As you can imagine, the experiance was great and filled with a shed load of drinking, partying and general good times but due to the lack of prior ability, my degree quickly went down the pan. What is one to do when faced with such failiure? We're in a recession, there are no jobs. I'm too old to go back to college (I'm not but it'd feel odd). I have too many expensive habits to be unemployed or work a pitiful one day a week.
As a youngster, I had a whole lot of experiance with the armed forces and it was always a career prospect that kept coming up throughout my life. Unfortunately, my dearest mother exploded everytime any sort of combat role came up in conversation (I went through alot of clones) so I always knew I wasn't going to be a Royal Marine Commando, and ships don't really do it for me so my choice was simple. Army or RAF.
Having been half way though and Aerospace Engineering degree, I opted for the RAF route. After explaining my situation and discussing the pros and cons of being a doorgunner (pro: best job ever, con: not much market in the civilian world) I decided to apply for Aircraft Technician (mechanical) and took home my application form, and abundance of information and a date for my Airman Selection Test.
Note to anyone wishing to join up, the forms are horrible. There's so many forms and so many questions.
Anyway, that's enough blabbering on for today. More coming very soon
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