Your current/previous job?

Not done this one for a bit, and I’m curious!

Me: currently LBS employee, previously lawyer & various other stuff, most interestingly hifi loudspeaker designer.

You?

Current- Compliance Manager airline catering company
Previous – Design engineer & research deleopment engineer for motorsport and top end road cars

Current is technical operator at a tv studio, before that was junior technical operator at a different studio (was only there 6 months before being poached for my current job via linked in!). The title makes it sound a bit better than it is, I basically do audio, graphics and EVS stills/replays for live racing. Before that was web design with a bit of video editing. Very happy where I am now 🙂

Current design / business analyst

Previous:
Programmer
Record shop assistant
Chef
Printers assistant
Glue factory assistant (worst job ever)

most interestingly hifi loudspeaker designer

surely ‘most interestingly spoon experimenter’ 😉

I’ve worked in software development since I was 18. So for 28 years now…

present= aerial, satellite, cctv and solar salesperson.
previous= steel stockholder crane driver.

worked in software development since i was 21

Currently “Specialist Engineer” if my email signature is to be believed.

Previously, variations on the theme since I was out of short pants.

Current: Product Manager for Oceanographic instrumentation company
Previous: Oceanographic Analyst for MOD.

Part time music workshop leader/festival organiser/various other things for a community music charity
Part time self-employed photographer

That’s kind of my current and previous jobs 🙂
Have previously only done quite crap/boring things tbh.

Graduate Civil Engineer working on Highways.

Plumber for the previous
Plumber plus all the other crap for current

Current: artist and illustrator,
Previous: managed a record shop, worked in admin at a university and various other temp jobs such as telesales, labourer and at a kids club.

Previous steel fabricator
Present shift process operator (gas plant)

Current: Airsoft site manager plus other bits and bobs.
Previous: Trading manager for B&Q.

Last fourty years:

Do-nothing layabout druggie (eight years).Drummer in a rock band (seven years).
Occupational Psychology Bureau Manager (twenty years).

Post room supervisor (to date).

Currently – Self employed Will Writer and Probate Administrator (past 7 Years)

Previously – 1 Bank, 3 Insurance Companies, 1 Bike shop and Halfords head office for a while.

previous…
-paperboy
-cocktail whizzkid
-barman
-skin biomechanics research
-quality control and auditing processes

current
-surface engineering research

future
-bike designer and guide for mtb holidays in southern Finland

Currently – Product designer for several UK outdoor brands (love reading know-it-all threads on here about waterproof clothing and tents, but try not to intervene…)

Previously – Office furniture designer

Currently: System Designer for radio networks (although I spend 95% of my time writing SW tools to do the actual job for me).
Previous: 20 odd years in Telecoms, starting off as an RF design engineer and doing variations on a theme

Current: Air Traffic Controller

Previous: Various jobs on oil rigs, making marble/granite kitchen stuff, mid level drug dealer (not just talking a few ounces to mates here), hospital porter

Carpenter. Mostly maintenance and troubleshooting of all things wood! Nationwide company inc van so jobs far and wide.

Previous job: Apprentice Carpenter.

Current. Multi skilled Senior Operator (basically cameraman) for BBC News. Done this since 2000
Previous. anything and everything tech ops wise for BBC news..

been there a while…..

Current: Security Response Manager
Previous: Software tester, Unix Sysadmin, Highways Inspector, hardware support engineer.

now
clutch system engineer
then
halfshaft engineer on commerical veh. at same co.
suspension engineer on commercial veh. at same co.
chassis engineer at plant in liverpool different co.
project engineer at company that made structural cf parts for superyachts
chassis engineer at TWR automotive (company long gone)
quality engineer at company that remanfactured engines for OEMs
petrol station attendant
pea factory operative (student). very minging.
lathe operator for dad’s light engineering business

pomona – Member
mid level drug dealer (not just talking a few ounces to mates here),

Hi pomona. I’ve a feeling we may have met in a past life…

past: Soreen factory operative (1974)
present: software engineer
future: malodorous derelict

Current: Retired

Previous: LBS employee, lots of IT stuff which I’ve recorded in an Excel spreadsheet…..

Past : tree surgeon
Present: motorcycle instructor.

Current and previous : Accountant

Best job ever? Working at the Golden Arches…honestly – such a good time!

Current: Engineering rather nice lasers
Previous: playing with a couple of Her Majesty’s war ships

buyer for a v large online biking website, basically deciding what and how many of each item to bring in

previous (in rough order): programmer, project manager, consultant, garden designer
current: full time job seeker, with occasional breaks for riding bikes (or did I get that the wrong way round?)

present: self-employed chippy/joiner. part-time bike guide. used to build houses, but am now building trade fair stands or the back drop to confrences. sees me spending a few weeks in a workshop and then off to somewhere exotic (or not) to do the show. riding takes place in the Alps.

past: english teacher for a while when i first arrived in germany plus numerous odd jobs whilst travelling.

Current – SPM Banking
Previous – SPM Banking

buyer for a v large online biking website, basically deciding what and how many of each item to bring in

The better you are at your job, the less stuff gets reduced, so I’d like to encourage you to up your alcohol intake and maybe experiment with some recreational drug use. 😀

SPM Banking

any suggestions for what SPM stands for in this post Barclays-LIBOR days?

Current – BDM for a Factoring Company – Anyone need any cashflow Assistance for their business 🙂

Prior
BDM – Tax and Payroll Company
G/M and Senior IVA Advisor – Dodgy Debt Company
Incident manager BT
Rec Con – Hays IT
Telesales – Phone company

Basicaly allways been a shite salesman !!

Current: business analyst/consultant for an insurance company
Previous: Transport Planner for regional Government

Current: work in a wood yard
Previous 30 years: building surveyor