Starting driving after leaving the Army?

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I hope I am not asking stupid questions or looking at this with my eyes slightly shut!

I am due to leave the Army this year after 8 years in on a medical discharge. I have problems with my hips that don't cause me too many problems day to day but do if I try and run or carry weight.

After discussions with my wife she wants to go back to work full time, she is a qualified nurse and go back home. This has left me without much of an idea what to do with myself! I am a qualified mechanic but I don't want to go and work in a civvie garage as the way of working with the Army is so much different.

I have always wanted to drive HGV's, I have the licenses and now the opportunity but would I be making the right choice? I would be based in the South East,

I am licensed up to C+E, I have driven a lot of different HGV's but not had much experience with Artics as we don't use them a lot. I am a confident driver and I enjoy driving.

I welcome all comments, piss taking or serious!

Many thanks

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I am currently based near portsmouth but when I leave the army we will be moving back to the Eastbourne area.

The main reason I havent been looking at going back into spannering is I am leaving the army under a medical discharge, I have damage to my hips that is going to take another year to 2 years to get an idea of how it will finally settle, I will never be able to run around with weight on my back, hence leaving the army, and it can sometimes be flaired up climbing around a vehicle working on it.

I do have experience with plant, my first uunit was engineers and I did a tour of Afghanistan working plant.