im only 23 and was only asking on advice for what companys or if anyone knew of any,that employ young electrcian with not alot of experience in other fields.i did apply to the army but because of knee operation wouldnt happen.and that was rebuilding the towns.i wanna work for a company that giuves people like me a chance overseas not fussed where it is overseas as i have no responsibilities.when ypur at college you get told you will make loads of money in electrics i hsave failed to see this.the only way is working overseas or coming out the trade thats why im seeking advice so if i can change career im not to old.and i would like to go into close protection
Unfortunately your story is now common, everywhere we look there is promise of high reward for being an electrician, this is normaly only spouted by those who make money training people.
Your last sentance is a bit more revealing, close protection is even harder to get into, especially with no experiance.Most are recruited through the armed services and police. You work as a team and have very highly honed skills in observation. These skills take years to learn and you do not need to be a black belt in any martial arts to do the job, but the training is just as demanding. There are private security firms who offer training to suitable people but not many go on to do any type of close protection, instead they get jobs in control rooms doing survailence work and the like, or routine patrols inside the grounds that are to be protected. It is nothing like what you see in the films, and in areas of high risk, close protection teams are targeted higher than the client/s. When I was younger I did some of this work and got out as soon as I could, no glamour, no thanks, and no time to yourself. The offers of work to ex servicemen is vast and all over the world, well it was in the early 1980's, things may have changed these days as I am not sure the UK is now regarded as supplying the highest skilled trained armed forces that they once enjoyed. In my group there was two ex sas and sbs men and two regular army lads plus one police inspector who acted as an intelligence officer, all were fully trained in field observations, survival, plus weapon skills none of us was typical, like door security guys you see in night clubs, and apart from the clients body guards we were in the background watching for threats and never really seen.
To find out if you have the aptitude for this type of work, try a little experiment when your next driving down a typical high street.
Try and describe what you can see 400 yards in front, and how that would effect the pedestrians 300 yards before, then ask yourself how many people are waiting at a bus stop, which ones are reading, which ones are watching traffic and which ones are looking at their watches, then tell me how many people were in the paper shop you just passed and what the blue van was doing in the side street. These are the things that you need to be looking at and doing on the spot risk assessments every minute. Its hard work, and the pay is not as good as some may think.
