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Well I was signed on as a deck cadet, or apprentice in which you served 4 years supposedly training to be an officer, but what you were actually doing was being very poorly paid – er I think it was about £5,19 and 6 pence a month! Er Skivvy! To do all of the dirty jobs, but at least you learnt, so when you did become an officer later then any job you were giving anybody else you’d done, or probably worse yourself as an apprentice, so it was the old fashioned – you learn the hard way! And I enjoyed it, I enjoyed the sort of physical work and being outside at sea, but it was a bit, you were then expected to sort of study with a correspondence course and after you’d done sort of 12 hours of hard labour and a few hours overtime on top of that! You weren’t in much mood to sit down and start studying most times. So it was hard in different ways.