i also aim to be mortgage free..

want2bmortgage3

thanks for the replies, i'm currently in an low-average paid job (postman), which is just about bearable but is very repetitive and when i'm working i'm wishing i could find something i'd actually enjoy.

any ideas on what is a well paid achievable job considering i'm a 26 yo male with no degree?

mummytofour

Your last sentance siad it all to me NO DEGREE.
This society is now so based upon education that if you dont have what it takes then tough luck.

I will share with you my plan....

Ok I just hit 30 and I am a married mum to five kids, I am just going on a DMP as we owe so much moeny. I have a very large mortgage and DH earns what is classed as the national adverage wage.
3 yrs ago I decieded that due to the way my life had panned out I wanted to be a social worker. I had no degree, to be honest 1 GCSE was my lot.
Anyway I could not right then go bk to education due to a alsorts of reasons.

It took me until NOV 06 to be able to start my eduaction path and I started by doing key skills in maths and english (same as gcse a-c) I spent 3 hrs per week doing that until I passed both in June 07 ( you can do this in an evening class). Since this Sep I have been doing an access course in social science and have just applied to uni. I do 2 days a week while my kids are in childcare, I had to go to a 6th form as that way I get my HUGE childcare bill paid for, for this I do have a round trip of 60 mile sper day, but its only 2 days per week. You could do this kind of course part-time this will mean that after a 1 yr course you can get into uni.

I have just been offerd a job at the local hosptial doing bank work which will tie in with my kids and college/uni I can start to earn some money and gain experiance which I know will help me. Th emoney can help with the debts we have which once I have them paid off I will tart on the MFW.

So my advice to you is to do some research and decided what you like the idea of, start a course at college and start training for a job that will earn you good money, in our society today its hard to beat them, you need to join them with an education.

Good luck.

want2bmortgage3

Thanks for your interesting post and good on you for what you are doing. I feel I do want to be a success of some sort and have a few ideas what I'd like to do but i'm not totally sure which way I will go.
I have good gcse's but average a-levels.
I'm thinking that an access course starting later this year might be the way to go. That way if I did decide to go to uni then I'd have the access qualification and my poor a-levels wouldn't matter.
I'm hoping an access course would also help give me some ideas to what areas I enjoy. I just went through school with as little thought as possible, wanting to get home and do other things. Now I'm on a constant search for something I can be passionate about, I feel I'll get there in the end but its certainly, for me anyway, not something I can decide on quickly.

The_Angel_by_Default

The best advise I could give is to network. After three years at one company I decided to play golf, not because I wanted to, but because I wanted to get to know the people I worked with (about 300 of them). Two days after my first lesson my worst enemy became my golf partner and helped me at work whenever he could! People suddenly decided I was worth knowing. (shallow as they are!) Since then my wage has risen over 100% in the past four years. And again, because of one of those people, I now have the chance of going contract and doubling my wage again.

Network - it pays to know people!