Another new job

[WhiteBloodAda]

4 weeks ago I posted about getting a new job role at my current employers. Well today I received some fantastic news. Providing I pass my medical on Monday, I shall start a new job on March 11th with Southeastern Trains. While training I will be just short of the £18,600, but once qualified, around 3 months later, that increases to £21k. Finally life looks like it may have a date to continue again. Such an amazing feeling inside :D

[Michael Parnham]

Congratulations!:xxgrinning--00xx3:

[stevie c]

Fantastic news well done:xxgrinning--00xx3:

[Arthur Little]

4 weeks ago I posted about getting a new job role at my current employers. Well today I received some fantastic news. Providing I pass my medical on Monday, I shall start a new job on March 11th with Southeastern Trains. While training I will be just short of the £18,600, but once qualified, around 3 months later, that increases to £21k. Finally life looks like it may have a date to continue again. Such an amazing feeling inside :D

:cwm24: ... WOW! :icon_rolleyes: ... you're certainly a man on the move! Further congratulations! :smile:

[bigmarco]

Congratulations things are beginning to fall into place quite nicely :xxgrinning--00xx3:

[Nick30]

That's fantastic.
Many congratulations mate :D
What's your job? Will you be driving the trains? My brother is a train driver for Southern Trains. I got offered a job this morning for an events administrator and I'm so happy about it although it as it could earn a high wage. My mahal is very happy too.
Onwards and upwards I say :D

[joebloggs]

:xxgrinning--00xx3: great news guys :Jump:

[stevewool]

so please for you, :smile:

[WhiteBloodAda]

:cwm24: ... WOW! :icon_rolleyes: ... you're certainly a man on the move! Further congratulations! :smile:

Got no choice but to move as fast as I can. I want to be back with Ruby and we set a target of Christmas. We hope that this is still a possibility

[WhiteBloodAda]

That's fantastic.
Many congratulations mate :D
What's your job? Will you be driving the trains? My brother is a train driver for Southern Trains. I got offered a job this morning for an events administrator and I'm so happy about it although it as it could earn a high wage. My mahal is very happy too.
Onwards and upwards I say :D

It will be a conductor. I'd love to do some train driving at £40k a year :D First step though is to get onto the trains, get Ruby back, then progress myself

[stevewool]

its all down to you, how much you want something in life, the only person stopping you is yourself

[grahamw48]

It will be a conductor. I'd love to do some train driving at £40k a year :D First step though is to get onto the trains, get Ruby back, then progress myself

Well done ! :xxgrinning--00xx3:

[grahamw48]

its all down to you, how much you want something in life, the only person stopping you is yourself

Absolutely spot on mate. :xxgrinning--00xx3:

[Nick30]

How did you get to being a conductor? What will you be doing? Did you need qualifications or skills for it or get it through apprenticeship?
Congrats again mate :D

[Arthur Little]

It will be a conductor. I'd love to do some train driving at £40k a year :D First step though is to get onto the trains, get Ruby back, then progress myself

Well ... :anerikke: ... you're certainly on the right track! Good luck. :xxgrinning--00xx3:

[Steve.r]

Great news :Jump:

[WhiteBloodAda]

How did you get to being a conductor? What will you be doing? Did you need qualifications or skills for it or get it through apprenticeship?
Congrats again mate :D

Applied via email to Southeastern Trains to signify my interest, then I received an application form on 1st November (the day I went to Philippines for a month!) so didn't get to send that off until early December when I was back. I just got lucky and heard back from them fairly soon, (some there at the assessment had waited nearly two years), passed the assessment, had interview the next day, flew through that, and now have a medical tomorrow. All hit me pretty quick and unexpectedly!

Conductors main role for the public is asking for your tickets on the trains and making announcements, but that isn't even the tip of the iceberg. There is so much safety stuff I will learn, as well as having to know all the stations lay outs, size, geography etc, knowledge of signals, aswell as tunnel length, location etc. I have a lot to learn.

I left school with 5 c+ GCSE's and 1 D in A-levels, so I wouldn't say that qualifications were that important. The interview itself was more about my personality than anything

[imagine]

congratulations :xxgrinning--00xx3:

[RickyR]

Thats great news, the railways seem to offer really good prospects. I heard that you can more easily move on to become a train driver eventually from conductor.

[WhiteBloodAda]

Thats great news, the railways seem to offer really good prospects. I heard that you can more easily move on to become a train driver eventually from conductor.

Like any company, if you have inside knowledge then it can be used in your favour. You still need to pass the tests and assessments though, but it certainly would be an advantage

[Michael Parnham]

Nice one:ARsurrender:

[Nick30]

Did you pass your medical Ada?

[Dedworth]

Thats great news, the railways seem to offer really good prospects. I heard that you can more easily move on to become a train driver eventually from conductor.

Drivers = £50k pa according to the episode 1 of The Railway on BBC iPlayer

[grahamw48]

Yeah...saw that.

No wonder that driver looked a happy chappy. :biggrin:

[Dedworth]

Yeah...saw that.

No wonder that driver looked a happy chappy. :biggrin:

I've just watched the second episode with all the pissheads lashed up on the Yorkshire Ale Trail :yikes:

[grahamw48]

That one made me damned angry to be honest.
It's ridiculous that other passengers (with children too) should have to put up with one minute of this moronic behaviour. :NoNo:

Kick the :censored:s OFF the train and make them walk ! :mad:

Whenever I see drunken idiots like that I just want to see a water cannon turned on them.

[Dedworth]

That one made me damned angry to be honest.
It's ridiculous that other passengers (with children too) should have to put up with one minute of this moronic behaviour. :NoNo:

Kick the :censored:s OFF the train and make them walk ! :mad:

I liked what the member of staff said - if it was in France or the US the trains would just plough through them

[grahamw48]

We need a proper deterrent for some of these ignorant louts.

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[WhiteBloodAda]

Did you pass your medical Ada?

Should find out today. Passed everything they tested at the centre, just got to wait for the urine sample results, which should be fine, so all looks good :)

[WhiteBloodAda]

Drivers = £50k pa according to the episode 1 of The Railway on BBC iPlayer

Once Ruby is back, give me a couple of years and I'm going for it! The chance to earn money like that would be too hard to not do all I can to get!

[RickyR]

I saw a website recently (think someone here might have posted it) with all the salaries and conditions for train drivers and it without a doubt looks like a great career, but fairly competitive.

If the program your talking about is the one that started in kings cross, I saw that and was quiet impressed.

I personally consider the UK railways far superior then most of Europe including France. People rave about the TVR but its often dirty uncomfortable and overcrowded and isn't that cheap.

To be honest, with the whole HS2 situation I don't know why they don't reinvest that 30bn into upgrading the main lines to handle two tier trains instead of a new line which will save a mere 30 mins

[WhiteBloodAda]

Time is of the essence though. Personally they should do both, but I feel that HS2 is vital for the growth of the country. The benefits of HS1 have been pretty good bot economically and personally. Just over an hour to get to London now from Dover, compared to aprox 2 hours on the slow trains. You pay the premium, but if you're in a rush, it's well worth it

[Nick30]

How's it all going Ada? Hope you've passed the medical and the jobs are going well :)