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Syphon
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Hey! I'm new to the forums.. I've just been pondering the ways of life now that im in need of a job to help pay for school and I feel that the reserves may or may not be for me and was looking for some peoples input.
I am 19 years old, and am coming up into my final year of electrical engineering and automated systems in college@ Georgian College in Barrie (well, a year and 4 months left I suppose.) As it stands, my program in college is a year-round program. I have classes or work-terms 12 months of the year without summers. My only time out of school right now is for statutory holidays and what not. After finishing 2 years of my program and having worked in several electrical fields (generation and distribution and electronics design, repair and assembly) I feel that part time jobs in retail and professional food cooking or gas pumping just are not for me and a part-time job in a field oriented in the electrical side of things would fit me just fine. I was looking over the DND website and noticed that they have FCS-Tech and LCIS-Tech listed as being reserve occupations, both of these choices share alot of similarities with my previous work and educational experience, and I think I would really enjoy this job.
I have no military experience as of yet, other then being an army brat of an officer who worked in logistics and being posted from Chilliwack, Calgary, Damascus and every other large-scaled base from BC to Ontario. Alot of my questions boil down to, in the reserves how does training work, what are the requirements, can I do it despite my year-round education? I hear alot of people saying its fine during university and college, but most of them get summers off for all of their training, I do not.
Another question, I know that FCS and LCIS techs require POET training in Kingston? and from what I read before I got into college it was a several month long and very focused course into electronics and electrical theory... If I am in college 24/7 for seemingly the rest of my life
, where would this fit around it? To my knowledge, one of the only reserve units around me is the Gray and Simcoe County Foresters. For some reason, they don't sound like they need FCS or LCIS reserves with them, from what I've been told, the only local communications unit would be the 700th and I thought they were a reg. force unit.
Like I said, I'm just looking to see if this is what is right for me.. It may not be, I'm just looking to get some advice for a good, part time job serving my country and doing it in the field that I hope to make my living doing.
Thanks for all the help guys!
I am 19 years old, and am coming up into my final year of electrical engineering and automated systems in college@ Georgian College in Barrie (well, a year and 4 months left I suppose.) As it stands, my program in college is a year-round program. I have classes or work-terms 12 months of the year without summers. My only time out of school right now is for statutory holidays and what not. After finishing 2 years of my program and having worked in several electrical fields (generation and distribution and electronics design, repair and assembly) I feel that part time jobs in retail and professional food cooking or gas pumping just are not for me and a part-time job in a field oriented in the electrical side of things would fit me just fine. I was looking over the DND website and noticed that they have FCS-Tech and LCIS-Tech listed as being reserve occupations, both of these choices share alot of similarities with my previous work and educational experience, and I think I would really enjoy this job.
I have no military experience as of yet, other then being an army brat of an officer who worked in logistics and being posted from Chilliwack, Calgary, Damascus and every other large-scaled base from BC to Ontario. Alot of my questions boil down to, in the reserves how does training work, what are the requirements, can I do it despite my year-round education? I hear alot of people saying its fine during university and college, but most of them get summers off for all of their training, I do not.
Another question, I know that FCS and LCIS techs require POET training in Kingston? and from what I read before I got into college it was a several month long and very focused course into electronics and electrical theory... If I am in college 24/7 for seemingly the rest of my life
, where would this fit around it? To my knowledge, one of the only reserve units around me is the Gray and Simcoe County Foresters. For some reason, they don't sound like they need FCS or LCIS reserves with them, from what I've been told, the only local communications unit would be the 700th and I thought they were a reg. force unit. Like I said, I'm just looking to see if this is what is right for me.. It may not be, I'm just looking to get some advice for a good, part time job serving my country and doing it in the field that I hope to make my living doing.
Thanks for all the help guys!
