my trade is not that relieble, is gas?

[jobyhants]

Hi i have run my own bakery bussiness for 3 years selling at shows and markets. my wholesale round has gone now leaving me with just weekend work wich i make around £200 over the weekend
is gas safe a good trade to get into i have been looking at training can someone help me.

has any body had any experiance with nescot college.

 

[Puddle]

Well the is not as much dough in it as there use to be !!



:cry_smile::drummer:

 

[SimonG]

Well the is not as much dough in it as there use to be !!



:cry_smile::drummer:

boom boom

 

[Hybrid]

Honestly mate i'd say no, there's a very steep learning curve in a cut throat environment.

I've just got home. I just fitted a new gas valve which cost me £60 and I charged £70 for it. Despite the fact that it's sunday I only charged £80 to fit it as the guy has recommended me to loads of people. He scrunched his nose up when I told him the price and I had to justify it. £150 to change a gas valve on a sunday night!
It was actually an easy job but there's no way he would have found someone else to come out and do it for such a low price. The problem is his head is in the clouds and he doesn't realise that. Very few customers do.

Don't waste your money joining the gas trade.
If you are interested in plumbing you'd be better off persuing the renewables market but there's a big barrier in the form of the MCS accreditation.

 

[Destroyer2813]

boom boom

Thats what could haappen if you become a bad gas man

 

[mikimac]

Hi i have run my own bakery bussiness for 3 years selling at shows and markets. my wholesale round has gone now leaving me with just weekend work wich i make around £200 over the weekend
is gas safe a good trade to get into i have been looking at training can someone help me.

has any body had any experiance with nescot college.

I think you'll find on this site alone there's a great number of experienced plumbers who are trying to get into the gas side. I think coming from another business altogether you definitely have your work cut out...good luck though.

 

[jobyhants]

is it better to work for a firm or go self employed is there work in london and what can i earn a day

 

[mikimac]

is it better to work for a firm or go self employed is there work in london and what can i earn a day

Sheeeeesh... Slow down! I'll answer those one by one:
1. You'll be (lottery winning) lucky to find a company to take you on as a gas apprentice with no previous experience in plumbing or even the building trade.
2. See Hybrid's post for the joys of being self employed.
3. See Hybrids's post for the joys of justifying your training, qualifications & overall existence.

Out of interest, why the sudden desire from baker to gas?

 

[jobyhants]

because i buy the bread and if i dont sell it i still have to pay for it and tesco gregs and other bakerys have flooded the trade we have 6 other wholesale bakerys in our area 3 of wich have come in the last year
it is hard to make a profit. altho the shows can be good i want something stable for my family i have three boys under 5 and i want to train before its too late and im figering if i can earn 150 - 200 per day on the gas
it makes the weekend work a profitable sideline. at the moment during the week im twidleing my thumbs do you think i have a chance of geting 3 days a week work experance with a firm where they dont pay me and i pay for my tuition.

 

[dontknowitall]

I'm not trying to put you off plumbing, rather using your existing strengths.

Have you thought about a daily bread (and essentials) run? For example, making bread then supplying local elderly with bread, milk, newspaper and a few other things like that? Bit like a fish van who visits a village/area of a town on a particular day each week. Not all the elderly are poor and many enjoy that short daily contact and would be happy to pay for it.

Or is there a sandwich run you could do (using your own bread)?

 

[tamz]

tesco gregs and other bakerys have flooded the trade we have 6 other wholesale bakerys in our area 3 of wich have come in the last year
it is hard to make a profit.

Gas Safe Register | Ensure your gas engineer is registered.
Type your post code in here and see the numbers you will be up against if you ever get that far.

 

[mikimac]

I really hate to pop that bubble so quickly but neither I nor most of the gas guys I know make the sort of money your thinking of. It's a cut throat market out there & an hour or two spent reading the posts on this site will show you that. It seems that offering yourself for free these days still doesn't mean you'll get where you want to be any time soon. You really do have an uphill climb.

 

[Hybrid]

You won't take home £200 a day doing gas work. I won't bore you by listing the overheads involved in running a gas registered plumbing business, there's plenty of threads covering the same thing if you want to search for them.

Every week we must get half a dozen (baker's dozen) threads from people wanting to join the gas industry but have no experience of plumbing, no opportunity of gaining experience and only a tenuous grasp of what the gas trade is all about.
All of them are offering to work for free.

Christ if I was unscrupulous enough i'd have a different boy giving me a hand for each day of the week and never have to pay for it.
Joining an over subscribed trade is not providing something stable for your family. You talk about all the supermarkets and chain bakerys flooding your trade. We have BG and every other energy supplier, boiler manufacturers and even the bloody AA taking a slice out of the gas trade.

I want to become a baker lol

 

[Phil]

I don't know about anyone else but whenever I go on YouTube there is an advert with a male model holding stillsons telling me I can earn 50k a year as a plumber.

I cant believe these rogue trainers are still operating.

 

[royston]

I don't know about anyone else but whenever I go on YouTube there is an advert with a male model holding stillsons telling me I can earn 50k a year as a plumber.

I cant believe these rogue trainers are still operating.[/QUOTE

Ive seen some lady models doing the same.

 

[fuzzy]

Hi i have run my own bakery bussiness for 3 years selling at shows and markets. my wholesale round has gone now leaving me with just weekend work wich i make around £200 over the weekend
is gas safe a good trade to get into i have been looking at training can someone help me.

has any body had any experiance with nescot college.

not really, same as all the others mate. any trade is difficult to make money or easy depending what you will work for and what hours you will do

dont know why people chose gas when its got to be one of the hardest trades to learn

 

[REDSAW]

take your head out of the clouds, stop believing what you have read or seen, it is not true.

i have been gas registered since march and i dont think i have earnt £2k from it yet despite the outlay.

you will never get a job within the industry because there will be guys with 10 - 15 years experience waiting before you.

sorry for bursting your bubble, but one day you may thank me for saving you a small fortune.

if 3 others have set up selling bread in your area, is this not telling you there is a market there?.
you just have to work harder, smarter and claim your share!.

 

[fuzzy]

work hard at what you know, to change now will take a lot of money and time, neither you will get back in a hurry

 

[Mr leaky]

Times are hard and everyone is feeling the pinch if your only competing against six others thats better than plumbing at the moment it seems like everyone you meet is another plumber there are just far too many about and there all competing for what work there is

 

[fuzzy]

im thinking of learning bakery

 

[fuzzy]

is there a uk baking forum?

 

[dontknowitall]

There's a barking forum if that's any help?

 

[fuzzy]

barking mad? :joker:

yes that will be the gas:drunk:

 

[Puddle]

is there a uk baking forum?

If there is,at yeast you will find all you knead to dough on there ,me old flour


you will be lucky if you can afford a wholemeal in this trade soon!!!

 

[Mr leaky]

Baking forum