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By *phrodite OP Woman
over a year ago
(She/ her) in Sensualityland |
your job?
Serious question - would you consider retraining? Having retrained several times over the years in very different industries, I am curious what motivates other people.
What kind of world or industry would you go into and why? |
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By *TG3Man
over a year ago
Dorchester |
"your job?
Serious question - would you consider retraining? Having retrained several times over the years in very different industries, I am curious what motivates other people.
What kind of world or industry would you go into and why?"
nope love my job I had one major career change that's enough  |
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By *phrodite OP Woman
over a year ago
(She/ her) in Sensualityland |
"your job?
Serious question - would you consider retraining? Having retrained several times over the years in very different industries, I am curious what motivates other people.
What kind of world or industry would you go into and why?nope love my job I had one major career change that's enough "
Understand why people stay when they are content.
I guess I have a curious, restless soul in that respect and I get bored with work after around 5 years or thereabouts.  |
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By *phrodite OP Woman
over a year ago
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"I have worked in so many different industries.
But I wouldn’t change for the world now. I genuinely adore what I do. "
Hey that is a good place to find yourself in. Maybe eventually I ll get there myself!  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I’m an electrician, I haven’t changed careers as such but I’ve changed from working in social housing to now doing commercial / industrial
The main reason was social housing was literally a race to the bottom! Quantity over quality. No pride in your work could ever be taken! |
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By *TG3Man
over a year ago
Dorchester |
"your job?
Serious question - would you consider retraining? Having retrained several times over the years in very different industries, I am curious what motivates other people.
What kind of world or industry would you go into and why?nope love my job I had one major career change that's enough
Understand why people stay when they are content.
I guess I have a curious, restless soul in that respect and I get bored with work after around 5 years or thereabouts. "
ahhh well maybe you ought to change it to a creative job much more satisfying not all about money |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I'm just about to.
Today.
As to the why, my old sector had poor investment, support and thereby options and development felt stunted.
So I've landed in another completely outside my usual wheel house, and the main motivation, money, challenge, responsibility, development and options.
So yeah, let's watch this explode catastrophically. |
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By *phrodite OP Woman
over a year ago
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"I’m an electrician, I haven’t changed careers as such but I’ve changed from working in social housing to now doing commercial / industrial
The main reason was social housing was literally a race to the bottom! Quantity over quality. No pride in your work could ever be taken! "
And having pride in your work is a huge motivational factor. Certainly is for me. |
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I’ve worked in several different sectors but generally done a similar job. I guess the thing holding me back is salary; I can’t afford to walk in to a new job on a basic starter salary now.
What job have you got in mind, OP? |
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By *phrodite OP Woman
over a year ago
(She/ her) in Sensualityland |
"your job?
Serious question - would you consider retraining? Having retrained several times over the years in very different industries, I am curious what motivates other people.
What kind of world or industry would you go into and why?nope love my job I had one major career change that's enough
Understand why people stay when they are content.
I guess I have a curious, restless soul in that respect and I get bored with work after around 5 years or thereabouts. ahhh well maybe you ought to change it to a creative job much more satisfying not all about money "
Maybe you are right. Money is not my primary objective anyway, flexibility at work and working from home at least some of the time would be. |
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By *phrodite OP Woman
over a year ago
(She/ her) in Sensualityland |
"I'm just about to.
Today.
As to the why, my old sector had poor investment, support and thereby options and development felt stunted.
So I've landed in another completely outside my usual wheel house, and the main motivation, money, challenge, responsibility, development and options.
So yeah, let's watch this explode catastrophically. "
Hey, wishing you lots of success. Hope it works out for you x |
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By *TG3Man
over a year ago
Dorchester |
"your job?
Serious question - would you consider retraining? Having retrained several times over the years in very different industries, I am curious what motivates other people.
What kind of world or industry would you go into and why?nope love my job I had one major career change that's enough
Understand why people stay when they are content.
I guess I have a curious, restless soul in that respect and I get bored with work after around 5 years or thereabouts. ahhh well maybe you ought to change it to a creative job much more satisfying not all about money Maybe you are right. Money is not my primary objective anyway, flexibility at work and working from home at least some of the time would be. "
well that's computer based I don't know that I could be motivated to do that these days although where I'm working at minute can see loads who do |
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By *phrodite OP Woman
over a year ago
(She/ her) in Sensualityland |
"I’ve worked in several different sectors but generally done a similar job. I guess the thing holding me back is salary; I can’t afford to walk in to a new job on a basic starter salary now.
What job have you got in mind, OP?"
For myself? I am not sure. I know what I enjoyed most looking back and that was broadly speaking, working with people.
I still work with people but because it is in Technology it feels colder and more "remote" if that makes sense. |
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By *phrodite OP Woman
over a year ago
(She/ her) in Sensualityland |
"Nothing at my age. I want now to slide into retirement. "
I can understand that especially if you have things planned for your retirement. I am a bit unsure myself though as I essentially love the feeling of being part of the working environment.
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By *phrodite OP Woman
over a year ago
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"Nothing at my age. I want now to slide into retirement.
This, I cannot wait to pack it all in - 4 years and counting "
DO you have any exciting plans for the time after you finish? |
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By *phrodite OP Woman
over a year ago
(She/ her) in Sensualityland |
"Would consider it.
I have been looking into therapy/coaching/counselling from a sex and body point of view.
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Hey there is a great need for this, seriously! But it does not pay well. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Nothing at my age. I want now to slide into retirement.
This, I cannot wait to pack it all in - 4 years and counting DO you have any exciting plans for the time after you finish? "
Find a place in Portugal for the winters |
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By *phrodite OP Woman
over a year ago
(She/ her) in Sensualityland |
"your job?
Serious question - would you consider retraining? Having retrained several times over the years in very different industries, I am curious what motivates other people.
What kind of world or industry would you go into and why?nope love my job I had one major career change that's enough
Understand why people stay when they are content.
I guess I have a curious, restless soul in that respect and I get bored with work after around 5 years or thereabouts. ahhh well maybe you ought to change it to a creative job much more satisfying not all about money Maybe you are right. Money is not my primary objective anyway, flexibility at work and working from home at least some of the time would be. well that's computer based I don't know that I could be motivated to do that these days although where I'm working at minute can see loads who do "
I suppose if you had enough flexibility to do other things it would be great? |
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By *phrodite OP Woman
over a year ago
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"Nothing at my age. I want now to slide into retirement.
This, I cannot wait to pack it all in - 4 years and counting DO you have any exciting plans for the time after you finish?
Find a place in Portugal for the winters"
That does sound like a lovely plan, spending the cold, wetter months in a beautiful climate. |
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Can’t see me changing my job ever again. I moved from mechanical to refrigeration a few years ago and I’m lucky enough that there’s always new developments etc within my sector that the job won’t go stale. |
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By *TG3Man
over a year ago
Dorchester |
"your job?
Serious question - would you consider retraining? Having retrained several times over the years in very different industries, I am curious what motivates other people.
What kind of world or industry would you go into and why?nope love my job I had one major career change that's enough
Understand why people stay when they are content.
I guess I have a curious, restless soul in that respect and I get bored with work after around 5 years or thereabouts. ahhh well maybe you ought to change it to a creative job much more satisfying not all about money Maybe you are right. Money is not my primary objective anyway, flexibility at work and working from home at least some of the time would be. well that's computer based I don't know that I could be motivated to do that these days although where I'm working at minute can see loads who do I suppose if you had enough flexibility to do other things it would be great? "
So are you saying you don't? Retrain |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I absolutely hate what I do but unfortunately I can't afford to change jobs to do what I love atm.
One day though!That sounds like you feel trapped.  "
Oh completely.
Current job is convenient for how life is atm but I'm miserable and have been for some time.
But it is what it is eh |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I'm just about to.
Today.
As to the why, my old sector had poor investment, support and thereby options and development felt stunted.
So I've landed in another completely outside my usual wheel house, and the main motivation, money, challenge, responsibility, development and options.
So yeah, let's watch this explode catastrophically. Hey, wishing you lots of success. Hope it works out for you x"
Cheers, me too.
If it doesn't I'm buying a crate of Krispy Kreme. |
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By *phrodite OP Woman
over a year ago
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"Can’t see me changing my job ever again. I moved from mechanical to refrigeration a few years ago and I’m lucky enough that there’s always new developments etc within my sector that the job won’t go stale. "
Also important that the job does not become samey. |
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By *phrodite OP Woman
over a year ago
(She/ her) in Sensualityland |
"your job?
Serious question - would you consider retraining? Having retrained several times over the years in very different industries, I am curious what motivates other people.
What kind of world or industry would you go into and why?nope love my job I had one major career change that's enough
Understand why people stay when they are content.
I guess I have a curious, restless soul in that respect and I get bored with work after around 5 years or thereabouts. ahhh well maybe you ought to change it to a creative job much more satisfying not all about money Maybe you are right. Money is not my primary objective anyway, flexibility at work and working from home at least some of the time would be. well that's computer based I don't know that I could be motivated to do that these days although where I'm working at minute can see loads who do I suppose if you had enough flexibility to do other things it would be great? So are you saying you don't? Retrain "
I love the flexibility have and some of what I do but... there is still that question what I could do next, what skills I could acquire, what I could learn... I think I need a new challenge more than anything. |
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By *phrodite OP Woman
over a year ago
(She/ her) in Sensualityland |
"I'm just about to.
Today.
As to the why, my old sector had poor investment, support and thereby options and development felt stunted.
So I've landed in another completely outside my usual wheel house, and the main motivation, money, challenge, responsibility, development and options.
So yeah, let's watch this explode catastrophically. Hey, wishing you lots of success. Hope it works out for you x
Cheers, me too.
If it doesn't I'm buying a crate of Krispy Kreme."
Hey, I was the first to wish you good luck, please save one for me should it not work out! |
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By *TG3Man
over a year ago
Dorchester |
"your job?
Serious question - would you consider retraining? Having retrained several times over the years in very different industries, I am curious what motivates other people.
What kind of world or industry would you go into and why?nope love my job I had one major career change that's enough
Understand why people stay when they are content.
I guess I have a curious, restless soul in that respect and I get bored with work after around 5 years or thereabouts. ahhh well maybe you ought to change it to a creative job much more satisfying not all about money Maybe you are right. Money is not my primary objective anyway, flexibility at work and working from home at least some of the time would be. well that's computer based I don't know that I could be motivated to do that these days although where I'm working at minute can see loads who do I suppose if you had enough flexibility to do other things it would be great? So are you saying you don't? Retrain I love the flexibility have and some of what I do but... there is still that question what I could do next, what skills I could acquire, what I could learn... I think I need a new challenge more than anything. "
exactly do something totally different work with your hands |
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By *orny PTMan
over a year ago
Peterborough |
"I’m an electrician, I haven’t changed careers as such but I’ve changed from working in social housing to now doing commercial / industrial
The main reason was social housing was literally a race to the bottom! Quantity over quality. No pride in your work could ever be taken! "
I agree, even private houses are going the same way. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I'm just about to.
Today.
As to the why, my old sector had poor investment, support and thereby options and development felt stunted.
So I've landed in another completely outside my usual wheel house, and the main motivation, money, challenge, responsibility, development and options.
So yeah, let's watch this explode catastrophically. Hey, wishing you lots of success. Hope it works out for you x
Cheers, me too.
If it doesn't I'm buying a crate of Krispy Kreme.Hey, I was the first to wish you good luck, please save one for me should it not work out! "
Ever see a feral cat eating food?
It'll be that basically.
Face first.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I changed career just over 2 years ago after wanting to do so for long...i did nearly a year, training, everything. A major family trauma happened, due to that being more important than a job i had to step back.
I ended back at my old work place in a family run take away...
Not what i wanted but its allowed me to be at home more which is needed.
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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago
Dubai & Nottingham |
"your job?
Serious question - would you consider retraining? Having retrained several times over the years in very different industries, I am curious what motivates other people.
What kind of world or industry would you go into and why?"
I think moving sectors is risky but I would do it if right and always retrain in skills yes
For me it’s easy, I move job when I’ve done what I was brought in for and the challenges / growth / adventure has stopped or the leadership goes bad and I’m compromising myself staying.
So it’s more what would make me stay when I’m done rather that what would make me leave. I don’t do ops / operate , only transform roles, but can stay 5 years often; one even 12 years.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Are we talking about a job or a career change? I'd change a job to move companies if I felt stagnant in my current role but it would be in the same area my career is in. I don't think I'd change me career becaus ei don't like the idea of starting from scratch.
The only thing that would make me change career is the ability to retire early and get a part time job to keep me busy |
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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago
Dubai & Nottingham |
"your job?
Serious question - would you consider retraining? Having retrained several times over the years in very different industries, I am curious what motivates other people.
What kind of world or industry would you go into and why?nope love my job I had one major career change that's enough
Understand why people stay when they are content.
I guess I have a curious, restless soul in that respect and I get bored with work after around 5 years or thereabouts. "
Curiosity is the cure for boredom , there’s no cure for curiosity. Not my words.
Curiosity and the preference for the novel enables life long learning, growth , success. So you answered your own question - only fear stops you moving
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An absolute financial disaster, I'm retired.
When working I changed tack once. It was because I was tired of responsibility. I took early retirement because I was tired of negativity and frankly sick of working |
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Literally just spoke to my new employer this morning. I have to go through security checks, so not expecting to get a start date till early next year but I am excited.
However I feel I’ve been working towards this new job for the last decade or so. Due to that I don’t have the apprehension a new career or job would normally bring out in me.
I’m firmly middle aged now and still feel that a new challenge is to be welcomed. Although in a few years I hope I’ll be settled in work and my personal life as well. |
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I'd need plenty of time and a substantial pay rise to be tempted away. I'm partly happy in my job but bored of it because I can do it with my eyes shut and it's getting silly recruitment wise. Salaries are lagging WAY behind too. |
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I am unhireable as an employee - I would drive any manager crazy and would last days in a “proper” job but I am fortunate that through a large dollop of luck and maybe a little bit of skill and insight I have managed to get myself to a position where I am more than self sufficient and I don’t have to be actively looking for a change of role.
I come from a very poor working class background and have never forgotten what it was like to grow up with nothing (but to also have had a happy childhood) and so everything I now do with my life is focussed on how I can shift some of the biggest organisations in the county to think about how they do things differently from those in society who are resource constrained. Any new role I took on would have opening up opportunities as the fundamental driver at its heart. |
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I've never actually retrained at any stage.
I've been in management or supervisory positions since I was 25 but never did a single training course.
In 39 years I've had 5 jobs but one of those was for 22 years and only ended due to government legislation.
The only time I've chosen to change jobs was because I didn't feel appreciated but that only lasted a year before being made redundant for the first time in my life due to covid. I now earn 2 thirds of what I was on but it's stress free. |
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By *phrodite OP Woman
over a year ago
(She/ her) in Sensualityland |
Thank you all for participating, too many now to answer individually (which is what I always like to do) but it sounds to me that a planned retirement sounds appealing to some, others put up with some unpleasant parts of the job because it makes ends meet and then some are happy to try something new. Those working in the care/ healthcare area (and I am also thinking of people I have spoken to privately in here and outside the scene) are still bearing the after-effects of the challenging Covid times.
Some are happy to be in a job for a life time and others are continuously seeking ... |
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There is also a certain level of investment in a particular role that may dictate decisions.
The job I did for 22 years did not come with a big salary. In fact when the company had to close in 2013 because of legislation I was earning less than £15k as the manager.
I had been there from day one and helped grow and establish the business as the largest of its kind in NI so it wasn't about the money.
Looking at similar positions in other companies if they became available I didn't have the qualifications required or the time to gain those qualifications due to working between 70 and 90 hours a week.
There were lots of jobs I could have taken on experience alone but they were offering the same salary I was on.
When that company closed and I was lucky enough to return to the parent company where I worked before there was an immediate 50% increase in earnings which initially was amazing but that came with an increased level of expectation and stress and a constant feeling of having both hands tied behind my back while also being asked to cover for other people in different roles which in turn had a knock on effect on my ability to do the job I was being paid to do.
I vowed when I was 19 never to set foot in a classroom again because of major issues I had at school which prevented me from going to university and that is the main reason I have never retrained. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I am looking to retrain next year. Lots of reasons, but it is the right time because:
? Finally financially viable
? Family situation allows
? Better life/work balance
And I've finally figured out when I would like to do! Needed life experience to get me there. |
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"your job?
Serious question - would you consider retraining? Having retrained several times over the years in very different industries, I am curious what motivates other people.
What kind of world or industry would you go into and why?"
Regardless of the general everyday crap in my job, I'd like to think I am doing something good each day.
The ultimate plan is that my partners business takes flight so she can hire me... we will create our own destiny then..
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"your job?
Serious question - would you consider retraining? Having retrained several times over the years in very different industries, I am curious what motivates other people.
What kind of world or industry would you go into and why?"
I’m actually starting a new career in 3 weeks time.
Completely different to what I have done for the last 20 odd years and I’m both nervous and excited. It’s the same pay but will give me more free time |
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By *oyRoy06Man
over a year ago
leighton buzzard |
Ive just left my job.
Mainly the remuneration for the increasing amount of workload didnt balance.
Plus working in the same field for 17 of the last 19 years gets old.
I earned my class 2 drivers licence this year and am changing career now while i am still young and can enjoy a new challenge |
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"I’m an electrician, I haven’t changed careers as such but I’ve changed from working in social housing to now doing commercial / industrial
The main reason was social housing was literally a race to the bottom! Quantity over quality. No pride in your work could ever be taken! "
Also an electrician and at 54 have left industrial to do testing in social housing. More money and its just not a physical.
But good luck..  |
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By *he LsCouple
over a year ago
East Midlands |
To answer the op... not a lot.
Mr here, I work in IT, I've never been in one role more than 3 years. Early on in my career i moved roles often and it's never bothered me changing companies. |
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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago
Dubai & Nottingham |
The other thing to think about is what you do outside of work. I do a huge amount t of travel photography and make gold and silver jewellery here in Dubai , my job has to fit around and part fund my lifestyle. That doesn’t mean I would do a job I don’t like, just for money/travel , but it means my passions primarily don’t come from my work. Previously this was different I worked for charities and public sector for 1/5th of the salary and it was fine because I believed in what I was doing money wasn’t important |
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By *lex46TV/TS
over a year ago
Near Wells |
Bankruptcy is the only thing the would make me change what I do.
I've been running my own business in the motorcycle industry for almost 30 years. It consumes my whole life sometimes but I've been places and seen things that I would never have imagined I would do and I'm grateful for that
There's often difficult days but far more great days, I can't see me retiring anytime soon. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I trained as a chef, done sales with only half a day training but was successful and started my own business.
Now retired and wondered what would tempt me back to work and train for what? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"your job?
Serious question - would you consider retraining? Having retrained several times over the years in very different industries, I am curious what motivates other people.
What kind of world or industry would you go into and why?"
I wish I was a designer .
I like interior , house design , n outdoors design .
I’m a painter decorator . That’s as far I gone |
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