Mmm... My problem Always_broken, was that I had done better at school than most of the commissioned chaps who were allegedly my betters.
However, upon leaving Her Majesty's finest I found that I was 'required' to join a union in order to get a job in what was called a 'Closed Shop'. My brief encounter with the socialist dreamers was less than satisfactory. They were all for pay and conditions for the unskilled, unwashed and generally unwanted general workers but did nothing at all for skilled tradesmen and technicians. So I quit both the union and the job.