Life changing moments
- Thread starter Kurt.
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Way back in the day I was working in a local Foundry as I waited for my A Level results. I was involved in stacking corrugated iron sheets into piles , they were building up as the guy who worked the overhead crane had disappeared. So I used my initiative , put straps around the pile , hoisted in on the crane and was moving it around the Foundry. I looked up and saw it was slipping so moved it off the isle quickly, when it slipped it hit a pile of metal boxes which cascaded onto me. I got a few cuts to my arms and legs , but it wasn’t until I got home that the shock came out.
The next day I was still a bit shaken and decided to take the day off and go and get a proper job down the Job Centre. They got me an interview at a Gasification plant where I was going to replace a guy who was off to do a full time Chemical Engineering degree at Birkenhead College . Long story short , he taught me the job and told me about Chemical Engineering before he left , I switched courses and followed him into Chemical Engineering. As part of the course I spent six months working at Shell’s Stanlow refinery , which I hated but used my Chem Eng degree to get me into successful jobs in chemicals, pharmaceuticals and the oil industry. And all because I was young , and tried to do a complex task I wasn’t trained for I took a different direction in my life.
The next day I was still a bit shaken and decided to take the day off and go and get a proper job down the Job Centre. They got me an interview at a Gasification plant where I was going to replace a guy who was off to do a full time Chemical Engineering degree at Birkenhead College . Long story short , he taught me the job and told me about Chemical Engineering before he left , I switched courses and followed him into Chemical Engineering. As part of the course I spent six months working at Shell’s Stanlow refinery , which I hated but used my Chem Eng degree to get me into successful jobs in chemicals, pharmaceuticals and the oil industry. And all because I was young , and tried to do a complex task I wasn’t trained for I took a different direction in my life.
Late 80s. I was working as a lab tech at Unilever in Bebington. I had applied to the Civil Service as a direct entrant- basically you could get sent anywhere. I got offered a job at Birkenhead Land Registry. The day after I handed in my notice at Unilever, the boss of our lab came to see me and offered to match the wages the Civil Service were paying. I said no. Getting the job at Birkenhead ultimately resulted in me meeting Mr F ( turned up at a night out as a friend of a colleague from Durham), marrying him, and moving to the north east.
In a parallel universe there is crazy cat lady, still single, living in her flat on Ullet Road - but equally as happy as this version is.
In a parallel universe there is crazy cat lady, still single, living in her flat on Ullet Road - but equally as happy as this version is.
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Really sorry to hear this. Hope you have support to help you both .
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