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Bryanj:
James, i think he wonders if the not good enough relates to the finding women?
kevin 755:
Joined the Fire service at 16 as a cadet then became operational at 18,progressed through the ranks including working in fire safety and as an instructor at the training school.Retired 11 years ago at 55 as an operational watch commander at a busy station in Bootle Merseyside after 39 eventful years. Now holidaying and playing with my bikes.
MarkCR750:
Did my apprenticeship with BREL in 1978, went from there to Hunting Aviation which was interesting, got on test flights etc, went from there to inland waterways for a while making narrow boats, not sure why!, now work for Rolls Royce Aerospace as a project quality engineer, (having divorced and subsequently acquired a large mortgage about 10 years ago I'll probably be able to retire in my late 90's , I can't tell you how jealous I am of those in the above posts that have retired in their 50's, oh well the best laid plans....😄)
mike the bike:
Progress on ADI training:-
Currently having double lessons (2 hour) First half is me forgetting my rally - driver - with - a - screwdriver, everyday sort of driving and learning to slow right down, impeccably like and wearing a halo.
Second hour is where the instructor does the driving and I'm watching him like a hawk, explaining where he's going wrong, correcting his mistakes. I did reversing around corners last Saturday, one of the pre set tests.
I've got to log 40 hours of that malarkey, another 38. That's what the examiner will be doing; driving like a twat and me putting him right.
philward:
Left school at 16 in 1971 - apprentice engineer and ended up at BAE as air frame fitter on Tornado. Got quite bored at age of 29 when I was ambitious. Moved to financial services (was called insurance then) and nearly left after 2 years because it was sales, sales, sales with a lot of the successful guys corrupt - luckily regulation came in and I studied hard and got none compulsory qualifications years ahead of when they became compulsory allowing me to end up as training manager training staff to advise customers ethically. Ended up regional training manager before large scale company restructure and redundancy. Best thing that could have happened as I got a non reduced pension at 50 based on a good salary as part of deal. Parent had a stroke so went self employed as mortgage broker 2003 to be able to look after her as she deserved to be looked after until couldn't get people mortgages after financial crisis of 2008/09 when moved to a job with local authority assessing cost of social care. Left in 2016 due to pressure of no staff and not being able to give a decent service and now back working as a self employed mortgage broker/compliance support on a part time basis to subsidise pension as 4 years off state pension (at 66). Always kept my hand in with engineering via bikes and although was bored at BAE when I was 29, would be my ideal job now - work hard all day and go home with no work related worries. 46 years of work without unemployment - I've had enough and just want to mess with bikes and go on holiday! Thats me!
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