Oh, I did not realise that I sounded like that, sorry for that, I do need to calm down.
Actually I was quite serious about joining there, but as Peret says, one: there's simply too much formality involved to get my finger stuck out, we need to supply a whole range of identity documents, I have never actually seen my own birth certificate in my whole life, let alone a photocopy. Two: where it says the membership is for one calender year, does this mean that this spans from the month that membership starts to the end of the same year? It wouldn't be very cost efficient for anyone if they signed up in November (for example), and then have membership end same year.
three: I am still too new to this hobby to gain any benefit from joining the society.
Sorry if I sounded ungrateful, believe me when I say I didn't mean to.
Hi Darkfang77. As a younger member of the wider explosives community in the UK you are very much needed. There are so few people entering the profession these days. This has been as a result of changes in commercial practices, global economic shrinkage,and any number of other suitable phrases to say that "things arent how they used to be". The UK is going to have a serious shortfall of people with knowledge of explosives within a few years. People such as myself and some other contributors to these forums are in the latter part of their professional explosives careers and in many case we cannot see a line of succession of people to follow in our shoes. I particulalry note your last point above which I have highlighted. Joining any organised body that has a "voice" can only be a worthwhile step to you gaining further knowledge in the field of pyrotechnics. You also have to consider the benefit that a society would gain from having one additional member prepared to express an opinion or even just send an email on its behalf.
We all started somewhere in our life with explosives (37 years ago in my case and still handling/using explosives on a very regular basis). If you are determined you will not fall by the wayside. get stuck in and join UKPS, continue to contribute to the forums, everyones voice is welcome.
Thats my patriotic speech over.
