How much time do you spend bored? I’m not talking about listening to your in-laws list their gardening achievements or faking an interest in your boss’s latest wander down memory lane. I mean genuinely, blank-minded, staring-into-space, nothing to do?
For me, you’d think military training in one of the most elite services in the world would be a thrill-a-minute ride, right? Actually this couldn’t be further from the truth. Of course there are the heart-pounding highs, the incredible moments that make you love the job…but there’s also a massive amount of boredom.
This experience of sitting around with no purpose, probably cold and often wet, is so common within the military that it’s got its own name — ‘hurry up and wait’ — and you quickly learn
