Career advice for my 17 y/o son.
Thought I'd come to your fine upstanding military selves for some of this.
Ok, he has absolutely no great ambitions of any sort. He's currently finishing his A-levels with a view to going to a decent uni to study English. It's by no means a done deal and much depends on results day. Trouble is, I'm not sure he really has enough interest in the subject to pursue it at university level, let alone get there. He has arrived at this point through school and peer inertia and spent some time wondering what he wanted to study before settling on English quite late in the day. He's a bright lad, with a string of As and Bs at GCSE and AS level but outside the current, belated study effort, his life is driven only by football, girls and beer. He's very popular, with loads of friends and female admirers; and that's the extent of his interests. He doesn't really apply himself in depth for sustained periods. I now wonder if he's really a 'university' person, and whether an alternative path might be pushed under his nose.
So, here I am. He was in the RAF section of the CCF at school and loved the aerobatic sorties with AEF; though he hated the bull. Nevertheless I'm wondering whether a career in the services mightn't be a bad idea for him, in order that different tasks and interests would perforce be undertaken by him, and that some kind of specialisation in life might result. I'm aware, through this site, of the growing state of low morale within the RAF, but I'm still tempted to think of the services in general as a good prospect for him.
I've tried to give as much detail as I can to generate opinion.
Thanks,
Kev