Being new to this blogger culture I am not sure where you start. I suppose a quick background may help you understand what I am saying and where my experience's come from.
I grew up in central Scotland in a small Town called Alloa, not the most expansive town, but home none the less. I was an only child who mainly grew up with my Grand Parents until I moved into my first house with my Mum when I was 13yrs old. So childhood started all over again. I was a wild child who was always on the wrong side of right, I was of above average intelligence which I never used. In fact I would play down my abilities so I could fit in with the crowd I has chose to join.
I left school at my very first chance in to what I thought was the big wide world only to find pressure,worry,indecision and uncertainty. How I wish I had listened to my elders when they said it was the time off your life. At the ripe age of 16 it suddenly dawned on my there was another sex in the world and that I was missing what all my friends had noticed at least a year earlier. This changed everything, I had to earn more money to buy nice clothes, to be able to afford to go out and impress the now visible opposite sex.
I drifted through my first working years with no real ambition until I met my uncle who had been in the Royal Navy for 20yrs, suddenly I knew what I was going to do. Here I come Royal Navy. I had to wait 18mths to gain entry to the trade I wanted (Aircraft Mechanics) so I wasted this time being a complete lad. Nothing was impossible it just took a little bit longer than difficult.
I then started to get serious with somebody and had to make a tough decision, leave for the Navy or stay at home and see where it was going.
I shall carry on in the next blog so let's hope you enjoy this one.
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