Trade you think you should have picked?

[yamahaguitarguy]

What trade are you in and is there a trade you wish you have picked over yours?

 

[Shamrock]

I'm armour, but I've been playing a lot of video games so I think I should have gone astronaut.

 

[Bruce Monkhouse]

I'm armour, but I've been playing a lot of video games so I think I should have gone astronaut.

I love it..................

yamahaguitarguy,..........Why???

 

[Loachman]

Pilot.

Pilot.

And it's an "Occupation", not a "trade".

 

[brihard]

Mechwarrior.

 

[Eye In The Sky]

Plumbing & Heating Tech.  The better to handle some of the shit that came my way.  I could have re-routed it, as an example.

 

[Scott]

This thread is destined for awesomeness and a potential meltdown for failure to recognize awesomeness.

 

[jeffb]

MIR Commando. Those guys get all the girls while we are in the field if none of the glory.

 

[Jarnhamar]

I'm armour, but I've been playing a lot of video games so I think I should have gone astronaut.

That's funny I'm infantry but have been playing a lot of World of Tanks, should have went Armored or Artillery  ;D

 

[Sub_Guy]

AES Op.

I still think postal clerk would be a good go.  I can't imagine they get into any stressful situations.

 

[jollyjacktar]

I like my present trade, HT.  However, a trade with Red Seal connections has better after job marketability and that might have been a better way to go.

 

[Tank Troll]

I'm Armour spent most of my time on tanks

Wanted to be Heavy Equipment Engineer back in the day when it was a separate trade................got told I wasn't big enough to do the maintenance on the Vehicles :dunno:

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Was artillery in the Reserves, was interested in going reg force, but was told I would be artillery and wanted Combat Engineer instead. I originally wanted to go Reserve armour, but when I found out they only had jeeps I went artillery as they had the proper equipment. 

 

[MeanJean]

I was an Electrical Technician in the Navy for 10 years and really enjoyed it.  You can write the exam for the Red Seal Industrial Electrician Journeyman Ticket after completing the QL5A course.  I have not done that but I know several ET's who have. 

I wish I was an officer... Oh wait, I am working on that now.  They are sending me to university for four years in attempts to mould me into a Marine Systems Engineering Officer.  Reasons for switching other than getting a degree: Pay, Promotion and Pension.

 

[Cbbmtt]

AES Op.

I still think postal clerk would be a good go.  I can't imagine they get into any stressful situations.

I know you posted this a while ago, but I started to laugh out loud. Last night I was watching the Seinfeld episode where they asked Newman why people went crazy at the post office.

"The mail never stops! It just keeps coming and coming and coming, there's never a let-up! It's relentless! Every day it piles up more and more and more! And you gotta get it out! But the more you get it out the more it keeps coming in!

 

[Teen_Cadet]

I was an Electrical Technician in the Navy for 10 years and really enjoyed it.  You can write the exam for the Red Seal Industrial Electrician Journeyman Ticket after completing the QL5A course.  I have not done that but I know several ET's who have. 

I wish I was an officer... Oh wait, I am working on that now.  They are sending me to university for four years in attempts to mould me into a Marine Systems Engineering Officer.  Reasons for switching other than getting a degree: Pay, Promotion and Pension.

Just curious, do you wish you had gone officer from the start? Or was the ncm experience worth it?

 

[Remius]

Medic.

Went Infantry instead.

But i really wanted to be a Space Marine.  In space.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

AES Op.

I still think postal clerk would be a good go.  I can't imagine they get into any stressful situations.

I can imagine that a Postal clerk that took pride in their job, would get stressed out trying to ensure the mail in a timely manner got to a ship or unit deployed. 

 

[mariomike]

I can imagine that a Postal clerk that took pride in their job, would get stressed out trying to ensure the mail in a timely manner got to a ship or unit deployed.

I have heard of their civilian counterparts "going postal".

 

[MeanJean]

Just curious, do you wish you had gone officer from the start? Or was the ncm experience worth it?

I think my experience as an NCM was worth it and I didn't want to enter as an officer either.  I was an industrial electrician apprentice before I joined and that is why I joined as an ET.  As for my experiences as ET, they will help me with the Engineering Officer part of knowing the ship and how systems work and depend on each other.  As a Master Seaman and NCM, the leadership experience in quite valuable in many different aspects.

Besides I am getting paid as a MS to go to a civilian university for four years.  How sweet is that?  (almost as good as being a space marine)