Name a career that need a specific qualification.

dumbo

Try an Accounting Technician Course, basically you are a trainee accountant, its office based, pretty well paid but you will need to enjoy working at that sort of thing.

marybelle01

sniggings wrote: »

A film star or a TV presenter or doctor may love their job but I doubt if an accountant or pharmacist, were offered a job as something else at the same money, they would turn it down and say, "no I love counting pills too much to leave" or "I need to file tax returns or my live isn't complete".
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All this demonstrates is that you know no accountants or pharmacists.

Many accountants that I know love their work. It wouldn't be for me, but then they would hate what I do. And highly qualified accountants do not file tax returns (or not unless they work for a huge corporation) and nor do they tally up the columns in the books!

And as for pharmacists, they have rigorous professional training, and do not "count pills" for a living - a very good living at that too as in the NHS they can expect to start at £21k before they are even fully qualified and can rise to in excess of £80k.

pickpocketlocket

marybelle01 wrote: »

All this demonstrates is that you know no accountants or pharmacists.

Many accountants that I know love their work. It wouldn't be for me, but then they would hate what I do. And highly qualified accountants do not file tax returns (or not unless they work for a huge corporation) and nor do they tally up the columns in the books!

And as for pharmacists, they have rigorous professional training, and do not "count pills" for a living - a very good living at that too as in the NHS they can expect to start at £21k before they are even fully qualified and can rise to in excess of £80k.

You are right - I used to work in finance, and whilst I could not see my future in that field, there were many there that loved their job.

I think the OP takes his views from the media rather than finding things out for himself?

sniggings

marybelle01 wrote: »

All this demonstrates is that you know no accountants or pharmacists.

Many accountants that I know love their work. It wouldn't be for me, but then they would hate what I do. And highly qualified accountants do not file tax returns (or not unless they work for a huge corporation) and nor do they tally up the columns in the books!

And as for pharmacists, they have rigorous professional training, and do not "count pills" for a living - a very good living at that too as in the NHS they can expect to start at £21k before they are even fully qualified and can rise to in excess of £80k.

you argue for the sake of it, please save your time in replying to my posts, as you will not get one in return.

1940sGal

sniggings wrote: »

looking for some ideas for training that leads to a well paid career.

(well paid, meaning what ever you consider well paid)

Teaching is a good example, a degree in teaching will get you a teaching job.

any others you can suggest...

Try to be a bit more specific. There are tons of roles out there that require specific qualifications or training.

If you're after ideas of what to do, why not try listing your interests? I could say to you 'go to vet school' but that'd be a bit useless if you didn't like animals.

jfh7gwa

Well, it all depends what interests you, surely?!

I mean, there are plenty of careers out there that require specific qualifications (either legally e.g. doctors, or by a general industry standard e.g. software engineering).

Off the top of my head:

Doctors and other health-care related jobs
Lawyers (and associated professionals)
Career jobs in technology (not technical support at PC World, I'm talking about the career kind that require degrees in engineering or sciences, like in banks or at Google)
University lecturers and other education professionals (not teaching assistants, although I think they have some qualifications these days)
Accountants (and I don't mean the office jnr that calls himself a Trainee Accountant, I mean people studying for the quals and ends up getting qualified)

Basically any job worth its salt (i.e. has progression paths) has some minimum level entry criteria. There are very few that do not (perhaps Sales jobs?).

I guess the more important point is that there's a difference between a job and a career, isn't there?

marybelle01

sniggings wrote: »

you argue for the sake of it, please save your time in replying to my posts, as you will not get one in return.

I just did

And you still know nothing about accountants or pharmacists. You simply made assumptions about (a) what they do, (b) what they think about what they do and (c) whether they would even take you! It is not as simple as "I want to study a qualification that will guarantee me a job" - no qualification guarantees you a job, and even before you get to the employment part, you have to be accepted for a qualification and pass it! If you haven't figured that out by now, then it isn't just accountants and pharmacists you know nothing about - it's employment altogether that you know nothing about.

getmore4less

another angle is to look at rapid change and slow and slow careers.

Computer based tech is an example of a rapid

The qualifications are out dated before you start them so most have to have the the skills and keep on top of the training requirements, leaning new languages techniques etc or focus on an area where skills are portable like quality or system infastruture some aspects are slower like business computing but the tools to do the job advance.

eg when I learnt about softare programing it was batch jobs to do compliations on a mainframe so you tried a lot harder to get it right first time. In my second job they were still using papertape for their computer systems in my last job I was working on compilers and virtual machines for leading edge devices(I have no computing qualification except for on the job courses)
these days the top people go to the likes of apple, MS, google facebook etc. some still like place that make things

Engineering sets you up for loads of thing because the good courses do a lot of things you need in a lot of jobs.




Other careers adapt slowly, building is and example, except at the leading edge of architechture and building design.

debrag

try nursing

morganedge

dizzyrascal wrote: »

You are going about this the wrong way!
You need to find out where your skills and passions lie and then follow that career route.

That's probably good advice, but some people just don't really know where their skills lie, and their only passions aren't ever going to get them a job.

My passions are pretty girls, football, comedy, beer, money.
I don't know where my skills are. I'm not really sure I have any.

I could be sitting here in 10 years time trying to find out how to turn my skills (assuming I have any) and passions into a job, and still be none-the-wiser, which is why I, like the OP, am thinking about just taking ANY course which can lead to employment/career.

I saw a career adviser when I was unemployed and it didn't help at all. Still, I'm happy to answer any questions in case any of you want to help guide me out of the dead-end rut I feel trapped in, like a moth in a bath.