Six in ten installers are developing their heat pump skills, an accountant quits at 50 to become a plumber, and a painter makes £1.5m from his Pokémon cards
Six in ten heating engineers are either developing or planning to develop their heat pump skills, claims a survey from Baxi.
The percentage of installers ‘definitely planning’ to retrain rose by 10% in the last year.
However, the lack of customer demand remained the biggest stumbling block, with consumers citing concerns about the cost and disruption of fitting a heat pump.
The report’s author, Will Taylor, noted that it would be a challenge to shift the industry’s ageing workforce, many with thriving businesses fitting gas boilers, towards heat pumps.
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An accountant who quit his job at 50 to retrain as a plumber says he now works less and has more fun.
Andy Greig from West Sussex decided to quit his office job when he realised he was bored and counting down the days until the weekend.
He also feared that AI would make his role obsolete.
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A retired painter and decorator has sold his Pokémon card collection at auction for £1.56 million.
The former tradesman had started collecting them in the mid-1990s after seeing his son swapping them at school.
The collection sat in his attic untouched for 15 years, until he saw an article about a single card fetching £6,000.
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