Changing Career At 30.

[berzerker]

When your finished its awesome money

How awesome? Sounds like a decent secure job.

[82CNT]

From a couple of people I know that have done it I think its 80k then extra for call outs etc. My mate made 120k on his first year out of his apprenticeship. After the tafe in the first year he was taking home 1k a week that's with the OT as all OT is at tradesman wages for some reason.

[Craig.]

The big 3 out in the mines are sparkies, boiler makers and fitters.

Find out what you can about these and then make a choice on which way you want to go.

I work in an open cut mine. Electricians pretty much run the show as it is such a large part of the industry, so I would probably look at an electrical trade,and not just wiring houses but working for an employer who does a lot of industrial work.

[conan]

Just go for it. I am 36 and in my second year of medicine - just for a change. Do something different, don't be put off by naysayers, go at it with determination, and you never take a knock-back as the end of it.

[turbo ute79]

diesel fitter, coded welder/boilermaker or electrican would be the go mate. im a fitter machinist and whilst I have no trouble finding work the ones I mentioned above seem to have the most demand out at the mines.

[berzerker]

Im currently trying to get into energex mature aged lines man. Pays good once the first 6 months of tafe are up and u get to stay in your capital city. When your finished its awsome money

Have you actually applied for this?

I looked at this job, and it sounded pretty interesting, so I applied and got a response today that I need to go into their office building in the city to do an aptitude test.

[Amjagaza]

I turn 32 in a few months and up until a few years ago I worked as a courier in Sydney for 8 years. Out of the blue one day a mate called me and asked if I wanted to work for him down in Albury for a year or two on the Hume Highway upgrade. I thought about it and said "f*ck it, why not?".

So I traded my work van in(for the Turbo actually ), and basically moved to a place where I knew almost no-one, and in a job of which I knew absolutely nothing. That was a big call when I look back at it. Now two years later I'm living on the central coast of NSW, 10 minutes from the beach in my house that work is paying the rent AND bills for, with a company ute, on a pretty good wage and I'm not even in management yet....and all I did was work hard.

Err I banged on a bit there, good luck anyway mate.