Worked as a production manager at a steelplant, most memorable moments were being chased by molten steel after a breakout, and being allowed to "drive" the humungous electric arc furnace. When I turned that up, the lights in Doncaster went dim.
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Radio Presenter, doing the early breakfast show on a station in the South.
Loads of fun, loved every minute of it. Highlights included being paid to talk (instead of being told to shut up), expanding my musical tastes and getting to have a 'booby hug' with Davina McCall.
Downsides were abysmally low pay and getting up at 3am.
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despatch rider
forktruck driver,
went to trent poly to train as teacher left after 2 years
harris performance ,ohlins race service british/world superbike
benetton f1 R and D
Arrows F1 data/electronics tech race team
Marin/whyte designer
Arrows F1 Rand D
williams F1 test team data bloke
Design and technolgy technician at local high schoolPosted 2 years ago # -
I used to be a gynacologist too, although I still keep my hand in!!
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Spent a few years as a Steeplejack and no i didnt know Fred Dibnah.
Lots of repair and inspections of churches and mill chimneys, together with the erection of some big power station and refinery stacks. Generally all done with the traditional ladders, bosuns chairs and hemp rope, without any safety nets / lines and harnesses. - Very few days were boring.Posted 2 years ago # -
I was on a ride with the head of maths at a 6th form scool who said when he was a lad he had a job on a farm. He said he was always interested and got a bit excited when the cow insemiator came round. So I called him a pervert.
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mrdominos Mum makes scaled down live steam engines for a living - stick in water and oil and they chuff,chuff around your garden railway.
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Coyote - Member
I'm an IT Manager.Beat that.
OK you asked for it! Product finishing engineer - large percentage of my time is spent watching paint dry!
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I used to look after the River Thames.
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I translate medical data (including horrific biking accidents) into four digit codes so they're internaitonally comparable. You put the wrong number in and you can accidentally record "injured falling from space craft" when you mean "injection of antibiotics" which is quite odd.
Get to read lots of people's medical notes too.
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Errrrm not really done anything else, I stacked shelves and did some picture framing while I was waiting to start on the Ambulance service for a few months.
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I have a friend who ahas done butling in pants and a dickie bow.
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Hi Anokdale, it would appear that paging threads are frowned upon and mines been pulled. Could you chuck me an email to gareth.ayto@[remove]gmail.com please? It would seem my other account isn't working for some reason.
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I started off as a motor/plant fitter, then owned a petrol station & now I'm a social worker/manager/mother/father/agony aunt/leaning post/spellchecker/'orrible twunt/best thing since sliced bread/wan*er/God/ & everything else a prison 'screw' is.
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I talk to people that come into hospital as a result of possible self harm, and have a guess at how serious they were and if they'll have another go.
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I'll add, alongside NZcol's post. That I've done physical penetration testing quite a bit. It's actually way more interesting than IT penetrat
ion testing which is all very technical (although that's pretty cool too). I would be assigned a site and have to try and talk my way into a sensitive area, cold, usually a comms room or paper storage area.It's really, really easy. Once you're taught the basics of social engineering (and they're not particularly difficult to grasp), it's a lot of fun and I liked the side of it where someone would nab me and then I would pull out a card and say phone this person who would put them straight. But I guess I was OK at it. I gained access to comms rooms in lots of sites and was left alone to do what I wanted simply by appealing to people's better natures.
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That I've done physical penetration testing quite a bit.
Fnarr fnarr!Posted 2 years ago # -
RSPCA Education Officer
Glass Blower
Tea Pot maker
Bike shop manager
Just a few highlights of my illustrious career....;0)
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in the past I have:
made & smoked tofu
designed louspeakers & sold hifi
sold & fixed bikes
advised on protection of power stations from protestors& other less interesting stuff...
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Spent the last decade being a techie in theater, film and tv studios, doing lighting, sound and bits of camera work as well. Have lots of great memories, and met some very interesting people along the way.
Best bits : Running a live show is always a buzz, no mistakes allowed, or else! Going to Stanley Kubricks house was a highlight, sadly just after he died, so didn't get to meet him.
Worst bits : It's really not glamourous, mostly it's just lots of hard work with long hours and crap pay. Still good fun though.
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It's really not glamourous, mostly it's just lots of hard work with long hours and crap pay.
Isn't it always the way, something appears to be glamorous but the reality is often the complete opposite. I spent a short time working at a TV station. Not glamorous at all. A bit strange when you were sitting having a coffee surrounded by all these celebrities...
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Used to be a kipper pickler up in Shetland.
Part of the job was to stick the eyes in the kippers after they fell out in the pickling vat. Had to stand there with a big box of loose kipper eyes..........Great job
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Does anyone have a job that looks glamorous and actually is?
A mate of my sister's had a job assessing hotels and resorts for holiday companies. A bit like a mystery guest except he wasn't mystery - they knew who he was and laid on the full red carpet works everywhere he went. It's true... I think they only let you do it for 6 months though at which point he quit.
Re samuri - I worked at a place once where not too long before, the security guard had arrived at 7am to find some blokes loading computers from the office into a van. So he helped them. They were burglars, too the entire office. Amazingly, the guard still worked there afterwards!
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