New to this career

[sava1888]

And I have some confusion...

1. I may have an offer of becoming a gas engineer...is this better than a plumber?

2. What sort of earnings can you make, in figures?

3. Is it - gas engineer - a physical job? Ie would you struggle working at 65?


Any help would be great.

 

[WHPES]

Earnings - depends on how many hours you put in. Typically £25,000 would be the minimum you can expect when fully qualified and established and this will grow as you build up the business. Also depends where you are in the country. Tales of plumbers on £100,000 per year are vastly inflated unless youre going to work 7 days a week. Sometimes these figures refer to turnover rather than profit if you read the details.

I would go for the gas engineer offer - you can always do your plumbing training later, but it's hard the other way round!

Physical job - no more than plumbing. At 65.... depends on your own health and physical fitness. I know people in their 30s who struggle and there's a guy over 70 who still does fine. Modern boilers are much lighter and easier than old ones.

 

[sava1888]

Earnings - depends on how many hours you put in. Typically £25,000 would be the minimum you can expect when fully qualified and established and this will grow as you build up the business. Also depends where you are in the country. Tales of plumbers on £100,000 per year are vastly inflated unless youre going to work 7 days a week. Sometimes these figures refer to turnover rather than profit if you read the details.

I would go for the gas engineer offer - you can always do your plumbing training later, but it's hard the other way round!

Physical job - no more than plumbing. At 65.... depends on your own health and physical fitness. I know people in their 30s who struggle and there's a guy over 70 who still does fine. Modern boilers are much lighter and easier than old ones.

Thanks WHPES. Very useful information.

1. So what would you say an hourly rate is?

2. Ok, I will keep this in mind.

3. This worries me a bit. What are the typical activities? Lifting etc?

 

[oldplumber]

And I have some confusion...

1. I may have an offer of becoming a gas engineer...is this better than a plumber?

2. What sort of earnings can you make, in figures?

3. Is it - gas engineer - a physical job? Ie would you struggle working at 65?


Any help would be great.

This sounds like a wind up, there are several lads on this forum desperate for gas work experience and heres a bloke who may have an offer, whats the difference between a plumber and enegineeer , etc etc🙄

 

[moony]

yeah seems a bit odd to me.

 

[fuzzy]

if you dont even know if a gas engineer is a physical job or not you have done no homework. investigate before asking questions, then we can help you better