Regional Skills & Training Centre is a large facility located on the Coes Road, Dundalk, Co Louth. We offer a full range of programmes including: apprenticeships, community based training, evening courses, occupational specific traineeships and specific skills training. Call 042-9355700 or visit www.rstc.ie for more details.
Peace be upon you. I just want to ask. Are you looking for workers in the field of carpentry? I am a carpenter. I want to work and I am looking for work.
This is really embarrassing but I really need some help so I'm willing to deal with the embarrassment.Does anybody have any advice for an older man I'm 38 years old and I have no direction and I have no experience doing anything except for landscaping I would like to learn some sort of trade and I don't even know where to start to be honest but I'm sick of being broke and I'm sick of not being able to provide for the people that I love and care about I just need change. Because I don't have any skills and because I'm 38 and I have nothing to show for it I fell into a deep depression and if I don't get out of this I just don't know what I'm going to do I need help and I don't have anyone to help me I have prayed to God and I have tried to work menial jobs but I want something that I can be proud of I want something that I can work my ass off all day and even though it might suck sometimes I can go home what they sense of pride for getting stuff done and learning and being somebody if anyone could please give me a message with some honest advice I greatly appreciate it. Please no bashing me I understand and I know the odds are stacked against me but I would appreciate only positive and uplifting responses I can make myself feel like s*** all on my own and I don't know where else to turn so any advice would really be helpful thank you and God bless
Could you move back in with parents and work full time for 2-3 yrs and buy a btl property at the end of it even on 25k after tax that’s 20 save that for 3 yrs and u have 60k which you could put down on a house to rent out
I’m a union electrician too I love pipe work in electric I’m really good at it but I’m starting to dislike everything else especially my union the ceiling is very low looking to join a steam fitting union soon hate the new learning curve but I will learn fast
I'm still debating of becoming a fire pipe fitter, or go to nursing school. I know two very different fields but I'm in my late twenties and don't know if I can handle any more student loans.
Bro, tell me about it... I spent 7 years in college and am currently taking a year off. I tried welding, engineering, electrical, and finally settled on nursing but absolutely hated it once I got to do a clinical in the hospital. I’m 25 years old now and working at a home improvement store (retail) making $12 an hour. I need to go back to school but don’t want more debt unless I know for sure what I want to do!! Hit me up if you figure something out dude, lol.
George is right. I was a pipefitter welder from aged 16 to 39 in Ireland and the UK. It is one of the hardest, heaviest and dirtiest jobs anyone can do in plant rooms, pipe ducts, basements, under floors, roof spaces, freezing filthy sites and all kinds of difficult places. You can make good money, be an all rounder and travel but its a young mans game so get out before you are fucked or too old to change careers. I have known many pipefitters/welders who suffered serious health problems or died young from the conditions and punishing work. One older pipe welder once asked me " do u know any pipefitters or welders who retired:"? I replied "only 1 or 2 now you say it he replied there's a good reason for that!. It always stuck with me and I got out as soon as I could afford too. I have worked with pipework from 1/2" to 48" in boiler/plant rooms, commercial contracts, hospitals, factories, power stations, chemical plants etc as pipefitter, pipe welder, sub contractor with my own crew on price work, and foreman over the 23 years. The hours are long and hard but the rewards are an honest days work, satisfaction and working with mostly decent sound men who just want to give their families a good future. Drawbacks are if there is a slowdown, industrial contracts and commercial construction will be one of the 1st areas to suffer and work can be famine or feast. I have worked with a few hang men, assholes, bullies, snakes, bitter people and lunatics but you can meet those kind in any job. It can be physically back breaking, every fitter I knew had back problems or other health problems no matter how big or fit they were as they aged. Heavy drinking was common because of working away and fellas can easily fall out because of the conditions, too much time together and long hours. It can be a dog eat dog world especially if you are sub contractor. You normally have to work on contracts far away from your home and families and I knew many men who missed out on their kids growing up apart from some weekends. I was one of the lucky ones and went back to college to get a degree and then a masters in Psychology and haven't looked back and have never missed the job or conditions but do miss some of the slagging and laughs. Personally I would never let a son of mine go into it and most of the men I worked with felt the same.
@Mike Varga Thanks Mike hope you manage to get out of the game. I know a good few lads who retrained or set up a business and are all much happier. The lads with good heads earn good money when under 40 and then change careers if they can but its a big move and risk financially and not easy.
Thank you for this,I think I just changed my mind after reading your experiences,I’m 38 now and already retired from one job and I’m now thinking something a little easier on the body rather than the long hours and dirty hard work like you’ve mentioned..leave it to the young guys
Well summed up just turned 66 been pipe fitting and welding since I was 16 stopped the bevy, maybe a few more years at it good mates and banter, would miss it
I trained as a pipe fitter/welder starting in 1977. Apprentice for four years. Then as a tradesman, on and off for a further 20. It was hateful. The work is often dirty and cold (you may be laying pipes in all weathers in, e.g. mucky, wet, cold trenches; or sweating buckets while covered in soot in a filthy, roasting, boiler house). Or dangerous (installing pipes at high levels, e.g. In factories - a head for heights is a must if you are foolish enough to take on this job). Getting a firm to employ you for that doesn't want to work you to death is another of its demerits. Expect to come home from work (unless lucky enough to get a more benign job like replacing radiators in a warm school) with ingrained dirt (even now the dirt from all those years is still impossible to remove from my hands) and, often, extreme exhaustion from lugging heavy steel pipes. And just look at the pipe fitters who are still fitting in middle age - they are, almost universally, physically ten years older looking than they really are (tbh, don't see many older fitters. The work is just too hard and physical). There are pluses naturally - you do learn some useful skills, and I always liked welding, though it does eventually ruin your eyesight. I'm not here to be a pain in the arse. Simply want to let you know the reality of this often tough, physical trade. If you're inclined to still go for a trade, perhaps aim to be a plumber, or electrician, or car mechanic. These at least have the advantage of being less physically demanding, and you learn a skill that means you can do 'homers' for extra cash if you're so inclined, and when the economy falls and jobs are scarce. Take the advice of this old fart if you're considering this job - think hard before you sign up!
