u/Raw_resillience

Your bread and butter when you first start

Six years in the service. Started as an officer, spent time in the segregation unit and the riot squad (Tornados)

I lurk on here occasionally and see a lot of the same questions coming up, what's the job actually like, how do you get through the assessment centre, is it worth it, how do you handle the mental side of it. Good questions that deserve honest answers, not the recruitment brochure version.

I've recently started putting some of that stuff into YouTube videos, nothing polished or corporate, just straight talk from someone who's been on the landings. If that sounds useful, the channel's called Lima Oscar. First video is on the role play exercise for the assessment centre.

Otherwise I'm happy to answer questions in the comments. Ask me anything, the real stuff.

I’m not a therapist. I’m not going to give you textbook answers.

I worked 6 years in the UK prison service, officer, supervisor, segregation unit, riot squad. I’ve sat across from men who were completely destroyed inside but would rather die than admit it. I’ve also been that man.

What I noticed is that the men who struggled most weren’t weak. They were the ones who’d been told their whole lives to get on with it. So they did. Until they couldn’t.

I now work in men’s mental health and resilience, helping blokes who are silently falling apart but would never walk into a therapist’s office.
Ask me anything, pressure, anger, stress, relationships, not being able to switch off, feeling like you’re failing. Whatever’s on your mind.
I’ll be here answering. No judgment. No bullshit.