by Philip G. Coggin

Created on: May 03, 2008

Jobs and important considerations.

This article is aimed at the school leaver or anyone who is about to go out soon into the great wide world to work for the first time.
I just wish that when I was younger that I could have been able to read an article such as the one that follows, but in my younger days such things were simply not possible, I had about ten minutes with an officer from the job center (Know in those days as the Labor Exchange) and he simply asked me a few questions and made some suggestions and that was it.

Technology was something left to scientists although even they could not have foreseen what was to materialize in the not too distant future, with regard to computers and other electronic gadgetry.

My dad said to me when I mentioned that I would have liked to go into joinery," You can get your arse out there and earn some money now, I have kept you for fifteen years".
I went directly into laboring types of work and without any qualifications; this was not a good choice, for many years later I was still earning what could only be described as a pittance.
When I got married some ten years on, my father in-law was a qualified heating engineer/plumber and after working with him for some time, my father in-law and myself realized that I was very good in this type of work so we went self employed for eleven years.
The point I am making here is, all that time wasted when I could have done a more skillful and interesting job much sooner, all those years on low pay and now retired with a poor pension.

I thought, write an article on my experiences of types of work and at work, this may well help people to make the right choices both of the type of work they would like to do and just what subjects to specialize in at school/college to enable a more informed and promising choice.

Well to begin with first decide just where your interests lie, because although you may not know it yet, you are going to spend most of your life working and usually in places other than your home.
Clearly the first thing to decide upon is what you would not mind doing in the long term, mainly because one feature of long-term employment is boredom, all jobs eventually become repetitive and this most often is were your interest will falter.
When you reach the stage in your life where responsibilities affect other peoples lives and finance plays a big part in theirs and your own life, it is simply not sensible to be always leaving your job or out of work.

One other really important thing

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