Chuffed to bits, I had an interview the other week and have just been offered a job, so I'm almost officially a Strawberry Mivi (Civvy). Its exactly the job I wanted and should be a great springboard career wise. Its not very nice dealing with the transition from the military to civvy street so I'm really happy all the work studying this year for my Cisco qualifications has paid off.

I'm off to Cornwall for a month to carry on with my and to surf everyday, staying in a B&B courtesy of the military resettlement people! Thanks very much to the queen!

I'm not online much at the moment until I get back down to Plymouth tomorrow, and then Cornwall so excuse me if I don't answer back. I just wanted to tell everyone cause I'm so chuffed!

Dave

so i guess we will be seeing you at haynes then..

 

no excuses...

The job is in Kent!!! Lol! havn't had a chance to get on much so don't know about Haynes, will have a look. I guess I'll soon be a South East member! mind you I'll still be around the Southwest for the surf when possible. It will probably be cheaper to go to France though.

congrats mate

yep congrats , royal , dont know you but nice to see you doing well

congrats mate, hope all goes well for you

 

good luck for the future

well done mate

Good luck mate :smw:

Congratulations bud and welcome to the South East! ;)

 

Steve :)

nice one mate good luck with it all

congratulations mate!

Good luck fella, dont know how long you did ? but i did 22yrs and it was a bit tough, but made the swap really well :cool:

Hope you get what you want to do mate.

Congratts bud, I wish you all the best.

I did 15 years in HM Forces and the switch to Civvy St. was no probs - all the very best for the future mate, I'm sure you'll do just fine :D ;)

Congrats Dave

congratulations mate hope civvy street aint to tough on you

Congrats Dave good to here from you again!!! That's excellent news dude!! Let me know when your down here in Cornwall next and not surfing then we'll have to go out for a beer or 3!!! :D :duffer: :duffer: :duffer:

 

Nice one mate. Its a great relief once you get that job offer. :D

 

And a month to go surfing every day, sounds like a real hardship. Not jealous at all :rolleyes: Enjoy,

 

Speaking of surfing, I bet you got one of these! everyone who has been to Bali must have one ;)

 

 

 

 

Andy

not much surf in Kent mate

Thanks for the kind words everyone, much appreciated. I was jumping up and down last night once I got the call and had to tell everyone! It looks like the transition has gone quite smoothly for me too now, with the help of another ex marine who recommended me and got me into the interview. I think I was getting myself worked up more than I needed to. It hasn't really sunk in yet that I've left. I've only done just under 7yrs, so no where near as big a change as you Sgt C and Apache and other long term guys.

Because I work in computer networking I was having to make the military IT stuff relevent to civvy street, which was quite hard as the military uses different kit to what civvy people are looking for experience in. In the end I benefitted from having a technical questions type interview because they were able to ascertain what I knew and so were not bothered by the lack of actual experience in some areas.

Right, just need to find somewhere in Kent to live now......doh! Dave

I think there are a few of those figures about the place Andy!