You need to stop blowing your own trumpet for starters. 🙄

Medicine, GP or surgeon.

You might be right, perhaps a change would be good. Have you considered cornets?

I’m sorry, I have nothing useful to add :(. What qualifications/ skills do you have?

trombone maker must be a good chat up line!

Redirect your career using your music degree perhaps. Try to get with a reputable hi fi manufacturer would be my first instinct with a qualification like yours.

Do you n want to stay in music?

@justatheory you can try, but grad schemes are a needle in a haystack shot is my feeling. What do you want to do? If you want to get onto a company’s IT grad scheme then there are simpler ways to do it. For example, get an industry qualification, get onto a support team and then see if you can move sideways.

OP. A mate of mine makes amplifiers for a living. It started with him making amps for mates’ cars and he got more business through word of mouth. He now does it full time for a living. Still relies on word of mouth for business. If you can go down this route and are more interested in having control of your life than the end dollar, then it seems a good way to make a living.

So your a bit Brassed Off!…. IGMC

Its not what you do its the way that you do it.
Do you play the trombone?
If not why not take an interest in what you do and enjoy it. You dont have to be the best in the world but it realy helps to have apassion for what your doing.
Im into aluminium extrusion – not exciting to some but it excites me and so I get the chance to travel the world and explore it more……

@justatheory no, you don’t need to be recent graduate, I qualified and then messed about, doing recruitment, teaching and working in pubs before I applied for ours.

They are competitive, but there still seem to be lots about, even in the current economic climate.

Trombone maker + welding = Orange bike metal worker 😉

Come on lads he’s making trombones not girders!

Military.

Free housing, good wage, free holidays in the sun!

Worked for me!

http://www.progressiverecruitment.com/jobdetail.php?xc=1&aid=462012&sid=54&sub=333480&x=1&refer=JBE?utm_source=automated&utm_medium=campaignmailer&utm_campaign=jbe&utm_content=Viewbutton1

Hope I didn’t mess this up.

Edit: yup, I done gone messed up again (bloody tablet)

Get in to the online world – web developer for example.

I run a web marketing company and recruiting here is hard. A real lack of good talent available and lots of well paid jobs on the market.

The industry has served me well for 10 years and I still enjoy it to this day.

Anyone else read this thinking he was a tombstone maker?

Do you tig weld ,im assuming you can braze
do you think you could learn to work with carbon fibre,
would you be interested in learning to fabricate bikes?

You just got to look into all the suggestions on here that make you think “mmm interesting”! I used to recruit students for a foreign uni (well a call centre Mr MC called it!) hated every minute of it and used to watch the plod walk up and down Marylebone High St in the summer and I thought “that’d be good” started looking into all emergency servcies, wasn’t interested in ambulance, couldn’t join fire brigade due to knee surgery so joined plod. Love every minute of it, the variety of stuff to do within the police is phenomenal, do you probation on shift then specialise, firearms, dog unit, helicopter, roads policing, detective, surveillance, intelligence there are many many more! Alternatively go for promotion.

Good luck if you want info about police DM me. Good luck searching just trawl job websites seeing what is out there and what takes your fancy just think though the grass isnt’ always greener there will be pro’s and con’s in a new job with super duper pay for example. Good luck though I remember being in your shoes and it was a bit daunting to start with.