Hi everyone, I've been lurking the forum for the last week and I've got to say what a brilliant forum it is, I've already learned so much. I will, however, be hounding/harassing you with a number of questions these coming days so be prepared
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So a bit about myself. Well I'm a Pisces so I belong at sea (perhaps I wont even need to have an interview due to this fact haha). When I was younger I was in the Sea Cadets and I planned on joining the navy once I'd finish school, though things didn't quite plan out that way. Firstly I went to college and did a BTEC National Diploma in Manufacturing Engineering which were the best days of my life, an amazing group of friends combined with an astonishingly easy course meant everyday was hilarious (plus I got EMA which was like winning the lotto back then). After this I decided to follow my friends to uni, where we all studied a BEng in Materials Science and Engineering. The course was one hell of a wake up call to 6 guys that had basically copied and pasted their way through college and I ended up being the only one left at the end of year one which sucked. Anyway, fast forward two years and I miraculously graduated with a 2.1 Honors which I'm obviously chuffed with.
Then the hard part. Time to get a job. The major graduate schemes were simply out of the question. They all appeared to want someone that had completely dedicated their lives to working for them, preferably since birth. I was actually one of the lucky few and managed to get a job six months after graduating as a Graduate Materials Science Consultant. Yes I was ECSTATIC. The perfect job for a Materials Scientist.
The company was predominantly a Marine Consultancy full of ex-mariners. It didn't take long for them to regale story after story of how much they enjoyed working in the merchant navy and soon enough they started telling me I should have done that. Initially I wasn't interested if I'm honest, I was still on a high from getting such a good job. However, once that subsided and a few others issues occurred, I knew that I wanted to join the Merchant Navy
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So with the advice on this forum I'm hoping that I'll be starting my training in January.

So a bit about myself. Well I'm a Pisces so I belong at sea (perhaps I wont even need to have an interview due to this fact haha). When I was younger I was in the Sea Cadets and I planned on joining the navy once I'd finish school, though things didn't quite plan out that way. Firstly I went to college and did a BTEC National Diploma in Manufacturing Engineering which were the best days of my life, an amazing group of friends combined with an astonishingly easy course meant everyday was hilarious (plus I got EMA which was like winning the lotto back then). After this I decided to follow my friends to uni, where we all studied a BEng in Materials Science and Engineering. The course was one hell of a wake up call to 6 guys that had basically copied and pasted their way through college and I ended up being the only one left at the end of year one which sucked. Anyway, fast forward two years and I miraculously graduated with a 2.1 Honors which I'm obviously chuffed with.
Then the hard part. Time to get a job. The major graduate schemes were simply out of the question. They all appeared to want someone that had completely dedicated their lives to working for them, preferably since birth. I was actually one of the lucky few and managed to get a job six months after graduating as a Graduate Materials Science Consultant. Yes I was ECSTATIC. The perfect job for a Materials Scientist.
The company was predominantly a Marine Consultancy full of ex-mariners. It didn't take long for them to regale story after story of how much they enjoyed working in the merchant navy and soon enough they started telling me I should have done that. Initially I wasn't interested if I'm honest, I was still on a high from getting such a good job. However, once that subsided and a few others issues occurred, I knew that I wanted to join the Merchant Navy

So with the advice on this forum I'm hoping that I'll be starting my training in January.
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