Stupid Boy - "....my trade has little use in civvy street and I currently get paid a bucket full of money to do very little...."
Given that you are apparently from Lincolnshire that gives several options, E-3D, Typhoon (but you are obviously not a pilot) or the world of training perhaps?
It seems to me to be very much a two tier RAF at the moment. I would guess that the SH and AT world, amongst others, would quiet like to be doing .... "very little". The strain of continued Ops/deployments is undoubtably one of the reasons why people are leaving in increasing numbers.