Consultant engineer in water. Good news: Cover all of Scotland... Bad news:...All year, all weather, and it's BIG.
Senior Production Supervisor for a packaging firm but we've just been f@*#ed over when Wedgewood went into administration cos they owe us a lot of money. I MAY have a job on Monday morning but I'm not holding my breath.
Run my own Travel Consultancy from home, for the discerning end of the market, so not too bad at the moment.
Lot of my clients are cash-rich individuals so not too affected by the economy in general, apart from one or two in particularly affected area's. No Staff, No hassle, No Boss. 😀
Think....
Cheap as chips or Late deals - not me.
Business Class, 5 Star & a Junior Suite......... I can help.
Finished my job of 33 years yesterday. Now retired. But feel free to make an offer for my services....
I work as an Internet/IT Consultant from home.
A bit fed up with it all and keep saying I am going to go for a career change....just not sure what else to do !! LOL 🙂
Marketing Director for a US sporting goods manufacturer. It's not a bad gig... 😉
As Taff, I'm an Architectural Technologist.
Community mental health nurse (older adults) Working in the South & West Area of Bradford ñ soon to be a specialist community mental health practitioner ñ well if I get my arse in gear & get my assignment written (Holistic Medication Management: A case study focusing on the use of Mirtazapine & Escitralopram in combination - to be handed in on Fri) and get my practice portfolio sorted out by July
Recently changed jobs to be a Project Manager for a financial company, great job 🙂
Worked as a Research Technician in Biological Sciences ( Exeter Uni ) for ~ 34 years then made redundant when Dept. of Chemistry went taking others with it.
Love science, so now am a school lab technician. Pay cr*p, building 60's built and falling down, understaffed, incredibly manic but the people/school are a joy to work with. Great to loose the arrogance of academia and work with people who really appreciate you - and actually say so!
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Bank Manager!!!
CNC machinist at BETD Goldtec. Make lovely bike parts and other things too. Does have it's perks 😀
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Exercise physiologist/University 'teacher'/researcher
Lorry driver.
Nurse. Crazy busy.
Palaeolithic Archaeology MA student in my spare time.
Still not entirely sure what I want to be, when I grow up (I'm 32). 😀
So druidh, what services are you offering??? 😉
Me, I'm an infant teacher.
Plumber specializing in solar hot water for the past couple of years,(sub contracting to a solar firm)things got very busy last year,hope it continues although have had to take a bit of a drop in pay partly due to weak pound to euro (panels & controls from Germany)
Lawyer with a global financial institution. Interesting times at the moment but usually dead boring. Unfortunately I meet some real twunts in the job but it pays for shiney bikey things and I get to travel a lot
Dentist.
Scared the Cr@p out of me when they told me at the WildBoar last year that to get to the transition area, everyone would have to ride up the dentist!
Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid.
Budgie.... have you got anything big with a silencer? I'd be really careful with it , honest!
Or anything in the 60mm plus calibre range? its for ....er.....shooting pigeons...er...yeah ..thats it!
Footwear repair technician running a small business in south-west england. Too many hours working not enough playing, but I enjoy doing it and have been for 23 years.....COBBLER to everyone on here!
I see dead people...
I also sell data storage software. Things have certainly slowed in the last 3 montsh but I'm positive about this qtr.
Sound Engineer in a private recording studio. Work has been mental but calming down now. The next year will weed out the shite competition. We are fortunate to have many eggs in many baskets.
Luckily not affected by the credit crunch....... all my thoughts to those who are getting hit by it....... this is me
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Town planning/environmental consultant in Isca.
Consiltant exploration geologist for a big-ish independant oil company. Currently in South America.
And as I consult I get 5 months off a year 🙂
Designer/Cartographer/Surveyor for a cycle map producer.
When the design/cartography side is quiet I get sent to the far-flung corners of the UK to ride round (almost) every road in the prescribed district/borough looking for advisory cycle routes and recording cycling infrastructure using clever GIS stuff.
Most of our clients are Local Authorities with fat budgets so (hopefully) we are safe.
Cycle Courier London, work for one of the fastest growing courier companies in europe at the mo so, busy and will get busier.
Photographer, back home in the warm after shooting Villa V West Brom, Brrrrr!
I'm a science teacher - hardest job in the world! Just try dealing with the kids of today!
It makes me laugh, all these teachers who think they have the hardest job in the world. The reason most of you are teachers is that you couldnt handle jobs in the real world.
Account manager (aka "Rep") for a large Japanese manufacturer, selling industrial video/data projectors.
Business is tough, but still selling.
retraining to be an underwater knife-fighter.
plenty of perks 🙂
National Trust Warden, down in Salcombe South Devon. Live and work by the coast, ride on the moor. Never gonna be well off, but as a lifestyle its hard to beat.
architect in London. Plenty of friends being laid off at the moment. 10 years training. Started at the end of the last recession and head on in to the next. Ace.
Offshore Medic, currently working in Nigeria for a Drilling Company. Mixture of GP, nurse, paramedic, secretary, Safety advisor, dogsbody and advisor whats on TV this afternoon.
Qualified Nurse by background. Currently NEBOSH student as well, not to mention partway through OU degree.
left the forces a few months ago, and now a field service engineer for a wind turbine manufacturer
Lecturer/NVQ assesor
amo, I'm not doing this because i can't handle a real job, I'm doing it because i can't handle a bike properly. Too many broken bones = no more building.
Graphic Design Degree student at Hull School of Art and design, on a fri+saturday Landscaper/tree surgeon.
Environmental Health Officer
Work for the local council, so hopefully job is relatively secure.
IT Security bod/business owner
We're quite busy for the next 6 months which bodes well. Dull as dishwater though and feels like groundhog day every single day.
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Cheers, Dave.
Account Executive for an Ad agency.
@ amo - that statement makes you look like a prize c0ck
It takes a special person to be a teacher.
I'm an Oracle Applications Technical Consultant.... 😕
I'm a self (un)employed boat builder...... and it's blo*dy ace 😀
.................although I am poor 😥
