'My Engilsh will never be as good as someone who speaks it as their first language. So can I be excused...?'
This is PPrune mate so the answer's NO
And if LONGBOW want's to make a career in a Hangar, then the examples of good natured p1ss taking he's seen here are chuffin mild! If he/she does want to make a career out of it there is as I understand it, a dearth of newly qualified or even interested chaps/esses in making aircraft maintainance a career. So whilst not a job for life in the traditional sense, it may be more satisfying than sitting in a call centre all day waiting to be outsourced offshore.
'no wonder you lot are treated with contempt by the rest of the aviation world ,what a bunch of w&nkers' Now I wonder what smudge does for a living?