[Closed] Whats your occupation?

Emma yes it does, sold two to a woman from France who bought them for her kids to play in!!!! As for S O J, most people I meet have rather interesting names, does make for fun shows though, if you ignore the 14+ hour days on your feet/back smiling lots, eating/drinking on the fly and dodgy hotel rooms... but it is tremendous fun!!!

Self employed Handyman/Gardener, i love my work

Business is thriving, only started a year ago and now my name is getting round.

Wouldn't be looking to take on extra help or sub work out would you? I'm based in Wolves and a qualified domestic spark too if that helps! 🙂

flip - Member

Earning silly money with no stress.

^^^ Thats me!

Self employed Handyman/Gardener, i love my work

Business is thriving, only started a year ago and now my name is getting round.

I'd wager not quite as silly as mine, however - I'd prefer your job though, as I'm working away from home a lot and stuck at the side of a road most of the time.

A million times better than the management role though.

I milk llamas

if you ignore the 14+ hour days on your feet/back smiling lots, eating/drinking on the fly and dodgy hotel rooms... but it is tremendous fun!!!

Fabulous, where do I sign up an do I get a free zorb when I join??!! Lol 😀

Thick, overpaid, money grabbing, legitimised thug. Apparently.

Thick, overpaid, money grabbing, legitimised thug. Apparently.

a banker..?

thegreatape - Member

Thick, overpaid, money grabbing, legitimised thug. Apparently.

estate agent?

emma, i'm sure i can arrange a trial run in one for you, after all we are all about the hands on demo's

Boss explaining about the weight rating of the Cupids Couch

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and just to stop her husband getting jealous..

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(see its not all fun)

Steady

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Marin County, Cali

I move pianos.

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I'm a faceless beurocrat.

Work for one of the big-6 energy companies - doing one-off strategic projects.

Graphic Equaliser for a large high st company.

I run a T&E laboratory working in R&D for the defence industry. I used to work for the MoD until they privatised then sold us off a couple of years ago.

HGV driver in West Highlands and Islands. Pretty content.

islander - Member
HGV driver in West Highlands and Islands. Pretty content.

That sounds like my dream job!

However at present i'm a Chartered Surveyor.

Systems and software designer. Mostly fixed-price contracts for the European Space Agency. It's interesting, but a bit frustrating and not terribly profitable.

Lead Systems Integration Technician - making armoured vehicles.
Spent my last 10years before this working in F1 also.

allthepies earlier

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bol - Member
I'm a faceless beurocrat.
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I don't know how you look at yourself in the mirror each morning....

Respiratory and Sleep specialist in a big teaching hospital. Insert your comments about dream jobs here...

I'm... I'm er... Well it's summink to do wiv compooters and it enables me to buy bike stuff and music.

machineshop manager and part time cnc machinist/programmer/skilled engineer for a small company making cryogenic chambers and associated gubbins for the nuclear and scientific industries.

also used to work in F1 for a while and made subcontract race car parts for stewart, jaguar-cossie,ligier,williams and a few others.

Moonlighting guide /Building drawerer
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Teaching - and I (now) hate it. Not an ideal time for a career change but passed all my assessments for the CNC and waiting for training course (may, or may not happen).

TheArtistFormerlyKnownAsSTR - Member

allthepies earlier

Busted! 😀

lookmanohands - Member
I'm a womble!

Same company, very different role. Basically recording the property that's been used to build the motorways.

Solicitor - a job I hate. Used to be an agricultural mechanic, a job I loved but which after 15 years in the job I was on £6.50 per hence the change in job.

Sheet metal worker by trade but have an HGV license a good knowledge of vehicle and mains electrics, install and repair vehicle heating systems and vehicle refrigeration. Often tasked with problem solving or designing developing new models options whatever the customer wants I tend to have to make it happen. Not really sure what I want to do except not work for Jiffy Trucks any longer.

I'm a Beach Comber.

'puter programmer.

job title is a (tiny) little bit more grand: Senior Analyst/Programmer

Mr Drummer I'm very disappointed in you. With your crimpy heritage I at least expected something exciting like being a "fluffer" for that Eldritch chappy to make sure he's ready before a performance 😀

student of material engineering, graduating in june. Turned down a big engine manufacturer in derby (easy to guess) to study a phd in tribology. 😯 Does not sound so exciting when written!

I know, not very rock'n'roll is it? still, it pays the mortgage & allows me to buy nice kit

a previous job title was the much more grand "Software Development Consultant".
I've also been a Microfilm Operator* and a documentation assistant. The latter was by far the most interesting in terms of learning about, and working with, local history.

*friends thought it meant I was a spy

Student. Textiles and Design

Cardboard fettler and olefin laminate herder.

ITU nurse, been a nurse for 23 years, am pretty good at my job, do it with enthusiasm and passion and as much skill as I can, but am still hated for having a pension.

Chief Instructor, outdoor centre with this as our classroom:
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Leading this band of super stars:
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CID officer. Aspire to be Gene Hunt, but more like Dixon from Dock Green.

Very few IT related jobs so far. That must be stinging the people who like to stereotype STW/MTB riders.

I'll attempt to skew it back though. I work in IT. Pays well, I get to mess about with the latest technology and now I'm no longer operational I really enjoy it.

I'm a Principle Engineer at Jaguar Landrover

Winner. Can I play too?

I'm a software engineer too. All of you self employed types, when you send your forms off to Companies House and fill them in wrongly, it's my code that catches it. It's also my code that slaps a fine on you for filing your accounts late.

Oh and...
[i]strap on jane[/i]

I've errm, come across her website before. It's quite interesting.

flooring installation technician
and starting to dislike it intensely

Mountain bike skills instructor and Bed and Breakfast owner!
🙂

I meet people who, given ten minutes on Google, know more than I do about health, provision of resources, and the role of antibiotics......

DrP

samuri - Member
Oh and...
strap on jane

I've errm, come across her website before. It's quite interesting.

may we enquire as to how.......

Recruitment consultant. It is, at best, very average.

[i]may we enquire as to how....... [/i]

As above, I work in IT, security specifically. When I used to do investigations on people at work there was one guy who had quite a thing for that lady. While he was being quite smart about how he got to her website, he wasn't being smart about storing the images on his PC.

Jane has a transvestite partner/friend who features in a lot of her pictures. Hairy, fat old bloke by the looks of it. This chap seemed to be quite keen on those sorts of strap on encounters.

*Kicks molgrips in the stones*

Project manager and quantity surveyor- bean counter to the construction industry- pays for stuff i suppose- bit depressing when they start knocking down buildings you were involved in at the start of your career 😥

I'm a software engineer too. All of you self employed types, when you send your forms off to Companies House and fill them in wrongly, it's my code that catches it. It's also my code that slaps a fine on you for filing your accounts late.

So have you entered a "back door" for yourself? Enter a hex value in one of the fields and bang, ooh no tax for you this year...

Somebody who voted liberal, and now looking for repentance.

Proffesional nice chap and forum inhabitee.

Secondary school teacher - Craft, Design & Technology.

Soon to be unemployed as contract ends when summer holidays start, and there's nae jobs.

Like Nipper, a solicitor and hating it. Don't really know what else to do though!

@john_drummer - [i]I've also been a Microfilm Operator*[/i]

What sort? My first job was photographing technical drawings onto 35mm microfilm!

Bike shop monkey 🙂

Ambulance technician, aspiring paramedic but change of policy (ie lack of finances) means my service doesnt really share my aspirations any more. Shifts are fairly brutal, jobs can be sometimes too. Pay isn't as much as you would think but love my job and glad I got out of my office job a few years ago just before things went proper t!ts up!

Architectural technologist - a love it and hate it job

My first job was photographing technical drawings onto 35mm microfilm!

pretty much the same. planning applications on A0 or A1 sheets placed face up on a flat bad thing, move the 35mm camera mounted on a stand above it up & down & play with the windows as needed. press footpedal. next. You would not believe how many technical drawings of a garage planning application I had to do.

We also did 16mm shots of parish records - you know, births deaths & marriages & the like. The oldest I remember doing dated back to the 16th century, cause of death "earthquake" IIRC. Much more interesting.
If you know Undercliffe Cemetery in Bradford (kind of our version of Highgate Cemetery), you'd be surprised who's buried there, and the quality of some of the tombs is astounding

when the processed films came back from the lab, cut them up, slip into suitable jackets & then copy onto diazo film. Go into any of Bradford's libraries & there's a chance any microfilm dating back to the mid 80s was my work, or one of my colleagues.

My friends though it was funny to call me a spy, because, as we all know, spies deal with microfilms...

Acupuncturist but before this 17 years engineering. I study Chinese martial arts and that's how I got into acupuncture.
Best move I ever made switching from being employed to being self employed doing something I love.
I get lots of spare time to bike if I choose and I see my sons grow up now. Used to work long hours engineering but I now realise it's not all about the money ??

Radiographer.

Bills paid
easy life

eats into bike time

pros/cons done

Mechanic,

Worked 5 years for subaru and isuzu and now working for BMW.

shit job but REALLY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT TO DO AND FEEL IM TOO LATE TO RETRAIN!!

AND IM ONLY 25

That's a right coincidence that John!
I used to enjoy doing the military stuff for companies like Thorn EMI. Blueprints for bombs and other weaponry.
Apart from that it was pretty tedious!
We moved onto to CAM-CAM (computerised version) but still printed out microfilm. A business of the past now eh?

Programmer. Looking for an out.

ciclista
I teach Bike Ability to school kids, teach adults to ride, lead leisure rides, teach cycle repair skills and work in a bike shop as a mechanic. I'm doing some cycle tour guiding this summer too. I have only twice been paid to go mountain biking so far.

By the way

You know the purple lines that get painted on the roads

I make sure that a very complicated website that buys and sells 'widgets' in multiple different ways works. It is bl**dy hard work. It's not really the job that gets me (although it's starting to) it is the d***heads on the A12 I have to endure for 300 miles a week getting there and back home again.

Stadium and Arena designer, specialising in the design of seating bowls and the specific technical requirements of sports and entertainment architecture. Fun but it takes years to see the fruits of your labours.

Test engineer for a hi-fi company. What I've ended up being from the starting point of musician with no talent 🙂 Nice company to work for, lots of people interested in music, one or two good perks 😉

FEEL IM TOO LATE TO RETRAIN

Used to be RAF Survival Equipment/MRT member, but left to become a Paramedic. 9 years later, resigned from the Scottish Ambulance Service after being called a trouble maker*. Now sell outdoor clothing and look forward to the weekends.

* returned to work in May 2010, after 5 months off sick, following a road accident. On my first day back I discovered sterile equipment open, and drugs that had expired in Dec 2009 still in the ambulance. Apparently one of my colleagues, and the manager he emailed about my trouble making, saw nothing wrong with this. 😯

I design mobile phone / telecoms networks and really enjoy it - spend my time writing algorithms to automate more and more of it - basically trying to replace myself with a simple GUI - possibly a never ending task, as the more I learn, the more there is to automate....

Project Engineer, but since they've now appointed some project facilitator type chaps, its just mechanical design, calcs, FEA etc. Mostly fluid control systems.

I fix ATM's, spend all winter doing preventative maintenance so the rest of my year is quiet, and i work 4 days on, 4 days off. Almost feel guilty getting paid, i luuuuuurrve my job

portlyone -
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lookmanohands - Member

I'm a womble!
traffic officer?
Same company, very different role. Basically recording the property that's been used to build the motorways.

lift engineer by trade, now co own my own lift maintenance company and love it

By day I work as a call centre operator.

By night I'm a self employed pyrotechnician.

Computer game programmer. I've enjoyed coding games since I was a kid, so it's nice to get paid for it too 🙂

Advertising Account Manager.

It varies, from being dull and boring to more stressful than is healthy. Hours are long, gratitude is non-existent, job satisfaction fleeting, politics overbearing and pay is derisory. I don't enjoy it but don't know what I do want to do and have just bought a house so can't easily re-train.

Clinical Pharmacologist for large Pharma - I get to test new antibody drugs on humans. Think Northwick Park/Te Genero. I design the trials and set the doses to be given. Got a new molecule starting in the clinic tomorrow! Before discovering biology, I was a Theoretical Physicist.