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1. amt27 - Member

   graduated with a product design degree 3 years ago struggled to find a job after, now stuck in a dead end CAD job paying well below average salary and bored after 6 months, no house, living with gf (both skint), no kids,

   good at maths, handy with a pc (not a programmer), not a bad designer but no passion for it, should have done a BENG or MENG, happy to do a post grad 2012-13, but in mid 30s (eek), looking at school mates on FB all earning 30k+,

   recommend me a quick career change (not teaching), which a ladder to climb,

   Posted 6 months ago #
2. tthew - Member

   Window cleaner

   Posted 6 months ago #
3. geologist - Member

   Fireman?

   Posted 6 months ago #
4. couldashouldawoulda - Member

   Teacher. You dont actually have to teach

   Posted 6 months ago #
5. ton - Member

   oil sand worker in the yukon.

   Posted 6 months ago #
6. tails - Member

   oil sand worker in the yukon.

   what does that involve??

   Posted 6 months ago #
7. tails - Member

   oil sand worker in the yukon.

   what does that involve??

   Posted 6 months ago #
8. ton - Member

   mega bucks

   http://oilsands.infomine.com/careers/

   Posted 6 months ago #
9. tails - Member

   Looks like you need to be smart to do that, counts me out!

   Posted 6 months ago #
10. djaustin - Member

    Why not teaching? My son's school offers Product Design at GCSE and A'Level. If you are enthusiastic about your subject it seems a good choice - It's not just Woodwork/Metalwork these days!

    Posted 6 months ago #
11. ourmaninthenorth - Member

    Current colleague also has similar design background. He's gone from technical service management in a telco to product innovation (same telco) to project management.

    There you go - recommendation made!

    Posted 6 months ago #
12. timc - Member

    my girlfriend has the same degree & is a barmaid, maybe try that?

    Posted 6 months ago #
13. sweaman2 - Member

    Oil sands actually in Alberta; not the Yukon

    Posted 6 months ago #
14. samuri - Member

    Trader in london village.

    Posted 6 months ago #
15. Rusty Spanner - Member

    Care Worker.

    Money's a joke, hours are ridiculous, but it should be compulsory, like National Service used to be.

    Best thing I've ever done.
    World would be a much better place if everyone spent a couple of years doing it.

    Most of us are going to need care:
    We're living longer, but the extended bit of our lives will rarely be comfortable or particularly pleasant.
    Best we get used to it and start treating people with dementia and the other problems associated with old age in a manner we'd like to be treated ourselves.

    Sorry for the rant, don't mean to come across like a sanctimonius tosser.

    Fully intend to chuck myself off the roof of the Dignitas building when I can't look after myself.
    That'll teach em.

    Posted 6 months ago #
16. sugdenr - Member

    oil sand worker in the yukon

    Aaaaaaactually the centre of the oil sands world is in Canada. But seeing as someone mentioned it, if you dont mind temp. emigrating Australia has gone LNG mad and dont have the skilled people for it. After 2 or 3 yrs earning medium money learning on the job you can be earning shed loads. You wont (necessarily) be happy, but you can be much richer.

    Me? I spend my 'spare' time on CAD trying to be a product designer with my half baked 'inventions'...

    Posted 6 months ago #
17. sugdenr - Member

    Oh forgot to tell you what you can do. Every major industrial plant is now created as a compelete virtual 3D plant before construction, takes years and requires many highly paid skilled cad people.

    Posted 6 months ago #
18. pomona - Member

    Air Traffic Controller.

    Best thing I ever did was a career change to be an ATCO.

    Plenty of time off, great pay, cheap travel and a challenging job with good career prospects.

    Posted 6 months ago #
19. cannondaleking - Member

    Air traffic control sounding nice who you kidding i was air craft engineer in the navy for 6 years i see the states those men and women came down the tower in like gibbering wrecks

    To OP if your interested in offshore work drop me a email il give you the address's of a few company's looking for people just like you my emails in my profile

    Posted 6 months ago #
20. weeksy - Member

    Get into IT. You get paid for sitting browsing the WWW for 7 hours a day (on your sofa, watching Sky TV)

    Posted 6 months ago #
21. lazybike - Member

    Armed Forces...mid 30's might be a problem, police?

    Posted 6 months ago #
22. chris_jh - Member

    I have a degree in product design, like you and also do a cad job, but I am freelance so can earn well above the average salary, and when you get bored after 6 months - just move to another company, well you could do that before the recession now you just stay as long as you can... if wish I had done a different degree but don’t know what. After all no one ever said when I grow up I want to be a cad technician...

    Posted 6 months ago #
23. monkey_boy - Member

    sky engineer, bloke round our way makes a mint by doing 'jobs on the side'

    Posted 6 months ago #
24. derekrides - Member

    Mining in Perth, they're paying thousands to young kids down there, make a fortune and return?

    Nah stay, there are much better prospects there than here, I've a pal just come back he earned close to forty thou just working in a surf shop, gutted he had to come back (his Mrs hurt her back and had to return as she lost her job.)

    Posted 6 months ago #
25. grantway - Member

    timc - Member
    my girlfriend has the same degree & is a barmaid, maybe try that?

    PSML

    How about making Hand made Christmas cards

    Posted 6 months ago #
26. Cougar - Member

    Get into IT. You get paid for sitting browsing the WWW for 7 hours a day (on your sofa, watching Sky TV) sod all

    FTFY.

    Posted 6 months ago #
27. Whathaveisaidnow - Member

    design some products, make product, sell product , . . .no?

    Posted 6 months ago #
28. Mr Woppit - Member

    Picking lobsters out of...

    oh wait, she's dead. That wouldn't work...

    Posted 6 months ago #
29. trail_rat - Member

    "Mining in Perth, they're paying thousands to young kids down there, make a fortune and return?"

    you looked at the cost of living down there ?

    ive had it offered but the price of property is MENTAL - talking millions(aus) not hundreds of thousands to get close to what i can get here in aberdeen ..... i have a couple of friends down there that said yeah lifes good , its party town but none of them intend to stay and they are not managing to save the money they thought when they saw the that top line - that says it all to me really.

    40thou would go no where by all accounts.

    Posted 6 months ago #
30. Macavity - Member

    http://www.diamond.ac.uk/Home/Jobs/Current/DIA0659_SB.html

    Posted 6 months ago #

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