u/CommentNo7493

As the title says.

I've been a self employed gas technician for 6+ years, but the job is very lonely, demands are high, costs are skyrocketing and I just feel the return isn't worth the effort anymore - not to mention I do want out before my body gives in like so many when they've been in the trades.

I have a degree in business law and digital marketing (though is from 10 years ago), management experience in retail and have been self employed for 6+ years as a gas tech. I'm 33.

looking to move totally out the trades, really want to get out of gas and plumbing.

What kind of industries and jobs would be good to move into or to retrain in - I was looking at trading standards officer but I feel that the pay cut would be too much to sustain for a few years whilst learning

TLDR - self employed business owner in the trades, degree in business law with digital marketing and a few years in retail management. Where's a good pivot for that kind of experience?

I dont mind a slight pay cut- but would prefer something that would get a wage atleast in the 40k range so I'm not seeing a massive obvious decrease in lifestyle

over 2 months ago I handed my Citroen Berlingo 70 plate over to allied motors for a recall repair as I got a letter through from Citroen to book in

on the recall repair, allies motors caused an issue with an engine management light, it was not on before the recall repair but was on after- they insisted the light was related a software glitch relating to Ad blue and that they need a software code from Citroen to fix it as the software patch they had caused a hiccup. They said it was a 1 in 2000 chance and there was nothing actually wrong with my van. I was told no issues with van and engine management light was nothing to worry about

less than 1 month later the van completely broke down and camshaft broke, causing timing chain to snap

Repairing mechanic said I should have taken it to a garage when the engine management light came on as it was telling me the engine had issues.

If that allied motor repair did not cause my engine management light to be permanently stuck on it would have alerted me to issues with my engine which I would have fixed right away, instead it was on 24/7 and i was told it was nothing to worry about

on the day they caused the engine light to come on I email confirmation of allied motors admitting they caused the engine light to come on during the repair

Where do I stand legally? they still havent told me to bring the van back in to sort the engine management light on and its been 2 months since. so even when my camshaft is replaced - the engine light will still be on so nothing to say other issues wont arise that i'll miss and not have repaired because of this

Linking to original creator who has them all on his profile