Advise please. Pay and conditions.

[El Prez]

Sully, I'd agree with you there. You will find all sorts of free emoticons at the following link http://www.jordysworld.de/emoticons/ .

[K24io]

If you have a well paid job but want to join RM for a bit more excitement have a good think about the RMR. I'm still at uni but I'm doing my Green lid training with RMR and getting paid for weekends etc.

After uni, assuming I've passed the course and got green lid, I'll be able to walk into a full time post because I'll already have done the 30 miler etc. The training and tests are identical to full timers.

If you're in a well piad but boring job think bout doing RMR until your trained marine then joining, it means you'll get 12.5k rather than 10k. Not great but still better. If you stayed in RMR for few years, did a few attachments to regulars, you could go for Corporal, then go full time. This means you'd be on £20.5K instead. Corporal is a huge jump in wages.

It's also easier to do your para course or other Specialisations in RMR, certain things in full timers are over subscribed.

They are desperate for drivers at the moment and will put you through HGV, means if you leave after 6 years or so you'll have a decent job lined up after. Useful if you don't have a degree or if you have a degree in history of art or some p**s.

Just a few thoughts,

Kev

[barrybudden]

I left the Corps a few years ago as I was getting married and wanted a normal family life, I now have 1 girl and another 1 on the way any day now. I have a well paid job, more than twice what I was getting when I left and only for the child I would have joined up again a couple of years ago.

A bit of advice, if you can get a job you like stay in it and don't worry to much about the money so long as you have enough. I hate my job and its destroying to go home on a Friday night and dread haveing to come in again on Monday morning.

[C_Cummings]

I couldn't join the RMR because then I would have to keep my full-time job and I HATE it! Even if they doubled my wage and chucked in a BMW then I would still want to leave.

I want to live, breath, eat and sh*t Marines so the RMR really isn't for me.

[Beasta]

I agree with the above postings....
I look forward to Fridays and then dread Sunday evenings cos I know ive gotta get up in the morning to come here. Its not really what life is about is it???

[Beasta]

Are the guys at top of this thread looking to go in at an officer level or as a standard Marine entry.??????

[C_Cummings]

I'm going in at at normal level as I've missed the cut off point for applications for officers course this year.

You need to apply by Dec this year for the start of the course in Sept. 2003. For me thats too much of a wait. Only 1 course per year is run.

I've already wasted 5 years joining the rat-race and my lifes now starting to go a bit 'Groundhog Day' if you catch my drift.

[Beasta]

Mr Cummings, you life seems to be a mirror image of my own. I missed the cut off due to my age (just turned 25). Now gonna be looking at going in as standard. As for when, I need to discuss the situation with my shoulder injury with my careers office and see where I stand.

[C_Cummings]

Your best bet is to apply just now. It can take a good 7/8 weeks to pass the written test, medical and interview sectons of the application. Also, you have to complete a security form which can take 3 months to clear.

Depending on how bad your injury is, you might struggle to do some parts of the medical. All you have to do is lift your arms up to shoulder height, and rotate them backwards and forwards.

After all that there might be a waiting period for your PRMC.

[Beasta]

REckon I could pass the medical. The dont hurt all the time. Only when they've been banged about. I'll speak to the careers guy in town and see what he says. There is a method to what your saying though.
They should be sorted out by early new year according to specialist so I could do the other bits now and then be ready for the PRMC April May time. Bonus.......
Have you got a date for your PRMC yet?

[Beasta]

Just seen your previous post. 2 weeks then. Nerves starting to set in I bet. You best come back on here and tell us exactly what went on

[C_Cummings]

Nerves are not 3 bad at the minute but I'll start shittin' kittens come Tuesday when I'm set and travelling down.

Should be OK when I get there. Just remember that there are 50-60 others all feeling the same so it's just a case of settling in and get on with the 3 days.

I'm going to write up a PRMC diary when I get back similar to the other one further down this forum. (Worth reading.) Hopefully it will give others some kinda idea what the PRMC is all about.

[Beasta]

If you've put the effort in with your training you've got a fair to good chance of passing. As they've said elsewhere on the site, just think of what waits for you if you get in. Think of not having to go to your office every day and sit there bored watching your life passing you by.
Im envious that im not going sooner, but I know that my time will come.

[Beasta]

If you've put the effort in with your training you've got a fair to good chance of passing. As they've said elsewhere on the site, just think of what waits for you if you get in. Think of not having to go to your office every day and sit there bored watching your life passing you by.
Im envious that im not going sooner, but I know that my time will come.

[Steve C]

C_Cummings, I wish you all the luck with your PRMC. Your nerves arriving will be nothing compared to what they will be at the beginning of Gym Test 1, but after that you just run with everything. Unless you're super fit the 3 miler is going to hurt, even before you start, because of the first days antics. Feed off the other guys during the run and try to stay in formation, we didn't and we payed for it directly after the run. Saying all that though, it is only 3 days taken out of your life. Think of it as 3 days in the marines . GOOD LUCK!

-Steve C