Flexible Service: what would you do video transcript
Updated 28 April 2023
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Flexible Service, what would you do
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Ministry of Defence. Flexible Service, what would you do?
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I would probably grab my camera and get out in the big bad world. I have just started a
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degree in aeronautical engineering. I am a marathon runner. I have done 33 marathons.
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When trying to plan weddings and buy houses and eventually have children; all of
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these things are the types of things, which having a full-time career in the
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services can often suffer.
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Flexible Service introduces new temporary flexible working options for regular personnel.
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Reduce work by 1 or 2 days in a 5-day working week.
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Restrict separation for no more than 35 days a year.
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All requests subject to maintain operational capability.
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I would be looking to do further educational courses to further my career.
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For those people who have got spouses, children who are really poorly and
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need the time at home to support their families and children. I would be using it
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predominantly to get an extra qualification. Being a father of
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four kids, the first three kids I missed out quite a lot of the early part
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of their life. I do plan on doing maybe an MBA in the future. Where, if one day a
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week I needed to go into university, I could do that, and obviously because it would
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be for a three-year period, you are more than likely to be able to get that course done
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within the timeframe. I will be able to do more at weekends with my children. Since
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my little boy has been born, I haven’t really found a huge amount of time for
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my interests. Part time Arrangements wouldn’t suit me personally I wouldn’t
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see a need for those in my circumstances but for restricted separation I could
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see utility in the future. I can think of many occasions in my service career when
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it would have been helpful to have a couple of days off or to be
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restricted to going out of out of area.
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Flexible Service. What would you do?
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Ministry of Defence.