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I sell EPO to the BCF.
Business is good!
[i]aren't the vast majority of limousine hires for 16 year old girls birthday parties
we all know they don't wear knickers these days Hora [/i]
Err I didnt know that. When I was 16 they did (briefly)
S-Works - Haha, Camden's dealers are taking food off your plate!
I'm not betting on Celeb BB, my spider senses aren't tingling about anyone.
I did a photoshop course last year which was given by a woman who does the same job as you - I was amazed at what can be achieved by those with the skills.
Freelance Real Estate Analyst. I crunch numbers for companies that build, buy, sell or occupy very large/expensive properties like shopping malls, City of London office buildings etc.
Not many people around that do what I do so I've always got a choice of work. Where feasibility analysis work is drying up (d'uh) I've now got a new line in analysing "distressed projects" for people...I feel like a pawn broker 🙂
TBH, and unlike our esteemed leader, when the sunny times shined I made my hay and got our finances/house/assets in good order so even if things go woefully for the next few years* we wont be in any trouble.
Talking to someone about 2011 and £30bn of bullet payments falling due on commerical real estate around then...could be a long war this one! 🙂
Run (with my Partner) a telemarketing company specializing in Financial services...Dull, but business is steady. Managed to get a 30% increase in price out of my largest customer last year, which couldn't have been timed better TBH.
I am hoping to change from what I am doing now in the middle of the year and my job right now is just a means to an end.
Capn, yeah Le Chem no problem
Check out www.k-w-g.co.uk
Not a very good site but will give you an idea
Sorry all out of MP5, but have GSG 5!
Space and Aerospace Systems Design Engineer / Consultant / Analyst / Occasional Programmer, Trainer, Sales and Marketing and whatever needs doing. Most contracts are government/inter-government agency funded so hoping to ride-out the recession - fingers crossed.
Mobile workforce software sales for housing and utility companies.
Soon to be a mountain bike and snowboard guide if the worlds a fair place. 😕
podiatrist. private practice. business is ok so far....
I'm a medical lawyer. No sign of the downturn having any impact on us yet. Business is just the same as ever.
Absolutely sod all! I *was* an industrial chemist until a few days before Christmas.
Filling in my benefits/redundancy pay with a bit of freelance photography and journalism until someone sees fit to employ me properly 😉
Virtual Reality Engineer
[i]Virtual Reality Engineer[/i]
can you prove that?
I can make you think you saw me prove it
for the next 4 weeks I'm a senior programme manager at a mobile manufacturer, however I'm on gardening leave pending the bullet in the back of the neck and shallow grave in the woods along with 999 of my collegues across europe on 4th Feb.
since I get a ridiculously generous payoff I'm trying to train in the manner of a pro until i get another job (will probably take a while) to see what happens and what might have been if I'd got into racing when I was young. Until the 4th I'm taking the company motor and fuel card down to the south of france to see how many miles I can put on it and also some (hopefully) warm weather training having sorted out some free accommodation, hurrah!
Construction Health And Safety manager
service engineer for a large'ish forklift company just started yesterday after moving from a smaller company cause didn't feel to safe there current firm are doing ok more money less hours so more bike parts more time to ride 😀
Just been made redundant - I was working part time for a big corporate logistics company doing a boring strategy and planning job. Looking forward to doing something different and picking the kids up from school every day.
Artist, always starving, so no change here!
Technical Project Manager for a company supplying outside broadcast facilities & satellite bandwidth
Funeral Director - how cool is that!!! i have my own business, the chicks love it!
I play with trains all day!
I'm a database developer, but I used to work for Ordnance Survey doing GIS stuff. Conor where do you work?
Senior software developer, and our in-house DB guru 🙂
It's quite scary how many replies here are along the lines of possibly being made redundant or have already been made redundant!
I work in the media industry (actually, for a rival publisher to STW :D) and, if I'm to believe the powers that be, we seem to be doing better than ever. Apparently people haven't cut back on buying magazine subscriptions, music and films yet! Or maybe they're just saying that :/
Geotechnical & Geo-Environmental Consultant here. It's a bit sloooooooow at the moment.
I work in flood risk management for the Environment Agency.
was up untill christmas a carpenter with a small firm. the over enthusiastic german work ethic got on my tits so chucked it in and will be training as an english teacher in feb.
the recession isn't so bad yet in germany but i do know of people who have been made redundant and some are saying they have less work, but it isn't as severe as in england. unfortunately the sales haven't started, or if they have i've missed them. was really pleased that everything on the high street in england was slashed upto 75%.
people here are always wanting to learn english privately. either for their jobs or so that their kids make it through the next year of school without being dropped a class (oh the shame!).
to be honest i'm not too bothered if i sit here without a full-time job. in fact it's secretly what i'm hoping for so that i can go out on my bike more.....
J
to be honest i'm not too bothered if i sit here without a full-time job
Nice to be in a situation where you CAN!
I teach maths. They learn (hopefully).
nah, i can work if i need to. part-time/private teaching or carpentry if i have to.
rent, as with a lot of things, is a lot cheaper over here. the nearest hill is a five minute ride away followed by a 2hour ascent.
i figure in life one doesn't need a lot of money to have fun, just the time and the tools....
J
Railway industry, processing engineering data. Hopefully pretty stable for the next year or 2.
i figure in life one doesn't need a lot of money to have fun, just the time and the tools....
In the UK you need a fairly good income just to survive at the moment.
Planning Manager at your favorite gas supplier.
yeah, one reason i'm not there. when work dried up end 07 i left. after meeting a few mate over christmas it seems it was a wise move. one of them showed me his cheque for 255quid. a weeks work. the first full week in 6 weeks.
building game is dead. not much of a game anymore i guess. more like a sinking ship.
Qualified Audiologist, now working for a German hearing instrument company
Solutions architect for a linux distro.
Like marcus i'm a geotechnical/geo-environmental engineering consultant. The housing down turn has hit us pretty hard but we seem to be battling through at the moment.
Im an offshore instrument technician, and feel a little guilty to be saying it, but works has never been as buoyant, loads of jobs about, and paying very good money.
multi skilled operator for BBC news in the Northwest. Concentrate mainly on camerawork and satallite truck operation.. So far same as, but there is a LOT of money to save in the next few years..
I was a site based freelance engineering geologist / geotech engineer on ground investigation / remediation contracts, but there ain't no contracts out there at the moment 🙁
Hoping the consultancy side of things picks up sharply this year but can't see it happening.
Commercial IT Business Architect for a major blue chip. Probably the worst trading conditons we have seen for ... well ever really. I would say 50/50 whether my job survives intact for the next 6 months.
Agronomy Manager for large agrochemical company. (Advise farmers / agronomists what to spray on crops).
Its a good thing, honest.
I am a development technologist for a very large chemical company. I don't even get to be called a chemist despite having a masters in the subject! I work for the paint part, making linings for chemical tanks. Only been there since september, before that I was a "graduate management trainee" part of the project management team building a new factory.
Things look ok for now, but I don't think any job is safe over the next few years
Motorsport engineer in BTCC and Seat championship. Specialising in suspension setup and data logging.
News reader
zed honestly?
Theatre technician for the liver / pancreas / kidney transplant team and organ retrieval team. A bit depressing at times, especially at retrievals (even more so when you're retrieving organs from kids).
I'm a Geotechnical Engineer for a very large multinational techncial consultancy. Luckily we're not too reliant on Developers (in the UK at least) so should weather the downturn ok.
I'm mostly involved in Railways and the odd cliff here and there 🙂
3rd Teacher so far.
I quite like my job, most of the time. 13 riding weeks is a major plus.
Another teacher, Primary for me, after another job doing cable tv/phone/broadband stuff for ooooo, 10 years went back to Uni, they would take me on a teaching course so did it. Two years in and I am thinking I should have believed all the people who said it would take about 6 years to get on top of it. I mean, how hard can it be!!
Not exactly the climate to change career again either.
Work for a large British oil and gas company. Current events haven't had a massive impact despite cratering oil price - scale of our investments and projects tends to exceed the length of booms or busts - project am currently working on not likely to see fruition (i.e. produce some gas) until the next decade, so we're kind of wondering more what energy prices will be like then rather than now. Some projects have been delayed though since costs haven't yet followed the price of oil down, and we don't want to pay top whack for stuff if we don't have to, so that's one consequence.
I'm the social policy researcher working on the recession in rural areas reports for the Secretary of State... it's my job to find out how the credit crunch/recession is affecting people, businesses and communities in rural areas... yep, I am one of the few people who have actually [i]gained[/i] a job as a result of the credit crunch...
A teacher and I love my job (most of the time!).
I send naughty people home and don't let them come back for years
Another teacher; secondary school Craft, Design and Technology; currently an NQT (Newly Qualified Teacher) at a local-ish community high school. Am hoping there's a job on offer at the end of this school year!
Snr Process engineer in sizable pharma/biotech company.
Fondle + fettle...
Spray painter in a vehicle bodyshop.....frames on the side!
sale manager for a satellite/aerial/cctv company.
busy as **** at the mo.
all you guys looking to earn a few bob quick [i.e if you are getting made redundent) get some ladders, get on a 2 day course.
support staff for greater manchesters finest.
im not too worried.
Pollution Scientist/Site/Project Manager for a Contaminated Land Remediation Outfit.
We're closely related to the construction industry and 50% of our trade has just evaporated.
Bored shitless quite frankly, but its a job that keeps the kids in clothes. Hopefully a career change on the cards when the downturn eases up, or earlier if I'm made redundant.
Pretty much the same as mrmichaelwright. AV technician working in the corporate side of things doing conferences and exhibitions. Much of the work is across Europe and further afield for pharma companies so hopefully the work should continue, after all more people get ill in a recession.
My last job as a photographer with the MOD ended in redundancy and I don't really fancy that again as the payouts in the private sector will never match what the deal I was offered then.
Deviant.
landrover technican , been in motor trade since i left the army in 1989 , was also a baliff for a few years , as i was in between jobs , and at the mo its pants in the motor trade.
Assistant Chief Design Engineer for the Rolls-Royce Trent XWB jet engine.....
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Policeman. As many customers as ever.
Telecoms/IT engineer working in support for a consultancy company
A&E doctor.... Strangely enough I've been reasonably busy over the last few weeks!
Run my own company www.glencoehostel.co.uk, holiday accommodation, things still good at the mo as we're cheap cheap and rely loads on outdoor types.
TS
Consultant for a software company specialising in identity management and windows support tools. Most of our solutions are about efficiency and reducing support overheads - basically if we come in the door, some of the helpdesk skivvies will be leaving soon. As a result I'm booked out about about three months in advance.
March will see me enter my 33rd year in the Andrew! almost a career
tartanscarf - your link doesn't work, think it might be that comma. Nice website though.
Building services design engineer (and allegedly a low carbon consultant but aint done nothing in that line...) banging my head off the wall.
Work in an cultural outpost in a land surrounded by numpties with more money than sense.
HVAC has been under subscribed engineers wise for the last 5 years. We are beginning to get to the state where there are almost enough people to do the work now... Things should be moderately safe as a consequence (although we are in the construction industry so who knows). Seems like every ****er and his dog has been queuing up to FMUTA of late so guess its only a matter of time before I get thrown to the dogs.
I'm a poor student. So I guess that makes me a fully qualified alcoholic with enough free time to go biking. All paid for by you guys 🙂
But never fear I also work in a small shop that sells 'fine food'. I hope to set up my own business, but I need a great idea or someone with a great idea that I can help become reality.
Just started a new job working on the canals after 10 years working as a gardener. Really enjoying it as every day is different and get the added bonus of working in beautiful surroundings. Not gonna get rich doing this but highly unlikely I will lose my job.
Same as iseeadarkness, another HVAC Designer, based in UK.
I'm noticing large consultants involved with PFI and commercial developments are slowing down and are paying off design staff and seeking voluntary redundancies. Heard today that Dubai type projects are now slowing down so the international consultancies may also start paying off.
However I work mainly in education and local authority sector and things are very very busy at the moment and look OK for at least the next 6months or so.
Student. Studying Commercial Property Surveying, Trying to find a job for june 09 (year out), rather hard I have to say. Ah well, when i complete my degree in 2011 hopefully we should be starting to recover, thus there should be jobs for me.
Architectural Technologist although 'slowly' working on being a fully qualified architect when I learn to stop bumming around