So, here's the skinny. And it's a shocker.
Ever since I was knee high to a grasshopper I've wanted to be a commercial diver. In fact, my whole thing was to be a Navy Diver. I even have a thing from when I was 5 from school which was 'What do you want to be when you grow up' and I'd written (badly) 'A Diver'.
Except I now wear glasses. Rules me out for being a navy diver as the career office said I needed 20-20 vision.
So, I do IT as a career because it's easy, and at the time I couldn't afford the cost of the commercial ticket and my folks wouldn't stump it up either.
My brain still tells me I want to be a commercial diver. I don't want the 9-5 office routine. I want the crap work and the unsocial hours because I know I would enjoy it.
So at 32 I feel it's time for a change.
I've made my mind up that I'm going to do my commie cert, esp now I can afford it of sorts. After scuba diving for 18 years it's time I became a proper diver.
So, my thoughts were to go to The Underwater Centre in Fort William and do the 9 week standard commercial package, which covers both inshore and offshore;
- HSE First Aid at Work
- HSE Surface Supplied
- HSE Surface Supplied (Top-up)
- HSE Scuba
- Part Tools Assessment (optional)
So, apart from 'Don't do it' (I predict from Andy) because I fully intend to do it this time, what advice as a commie would you give me.
Note - I know the work may be few and far between and the pay not as good as it was, but give me some tools and a job to do and I'll be a happy bunny at the bottom of a canal.
Also one big benefit of doing it now is that in between jobs I can always fall back on my current career of IT.
Mark.