[Closed] Whats your occupation?

Photographer and County Councillor, Cabinet member with responsibility for Education.

BRM - Business Relationship Manager - which is basically sales with out a target - for a Alternative Networks Co.

Not bad, as I get to work from home a lot and bandy about TLA's like I know what they are - I sometimes make up new ones and wear silly socks to get through the day.

So have you entered a "back door" for yourself?

Tempting, but no.

I do know a loophole though to get you unlimited free accounts extensions. Needless to say I'm not saying. (In fact it's not that useful really in most circumstances!)

So have you entered a "back door" for yourself?

That's a question for RonJeremy, surely...?

I am the Director of an IT consultancy.

Apart from being a flâneur, I work in business development for a sports performance company. We make people faster, leaner and stronger. We just helped an Aussie rider win a word title. Best job in the world.

Games designer, mainly for 360 and PS3 titles. Spent the last year or so running around working on Kinect.

iDave, earlier:

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Also note, he is another forum member of whom I am jealous.

Academic Medical Librarian, for University Medical Sciences Division and NHS.

Really enjoy it, work with nice people, interesting topics, feels like I'm doing something useful.

Have also worked in a record shop, factories, minibus driver, cleaner, warehouses, public library.

Overhead linesman working on 400kv powerlines all over the country, currently pembroke to swansea. All good fun but too far from home in the northeast. Pays the bills very easily and normally work 8/9 months of the year.

And still get paid when ime not there!

another psych nurse here, acting manager for 3 private units in the community

Phil - how's life compare in private compared to the NHS; I guess in terms of work life balance, security etc?
I've just been approached by one of the private MH housing providers for an op managers post, and after 12 years in a DSH team I'm thinking of a chjange, the money is similar, but the main bonus I have at the minute is when I'm off shift, I am off.

...And yet another psych nurse here. Been doing it 23 years, and to be honest, getting a bit bored but too long in the tooth to retrain for anything that would pay me a similar wage now - oh for a job with less responsibilities 🙄

I am a chair coverer 😉

hey smell_it 🙂

i couldn't comment too accurately unfortunately... its been a few years since i've been in the NHS and when it comes to job security i can only comment on what i've heard and my own specific role:

nearly every time i speak to a professional from the public sector they comment about not being certain they'll be in a job by the next time i'm due to meet up with them. on the other hand as everyone is trying to cut funding from every angle we're constantly battling to keep/attract residents/patients... without residents to look after there's not much need for an RMN manager! so to save babbling on i'd say there's no more security in either at the moment 🙁

but... if you're feeling a change then its a rewarding role! all our residents have moved on to further independence apart from one. feels more like social work than healthcare most of the time but bringing in that specialist RMN knowledge means you'll be bringing something extra to the team 🙂

make sure you push for as much training as you can get out of the company as non-nurses forget that you need your X hours to keep your registration up sometimes!

its completely different to shift work, i used to love the freedom that shifts gave me but now i'd struggle to move away from mon - fri 9-5 🙂

if you get your teams up to scratch then there shouldnt be much need for them to hassle you outside of normal work hours.

Lecturer in Modern British History

Master Control Room Engineer at Sky.

Soldier - Commercial Diver - Mathematician - Patent Examiner

It was a long journey but I think I'll stay put now.

criminal mastermind, gigolo and body double for cameron diaz in films remade for the blind

I buy duff houses, do 'em up and rent them out, maintain them. On the census I put Residential Landlord, but have been called other things.

Started as Electronic Design Engineer, then car salesman, IT Trainer/support, database wrangler until I took the stay at home with the kids option. Will still do a bit of IT if one of my old clients rings, but pretty rare now.

"Slightly disturbing that it also seems to be the profession where people seem to want to get out"

Development used to be a challenging but fun craft. What makes software good is transparent to Engineers but opaque to managers. So they made us spend half our time writing documents and completing spreadsheets and databases, and the other half trying to keep them in synch. And programmers became commoditised.

Cheers, for that Phil – you are right, I guess there are no answers regarding security, I guess I’m just undecided whether to take the leap across. Working in a bit of a niche that I enjoy, I have never really had to think about working for anyone else. I can’t say I’m worried about staying in a job, despite what colleagues say and despite being part of a 1900 strong herd that needs thinning by 400 in the next 18 months. Being half clinical and half managerial at present, my guess is I’ll still be in a job, but what that job could be will be somewhat flexible. Given we are heading back to GP budget holding and the move towards greater privatisation, there will be a mix of uncertainty and opportunity! Anyhoo, I’ll stop going on about it and leave folk to tell us what they do.

sand control operations engineer.
pros:
get to see the world - just been to california for a jolly for a month. now know i dont want to go back to LA 😉 bakersfield/fresno was quite nice
cons :
i used to race bikes .....

molecular biologist in a cancer research lab
it pays the bills, just!

I was a Software Services Director in London, but it got very boring. I jacked it in a year ago and now I am a Diving Instructor (both SCUBA and FreeDiving) which lets me live in Dahab at the bottom of the Sinai mountains and ride my bikes all year.

Life's a bitch eh? ;o)

Property Underwriter. I look at multinational companies' physical assets (buildings machinery, stock) and ability to generate profits and work out how much money my company might want in exchange for paying for Damage and lost profits in the event of something going bang, woof, fssst, slosh, etc that isn't supposed to go bang, woof, fssst, slosh, etc.

Learning about industrial processes, hazards and how companies make their money is good. spreadsheet and admin bundle----ing isn't.

Money's not bad, hours aren't either, being tied (for now) to London less good.

Paramedic

Pros - I get to drive a car fast
Cons - Sometimes I have to actually do something with a patient if the ambulance is slow to back me up

Best job I've ever had and money isn't everything 😀

Surrounded By Zulus - Member

You know the purple lines that get painted on the roads - thats my job.

I'm still intrigued by this one. I don't remember ever seeing any purple lines on roads ever. I did see this
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any idea what that's all about?

it's The Saint picking up his halo after a night on the town

Currently, a Catastrophe Modeller for a reinsurance co.

Ski instructor and Weed control technician.

Think going back to school is on the cards soon though.

used to be a tree surgeon, now a motorcycle instructor.

Jim_Kirk - Member

used to be a tree surgeon, now a motorcycle instructor.

Not a Starship captain then? 😥

There's been cut-backs at star fleet too you know 😉

10 - Member

Ski instructor and [b]Weed control technician.[/b]

Are you employed by Customs? 😆 8)

Blimey - I've simulated new airspace arrangements for NATS, managed various software teams, been involved with delivery of 3's first 3G phones pre-launch and worked for a niche management consultancy, then gave all that up to design gardens, and after the recession effectively killed that I've gone back to uni again.

So right now I'm back to being a student. No idea what comes next, but I'm enjoying it right now.

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Last time i drove a starship, this happened!

montylikesbeer - Member

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

I'm always amazed by how crap lifts are for reliablity, i mean it's not Willy Wonkers great glass frickin elevator. It's a tin box that go's up, then down, then up then down Why do they need maintenance, how tough can it be to make one of these things work properly?

I used to have my own bike shop which was the best job that i ever had. Moved to NZ for the kids 3 1/2 years ago and now work as a teacher of 'technology' which has much better hours with significantly less fun. Thou here we have a mortgage free 'big' house walking distance from the beach and only pay a quid a litre for petrol. Swings and roun-a-bouts i guess. Thou i really miss my old job. 😥

I got stuck in a lift once.

A Business Inteligence consultant
(SQL code monkey!)

Really good little company to work for though

Just demonostrating how unrelable these things are. At my old college that also taught 'special needs' kids they broke [i]all[/i] the time. You can imagine what happands once you get 8 'mentally impared' kids stuck in a lift together! it sure puts up the overtime for their coucellors and cleaning staff, I can still here the groans and screams 16 years later. Not pretty, not pretty at all.

Like i say, how hard can it be to make this tin box go up, then down, then up then down - reliably, I mean really how hard can it be?

titusrider - Member

A Business Inteligence consultant
(SQL code monkey!)

Really good little company to work for though

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Director for a genetic diagnostics Biotech company. A very interesting job for a science geeks like me.

Hotshot commercial disputes lawyer, working for the UK's biggest firm in Scotland.

So, who's actually going to find their professional skills in demand after the apocalypse?

Not me for one.