Hi all,
Sorry, long time no write.
I'm just wondering if anyone has any ideas really. It's still a little bit of time away but I like to get ideas I can build on before the crunch comes.
I'm currently aiming to train towards a specialist career area after years of bouncing from one crappy job to another with no qualifications, skills, experience or enjoyment.
I'm fortunate enough to be in a position whereby my boss has ironically encouraged me to engage in some electrical training as he wants me to be able to do small electrical jobs around the hotel in which I work.
I was thinking about getting into renewable energies anyway and this is just one of the routes into the industry so I'm just weighing up my options right now but quietly taking advantage of my fortunate opportunity.
Further on in this course, other evening classes will become available to me which will allow me to become just short of a qualified electrician (fully qualified requires certified working experience).
However, once qualified, the course I want to do to enable me to enter sustainable energies is 5 days a week requiring me to leave my jobn as there will be no option for me to reduce my hours or work different shifts.
I'm just wondering if anyone has any suggestions on ways to make money while studying full time.
The course is only 20 weeks so thankfully I won't have to cover a full term, but 20 weeks without full pay will be enough to hurt financially with a wife, toddler, mortgage and ever increasing outgoings to cover. Although I say wife, I make reference to my responsibilities rather than her non-existent drain on my finances since she earns twice what I do and puts as much into our monthly outgoings. Nevertheless, proper full time study will be tough to work around.
Bar work is the obvious one, but I just don't think the money will cover what I need. I am going to try and see if I can somehow get some part time electrical work to do over the weekends once qualified, but that's pie in the sky until then, but I just need some good ideas to make money around studying.
I look forward to hearing some..
Cheers peeps
Kristian