My father told me when I was young that if you can find a job that you enjoy and can be happy doing, \"everything else justs gets easier to handle\"
I tried telphone engineering but the career path that the training oficer had mapped out for me filled me with dread. I took an aptitude test with pointed to computer programming and started down that career path.
At times the work was demanding but I enjoyed solving the problems. After about 5 years in that field most of my work became mentoring new trainees.....something that I found added extra reward to my line of work.
Even branched out to run training courses in New York and enjoyed the hell out of that.
I really feel sorry for people doing jobs they hate. I don\'t mean to sound condescending, just wish they were as fortunate as myself
Hobbies used to include painting when I was younger, teenager, then playing football (soccer) took up most of my social life in twenties and early thirties, when golf and sailing took over.
I had the exact opposite experience, but I guess it does depend on which department you join. When I was young I used to like taking things apart to find out how they worked, they never did afterwards
. I joined and was trained in the Inspection branch of the Post Office, now British Telecom, where we had to approve either things repaired by the factory or ordered on contracts from many manufacturers. As well as all the electrical and electronic equipment, this could range from postman’s watches (when we were part of the post office) to cables for the underwater cable laying ships, and almost everything else in between that a big organisation like British Telecom ever bought. Part of that was also repair and calibration of all types of test equipment. I later moved on to writing maintenance instruction, then a number of years in a development lab. I finally moved onto a section that I was not so keen on, so jumped at the chance to take early retirement when it was offered during BT’s downsizing operation. This was just two years after Bing and I were married, good timing
Hobbies started with model aircraft in my teens and early twenties, then ballroom dancing which ceased after I was first married. During my teens I was in the Air Training corps and was lucky enough to be sent on a gliding course where I finally flew solo. I would have liked to continue this, but it was an expensive team effort. Instead in my early thirties I bought a single handed racing dinghy and raced every Sunday for a number years. Unfortunately my first wife put too much pressure on me to stop, it got to a stage of my marriage or sailing; I chose the marriage. I then picked up building and flying model aircraft again, but when my first wife decided to leave, I just made a complete break with everything in my life, I wanted a fresh start. It was not long after that the Bing came on the scene, what a life changing experience
. Since then it has been computers, photography and designing houses. Somewhere amongst all that was a lot of DIY, and working on motorcycles and cars
Colin
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