Introduction

At 10 years old started doing a paper round on Saturday and Sunday mornings and then later started doing a fruit and Vegetable round. The money from these was first used to buy a tent and rucksack. Then while in town found the Radio Ham shop and noticed “Crystal Radio Kits”.

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Pocket Money, School, Hobby and Career

From this beginning in my second year at High School noticed the Science teacher Mr Allan had a copy of the Mullard Red Book of Transistor Circuits. On borrowing it, this enabled me to build and test the theory of each circuit by changing specified components.

On leaving school at 15 started looking for a job and applied for an apprenticeship with Ferranti Ltd. This covered 2 ½ days of testing and being up against 600+ other applicants it looked hard. But my Crystal Radio and Transistor Circuit theory got me through with the right technical attitude and I was 1 out of 10 people offered a 5 year apprenticeship in military electronics.

After machine shop and electrical/electronic assembly training and making your own toolkit the apprenticeship started with building components for Radar Systems, test and assemble into sub-systems and then into complete systems that required 48 hours of soak testing. Then installed the Radar System into a Trials Buccaneer Fighter Jet and flying in it up and down the Highlands of Scotland. These tasks repeated for Auto-Pilot Systems in a Trials Phantom Fighter Jet.

Conclusion

So what can you do that would lead you into a career? Can you do something similar and move from Hobby to Career and feel happy at doing it? Or do you need to start another Hobby and find a market for what you make and then start a new business?

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