Sweet 16…and Then What?

And so, when I was 16 years old of course the World was a different place, and yet so was I to some degree…well defo a deal younger lol!

In honesty, back then, being a teenager, even at 13 years, I felt I was ready for LIFE…ready for anything…and no I didn’t need advice from my parents. Yup I was an awkward child, I had issues, I bucked against the system, including the “family system”.

So, at 16 years of age, I ditched my further education, something that was always the plan for an ‘A streamer’, left home, under a cloud and found myself a one bed, bedsit (basically a nice cell with no private bathroom or it’s own running water…yup).

Would I do it again? Well actually yes, but perhaps with a deal less drama than I created leaving home at that time.

Now I am not going to bore you with a chronological list of the employment I have had to date, though suffice to say in my errrm….several decades of adulthood, I have had a quite broad range of careers. Included in this list is a historical position with Marks & Spencer Hull as their first MALE sales assistant and trainee supervisor, Quality Control Chemist at Smith and Nephews in Hull, Trainee Mental Nurse, Royal Air Force Police Officer, Head of Security for a House of Fraser store “Hammonds” and Operations Manager of a successful Security Services Provider….yada, yada, yada…