What are some things that you can get qualified for relatively quickly that would get you a job paying more than the minimum wage? The first thing that springs to mind is an SIA (security guard) licence course.
My definition of relatively quickly is fairly loose so feel free to suggest anything from one week to half a year, the higher resulting pay the better.
Forklift licence, SIA, CompTIA, you can even do your Class 2 HGV licence in a couple of weeks on a crash course. I think you can learn to be a driving instructor pretty quickly, too.
A lot of these things are really rather expensive undertakings, mind. Hopefully you have a few grand knocking about.
Also, joining the Army/Navy/RAF in a technical or intelligence field a good way to get extremely high level training and get paid while you do it. Of course it's not for everyone, but you're not very likely to get shot in a radar dome or summat.
Then you have rather a lot of options. Do you have any skills, interests or propensities that might point you in a certain direction? Technically minded, practical, a people person? (the last one might be a stretch for someone posting on britfa.gs)
If it was me I'd do the HGV route as I couldn't think of a cushier job than driving for hours and hours, I'd love it. But that's me, that might sound like a living hell to you, a lot of people give me weird looks when I tell them I wished I was a lorry driver.
>>12588 I guess I'm leaning towards something practical and away from an office environment. I really like the 2 weeks on/2 weeks off schedule of oil rig work.
I've sometimes fantasised about being a truck driver in North America or Australia but that fantasy never extended to Britain or Europe. It seems like it'd be a much more stressful job on our cramped roads.
>It seems like it'd be a much more stressful job on our cramped roads.
I know what you mean, but at the end of the day, you can't control the traffic, so if someones having a go at you for being late, all you have to do is show them the congestion report from the M25.
I think what appeals to me about the job, other than the fact I find driving inherently relaxing, even on a deadline, is that you can only legally work so many hours in a day. Some of the jobs I've had, I'd have killed to be able to point at my tachometer and sit down in a corner for four hours. Plus I've never seen anyone cut up an HGV on the motorway.
>>12592 Isn't the military a bit funny about that? Also has laser eye surgery gotten safer over the last couple of decades, I seem to vaguely recall reading some horror stories about it as a kid.
>I looked into the military but my shitty eyesight disqualifies me.
There's no barrier to entry on any eyesight issues that can be corrected with glasses/contacts, in any branch of the british military. There might be some restrictions for obvious things like being a fighter pilot, but other than that, you should get in.
Unless you're legally blind, but I feel like you would have mentioned that already.
