how dangeroos is your job?

bumblebee. thats why his voice processor doesnt work and he was rusty.

Originally Posted by chasey

Yeah...hopefully. I started applying last year but had some crap happen when I was meant to be going to selection. I have had a long think, decided what I really want to do in life and am re-applying next Jan (This gives me enough time to acheive where I want my fitness levels to be). If it all plans out I can hopefully say goodbye to Oracle databases

Aaaah, I know how it feels to have stuff happen, I was meant to be joining up about a month ago (TA), but after passing my interview and preparing to go on selection I snapped a ligament in my knee and will be out for 18 months.

Best of luck to you

[Messie]

Pre-menstrual Year 10 girls. Nuff said

[QUOTE=G;2307395]People die every year in my line of work which is construction. Even more get injured.

I have been offered a job offshore which is supposed to be even more dangerous... and I am currently going through the final process of another job which is argueably pretty dangerous.QUOTE]

Depends where you go, but North Sea (especially the Norwegian sector) is quite safe.

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Originally Posted by G

People die every year in my line of work which is construction. Even more get injured.

I have been offered a job offshore which is supposed to be even more dangerous... and I am currently going through the final process of another job which is argueably pretty dangerous.QUOTE]

Depends where you go, but North Sea (especially the Norwegian sector) is quite safe.

And they've all daft names

Im a maintenance engineer (in training) for a large car manufactuer, so atm i get to work with big open converyours, ovens, presses, injection moulding machines, big welding robots, carcinagenic materials, explosive enviroments,high voltages, other hazardous material, and power tools so tis all good.
But tbh, weve only had 2 fatalities in 18years, and they were both contractors, and the health and safety is very, very good, even if a bit of a pain at times.

Originally Posted by Jamesy D

Aaaah, I know how it feels to have stuff happen, I was meant to be joining up about a month ago (TA), but after passing my interview and preparing to go on selection I snapped a ligament in my knee and will be out for 18 months.

Best of luck to you

Snapped ligament...Not nice!

What are you hoping to join if you don't mind me asking?

Originally Posted by chasey

Snapped ligament...Not nice!

What are you hoping to join if you don't mind me asking?

Well I'm going TA infantry with my local regiment, PWRR, but after uni I want to go to Sandhurst and go to the Royal Artillery. Family connections and all that What you destined for, if I may?

And yeah, it does suck a little. Gotta have a reconstruction in August, which will be interesting. Then it's all the physio of recovery.

Originally Posted by Jamesy D

Well I'm going TA infantry with my local regiment, PWRR, but after uni I want to go to Sandhurst and go to the Royal Artillery. Family connections and all that What you destined for, if I may?

And yeah, it does suck a little. Gotta have a reconstruction in August, which will be interesting. Then it's all the physio of recovery.

The Para's hopefully. Last time I applied for Ammo Tech with a view to doing P company after I had done high threat EOD course (which would have been 8 years making assumptions I passed all the testing and what not). Life is too short though and I have always wanted to be in the Para's. Even more so after reading 3 Para by Patrick Bishop and the follow up book to that, Ground Truth...well worth a read if you're into that sort of thing.

I must say though - one thing that annoyed me during the last application process was the amount of poeple who spoke about when I leave the army...I hadn't even started and I was expecting to be thinking about leaving. Obvioulsy understandable if I was a 16 year old and had a wet dream over firing a gun but I am not!

Originally Posted by chasey

The Para's hopefully. Last time I applied for Ammo Tech with a view to doing P company after I had done high threat EOD course (which would have been 8 years making assumptions I passed all the testing and what not). Life is too short though and I have always wanted to be in the Para's. Even more so after reading 3 Para by Patrick Bishop and the follow up book to that, Ground Truth...well worth a read if you're into that sort of thing.

I must say though - one thing that annoyed me during the last application process was the amount of poeple who spoke about when I leave the army...I hadn't even started and I was expecting to be thinking about leaving. Obvioulsy understandable if I was a 16 year old and had a wet dream over firing a gun but I am not!

Paras? You sir are crazy. I intend to do P Coy at some point, but not when I'm fresh out of training! Actually I want to do All Arms commando, but similar concepts. Best of luck to you man, but I can understand why you're worried about fitness.

And leaving the army is a real thing these days, people will spend 5 years in and then go find other things - career soldiers are rarer than they were 20 years ago. Still exist of course, but less intend to stay for the long haul.