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After 18 years of predominantly solo working frontline for the NHS I can now officially call myself a Charity Worker.
Ooh, who with?
Head of pricing for a big insurer
Research technician/lab manager in Cancer Research Isntitute, mostly bowel cancer these days
Ive seen the inside of more colons than you can imagine
Dynamic Positioning Operator and 2nd Mate on a big ship.
Basically, I do the opposite of what most seafarers do, and make sure that the ship says in one spot.
Occasionally we move a few miles to another spot.
Basically, I do the opposite of what most seafarers do, and make sure that the ship says in one spot.
Was that you on the Evergrande then? 😉
I’m a Delivery Relationship Lead.
You work it out (and let me know).
Professional Dog-Walker?
the guys on the ground
presumably they are under it and knee deep in the brown stuff?
I got as far as an assessment day for that, probably failed when too many of the arrows on my screen flew into each other. It was possibly a job I wasn’t suited for.
yeah they don’t like it when you bang them together.
Freewheeling dreamer.
Also perennially skint. The two things may be connected.
Try and make government look good
(You might argue I'm not very good at my job 😀 )
I’m a train driver. Was a copper for years but was pretty unhappy. Got the opportunity to change careers in my 40s so took the plunge and don’t regret it
Tennis Coach at an all girls school
For those who care mainly VBA and bash. The VBA bit is a classic example of scope creep where a few 20 line macros written 15 years ago have morphed into a 200k+ line monster from my id which won’t die…..
So not just me then 🙂
General tinkerer.
Employed at present to look after Fire Suppression systems. Not a job to do with a hangover, things get quite exciting/expensive if you cock up.
And let them use my airport.
Ah, so not a proper controller then 😉
Spinner of plates, fingers in pies, pure entrepreneur, seasonal ski instructor....
After working for a large software company for a few years i realised that the corporate world is a trap designed to steal your soul and mind so i packed it in and got involved with a couple of startup's and went from there.....13 years on and i still love every single minute of the rollercoaster!
Now retired, but for 27.5 years I made cylinder heads in the casting plant for a well known car manufacturer in NE UK.
For the last 12 years, we never made anything for Sunderland built cars, all heads went to Renault, Dacia and Daimler Benz. Cylinder heads we used on engines, were brought in from Japan. Never did find out the reasoning for that
Waste management consultant, helping Councils buy incinerators. I get paid to be pedantic and argumentative and spend huge amounts of other peoples money.
Waste management consultant
Mrhoppy, earlier
I’m a train driver. Was a copper for years but was pretty unhappy. Got the opportunity to change careers in my 40s so took the plunge and don’t regret it
@Kato do you mind if I drop you a message? I'm Job and would gladly entertain a change...
Development Manager at a Games company. I like video games 😊 but not the ones we make 🤨
Picture framer to the stars.
Currently driving trucks delivering specialist paper to printers etc. Nothing special but it's enjoyable and pays the bills.
Official advice from my government employer is to not reveal my occupation on social media.
My previous job had it written in the contract that revealing or discussing your job on personal social media (including job sites) was a stackable offence, a few did lose their jobs over it too! Understandable as the threat of you or your family being taken hostage so as to gain access to company premises was very real, one or two cases a year.
The job? Cash delivery driver.
I am an Estate Planner and Probate Lawyer and I also have a home clearance company.
Retired now, so the answer to the question is either 'not much', or 'whatever I want', depending on how I'm feeling.
Before that I spent 35 years in software development, starting as an ICL Cobol programmer on VME 2900 systems for the Gas Board, ending up as a development methods consultant for one of the world's biggest cloud software providers.
I count bricks. And price them. I also dream up new ways of describing the process to meet ever changing government requirements (with every govt dept requiring it done a different way).
I arrange for people to hang from ropes and fix things, clean things or paint them. Also have the delightful task of sorting all the H&S related paperwork for the above.
Sometimes I dangle off things myself but nowadays that’s usually trees, while I make them smaller.
I get to play with maps all day long. I’m a GIS Officer for a national park.
MI5
I used to transfer tiny amounts of liquid from one tiny tube to another. Now I get abused verbally by 11-18 year olds.
I do freelance consultancy, training and interim work for charities and social enterprises. I'm also a trustee of two charities and sometimes do voluntary mentoring for charity managers.
Resell redundant (mostly used) healthcare equipment from the UK around the world. Not glamorous or even super interesting after the initial novelties wear off.
I’m the head of media wholesale for a large online retailer. Also helping with sustainability for the company. Looking at everything from the packaging we use, to waste management, staff education, scope emissions and carbon reduction plans.
Stuff, unless I don't much feel like it.
Semi-retired with aspirations to be Tobermory’s first dotcom millionaire - I’ll probably die trying. You can find me on Mondays hawking my wares.
For over 30 years I worked in the engineering and defence sectors, increasingly becoming overly-familiar with the incompetence of Government and Civil Service.
Medical engineer: I used to fix useful machines in hospitals, now I mainly drive a computer and look after the other engineers.
Site engineering, Marking out where to dig holes and fill with concrete then build stuff can be vagually interesting but often frustrating cos someone driving a computer says it will work but often wont!. Its better than teaching ( DT)wot i used to dobut having a well equipped workshop is one thing i miss.
I look after three big energy companies for a very, very big American technology company.
The fun stuff is helping them do things that have never really been done before, but a lot of my time is dealing with random questions, finding people to help answer the questions and reading documentation when those people aren't around.
Yard person for generator hire company, cleaning equipment before dispatch, loading and unloading using a big ass 18 ton forklift.
Occasional fuel deliveries to building sites etc.
Manage the bakery for a small, artisanal (sorry..) Cornish biscuit company.
Although it seems we can bake them quicker than we can sell them, down to 4 day week, so time for a change I think.
I used to transfer boxes of grapes and pineapples from one place to another. Now I get verbally abused by 11-16 year olds.
Mobile App developer / Head of Development. - looking for an ios developer btw.
Was an overpaid government-employed security guard. Now an overpaid private sector security guard.