Autocad designer in mechanical engineering. Most of my working life been a civil/structural engineering and architectural technician

Intensive care nurse, 25 years man and boy, cynical even more than cynic-al.

Games designer since the PS2/Xbox/Gamecube era, normally work on console games but I’m currently working on a PC title.

Used to work as a very poorly paid chocolatier for the past 5/6 years, the job was different to start with and i was always promised my wage would go up and a share of the large profits etc..etc but that never happened, i hated it for the last 3yrs with a passion, now recently started work in a mates small bike shop, **** love it, still on minimum wage but i don’t care, i’ve lived on ****-all for the past 6yrs so i’ll continue to live on ****-all and as i’ve always spent to a tight budget i can carry on doing that with nae worries but at least i’m happy to get up for work these days and love the job so i don’t care what i’m paid, never been bothered bout having money which is prob just as well really.

Steel fabricator. Run my own little business tackling pretty much anything in steel.

maycontainnuts

Fancy doing bikes?

Somafunk

PLUS F’N ONE!

This is fantastic….in my mind this all blows the stw stereotype out of the proverbial water!

Yeah, makes me laugh when people say most STWers work in IT. Most of them are too dumb for a start.

cfinnimore

Yep, I should’ve done this 20 yrs ago instead of working in filthy garages as a mechanic then back to uni for mech/electronic engineering degree which was the biggest waste of 4 yrs of my life in my mid 20’s and various crap jobs since, dunno why i didn’t take another mate up his bike shop offer years ago as there ain’t more to life than working on nice bikes, drinking decent coffee and chatting bout bikes n’ stuff wi appreciative customers who bring us cakes and invite us to the local brewery after work for the occasional beer – what’s not to like?….Oh!…and i get to buy shiny bike parts at cost price – result!. 😀

Holysht somafunk, glad I’m on the right “incentivised” bandwagon.

Bein 25 and that, all I see is bikes and melted a “promised future” in fashion retail to play with bikes and bits and people who like bikes and bits.

I wish the people with power in industry & business rewarded promise and passion rather than…well, whatever it is that’s valued at the business end of my livlihood but being poor and happy is a bitter joy.

I’ve never been a brickie! Ish

I work in one of the most hated sectors in the UK. No, not baking, or government. Yes, utilities. On the Smart metering programme, for one of the big suppliers.

I work with High Risk Offenders in the community. Not always easy.

I work in water treatment, worked all over the UK now in South Florida having to build and commission a desalination plant, drawing water from 1800ft deep wells, using reverse osmosis to separate the drinking water, treating this to send out to the clients network before sending the waste (brine) down some 4000ft deep wells. We can ‘make’ up to 100 million liters a day, all you lot cleaning your bikes need a lot of water!

i built the internet.

we i did for a while build data networks (or rather organised the people that did the joining together to join it together in the right order)

now i build networks so people can place bets on the internet

10/1 i’ll change jobs soon(ish)

I’m titled as an engineering geologist but I do a bit of everything.

Rock testing, some shallow drilling, report writing and desk studies, water sampling, concrete coring and testing, compaction testing.

I like drilling the most, having a hard days graft in the sun and a cold beer at the end of it is great, but working away from home isn’t so much and depending on the drilling it’s physically tough, generally not paid that well and when in the uk the conditions are crap due to the weather!

Work in security. Just got back from a night shift monitoring all the drunks via CCTV in a strip club 😀

This is genuinely my job. Pays damn good too.

I move other people helping them to move themselves.

I repair the Scanners and X-ray machines that are required when you lot run out of talent. If you have had a big stack between the Borders and Leeds you may have been through one of mine.

I’m an Instrument/Systems tech on a North Sea gas platform (and sometimes some it’s smaller neighbours)

I’ve worked all the way from my front door to the point where I can’t go any further upstream without a wetsuit.

I’m a freelance artist and illustrator. I do anything from storyboards for adverts/films/music videos, portraits, illustrations to graphics. I can copy things accurately by hand and have been employed by men in black suits to forge diary entries, signatures and note books, I kid you not.

Vet. Pretty good job really, look forward to going to work which is just as well as I do that a lot.

I import and sell paragliders, speed wings and snowboards.
Keeps me busy if not rich!

I sell chemicals…..into the Rubber Industry…..

i’m ‘between’ proper jobs atm having just left a start-up in the adv travel market. looking for something similar (but paid…)

currently pay the bills by talking to cyclists about cycle paths for sustrans

AD – Member
Rubber Technologist…. really.

Who for? I might know you?

Erection Consultant (Greenhill Marquees 1997-2001)

Guy who picks up golf balls on the driving range in that quad with the cage on (best job EVER, 2002-4)

Currently Oil & Gas, Former Soviet Union (yawn)

Nice mix of vocations here, dispelling the myth that everyone works in IT.

Er, I work in IT. (-: I’m a “specialist engineer” if my email signature is to be believed. My job entails either Server work or random “it’s all gone to custard” escalation case troubleshooting. Currently sat on the Northern Line on my way to a Colo in central London, joy.

I don’t drive an Audi, but a Mondeo which it’s probably as bad. I laid a brick this mornings, my girlfriend wasn’t impressed.

Just to avoid confusion, I’m not suggesting my OH is a brick.

Marketing Analyst, which seems to mean installing a CRM system again.

I work at one of the Big 4. Assurance, so most of the time it’s auditing financial statements of different companies, mostly telecommunication and entertainment industry, find it very interesting (accounting seems boring to 90% of my friends) and I do like my job.
Long hours during the busy season and don’t spend much time on STW now compared to when I was at uni/working part time.

A&E doctor…. Putting you lot back together ‘when you run out of talent’.

@uphillcursing – Any chance you can fix the CT at my hospital, it seems to spend a lot of time broke (something to do with my punters vomiting into it I think).

unemployed joiner

Criminal lawyer ( that is not tautology)

former commercial court lawyer, now bike shop monkey/manager seeking escape route.

For good or bad, I help shape the future.

Engineering manager at a large flour mill in the NW.
The job is pretty varied but as we are American owned the job comes with a huge amount of corporate hoop jumping :/

underwoodsman!! more comonly known as a coppice worker i cut things down so they can grow again, its a living.

veranstaltungstechniker, or rather chippy & joiner and occasional bike guide.

have unintentionally slipped into building trade fair stands, putting together conferences and events plus the odd bit of shop fitting.

i get to build some funky bespoke bits of furniture, put together impressive trade stands and some jobs take me to sunnier climes (the week before last Barcelona) and some not so exotic locations (Tomaszcow in Polan, for example).

have been really busy of late, but i have nothing booked from now until the distant future. am usually pretty busy from september till april which leaves me plenty of time in summer. i’ll also ride the odd guided tour or drive the luggage van through the alps in summer for a bit of cash and a change of scenery..

Physician

I make books. Nice ones, with pictures and words. Sometimes I write books or features for magazines, but mostly I tell writers, designers and photographers what I want and they balls it all up…