Your first (actual) job

[Lanky Wanker]

I have a feeling there's already been a thread like this, but oh well. When you entered the world of work to support yourself and not just to pay for drugs and contraception, what did you do for a living? I keep asking myself wtf I'm gonna do when I'm finished with my A-levels and don't go to university.

[Ostrinski]

Walmart, 3rd shift stocker. Pay was good.

[A Revolutionary Tool]

My first "real" job is my current job, working at McDonald's. Before that I did some landscaping, maintenance, and working at a restaurant.

[Sasha]

Garbage man, did ir for four years or so...

[GoddessCleoLover]

All jobs are real jobs. My first was at McDonald's.

[Lanky Wanker]

All jobs are real jobs. My first was at McDonald's.

When I say real job I just mean one you did full time to actually pay for yourself, not just a part time thing alongside high school while living with parents. I wasn't trying to imply that certain jobs don't deserve recognition or anything, das some cappie shit y0.

[Ostrinski]

Labourer.Don't be too specific or anything.

[Renegade Saint]

Walmart, 3rd shift stocker. Pay was good.
Is that sarcasm?
My first job out of college was as a security guard. It was that job that radicalized me because of how badly the bosses were screwing us over.

[gorillafuck]

I am still in HS so this was a part time job, but I've been employed at a call center twice.

[Deicide]

Don't be too specific or anything.

Manual Labourer. It consisted of mixing mortar, digging holes, carrying things, painting things, smashing things, laying bricks (no pun intended), cleaning things, and sweeping. The pay was good (especially for my age at the time) and it was cash in hand. I got the job when I was 13. Specific enough? ;)

[gorillafuck]

Manual Labourer. It consisted of mixing mortar, digging holes, carrying things, painting things, smashing things, laying bricks (no pun intended), cleaning things, and sweeping. The pay was good (especially for my age at the time) and it was cash in hand. I got the job when I was 13. Specific enough;)oh you latvians you

[Deicide]

oh you latvians you

Yes, all Eastern/Northern Europeans are obviously hard workers. I'm actually Lithuanian, not Latvian. And this job was in Manchester (UK), working for my friends dad (he's a self-employed builder, quite a successful builder actually).

[Deicide]

I also used to knock on people's doors and ask them if they wanted their cars washing, it was good money too (again, this was when I was a kid).

At the moment I work in a charity shop. I'm trying to get a job as a accountant (or a translator/interpretor) while studying. Life currently sucks, economically at least. It has never been so intellectually stimulating though! I've got a lot of free time to read books.

[Lanky Wanker]

I want something more on the physical side that doesn't take a whole long educational course qualification thing to complete and won't leave me picking crums off the floor to survive... my dad said I can work for him (mechanic) if I can't find anything decent, but I know fuck all about cars so it'd be more of a temporary "make yourself useful" thing. I wonder what the money is like working on sex lines.

[A Revolutionary Tool]

laying bricks (no pun intended),
I don't get it, where's the pun?

[Deicide]

I don't get it, where's the pun?

In the UK, in the North West at least, ''laying bricks'' or ''laying a brick'' can be synonymous with taking a dump or a shit (you know, releasing excrements from your A-hole).

[eyeheartlenin]

The first job where I actually got money, was teaching Russian language to a political science Professor at my university, which was really enjoyable. The guy was the son of elderly German parents and an anticommunist, but he was a good language student. I would give him articles from the Soviet press, or Soviet children's poetry, to translate; he was good at it, and I was thrilled to be paid for doing something I enjoyed.

The first job I had where I got money enough to support myself was as a clerk in the US armed forces. (I never shot anyone; I helped people get their pay, their families moved, their benefits, etc.) That job kept me out of Vietnam, and I got valuable time to mature, after college. I met a lot of people I never would have met otherwise; they were really good guys, and our interaction helped me mature, I think.

[PC LOAD LETTER]

Network admin / telephone sales to existing customers

$8.50/hr .... I was desperate for money. Still am. Nobody will talk to me without a college degree.

[Aloysius]

Put in a job app a few weeks ago for my first job. Gift shop clerk at the local zoo. Minimum wage, but 7.50 and hour is good money to a poor little 16 year old like me.

Imagine all the tea I could buy with that!

[Sam_b]

Before I went to university I worked full-time at River Island with the glorious title of 'Mens Style Advisor' (I know...)

Now i'm at uni the last 4 1/2 years or so i've worked as events staff for a club/music venue. Pay has gone up for me every year so i'm pretty lucky. Shame the union is about as militant as Costa Rica though.

[Prometeo liberado]

Worked on a farm. Used to take blind chickens out to shit.

[Nox]

I have a feeling there's already been a thread like this, but oh well. When you entered the world of work to support yourself and not just to pay for drugs and contraception, what did you do for a living? I keep asking myself wtf I'm gonna do when I'm finished with my A-levels and don't go to university.

I'm kind of in the same situation except I'm going to university and idk what I'll do after that. I will need a full time job while I'm at university just to stay afloat so if I can't find one I'm screwed. Those bastards at McDonalds and Screwfix have already turned me down. :(

[Decommissioner]

Worked at a car repair shop/dealer washing cars. Was fun. I was 16 then. For most part I've consistently had a job ever since then (I am 25 now). I need to retire :lol:

[l'Enfermé]

Worked in a small shop owned by an immigrant who was a friend of my family while in school, and as a bouncer in a night club before I went to uni.

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

Call centre for a sports channel provider.

(I've moved up in the world since, now that I have a baby son to support too...I'm in a call centre for an insurance and pensions company)

[bricolage]

answered phone calls about school league tables. being able to put head teachers on hold for ten minutes while I made a cup of tea was the best bit.

[bcbm]

i washed dishes

[Franz Fanonipants]

construction

[Kombouto]

Salesman in Leroy Merlin (DIY superstore), many years ago. €900 per month.

[Zukunftsmusik]

Never had a job (i know, i know). But I'll join the proletarian ranks soon enough. this summer to be exactly. If I can't get anything, I'm fucked (going to spend a lot on travelling this year)


Manual Labourer. It consisted of mixing mortar, digging holes, carrying things, painting things, smashing things, laying bricks (no pun intended), cleaning things, and sweeping. The pay was good (especially for my age at the time) and it was cash in hand. I got the job when I was 13. Specific enough? ;)

Man, I want a job like this. I know it's probably really shitty and tiresome, but that's actually what I wanna do most, right now. Not gonna happen though. Actually I sometimes regret not going to vocational training, instead I've ended up in the high school programme that prepares you for university and now I'm freakin tired of it. I wanna lay bricks! (trolol) I'll probably "just" end up in some sort of shop, though; books or foods or something idk.

[MotherCossack]

basically... i'm an employment catastrophe....
first full time job at 18.... then downhill all the way until i became a full-time sponge at the age of 27.
it is not that i did not want to work ... more that my peculiar/particular areas of expertise/talents were and still are not hugely marketable... or at least not in large numbers.
....working with a lot of normal folk is crap if you are a bit weird.
...... bosses tend to be a bummer and spoil things.
...... a full day's work is often worse than going to hell and back..... beware of boredom it is deadly.(ESPECIALLY TRUE OF SHOP WORK)
.... if you like a drink avoid building work.... you might catch alchoholism.
.... beware of jobs that sound cool and mega-glamorous.... i got a job as a traveling salesman in italy once.... NIGHTMARE.
.... utilise nepotism at every possible opportunity ... everyone else does

gotta go.... daughter a is killing daughter b

[Lanky Wanker]

Man, I want a job like this. I know it's probably really shitty and tiresome, but that's actually what I wanna do most, right now. Not gonna happen though. Actually I sometimes regret not going to vocational training, instead I've ended up in the high school programme that prepares you for university and now I'm freakin tired of it. I wanna lay bricks! (trolol) I'll probably "just" end up in some sort of shop, though; books or foods or something idk.

I know how you feel, I'm wasting my time in school too. You need top grades and stuff to get a job as a cleaner though now anyway by the looks of it; my friend had troubles getting a job like that 'cause he left school with shitty maths & English GCSEs... since when the hell do you need to know algebra or be able to analyse poetry to clean lodges?

[Lanky Wanker]

.... if you like a drink avoid building work.... you might catch alchoholism.


I'm guessing there's an interesting story behind this? lol I'm not a drinker anyway, I have my alternatives.



.... beware of jobs that sound cool and mega-glamorous.... i got a job as a traveling salesman in italy once.... NIGHTMARE.


I always look for the jobs with the fanciest names on job sites because they're usually the low paying ones that need doing up to sound bearable. Money and social class have given road sweepers a bad name, but now we're all politically correct and call them official public health and safety community something-somethings to make it look like they're respected... o i c wat u did thur, capitalizm. But yeah, I'd never go for one of those salesmen jobs because you have to be all fake and pretend you love your life and make your smiles more believable and blah blah blah.

[MotherCossack]

oh and i forgot to say...
yesterday... i was you... all young and impatient to do the life thing big-time.
really i was so up for it....but then.... somehow or other i got distracted and waylaid up a blind alley and a dead end.... only for a minute or two......i thought.... but then you pick up a bag here... and and a bag there.... get bogged down doing something or other.....
and .... hey..... whoops a daisy......its 15 years later..... then 20.....shit... 25.... by now you have sussed out the score and you start to watch the clock and try to milk it ... spin it out....you know now that time is an erratic f**ker who calls all the shots....
thats about where i am a the moment...better not blink.... i'll be properly old in a jiffy..
i really want to express how shockingly fast time passes... but of course ... you will only fully understand what i mean when you are here....
and so there we have it ........life sucks and then you die!
but the sting in the tail is.... well for me anyway.... your mind does not age like the rest... in fact i suspect it does not age at all

so whatever you do first matey.... have a bleeding ball doing it and enjoy.....it aint no rehearsal and time marches on regardless.

[GoddessCleoLover]

MotherCossack; I loved what you posted about the sting of the tail being that the mind doesn't age as does the body. Well put.

[milkmiku]

My Father started a lawn business when we moved from New York to Florida. I started working with him when I was 14 and have worked on and off until I took it over. I don't hate the work and I feel I help out a lot of people who could not find job elsewhere. Now I simply manage 2 crews in the winter and 3 in the summer, every now and then I have to actually go out and do something.

[MotherCossack]

and now i am here
and so my face is a sad reflection
my god all the fags and beer
have left an awful stain on my complexion

i've lived life to the full
i travelled up and down the moterway
more much more than this
i lived in a stable of hay


gotta go.... have a date with an artistic shrink doctor!
i've partied hard all night and all day

[Искра]

warehouse of liquor factory... it was first job in my work book... the rest was illegal or student work :)

[Left Leanings]

When I was in sixth-form doing my A-levels, I got a part-time job as a 'Betterware' salesman. I pushed catalogues through doors, called back later to pick them up again (with any orders), and delivered the goods later on. The job was a load of fucking shit, and was commission only.

Before university, I worked for 8 months as a Returns Clerk for a manufacturer of strecth covers. After uni, I got a 3 month temporary contract with social services (to cover for a colleague who was unwell), as a care assistant.

After that came to an end, I became unwell myself, and have not worked ever since.

[citizen of industry]

First job: Pizzaria (I can still toss dough and make a mean pizza). After that a few gas stations. First job independently: fast food. Got fired from there pretty quick. After that, oil changing place. Quit that over a worker's comp fight. Then, UPS. Fired fron there over an incident where Teamster's got all of our jobs back, but by then I had joined the navy. Navy: Probably the best job I've ever had, left for family. Currently: Teaching English as a foreign language. Probably the worst job I've ever had. Frankly, I miss tossing pizzas.

[Lanky Wanker]

MotherCossack, that sounded quite depressing at first, but the weed made me realise it's true. :cool: I suppose that's why we love doing drugs that slow down time... great poem btw.

[MotherCossack]

i feel regret i really i do
but then at least i saw some action
i did too much that much is true
but boy i got a great reaction

time after time i hardly knew
who i was or what to do
countless times felt so unsure
crying on the bleeding floor

my face did say it all,
and had begun to really fall
and so at least i can say
i did it my way

to think i did all that
and made the most of every single day
never safe no no no not me
i did it my way

phew!!! hard work was that?
that it was!

just dont ask me why i even bothered to spend time on it
i am an enigma and i confound myself all the time! recognise it ANYONE?
my name is francossinatrack

[Dr Doom]

first job was some retail bullshit. still there now. its hell.

[MotherCossack]

the best job i ever did .... i think it qualifies....
was one of those YTS schemes... the one where you set up a business... after a few weeks training at the dole office/ job centre.
you have to find £1000 backing/ investment.... i just borrowed it from my lovable, supportive, amazing,should-have-kept-hold-of-him-when-you-had-him, then partner and flat-mate. [why i dumped him... i'll never know....]
they give you £45 a week and you can keep what you make in the business.
£45 was quite good back then.... better than dole anyway by about £10!... sounds so poxy now!
a load of people never did no business.... it was just a cover sothey never had to asign on!!!!
I LOVED THE THATCHER YEARS.......i mean the major years......aahh! the 80's and early 90's..... god it was shit!!!!!!!!!
but in a fun ...i'm still young way! anyway life is considerably more depressing these days if you ask me.....

but like i said.... youth!!!! it has a special gloss all of its own!!!!! which worked for me.
anyway... i already had a market stall selling 2nd hand clothes of a highly kitch nature... so i just adapted it and pretended i was just starting the venture.
it worked pretty well.... being your own boss.... there is a lot to be said for that old cliche... let me tell you!!!!

[Lanky Wanker]

the best job i ever did .... i think it qualifies....
was one of those YTS schemes... the one where you set up a business... after a few weeks training at the dole office/ job centre.
you have to find £1000 backing/ investment.... i just borrowed it from my lovable, supportive, amazing,should-have-kept-hold-of-him-when-you-had-him, then partner and flat-mate. [why i dumped him... i'll never know....]
they give you £45 a week and you can keep what you make in the business.
£45 was quite good back then.... better than dole anyway by about £10!... sounds so poxy now!
a load of people never did no business.... it was just a cover sothey never had to asign on!!!!
I LOVED THE THATCHER YEARS.......i mean the major years......aahh! the 80's and early 90's..... god it was shit!!!!!!!!!
but in a fun ...i'm still young way! anyway life is considerably more depressing these days if you ask me.....

but like i said.... youth!!!! it has a special gloss all of its own!!!!! which worked for me.
anyway... i already had a market stall selling 2nd hand clothes of a highly kitch nature... so i just adapted it and pretended i was just starting the venture.
it worked pretty well.... being your own boss.... there is a lot to be said for that old cliche... let me tell you!!!!

Thatcher, Thatcher, Thatcher... have you seen this? http://www.isthatcherdeadyet.co.uk/ I've posted it a couple of times before. And you're saying you randomly got £45 for nothing to start your own business out of the kindness of whoever? Was this an illegal underground system that Thatcher didn't know about?

[Vladimir Innit Lenin]

Meetings and Events Assistant in a hotel. Shit job, badly paid, pretty poor working conditions, longest shift was about 15 hours. 17 years old. Never again!:lol:

Still, was a good experience tbh.

[Capitalist Octopus]

This is really simplifying the job, but I essentially picked up garbage at an amusement park. I think that job is what radicalized me, or at least started my shift to the left.

[lombas]

During my second MA I got an internship at the European Commission. After getting the job done at uni, they offered me a temporary contract. After that, I worked as a French teacher. Now I'm ... wel, I'm not sure what I do, but I draft reports for a strategic advisory department in a big (government) company.

[The Dark Side of the Moon]

I work part(ish) time as a construction worker. i have to ask him again if i can get a job

last year in one week, i made 300 dollars, the only week i worked for him

[seventeethdecember2016]

If you consider being a day trader a job, then that is my job. I've made a reasonable fortune(what you'd consider upper class), over the last few years, by doing this.

I am anti-Capitalist, but I figure I can't beat Capitalism alone anyway-so I joined them. I might as well live the Bourgeois high life until the revolution comes around.

[Buitraker]

Garbage man

[Workers-Control-Over-Prod]

I had a job that here is called "Kurzarbeitergeld" which is probably the worst job there is. You don't have any benefits and work for short time getting paid by the government to work. Basically, you're a fucking slave. Figure its better to be unemployed and not help the capitalist system overproduce, so i'm studying now.

[Lanky Wanker]

I had a job that here is called "Kurzarbeitergeld" which is probably the worst job there is. You don't have any benefits and work for short time getting paid by the government to work. Basically, you're a fucking slave. Figure its better to be unemployed and not help the capitalist system overproduce, so i'm studying now.

Translation says it means short time compensation or something. What exactly were you doing in the job?

And all hail welfare! :thumbup:

[MotherCossack]

Thatcher, Thatcher, Thatcher... have you seen this? http://www.isthatcherdeadyet.co.uk/ I've posted it a couple of times before. And you're saying you randomly got £45 for nothing to start your own business out of the kindness of whoever? Was this an illegal underground system that Thatcher didn't know about?

i think it was something to do with massaging figures.... unemployment was a big deal in those days and the tories wanted to get as many people off the list and on to some scheme or other to make it look like more people were getting jobs.
you had to be there to get it.... things were a bit different then...i cant put my finger on it quite.... a different vibe....but jobs was a bigger deal than the economy... if i remember rightly.

[o well this is ok I guess]

I got a job working rides at a local theme park as soon as I got into high school. Seemed like a neat summer job.
Uh
still haven't left

[PC LOAD LETTER]

I got a job working rides at a local theme park as soon as I got into high school. Seemed like a neat summer job.
Uh
still haven't left
Has anyone thrown up on you?

[MotherCossack]

does anyone still get saturday jobs or not?
apart from my first paper round at 14ish.... for which i got £3 a week....
as soon as i was 16 i went up oxford street and started knocking on doors until i got a job at selfidges.... saturday job that is.... while i did my a levels. then i went to hamleys for the 2nd year of the sixth form...... their toys are shit.... trust me.... only positive was the odd famous shopper like prince edward and grace jones... not much of one really, then!!!

[o well this is ok I guess]

Has anyone thrown up on you? No, strangely. I'm told it's a natural thing for people not to puke when they're in motion, so when they puke they do it after the ride.

[Leonid Brozhnev]

I worked at a book warehouse that took surplus donated books from charities and sold them off on the internet. I spent a few months setting book prices and doing a bit of customer service, but got relegated to shelving books into freezing shipping containers when I was a bit of a bastard to a customer in an email complaining the book we sent him had the wrong colour cover or some crap. We had a large amount of disabled people volunteering that needed looking after, and being one of the few people working there with a car I was also the Postman, Taxi and lunch lady. My official title was 'general systems worker' which basically meant 'You do whatever the fuck we ask you to'.

[Lanky Wanker]

does anyone still get saturday jobs or not?
apart from my first paper round at 14ish.... for which i got £3 a week....
as soon as i was 16 i went up oxford street and started knocking on doors until i got a job at selfidges.... saturday job that is.... while i did my a levels. then i went to hamleys for the 2nd year of the sixth form...... their toys are shit.... trust me.... only positive was the odd famous shopper like prince edward and grace jones... not much of one really, then!!!

Aye, people do, we're just too lazy to. I'm always busy with my band on saturdays though, and plus I'd rather have a full time job. You oldies could get a job as soon as you left school by the sound of it. :D I'm doing 3 A-levels I don't give a crap about, except for our current unit in psychology... I don't even want a job related to the stuff I'm doing.

[NoPasaran1936]

Currently a student nurse, I actually work on wards with the ambition of going on to study medicine and specialise in orthopaedics and trauma. Really enjoy it, yeh, you get some horrible jobs. But the patients need your help, and they really appreciate it.

£12.50 an hour is pretty good, it means I don't have to work in some shitty retail shop to help sustain my living during university. And I love working in hospitals, one of the most satisfying things I've ever done.

[Left Leanings]

Currently a student nurse, I actually work on wards with the ambition of going on to study medicine and specialise in orthopaedics and trauma. Really enjoy it, yeh, you get some horrible jobs. But the patients need your help, and they really appreciate it.

£12.50 an hour is pretty good, it means I don't have to work in some shitty retail shop to help sustain my living during university. And I love working in hospitals, one of the most satisfying things I've ever done.

Nice one.

My Dad was a window cleaner for all his working life. One day, he fell off his ladder, and caught his leg in one of the rungs, and sustained a severe pilon fracture. It was a real mess, and he had to be sent to a specialist orthopaedic surgeon at a city hospital. The local hospital didn't have the necessary equipment or staff to manage his injuries.

Anyone who wants to be an orthopaedic nurse/surgeon is cool in my opinion.

Safe :)

[bricolage]

£12.50 an hour is pretty good, it means I don't have to work in some shitty retail shop to help sustain my living during university. And I love working in hospitals, one of the most satisfying things I've ever done.
that's really good, you based in london?

[NoPasaran1936]

Nice one.

My Dad was a window cleaner for all his working life. One day, he fell off his ladder, and caught his leg in one of the rungs, and sustained a severe pilon fracture. It was a real mess, and he had to be sent to a specialist orthopaedic surgeon at a city hospital. The local hospital didn't have the necessary equipment or staff to manage his injuries.

Anyone who wants to be an orthopaedic nurse/surgeon is cool in my opinion.

Safe :)

Oh man that sounds real nasty, was their any long term problems because of that? He'd be lucky not to!

That sounds like a bummer, I once tore my ACL and LCL whilst tearing to shreds my cartilage, they sent me to some specialist place in Haywards Heath, Sussex. A beautiful little town, the hospital was basically in the countryside (I was a specialist unit for orthopaedics) I remember waking up to seeing the sunrise across plains full of morning dew, was quite the sight. Ever since, I wanted to help others through medical means.

[NoPasaran1936]

that's really good, you based in london?

Yes I am, LSBU working within a few hospitals in the area, but I shall say no more ;) Love working there. London's diversity makes it so interesting meeting people of different ethnicities, cultures and religions. I like to talk to them about it, keeps them occupied and happy + you learn more about the patient, helps you understand if they have any cultural/religious no-no's so you don't insult any future patients of the same ethnicity/culture/religion.

If anyone was thinking of a career in the medical field, I'd really recommend it.

[bricolage]

Yes I am, LSBU working within a few hospitals in the area, but I shall say no more ;) Love working there. London's diversity makes it so interesting meeting people of different ethnicities, cultures and religions. I like to talk to them about it, keeps them occupied and happy + you learn more about the patient, helps you understand if they have any cultural/religious no-no's so you don't insult any future patients of the same ethnicity/culture/religion.

If anyone was thinking of a career in the medical field, I'd really recommend it.
yeah I've worked in a bunch of london hospitals and have liked it, I might end up trying to go to LSBU to study radiography next year (2013) as the NHS pays for the fees but I'm trying to get some work experience first to see what the job's actually like. people seem pretty split on whether it's boring or not.
anyway I always much respect for nurses so keep at it.

[NoPasaran1936]

yeah I've worked in a bunch of london hospitals and have liked it, I might end up trying to go to LSBU to study radiography next year (2013) as the NHS pays for the fees but I'm trying to get some work experience first to see what the job's actually like. people seem pretty split on whether it's boring or not.
anyway I always much respect for nurses so keep at it.

Oh dude, if you do, we deffo should meet up and go for commie drinks! Radiography is a very important aspect of medicine, and besides. Get bored of that, you can get the degree then study medicine!

And I doubt you'll get experience, as getting experience as a nurse is nigh-on impossible.

[Left Leanings]

Nice one.

My Dad was a window cleaner for all his working life. One day, he fell off his ladder, and caught his leg in one of the rungs, and sustained a severe pilon fracture. It was a real mess, and he had to be sent to a specialist orthopaedic surgeon at a city hospital. The local hospital didn't have the necessary equipment or staff to manage his injuries.

Anyone who wants to be an orthopaedic nurse/surgeon is cool in my opinion.

Safe :)


Oh man that sounds real nasty, was their any long term problems because of that? He'd be lucky not to!

That sounds like a bummer, I once tore my ACL and LCL whilst tearing to shreds my cartilage, they sent me to some specialist place in Haywards Heath, Sussex. A beautiful little town, the hospital was basically in the countryside (I was a specialist unit for orthopaedics) I remember waking up to seeing the sunrise across plains full of morning dew, was quite the sight. Ever since, I wanted to help others through medical means.

It was really nasty. My Dad had to have an Ilisarov fixater applied, a metal cage that goes around the leg, with 14 pins holding the bones in place in order for the leg to mend.

His ankle has never recovered, and is permanently swollen and red. He cannot move his foot up or down properly, and for ages had to walk with crutches. He now uses a stick.

Just to complicate matters, he picked up the MRSA super-bug in hospital, and on discharge, he needed district nurses to visit, who had been specially trained, to administer special and expensive antibiotics intraveneously. They had to be stored in a separate mini-fridge, provided by a drugs company, cos a certain temperature had to be maintained, otherwise they were rendered ineffective.

Sometimes the infection got so bad, he had to go back to the specialist orthopaedic surgeon, to literally have the infection surgically removed, before going back on the antibiotics again.

Currently, there is a pocket of infection, but it is dormant, and could flare up again at any time.

Needless to say, he never cleaned windows again. He went on Incapacity Benefit before going on the State Pension.

[bricolage]

Oh dude, if you do, we deffo should meet up and go for commie drinks! Radiography is a very important aspect of medicine, and besides. Get bored of that, you can get the degree then study medicine!

And I doubt you'll get experience, as getting experience as a nurse is nigh-on impossible.
yeah it's tricky cos it's pretty much a catch 22, courses want you to have work experience but hospitals only want to take you on for work experience if you are on a course. anyway it wouldn't be for a long time but I like trying to have plans. ah well, keep up the good fight.