Leaving the industry

[Lee321]

Daughter's boyfriend 18yr old trainee pipe fitter. hes doing very very well for a large multi national.

 

[Sidewinder]

I went to work for a medium sized company as a service engineer, mostly mechanical with some cnc but leading to more cnc and a lot easier work. Sick pay, holidays, bupa, car, clothes, tools and a lot of independence so I can get 4 long days if I want, yep 3 day weekend! salary late 20's and will be 30 by end of the year I am a different person.

Toold,

Please tell more!

Been there & got the T shirt, went on to a CNC control manuf'.

The way things are going over the last 3 weeks, I have had thoughts about going back to such things!

When I was made redundant in '05 I was on 33, car etc, etc, etc.

Think is I could do the mech, elect, plc, cnc & part programming, the variety is what keeps it interesting.

Would love to know a bit more.

If you can't post in open forum, PM is fine!

Glad you are enjoying it, hope it goes well for you.

 

[Bacon]

I went to work for a medium sized company as a service engineer, mostly mechanical with some cnc but leading to more cnc and a lot easier work. Sick pay, holidays, bupa, car, clothes, tools and a lot of independence so I can get 4 long days if I want, yep 3 day weekend! salary late 20's and will be 30 by end of the year I am a different person.

Can't fault you M8 as it's what i'm doing at the moment diverent job every day and best part is not knowibg what you've got when you get there,

And the satistifaction when you get it all working for the client.

 

[binky]

I went to work for a medium sized company as a service engineer, mostly mechanical with some cnc but leading to more cnc and a lot easier work. Sick pay, holidays, bupa, car, clothes, tools and a lot of independence so I can get 4 long days if I want, yep 3 day weekend! salary late 20's and will be 30 by end of the year I am a different person.

That level of flexibility from an employer is very unusual and very nice when you can get it. The thing that would most put me off returning to being employed is the rigidity of stupid time keeping systems. The last decent engineering outfit I worked for worked a flexitime system, having been made redundant from this company, going back to regular hours in small minded companies was very annoying.