Jamie Hull

And then I actually went off to university.

And that was quite late on because I figured, well, now might be a good chance to kind of consider, you know, utilizing the sabbatical for perhaps more academic purposes and boost my education and so on.

I thought maybe the degree will be handy one day and so on.

That was kind of the thinking.

And then when I went to university, I ended up joining, I did a sort of a full-on languages program for about four years and ended up in Norway in my second year, working in the mountains.

It was all quite random and remote work that I was doing there.

But the joy of it was for me, and the way the story goes, that was when I joined the army.

It's like that famous poster.

Yeah, we need you.

You know, your country needs you.

But it was almost like that.

You know, he's pointing this big index finger in my face as I'm walking along, but with a bit of a wry smile on his face.

He said, you look like the material for the Office of Training Corps.

And I'm like, what, what?

Officer what?

And he's explaining it to me.

And I'm like, OK, OK, right.

That sounds quite interesting.

You know, he's trying to sell the concept of the army as

on a weekend club to me while I was a university student and he said guess what you even get paid for this and we've even got a bar so subsidized beer on the weekend um and and you know when the activities are finished you know we often go to the bar and it's all fun and games and you know it's very like-minded with the colleagues that you're working alongside and he said and also we pay you a few quid a few pounds you know for for your duty over the weekend and