First paid job while still at school was planting lettuces at a local market garden. From there, moved onto a building site as a general gofer and then delivering cakes to shops in the days before they became supermarkets.
Joined the Army as an Armourer in '76 and saw the half the world before applying for pilot training with the AAC in the hope of seeing a bit more of it from a different view. Aircrewman from '88 and started the pilot's course in '91.