Don Cleavin – Jobs after the Navy

When I was in the Tech Analysis Group, I was employed as a Training Analyst. Looking at all the elements of a person’s job.

Getting down on paper so they could use that as a course design for training people to do that with all the necessary bits of information.

It was about a year and a half as a Training Analyst, and then I did a year and a half as a Course Designer and then I came outside, after four years ashore.

When I came outside, after that I went to sea again on the Walrus, there for two years, but when I finally came out of the Navy, I was looking for a job you see, and there’s an organisation called the Occupational Guidance Unit over in Portsmouth. I went to see them; this was when I’d finished with the Navy.

They said, “What did you do?” I said, “Well I was in charge of fuel systems, store systems what have you but because of that incident, I was doing Industrial Training.

I do naval Training.” “So why don’t you become a Training Officer?” I said, “That sounds like a good idea” (laughs), so I was put through the Industrial Training Officer’s Course at the Portsmouth Management Centre. That was about three or four months and by the time I finished that, I got a job with Sweetheart International in Gosport.