3 jobs which one / ones to take?

Owain_Moneysaver

Think of all the lovely cheap holidays you can have with the staff travel privs on the trains.

MD of First Scotrail started with the railway as a signalman so there is opportunity to progress.

michaelvintner

Definitely the apprenticeship, it's a no brainer. Wish I had the brains to do one when I was younger.

Suffer the rubbish money for a year but your earning potential will be much more in the future.

micflair_2

I agree with all above, wish I had done something like this now.

fly_dragon_fly

ok more of a issue now! the 20 hour job has rung and wants me to do a induction day on wednesday which i said yes to, but south eastern also want me to do one on the same day. What do I do because the one with south eastern isn't even 100% yet so don't want to turn down the 20 hours job for something that may not happen so what should i do now?

RobertoMoir

Tell the 20 hour job that you can't do Wednesday because of other work commitments, but that you would love to do it at any other time that is convenient to them...

You've got to play the long term game, which you know, and that means putting the apprenticeship first. There will be other "20 hour part time jobs", an actual apprenticeship with a future in it is much more difficult to find..

fly_dragon_fly

Had a call a minute ago from south eastern to see if i had got the application form and said that i had a hospital appointment and to see if there was another date and he asked how old i was to which i told him and he said, don't go for the apprenticeship, fill in the application form put your dads name and station and fill it in and he'll get back to me as he thinks i have more experience than needed for the apprenticeship so could just walk into it rather than do the apprenticeship so not as bad as i was expecting.

Thanks for all the advice though

2nd_Time_Lucky

fly_dragon_fly wrote: »

Had a call a minute ago from south eastern to see if i had got the application form and said that i had a hospital appointment and to see if there was another date and he asked how old i was to which i told him and he said, don't go for the apprenticeship, fill in the application form put your dads name and station and fill it in and he'll get back to me as he thinks i have more experience than needed for the apprenticeship so could just walk into it rather than do the apprenticeship so not as bad as i was expecting.

Thanks for all the advice though

sounds positive best of luck with whatever you decide to do

FWIW i did an apprenticeship as did OH and my sister and we all did far better longterm than walking straight into a "normal" job.

fly_dragon_fly

hubby did an apprenticeship when he was 16 then left when he completed it at 19 worked at another company for 4 years then went back to the company he originally trained with and is now on £11 a hour, kind of still want to go for the job as an apprentice but if the interviewer thinks i shouldn't i should maybe listen to him lol

pompeyrich

michaelvintner wrote: »

Definitely the apprenticeship, it's a no brainer. Wish I had the brains to do one when I was younger.

Suffer the rubbish money for a year but your earning potential will be much more in the future.

Funny how times/opinions have changed, in my day it was mostly the ones who struggled academically that chose apprenticeships. Certainly not knocking apprenticeships, I did one and never looked back.