What does everybody do?

Gemmzie

skint_spice wrote: »

Distinct lack of joiners, plumbers etc on this list! does this mean that we should encourage kids towards trades and they won't have money problems or are we just lucky because we've owned up to ours??:undecided

Hell no! My dad's a self employed window/conservatory etc fitter. Totally useless with money, as is my brother who he's training up. He's been on the same wage for the 10 years he's been doing it, which was pretty damn good 10 years ago and is pretty rubbish now!

skint_spice

So are you converting them Gemmzie? to your MSE ways...

mumoftwins

Before I got ill I was a New Homes Sales Advisor - paid well and I'd like to do it again when we're settled and I'm better.

fc123

Gemmzie wrote: »

He's been on the same wage for the 10 years he's been doing it, which was pretty damn good 10 years ago and is pretty rubbish now!

Same as independent retailers whatever they are selling! We retail ladies clothing.
Unfortunately, Primark sets the new benchmark on price...it is now "normal" for a top to cost £2. Ask anyone who has made a garment, start to finish, how long it takes plus cost of cloth. I now compete with an hourly labour rate of 4p per hour!

basilcat7

I am an in house recruitment consultant for a large construction company- used to be in agencies but could never do that sales malarky now....

fc123

ZTD wrote: »

We're sort-of self-selecting as we are posting on a computer-based forum, with most of us having non-manual jobs which involve the use of a computer.

Schools teaching the use of a computer are just recent inventions - people who've had that education, are probably young enough to be still deepening their debt...

My OH retrained as a carpenter at age 39 in 2002...he went back to college and sat in classes full of kids same age as our son (at the time; 17).
They were all mucking around one day and tutor had no control over the class.
I, meanwhile was running myself ragged trying to do both our jobs (we own our own business)...he is not a confrontational sort of guy but he thought of me and stood up in middle of class and told them all to shut it, that he was there to learn, his wife was run ragged sorting out kids and the business.

You now what?...they all were stunned into silence...

And, though his retraining hepled put us into debt (a long story)...it saved our bacon end 2007.

neverdespairgirl

ZTD wrote: »

Schools teaching the use of a computer are just recent inventions - people who've had that education, are probably young enough to be still deepening their debt...

I'm not sure about that - my primary school got computers in 1980, before I went there.

Gemmzie

skint_spice wrote: »

So are you converting them Gemmzie? to your MSE ways...

Trying my damnedest, all the debts on the DMP are my dad's, I run it for him! Useless... ahem.

Brother is the one I'm worried about though, he's always been a spoilt little brat and now he's intent on getting an overdraft and credit card the minute he's 18 because "he can handle it"

Buffythedebtslayer

Gemmzie wrote: »

Trying my damnedest, all the debts on the DMP are my dad's, I run it for him! Useless... ahem.

Brother is the one I'm worried about though, he's always been a spoilt little brat and now he's intent on getting an overdraft and credit card the minute he's 18 because "he can handle it"

Gemmzie, I know what you mean, a couple of my friends are in debt and just getting in deeper and deeper cos "they can handle it"

ho hum.... you can take a horse to water etc...

Nb - two kids I used to teach are both plumbers - lovely lads and they earn more then me and have no debts.........

I think people will always need plumbers, electricians, etc, perhaps not so much builders but we all have things that need fixing *stares hard at the thermostat willing it to work*


xx

ZTD

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I'm not sure about that - my primary school got computers in 1980, before I went there.

My school had computers when I was there - do you think I ever got to touch one?

Now they are ubiquitous and are used in virtually every lesson as looking for things on t'internet. Which is where the "being shown to use..." comes in.