Kiwichick,
Nope I'm not a qualified controller.. I was a flight service specialist. You can look it up if you feel like it. Airservices phased them out. I basically sat in a tower and provided vehicle control service, aircraft advisory service, relay clearances, do weather observations, issue Metars, specials, notams. Really fun. I wanted to cross train either to VFR (tower controller) or IFR (enroute controller). But never got the opportunity because I left the country!