If it hadn't been for Th*tcher, Terribulus reckons I'd still have been down the pit.
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To be fair, I would have been down the pit for about a year longer, (my AMEME (hons) took a year longer thanks to the strike, despite me attending college whilst out.)

Whatever makes you think I was down the pit because it was a job? I made a career choice that included getting qualifications whilst earning and that got me, thanks to the student apprenticeship scheme set up under Wilson not Th*tcher the chance to learn and earn whilst getting hands on credentials. I got fed up when running companies with graduate engineers who through no fault of their own could tell you how much torque a 16" adjustable spanner might exert with the average arm but had never held one let alone relied on using it.

No Terribulus. My career plans included just about what they delivered. As a result, I retired on my 40th birthday. Millions could never do that and there was some good luck involved but chiefly it was the hard graft you reckon nobody wants or is capable of. If the pits had survived, I might have been tempted by a management route, but no. I was going to leave at some point regardless.

My eldest was also a pit electrician. He is now a director of a large manufacturing company. A chip off the old block and recipient of the same formula.

Yet despite what politicians think, most people who climb the greasy pole do so despite of not because of governments and the landscapes they form.

Prat. Save your scorn for those deserving of it. Perhaps those you fawn over at the con club?