Offshore Medic and Registered Nurse.

I design, prototype, build and test armoured vehicles. Leads me into some interesting countries around the world!

raccoon – Member

I design, prototype, build and test armoured vehicles. Leads me into some interesting countries around the world!

Sounds dull 😀

I’m a specialist in fibre test and measurement. In reality I run seminars and webinars, and generally get paid to talk about some fairly interesting (to me) stuff.

research scientist – I watch paint dry although I’m about to move department and start setting fire to it.

Semi-retired Excel monkey, part-time househusband, part-time chainsaw whisperer, part-time plumbing student, part-time tree-wrangler, full-time tinkerer-cum-bodger.

I call it a “portfolio of employment” 🙂

So not actually that many IT people then. 😉

I fight a constant battle against nefarious individuals and organisations intent on causing mayhem, destruction, theft and death. I meet shadowy government figures in secret locations who tell me who these people are and then how best to defend our resources against them. I am the last line of defence. I guard us while we sleep.

In short, I work in IT security.

I get to play bikes and get paid for it 🙂
I only work 170 days a year 😀
Unfortunately I only get paid for 170 days a year 🙁

Senior Project Manager in your favourite Banking Industry.

But you can tell that yeah?

Split personality.

Day to day run and work in a “small, but perfectly formed, specialist trade PR company focusing the Events & Exhibitions, Construction and Packaging sectors and based in Hope. Cool job yesterday in ExCeL London – Destination StarTrek nursing a couple of key editors and seeing all 5 captains interviewed by John Barrowman – the audience were ‘interesting’ but really friendly even if they were dressed up as Klingons/Federation/Borg etc may share some pics later!

Also am MD for a web application development company – but I’m just the looks of the outfit, the proper geeks and propellorheads are all based in ‘ull.

I ask others to go on great quests, battle dragons and goblins, and join together to defeat powerful enemies.

aka computer games marketing.

Satellite Communications Integration/Field Engineer

I install/fix/integrate sat comms systems for various people who will remain nameless 🙂 I get to travel the world at my employers expense,every week, but as mentioned elsewhere in this thread, not so good, as I have a young family.

I’m responsible for changing the way that we look after old people so we can carry on looking after them in the future when there are twice as many old people and half the budget.

Rubber Technologist… really.

Doctoring for thst there NHS thing. Well, assuming it continues to exist.

Great job when politicians stop interfering. Long hours and hard work but wouldn’t give it up for (almost) anything.

I tell people to turn it off and then turn it back on again – IT support for a network of financial advisers

I only work 170 days a year
Unfortunately I only get paid for 170 days a year

That’s funny because I only work about 170 days a year and get paid only when I’m at work too. Most odd that only getting paid when you actually at work.

I design stadiums and arenas. Every 5-6 years I get to build one too, or at least tell people how I want them to build it.

I’m a fireman in sunny Scarborough

Picture Framer.

To be honest, I don’t really know, but people seem happy to pay me for it.

Train Driver, self loading freight. If travel by train in Yorkshire then I’ve probably taken you home 😉

I build wings for the Airbus A330 line of aircraft, I like it, fun interesting work (on the tools), bikes are easy in comparison, and small

Semi retired but still work about 50% as a technical consultant in sports betting

Project manager for a property developer/landlord. Make buildings happen, offices, industrial units, retail etc. some new, some refurb.

I restore,prepare and look after historic racing cars and most days thats as good as it sounds!

I take pictures of shiny things, spaces and sometimes famous people.
I don’t do weddings, pets, kids or have anything to do with the general public.

I restore,prepare and look after historic racing cars,and most days it’s as good as it sounds!

Full time farm worker part time fire wood accumulator

mugsy m8 –

Freelance Engineering Geologist. Went freelance 4 years ago after moving to France. My sole client to date is my former employer…. Last 24 months have seen me supervising drilling 800m deep inclined holes for a prospective gold mine in Mauritania and supervising poxy shallow holes for oil pipelines across Georgia and Azerbaijan. Also do home office based geotechnical design (foundations, earthworks, slope stabilisation) etc.

…You wanna drop me a line, we have something in common !

Operations at a local cycling holiday company. If you ring us I answer the phone take your instructions, book the holiday and send you the bill. Once or twice a year I get to cycle abroad for work. I meet a lot of happy people during the summer (hah!). This time of the year it’s quiet and involves a lot of data analysis. I also make tea and support the IT systems. Occasionally I get oily hands too.

I am a fluffer-it’s a hard job but I am never one to enjoy the soft option.

Teach science to children who have been raised by parents who don’t give a monkies as long as the benefit check arrives.

I used to work very efficiently and adjust old analogue radio’s for the railway. Since devolution I now work VERY inefficiently for the railway adjusting the same radio’s BUT now with three times the paperwork, a daily rather than four weekly plan and a management team that think continual change is the same as progess. Oh and I’ve inherited a pile of crap from a colleague since a boundary change as well.

Business manager for a German car company, beloved of ladder climbing, middle management, IT types.

I dig up weeds some of the time. I used to do more demanding stuff but it was boring.

P/t hourly paid peanut eating, low ranking bureaucratic knowledge infuser that one day will turn into Dear Leader that steps on maggots. 😈

I melt bits of thin glass together, and occasionally get called out in the middle of the night to fix a broken bit of glass which is not usually as simple as it sounds. (I provide and fix fibre optic stuff)

My company have also just decided to save money by taking my colleagues van from him, and making us share. The downside is my van is now overweight so I have had to remove lots of essential gear, things like a generator, water pump, and all my cabling gear. So we are both on call, yet probably won’t be able to fix 50% of our faults any more, not to mention the disruption for day to day working. We now generally take turns to watch each other work rather than splitting up and working effectively…

Don’t worry Ming, the guys at the top know what they are doing 🙄

I stop planes trading paint over the south of England. 😯

fireman in lincs.