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Good career options for people without degrees

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  • El_Rey
    El_Rey Posts: 409 Forumite
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    Opinion wrote: »
    What have you been doing since school?

    If you've got 12 years of solid experience in a specific field, you may not need a degree.

    Experience and life skills often own book skills with no experience.

    I've held administrative positions within the public sector. While they haven't been the most exciting of jobs I do have some HR and customer service experience plus good IT, communication and problem solving skills.
  • El_Rey
    El_Rey Posts: 409 Forumite
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    sniggings wrote: »
    you really haven't given us much to go on.

    is wage the most important.

    job satisfaction.

    a short working week.

    inside or out.

    etc etc etc

    Apologies for the lack of detail in my first post.

    Wage isn't the most important of factors as I would prefer to earn a reasonable wage doing something that I enjoy rather than earning a mega wage doing something that I dislike. I'd prefer to work indoors and to avoid manual work, so that rules out learning a trade etc.
  • Bennifred
    Bennifred Posts: 3,986 Forumite
    Bennifred wrote: »
    What do you enjoy doing outside of work? What are your hobbies and interests, how do you pass time?

    What are the answers to these questions? We need more detail!
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  • jobbingmusician
    jobbingmusician Posts: 20,347 Forumite
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    If you want to consolidate and build on what you have learnt in your career to date, this might help.

    http://www.bbk.ac.uk/linkinglondon/resources/apel-credit-resources/leaflet_PanLondonAPELLearner.pdf
    Ex board guide. Signature now changed (if you know, you know).
  • El_Rey
    El_Rey Posts: 409 Forumite
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    Bennifred wrote: »
    What do you enjoy doing outside of work? What are your hobbies and interests, how do you pass time?

    My main interests are football (watching rather than playing) and music (listening rather than playing.) I also enjoy planning for and going on holidays, reading, getting fit and learning foreign languages.
  • DCFC79
    DCFC79 Posts: 40,619 Forumite
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    El_Rey wrote: »
    learning foreign languages.

    What foreign languages do you know or most comfrotable with ?
  • El_Rey
    El_Rey Posts: 409 Forumite
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    DCFC79 wrote: »
    What foreign languages do you know or most comfrotable with ?

    I have a GCSE in French. I am currently teaching myself Portuguese and Spanish, so I have a basic understanding of those.
  • AP007
    AP007 Posts: 7,109 Forumite
    El_Rey wrote: »
    I have a GCSE in French. I am currently teaching myself Portuguese and Spanish, so I have a basic understanding of those.
    Travel agent? Holiday company?
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  • Person_one
    Person_one Posts: 28,884 Forumite
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    El_Rey wrote: »
    My main interests are football (watching rather than playing) and music (listening rather than playing.) I also enjoy planning for and going on holidays, reading, getting fit and learning foreign languages.

    Are you winding us up a bit now? ;)
  • KiKi
    KiKi Posts: 5,381 Forumite
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    It's aimed at 17-24 year olds, but I think it's a pretty helpful site if you want to put yourself in different 'careers' and see what they're like:
    https://www.plotr.co.uk/
    ' <-- See that? It's called an apostrophe. It does not mean "hey, look out, here comes an S".
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