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Anyone stuck in a cacky office job waiting to get started with training??

I am and it's ripping me, severely! If I could I would jack in but I can't. Don't get me wrong I get paid well but I'm far past the stage where money is important in a job.

Would you rather be paid less and have the job of your dreams, or get paid more and stress and grump everyday???!!!! I know it's not long, but would like to think others are suffering like myself.... :(
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Well,i've been waiting here in London for more than 2 months to get to selection!!!And i'm not working...
Just want to get it all done so i can get started!!!But for some reason they're taking their time... :x
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Guys you should count yoyrself lucky! What do you do? Some of us don't even have jobs. :(
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I don't have a job...
I stopped working in Germany to come and stay here and go to selection!!!
The Army paid the ticket and the guy at the careers office said he would call me the next week to tell me when i go to pirbright...
AND I'M STILL WAITING :x :evil:
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If you had my job you wouldn't count yourself lucky !!
End of the day, if your unemployed you CAN quite easily get a job. You might not like it but there are plenty out there.

If I didn't have stuff to pay I'd jack in and train during the day.....I wouldn't mind being a bum till training starts!

Almost forgot...
I design water pipes ALL DAY !!! And have been for 4 years. How much more exciting does it get....Oh, look you've lost interest already!!
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I first applied for the army last July when I finished collage, and its taken me till now to get anywhere. Mind you I had applied for an officer beforehand. So taking that into account I have been waiting since November 2003 to join the army as a soldier, and thats how long all the application process has taken. I knew it might take a few months for it all to happen, but like 7 months or so is just a long time to wait. Now basic training is coming up, time seems to be going 5 times slower than normal. So close, yet so far away!!!

Have a weekend job, but cant wait to get into a decent full time job (army). Applied for a few full time jobs a few months ago, but as you can imagine, they are not going to really be employing someone whos going to leave after a couple months anyway

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So Mal,you're starting basic soon???
Hey,i gave in my forms last july...and still haven't been to selection!!!
Everything went really quick at first...BARB about 2 weeks after giving in the forms(scored 65)
about 2 weeks after that i had the first interview...
but since then nothing much happened!!!
I knew it would take longer,because all my qualifications are german,went to a german school...
But waiting over half a year to get the stuff translated is taking the piss!!!
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Being a bum before hand isnt the answer you become more lazy. I left work last october and moved to germany to stay with my mum and the plan was to train bloody hard, didnt quite work like that. The hardest bit was leaving 26 grand a year, i injured my leg last november which made it worse. Wish i had joined years ago. Enjoy your job first if you get get money then see it as a bonus. Me and the mrs earnt 5 grand a month between us we were happier with nothing. BE HAPPY LADS !!!!!!!!!!!!!! time for a pint i think :D :drinking: :drinking: :drinking: :drinking: :drinking: :drinking:
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Make sure that if your in the application process of things, if they say there going to get back to you within the next 2 weeks say, make sure that YOU contact them as soon as those 2 weeks are up. Ive learnt that they will not contact you within the time they say they will. Its upto you to make sure they get things done. You must remember that you are not the only person wanting to join the army so it will be very easy for you to get "forgotten" or put to one side as it were. I kept on top of them in the end and made sure that everything got done. In the end my interviews and barb test AND RSC were all done within about 4 weeks,

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Yup, keep on there case all the time or things go as fast as they get to them. I'm always making sure things are in, references, med-forms, asking about times or possible times and dates to when things might happen.

Been told if all goes well I should start basic at the end on July. I only applied a few weeks ago. When I handed my forms in I was booked into my BARB test 2 days later!
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26 grand a year! doing what gwtdw??

cc123, I'll swap jobs, so long as it pays well thats all I want, I'm a budding reservist, so I don't mind having a boring a job!! come on lads, give me ideas for the most boring/depressing and well paid job out there!!
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I used to work for a company called Gamesworkshop as a Injection mould toolmaker, wasnt happy for years so i decided to do what i wanted for a change. should have seen there faces :D :D :D and then alot of :agrue: :agrue: :agrue: :agrue: :agrue: :agrue: :agrue: what a cracking day it was
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I work for a contractor designing water pipes. About .... this close to walking out today for them not paying me the right wages for 4 month on the trot now... :evil: :evil: :evil:

Gives me an excuse not to be here I suppose! F8ckers :fist:
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cc123 wrote:If you had my job you wouldn't count yourself lucky !!
End of the day, if your unemployed you CAN quite easily get a job. You might not like it but there are plenty out there.
there you go, you`ve just said it, there are plenty of jobs out there, so why not change?


Almost forgot...
I design water pipes ALL DAY !!! And have been for 4 years. How much more exciting does it get....Oh, look you've lost interest already!!
hey, what kind of pipes? steel, plastic, internal, external, push fit, soldered joints, come on spill the beans, i think we`re all more than eager to find out about your pipes, who do you do them for
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Bootneck,

Why go to the hassle of finding a new job for oh, a few months top's before my training starts? Would be unfair on however employed me. I said there are plenty of jobs out there in reference to Rabby as he said 'count yourself lucky, some folk don't have jobs'....

I design mainly plastic pipes and sometimes ductile iron sections for public water company. It's very boring, I know it. Got sick of being asked, "so what do you do for a living?"......

Now I just answer Tech, do drawings.. Can't be bothered seeing folk switch off when you tell them!
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