PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Before I was a pilot...
View Single Post
Old 3rd Apr 2015, 11:10
  #7 (permalink)  
Sleeve Wing
 
Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: South East.
Posts: 874
Received 9 Likes on 6 Posts
Paperboy.
Self employed for two years (aged 13 to 14) at weekends and evenings. Bought old railway sleepers and then sawing/splitting/chopping/bundling them up for kindling; then delivered them.
Worked a couple of summers, during the Sixth form, as a general labourer at a market garden.
Drove a tractor for a friend who'd bought a 60 ton heap of horse sh*t !! Took 3 weeks to deliver it all when he sold it.
Brickies' labourer/dumper driver for a summer, waiting to get into the RAF.
Lab assistant at a Rubber works for two years. (1957 on !)

Then sensibly the Fleet Air Arm took me on……………….

Thought flying would be easier…………..from the age of about seven !

Last edited by Sleeve Wing; 10th Apr 2015 at 09:29. Reason: more succinct…!
Sleeve Wing is offline