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So there's a good chance I might be made redundant in the next few months. Part of the redundancy package will be a retraining grant of approx £1200. I'm currently in management but fancy doing something different. What training courses would you suggest and what sort of roles will they be useful for? Coke and hookers won't be an option!
Skills course
I went through redundancy a few years back, and had a £1500 retraining grant. From my own experience the training provided was very poor. There was a very small number of training providers to choose from - and I felt it was more about keeping those training providers in work than providing you with sufficient new skills.
Best of luck with whatever you decide to do.
Rope access. Go and clean skyscrapers and fix wind turbines. Good craic, do good, get paid well, get fit.
Mountain Bike Leadership training? Bike mechanic training?
Will have to pay for it and claim back so will be able to choose any training that I could use in a new career. So mountain bike leadership training would be allowed but not a skills course.
Rope access
need GWO training to go anywhere near a wind turbine.
As an IRATA L3 rope tech I’d say it’s not a bad idea but I’d also say GWO and the wind industry seems to be the place to go unless you’ve got an established trade you can use on the ropes or are happy fighting it out with all the other new L1 techs to scrub fat from inside riser vents or clean windows for £120 a day.
It is possible to make good money and have fun in the trade but it’s a hard slog or good luck to get to that point.
IOSH or NEBOSH course?
Managers with Health and Safety qualifications are always employable.
I’ve got NEBOSH NGC too and I’d spend the money on that rather than a rope course. It’s the direction I hope to go in when I hang my harness up. Will be doing the NVQ this year.
How much are cytech courses?
IOS/NEBOSH look a good suggestion cheers. I not the best with heights so don't think the rope access would be for me! Don't really fancy anything cycling related as don't want to mix work and my hobby.
Cookery course to the make the BEST yorkshire puddings?
You could travel the world.
Imagine the satisfaction of yet another sunday roast taken to to 10.
The smiles
The admiration
new bike
Tree surgery.
And spend some if your redundancy money on a trailer, chainsaw, lawnmower, strimmer etc.
I know a few guys who have gardening businesses, they're overrun with work, and make a pretty penny as well.
Folk just wanna pay a man to do pretty much everything it seems.
I would do a dry stone walling course and set up solo.
Failing that, plastering, carpet cleaning, odd job property maintenance, tiling.
Depends where you are in uk.
I've my IOSH Managing Safely and it's been worth doing, and I plan at some point to look at NEBOSH Diploma/more
Have you any management qualifications? Again, I plan on looking at this in future, mainly to evidence the skills I've got.
I may also look at organisational development certificate in future - could be a good thing with all my training experience.
presume you are going to need to be pretty fit and healthy to become a self employed trade. What happens as old age starts to kick in?
Any idea at all what kind of thing you want to do? That's not a very big budget really so might just offer a "taster" of your chosen direction.
I was due to be starting an ILEM qualification later this year so have no actual management qualifications just experience. Have some skills I can fall back on but was putting some feelers out to see if there were any ideas about worthwhile training for changes in career. Thanks for all the advice. Already a dab hand at the Yorkhire Puddings so no help needed there! 😄
2.5 T digger ticket
Or sword fighting
Like the sound of both of those! What are the most random courses that I can do then? Need to have a slim chance of my current employers signing off as re-training for a new career.
Coke and hookers, surely?