I need some life advice

[ttmadness]

Thanks for all the words so far, I'll take anything I can get from the knowledge here.

[ttmadness]

[QUOTE]

Im in flooring.
You may need some school qualifications for most trade jobs now days, not so much when I started in 1980. I just walked up to a carpet layer and said '' can you teach me to lay carpet''? he said to me '' bring a cut lunch tomorrow and be here at 8am''...it was that easy. QUOTE]

Hahaha, that is just amazing.

[Highlander]

Exactly!



May I suggest that you consider looking elsewhere for a trade and keep the motorcycle mechanics as a passion/hobby? Not much work around and currently there's a glutton of qualified bike mechanics and next to no jobs for them.
Only trying to make you aware man

The man speaks some good sense. Plenty of folks have grown to hate what they once loved because they turned it into a job.
Though the ultimate goal for employment would be to find someone to pay you to do what you would have been doing anyway.

[rainman]

In the end, it's not the job you do that's important, it's the life you live.

[ttmadness]

The man speaks some good sense. Plenty of folks have grown to hate what they once loved because they turned it into a job.
Though the ultimate goal for employment would be to find someone to pay you to do what you would have been doing anyway.

It's the big debate isn't it? Live for work or work to live? Work to enjoy things outside of your profession or try to enjoy those things for a living?

[Highlander]

It's the big debate isn't it? Live for work or work to live? Work to enjoy things outside of your profession or try to enjoy those things for a living?

Work to live. it is a means to an end. One day you may not be able to work.

Lifestyle is a combination of money coming in and time off to enjoy it.
There are people at both ends of that scale - all time & no money, or all money and no time. Find the middle ground that works for you.

[DMNTD:Me]

It's the big debate isn't it? Live for work or work to live? Work to enjoy things outside of your profession or try to enjoy those things for a living?

Just so you know, I work in a m'bike shop...and it has nearly killed my passion for riding bikes. I've ridden some of the most amazing bikes ever produced and are around them all day, every (working) day and believe it or not it can became very mundane.
My mechanic at work stopped riding all together and has just sold his (styley) bike.

Hobby as a job? Yes
Passion as a job? Be well aware

[Usarka]

It's the big debate isn't it? Live for work or work to live? Work to enjoy things outside of your profession or try to enjoy those things for a living?

1) No one ever lies on their death bed wishing they'd spent more time at the office.

2) Life's hard. If you live it stupidly it's even harder.

[ttmadness]

Just so you know, I work in a m'bike shop...and it has nearly killed my passion for riding bikes. I've ridden some of the most amazing bikes ever produced and are around them all day, every (working) day and believe it or not it can became very mundane.
My mechanic at work stopped riding all together and has just sold his (styley) bike.

Hobby as a job? Yes
Passion as a job? Be well aware

That makes me cringe. I can't even fathom not getting a kick out of riding a bike.

[SMOKEU]

20 years ago learning a trade may have been a good option, but these days it's very difficult to get into a trade unless you know the right people. I speak from self experience and from several of my mates who have tried to get into a trade by doing pre trade courses. Think very carefully before you jump into a pre trade course - most people who do these courses can't land a job after finishing the course.

[Mom]

In answer to your last question, if I was doing it all again, I think I'd study geology.

Good Luck!!

I would do music. Some wonderfully wanking career advisor told me I could not teach music if I could not play the piano. The fact I had Grade 8 Trumpet/practical and theory did not count.

Someone bright and energetic can make $2k a week just selling shit at the markets. You dont NEED a career to be financial. I could earn 2k week as a sparkie

Exactly! Though to be a sparkie you probably will have some trade qual to back yourself up.

My last career move was at 44 years old so you CAN change when you don't like what you're doing.

44 eh? Hmmm, there is hope for me then. I start my new job Monday

Respect to that. Why on earth do I feel I'm too old to start something else.

What the hell does age have to do with it?

Trust me I know what you mean, thing is I have a woman tying me down.

NO woman has the right to tie you to anything, nor does a man have a right to tie me. FFS! Make a call and DO IT. Do not blame anyone else for not doing what you want to. No one has the ability to MAKE you do something unless you agree.

[Highlander]

20 years ago learning a trade may have been a good option, but these days it's very difficult to get into a trade unless you know the right people. I speak from self experience and from several of my mates who have tried to get into a trade by doing pre trade courses. Think very carefully before you jump into a pre trade course - most people who do these courses can't land a job after finishing the course.

My folks always said it doesn't necisarily need to be a trade, but rather something you get a recognised qualification in, and can go back to in future.

[ecko_nzed]

21...pah! plenty of time to decide what you want to do for a career. I'm in IT, but didn't get into it until i was almost in my 30's. I tried lots of little odd jobs before that. The reason I took so long to get into IT, was I didn't use a computer until I was 28 and thought this is fun, but I need to understand how it all works?

I heard a saying once that has stuck with me, "Find a job you love and you'll never work another day in your life". The tricky part is finding out what that love is?

enjoy your journey dude

[SMOKEU]

Doesn't necisarily need to be a trade, but rather something you get a recognised qualification in, and can go back to in future.

Personally I have been put off by courses because after doing 2 of them I have nothing to show for it. I failed my last uni course because of their (the tutors) negligence. Oh, and I passed all the exams and got into the top 20ish% with my exam scores. I'm sick of giving up my weekends and putting my heart and soul into something, just for it to blow up in my face.

[Smifffy]

I would do music. Some wonderfully wanking career advisor told me I could not teach music if I could not play the piano. The fact I had Grade 8 Trumpet/practical and theory did not count.

Yeah career advisors have a lot to answer for I reckon. I don't think the silly old goat had even heard of half the careers that really interested me when I found out about them later in life.

He was also the sod that advised me to do a course that was supposedly recognised as the same as a degree, but is for all intents and purposes worthless outside of NZ.

I haven't played the trumpet since leaving High school.