Career advice welcomed

lostat40

Doshwaster said:

Manxman_in_exile said:

lostat40 said:

Doshwaster said:

lostat40 said:

Marcon said:

What qualifications do you have? To say the only thing you like is animals isn't exactly helpful. Lots of people like animals, but that's not usually a basis for a career in the way that, say, being a vet or veterinary nurse, RPSA inspector or similar might be. No idea how much you need to earn, but do you have any scope for starting something like a dog walking business (albeit part time) and doing some sort of regular salaried job, possibly part time, to ensure the bills get paid?

I have an honours degree in electronic engineering and and health and social care degree (non honours). I could go back and finish the honours and become HCPC registered but i just dont know where radiography can really take me as I didn't like the job and thought there would have been more involved in it. As for salary i want to earn as much as I can, i see money as a security (not one to gloat). 

Sorry, joining this thread late.

Given your background in electronic engineering and radiography have you thought about looking for jobs with the manufacturers of radiology equipment - the likes of Philips, Siemens and GE - to design, test, install or even sell the equipment which should all pay more than the NHS. There are other companies which have the service contracts for equipment in hospitals which would involve travelling around. 

Hi Thanks for the reply....The problem i'm having and this may seem strange to some people but I have no clue about electronics and struggled to ever understand it. I was young left school, done this based of a guidance teacher's at advice at school. I crammed to pass exams (just and no more). Its on my CV but that's it I regret doing that degree so much now. I want away from it completely because every time i go for a job i'm made to look stupid at interviews or in a job as I know nothing. To give you an idea i dont even know how to test a battery or what live, neutral etc do. Feel like a fraud/failure

As for career change I have always liked the idea of a residential quantity surveyor. I am wondering if i should start a new thread on this to get advice on this career. I've been in construction for a brief period and didn't fancy that side but certainly the property valuation side I think I would really like that as a job. I'm just apprehensive that my age will work against me and I will struggle to gain experience and a job. 

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If you aren't deliberately winding us up this reminds me of a conversation I overheard as a child between my older brother and my mother.  My mother was doing a general knowledge/non-cryptic crossword in a newspaper.  My brother had graduated a few years earlier with a first class degree in chemistry.  My mother asked him a chemistry question and he didn't know the answer.  My mother:  "I thought you had a first class degree or something in chemistry?  Why don't you know the answer?"  Her elder son:  "I've got degree in it mum.  It doesn't mean I know anything about it".  (He, by the way, went on to a successful career as a a public sector accountant - CIPFA).

I can relate - I also have a Chemistry degree from the 90s and I've been shown up several times in interviews and pub quizzes by some basic knowledge which I have long since forgotten. I recently found some old University exam papers while clearing out a cupboard. I couldn't even understand the questions never mind be able to answer them.

Yeah I wasted my time doing it and its served me no good