Hey,
Right i'm 25 and I work in sales based commission only job in an dying industry. To say I hate my job is an understatment and over the past couple of months it has become clear to me that my job is making me serverly depressed, so I need to get out of it. I have to deal with some crazy people, in a poor working environment and because it's commission only, there's no real security as I live day by day not really knowning when the next pay day is going to be. I don't have any family as I grew up care, so I need security as I don't have anything or anyone there to fall back on if my work dries up. I don't sleep much because of all of this going round in my head.
I've got around £15k in savings and i've been thinking about what career path I can go down. I've only got 2 A levels so I was thinking about going to university but it's just too expensive now. As a result i've settled in my mind on working in IT as I use to know someone who did IT contract work with data bases and he earns a good whack, I haven't seen him for a while tho. I've also got a friend who works in recruitment got Hayes and deals with the IT stuff and he's always telling me about how he's getting £200 - £400 a day for them. So my thinking is that if I retrain in IT, then I could possibly get a half decent job through my friend.
My questions to all you guys, is how do I actually go about this. I've got my £15k so where can I do to retain and get qualifications that will allow me to get into IT contract work? All advice welcome.
Many thanks in advance
Right i'm 25 and I work in sales based commission only job in an dying industry. To say I hate my job is an understatment and over the past couple of months it has become clear to me that my job is making me serverly depressed, so I need to get out of it. I have to deal with some crazy people, in a poor working environment and because it's commission only, there's no real security as I live day by day not really knowning when the next pay day is going to be. I don't have any family as I grew up care, so I need security as I don't have anything or anyone there to fall back on if my work dries up. I don't sleep much because of all of this going round in my head.
I've got around £15k in savings and i've been thinking about what career path I can go down. I've only got 2 A levels so I was thinking about going to university but it's just too expensive now. As a result i've settled in my mind on working in IT as I use to know someone who did IT contract work with data bases and he earns a good whack, I haven't seen him for a while tho. I've also got a friend who works in recruitment got Hayes and deals with the IT stuff and he's always telling me about how he's getting £200 - £400 a day for them. So my thinking is that if I retrain in IT, then I could possibly get a half decent job through my friend.
My questions to all you guys, is how do I actually go about this. I've got my £15k so where can I do to retain and get qualifications that will allow me to get into IT contract work? All advice welcome.
Many thanks in advance
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