Controversial, I know, but help me out here.
Which force do we reckon is best for an exciting and challenging engineering career? I'm torn between being an Aircraft Technician Mechanical with the RAF or either a Marine Engineering Technician or an Air Engineering Technician with the Royal Navy.
What I'm after is real engineering. Getting your hands dirty, machining parts, rebuilding engines and the like. The sort of work where you go off duty and feel like you've made a real difference and used your knowledge, not just changed some oil. (I know that is a big part of it however!) I work as a motorcycle mechanic at the minute and mostly bolt parts on and off all day, the jobs I get real satisfaction from are the ones where I have to use my head and work out the problem and actually repair something.
Which force also offers the best quality of life and opportunity for promotion? I get mixed reviews from different people. My other half is ex-navy and he loved every minute. I also want to travel the world, seems to me like the only traveling you might do in the RAF is getting deployed once in a while, where as on a ship you'd see more?
I'm going to visit my AFCO etc, but obviously I know it might be tricky to test the waters with both services without one knowing that I'm thinking about the other..
Any thoughts welcome!
Which force do we reckon is best for an exciting and challenging engineering career? I'm torn between being an Aircraft Technician Mechanical with the RAF or either a Marine Engineering Technician or an Air Engineering Technician with the Royal Navy.
What I'm after is real engineering. Getting your hands dirty, machining parts, rebuilding engines and the like. The sort of work where you go off duty and feel like you've made a real difference and used your knowledge, not just changed some oil. (I know that is a big part of it however!) I work as a motorcycle mechanic at the minute and mostly bolt parts on and off all day, the jobs I get real satisfaction from are the ones where I have to use my head and work out the problem and actually repair something.
Which force also offers the best quality of life and opportunity for promotion? I get mixed reviews from different people. My other half is ex-navy and he loved every minute. I also want to travel the world, seems to me like the only traveling you might do in the RAF is getting deployed once in a while, where as on a ship you'd see more?
I'm going to visit my AFCO etc, but obviously I know it might be tricky to test the waters with both services without one knowing that I'm thinking about the other..
Any thoughts welcome!