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I was always top of the class at primary school. It seemed my natural place was at the top. I wasn't a swot, mind. Just naturally brilliant! I became the first pupil of that school to pass the eleven plus exam (don't worry - it's history) in decades, and I was only aged 10!

At grammar school, I found I wasn't quite so clever. No longer did I shine effortlessly. But I still wasn't a swot! So from the age of 10 until 13 I sank inexorably from the 'A' stream to the 'D' stream.
Then we moved and I went to a new school. It was much smaller. They only had two streams - 'A' and 'B'. Naturally I was put into the 'B' stream. Suddenly Giorgio Chiellini Jersey , I was top of the class again! Naturally brilliant once more! And still not a swot! I was transferred to the 'A' stream. Now I settled towards the lower end of the top third.

But there were compensations. I was suddenly a sporting hero! The school had just recently changed its winter sport from soccer to rugby. And I had transferred from a rugby-playing school! I knew how to play this game! At the age of 14 I was in the school first team! And what a first team it was! Our pack was so heavy that we pushed every other team off the ball. We won game after game. Great to be back on top.

Academically though, I was still only a little above average. I grew to dislike school. I didn't want to work and without work could see I was never going to regain my natural position at the top.

I became passionate about wanting to join the RAF as a pilot. There were many war films around at the time and I fancied myself as a Douglas Bader (with legs) or a Guy Gibson of the Dam Busters. But I was blind as a bat! I even failed the RAF scholarship selection board - not entirely because of my eyes, I suspect.
But I still nurtured ambitions in that direction so, when I collected my handful of GCE passes Gianluigi Buffon Jersey , I stayed on into the sixth form. The science sixth, naturally as I still wanted to fly.

Suddenly I realised I had made a dreadful mistake! I didn't understand what the teachers were talking about! Calculus, pure and applied maths, physics. It was all gibberish! I had to get out of there! Not only was I not at the top where I belonged - I was drowning in a sea of incomprehensible jargon. I was a total failure!!

My previous slips from the pedestal I had erected for myself were as nothing compared to this plunge into the abyss!

I knew my parents would never agree to me leaving school. They wanted me to be educated properly. 'A' levels Federico Bernardeschi Jersey , university, a proper career.

I suddenly became fascinated by quantity surveying. Where that came from, heaven knows. But I realised that the next best thing to university, in their eyes Fabrizio Caligara Jersey , would be to enter a recognised profession. This was the only one I could come up with that did not require me to get 'A' levels or a degree before I embarked upon it.

Somehow I convinced them that I really was interested and together we set out to find a suitable firm to which I could become articled as a pupil.
We found one. I was released from school! God was back in his heaven and all was well again.
Except that I was once more expected to study. And, being the only pupil now, the boss could keep a watchful eye on me and make sure I worked. Well, he could try. But remember I was naturally brilliant so I did just enough to keep him happy.