around 20years ago i started driving machines and loved every minute quite honestly i wouldn't change it for the 

world. but it wasn't all fun, i had to learn first,a process a somtimes scary,somtimes funny process but it had to 

be done.after all i was lucky enough to even have a job,the local car plant (crysler) had just closed it's doors 

and unemployment had gone through the roof and the guys all felt the pinch,it even broke up families.i was 

lucky,four weeks training and i would be,at the grand age of twenty be earning a proper wage yeah i was lucky.my 

training started in a local factory,in a brand new jcb 3cx a machine type i came to dislike,not because they were 

bad machines but bacause you had to travel them from site to site and it was like driving a big rubber ball they 

bounced everywhere they went.my teacher andy hodge, was a holly man a johavas witness so profaities were a no 

go,everytime i swore i got slap round the ear,my ears were quite sore at the end of the day.i did however live 

through my training and was promptly thrown out on hire.i remember my first day at school,scary.not however as 

scary as my first hire.i only knew the basics and was told to "fluff" my way through,it and not to mind if i got 

thrown off of a couple of sites. being told that hardly fills you with confidence,but i had been well trained and 

was never thrown of a site for being incompetent.i had in my earlier years worked in a local farm for a few 

years,which while i earned a small wage it wasn't for me.i was better than that,there had to be more to life than 

lettuce,turnips and potatoes.so i moved on, up in life,or so i thought,thats when i found out that there was more 

to life than lettuce e.c.t.,there were chickens too.i spent a year in that farm when edwina currie the then health 

minister,told the masses that eggs wern't safe to eat and i was promptly paid off.god bless you edwina currie if it 

hadn't been for you i could still be there counting eggs or sending birds to slaughter. well now i was unemployed 

for acouple of days when i heard of another job working on the roads.that was a turning point for me,either i 

worked long hard phisical days or i looked for somthing better.and that was when i decided to get a job driving 

machines,best move ever,i would point any young person in that direction.and i suppose thats what im trying to say 

if you stick in at what you want you will eventually get it!