o sung I think I would have liked being a detective. I don't like anyone who rips off other people, & the who done it bit would have been as real challenge, & I mean a real challenge. We hear far too many who describe getting out of bed & walking to the bus stop as a challenge.

I've known enough cops to understand that knowing "who done it" & being able to prove it in court are 2 entirely different things, but I reckon it would have been hard to get bored in that job.

I guess I'm really a nerd, but I for me finding new & better ways of making things, & better ways of working plastics in industrial applications, exciting. I also find it interesting & amusing, that after hundreds of weight saving applications in modern cars, they are much heavier than when we started.

I would never have changed that work If the US parent company had not heard about my weekend motor racing. When they told me I would have to stop that, as apparently I was too valuable to turn up dead one Monday, I quit on the spot. I'm not sorry, as it led me into an interesting life on the fringe of modern society.

Yep, a great life, but I'd need a couple of hundred more years to do all the things I'd like to try. I've probably got a lot of mats in that too.

Hi there HASBEEN...

Yes it did have it's moments for sure. You and you're mates are quite correct, knowing someone is guilty, and being able to prove it, prove it in a court of law, is an entirely different matter. With all the rules of evidence, and other safeguards in place, to ensure the accused person has a fair trial ? And I'm sure you'd agree, there'd be nothing worse than an innocent man, denied his liberty through an unsafe verdict, horrifying really !

Though, in the past I'd probably wouldn't have agreed with you, but our justice system is probably the best in the world,

Listening to you describing some of your processes using plastics, in fact engineering in it's entirety, amazes me. Sure I'm like most blokes, I can swing a hammer, use a screwdriver, tap away with a mallet and chisel, albeit crudely very crudely indeed, with absolutely no finesse, and with an end product barely able to be described as functional ?

I dunno HASBEEN, I reckon I'd swap my last vocational choice with your,s or SONOFGLOIN'S ?

A bloke I'd arrested, as we were conveying him back to the station , began berating me by asserting I'd never had a real job, just a sponger, a parasite on the community ? He didn't quite see the amusing side as he was locked in the 'slot', but he was right ! He further stated '...all coppers are too lazy to work; haven't got the brains to get a real job; and too lazy to steal...' ?

I've never had a REAL job in my entire life ? Everything I did was merely 'reactive' never 'proactive'. Where you and SONOFGLOIN have done, made, caused, occasioned, many things. You can both see the fruit(s) of your labour. You can see where you've been. Like mowing the lawn, you can see where you've guided the mower. Do you follow me HASBEEN ?

This is all getting a bit deep for me ? Speak with you again soon, HASBEEN.

While I have not been active in the thread of late it has never left my mind.
Ageing when living by choice alone rarely stops being a concern.
And most of us think of not being able to use our brains as well in those last years.
We however can ignore our fears if we are active.
An observer of life and people I often see folk who are old before their time.
We all do, but may not understand we are observing them.
In my circle of friends is one who, with out a reason, wrote a full plan for his funeral including sound track, at age 50!
If asked, I would advise never,after making financial arrangements, think about it.
Like o sung wo, I have proud memory's of working days, but think mostly of today.

Hasbeen>> Interesting sonofG, did you learn to see what they were aiming for with each question, & give them the answer they were looking for, with all those tests?<<

Hasbeen as with all the psychometric tests I have taken there are well over a hundred questions. They ask the same questions couched in different format scenarios over and over again so it is difficult to consistently stay with a pre determined theme. From what I have experienced it is difficult to not exhibit your true nature.

OSW, I am a hydrologist by vocation and spent my first ten years working for mining concerns before moving into management. Do you recall my comments on pommy cops and prison officers in Western Australia? That came from my time in the mines over there in the 1980’s. As I said IQ does not count as long as yours is over 95. All is about application and persistence. Many with a lower IQ than mine have dictated my future.