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So for the last month or so I've been trying to get into the airforce over here as an Air Traffic Controller. The RAAF is pretty ingrained in my family, with everyone either serving currently or in the past, as well ATC being a secret hidden interest of mine from being exposed to it constantly whilst growing up. Now, over here we have two methods of entry into getting that ATC training. There's civilian where you jump through a billion hoops to get told after a phone interview that you don't know enough about whatever stupid fucking organisation (whoop-de-do) runs the thing - guess where I got up to. And there's going through the RAAF, where they bitch, grizzle and curl up into a ball crying about my shitty highschool marks from 8 years ago. EIGHT. YEARS AGO. Now, their big issue is that I bombed chemistry and maths (but still passed, just with a below C average), but refuse to look at my recently completed Diploma in Laboratory Technology that had me passing the chemistry and maths sections with high distinctions.
So now I'm sitting here what the fuck I'm going to do. Tomorrow, I'm packing my bags, throwing it in the boot of the car and driving out of town to crash at a mates place and do some shitty labouring go-no-where work. Extremely disenfranchised at the moment with what I want to do DAC
Dude its a shame but airforce and maths go hand in hand and they only have to take the best cause they can afford too, have you thought about the army aviation side of things at all?
ATC is a RAAF only thing here, and it's a extremely short handed section also, so it's not like they're overwhelmed with people for it. I guess I'll just apply for the civilian entry again when the intake rolls around again.
Do you have anyone on the inside and/or any connects to bug for favours? Any chance there is a better go-no-where yob to pass the time?
Appearing stupid is sexier than being stupid. Although I hear stoopid was a cut perk in fallout three, but was abandoned when the devs found out it could be simulated by simply playing the game...
Anyway just having a job is good enough for me right now until i get settled the way I look at it a lot of people are out of work so I consider myself lucky with go nowhere.
You can always join the army if worst comes to worst, dying in a war is second best to suicide I suppose.
I was thinking of getting into ATC as well a few years ago at Eurocontrol. Luckily I failed the final test. It's just sitting in front of computers all day, anyway and getting mediocre pay. Being a tower controller might be a better deal but it's still basically the same shit.
Same goes for being a pilot, actually. Just staring blankly at the sky for hours plus the occasional takeoff and landing after a few hours flight.
man lol i totally thought you were talking about like Manoil and KoC or w/e he goes by and i was like i will fucking kill you man just kill you but then i read it and i was thinking "yeah i agree"
In all seriousness, I tried to become a county deputy a couple years ago and because I smoked a lot of weed in high school (although I haven't actually touched the stuff since I was 18 - so about 7 years at that point) they wouldn't let me in, even though I passed the physical tests with ease and the written with flying colors.
tl;dr - government is just balls stupid - same agency busted one of their deputies for selling and using cocaine about 3 months after they denied me. Good call, sheriff's office.
Don't get me wrong, if I want a job I can get one. My sexy forklift driving skills are in high enough demand I can walk into a warehouse job. I just don't want to.
That said, I'm likely to start working for Holden next week. In their warehouse....
cazsim83 wrote:
In all seriousness, I tried to become a county deputy a couple years ago and because I smoked a lot of weed in high school (although I haven't actually touched the stuff since I was 18 - so about 7 years at that point) they wouldn't let me in, even though I passed the physical tests with ease and the written with flying colors.
tl;dr - government is just balls stupid - same agency busted one of their deputies for selling and using cocaine about 3 months after they denied me. Good call, sheriff's office.
Yeah I tried to go Officer Candidate School for the Marines after Uni. Everything went swimmingly until they asked if I ever dropped acid, which I candidly gave them frequency and durations and everything.
The recruiter stopped harassing me after that.
Meanwhile, they tell me I slayed the ASVABs and still wanted me to enlist. Funny how that works - we don't need officers who've experienced expanded consciousness for a couple hours, but we're always looking for human shields! Yeah right.
I'm surprised that your family can't use their RAAF powers or whatever to put in a good word for you. Also I don't know how the army works but generally anything you do in college tends to supersede anything you do in highschool. If you can find the one dude who is blocking your application and turn him then you can do it. I dunno if they are just blocking you from even being considered, if that's the case you could try going higher up or if its the case that the higher up just don't want you then your screwed.
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Recruitment is handled by a subcontracted party (ie: call centre/administrative centre fucks) outside of your original appointment and interviews (if they clear you for them), so going up the chain is just talking to one stupid fuck after another in an office who's never actually worked in the military, and since I was cockblocked by their supervisors, my case manager doesn't really have any balls/power of their own to help. Because of this setup, makes it a bit hard for my brother to do anything about it either, and I'm pretty sure anyone my folks knew in the military are dead, gone or largely retired.
Someone needs to invent a phone, where I can either reach down the phone line and punch them in the face through the receiver, or far more realistically, send an electric shock through the earpiece into their brain in an effort to counteract their stupid. I'd use it constantly with these kinds of people and realestate agents. God I hate real estate agents.
