Dream jobs

4kicks

voodooman wrote:

I've had three main jobs since the 1989 and appear to be getting worse pay / conditions and holiday as I get older.

Started as a pro cricketer (quick bowler and lower middle order slogger - unfortunately prior to T20!), then worked offshore (mobile sediment specialist / 4D modelling / sands and gravels), then re-trained as a teacher.

Now a headteacher (of three small units), but my life tends to revolve around work and the impending sh!tstorm that is Ofsted. Still, I work with behavioural ASD / attachment disorder / abused kids so every day is different. When one of our kids manages to nail their college course and get employment it's fantastic. I do get bored of having to physically intervene (it keeps me young and a reason to hit the gym) and can't see myself doing this beyond 55 (only 7 yrs away) as it's just too wearing physically and emotionally.

Never underestimate the value of doing something good.

Garry H

A Vicar. Money and a free house for doing jack sh*t.

homers_double

Ideal, and your boss has never been seen in the office.

FishFish

I did 5 years in the armed forces (commissioned in the Parachute Regiment) and agree that it is well worth it and becomes like an old school tie when it comes to being recruited. I don't think it is all about learning a trade - it is about going through a fairly high selection hurdle and coming out of it.
I've done some really good jobs since then - much better than the army but maybe would not have got them without having been serving.
Later in life it means nothing to me and I hope it never defined me. I keep very fit and that is my obsession - that's maybe why I joined up. Others I have met stay very fit because they had been in the forces.

Matthewfalle

FishFish wrote:

I did 5 years in the armed forces (commissioned in the Parachute Regiment) and agree that it is well worth it and becomes like an old school tie when it comes to being recruited. I don't think it is all about learning a trade - it is about going through a fairly high selection hurdle and coming out of it.
I've done some really good jobs since then - much better than the army but maybe would not have got them without having been serving.
Later in life it means nothing to me and I hope it never defined me. I keep very fit and that is my obsession - that's maybe why I joined up. Others I have met stay very fit because they had been in the forces.

This - to a certain extent just because I think it is about using the nearly unlimited resources to get a trade whilst you're in.

The forces are, training wise, absolutely brilliant: apart from the physical side, the man, project, skill and task management is second to none and instructed by the best in business. No matter what any bod in a civ div says, the training I have had in the above from people who have done it first hand under ridiculously stressful situations beats anything that I have received in civvie street.i try to pass this on when instructing and you can spot a mile away a military instructor as compared to a civvie.

Added to the old school tie, the brotherhood of being forces/ex-forces is also worth more than money can buy.

Bear in mind that all training - forces related and transferable skills (for example my med training, Engineers' trade training) is all free of charge and far beyond the levels of what you get in civvie street also make it a no-brainier. The equipment and protocols I can use are far above anything I used or saw being used in wagons on the street.

Officers' training at the Academy is worth more than money - it's utterly brilliant.

All your adventure training, instructor courses, sports (motor sports, skiing, football, lacrosse, rugby, cycling - you name it, it's done) and travel are all paid for. And you're paid while doing it. Smash yourself up in a crit on Army time and they don't mind - biff chit, full pay, full med support, get yourself fit and back on it. None of this arguing about having to on half pay and unpaid leave rubbish.

Yes, there is an amount of bullshine, but isn't there with anything? The moving around is inconvenient but no worse than sitting in an office dealing with balloon heads all day and having to be polite to them or get a bollocking from personnel.

It's also a bloody good laugh: you tend to spend most of your time crying with laughter. And don't forget your 10% off at Holland & Barrett - now if that isn't worth getting your legs blown off for I don't know what is.

Matthewfalle

Anyway, back on flique: Stacey at my house last Christmas:

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Garry H

homers double wrote:

Ideal, and your boss has never been seen in the office.

Yet he watches and passes judgement over everone else