What do you do?

SERCO zero hour contractee working in fringe roles relating to COVID. I could tell you more but then I’d have to cough on you.

🙂

I met IHN when working on his site. I started a thread on STW to see if anyone was in the area who could lead me on a ride and it turned out he was sat on the desk behind me.

Ha ha, yeah, true story. Not been at that particular site for a long time, in fact it’s now been taken over by the, ahem, “civil service” *cough*gchq*cough*

Mining Engineer. Digging holes so you can have all your shiny things.

Spent my working life under the sea breathing helium. Its affected me :o)

Mining Engineer. Digging holes so you can have all your shiny things.

I was on the ncb scholarship scheme in 82/83 but after a year digging coal decided it wasn’t for me & decided that I didn’t want their £1500pa uni sponsorship either 🙄

Director of Strategic campaigns for a global engineering consultancy, specialising in nuclear decommissioning. Also chartered Process Engineer. As I tell my kids, I keep the lights on, and the wolf from the door.

After 18 years of predominantly solo working frontline for the NHS I can now officially call myself a Charity Worker.

One of the weirdest things in the transition is having a desk to sit at, it helps that the view is one of the most unique in the Cotswolds. Ditching nights, weekends and public holidays was a breeze.

I sit between a psychologist & a counsellor, I’ve no idea what they make of me and my baggage…

I put wood and paper covered items into specific slots in a frame, gather them up in logical manner and then take them outside where I put them on the ground for specific people to pick up off the ground. In recent weeks I’ve also began training to become a professional photographer, taking pics of people picking some off these items off the floor. Most days I’ll pick up some other wood or plastic covered items from ~18″ above the ground and take them back to base.

I put wood and paper covered items into specific slots in a frame, gather them up in logical manner and then take them outside where I put them on the ground for specific people to pick up off the ground.

Post / parcel delivery?

I am a Gravity Sewer Network Operations Specialist. Most of the time behind a computer but it’s good to get out and solve complex network issues in the public sewer systems with the guys on the ground.

After 18 years of predominantly solo working frontline for the NHS I can now officially call myself a Charity Worker.

Ooh, who with?

Head of pricing for a big insurer

Research technician/lab manager in Cancer Research Isntitute, mostly bowel cancer these days

Ive seen the inside of more colons than you can imagine

Dynamic Positioning Operator and 2nd Mate on a big ship.
Basically, I do the opposite of what most seafarers do, and make sure that the ship says in one spot.

Occasionally we move a few miles to another spot.

Basically, I do the opposite of what most seafarers do, and make sure that the ship says in one spot.

Was that you on the Evergrande then? 😉

I’m a Delivery Relationship Lead.

You work it out (and let me know).

Professional Dog-Walker?

the guys on the ground

presumably they are under it and knee deep in the brown stuff?

I got as far as an assessment day for that, probably failed when too many of the arrows on my screen flew into each other. It was possibly a job I wasn’t suited for.

yeah they don’t like it when you bang them together.

Freewheeling dreamer.

Also perennially skint. The two things may be connected.

Try and make government look good

(You might argue I’m not very good at my job 😀 )

I’m a train driver.  Was a copper for years but was pretty unhappy.  Got the opportunity to change careers in my 40s so took the plunge and don’t regret it

Tennis Coach at an all girls school

For those who care mainly VBA and bash. The VBA bit is a classic example of scope creep where a few 20 line macros written 15 years ago have morphed into a 200k+ line monster from my id which won’t die…..

So not just me then 🙂

General tinkerer.
Employed at present to look after Fire Suppression systems. Not a job to do with a hangover, things get quite exciting/expensive if you cock up.

And let them use my airport.

Ah, so not a proper controller then 😉

Spinner of plates, fingers in pies, pure entrepreneur, seasonal ski instructor….

After working for a large software company for a few years i realised that the corporate world is a trap designed to steal your soul and mind so i packed it in and got involved with a couple of startup’s and went from there…..13 years on and i still love every single minute of the rollercoaster!

Now retired, but for 27.5 years I made cylinder heads in the casting plant for a well known car manufacturer in NE UK.

For the last 12 years, we never made anything for Sunderland built cars, all heads went to Renault, Dacia and Daimler Benz. Cylinder heads we used on engines, were brought in from Japan. Never did find out the reasoning for that

Waste management consultant, helping Councils buy incinerators. I get paid to be pedantic and argumentative and spend huge amounts of other peoples money.

Waste management consultant

Mrhoppy, earlier

I’m a train driver. Was a copper for years but was pretty unhappy. Got the opportunity to change careers in my 40s so took the plunge and don’t regret it

@Kato do you mind if I drop you a message? I’m Job and would gladly entertain a change…

Development Manager at a Games company. I like video games 😊 but not the ones we make 🤨

Picture framer to the stars.

Currently driving trucks delivering specialist paper to printers etc. Nothing special but it’s enjoyable and pays the bills.

Official advice from my government employer is to not reveal my occupation on social media.

My previous job had it written in the contract that revealing or discussing your job on personal social media (including job sites) was a stackable offence, a few did lose their jobs over it too! Understandable as the threat of you or your family being taken hostage so as to gain access to company premises was very real, one or two cases a year.

The job? Cash delivery driver.

I am an Estate Planner and Probate Lawyer and I also have a home clearance company.

Retired now, so the answer to the question is either ‘not much’, or ‘whatever I want’, depending on how I’m feeling.

Before that I spent 35 years in software development, starting as an ICL Cobol programmer on VME 2900 systems for the Gas Board, ending up as a development methods consultant for one of the world’s biggest cloud software providers.

@siwhite no probs mate

I count bricks. And price them. I also dream up new ways of describing the process to meet ever changing government requirements (with every govt dept requiring it done a different way).

I arrange for people to hang from ropes and fix things, clean things or paint them. Also have the delightful task of sorting all the H&S related paperwork for the above.
Sometimes I dangle off things myself but nowadays that’s usually trees, while I make them smaller.

I get to play with maps all day long. I’m a GIS Officer for a national park.

MI5