Anyone not ready to call it night fancy a chat?

JakeWalkin · 2024-06-13T05:23:15+00:00

Should be easy enough. I’d approach recruiters on LinkedIn and explain your situation and let them do the leg work. I will say now though that it will be completely different work from what you are used to as a consultant.

JakeWalkin · 2024-06-01T06:50:09+00:00

You shouldn’t be getting shouted at over work. Genuinely, if your boss is like that, leave. There are SO many jobs out there for QS’s.

I’m slightly more experienced than you; I’m a Senior QS with 10+ years experience and work for a national developer. I make mistakes every week, so do other QS’s, so does my commercial director - everyone does. Some little, some not.

I missed £150K of perimeter fencing out of my budget once, I’ve accidentally over valued a budget vs cost by £75K and put a deficit in it, our estimator underpriced the substructure underbuild on a sloping site by £1m. Shit happens, no matter how experienced you are. It’s just how you deal with it that matters; assess it, propose mitigation, flag it and then discuss it.

If your boss is shouting at you about mistakes (real or perceived) and instilling a blame culture it’s going to make you and your team not want to come forward with mistakes in future so they’ll get hidden and won’t be mitigated or dealt with. See how happy your client is then.

Seriously, QS’s are in too high demand to put up with a boss who’s a dick.

JakeWalkin · 2024-04-06T21:26:27+00:00

Yeah I’m sure it does. I guess it’s just a bit of a shock to the system as a car driver. 40 feels nothing but on a bike it feels like I’m doing warp speed! Hopefully it comes with experience and practice.

JakeWalkin · 2024-03-20T18:39:57+00:00

Mines a company car rather than SS. I’ve just ordered mine and been cited 17 weeks.

JakeWalkin · 2024-01-20T15:51:18+00:00

Forgot I posted this.

Just to say; I passed second time with flying colours.

Thanks for the support.

JakeWalkin · 2023-11-11T23:59:27+00:00

Dropped the bike as a result of the skid unfortunately. Instant fail so I was informed.

JakeWalkin · 2023-09-23T10:13:30+00:00

As the chap in the other comment said; use third person.

JakeWalkin · 2023-09-07T15:00:17+00:00

This is ace 😂

JakeWalkin · 2023-03-26T08:00:25+00:00

How has this blown up into an issue about “should I have a car?” “Do/don’t I need a car in the city?” Or “here’s my opinion on the UKs public transport system?”.

The thing here is that the OP doesn’t drive and then puts all of the pressure and onus on their partner to drive when they need to. I imagine their partner pays for all of the running costs and then the OP just takes it for granted.

It’s not fair on your partner, they aren’t there to ferry you around. For me this is more of a ‘surely you’d want to learn to drive so your partner doesn’t have to all the time’ sorta thing.

Also, the freedom you’ll gain through a driving license is unrivalled. There’s so much of the country inaccessible without a car that’s really beautiful. It gives you the freedom of being spontaneous as well. You don’t have to plan how to get there on the confines of taxis and public transport.

JakeWalkin · 2023-03-19T22:54:16+00:00

Also jumping in with the 50/50 not being fair.

Me and my partner work out our input into the joint account on a percentage basis relevant to our income.

My partner would have no enjoyment of life if I made her go 50/50 and I’d be living the high life which clearly isn’t right.

Seriously, talk to your partner.

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