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33 Production Manager.


 
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34 bike guide / holiday person / something like that.


 
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38 - Design Engineer.


 
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41 happy developing/selling genetic testing tests/services for IVF and prenatal testing company


 
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Who's asking?


 
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39. Surveyor.


 
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35, Clinical Research Project Manager.


 
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38 year old guitar teacher. Easy work, with lots of nice students AND time during the day to ride my bike. Started studying this year to 'better' myself.


 
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36 and Senior designer/studio manger for Ad agency


 
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33

Network Manager in a school


 
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52, health related IT.

Go my first MTB and started riding on my 51st 🙂

Paul


 
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33, Firefighter (whole and part-time)


 
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37, Health, Safety & Fire Manager


 
Posted : 04/12/2009 8:52 am
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Blimey, has anyone read this whole thread??


 
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30, & another IT bod, SQL Server DBA/Team Lead looking after too many databases for too many clients...


 
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30 - police officer.
Mr MC - 37 - police officer.


 
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41 Secretary


 
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@Debz

Yup... So far I have learned that the RAF use the same systems as Blockbuster entertainment, we know what someone will be doing when his 22 are up!


 
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40 - Contracts Manager in Construction and hanging on by my fingernails. I must have pissed someone off massively in a previous life.

Mr Kelly, I never realized we were in the presence of greatness. Respect.


 
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33 quantity surveyor/estimator


 
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54 ex postie now part time cleaner and part time slacker !Next summer hoping to be worlds oldest ugliest chalet host in Whistler !


 
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49 & 10/12ths

Self employed purveyor of butch manly goods to the electrical trade.


 
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64 last month - retired and riding lots!


 
Posted : 04/12/2009 9:05 am
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why do police officers marry each other?(best of wishes to you both mind,just seems to be in the rules or something)

32 house husband, barrister's clerk and sometimes i teach ill folk how to cook.


 
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31. M business card says Business Development Manager. My reality is that I collect paper bins, make tea, drive vans and occasionally sell contracts!


 
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53, enterprise software sales. Currently "between jobs"

Can't believe:

1) That the average age is so low
2) That there are no other sales people on here - or are you refusing to own up?


 
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39, Telecoms Manager


 
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31 - was a developer (loved it), thought project management was a good idea to progress.... 5 years later still stuck doing it

Wiseman says - think carefully before accepting that role.....


 
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33 and I manage a contract standards laboratory for an aerospace company. I work for the largest calibration company in the world and soon you will all be calibrated by me... ha ha ha ha ha ha.


 
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34, environmental engineer for a waste disposal company. Deal with all sorts of nasty stuff that glows, smokes and goes boom!!!


 
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42 and IT Teacher


 
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22 geotechnical engineer....and a girl

Looking decidedly fluorescent yellow and currently sat in a tree


 
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Wot Montylikesbeer said ... but 1 year younger :p

44 & run own company .... and breathe


 
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60...Graphic Designer

.....off out on the cross bike in 1/2hr


 
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31, Identity theif (business is going well so far, next thread will be be what's your date of birth and postcode) 😛


 
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37 and a petrophysicist


 
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41 and a power press setter and operator


 
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26 Graphic Designer/Web Developer/Internet nerd


 
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37 & a tyre engineering manager


 
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33. Lawyer.


 
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wow...

would any of those fine fellows working in environmental sciences (ish) be able to offer a hard working student the opportunity of some work experience?

please 😀


 
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I went back and read up on Mr Kelly - Wow indeed legend, got me thinking there must be some more proper legends on this site other than those that think they are.


 
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42: Chartered Physiotherapist and pilates instructor. I have my own clinic.
I work a lot with elite cyclists. My treatment philosophy being that joint flexibility, muscle balance/control and core strength are just, if not more important that pedantic bike fit for pain free, top level cycling.


 
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58.... Quantity Surveyor


 
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35, architect working mainly in regeneration and community engagement.


 
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27, process safety engineer


 
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41,Prorerty developer/landlord


 
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48 -police officer


 
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33 Cartographer in Kent, I also own a road bike, but not a motorbike


 
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34, Technical Director of a system building company.


 
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52, retired Building Surveyor, currently working in a wood yard.


 
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29, Bored Automotive Safety Engineer


 
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31 - communcations manager. Yeti boy - still totting up the average?


 
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40 yo Automotive Product Development Engineer


 
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48
Full time postdoc biomedical scientist specialising in cell biology, immunology and molecular diagnostics
Part time holistic therapist specialising in nutrition, massage and energy healing

The ratio of the two is slowly swinging towards full time snake oilist 🙂


 
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49 (aaargh!), Registered psychiatric nurse currently specialising in forensics. Mr Kelly - chapeaux, it's people like you that got me into mountain biking all those years ago, thank you for (literally) changing my life.


 
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I'm 35 and a bike biz box bitch.
(Warehouse manager for parts and component supplier)


 
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42, dad, husband, cyclist, flapjack maker, landlord, information & communications manager(I cringe at having the word manager in my title)


 
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I did a bit of reading on My Kelly -

All I can say is thanks!


 
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33, drop-out loser wondering wtf to do with my life.

Any ideas? Selling my ass for cash isn't far off the horizon; form an orderly queue.


 
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38 and 3/4....i own and run one bikeshop....soon to be two!! 😆


 
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35 in a week.

I am a chronic underachiever. IT scut work pays the bills.


 
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38 Superhero.


 
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I'm 32 & don't define myself by what I do to pay the bills.

I'm still looking for my ideal career and will, no doubt, be doing the same when I retire.


 
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24 - Civils Estimator


 
Posted : 04/12/2009 11:26 am
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[i]I'm 32 & don't define myself by what I do to pay the bills[/i]

Neither do I , but the question was "What do you do?" not "What are you?".
What you do cannot be denied (unfortunately) 🙂


 
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Soon to be 39. Contract automotive model maker.


 
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28, Work for a record company

This thread makes me feel young 🙂


 
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35 (I think! 😕 )- Quantity Surveyor


 
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47 year old, survival skills instructor and trail monkey. Age ? please note “growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional”


 
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37 (worked it out, then checked 🙂 ) and a teacher (primary school) currently.


 
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38 - Managing Director of own Conveyor systems company... yes, there are still some machines made in England !


 
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44 next week and bored to bloody tears of my job (Architect). Its a crispy sunny winters day and I can see the southdowns (chanctonbury Hill a mile away out of my office window and want to go out there and ride, esp as weather this weekend looks so shite - again)


 
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28 - civil/geotechnical engineer


 
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35, Environmental Geochemist/Remediation Scientist dealing with contaminated land, for now.


 
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29 Funeral Director


 
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50, software development manager/consultant


 
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39, PhD student in Computer Science


 
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29 Funeral Director


 
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49, only just though.
Sales director - importing food from Thailand.


 
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