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in the colder, rainy months (although it hasn't rained here in Munich for six weeks now) i work as a carpenter knocking together sets for large events and/or trade fairs in far off cities; last month Copenhagen, last week Milan and Vienna, this week Vienna again, week after next Stuttgart, Düsseldorf and then back home in Munich.
in the summer months i work as a bike guide and luggage driver. one week riding my bike with a group, the next after driving a van for 2-3 hours and then hitting the hills on my own for 4-6 hours. it doesn't pay as well as the chippying, but it takes me to some fantastic spots and the van driving is like being on holiday most of the time.
the two compliment each other nicely as the events and trade fairs trail off towards summer and start again around september time just as the (holiday) biking season comes to a close.
life is ok.
Disaster Manager - can be fun - can be boring - generally rewarding!
A&E nurse, love it 🙂
disben - how is cressers these days?
I try and stop people from needing the yellow taxis and keep them away from hospital.... coz they only arse it up in there... 😉
Public sector lay about apparently 🙂
Former bricklayer (best avoided in the current climate) and currently FE construction Lecturer and NVQ assessor.
idave - cressers...?
sorry, cressers was a former STW regular who was basically the resident merchant of all things doom, gloom and disaster
ah - dont know him - no I am an emergency planner - we think doom, gloom and disaster all day long. Hopefully we never get to respond but unfortunately we do (7 hr response to a fire yesterday)
Researcher / Government advisor (not that they listen mind ...)
Trying to stop some people needing the services of the likes of Stoatsbrother!
Oh, and obviously another layabout that's draining the public purse and bringing the country to it's knees 😉
Full time student, part time call centre operator and part time pyrotechnician
I put potential drugs in people. Used to be a Rocket Scientist(TM) until I discovered Biology (at 24). Now I'm a Clinical Pharmacologist.
rwc03 drop me a line if you can do maths and I'm happy to give some suggestions.
I'm a Reward Specialist for a professional services company.
I advise companies on exec and broad based pay and reward issues including salaries, incentive schemes, grading, benefits, performance management, etc.
Neonatal nursing. Best people on earth to work with/for.
Was a roofer before that.
Better conversation with the babies. 😛
I've been doing my current job and I still not entirely sure what I do 😐
Still it pays well
I work well over 90 hours per week in the medical profession.
Apparently that makes me innefficient and unbalanced going on recent posts around here.
I have a beautiful girlfriend 15 years younger than me and ride trails when I want which is my passion.
I'm happier than most people I know despite my shortfalls.
IT bod in the Public Sector. No 90 hours per week for me though. George Osborne can't afford the overtime.
I'd rather build bicyle wheels.
Teacher.
I used to be a geinacologist then became a bricklayer, still do a bit of the medical stuff, just to keep my hand in.
Airline Captain but the job bears zero resemblance to the public's perception of it! I don't earn megabucks, work insane hours and am treated like dirt by my airline (standard) but it does allow me to live in northern Scotland and ride my bike several times a week. So on balance it was worth the 10 years of financial and emotional misery.
Would I recommend it to you.............NO!
An awesome job all the same.
Last four jobs including my current one:
Commissioning Manager for services for children with disabilities
Operations Manager for a charity supporting people with autism
Vocational Instructor for children and young people with emotional and behavioural difficulties
Lead Roofer
IT Support Manager
simonralli2 - Member
Blogger, writer and mid-week biking buddy of Trekster
I fix his ^^^^ bike so that we can go riding+personal driver to said rides 😉
Main job is maint tech in a polyester film producing factory.
Hobby job is teaching kids how to ride bikes. Current project is a school group doing Bikeability 3. Which means taking some 13/14yr olds out on the road 😯
molgrips - Member
You know those massive IT cock-up projects that squander millions of public pounds? I work on those.Actually that's not really fair, I've worked on one that was actually a success eventually, and one that was terrible and I am expecting to hit the news at some point.
MrsT was involved with a project along those lines. She came into it late and was advising at the time that what they were trying to do would and could not work. It finally hit the headlines 🙄
TV presenter on minor channel
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Marin County, Cali
I move pianos.
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Spanner monkey/biscuit buyer for a LBS
Also frequent double poster....
Engineering Manager for a firm that most of you will never have heard of but most of you will depend on 😀
I'm a copper
Yeah I said it
Ski and ride school supervisor, instructor, tech and general dogsbody. Re-string tennis racquets in the evenings.
Tried to get into the piano moving business, but i'm a one man band.
Bridge inspector, they're everywhere, abseil them, look at them, hit them, break them, write on them, draw pictures of them, etc
it is a nice number
Engineering Geologist
Was on, mostly mind numbing, UK based projects, but the last year and a half I've been working overseas in the mining and oil pipeline sectors. Sometimes it's great. Sometimes it's REALLY great. Sometime it's bad. Sometimes it's REALLY bad.
Since moving to France 3 years ago I've gone freelance, so I'm either charging peanuts and working from home (easy life) or charging a realistic figure (once you include the extra work Mrs Mugsy has to do looking after mini and micro mugsy)and working overseas.
Happily though the money I've earnt in the last year is the stuff of dreams when I was salaried. I have to keep pinching myself. Saving like crazy for the house we're buying in March. Not sure how long it will last though. When the kids are both at school and we've achieved some financial goals I plan to train as an 'Accompagnateur Montagne' (International Mountain Leader and take people walking and snow shoeing in less Anglicised parts of the alps.
Carpet and any other flooring fitter
and shed tinkerer with leds and aluminium
I'm a health, safety and security manager for a large (10,000 student) FE/HE college. It's incredibly varied, often quite frustrating and occasionally very rewarding.
Deliberate choice to work in the public sector. Despite all the grief I haven't regretted it.
Technical operator at a tv shopping channel studio. Basically get paid to play around in a studio in most of the usual roles (camera, audio, lighting etc). The stuff we sell is tat and the hours are a bit crap but the job is awesome, doesn't feel like work at all.
Web developer - make stuff for the interwebs.
Paramedic full title which I hate is Team Leader but given there's way more than one Team Leader grade in our Trust and they're all called Team Leaders I'm a Team Leader Paramedic or A+E Team Leader.
Anyway means I look after a station, the store on station, all the H&S and other duties that come with that as well as from next month 14 staff.
Luckily I can work to I'm 68 and retire on my massive pension that everyone else pays for not that we work of course as we're work shy lazy bastards in the public sector.
At the moment - part time scourer of job ads, part time schmoozer of previous employers, part time bike rider. Only one bit of that is any fun.
Previously - Lots of different things, none of which are apparently in demand at the moment eg. made sure some of 3's first phones worked, did people stuff for a big phone maker, looked after simulation of UK airspace, worked on some secret squirrel stuff etc. etc. Oh and ran my own garden design business for 8 years before the recession killed it.
UK Head of IT for a multinational wholesaler and retailer.
I am also middle aged but I am not fat! Just for the record like.
hugor - you work more than 90 hours a week and still have time to ride a bike?
I make that roughly 13 hours a day, 7 days a week...
Airbus Steering Committee Deputy Chairman.
Psychiatric nurse and part time pension thief.
Games designer, working mostly on console games.
Branding, Creative Direction, Graphic Design and Motion Design.
Mechanical design engineer. Aerospace mainly, moonlighted on ships for a while, back on planes now.