Being made redundant in 2020....

freethearmy

Going to be made a dole head in 2020 after my contract finishes. I have 4 years to re-train myself after giving 21 years service to this job, just wondering what way to go about it. I have no skills outside my job only truck driver but i really dont fancy doing that when i leave. I will be only 38 when i leave...
Any ideas???? Im up for anything(apart from truck driving)
just need a push towards something

hairyslug

freethearmy wrote: »

Going to be made a dole head in 2020 after my contract finishes. I have 4 years to re-train myself after giving 21 years service to this job, just wondering what way to go about it. I have no skills outside my job only truck driver but i really dont fancy doing that when i leave. I will be only 38 when i leave...
Any ideas???? Im up for anything(apart from truck driving)
just need a push towards something

Self employment, you've beem doing what you do for 21 years, you must know the basics and a few contacts in whatever it is you do.

Edit: didn't cop the user name and link it to the job. My brother used his experience in Gaza and elsewhere to become a councillor in Australia.

freethearmy

hairyslug wrote: »

Self employment, you've beem doing what you do for 21 years, you must know the basics and a few contacts in whatever it is you do.

no employed by the state... no contacts outside. i work 1hr 30 mins drive from my home so all my work force are from that area and i dont want to travel that far just to work and pay my fuel money

just copped your edit lol

foggy_lad

Apply to be a Luas driver? Bus Driver? train driver?

token101

Save up for four years and buy a pub/shop/cafe? Plenty of time to research it!

salmocab

token101 wrote: »

Save up for four years and buy a pub/shop/cafe? Plenty of time to research it!

Not on army wage

Conall Cernach

Security contractor or fitness instructor.

freethearmy

salmocab wrote: »

Not on army wage

fact

freethearmy

token101 wrote: »

Save up for four years and buy a pub/shop/cafe? Plenty of time to research it!

after i travel to work and pay my bills im left with 50 euros a week to live on ...that wont happen

my3cents

Driving instructor?

jamesbere

Getaway driver

KERSPLAT!

Join a Village People cover band?

Guy:Incognito

Join the army.

Galwayguy35

Bouncer

Lavinia

freethearmy wrote: »

Going to be made a dole head in 2020 after my contract finishes. I have 4 years to re-train myself after giving 21 years service to this job, just wondering what way to go about it. I have no skills outside my job only truck driver but i really dont fancy doing that when i leave. I will be only 38 when i leave...
Any ideas???? Im up for anything(apart from truck driving)
just need a push towards something

Pardon me please but you joined the army at the age of 13? or you will be having 21 y.o.e. then, eg now have 17 (so joined at the age of 17)..

Btw is there ANYTHING that you WOULD LIKE to be doing, or is attracting you?

uck51js9zml2yt

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Join the army.

I reckon he is in the army and will have done his 21 years service.


Depending on your rank, you should have a nice pension.

Eugene Norman

Lavinia wrote: »

Pardon me please but you joined the army at the age of 13? or you will be having 21 y.o.e. then, eg now have 17 (so joined at the age of 17)..

Btw is there ANYTHING that you WOULD LIKE to be doing, or is attracting you?

He means then he will.

Guy:Incognito

Jazlynn Panicky Stationery wrote: »

I reckon he is in the army .

No. Fricking. Way.

Mind. Blown.

SEPT 23 1989

Off topic but

As a child who grew up in the 80's the year 2020 really is a science fiction futuristic date that you could only imagine reading comics and watching movies

Its only four years away

Amazing

uck51js9zml2yt

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

No. Fricking. Way.

Mind. Blown.

I never noticed his user name:)

Maybe he could do a tour of the Golan Heights and get killed by isis . it would solve his retirement problem.

GreatDefector

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

Join the army.

Join the navy

Submarine isn't that much different than truck

iamtony

Do what the rest of your colleagues do when they leave and buy a taxi plate;-)

Dubwat

I'm assuming that as a truck-driving army guy with 21 yrs under your belt, you can do the things listed below?

Maybe you and a couple of mates could chip in and buy some land and;

Set up a school for:
(a) map reading, hill-walking, living off the land
(b) paint-balling
(c) driving 4x4 vehicles
(d) Maybe a real gun range?

But keep the paint-ball guns and the real guns separate!

razorblunt

Setup some boot camp style training classes and run them outdoors in parks.

Get your PT cert, diet and nutrition cert, some sandbags, kettlebells, bibs and away you go.

lawlolawl

Could you not become a mercenary?

Is that even a real thing?

Eire Go Brach

Whatever you want. You have loads of time to think about it. Your have a great opertunity to do something you love again.
Many would love to be in the situation your in. Your also the perfect age. Sure your only half way through your working life.

pablo128

You don't want to go driving trucks, that's fair enough. How about becoming a HGV driving instructor? Think about it. You will be dealing with people who can already drive, you're just teaching them to drive something bigger.

Lucas Hood

iamtony wrote: »

Do what the rest of your colleagues do when they leave and buy a taxi plate;-)

Personal trainer is the new go to job instead of taxi driver.

For Forks Sake

GreatDefector wrote: »

Join the navy

Submarine isn't that much different than truck

Yvan Et Nioj

Barry Badrinath

Same boat as you OP.

21 in 2020.

Just do what I'm doing.

Step 1: Be really nice on Boards.
Step 2: Become a Mod/Cat Mod/Admin
Step 3: "Disappear" Dav and take his job.
Step 4: Introduce a "pay per post" tax.
Step 5: Laugh at the peasants.
Step 6: Bang everyone.

NiallBoo

What are you actually interested in?

In life in general like? Think about what you most enjoy doing, then think about what job most resembles that.

iamtony

NiallBoo wrote: »

What are you actually interested in?

In life in general like? Think about what you most enjoy doing, then think about what job most resembles that.

You can't work it out like that, if that was the case Id be a beer drinking porn star who listens to rock music and watches tv while playing playstation for a living

NiallBoo

iamtony wrote: »

You can't work it out like that, if that was the case Id be a beer drinking porn star who listens to rock music and watches tv while playing playstation for a living

Well...that's not a job

MarkAnthony

Barrister

iamtony

NiallBoo wrote: »

Well...that's not a job

Well...it damn well should be!

PARlance

Start your own army.

Irish_rat

Go and get a level 7 or preferably level 8 in something you have an interest in.

I'm working in my current position 10 years and I could keep doing this for the rest of my life.

Instead I'm taking on Level 8 on a part time basis which the company will allow and try to further my career.

Lavinia

Well seriously, as first you should get a huge amount of money if being made redundant after 21 years of employment. That alone would make you relaxed for the start at least, enable you to make investment of sorts.
Second, you could start now to study for a degree part time after work in anything you like, and in 4 years time you can have any BSc.
Its a great position to be in, to know what will happen 4 years from now.
You say you are a truck driver if I understand, so we really do not know anything about you - your physical condition eg could you open your own gym, be a fitness instructor for example, nor your psychological preferences towards any job (except as someone said taxi driver lol)
So unless hear a bit more from you, not sure there's much to be suggested.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

freethearmy wrote: »

no employed by the state... no contacts outside. i work 1hr 30 mins drive from my home so all my work force are from that area and i dont want to travel that far just to work and pay my fuel money

just copped your edit lol

Well, first obvious question is: what do you most enjoy doing outside of work? Or, what would you most like to be doing?

Four years is damn good notice in fairness - plenty of time to prepare.

bradolf pittler

Get together 3 other guys and.........In 2020 a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-Team.

salmocab

Lavinia wrote: »

Well seriously, as first you should get a huge amount of money if being made redundant after 21 years of employment. That alone would make you relaxed for the start at least, enable you to make investment of sorts.
Second, you could start now to study for a degree part time after work in anything you like, and in 4 years time you can have any BSc.
Its a great position to be in, to know what will happen 4 years from now.
You say you are a truck driver if I understand, so we really do not know anything about you - your physical condition eg could you open your own gym, be a fitness instructor for example, nor your psychological preferences towards any job (except as someone said taxi driver lol)
So unless hear a bit more from you, not sure there's much to be suggested.

Hes a soldier and hes finishing his contract so won't be getting a huge payoff. I think he's looking for some fairly open ideas not a specific career step.

ted1

freethearmy wrote: »

Going to be made a dole head in 2020 after my contract finishes. I have 4 years to re-train myself after giving 21 years service to this job, just wondering what way to go about it. I have no skills outside my job only truck driver but i really dont fancy doing that when i leave. I will be only 38 when i leave...
Any ideas???? Im up for anything(apart from truck driving)
just need a push towards something

It does not sound like you are being made redundant, if you were then the army could not legally fill your position. After the 21 years are you on a full pension ? What were you doing in the army , could you do security consultancy , boot camps, motivational talks etc

salmocab

ted1 wrote: »

What were you doing in the army security consultancy

He drives a truck

ted1

salmocab wrote: »

He drives a truck

Any special licences? The guys doing gas delivers etc get a fortune

sonofenoch

Cartel hitman for hire....no need to travel to Mexico or Colombia in this day and age, can be done from the safety of your own home

maudgonner

ted1 wrote: »

Any special licences? The guys doing gas delivers etc get a fortune

Truck driving is the one thing he said he wouldn't do though.


This may be something you'd have absolutely no interest in OP, but would you consider becoming a paramedic? Tough job, but you'll have experience being calm under pressure and being in demanding situations.

Ruu

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Off topic but

As a child who grew up in the 80's the year 2020 really is a science fiction futuristic date that you could only imagine reading comics and watching movies

Its only four years away

Amazing

Anything beyond 2000 for me! Living the dream here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ENrXAJ8_Sw

maudgonner

Ruu wrote: »

Anything beyond 2000 for me! Living the dream here.

Why did they have the robot pushing the kid on the swing? Surely it would be easier to have self-propelled swings? That's not an efficient use of technology, it's no wonder we haven't got very far in AI with that kind of wasteful, arseways thinking :pac:

Howard the Duck

freethearmy wrote: »

Going to be made a dole head in 2020 after my contract finishes. I have 4 years to re-train myself after giving 21 years service to this job, just wondering what way to go about it. I have no skills outside my job only truck driver but i really dont fancy doing that when i leave. I will be only 38 when i leave...
Any ideas???? Im up for anything(apart from truck driving)
just need a push towards something

Make a list of things that you enjoy doing. Hobbies etc. Then try to figure out how you can make money from some of these. Also if you can start doing some of them as a part-time job it will help your transition. Good luck

ScumLord

Move to Burma and start a ferry company.


The reason everyone keeps bringing up training is that you can use your military background as a way of promoting yourself. But there's no reason to get restricted by your current career, Sit down and think about what you'd like to do and look into it. While researching you may well find some niche in between that you'd be delighted with. It's often surprising how many industries there are out there these days, I can guarantee there are plenty of things you'd be good at that you simply don't know about yet.

Army and truck driving could lead to off roading, if you have experience that could count for an awful lot to a shop trying to sell some newbe a tow hitch he doesn't need.

Letree

stone mason