Ah! Jimmy the fourth, I was there for your last two years but with the other mob.
What comes glaringly through with this thread and some others from the older generation is the humility.
We looked up to the old boys and wanted to learn from 'em.
I hear today, that quality isn't as prominent.
"I've got a degree" seems to abound amongst a good percentage of the "boys".
I guess it stems from Keating keeping kids at school and going on to uni as the norm.
The dills who are too afraid to go out into the world remain in the cloisters and study normal people to make up courses on how to get on with each other, or how to do what comes naturally most people.
Gawd, equity and diversity courses we are forced to endure at work and Occupational Health & Safety... Who's gunna stick an electric drill up his nose and pull the trigger?
Talk to tradesmen and they don't want eighteen year old apprentices because they know it all.
Fourteen year olds are more ready to listen and learn though.
I have talked to a number of our old cronies and found that probably seventy five percent of us thought we were in the bottom ten percent of the staff;
we were sort of frauds and somehow MANAGED to scrape through checks.
Felt guilty at not knowing and remembering enough and having to swot before checks.
Yet later on some find blokes saying, "I looked up to you".
Hell I wonder if these poor buggers who are taught to let the auto pilot FMC do it all will have these discussions.
The engineers won!
Computers are doin' it all AND there's no dog needed because the pilots are educated.