Any advice

LegacyUser

Like many other people i am at a crossroads! For most of my life i have worked in construction. I spent a few years at college doing a course but having never worked in an office i left. I am now self employed subcontracting off a larger company.

I think i have come to the stage where i would like to change. My job over the last few years involved making bad work good and keeping clients happy. Sometime foreman, sometimes labourer.

I like the work dealing with clients. I would like to get into sales fields possibly but don't know what i need. My computer skills are basic, and i have no experience. I know there are probably hundreds of better educated and skilled workers out there but a big part of me believes i can do it.

Any advise on where i can start?

RIRI

Hi J

Why don't you start with some of the suppliers of material / equipemt to the trade? You'd have the hands on experience & knowledge of the products... also dealing with clients & keeping them happy is a large part of sales so you'd be half way there already.

I'd start asking around informally to see who's hiring & go from there

best of luck

cronos

You could do an ECDL course. www.ecdl.ie
Its a course that will give you all the computer skills you would need to work in an office environment and its easy enough too as it assumes no knowledge of computers.