What job do you do?

Spanner monkey/biscuit buyer for a LBS

Also frequent double poster….

Engineering Manager for a firm that most of you will never have heard of but most of you will depend on 😀

I’m a copper

Yeah I said it

Ski and ride school supervisor, instructor, tech and general dogsbody. Re-string tennis racquets in the evenings.

Tried to get into the piano moving business, but i’m a one man band.

Bridge inspector, they’re everywhere, abseil them, look at them, hit them, break them, write on them, draw pictures of them, etc
it is a nice number

Engineering Geologist

Was on, mostly mind numbing, UK based projects, but the last year and a half I’ve been working overseas in the mining and oil pipeline sectors. Sometimes it’s great. Sometimes it’s REALLY great. Sometime it’s bad. Sometimes it’s REALLY bad.

Since moving to France 3 years ago I’ve gone freelance, so I’m either charging peanuts and working from home (easy life) or charging a realistic figure (once you include the extra work Mrs Mugsy has to do looking after mini and micro mugsy)and working overseas.

Happily though the money I’ve earnt in the last year is the stuff of dreams when I was salaried. I have to keep pinching myself. Saving like crazy for the house we’re buying in March. Not sure how long it will last though. When the kids are both at school and we’ve achieved some financial goals I plan to train as an ‘Accompagnateur Montagne’ (International Mountain Leader and take people walking and snow shoeing in less Anglicised parts of the alps.

Carpet and any other flooring fitter
and shed tinkerer with leds and aluminium

I’m a health, safety and security manager for a large (10,000 student) FE/HE college. It’s incredibly varied, often quite frustrating and occasionally very rewarding.

Deliberate choice to work in the public sector. Despite all the grief I haven’t regretted it.

Technical operator at a tv shopping channel studio. Basically get paid to play around in a studio in most of the usual roles (camera, audio, lighting etc). The stuff we sell is tat and the hours are a bit crap but the job is awesome, doesn’t feel like work at all.

Web developer – make stuff for the interwebs.

Paramedic full title which I hate is Team Leader but given there’s way more than one Team Leader grade in our Trust and they’re all called Team Leaders I’m a Team Leader Paramedic or A+E Team Leader.

Anyway means I look after a station, the store on station, all the H&S and other duties that come with that as well as from next month 14 staff.

Luckily I can work to I’m 68 and retire on my massive pension that everyone else pays for not that we work of course as we’re work shy lazy bastards in the public sector.

At the moment – part time scourer of job ads, part time schmoozer of previous employers, part time bike rider. Only one bit of that is any fun.

Previously – Lots of different things, none of which are apparently in demand at the moment eg. made sure some of 3’s first phones worked, did people stuff for a big phone maker, looked after simulation of UK airspace, worked on some secret squirrel stuff etc. etc. Oh and ran my own garden design business for 8 years before the recession killed it.

UK Head of IT for a multinational wholesaler and retailer.

I am also middle aged but I am not fat! Just for the record like.

hugor – you work more than 90 hours a week and still have time to ride a bike?
I make that roughly 13 hours a day, 7 days a week…

Airbus Steering Committee Deputy Chairman.

Psychiatric nurse and part time pension thief.

Games designer, working mostly on console games.

Branding, Creative Direction, Graphic Design and Motion Design.

Mechanical design engineer. Aerospace mainly, moonlighted on ships for a while, back on planes now.

I buy flowers (..and plants ..and trees ..and seeds ..and bulbs ..and christmas trees)

I like buying Christmas trees the best 8)

Intelligence work, research and development of intelligence, occasional surveillance work.

Not a spook or a News International employee.

The unwilling, led by the unknowing, attempting to do the impossible for the ungrateful.

Aka passenger train driver.

Land Designer…..basically i design and build new cycle infrastructure for a local goverment authority

surprisingly i dont get to ride my bike as part of my job!

I make the internets …. it’s easier to tell that to people that what I actually do.

Actually I’m mainly a backend developer in e-retail, I really sully myself with actual web-code just a bit of C# and PL/SQL here and there.

Mainly it’s about team management and getting the job done these days though, lots more about communication and context than actual coding.

A James – Member
I used to be a geinacologist then became a bricklayer, still do a bit of the medical stuff, just to keep my hand in.

I’d have thought you could spell it then! 😕

photographer. design/advertising area. strictly no sunsets/dogs/weddings/babies or dealing with the general public.
having seen how office jobs/managers make people miserable and hate their jobs i realise how lucky i am.
pay is variable but can be very lucrative.
wouldn’t swap it for anything.

i run an adventure travel website

i live in the alps

it could be worse…

(although it would be muchbetter today if i weren’t immersing myself in google analytics)

Kilo….intrigued. Ever worked with/for anyone called Jules?

Medical Writer here. I help Big Pharma peddle their wares. Tastes a little bit like sucking Satan’s c*ck sometimes, but I genuinely like wot I do on a day to day basis.

Used to be a research scientist, but got very jaded due to all the politics and constantly begging for money from funding bodies.

Microsoft specialist, Business Intelligence consultant

ie build databases and management reporting

CaptainFlashheart – Member
Kilo….intrigued. Ever worked with/for anyone called Jules?

worked on occassion with a “big jules” (male, i think in MMDP now)couple of female Jules and I think one other bloke whose full name I can’t remember

OK, not the same then. 8)

Legal Secretary.

Jules isn’t their real name 🙄

Scientist

hugor – you work more than 90 hours a week and still have time to ride a bike?

I start at 7 most mornings and work well into the evenings during the week.
I provide an oncall service for the hospital 24/7 5 days per week and 1 in 2 weekends. Depending on the volume of work that comes in my hours vary.
None of this is on the books officially as it would contravene the European work regulations.
That has fortunately has not occurred in Aus where I’m from and hours like that are not unusual in the medical industry.
We just MTFU and get on with it.
As for bike riding I can usually ride while technically being on duty, I usually have a few hours buffer at the very least from phone call to required attendance.
Most of my work can be dealt with over the phone.

i make maps

Haha for 8 months that qutie literally was me 🙂

Its currently my mate whos been sent to houston on time and a half to do nothing it would seem