:lol: well another update. Nearly at the end of the first year of the HNC, it has been hard work, but very rewarding, just have the exams to get through and the final term papers for the 2010/11 year :shock: :shock: I have now come to the point where I have to think about what to do next, after the ...

Strangely I am getting the maths and thankfully being allowed to use a calculator and forumla tables I am keeping up at the moment and for the first time ever enjoying maths which can only be a good thing. I have started to look around for work in the industry (at the moment I am an admin officer fo...

It's been a while, but I am back! HNC Marine Engineering course finally underway and enjoying it so far, this year is very much the theory and the maths side of thing is frankly bemusing me but the main thing is that I am actually learning, in the middle of assignments at the moment for Engineering ...

JollyJack: I do worry sometimes, this is a man who hates taking holidays 'because he gets bored', works all number of hours and still volunteers to help do engine work on a couple of the local lifeboats when the regular engineers arn't in. And yet he can still have the funniest 'blonde' moments and ...

Studying at City College Plymouth (Uni of Plymouth course though) cacking myself on the ground that I am apparently the only female on the course this year (also the oldest!) :shock: And ta muchly all, believe me there will be stupid questions, I have blonde moments with the best of them :lol: Bein...

I have a boyfriend who still uses a slide rule, you have to drag him kicking and screaming to a computer before he will use CAD. His view is that he has ratings for, to do the computer work for him :lol: paper, pens, etc on the way to being sorted, calculator done (my world would fall apart without ...

I am getting together as much kit as I can before my course starts in September. I have thought of the obvious stuff like overall and boots, but was wondering what else I would need. Tools and such are supplied by the college so I don't have to worry about that for the time being, but is there any o...

Yeah I did point out to my father that in my circumstances the RMT wouldn't represent my best interests as my career plan at the moment is towards the RFA or the wider Merchant Navy. I did contact a good friend of my father (also a fellow football referee) who is the south west area rep for the RMT ...

Oh and as for the union thing....my dad being a 40 year member of the RMT he wants me to join the, however I do have quite a problem with Bob Crow so will look at all the options

Big Pete. Plymouth hasn't changed much :wink: Being an Exeter lass I have to have a dig at Plymouth as much as possible :lol: As for the union, I will look into that when I am a little way into the course, the IMAREST, membership is being sorted at present (my partner who is a marine and mechnical e...

Studying at City College Plymouth (Uni of Plymouth course though) cacking myself on the ground that I am apparently the only female on the course this year (also the oldest!)

And ta muchly all, believe me there will be stupid questions, I have blonde moments with the best of them

Afternoon from the other side of the pond (the uk of course). Being new around these here parts I thought I had better introduce myself. Basically I am new to all this engineering lark, and start my HNC course in September, which I am excited about. This for me is a career change, from ambulance ser...