Originally Posted by serve_to_lead2011

Wow, really? Guess leaving the ivory tower was a bit of a shock...

Yes, really. You may find, if you get there, basic training to be more than a little harder for you than you are expecting. I found it difficult, having come from a non-boarding school, having not yet been to university. Having been treated like an incipient or actual adult for a few years made it harder for some of my colleagues - given that the separate grads courses had stopped and we were all mucked in together.

Originally Posted by Counter-Bluffer-Ops

Comprehensive school types are at a considerable disadvantage when compared to those educated at private/public schools. They lack social skills, have knowledge, but have no idea how to apply it, and have a vastly-inflated sense of their own intelligence (based on a comparison with their peers rather than through comparison with the best). In many cases they also have no knowledge or experience of the wider world, other than that gained through Thompson-style package holidays to dreary destinations, a reality which lends itself to them dressing in inferior clothing, or clothing which they consider to be fashionable but which merely marks them out as comprehensively-schooled.

Apart from that they stand comparison well.

Don't be too harsh. With a bit of attitude adjustment there are opportunities to become an Officer in a Corps or the RAF

Originally Posted by RofiB

If that's the level of thought you've put into this, then you ain't got a chance.

If you're not trolling (and for your sake I hope you are) then, your attitude will virtually guarantee you not getting anywhere as an Officer, I suggest you apply to the council as a Traffic Warden. They love well balanced people with chips on both shoulders.

Remember this for the future. Engage brain BEFORE opening mouth.

I did not mean that they are literally a scam...just that the amoun they are talked about doesn't tie up with the actual number awarded, although I'm starting to see I'm may be coming over as 'chippy'.

Out of interest, what does this have to do with my proposed career?

Originally Posted by serve_to_lead2011

Out of interest, what does this have to do with my proposed career?

It's beginning to suggest you may struggle.

Originally Posted by Victorian_Major

It's beginning to suggest you may struggle.

In what way? I'm ready for all the hard graft, I'm just asking if others are...

Originally Posted by Sympathetic_Reaction

How is life in your small hole in the ground believing you are hard done by?

I went to a private school - paid for partly by both my parent's working their balls off, not having any luxuries (think my first holiday - bar visiting relatives - was when I hit 18 paid for by my part-time job which I'd had since age 14, we had 1 TV and 1 car), my great aunt dying and leaving us about £5,000 which paid for the first few years and my brother and I working our balls off and getting a half scholarship each.

Out of my mates at school, one was the son of a council plumber, another the son of a teacher and the third (I didn't have many mates) the son of a single mother who worked in tescos.

The premis around which your question is based is flawed - try re-evaluating the world of private education and start again.

S_R

I guess I have stereotyped..you do sound like you've had it hard, guess my million pound home comment was a bit off...sorry

Originally Posted by stacker1

Something tells me you are going to be sorely disappointed.

I agree. To paraphrase BB 'the 1990's called and would like their description of an army officer career back'

Originally Posted by serve_to_lead2011

Wow, really? Guess leaving the ivory tower was a bit of a shock...

Want some ketchup for that chip on your shoulder?

With the level of insight you have so far displayed maybe you should join the ACF as an officer, along with the estate agents and car salesman.

Originally Posted by serve_to_lead2011

In what way? I'm ready for all the hard graft, I'm just asking if others are...

You would do better to prepare rather than talk nonsense. It is never wise to venture an opinion when you have no experience in a given area. It is particularly unwise to do so when you are speaking to people who do have experience in said area. Keep quiet and see if your opinion changes if you get to Sandhurst and pass the course. It has, incidentally, always been my experience that the people who talk about how ready they are for hard work usually aren't.