Companies hire inexperienced engineers, overload them with work, and pay them far below market rate. New engineers accept these conditions because they have few alternatives, especially those returning to hands-on gas engineering roles.
The companies that are willing to take you on, they know that you're not experienced, but yet they seem to then bombard the engineer with more jobs than in a day than what they could probably safely handle. And I think that's the issue, because what they then do, they say, well, you've got no experience, so they pay you much less than what the job is actually worth. But when you haven't got any other opportunities to earn money as a gas engineer, you can't really turn it down. So that— I did see that, and I have seen that since I've actually been back on the tools as well.
Your Profit Is More Than Your Salary: Pricing A Trades Business w/ Doug D'Aubrey
Is taking over another gas business a realistic alternative to hiring from scratch?
He Took Over Another Gas Business After 3 Years As A Sole Trader w/ Dan Giles
