What job should I have?

[Corin]

i'd never want to go into anything institutionalised and regimented like that

Is my recollection in error, or not so long ago, were you not voicing your thoughts on signing up with the RAF?

From <http://www.metropol247.co.UK/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1589>,

i wouldn't mind also joing the raf police either.

[Pete]

i'd never want to go into anything institutionalised and regimented like that

Is my recollection in error, or not so long ago, were you not voicing your thoughts on signing up with the RAF?

From <http://www.metropol247.co.UK/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1589>,

i wouldn't mind also joing the raf police either.

if you recollected correctly you'd notice this useful tit bit

i wouldn't want to do any frontline stuff, i'm more interested in the 'trades' part of the raf, such as a technical role.

Which is quite different from the "no bainer" job he was hining at.

You're slipping, even your bizzare PMs are getting less interesting. I'm tendning to think you just use stumble upon and then try to spuriously link it into the conversation.

[Corin]

Which is quite different from the "no bainer" job he was hining at.

In the context of the original post, the no brainer referred not to a particular job which is what you are trying to spin, but to joining the poilce or the armed forces.

i guess you could always do a nobrainer career move like going into the police or armed forces if worse comes to worse.

[Pete]

Which is quite different from the "no bainer" job he was hining at.

In the context of the original post, the no brainer referred not to a particular job which is what you are trying to spin, but to joining the poilce or the armed forces.

i guess you could always do a nobrainer career move like going into the police or armed forces if worse comes to worse.

yes but even so surely the "regimental" in this post reffers to the front line of the armed forces rather than the back end of such a place.

[Sput]

I would have thought there's the same basic training that covers all aspects - for example to be a weather forecaster for the army requires the whole largely pointless muddy tunnel stuff!

[Corin]

surely the "regimental" in this post reffers to the front line of the armed forces rather than the back end of such a place.

That is the element which Dr Lobster* himself should make clear, as to whether or not he now regards the whole of the RAF and police as being regimented or just the front line.

But surely you would agree that the RAF police are regimented, something which Dr Lobster* did say he was once considering?

And do they not have squadrons rather than regiments in the RAF anyways?

And to clarify the other point you have raised, no I do not use StumbleUpon, but Google "we self-censor" (tm) and increasingly Clusty.

[Dr Lobster*]

surely the "regimental" in this post reffers to the front line of the armed forces rather than the back end of such a place.

That is the element which Dr Lobster* himself should make clear, as to whether or not he now regards the whole of the RAF and police as being regimented or just the front line.

But surely you would agree that the RAF police are regimented, something which Dr Lobster* did say he was once considering?

And do they not have squadrons rather than regiments in the RAF anyways?

And to clarify the other point you have raised, no I do not use StumbleUpon, but Google "we self-censor" (tm) and increasingly Clusty.

all of it - i gave serious consideration to both the police and raf a couple of years ago - i was getting fed up with computers at the time and i wanted to try something different. a good friend of mine went into the police and it seemed quite exiciting all the stuff he was learning. as it would happen somebody would join my current company who'd spent years in the raf. he told me never to do it and had he his time again would never do it himself - he ended up being posted whilst his daughter was ill after she was born, he found it difficult to have a family life because he was being moved around all the time and the found the internal politics frustrating and childish. there were good times and he's told me many a story about some of the amazing things he's seen (like the fall of the berlin wall), but basically i came to the decision it wasn't for me and and putting my life in somebody elses hands who doesn't really place the value on it that i do was indeed, a no brainer.

the police force is an interesting one, my best mate is a copper and some of the things he does seems a good laugh but there's a lot of shit to it and stuff i wouldn't like to see and do at all (not very nice some of it, sorting out people torn to bits on roads etc etc). the most amazing thing i learnt is the sheer amount of prosecutions the police and cps bring where people get found not guilty.

they're the two careers i gave serious consideration recently (and on the face of it some of it seem a refreshing change) but when it came down to it, it wasn't the sort of life i wanted - it would mean i'd wouldn't be able to settle down and get a house like i've got now... those things are much more important to me now.

[Corin]

Thanks for the explanation.

putting my life in somebody elses hands who doesn't really place the value on it that i do was indeed, a no brainer.

That is the most important point anybody considering joining the armed services should always consider before anything else.