I’d rather be an engineer – yes. My maths wasn’t good enough. I couldn’t get to grips with calculus.
Would I like to move to a factory doing menial work ? It wouldn’t be the first time. I’ve never been unemployed. I took a job at Field Airmotive in Croydon as a temporary labourer and ended up a CNC operator within four months.
I became a train driver under BR – my pay was half that of when I was a police officer but I was more than happy with the move as I wanted a job with as little contact with the public and managers as possible. Privatisation caused the partitioning of my industry and I was moved away from freight work. We used to do a mix of all types of tractions and routes until privatisation limited our work to company specific operations.
Privatisation – along with underinvestment – caused the shortages and inefficiencies that we see today and the move away (for most rail staff) from the cross cover with export/import sector freight traffic and passenger services. It (not the unions) boosted our pay and conditions beyond those of PVC sewers.
I do not think that the higher tier management have done a good job in the UK. And I would much rather be a factory grunt in a country with a future rather than an overpaid operative in one without.
(I have two A levels and an HND btw (all self taught via correspondence courses. Ditto my grade 8 guitar and much of my karate black belt) I’d prolly be in a supervisory role in the factory as I did pretty well at Field.)
Better than nothing,i’ll take any good news no matter how minor.
Agreed! And it woz construction wot dunnit!
Service ‘accounting for three quarters of our economy’ is rather worrying in my view.
How much construction was government funded (contributing to the over spend) ?
Are we talking Brownian grrrowth here ?
You work in the service industry! Would you prefer to be sewing together faux-leather trim for the latest Cortina?
I’d rather be an engineer – yes. My maths wasn’t good enough. I couldn’t get to grips with calculus.
Would I like to move to a factory doing menial work ? It wouldn’t be the first time. I’ve never been unemployed. I took a job at Field Airmotive in Croydon as a temporary labourer and ended up a CNC operator within four months.
I became a train driver under BR – my pay was half that of when I was a police officer but I was more than happy with the move as I wanted a job with as little contact with the public and managers as possible. Privatisation caused the partitioning of my industry and I was moved away from freight work. We used to do a mix of all types of tractions and routes until privatisation limited our work to company specific operations.
Privatisation – along with underinvestment – caused the shortages and inefficiencies that we see today and the move away (for most rail staff) from the cross cover with export/import sector freight traffic and passenger services. It (not the unions) boosted our pay and conditions beyond those of PVC sewers.
I do not think that the higher tier management have done a good job in the UK. And I would much rather be a factory grunt in a country with a future rather than an overpaid operative in one without.
(I have two A levels and an HND btw (all self taught via correspondence courses. Ditto my grade 8 guitar and much of my karate black belt) I’d prolly be in a supervisory role in the factory as I did pretty well at Field.)