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Rob RX-7
Hello fellow sparkies, im rob, 28 years old this sunday and bloody fed upI went to college back in 1997-1999, did the 236 part 1 & 2 and the company i was working for went bust. I was only about 19 at the time and in quite a bit of debt (new car, etc) Over the next 6 years I stupidly fell into a dead end warehouse job driving a forklift truck picking orders. Anyway i volunteered for redundancy from that job back in 2005 and bummed about on the dole for a year. In that time i paid for a 16th edition course, passed that and landed a job as a fully qualified sparkie doing all sorts (domestic, industrial commercial).
I was mainly doing maintenance/breakdowns on private occupied homes subcontracting for various insurance companies (changing fittings, fault finding etc.) I also did the odd bit of industrial (repair machines, install cable tray, install dist boards) 90% of the time i was working alone and although at times i was in deeper than i was comfortable with i, enjoyed it. The biggest problem for me is that i told a few lies in the interview. I told them i had been doing it for 6+years and sometimes i was expected to do a job that i felt was out of my league. I soldiered on and learnt a lot. It did help having a manager who sort of realised i wasn't as good as i said and he helped me out in those sticky situations over the phone.
Anyway i only worked there for about 1 year and was made redundant. It was nothing to do with my work, it just gradually went dead and i was in the office more and more twiddling thumbs. That was back in june 2007 and since then i've not done a thing, just enjoyed claiming my tax back from JSA.
The time has come to get into work again. I really don't know how people can stay out of work for years and years and not actually care about the future. I want it all just like the next bloke..nice motor, nice house, holidays abroard twice a year. This is my 3 year plan.
Lately i've been on the job hunt and my god im getting a little frustrated now. AGENCIES! They are absolutley useless. They advertise a job that matches your criteria, so you call them up asking for a certain person and EVERYTIME they say "oh so and so is......
In a meeting now, can i take a message?
Is on a lunch break right now, can i take a message?
Is on the phone right now, can i take a message?
Is taking a dump right now, can i take a message?
They never call back, NEVER! Im quickly getting fed up now, so the plan is to call every contractor i can think of and get my name out there. Another plan is to go it alone. Ideally if i had the 2391 i would be a perfect candidate to do so, but what are peoples thoughts on working for yourself even if you only have the qualifications i have? (236 part 1 & 2, 16th edition) Would the part P be worth getting? Is anybody working for themselves with the qualifications i have?
Sorry for the long post lads and ladies. Hopefuly someone will have a spare 5 mins to read this and get back
Ta
Rob
I was mainly doing maintenance/breakdowns on private occupied homes subcontracting for various insurance companies (changing fittings, fault finding etc.) I also did the odd bit of industrial (repair machines, install cable tray, install dist boards) 90% of the time i was working alone and although at times i was in deeper than i was comfortable with i, enjoyed it. The biggest problem for me is that i told a few lies in the interview. I told them i had been doing it for 6+years and sometimes i was expected to do a job that i felt was out of my league. I soldiered on and learnt a lot. It did help having a manager who sort of realised i wasn't as good as i said and he helped me out in those sticky situations over the phone.
Anyway i only worked there for about 1 year and was made redundant. It was nothing to do with my work, it just gradually went dead and i was in the office more and more twiddling thumbs. That was back in june 2007 and since then i've not done a thing, just enjoyed claiming my tax back from JSA.
The time has come to get into work again. I really don't know how people can stay out of work for years and years and not actually care about the future. I want it all just like the next bloke..nice motor, nice house, holidays abroard twice a year. This is my 3 year plan.
Lately i've been on the job hunt and my god im getting a little frustrated now. AGENCIES! They are absolutley useless. They advertise a job that matches your criteria, so you call them up asking for a certain person and EVERYTIME they say "oh so and so is......
In a meeting now, can i take a message?
Is on a lunch break right now, can i take a message?
Is on the phone right now, can i take a message?
Is taking a dump right now, can i take a message?
They never call back, NEVER! Im quickly getting fed up now, so the plan is to call every contractor i can think of and get my name out there. Another plan is to go it alone. Ideally if i had the 2391 i would be a perfect candidate to do so, but what are peoples thoughts on working for yourself even if you only have the qualifications i have? (236 part 1 & 2, 16th edition) Would the part P be worth getting? Is anybody working for themselves with the qualifications i have?
Sorry for the long post lads and ladies. Hopefuly someone will have a spare 5 mins to read this and get back
Ta
Rob