the situation for a lot of those skilled non 'professional' but qualified jobs has been squeezed by technology to a point, but also locally because there's hardly any manufacturing in the South east any more. . .according to the BoE inflation calculator I'm £15k a year down on 20 years ago.
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I trained as a draughtsman over 30 years ago, have climbed the ladder as a project engineer and manager, then climbed back down again as I like designing and drawing, and a stress free working life.
my salary is the same now as it was 20 years ago . . . . I'd earn more as a plumber, even at NSC...
I give my modern (ish) car to the local garage, they always say 'but you could do this' excpet A I hate working on modern cars, they're big, heavy plastice bla bla
I happily spent Saturday in the workshop building a gearbox for a lotus cortina race car, to pay the man to do my road car . . . A...