I think, I joined NAAFI in September probably in 1965 and served 7 years leaving in the early 70’s
In 65, I did some initial job training in Aldershot NAAFI warehouse and supermarket management practices, living in barracks until Christmas. I was billeted next to the para school, where there were tethered barrage balloons used for Para-trooper jump training.

After Christmas I went to the NAAFI Management training school in the side of Imperial Court, Kennington, billeted at the Union Jack club. The school was the old Licensed Victuallers school, maybe with the same furniture, Double desks with curly iron legs and matching draw up benches. Even had china ink pots! We were taught book-keeping, entering figures in special waterproof ink, and Stores Management.
In the July, I signed up with the RFA for a nominal five year contract, with a standard deployment roll over  and early termination provisions.

I was posted to Portsmouth, living at Aggie Westons Rest home, by the dockyard gate, working as a Cadet Stores Officer on board HMS Protector, going to a RFA Officer Graduate induction course in the mornings at Whale Island and at the Naafi Warehouse and Bakery over in Milton Park in the Afternoons. The Afternoon job was to define the Canteen stores required for a 18 month independent deployment in the South Atlantic, define what was to be loaded on board, what was to be shipped on RFA to Montevideo and Valparaiso, or consigned to the RFA Stores ship South Atlantic or to Port Stanley to meet the ships program. The bulk of the stores was Beer and cigarettes but included ships Memorabilia and greeting cards. 1000 ships cards were ordered with loose Christmas insets. They sold out by Christmas and we only had postcards left. Pennants and flags, and lapel badges etc were popular and had to be ordered.

I was also tasked with overseeing the palletted stores being loaded on board, via the Mining deck and their transfer into the store rooms to a loading plan, palleted stores in first with bulk items, then stillage cages with smaller stores, and four stillages of chocolate etc into the cool room.

I had thought this was to be my job, storing ships,  for the next year or so on my way to being a Fleet Manager. (1st Officer, Supplies)

The ships appointed Canteen staff were all on long refit leave after doing two seasons down south; one was getting married and another had medical problems.

Protector was a converted Mine and anti submarine net layer, converted for Antarctic Duties as Protection vessel. The Naafi main Store room was previously the Mine fusing room on the through deck, where mines were previously maintained and armed before off loading. It had rail tracks going in thru armoured doors, ideal for moving palletted stores. The pallets arrived six at a time, weighed about 5 cwts, and had to be swung inboard by crane thru the bulwark gate under the flight deck onto the mining deck, with only a four foot square landing platform. It needed a lot of liaison with the crane driver who was very skillfull.

At the end of August, mid storing, I was called over to the District Office and asked if I wanted to join the fleet early, train at sea and Go south with Protector for up to two years as the replacement Ships Manager to the maltese manager who had just been hospitalized, and the Assistant Ships Manager who had just got married and had resigned from the service.
I therefore ended up as a Junior ships Manager , ranked as Third Officer Supplies, RFA with a Junior Assistant, for two seasons down south, short handed and a three week winter refit in Valparaiso.

I signed on for a Five year stretch with the RFA pending the 1969 Fleet review, after which the Fleet was due to be reduced in the navy cuts. I served for 7 years as I was having such fun. failing to tell Kennington, that I had over-run my contract, and by then was on non continuous service as a Second Officer. After Protector was scrapped in 68, I commissioned HMS Abdiel, a MCM ship in Scotland, and then Joined Whitby in for a Fishery patrol into the Arctic. In 69 it was Juno for the far east and Beira Patrol, then back to a refitted Whitby for a middle east and another Beira deployment.  I then kept on getting relief postings each  for a few months, commissioning ships, or closing them down for scrapping or for long refits.

I think I left the service in Easter 72 or 73. I had decided I needed a girl friend, and some time ashore. When I left, I had over six months accumulated leave due and the future of the Navy was slender. I had had my Salad days at Sea and I did not think that NAAFI offered a decent future.

I joined Control Data, a computer device company, that built disc drives that enabled Tandy and Sinclair to launch their early desktop computers. I joined BP Distribution and Pipelines in Southampton in 1975, Foster Wheeler in the early 1990’s and the NHS in 2001. I retired at Christmas 2012 after the Olympic Games and after the NHS cuts meant there was no more contract work for major hospital builds.
That in outline is my career!