How did you get to where you are now?

[alexsmith]

Taken from the cliosport website. I was just wondering as im looking for a better job.
I started off with good GCSE's in school went on to do electrical engineering in college and quit on the second year now currently on not a very good wage labouring for my fathers drainage company. So how did you all get where you are now?

[Stissy]

school, gcses, college, rolls-royce apprentiship

[Mr_P]

I drove

[Adz]

School, GCSE's, and now on an apprentiship for martyn barrett transport, doing HGV mechanic, and now we have started doing body work aswell, bonus :), so technicly a body work tech aswell :P

Adz

[saxo-parts]

how long you been at barretts adz?

[Mr_X]

sucking a lot of cock

[J222JRA]

left school with 1 gcse,

went to collage and did an advanced apprenticeship for 4 years working part time at my dads engineering company.

then 3 years ago dad asked me if i wanted to take the company over.....yes please and thats where i am now.


James

[Toms112]

Gcses, College for a year, Apprenticeship with Perkins Engines =]

[Steve_90]

Got average GCSE's.
Went to college to do aeronautical engineering and quit.
Got an apprenticeship plumbing/bathroom fitting.
Went back to college to do engineering BTEC.
Started a 4 year engineering degree course today at Brighton Uni.

[davidandrews5343]

Gcses, then college, now uni but been doing alot of work experiance as an I.T technician with the possiabilty of a part time job soon

[saxowebby]

school, gcse. no im orking for AMEY a highay maintenance company. got 2 llantra awards through them, also gettin my hgv through them aswell as 2 city and guilds courses.

£400 a week average take home on flat week with overtime available

im a happy chappy tho.


90% of my things are thanks to my gf. and her dad

[scot-ish]

good/very good grades at schoole, 6months of a forensics degree, shite, then apprenticeship with scottish power, after year jacked it in, didnt want that, went to uni done 2 years of electrical engineering degree, shite hate uni, never to go back lol, trainee manager in morrisons, shite, left it, started cadetship in the merchant navy, liked it, stuck it, very good wage for 6months a year work, and non taxable. and thats where i am

[scotty_04]

left school with 6 gcses went to college to learn babrering did the college course got a job at a japanese import place valeting and picking the cars up from docs etc then worked in a barbers for 2 3 years and then set up my own business and currently in the process of opening my second barbers in stoke on trent

[Ben]

School, GCSE's, A-Levels and now at college.

What a failure.

[Silver2000saxo]

MMmmmmmmmmmmm
Fukd up on GCSE'S :homme:,

Local shit College-re do English/Math and start Electrical Part 1 course.

Failed electrical apprenticeship(B.E.T) application test,wait till next year :wall:

Passed following year, Got an apprenticeship at work/College :y:

Now Qualified (JLB Gold card) Electrician been wid same company 5 years :fcuk:

My dyslectic struggle lol :wacko:

[PSPDan]

GCSEs

AS Levels (fucked up)

College (still there)

[Liam_LFC_VTR]

Shit GCSE results.

Have a Certificate in Engineering and doing a HND in Electrical engineering.

Will be interesting to see markdavids reply

[garyrsts2]

school, passed all gcses and im at tech now doin apprenticship mechanic and i work for volkswagon

[Ben]

GCSEs

AS Levels (fucked up)

College (still there)

Hiiii5.

[Pieface]

Got decent GCSE Grades, Got OK A-Level grades, got into Uni and hate the course so I'm now leaving to do a gap year.

Hopefully I can get into Chester University to do Natural Hazard Management.

[aidenw]

passed gcses now at college doin a motor vehicle corse

[MrHouston]

Got GCSE's
Dropped out of sixth form
Dropped out of college
Arsed about for a year
Work full time for Lexus, Skoda & Mazda professional valeting & part time as a chef :)

Hope to train to be a mechanic eventually and start my own business

[Hodgins91]

got good GCSE's A*s and As
just finished my a - levels with B's

didnt want to go to uni and now im stuck :( bad times

[Yellow_Saxo_Paul]

Passed GCSE's

Worked for a telecoms company for 3 years, climbing mobile phone masts and carrying audits (Safety and technical) on them. (Pretty cool tbh)

Worked for Ericsson for a year as a project co-ordinator and in between that I was a trainee firefighter until i got injured :(

[Ashleyp]

12 A or B GCSE's

barely scraped A-levels as i didnt care / try

took a gap year & worked full time

now at uni doing a foundation year, and following onto a degree :)

reason for uni is theres no decent jobs going, ones that pay enough to be worth while anyway

[Ben_L]

Seems to be a few people here who have done Electrical Engineering. I was looking at doing this course at college. any1 tell me what is involved in it?

[djmartin]

how did I get to where I am now HMM.

got off my bed, walked over to my chair sat down turned pc on, waited for it to load, opend up IE8 loaded sax-p and wala. that is how I got here now.

you did ask after all lols.

[Maxwell]

school gcse's, started a apprenticeship with Bombardier Aerospace in Belfast, completed it and got my nvq level 3 in aeronautical engineering, worked for 2 and half years after my apprenticeship and applied for airbus.

now currently working on this in toulouse south france

http://www.nemsplace.co.uk/e107_images/science_technology/a380.jpg

just a tad bigger than working on learjet 40/45s lol

[RichM]

gcse at school, as level for the first year at 6th form then dropped out after, bummed around for a year, went college, got an apprentiship, left that, trained as a double glazing installer, shit all work after christmas and i'm now back in college.

[Saxo_theedge]

Passed gcse's, average results.

BTEC at college in sports coaching and development

Degree in Sports coaching and Fitness

Now working part time as a coach trying to get my name out their, before hopfully becoming a full time coach for British cycling.

[Liam]

Killed a swan - Now in prison.

[flynnsvtr]

Decent GCSE results.

Average A-levels.

Currently in final year doing Computer Science degree.

Hope to be a network administrator

[Gary-VTR]

Luck..

[xxxvickxxx]

ledt school with a few g.c.s.e's worked in retail for 5 years and now im a full time mum :)

[markdavid]

Work good subject for chat,my first job was in family scrap yard,lots of other jobs as years went by,ended up with a fine art giftware bus.manufacture factory,you never now where you land,i have left that in the cobwebs for a few years to,i like a rest. sold my factory spot for a while it got really dear to pay the lease.Now Electrical Engineering looks a good bet,never done it,had a friend with a normal engineering bus. on the industrial estate,no member of staff looked happy on lathes etc.He went bust after 1 year...Stunk of suds to...

[Saxotim]

Got ok GCSE's, dropped out of 6ht form after 1st year, did 2yrs BTEC National Diploma in Electrical Engineering in college and passed it, currently a second year apprentice with Nestle training to be a plant technician, currently doing NVQ3 in engineering and National certificate in maintanence Engineering.

Win.

[pr0xibus]

I was a little shit at school got no highers only got 3 gcse's english physics and computing.

Went to work at the bakery for 4 years and passed my apprentiship

Then done 2 years at college HNC and HND computing

Then Half year at uni & half work experiance for my degree.

now still at work experiance till january then study up to may then i will have my honours lol

so i mustadmit ive achieved alot since leaving school considering im 24 now lol, might consider going back to uni after the honours and do something different

[MarkyG]

I didnt do that great in my GCSE's when I took them, mainly D's and E's. Not ashamed of it as Im brighter than that, just couldnt be arsed when I was a tschool. In and out of jobs in I.T until i was 20y/o. Worked in a few factories for good money. Got made redundant in 2005.

Now stuck in a bowling alley for the last 3 years, and have recently started training for my MCSE CCNA course, only 10 years overdue!!. Then to hopefully move onto more advanced I.T courses to get the best of the bunch.

[AlexB]

left school
did a 4 year advanced modern apprenticeship
did a 2 year advanced diploma
worked for an aerospace company
got made redundant
sat on sofa jobless cause theres fuck all out there

[iSlayeR]

I thought outside the box :A:

[hellovts]

GCSES, A levels, jacked in after i passed AS levels to work in which i earned more than £1.5k a month after tax.. but now..at college + uni i say im at uni doing a 4year course but really im not, at the present doing a access course at college which will allow me to do a degree at uni

i might have a nice car and money etc but it doesnt mean anything really as on paper im nothing really imo anyway because technically i have nothing now never mind

in all honesty im ashamed of myself that i lost my job and am back at college literally less than 2years after telling college to shove it up their arses and that i would never return .. oh well in the long run i suppose its for the best

[9Freedman9]

Got 7 GCSE's and am now working in Sainsburys. :D

I am only 18 though, and I am not sure what I want to do with myself yet...

[Jimmy-Boy]

school, gcses, college electrical instalation level 1+2 same year, now on level 3....

p.s im only 17 :P

[Slammed_Posi_Vtr]

School 10 A-C GCSE's
National Diploma Building Studies
HNC Quantity Surveying
BSc Hons Quantity Surveying

Work as a Assistant Quantity Surveyor for www.prater.co.uk building various different stadiums around the world.

[Ryan]

I got pissed off my face, got cocky with a club owner, shot there for a few months, went to london, got asked to shoot for a big club.....

[farmerchris]

good/very good grades at schoole, 6months of a forensics degree, shite, then apprenticeship with scottish power, after year jacked it in, didnt want that, went to uni done 2 years of electrical engineering degree, shite hate uni, never to go back lol, trainee manager in morrisons, shite, left it, started cadetship in the merchant navy, liked it, stuck it, very good wage for 6months a year work, and non taxable. and thats where i am

merchant navey, woop! what college you go to?

[matt_vtr_15]

I got offered a job at an architects practice after doing work experience there in year 10 at school. So a day after my 16th birthday I started working for the company in an apprentiship scheme...

I have just finished my 4th year of a construction course at college and now I am starting university and I am advanced onto the third year of a five year course in BSC In Architectural Technology...

As it is an apprentiship I work 4 days a week for my company and will go to uni 1 day a week so I am picking up experience and qualifications all at once...

So by the time I am 23 I will have done 7 years within further education....

LOL...

[Sophia_Bush]

I am currently in chester I got the train thats how I am where I am now

[Fly]

done 8 standard grades, college for a year nc computing and it, then my apprenticeship got sacked 4month before i was due my papers, fucked around for a while then bought a £300 van printed some leaflets now im a self employed window cleaner.

[hellonpluto]

i did a YTS in IT. i was on a 6 month course. I got a placement with a local company within 3 months. Got taken on after the 6 months expired. I gained 4 years experince doing a bit of everything.

Then they say the rest is history.

I now look after an office on my own doing their IT for a super massive company.

Education GCSE: C English Lang, C English Lit, C Maths, C History

[alexsmith]

Seems alot of people have done electrical engineering, ive jus applied to be a marine engineer for the merchant navy and think im gonna start looking for an apprenticeship in electrical once they all open the start of next year, by that time i should have a rb 182 haha

[gouldy87]

gcses, over 20 NVQS level one through to three, class 2 coded arc welder altogether 5 years at a construction college. i then took a year out to work site and 3 weeks ago i started my ONC which leads onto HNC and finally onto a HND by which point i will be project manager or MD on £45,000 up to £100,000 per annum with. hopefully.

[dannyboycov1991]

Got 8 GCSE's All C's
Went to college to study building management, but dropped out because it was boring as fuck. Got transferred to Multi skills construction which was basiclly for people that couldn't count to 10.

So.. i then did level 1 bricklaying, found myself an apprentiship and then i got layed off.
Passed level 1 and just started level 2.

so will be qualified in june hopefully. i bet there still wont be any work for the building trade though.

[Elliott]

GCSE's

IT Course at college for 2 years.
Just started a business course for another two years
Whilst working in a supermarket part time.

Im looking into owning my own business, or working with a nice wage and having my own business with other workers in.

[Woody91]

done my gcse's got b's, c's couple d's(irrelevant subjects) and 2 distinctions

got a job as a track marshal

went to college started studying physics, maths, chemistry and computing at a-level failed the lot

got another job as a track marshal somewhere else and am studying btec in motorsports

[littleracer]

sitting on me ass

[Stissy]

no other rolls-royce apprentices? there was loads on 106oc

[Connor_scotland]

9 standard grades
1 year at college

And alot of funking hard ball busting work.

[Netsky1991]

Got 13 GCSE's pretty good; a Distinction and the rest mainly C's,
Started college last year but left in Feb to do drylining full time, applied for fire service while doing drylining, dint get through, got made redundant, now back at college started 2 weeks ago.

[jamieross]

average gcses
college doing tv production
year out/worked in bar
got an apprenticeship and im still there a year and a half on :y:

[Scott-jarvis]

Shit GCSE grades

Usual jobs here and there, been steel erecting and other steel works for 3 years now, site safety ticket
Cherry picker and Scissor lift licence
2nd in command of my team, wen the boss aint there im the boss :)

[Vinny_VSX]

I left school with pretty good GCSE results. I then spent 3 years doing computer programming. I dropped out as I could no longer stand it. Then I had a gap year as I couldn't decide what I wanted to do, now I am on my 2nd year studying motorsport engineering and I absalutely love it.

[LouisUK]

I'm 19. Got average GCSE's (pissed about, wish i did better), went to college to do BTEC in I.T. and just started first year at Uni' doing Software Development.

[scot-ish]

merchant navey, woop! what college you go to?

south tyneside

[Cal]

Good GCSE's

College;
GNVQ Advanced in Art and Design
Diploma in Art and Design
HNC in Creative and Interactive Media

Was took on at my college work placement (International Oil and Gas Research) and been working there for 6 years as Web/Corporate Literature designer.

Was lucky I was employed on my ability, who needs a degree :P
Done work for some huge companies like BP, Shell, Chevron, Texaco, Petro Canada just to name a few.

(I'd still love to go Uni just for the experience.)

[Ryan]

(I'd still love to go Uni just for the flange)

is that what you really mean :D

[Cal]

Correct Ryan :y:

[Liam_LFC_VTR]

Shit GCSE grades

Usual jobs here and there, been steel erecting and other steel works for 3 years now, site safety ticket
Cherry picker and Scissor lift licence
2nd in command of my team, wen the boss aint there im the boss :)

You can actually get a scissor lift licence!?

They are fun to drive :D

[adam_baker]

passed gcses now at college doin a motor vehicle corse
yeah same mate, what college you at mate?

[Claireeyy]

got decents standard grades
shite highers
worked for a year
did graphic designed but failed 2nd year.
got a job with a offshore diving contractor

[Uzi]

Got 9 Gcse A-C did my a levels went to uni got a degree in business management now working for BAA at stansted airport :D

[Penn]

GCSE's
Job 1
Job 2
Job 3 (Possible Career)

[Phsyco_Paff]

PoGo Stick .'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'

[RhysVTS]

11 Higher grade GCSE's, Applied for half a dozen local apprenticeships, Got to the latter stages of them all and offered three positions, selected what i believe is the best of the 3! :y:

[enthrone]

got 11 a-c's and 2 d's at gcse.
got d in history and e in media at college. totally fucked it up.
finished college, joined a local company, got sacked for terrible customer service.
now work for national grid in a call centre. earn £1.2k ish after tax a month, liked my job its easy im good at it hitting an average of 94% quality over the past 6 months, currently being put through customer service level 2 nvq.

slightly jealous i never went to uni but oh well.

[saxokid100]

Good GCSE's

[EwynSaxo]

i had pretty good GCSE's
went on to do my A-levels quit pretty much straight away
got a job in factory hated it quit straight away
got a job in a supermarket liked it got sacked tho:p
doing my CSC this week, then i'll have a job with my cousin on site £250 a week (so he says)

[mikelvtr]

school
gcse
got a aprenticeship at imperial commercials which is a DAF trucks franchise
went to the DAF college at bristol for 3 years came out with level 3 nvq, level 3 btec
after i was a fully qualified hgv technician i went on various courses to get me to where im at now which is a level 3 DAF technician one more level till im master tech. next year they are putting me through my hgv liecence.

[smiith]

After rinding BMX from the age of 10, i just used to not go to school to ride when it was quiet at the skateparks... Got to GCSE's did good in maths and thats about it...

Anyway, from riding BMX, my ambition was to make bike ramps for a living, so became a joiner, 4 years in college to get my level 4 NVQ among a few other qualifications... Now just working as a joiner / roofer, waiting for a chance to get a job with a big ramp / skatepark building company.

Hopefully going to move to australia to work on the new parks been built all over the place there.