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Im looking at seamanship mate on the surface fleet preferably

I should have rang harry and para thats more their thing,

OMSSMretd wrote:Okay as an embittered ex Operator Maintainer I'll humour you we'll start on the positives eh... World travel, free uniform (you get on of these at Mcdonalds), seriously though it is a good career choice for a youngster but if your into your fitness you'll be very disappointed. For me the best bit about the navy was everyone got a chance. Didnt matter where you came from you all got the chance to prove yourself and get on, the down side of this is that if you are reasonably bright and have a desire to better yourself you'll soon get bored with constantly being sat in front of a computer screen on watch or scrubbing out this is when the embiterness creeps in and you start thinking you could do better, but its not like civy street when you can change jobs or go to college your limited to what you can do to make change in your life. And thats the thing really because your life isnt really yours, your part of the ships company its needs come before yours. Obviously what you join up as has a massive bearing on what your life is like when your in. But Ive said this a thousand times to people do not join up hoping to work your way up from the bottom if you've got qualifications make sure that the Navy puts you in a job thats relevant to them dont let them tell you you can change once your in. If you've got the ability join as an officer, if your an older lad and had jobs before bear in mind how you will feel starting at the bottom again.
Sorry lot of negativity there but salient points all the same, it is a good career choice if you are happy to accept the realities of working hard on menial tasks yet at the same time having to retain extensive technical knowledge, jack of all trades master of none.