At the time, quantity surveying paid him less than a fiver a week.
When I told my folks I was giving up quantity surveying to do a course in drama teaching, they were very good about it.
Writing for TV was a leap through a closing door into another, more glamorous world than, with all due respect, quantity surveying.
The county council, in partnership with the gallery building contractors, is offering 21 apprenticeships, earning £105 a week, in different trades as well as quantity surveying.
To give just a tiny flavour, courses currently on offer include animal nursing, computer-aided design, dental technology, floristry and quantity surveying.
Darren James is course director for BSc Commercial Management (Quantity Surveying) and BSc Property Management (Building Surveying) at London South Bank University, as well as senior admissions tutor and lecturer in the Built Environment department.
Quantity surveying is global and provides services across various industries.
Nevertheless, in Built Environment, such as Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Quantity Surveying, Applied Art, QOL-related researches are few.
"Quantity surveying was on a skills shortage list back in 2007," says Alan Muse, global director of the built environment at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics).
