I joined the Army after leaving school at 16. I had been in the Army cadets since 13. Left at 23 and ended up basically being fucked off for every post going in every company out there. I couldn`t even get a job cleaning pots and pans in a hotel. You think I was a junkie at the interviews the way things went.
I turned up for a job interview for a swimming pool attendant at the local baths. Bear in mind I was 23 and fit as a butchers dog. Best suit, shirt tie, shaved and shiney shoes.
The job went to some black bastard with half mast trousers and two odd socks with a face full of spots.
How the **** did that work? I ended up after about 6 months of begging working in a factory trimming small bits of plastic all day with a knife and putting them into sacks.

I`ve kinda moved on from there though. Thank ****.

 

VoIP network engineer. almost 11 years at the same company.

When we start ramping up to deliver a new product solution i get to beat the **** out of it, find its weak points, exploit them, figure out how to fix them, then train out maintenance department in how to fix the stuff so they can hit the ground running. Then i work as a tier 2 support for the maintenance technicians untill the next product starts coming down the pipeline.

 

Right after highschool I became an apprentice electrician.. did that for 4 years, after a hernia surgery next to my third leg, and throwing my back out a few times, it became apparent to me that I wasn't going to last doing it for 30 years.

I went back to school, majoring in computer science, for the time being. I'm a little ways from any degree though, so everything with me is up in the air.

Currently, I'm attempting to find a job doing anything I can that won't pop something in my insides again.

 

Government contracting company.