Originally Posted by Spot_the_Dog

Some end up out here (thailand) training and becoming dive instructors. Ex-forces make excellent instructors, I've trained a few. It's all about discipline, fun, shagging prostitutes and drinking beer out of buckets here, so you can see why it's such an easy crossover, right?

Stu is that you ???

Sales Manager (best job I have had outside of the green machine). Did some shitty jobs to get here though.

Ambulance service for last 17 years, beats working for a living. Oh and the Mrs has big tits.

13 years on assembly lines,Vauxhalls and Triumphs,Redundancy,'I'll get a job on buses 'til something else turns up',retires 29 years later.Presently howling at the Moon.

France is a good place to eat horse,they do a pretty mean rump steak,good luck.

Originally Posted by brownhat

13 years on assembly lines,Vauxhalls and Triumphs,Redundancy,'I'll get a job on buses 'til something else turns up',retires 29 years later.Presently howling at the Moon.

Also an ex wearer of the coveted brown hat ex RH CR1.
Have since been printing plastics in das Vaterland for the last 23 years,and through the job have been right across the world from China to Mexico.Christ knows how i'm thick as pig shit.I do not believe that many tank drivers later became coach drivers as they would never find the way without convoy lights,(i couldn't then and still cannot).

Originally Posted by CaptainWillard

After discharge a cavalryman will kiss and caress his young mare, making her feel desired by telling her she is the most beautiful mare in the world. After perhaps a light breakfast of scrambled eggs with smoked salmon and a glass of champagne, he will leave her his number with her stable hand in the hope of further contact before leaving/driving her horsebox back to the stables.

An RTR brother will fart, scratch his clackers and wipe his knob on his conquest's arse cheeks whilst mumbling a half hearted apology for shagging her mother as well...

CW

Quis Separabit
Vestigia Nulla Retrorsum

There, corrected that for you

Got quite a culture shock first day in Vauxhalls, everyone in civvies as opposed to greasy denims.Strange feeling.

Got out in 90.................. spent until 2007 in Warehousing/Distribution Operations Management.............. then National Ops Manager for a plant hire company into the Rail Industry...................Oct 2008.....redundancy my boss or me..... I lost. Last year unemployed other than my artwork website/earnings. This year, out of sheer desperation, declared myself self employed and doing 2 days a week as Health & Safety advisor on Merseyside. Looking for further 2-3 days a week H&S work or................ a permanent job in H&S or Ops........seriously........anyone got a proper job?????

left, re joined, left again then college, Uni, working in IT for various companies, back to Uni and now running my own IT consultancy (employing as many ex squaddies as I can)

Cant say the army did anything for me apart from teach me 100 and 1 ways to bluff, skive and front my way out of any situation - for that I am eternally gateful