Hi All
Im looking for some advice, since being a school leave, Ive worked in an office environment starting at the bottom and getting all the way to management in a none haulage industry…
After 20 or so years of being in this job, I found my self bored out my skull, unhappy…the company, lets just say they really didn’t know how to look after the loyal staff, the good one where leaving in drones and the newbies well I certainly wouldn’t have give them a job…all hot air and no action… all for the glory and none of the hard work… seeing this and staff cuts…but it was time to do something as backup/ insurance
Maybe is was the advertising BS of better pay, maybe it was the calling of the open road…but I swallowed it hook line and sinker and did my class two and class one, which I paid for out of my own pocket back in 2008 with a view of jumping ship…
But all didn’t go according to plan…getting the licences and tacho cards no issue, finding places to give you a chance at the same time as start of the recession…and the 2 year none experience issue, so I left it and kept safe with a job I knew blindfolded…
I did try and get some part time work,whilst still in full time, but again it brick walls with this due to WTD…but I did manage to get some one class 2 and 1 work, days here and there so it gave me a little bit of experience…
Anyway to cut a story short, I ended up injuring my back in 2011, took some time off work 3 months but due to the financial situation I ended up going back to work even though I was still in of pain but manageable …I lasted for about 12 months before I went off again with same back issues… but even worse. Dr’s won’t do surgery, have had injections after injections and weeks and weeks of physio to try and help with the back problem to get some better mobility but my employer decided that it was taking to long and terminated my contract end of 2012/2013 and since then Ive been on a sabbatical from work for further treatment which hasn’t worked plus fighting the man who reckons Im fit for work… 
During this year I’m making improvements and the pain is less as the months go by, my plan / goal is I want to use this licence which cost me a bundle to do… my DCPC is up to date…
So can anyone tell me how to proceed forward, should I do a refresher course with one of them training companies or should I just dive straight in and start applying for work when Im ready…
Or better still should I volunteer to spend a few nights / days with a regular and see how my back copes with it all… I don’t have a pot of gold or much money to spare… most of what I get goes on my kids 
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