I had the finances available when I was 18 to do my PPL or pay for a scholarship with one of the airlines. I applied and got through the first round with BA but stupidly decided to use the money to follow my motorsport 'dream'. My biggest regret as Lewis Hamilton I ain't. Don't race anymore but could still be flying. Had lessons on an off but with a mortgage to pay I don't have the finances now to do anything serious with it
I'd like to do something a bit more unique. Set up a company selling electronic components. Make shed loads of cash and buy a football club. Show everyone how it should be run and go down in history as true visionary genius.
Told careers officer i wanted an outdoor job, Forestry Commission, Customs Officer or Fireman and couldn't face being stuck in an office all day, so he helped me get a job as an insurance clerk.
Absolutely wouldn't change a thing. Left school with 3 GCSEs and was told to go and work at the local factory but being one who never follows the norm, I got a job as a printing apprentice (compositor) at 16 which has lead me to a very long career in design which has lead me to my main career as retail design studio manager for the biggest company in the world, which is my main career and earner. Along the way (20 years ago) I changed for 5 years as a fire fighter (brilliant job) but left due to lack of money My main career has given me scope and time to follow my three main passions of music, Militaria collecting and martial arts of which I have done more than ok at (in my eyes) and I still pursue all 3, the plus of all 3 is that I earn from my passions, I'm lucky I get paid for doing shit that t I would do for fun. I have been made redundant 3 times and to pay bills I have sold my collection and rebuilt it 3 times, I have made many mistakes but have learned from them, the mob singer sang of regrets but I have none career wise, if I was to peg out tomorrow then it would be with satisfied grin on my mooey! Probably not what anyone wants to hear but that that's the Gods honest. To balance it a little I am bald and fucking ugly. Hey ho!
I had a friend that used to collect World War II stuff and used to restore Jeeps. It was his passion. I went to a few events with him. I can understand the obsession, even if I didn't pick it up myself.
I have been told I make a nice cup of tea. In the old days people would patrol offices with a tea trolley for those working, so that job I suppose, but I doubt it pays enough to live (or that the job exists anymore).
What I'm going back to doing now, cabinetmaking and furniture design. When I left boatbuilding college 23 years ago, there weren't any openings in carpentry or joinery in London or the South East, so I went on site as an electricians mate and was a sparky for the following 16 or so years, save for the couple of years I spent running a sweet shop next to Grove Park BR Station, then I wanted a job "on the cards", so i joined Rentokil (Less said about that the better). But now I live Frenchside and my health is back on trackish I found myself with a 80m2 garage and a bit of dough to spend from a house sale, so it is now all kitted out with the machines and tools I need to carry on where I left off 23 years back.
Why has nobody said Train Driver yet? Is this even a Charlton forum?
Please refer to my post at 08:12 this morning.
Dammit. You must be the only proper Charlton on here. You are our king @DaveMehmet
Not really. Bad mistake: when using the 24hr clock, no point in adding "this morning" as it's otiose.
The thing is surely, if you're trainspotting you can still go home at 16:30 so that you don't miss your Mum's tea. If actually driving a train you'd still be on some god-awful shift or sleeping off the last one.
I have been told I make a nice cup of tea. In the old days people would patrol offices with a tea trolley for those working, so that job I suppose, but I doubt it pays enough to live (or that the job exists anymore).
You may find this strange and possibly hard to believe but working on the orangutan preservation project in Indonesia would be something I would love to have done. Not that one could make a living from it.
You may find this strange and possibly hard to believe but working on the orangutan preservation project in Indonesia would be something I would love to have done.
Why not get a job as a steward at Millwall instead?
I have been told I make a nice cup of tea. In the old days people would patrol offices with a tea trolley for those working, so that job I suppose, but I doubt it pays enough to live (or that the job exists anymore).
I have been told I make a nice cup of tea. In the old days people would patrol offices with a tea trolley for those working, so that job I suppose, but I doubt it pays enough to live (or that the job exists anymore).
I have been told I make a nice cup of tea. In the old days people would patrol offices with a tea trolley for those working, so that job I suppose, but I doubt it pays enough to live (or that the job exists anymore).
I have been told I make a nice cup of tea. In the old days people would patrol offices with a tea trolley for those working, so that job I suppose, but I doubt it pays enough to live (or that the job exists anymore).
We still have tea ladies with trolleys.
Sexists
To be politically correct and non sexist that should read tea trolleys with ladies.
I have been told I make a nice cup of tea. In the old days people would patrol offices with a tea trolley for those working, so that job I suppose, but I doubt it pays enough to live (or that the job exists anymore).
We still have tea ladies with trolleys.
Sexists
To be politically correct and non sexist that should read tea trolleys with ladies.
I have been told I make a nice cup of tea. In the old days people would patrol offices with a tea trolley for those working, so that job I suppose, but I doubt it pays enough to live (or that the job exists anymore).
We still have tea ladies with trolleys.
Sexists
Not at all - they just all happen to be female
All our trolleys are gender neutral (they make shit tea though)
I have been told I make a nice cup of tea. In the old days people would patrol offices with a tea trolley for those working, so that job I suppose, but I doubt it pays enough to live (or that the job exists anymore).
We still have tea ladies with trolleys.
Sexists
Not at all - they just all happen to be female
All our trolleys are gender neutral (they make shit tea though)
Please don't generalise Dave...my tea trolley self identifies as a mantelpiece.
Actor or A&R man in the music industry. The latter I probably could have got into, if I had the slightest notion as a 17 year old that a lad from a one horse market town in Bedfordshire could actually have done that.
I have been told I make a nice cup of tea. In the old days people would patrol offices with a tea trolley for those working, so that job I suppose, but I doubt it pays enough to live (or that the job exists anymore).
We still have tea ladies with trolleys.
Sexists
To be politically correct and non sexist that should read tea trolleys with ladies.
To be politically correct, they have to be called gender neutral tea people
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I had the finances available when I was 18 to do my PPL or pay for a scholarship with one of the airlines. I applied and got through the first round with BA but stupidly decided to use the money to follow my motorsport 'dream'. My biggest regret as Lewis Hamilton I ain't. Don't race anymore but could still be flying. Had lessons on an off but with a mortgage to pay I don't have the finances now to do anything serious with it
Policeman - Every day must be different and you must get some great stories
Professional footballer - Even if I only made 4 appearances for Grimsby, would still be great.
I say this like i'm a 60 year old. I'm only 25.
1. Cherokee native Indian girl becomes world darts champion at Alexander Palace
2. Syrian refugee opens up organic kale bistro in Purley
3. Transgender falcon campaigns for fair living quarters in aviary
This is truly some of the hippy shit I believe they would run if they could get away with it
In the old days people would patrol offices with a tea trolley for those working, so that job I suppose, but I doubt it pays enough to live (or that the job exists anymore).
Either that or I'd like to run another sweet shop
The thing is surely, if you're trainspotting you can still go home at 16:30 so that you don't miss your Mum's tea. If actually driving a train you'd still be on some god-awful shift or sleeping off the last one.
Not that one could make a living from it.