which profession is screaming out for people?

[Wilfredohoney]

So that's my question.
I've been sahm ing with periods of self employment (niche thing requiring skill and no transferable qualifications) for the last decade.
More a decision based on necessity rather than reluctance to work.... Husbands job required several international moves and lots of periods away. I tried to be the one area of stability for the children .
My circumstances have changed so that this is no longer a viable option for me (time, childcare, changing industry ,etc). Now in a fixed place.
Going to university to retrain is too expensive, I don't want to do it.
I have had enough of self employment for all sorts of reasons , the admin, the hidden expenses, the 'never being able to switch off' feeling.
I have loads of energy, am organised, well presented, capable, love people, perfectly happy to get up at ungodly hours. Happy to travel anywhere, can speak bits of other languages.
I'm mid thirties.
So which industries are screaming out for people? ideally I just want to go to work. At this stage I'd (happily) do bricklaying, shit shovelling, most stuff . I just want to go to bed at night tired from an honest days work.
Suggestions?

Just seen you speak a few languages.
What about Interpreter services for local health and social services? I'm a HCP and we are always in dire need of interpreters in my area.
Very rewarding and useful job in the modern world OP.

I came on to say gas engineer. They are pushing for women to do this at the moment. You should be able to train up and get paid to do it with some where like British Gas. My partners friend is training me up at the moment. I used to be a different trade before children and did really well as the elderly and vulnerable love women trades people.

London market insurance is really good and doesn't require any qualifications. However you're likely to be pitted against young grads in getting a job. Once you're in though the earning potential is great with good career prospects. You could start as an account handler or junior underwriter/broker at prob around £25-£30k but the progression prospects are great and the sky's the limit.
It would however be expected that you would study towards professional qualifications and the hours may be long. However it's an interesting job, you'd be dealing with the biggest clients and London is world leading in terms of of risk management and insurance solutions.
This could apply to insurance jobs in the larger cities but may be more difficult to get into without experience. Whatever you decide- good luck!

So you have no qualifications, want a well paid job that doesn’t require training and is stress free? Good luck with that.

Or similarly. And to be realistic. Spend 50 grand training and then realise I’m up against loads of young whippersnappers with no commitments.

Asda?

I don’t want to go to University because I don’t envisage staying where I am for the forseeable

Do it online.

Well Obviously a degree isn’t going to train you for a job, I can’t think of one degree that trains or qualifies you for a job. Degrees are academic achievements- they’re not really related to what you’re looking for at all.

Prison service? I keep reading that they're Recruiting.

It depends entirely on where in the country you live. If you can share which region you are in I can point you in the direction of some accurate information about shortages in your area (presuming you do not want to be moving across country).

I have a well paid research administrator position , the basic entry requirements to get foot in the door are A level maths and English as well as some admin experience. I’m not sure what you would consider well paid, but at my uni you can easily reach £30k pa with a few years admin experience. And a levels wouldn’t be that expensive to do, and would serve you well for many things if you changed your mind.

@serenmoon yes I have no qualifications. In the traditional sense, my life took a different route.
I will happily take a shit load of stress... I have 5 children. I do stress well. But I’d rather take it in a physical ‘on the job’ way than a ‘take it home and worrying if the client will pay all night’ way

women in construction, project managers,surveyors. especially anything in social housing.

Look for posts in HMRC. If you're reasonably numerate they had jobs locally (Edinburgh) starting £24k.

Digital Comms/ Marketing. We've been trying to recruit someone and been told by the agencies that there's huge demand and a massive shortage of people with the right skills .

Pilots.

Many airlines are struggling to recruit enough flight deck crew, particularly captains and senior FOs. Career prospects are excellent, particularly for those who can be flexible about location.

A timely thread as today several trades working on my extension were talking about this. Basically, all trades - plumbing, tiling, decorating, carpentry are short of workers and it's going to get worse in the next 10 years. The daily rate for those trades (which is good already!) will then shoot up. You can get a huge daily rate if you can do a traditional skill - think building traditional stone walls, applying lime mortar and other conservation area type skills (sorry, I can't remember them all ☹️). The National Trust are also sponsoring training in traditional skills, but I think that you have to work for them afterwards. The basic bottom line from the conversation was that for anyone looking for good job prospects, trades rather than further education is the way to go.

Decorator! We can't find one until December as it's so busy. One just quoted £800 to paint the outside of my 4 bed semi!! Not bad for a couple of days work!

What salary would you be looking for. We need bus drivers, community outreach mental health workers.

Thank you everyone, there are some great suggestions here. @daisychainsandglitter this sounds interesting.
Also gas engineer, interpreter. I think my languages may not be very useful in Britain as my foreign languages are from wealthy countries where everyone is taught English at school though. But certainly I’ll look into all these suggestions.

True @capri - although we’ve found that there are a significant number who pay for ACCA/ICAS/ICAEW but aren’t working as accountants/are working in different fields.

It really is a candidate’s market at the moment, which doesn’t help. Our company try and rely on past name, rather than salary too.

@sedona thank you this is a very interesting post and also could be right up my street. I have done some courses in classical conservation in the past. It had slipped my mind. Thank you for reminding me!

If you have a wall spare a mate has been tiling for a living since practicing on a wall in his garden a day a week for a few months then mates rates jobs.

The whole of the construction industry is desperate for people in all areas, and apprenticeships are available.