29-09-2016, 10:40 AM
(29-09-2016, 10:31 AM)DWKMattcheese31 Wrote: well being as yer from yorsheerr like mesen al speak from t' heart, what drives you? what do you feel passionate about? if you're thinking about embarking on a lifetime career then it needs to be something you really want to do, i'm a musician, doesn't always pay me or my family well but i don't have much choice in the matter, can't not do it, i bit and bob to make my money up when the gigs are thin on the ground, how much money do you need? where do you want to be in X years time? these are some of the questions i would be asking myself
Those questions I had already answered to myself when I applied to join the RN. What I had there was a clear career path with excellent promotion prospects, a very good salary (trade I wanted to join was a marine engineer on the submarines), and a chance to become properly independent and gain some purpose in my life.
Of course I can still become independent but because I've put everything into the RN process ie the countless interviews, fitness tests, research, money spent on kit, travelling to Scotland/Plymouth etc etc for it all to be pulled away at the final hurdle and be left with nothing in terms of a career and being bsck to square one at the age where most of my friends have got all of theirs sorted, feels terrible.