Gas has 50-60 years left, is it a dying trade?

[BikerBen]

My friend is a gas engineer (the one who may help me get on the ladder) and he has been busy getting new qualifications in refridgeration recently at college and has now gained the required qualifications to work. He is lucky however as he works for the maintenance contracter for a large supermarket chain and therefore had easy access to refridgeration on a daily basis.

Being someone who is considering investing my time and money in becomming a gas engineer this news is worrying to say the least!

 

[fuzzy]

Fuzzy, can I ask why you think gas fitters are less likely to diversify?

Of course, i think plumbers already diversify, into gas, renewables, oil or what ever it takes. Gas engineers are imo experts in gas and better than most plumbers at the all round gas work. So from the two, one already diversifies and one doesnt. Dont mean they wont i just feel its more of a change for them than plumbers