Making the Right Career Choice

There wasn’t a lot of jobs in the early 80’s for women so I decided that I would look into the military. I wanted some stability. I never wanted to rely on anybody else ever again to look after me. I wanted to do it all myself. So I joined the military to have a career, to have a job, to have a sense of belonging, education, pension, all of it. And back then they give you an aptitude test and you choose. They offer you three and I was offered medic, military police and MSE Op (Mobile Support Equipment Operator) and decided I would love to do the MSE Op because it was such a huge trade. There are so many different things you can do. And I loved driving and I loved, you know, getting dirty and being out in the bush and stuff like that, that was our background from home. So which means we drive everything from tractor trailers to buses. Anything that has a job, heavy equipment, VIP, troop carrying vehicles, airdrome vehicles. Also we have an administrative side where we do licensing, accident investigation, teaching, all the costing of what it costs to run a fleet of vehicles, all the maintenance planning and liaison for all of that also. So it’s a huge trade where you get a lot of knowledge and really good training.