Recently l've been thinking about joining the CF. l took a serious thought about it before a year or so ago, but decided l wasn't ready. Last weekend l finally decided to do it and this is my story:
First a brief summary of my life;
l'm 23yo highschool drop out(grade 11) that's recently got into a correspondence course to finish the last 4 credits l need.
When l was growing up, my family moved LOTS. From BC to NS and anywhere in between until l was 12 and moved to Windsor. Left home at 14 because of my step dad being a complete alcoholic and a druggy. Moved back into my mom(who left step dad a couple years after l left) after she started having problems with my 16yo sister who has mental problems(they still aren't sure whats the exact problem). She has alot of social problems and it causes alot of fights at school and in the neighbourhood.
l've worked at the same job for 7 years this October. Making the same pay, doing pretty much the same thing every week. Waking up at 5am to go to work 7 days a week. lt doesn't pay alot, but has always been constant and reliable source of money. My employer has said several times that if it wasn't for me, he'd have to get 2 guys to do my job so there was no chance of being fired.
Last year l did a 2 month long course on teaching English as a second language, hoping to go to overseas for a teaching job, but alot of family problems started so l decided against it(see little sister).
l was in Cadets for 2 years and always knew that l'd eventually end up in the forces(wanted to be a sniper when l was little
).
Last weekend l finally decided now was the time to join. l looked around the CF pages and then happened to come upon this site after looking for forums about the CF. Read up abunch of stuff on here through many of the stickies in the sections. Learning some good and bad things that may happen during the recruitment process.
And now the real story:
Tuesday(Monday was a holiday) l went downtown to the recruitment centre. After talking to the recruitment officer for abit about what l was looking for and if l knew what trade l wanted we sat down and he explained the application forms l had to fill out.
BAM. Already a problem. Change of name certificate. l had my name changed during one of the times that my mom and step-dad were trying to work things out around 10 years ago. No idea where the certificate was.
He suggested going down to the CityBuilding with all the socialservices and ohip and asking there about it. They gave me a number to call(they literally had no idea what to do). And l took the bus home, got home around 7:30.
Also asked about vision since l have glasses and the recruitment officer said he had no idea and l'd have to talk to the medics at that stage of the process.
Wensday l call the number for the Registrar General and go through their automated voice thing. Theres nothing there that has to do with getting a change of name certificate replaced. l go to the website. Same thing. They list the price of how much one costs, just not how to get it. l eventually found a general help phone number and called. After waiting an hour in line on hold she tells me to call the number l called before. l got kinda angry so l did something else.
Walked(picked up tires and tubes for my bike since they were broken) over to my eyeglasses place where l got my glasses a year ago(450$ for glasses -_- out of pocket) and got my last prescription from my optometrist.
Now, l knew l had pretty bad eyes, l just didn't know how bad. 6.25R 6.00L 0.5Cylinder in each and axis of 172R and 007L. This is when l got worried. So l called to make an appointment for a consultation at the Windsor Laser Eye Institute and the lady said l needed an up to date prescription before l make a date.
So then l called my optometrist and set up an appointment(earliest was Monday 10Th).
l called back to the automated voice thing at the Registrar Generals and eventually came up with the idea to ask for help and eventually got to a point were l could talk to a real person. She explained to me that there were no official forms for a request for change of name certificate but that l can send a letter that has all my information and a money order for 15$ that they'd send one.
l couldn't sleep at night and decided l'd go for a bike ride(shin splints a couple weeks ago so l'm not running again yet). Mind you this was at 1AM and l had work at 5. Went around 5.5km away and turn around and came home and went to sleep for a few hours.
Thursday: Not much today, 10km bike ride, stretches, pushups, situps etc. And wrote this up to vent.
First a brief summary of my life;
l'm 23yo highschool drop out(grade 11) that's recently got into a correspondence course to finish the last 4 credits l need.
When l was growing up, my family moved LOTS. From BC to NS and anywhere in between until l was 12 and moved to Windsor. Left home at 14 because of my step dad being a complete alcoholic and a druggy. Moved back into my mom(who left step dad a couple years after l left) after she started having problems with my 16yo sister who has mental problems(they still aren't sure whats the exact problem). She has alot of social problems and it causes alot of fights at school and in the neighbourhood.
l've worked at the same job for 7 years this October. Making the same pay, doing pretty much the same thing every week. Waking up at 5am to go to work 7 days a week. lt doesn't pay alot, but has always been constant and reliable source of money. My employer has said several times that if it wasn't for me, he'd have to get 2 guys to do my job so there was no chance of being fired.
Last year l did a 2 month long course on teaching English as a second language, hoping to go to overseas for a teaching job, but alot of family problems started so l decided against it(see little sister).
l was in Cadets for 2 years and always knew that l'd eventually end up in the forces(wanted to be a sniper when l was little
). Last weekend l finally decided now was the time to join. l looked around the CF pages and then happened to come upon this site after looking for forums about the CF. Read up abunch of stuff on here through many of the stickies in the sections. Learning some good and bad things that may happen during the recruitment process.
And now the real story:
Tuesday(Monday was a holiday) l went downtown to the recruitment centre. After talking to the recruitment officer for abit about what l was looking for and if l knew what trade l wanted we sat down and he explained the application forms l had to fill out.
BAM. Already a problem. Change of name certificate. l had my name changed during one of the times that my mom and step-dad were trying to work things out around 10 years ago. No idea where the certificate was.
He suggested going down to the CityBuilding with all the socialservices and ohip and asking there about it. They gave me a number to call(they literally had no idea what to do). And l took the bus home, got home around 7:30.
Also asked about vision since l have glasses and the recruitment officer said he had no idea and l'd have to talk to the medics at that stage of the process.
Wensday l call the number for the Registrar General and go through their automated voice thing. Theres nothing there that has to do with getting a change of name certificate replaced. l go to the website. Same thing. They list the price of how much one costs, just not how to get it. l eventually found a general help phone number and called. After waiting an hour in line on hold she tells me to call the number l called before. l got kinda angry so l did something else.
Walked(picked up tires and tubes for my bike since they were broken) over to my eyeglasses place where l got my glasses a year ago(450$ for glasses -_- out of pocket) and got my last prescription from my optometrist.
Now, l knew l had pretty bad eyes, l just didn't know how bad. 6.25R 6.00L 0.5Cylinder in each and axis of 172R and 007L. This is when l got worried. So l called to make an appointment for a consultation at the Windsor Laser Eye Institute and the lady said l needed an up to date prescription before l make a date.
So then l called my optometrist and set up an appointment(earliest was Monday 10Th).
l called back to the automated voice thing at the Registrar Generals and eventually came up with the idea to ask for help and eventually got to a point were l could talk to a real person. She explained to me that there were no official forms for a request for change of name certificate but that l can send a letter that has all my information and a money order for 15$ that they'd send one.
l couldn't sleep at night and decided l'd go for a bike ride(shin splints a couple weeks ago so l'm not running again yet). Mind you this was at 1AM and l had work at 5. Went around 5.5km away and turn around and came home and went to sleep for a few hours.
Thursday: Not much today, 10km bike ride, stretches, pushups, situps etc. And wrote this up to vent.
