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What do you go on to do after the RAF?

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What do you go on to do after the RAF?

That's easy - Contract for the MoD!!

You work with people you've worked with whilst in a blue suit, yet you earn three times more......:PDT_Xtremez_30:
 
After leaving, started work next day for a company contracted to do MoD work, good rate of pay and none of the hassle.
Pension is now a monthly saving, live very well off wages and holiday planning takes time you know!
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Aqua-dozer driver in the seaweed farms of the North Sea. That was after I got sacked for putting the swirl in Neopilitan Ice cream the wrong way round!:PDT_Xtremez_35:
 
wot Im doing

wot Im doing

Left 20 years ago, had three or four jobs and now run a training and consultancy business
 
left 31yrs ago! Served as a telegraphist, went straight into working as a civilian communications officer with the police, took early retirement 2 years ago & now living the dream!
 
Took me a wee while to find my feet(well about 10 years actually!).

Worked in inssurance when i initially left,then started my own insurance agency as a sole trader tied to a large company specialising in endownments to assist counsil house purchases,fell flat on my arse as recession hit about 91.

So started working in a bar,then charge hand,assistant manager,then manager.

Moved to Estonia to run a bar for a pal and(although not the original plan)project managed the conversion of an old bank into another bar restaurant then ran both.

Stayed for 4 years(lots of storrys about Russian Mafia and living in old Soviet sattelite state but for another day)

Came back started to buy flats (have 5 now)to let on intrest only mortgages,did a few jobs but sick of bar work by now.

Met the Missus,landed cushy part time job with the counsil 15 hours per week,so that plus flat rentals give me a decent income.

So all and all have done quite well but if i had my time again i would have stayed in and done 22 if i could have because most civvys are tossers and if you tell them some of the storrys that you see on the goat they just look at you and think you are a tall tail telling lying tw@t.:PDT_Xtremez_19:
 
I did 2 Open University Degrees while in the RAF and when I left I went to Uni full time for one year and did an MSc. I moved to Australia and went into business first as a consultant psychologist with a large firm and then started my own business. I made a modest fortune and retired.

I spend a lot of time on the beach now.
 
Well, what do you do when you leave.

Started off as MTD, re-mustered to a rock ape, detached to the army for the last 5 years of that....then finished my 22.

Used all my service knowledge...cough cough and now I'm part of the roads policing unit for North Yorkshire police, nice pension and a canny wage to boot.

Never looked back, but landed on my feet, one of the lucky ones.

I feel sorry for the way the review has let down the boys and girls still serving, but, there is life on the outside and it's good, very good at times.
 
Now working for Jet2.com, a Yorkshire based airline which by coincidence is now doing a number of flights out of Brize for the RAF. Similar job as I did when in the mob but as with a few other posters better money and less hassle. Oh how I miss bull nights and parades (not)
 
Barraboy said:
Now working for Jet2.com, a Yorkshire based airline which by coincidence is now doing a number of flights out of Brize for the RAF. Similar job as I did when in the mob but as with a few other posters better money and less hassle. Oh how I miss bull nights and parades (not)
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Good for you mate,ive just checked them for flights out of Glasgow and there worse(no reflection on you mate)than Ryanair ie return flights 70 quid,unavoidable extras 90 quid!.

Easyjet what you see is what you pay(plus 18 quid each way for bags)
 
252 said:
Good for you mate,ive just checked them for flights out of Glasgow and there worse(no reflection on you mate)than Ryanair ie return flights 70 quid,unavoidable extras 90 quid!.

Easyjet what you see is what you pay(plus 18 quid each way for bags)
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Ah yes but we dont have as many hidden charges as some of the other 'cheap' airlines and wont leave you stuck at some out of the way airport to find your own way home when the plane goes t1ts up. Also we dont cram the passengers in like sardines. You get what you pay for.
Its quite a good airline really, set up by an ex RAF pilot and employing quite a few ex RAF lads.
There, thats the advertising done with haha.
 
Barraboy said:
Ah yes but we dont have as many hidden charges as some of the other 'cheap' airlines and wont leave you stuck at some out of the way airport to find your own way home when the plane goes t1ts up. Also we dont cram the passengers in like sardines. You get what you pay for.
Its quite a good airline really, set up by an ex RAF pilot and employing quite a few ex RAF lads.
There, thats the advertising done with haha.
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Globespan colapsed last year and your mob has moved into glasgow,your pricing is down the ryanair route,it was only yesterday i looked and got quite exited until i went right through the booking process.

Extras for taxes,check in,seat booking,and bags took a 70 quid return to over 160 quid.

Easyjet 58 quid out,29quid back plus a total of 18 quid for the bags=115 quid.

Its not the prices but the way they are presented/hidden that is the issue

Theres(easyjet) is defo the style to follow you see the prices then add 18 quid simples

Hope they give you a long and well paid job mate cause basically thats all that should bother you:PDT_Xtremez_19:
 
Fortunatly I get free flights so cant complain. Workwise it is a far better airline to work for than Easyjet or Mr Ryans lot (better pay and far better conditions)
 
Barraboy said:
Fortunatly I get free flights so cant complain. Workwise it is a far better airline to work for than Easyjet or Mr Ryans lot (better pay and far better conditions)
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Good for you mate may you live long and prosper.:PDT_Xtremez_19:
 
I would imagine that stackers just crawl into a hole and fester. I however was an engine basher on choppers in the mob but now that I am out I am putting all that I learnt in the 72 sqn crewroom to good use by teaching Psychology.
Jolly good fun!

IWT SHNFI
 
After the RAF

After the RAF

Ex TG 17 bod, worked as Office/Accounts manager, made redundant and then came to Cyprus in 2003. Having a great time!

Alan
 
Barraboy said:
Fortunatly I get free flights so cant complain. Workwise it is a far better airline to work for than Easyjet or Mr Ryans lot (better pay and far better conditions)
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I heard you only get very short contracts at Jet2 so that workforce can be easily "tailored" to the prevailing demand for flights. Didn't sound like the most secure employment, but on the flip side the financial package was better than most.

Don't know if I can trust my source though (aircrew), what do you reckon?
 
Did my time, had a difference of interpretation with the Resettlement Clerk about what the future held, got pensioned off, walked into a Stockbroker's in Canary Wharf and got qualified as a Stockbroker. Established my own private client IFA Practice a bit later, specialising in the RAF community, serving or retired and whatever their rank - and thats what I do now.

Life is good; the clients are nicer than most civvies and if I am at a unit for more than a day, I am boarded in the Mess. Odiham and Kinloss next week, so I travel just as much too.
 
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