Career Change?

[Woz]

Originally Posted by tom

Good luck with it mate. Even if it turns out to be shit, at least you'll have had a go at it! Better than spending your life wondering what if.

Absolutely.

And Mark- you'll think I'm really sad but in the 4th year at school we had a careers office and I used to wander in there and look through the possible careers and always gravitated towards diver too. However I used to work in the offshore industry and it's proper hard work being an offshore commie.

A couple of the lads did a dive in the Trent and came up with:
2 shopping trolleys
10 bicycles
1 SLR camera
7 jazz mags, one of which was "Swingers Weekly"

[Pigpen]

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

[Dr T]

do it, take the plunge.

I am in exactly the same position as you (even down to the IT career) and i am thinking very strongly about becomming a Navy diver

Just do it


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[ScubaSue]

Originally Posted by Geoff Milne

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

So true!

Life's too short to have regrets.

[MATTBIN]

When I was 11 in secondary schol we had a scuba club, I couldnt swim, so they wouldnt let me join. I really really wanted to dive though. Never did really learn to swim properly (ok with a reg or snorkel though).
Fast forward to when I hit 46 and my Mum died, I learnt to dive. I dont for one moment regret I never did it at school, but I absolutely rejoice the fact I did it years later.

Go for it, who knows wheer it will take you, maybe somewhere bad, maybe somewhere good, but you'll at least be on the journey and not standing waiting for the journey to start.

Matt

[Scubee]

Go for it!

It is better to go through life regretting the things you did, than the things you didn't do.

I wouldn't mind doing that myself, except...
1. too old
2. can't afford the course
3. even harder for women to find the work than men.

[Bantam]

Originally Posted by Woz

And Mark- you'll think I'm really sad but in the 4th year at school we had a careers office and I used to wander in there and look through the possible careers and always gravitated towards diver too.

I was at a school trip to the Royal Tournament when I was 8 and I spent 4 hours talking to the Navy Divers who had the dive tank. I didn't see anything else!
When I told my careers officer I wanted to be a diver he tried to point me in the direction of being a Naval officer. I didn't want to do that - I wanted to be a Navy Diver. They just didn't get it!

[Woz]

When I was a wee lad (well about 8 or 9) I used to get my dad's old ally cylinder out (it was a really old one with a neck shaped like a wine bottle and a non-balanced teeny weeny valve) and connect up his Namron Snark (still have that in my Cupboard of Diving Horrors) and go and dive the bath.

What worries me now is that Mini-Woz is so comfortable in scuba kit. She took to it like a fish to, well, water. After 5 mins on her first go she was swimming round whipping her reg out and poking her tongue out at the instructors in the deep end then going up and down and up and down and when quizzed about it, said that she was "pretending to be a dolphin". Brought tears to my eyes.

We're going to try and get her through all the BSAC stuff as soon as she can manage it and get her teaching in the pool by 16. The look on the 18 yr old student's faces as they are being taught by someone 2 yrs their junior will be something to giggle about.

[hopper]

Originally Posted by Bantam

I was at a school trip to the Royal Tournament when I was 8 and I spent 4 hours talking to the Navy Divers who had the dive tank. I didn't see anything else!
When I told my careers officer I wanted to be a diver he tried to point me in the direction of being a Naval officer. I didn't want to do that - I wanted to be a Navy Diver. They just didn't get it!

Reminds me a little of the Poem Robbie Williams reads on the end of the Life through a Lens CD

Originally Posted by Robbie Williams

Hello Sir, remember me?
I'm the man you thought I'd never be
The boy who you reduced to tears
Lad called 'thingy' for six whole years.

Yes, that's right, my name's Bob
The one who landed the pop star's job
The one you told, look don't touch
The kid who wouldn't amount to much.

Well, I'm here and you're still there
With a fake sports car and receding hair.
Dodgy Farah trousers that you think are smart
Married to the woman who teaches art.

Married to the life, married to the school
I wanna sing and dance Sir; now who's the fool?
Sing and dance, you thought I was barmy
Settle down thingy, join the army.

And who are you to tell me this?
The dream I want I'll have to miss
Sir is God, he's been given the right
To structure lives overnight.

Now I know life's true path
Tanks and guns that'll be a laugh
No, not me I'm a mega civilian
I won't lead my life riding pillion.

But thanks for the advice and I'm sure it'll do
For the negative dickheads just like you.
As for now I've a different weapon
Stage and sceen is about to beckon.

And here I sit in first class
Bollocks Sir, kiss my arse...

[Woz]

Originally Posted by hopper

Reminds me a little of the Poem Robbie Williams reads on the end of the Life through a Lens CD

Yes but I think you'll find that Robbie is a complete tit.