Most of us are going to need care:
We're living longer, but the extended bit of our lives will rarely be comfortable or particularly pleasant.
Best we get used to it and start treating people with dementia and the other problems associated with old age in a manner we'd like to be treated ourselves.
Sorry for the rant, don't mean to come across like a sanctimonius tosser.
Fully intend to chuck myself off the roof of the Dignitas building when I can't look after myself.
That'll teach em.
oil sand worker in the yukon
Aaaaaaactually the centre of the oil sands world is in Canada. But seeing as someone mentioned it, if you dont mind temp. emigrating Australia has gone LNG mad and dont have the skilled people for it. After 2 or 3 yrs earning medium money learning on the job you can be earning shed loads. You wont (necessarily) be happy, but you can be much richer.
Me? I spend my 'spare' time on CAD trying to be a product designer with my half baked 'inventions'...
Oh forgot to tell you what you can do. Every major industrial plant is now created as a compelete virtual 3D plant before construction, takes years and requires many highly paid skilled cad people.
Air Traffic Controller.
Best thing I ever did was a career change to be an ATCO.
Plenty of time off, great pay, cheap travel and a challenging job with good career prospects.
Air traffic control sounding nice who you kidding i was air craft engineer in the navy for 6 years i see the states those men and women came down the tower in like gibbering wrecks
To OP if your interested in offshore work drop me a email il give you the address's of a few company's looking for people just like you my emails in my profile
Get into IT. You get paid for sitting browsing the WWW for 7 hours a day (on your sofa, watching Sky TV)
Armed Forces...mid 30's might be a problem, police?
I have a degree in product design, like you and also do a cad job, but I am freelance so can earn well above the average salary, and when you get bored after 6 months - just move to another company, well you could do that before the recession now you just stay as long as you can... if wish I had done a different degree but don’t know what. After all no one ever said when I grow up I want to be a cad technician...
sky engineer, bloke round our way makes a mint by doing 'jobs on the side'
Mining in Perth, they're paying thousands to young kids down there, make a fortune and return?
Nah stay, there are much better prospects there than here, I've a pal just come back he earned close to forty thou just working in a surf shop, gutted he had to come back (his Mrs hurt her back and had to return as she lost her job.)
timc - Member
my girlfriend has the same degree & is a barmaid, maybe try that?
PSML
How about making Hand made Christmas cards
Get into IT. You get paid [s]for sitting browsing the WWW for 7 hours a day (on your sofa, watching Sky TV)[/s] [b]sod all[/b]
FTFY.
design some products, make product, sell product , . . .no?
Picking lobsters out of...
oh wait, she's dead. That wouldn't work...
"Mining in Perth, they're paying thousands to young kids down there, make a fortune and return?"
you looked at the cost of living down there ?
ive had it offered but the price of property is MENTAL - talking millions(aus) not hundreds of thousands to get close to what i can get here in aberdeen ..... i have a couple of friends down there that said yeah lifes good , its party town but none of them intend to stay and they are not managing to save the money they thought when they saw the that top line - that says it all to me really.
40thou would go no where by all accounts.