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Just wondering if anyone has gone self employed successfully from one of these fast track courses? If so how have you found it?
thanks in advance!
 
ive known a few , all bar one i think have ended up either selling up and changing jobs or working for BG etc to learn the trade properly
 
Anyone who intends to make a living as a plumber needs a plan beyond the training. It doesn't make sense to invest a load in a course and then expect it to lead to work. It's difficult - you need contacts in the plumbing world, but you also need a way of generating your own customers.
 
I did. Have been running a plumbing business since 2008 now. I learnt an awful lot early on by making some big mistakes..

This forum helped me a lot in my early days!

One of the best things I did is passed the work I couldn't do on to a local gas engineer. They got the money, I learned quickly from them whilst on the job. Win-win if you find the right one.
 
Cheers for all the replies :) . I have got 5 years experiance ( non gas ) in plumbing whilst working for a plumber. Unfortunately I never got my qualifications. I am doing a "short course" which will actually take roughly 2 years to get my nvq ( I have a placement sorted ) . The only reason I asked is I would like to go self employed but wasn't sure it was a good idea with my experiance and short course.
 
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