1286% athankyouverymuch, and APRs a shit metric because no one borrows for a year and... ah **** it, yeah that's right Kryton 😉
When I started working for a bank people were fine with that, by the end not so much, irony was I only ever did wholesome stuff (like, making sure you get paid) but I definitely stopped saying things like "I got a bigger bonus than I expected" 😆
I drive cars all over the south of the country for a major car auction company. Sue me.
[quote=CountZero said]I drive cars all over the south of the country for a major car auction company. Sue me.
No, I pity you 🙂
Im in coprorate sales, drive a bmw and wear a swiss watch and apprantly get paid £161k salary
Wot.... No Italian designer shades?
Waswas....i dont really get your issue with that form?
Despite being a humble chippy, I sometimes get the arseache with what I do.
Events and exhibitions where 6 weeks workshop prep stands for a day or three (sometimes literally hours) before ending up in the skip. Generally for companies (sometimes abhorrent) who are spending the money on their clients or more promotional crew to reduce their tax bill before the year's end.
On the other hand I also build nice huts, balconies, furniture or interiors for people to enjoy.
Save the planet? Kill yourself.
I work in private health care contracting to the NHS. I've been accused by a patient of "robbing the taxes of the elderly to fund a champagne lifestyle"
Wot.... No Italian designer shades?
Not on my salary. I'd need a loan from a Njee, oh wait...
Supply sensors that monitor oil and gas valves and stops blowing people up. Hopefully....
I've printed things that use Comic Sans and rainbow WordArt.
Comic sans is now significantly less offensive than the use of hipster and hand drawn fonts. (and the pointless use of fü?king geometric shapes)
I draw pictures that people pay to put on their walls, I don't know why but it keeps me supplied with shiny apple, chris king and niner things.
Designing stuff that supposedly encourages IRO 30,000 peeps to develop their career (two thirds of which are on minimum wage).
Messing around with [url= https://www.stem.org.uk/ ]STEM [/url]in my spare time (whatever that is) to hopefully one day inspire young people to create/build stuff that really does make a difference.
allthepies - Member
CountZero said » I drive cars all over the south of the country for a major car auction company. Sue me.
No, I pity you
See, that's where you've made a [i]big[/i] mistake!
I really enjoy my job, I'm seeing more of the country than at any previous part of my life, in other people's vehicles, using someone else's fuel, and getting paid to do it!
Plus when I'm not driving, I'm being transported between pick-up points, while being paid to do that as well, just watching the world pass by.
What's not to like! 😀
I try to contribute to the world's repository of knowledge, by reading and writing and teaching, and when you all feel the need to unload because of the guilt you feel due to your immoral jobs, part of mine is to be there to listen.
Plus, I ride to work, so even my commute is emissions-free!
/smug
Helping massive companies find and exploit oil and gas resources?
The money is OK, but not as great as some would believe. Don't really have enough of a skill set to move into another industry that would be paid as well, or anyway near what I earn now.
Not on my salary. I'd need a loan from a Njee, oh wait...
Commission based salary? We don't lend to your type!
Used to work in defence, now work for a company calibrating shizzle for anyone who asks but because of my background I end up working mainly in the defence industry.
Would quite like to do something else but I get to travel, pay is half decent and I sometimes get to blow stuff up (right place right time rather than a requirement of the job).
I often waste a fair quantity of liquid Helium. There is not that much of it to hand so I feel bad about that. It does help to make sick people better so not all negatives.
Overall, I generally feel good about what I do.
Engineer, oil and gas.
Gets to me from time to time but, like the human race as a whole, I'm basically looking out for number 1. That's why we're doomed.
Humble lampy here but this is me too.
Despite being a humble chippy, I sometimes get the arseache with what I do.
Events and exhibitions where 6 weeks workshop prep stands for a day or three (sometimes literally hours) before ending up in the skip. Generally for companies (sometimes abhorrent) who are spending the money on their clients or more promotional crew to reduce their tax bill before the year's end.
Except its more usually a 2-4 hour event duration. Also uses vast amounts of leccy, plus those nasty diesel things to cart it all about the country (or continent for that matter). It's the weddings I especially love. 6 or 7 figure sums spent, then you read about the divorce a year or so later...
On the plus side, I'm helping extract money out of rich people's bank accounts and getting it back into (realtively) poor people's hands who then spend it back into the economy
I'm ok with what they do, or I wouldn't work there, but it's a corking conversation stopper... I work for a major payday lender. Yeah... that one.
If it's the "W" one then I built the system that did their ID verification. Not proud and have left that industry now.
[i]Count Zero - What's not to like![/i]
Man, you've changed since the Neuromancer days.
It's all changed now. The whole industry pre-regulation was pretty deplorable, unsurprisingly regulation has made it fair better. Indeed it's far more fair that most high street lending!
Public sector here, I do about 1/3 the work in a week that I used to do when we were private sector (and that was hardly pressured) , get paid very well and no one bar me seems to care about the lack of productivity. We are FUBAR BUNDY.
If I didn't do it, somebody else would be employed in my role.
I've seen my careers wages wasted 10x over on bad projects, ops and maintenance shooting themselves in the foot and sheer unprofessionalism.
I get paid to find people for jobs, formally IT people, now finance people. Not sure if that makes me good or bad.
njee20 - Member
Not on my salary. I'd need a loan from a Njee, oh wait...
Commission based salary? We don't lend to your type!
FFS. What the world coming to when I can't even secure a 2000% loan for a new bike... 😀
FFS. What the world coming to when I can't even secure a 2000% loan for a new bike...
Unless you want an entry level Spesh we don't lend enough either, that would be irresponsible 🙂
I build McDonalds restaurants all over the country.
er..
I used to work for RBS
Me too but I was once described as a corporate terrorist which now feels like a complement.
I make chemical weapons for Bashir Al Assad. It's going to pay someone's mortgage, might as well be mine.
Could be worse, could be Trump.
I used to work for the Murdoch Empire, which was only slightly less morally bankrupt than The Empire.
I work in construction in waste water treatment and clean water supply. When that infrastructure falls over society will quickly resemble Cormack McCarthy's The Road so I feel positively virtuous compared to most of you bastards.
I'm in this job by accident rather than design though so maybe hold fire on the medal giving ceremony for the moment.
I work in HE and while I wouldn't say it actively makes the world a worse place I'm increasingly sceptical that has much of a positive effect either.
I confess I have added to the CO2 of the planet by now using CO2 cartridges to inflate my tyres if I have a puncture.
That's ok, I always used to use CO2, but gave up a couple of years ago and just use a pump now. We're offsetting each other.
Plus, I ride to work, so even my commute is emissions-free!
Sorry to burst your eco bubble SaxonRider, but having kids is one of the most environmentally un-friendly things you can do 😉
Although to be fair, I'd rather the world was full of kids as decent as yours!
Currently going through this having been offered an opportunity to return to O&G and double my current salary.
I'm a realist and in defence of working in O&G, I drive, fly, use plastic, drugs and many other things derived from oil. As much as I believe in and love renewable energy, I believe every exploitable resource of hydrocarbons will be exploited with time, even if transport moves towards electric propulsion.
i once photographed an air to ground missile for a uk technology company. i had no issue with this as at the end of the day it was part of a larger photographic job that kickstarted my career and was a huge chunk of money (i’m talking house deposit size) the company also produced tech that helped with energy saving/ environment and healthcare and was a spin-off from government owned interests so your tax payers money was paying for them (and me!) too. if i didn’t do the job somebody else would have done it.
the rep drove it across london in the boot of his car! it was a non lethal dummy one though.
I work on the edges of the Defence industry.
We design and build cooling systems for Navy Ships and Submarines.
My Dept mostly deals with UK Navy.
I actually work for a huge American company, who in some ways are skating on fairly thin ice on the lake of morality.
In fact Hilary Clinton highlighted their antics as being 'morally bankrupt' during a TV interview before the election.
The way I see it, is our Navy spend more time doing good/positive suff than killing people, and if I didn't do it, someone else would - and I'd probably be in a slightly less well paid job which means my kids ballet lessons might get the chop - so no, it doesn't keep me awake at night.
mugsys_m8 - Member
Looks outside at the Malian wilderness destoyed by a huge operation to obtain 2-3g of yellow shiny metal per tonne of material by blasting the material out of the ground and then pouring lots of cyanide on it.....That said, I am currently responsible for supervising the building of a dam that is supposed to keep all the contaminated waste in the lagoon and not go flowing across the country..... So my job, I could argue is to minimise the extent of the worse place.....best get off STW and go and see what they have been up to today!
In recent years it's either been similar or making sure the pipelines carrying the black gold don't get wiped out by landslides/ earthquakes etc etc....
Sounds like what I used to do, and want to get back into doing.
IainC: It is 😆
longmover: exact field? drop me an e-mail if you want: danjDOTheywoodATgmailDOTcom. You could work for Iain, but I hear it's not too glamorous up there!
i once photographed an air to ground missile for a uk technology company
Honestly cannot imagine how to approach a shoot like that!
I'm a lawyer.
End of thread.
I'm a fairly staunch environmentalist but drive planes for a living. In my defence, if I didn't do it someone else would, and probably not as efficiently.
Also, I'd have to work for a living.
RBS & BAE. I've done both!
