Job Responsibilities
When I was wit RR I was involved in developing ideas to increase
the efficiency and performance of jet engines.
This was a full time all-day job.
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Job Requirements
I won a scholarship to Oxford university in the UK from a Grammar
school in a country town. The quality of the lectures which I
attended was first class. The rally valuable part was the hour
each week spent face to face with a tutor - one to one. I value
this more and more as time goes by. The aim was to help me learn
how to think. I was recruited from University by RR to do a
graduate apprenticeship which was two years in length. This had
an academic side in that we had to prepare a paper to be read to
the other apprentices about once a month. Otherwise it was
very "hand-on" with specific real-life problems to work on in the
different departments that I went through. I was involved for
instance in the measuring of the bending of the shafts inside and
engine as it acceperated, designing the equipment and specifying
how it should be used. Or designing a computer for the on-line
testing of engines - in 1963, early days.
It was an experience which I value to this day, the
responsibility and the bredth of experiences were invaluable.
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Uppers
Being able to take initiative. Think for oneself.
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Downers
Days were not lopng enough to fit in all that one wanted to do.
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Lifestyle
What is your passion?
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Compensation
Salary was not fantastic though I believe it is better now. Then
we got less than out contemporaries in class rooms.
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Advice to Jobseekers
What is your passion?
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