Is there life after A.C.C

[fritz fraser]

IS THERE LIFE AFTER A.C.C
Joined A.C.C as an apprentice in 1960,  passed out 1963, posted to Neinburg /Germany, had a good time. 1967 posted to Bovington. 1969/70 slight clash of personalities with the management, (that’s putting it politely) so decided the army/catering/myself were not a good combination so got out.
Started work as a general labourer on a construction site. After a few weeks was asked if I wanted to join concrete gang. Very steep learning curve. How to do shuttering/steel fixing /read drawings etc. Hard work/good pay/ although I must admit when you are 12 stories up in the middle of winter it tended to be rather cold. After a few years I was running concrete gang but in 1979 the back started playing up so I got a job running a lathe in an iron foundry. (final turn on tank pistons)This only lasted a year because I found the unions were as bad as the army.

1980 started work for an electronics company, building/ installing/repairing electronic speech systems. Fair amount to learn about electronics/soldering/sheet metal work/welding etc.. Main clients Tesco/London underground/London bus garages.

1987 Saw a job advertised at local real ale brewery. Deliveries/ cask filling/ maintenance etc. Applied. Accepted. After a month or so the head brewer (as he was the only brewer he had to be the head brewer) handed in his notice and I was asked if I wanted the job. Three weeks to learn how to mash in/ boil /collect/ ferment /fine the brews plus washing yeast/customs forms etc.. Brewed Ringwood Best/Fortyniner and the famous Old Thumper.
When I started I was brewing 3/4000 gal a week but due to continual increase in sales we had to keep expanding the brewery. As I knew about construction work, as well as brewing I was overseeing the works but that meant that we got what we wanted not what the builders wanted.
By the time I finished I was brewing 20,000 gals. a week
2001 Slipped up on concrete floor, (sober at the time) head hit floor/brain damage/memory loss/can’t work.
To try to repair memory I am doing an O.U degree course in cosmology/quantum physics. To pass requires 360 points. I’ve got 240 so far.
No pensions but an interesting and enjoyable life so far

[magpie24]

Wow thats some work history you have there  My big passion is computers and I'm very good with them so I was interested in quantum physics. and how it was related to computers, but quite frankly I found it too difficult to grasp, so its on a back burner till I have the time to figure it out.

[james ongley]

Is there life after ACC. In ref. to reply 20 ACC Memorial Hall apparently not- you become aTroll,the wife
would then be aTrollop. It´s amazing how long forgotten words come back to life in computer language.

Sorry Ian, but it´s not well said Brian! At all. You can´t ask members to air their views on a subject
and then pull them down if it differs to yours.
Chefs, who joined the ACC - 2-3 years before we became RLC and who then went on to serve for another
10/15 years, may feel inclined to think that way. We have to accept this and show them the same
respect as we would expect ourselves.
To rephrase the statement made! It´s a sad person who posts comments  aimed at hurting other peoples
lifes. The motto for the future should be - Feed the Troops and the Trolls  no matter what -

Enough said on this matter! Let´s get this Petition topped up. 696 registered members and not even
300 signatures to date. For a Corps of thousands this is a poor show. Maybe the rank and file are
waiting for their leaders. After the motto: If they can´t be bothered why should I.

 
 

[fritzfraser]

IS THERE LIFE AFTER A.C.C
Joined A.C.C as an apprentice in 1960,  passed out 1963, posted to Neinburg /Germany, had a good time. 1967 posted to Bovington. 1969/70 slight clash of personalities with the management, (that’s putting it politely) so decided the army/catering/myself were not a good combination so got out.
Started work as a general labourer on a construction site. After a few weeks was asked if I wanted to join concrete gang. Very steep learning curve. How to do shuttering/steel fixing /read drawings etc. Hard work/good pay/ although I must admit when you are 12 stories up in the middle of winter it tended to be rather cold. After a few years I was running concrete gang but in 1979 the back started playing up so I got a job running a lathe in an iron foundry. (final turn on tank pistons)This only lasted a year because I found the unions were as bad as the army.

1980 started work for an electronics company, building/ installing/repairing electronic speech systems. Fair amount to learn about electronics/soldering/sheet metal work/welding etc.. Main clients Tesco/London underground/London bus garages.

1987 Saw a job advertised at local real ale brewery. Deliveries/ cask filling/ maintenance etc. Applied. Accepted. After a month or so the head brewer (as he was the only brewer he had to be the head brewer) handed in his notice and I was asked if I wanted the job. Three weeks to learn how to mash in/ boil /collect/ ferment /fine the brews plus washing yeast/customs forms etc.. Brewed Ringwood Best/Fortyniner and the famous Old Thumper.
When I started I was brewing 3/4000 gal a week but due to continual increase in sales we had to keep expanding the brewery. As I knew about construction work, as well as brewing I was overseeing the works but that meant that we got what we wanted not what the builders wanted.
By the time I finished I was brewing 20,000 gals. a week
2001 Slipped up on concrete floor, (sober at the time) head hit floor/brain damage/memory loss/can’t work.
To try to repair memory I am doing an O.U degree course in cosmology/quantum physics. To pass requires 360 points. I’ve got 240 so far.
No pensions but an interesting and enjoyable life so far

[fritzfraser]

IS THERE LIFE AFTER A.C.C
Joined A.C.C as an apprentice in 1960,  passed out 1963, posted to Neinburg /Germany, had a good time. 1967 posted to Bovington. 1969/70 slight clash of personalities with the management, (that’s putting it politely) so decided the army/catering/myself were not a good combination so got out.
Started work as a general labourer on a construction site. After a few weeks was asked if I wanted to join concrete gang. Very steep learning curve. How to do shuttering/steel fixing /read drawings etc. Hard work/good pay/ although I must admit when you are 12 stories up in the middle of winter it tended to be rather cold. After a few years I was running concrete gang but in 1979 the back started playing up so I got a job running a lathe in an iron foundry. (final turn on tank pistons)This only lasted a year because I found the unions were as bad as the army.

1980 started work for an electronics company, building/ installing/repairing electronic speech systems. Fair amount to learn about electronics/soldering/sheet metal work/welding etc.. Main clients Tesco/London underground/London bus garages.

1987 Saw a job advertised at local real ale brewery. Deliveries/ cask filling/ maintenance etc. Applied. Accepted. After a month or so the head brewer (as he was the only brewer he had to be the head brewer) handed in his notice and I was asked if I wanted the job. Three weeks to learn how to mash in/ boil /collect/ ferment /fine the brews plus washing yeast/customs forms etc.. Brewed Ringwood Best/Fortyniner and the famous Old Thumper.
When I started I was brewing 3/4000 gal a week but due to continual increase in sales we had to keep expanding the brewery. As I knew about construction work, as well as brewing I was overseeing the works but that meant that we got what we wanted not what the builders wanted.
By the time I finished I was brewing 20,000 gals. a week
2001 Slipped up on concrete floor, (sober at the time) head hit floor/brain damage/memory loss/can’t work.
To try to repair memory I am doing an O.U degree course in cosmology/quantum physics. To pass requires 360 points. I’ve got 240 so far.
No pensions but an interesting and enjoyable life so far.

[15 dec 09 BA/BSc in astrophysics]

[mick jones]

Fritz,
      Its no suprise that you went into anything to do with space as you were always away with the fairies when you were my room nco in 1964,
                    WELL DONE.

[fritzfraser]

Sorry. Not guilty. I am not disputing the away with the fairies bit but as far as I remember I was still a private (and proud of it ) in Neinburg in 1964. Fritz