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Is it easy to switch careers from construction to something office based?

  • 18-05-2022 10:20PM
    #1
    DullSpark
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 73 ✭✭


    I'm 35 and getting tired of the construction industry, the travel, the hourly wage, the physicality of it.

    I want to get a job that is more secure, that is salary based, maybe includes health insurance. I just feel I've been on sites for so long that I wouldn't be considered for an office role. I would not mind doing a course of some sort but would not fancy going back spending time and money doing a few years in college.

    This is probably more of a question for a guidance counsellor but all advice would be welcomed



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  • #2
    Absolute Zero
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 637 ✭✭✭Absolute Zero


    If you are a set out engineer or surveyor you could look at public jobs in GIS or Survey, either with local authorities or mapping agencies?

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  • #3
    swimming in a sea
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 937 ✭✭✭swimming in a sea


    Construction Project manager, you can still get onsite but don't have to be lifting. Sitting in the office all day will soon grind you down as quick as laying blocks



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