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redhillianI've wanted a 'vocational driving licence' for a while - so I can drive wagons/trucks/large vans etc - stuff over 3.5 tones. Also minibuses
I need this, so I can get more temp. work from the agency (haven't had any since mid-august), and so I can go to 'paramedic school' - Ambulances are basically large vans, or minibuses with extra kit (as far as the DVLA care anyway).
To get one of the aforementioned driveing categories, I'll need to take extra tests, and pass a basic medical - are you dead, do you have drug problem, do you pass out at the wheel, are you blind etc.....
You can do the basic part of the eyetest with your glasses on (because you drive with your glasses on) and it's the same as a car eyesight test (read number plate on the bus down the road). The othetr thing you have to do is readthe top line of the optician's chart with your glasses off - presumably in case your glasses fall off whilst driving. OH SHIT. That's the one thing I can't do - I never have been able to, and I don't think it's likely my eyesight will get better.
In fact, even though I have perfect vision with my glasses on, it seems I may be able to register as blind with them off.
Thus: I can't learn to be a paramedic as I can't drive the ambulance. I can't get extra work from the agency as I can't drive a truck. I can't work in a normal office as I'll get sacked after a month or so - been there too many times.
Fuck I'm depressed.
The only option that appears viable at the moment is getting my eyes lasered. Because that'd be fun, wouldn't hurt and is cheap. /sarcasam.
Bugger.
I need this, so I can get more temp. work from the agency (haven't had any since mid-august), and so I can go to 'paramedic school' - Ambulances are basically large vans, or minibuses with extra kit (as far as the DVLA care anyway).
To get one of the aforementioned driveing categories, I'll need to take extra tests, and pass a basic medical - are you dead, do you have drug problem, do you pass out at the wheel, are you blind etc.....
You can do the basic part of the eyetest with your glasses on (because you drive with your glasses on) and it's the same as a car eyesight test (read number plate on the bus down the road). The othetr thing you have to do is readthe top line of the optician's chart with your glasses off - presumably in case your glasses fall off whilst driving. OH SHIT. That's the one thing I can't do - I never have been able to, and I don't think it's likely my eyesight will get better.
In fact, even though I have perfect vision with my glasses on, it seems I may be able to register as blind with them off.
Thus: I can't learn to be a paramedic as I can't drive the ambulance. I can't get extra work from the agency as I can't drive a truck. I can't work in a normal office as I'll get sacked after a month or so - been there too many times.
Fuck I'm depressed.
The only option that appears viable at the moment is getting my eyes lasered. Because that'd be fun, wouldn't hurt and is cheap. /sarcasam.
Bugger.
