What Am I 'Actually' Any Good At?

[Bereta_Eder]

Personally I find all this discipline stuff quite offputting but it does organize you beyond any notion ever thinkable to you in the past.

(please note military service is mandatory in Greece. So if you can't avoid it, enjoy it)

[Solly]

I think the army would be good for you Rich. get you into shape and also those namy-pamby leftist thoughts out of your head.

My uncle is an actuary.

[Immortal Wombat]

CompSci. Have you gone for any bioinformatics-type jobs? I'd have thought there was quite a demand for computer-literate biologists?

[Provost Harrison]

No, they don't give a crap about someone like me.

And yeah, me in the army? Riiiiiight...

[Immortal Wombat]

Why not?

[Provost Harrison]

The physical regime, commanders barking orders at you. As well as the philosophical concerns and the conditions. Don't be bleeding ridiculous...

[Immortal Wombat]

in bioinformatics? crap, I'm going the wrong way then

[spartak]

Civil service?

[Provost Harrison]

What would the civil service entail? Don't they have a horribly arduous admissions system too? Getting through selection is one of my major achilles heels.

[Az]

@ IW.

IW, are you a bio-informatics student? I still don't get your scientific field, guys. what will you do?

[C0ckney]

civil service = strict entry requirements and i hear it's very much an 'old boys network' type of affair. still you're an oxbridge grad so that can't hurt.

seriously given everything you've said the army, navy or airforce sounds good for you (well aside from your ideological objections, but that's your own fault ). i'm sure you'd get fast tracked for officer training with a degree. it's a good solid career, you can get out and see the world, and you've said many times that there's nothing keeping you in hull.

as for your other objections, a little hard work and discipline never did anyone any harm

[Provost Harrison]

I can work hard, that isn't the problem. The problem is convincing other people that I can do the job!

[Alexander's Horse]

The guy who ratted on MI5 was science graduate.

Yes join the civil service - it has one big advantage - those pay cheques just keep rolling in

Also they pipe tranquilisers through the air con

[C0ckney]

[spartak]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
What would the civil service entail? Don't they have a horribly arduous admissions system too? Getting through selection is one of my major achilles heels.

The admissions system depends on the grade you apply for - senior CS involves an awful lot of work middle service involves less and support grades even less. Somehow I think you can probably do a little better then a filing clerk

If you don't like writing there is actually plenty of work that involves dealing with the public (passport control for example) rather than lots of form filling (although we have enough of that).

PM me if you want more detail.