First a bit of history, I will try and keep this as short as possible. As I grew up I never seemed to have the same energy levels as other siblings I would get tired quite quickly but never complained just thought it was me, no matter what I did to try and get fitter it didn't work.
All through my school years I didn't pay attention as it caused me severe headaches so it was easier to either be the class fool or just look like I was concentrating on the lesson.
I soon found something I liked FOOTBALL and in particular being a goalkeeper as that meant little running, the concentration was another thing though. I started to play for a few teams as I got older going from Saturday afternoon to sunday afternoon, playing for pub teams at the age of 14 and not being the tallest, only 5 ' 8" meant many opposition teams used to aim their shots to the top of the goal, they soon found I could jump.
After leaving school with no qualifications and rising unemployment, not as bad as it is today though, jobs were hard to come by especially for school leavers. After months of looking I finally decided to do, what is now called work for your benefits, a Youth training scheme (YTS). They paid you £30 for a full weeks work, it wasn't training as such it was slave labour but for 26 weeks not the 4 to 6 weeks they want the unemployed to do now. I stuck it out for the full 26 weeks even though 3 employees told me that there was no job at the end of it.
I tried to find work but without luck, then I met someone and we got married, 3 children later she changed and would find anything to blame me for, I nearly walked out a few times but stayed for the children, then after 25 years she had another go and I just left. But in those 25 years I had being going to the GP saying about being out of breathe and constant headaches, the breathlessness was blamed on smoking and the headaches was a prescription for paracetamol. WTF!
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