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General => Random Chat => Topic started by: M7AXB on March 09, 2011, 06:00:17 pm
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I'm at that time in life where I need to pull my finger out and start a career and was wondering what people do to give me a bit of inspiration. I'm a student just now and should have my Hnc In control and measurement engineering shortly so was thinking of either doing a degree and becoming an engineer or going into an apprenticeship and getting some experience.
I dont mean to be nosey by the way :ashamed:, would make an interesting thread though :smiley:
Cheers :happy2:
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Metrology Inspector for McLaren Automotive :smiley:
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Racing driver/Instructor :driver: and when i can a detailer :happy2:
"Metrology Inspector for McLaren Automotive" Sounds pretty cool, what excatly is that? :signLOL: excuse me being a ming mong!
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Measurement Engineer for Rolls-Royce.
my advice (personally) would be to do an apprenticeship with a large engineering company that are willing to fund HE. My employer is funding me through my degree and just as they have done for other HE through my time served as an apprentice.
Luke.
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Student :signLOL:. I'm hoping to go on placement next year to get some experience in the work place (between my 2nd and 3rd year). I don't want a degree with no job.
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Area sales manager for regus if you need office space in the west end pm me :happy2:
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Pilot. Really, don't. You'd be much better pushing on with the engineering, then if you had the travel bug, head out to Asia and build a career.
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Direct Relationship manager for HSBC :scared: :scared:
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Pipeline engineer: I design subsea oil and gas pipelines and risers. Good business to be in at the moment :ashamed:
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Racing driver/Instructor :driver: and when i can a detailer :happy2:
"Metrology Inspector for McLaren Automotive" Sounds pretty cool, what excatly is that? :signLOL: excuse me being a ming mong!
Every part which comes into the company which will be fitted to road cars we ensure it is dimensionally and aesthetically correct. currently working on the MP4-12C http://www.mclarenautomotive.com/uk/insider/default.aspx
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Dyno operator /ecu technician / tech support for 30 worldwide tuning companies that we supply software to and general dogsbody.
But do get a new receptionist from the end of the month :jumpmove:
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Pilot. Really, don't. You'd be much better pushing on with the engineering, then if you had the travel bug, head out to Asia and build a career.
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Pilot Fly this:
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But wouldn't let my kids do it, thats to say its a great job but they probably wont be able to afford to in 20 years time blame your £10 Malaga ticket and Michael O Leary (CEO ryanair)
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Point of Sale Systems Manager for a little known cornershop in Knightsbridge :happy2:
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I work for London Underground maintaining and repairing Central Line trains.
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Full time policeman,
Part time burglar! :wink:
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Field Engineer for Ericsson. Install, commission and maintain radio base stations and switching centres for one of them there mobile phone network operators.
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I wash cars! :signLOL:
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Full time policeman,
Part time burglar! :wink:
insurance salesman? :grin:
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Class 2 truckie driving the queens highway avoiding all the fcuking idiots on the way.... And trust me they are PLENTY :scared:
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Road Rail/Heavy plant operator... not a bad job.. dont think ide like my kids to carry on in my foot steps tho!
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Car mechanic for a independant garage we work on all types of cars.
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Full time copper for me too......the bullseye on Cameron's fund cut dart board :stupid: :fighting: :mad:
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Dont want to get political but this overtime thing is a joke, i read one chap earned £66k in overtime alone last year.. Just think about the 18 year old squaddie on £14-16k in afghanistan right now dodging bullets and iod's every day does he get paid for overtime.. No, it kind of puts your argument in perspective. You've been getting paid far too much for too long and its time to get real, all imo of course
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IT Network Manager - Manage the ICT Network infrastructure across the organisation - so manage the servers, switches, software, and so on. Have 2 members of staff working for me :wink:
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Parts Advisor for West London Audi :happy2:... Love my job!!
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Owner of 'Apollo Electrical' ...........probably the best electrical contractor in the Medway towns :grin:
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Mail sorter... Boring as hell but pays the bills. :happy2:
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Automated Maintenance Engineering Lead for Royal Mail looking after Sorting Machines, IT systems and Automation Control.
Toolmaking Apprenticeship and travelling around armpits of Europe installing and commissioning High Speed Packing machines in Cigarette factories got me to the level I am at now. Not being a Billy Big Spuds but it took 22 years to get to the level I am at now.
Takes a long time to get there but if you stick with it and you get a rewarding job with good pay.
Not many time served apprentices left and only a few each year being trained properly.
I was also one of 5 last apprentices who did their apprenticeship at Vandervell of Vanwall F1 car fame, and my first year was spent in the same buildings as they built the Vanwall cars. If anybody is interested. My Trainer Ralph worked on the cars back in the day. So nice to be involved in a bit of Automotive history.
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Mail sorter... Boring as hell but pays the bills. :happy2:
Whereabouts ILoveTuna?
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Sunny Wolverhampton.
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I export locks & door security products for a company called Assa Abloy, who own the likes of Yale, Chubb, Medeco, Mul-T-Lock etc.
Not massivly exciting but something we all need!
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Sunny Wolverhampton.
Darn Sarf for me!
Not much Sunnier believe me!
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I wear many hats for the company I`m working for at the moment.
NICEIC Qualifying Manager for an Electrical Testing Company.
Qualified Supervisor in overall charge for two teams of Fixed Electrical Testing Engineers. (only a small firm)
Training Manager in charge of keeping all of us up-to-date when things change.
In summery I`m a Qualified Electrical Technician, that done loads of course's.. :ashamed:
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I'm a joiner and I hate it, always have! Looking to get into something like Quantity Surveying
Matt
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Paramedic :smiley:
As well as working on a response car doing the normal 999 calls I have also had specialist training to deal with the more dangerous stuff. This includes chemical incidents, jobs which involve working at height, confined spaces, difficult access jobs, major incidents and I'm also trained in the use of breathing apparatus.....anything deemed hazardous and slightly out of the ordinary compared to the run of the mill 999 calls.
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I make sticky mess's on other peoples cars :grin:
...and design graphics for race/track cars
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Pilot. Really, don't. You'd be much better pushing on with the engineering, then if you had the travel bug, head out to Asia and build a career.
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Pilot Fly this:
(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aviationexplorer.com%2FPrivate_Jets%2Fcessna_citation_sovereign_private_jet.jpg&hash=daec74ad37c90e07e5f069fe01570d1797cb7686)
But wouldn't let my kids do it, thats to say its a great job but they probably wont be able to afford to in 20 years time blame your £10 Malaga ticket and Michael O Leary (CEO ryanair)
Much nicer and a lot more fun than my A300! :wink:
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Financial Planning Manager, world of financial services is what it is...... Would say boring but after seeing one of my branches i work in getting raided, its been an interesting week!
Full respect for the two lads that are serving blues, your doing my dream job, but for some reason i have never been successful, 7 applications later :rolleye:
Police may well get paid overtime, but they bloody deserve it! My best friend has made DS after 10 years in the job, last week he started at 7am, he got home the following morning at 3am as some idiot decided to cut someone up after going on a drugs & booze bender :fighting:
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Own company, employ 38 people, manufacture Carpet Underlay and manufacturer Nylon Fibre which we sell to Carpet Tile manufacturers http://www.heckmondwike-fb.co.uk/ & http://www.burmatex.co.uk/
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You own them rich??
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Pilot. Really, don't. You'd be much better pushing on with the engineering, then if you had the travel bug, head out to Asia and build a career.
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Pilot Fly this:
(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aviationexplorer.com%2FPrivate_Jets%2Fcessna_citation_sovereign_private_jet.jpg&hash=daec74ad37c90e07e5f069fe01570d1797cb7686)
But wouldn't let my kids do it, thats to say its a great job but they probably wont be able to afford to in 20 years time blame your £10 Malaga ticket and Michael O Leary (CEO ryanair)
Much nicer and a lot more fun than my A300! :wink:
Probably ........Wanna swap rosters ? :wink: :grin:
Thought so :signLOL:
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Logistic Packaging Engineer
Design / develope packaging solutions to deliver Car components around Europe for the OEM's
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I'm a musician!
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I work in I.T, I also write my own iPhone, iPod Touch & iPad apps (check my sig!) and have been known to dabble in a bit of Music ;)
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Maintenance Engineer in the food industry for the last 6/7 years. Mechanicaly bias with good electrical backup. Looking after all sorts of packing, forming, printing, chopping, cutting, heating etc etc machines.
As of Monday I start a new job as a Lead Fitter for a world wide company that manufacture ceiling tiles :smiley:
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My educations is officer of the reserve in the army, research lab tech. working with DNA. But the last 9 years i have worked as a power tech. on the main grid, servicing the 0,4Kv and 10Kv lines of Zealland. :happy2:
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I'm an auto electrician working for national express fixing coaches and buses but also do mechanical work on them when I'm needed :signLOL:
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Refractive surgeon :smiley:
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Refractive surgeon :smiley:
Group buy????? :signLOL:
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I have a degree in Geology, used to be a geotechnical engineer testing mud and soil for the chemical and physical suitability for building on. But now I work for an international network selling commercial bandwidth to companies in carrier neutral datacenters. Always wished I had stuck with the practical stuff would be much happier tinkering and fixing things than writing proposals, best thing about my job is the interaction with people.
OP as mentioned think the best bet would be to find a company that will sponsor you through further education while you work for them, degrees are all well and good but now adays unless you have a first or minimum of a 2:1 at the other end of it you will struggle to see a massive advantage in a specialist industry. From someone who ended up with a 2:2 hardly any graduate scheme will be interested its too competitive a market!
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Refractive surgeon :smiley:
what does a refractive surgeon operate on?
i work in emerging markets at an investment bank = national hate figure! :pomppomp:
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Refractive surgeon :smiley:
what does a refractive surgeon operate on?
i work in emerging markets at an investment bank = national hate figure! :pomppomp:
thats eye surgery innit?
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I don't have time to work... I'm lucky enough to have retired over 10 years ago and used to run my own graphic design consultancy based in Chelsea and with a few international and filthy rich clients.
I suppose that I am now a musician but I don't do so for a living.
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It's fascinating reading what everyone here does - There's such a wide variety and we all have something in common: A love and enthusiasm for performance cars :drinking: :grouphug:
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Im a cinema projectionist/digital media technician
and drive class 2 wagons in my spare time :happy2:
10-4 rubberduckies :laugh:
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pipeline inspector on north sea oil platform. hate it apart from the time off :happy2:
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employed/self employed wholesaler. :smiley:
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I have to say this has been one of the best threads I have read for a while.
I am amazed at the varied careers TBH.
Really interesting.
J
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Race Mechanic for Drayson Racing.
Used to work for SWRT and since then have worked on Aston Martins and LMP1 cars and done Le Mans twice with our very own jonnyc.
Cal
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IT security consultant.
I design firewall networks basically, current one is a global estate of around 350. Also Cisco boxes, WAN/LAN blah blah...
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employed/self employed wholesaler. :smiley:
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:signLOL: :signLOL:
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Fair few engineers on here :happy2:
Systems engineer for Frazer-Nash Research, designing electronics for electric cars (amongst other things) :)
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This is turning into my favourite tread. Very interesting to see what people do for a living :popcornsoda:
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Telecom Engineer, phones init? Not quite I work on VOIP, TDM all sorts of signalling e.g. SIP, Unistim, C7, Q931, etc.
So if your phone don't work it's probably my fault. :sad1:
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Was working in IT for 4y now am more than 2y self-employed as day trader. Am trading mostly with UK spread betters...
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I own a consultancy company specialising in new start ups, interim management, sales training, crisis management, blah blah blah !
We have a number of focuses but mine is hospitality, predominately football clubs, so i set up and consult or train the staff within them !
We also work with businesses who want to promote their products online and give them sales and marketing plans or do it for them, like the products on our eBay store that is linked in my Sig !
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Quantity Surveyor
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Satellite Engineer for a small well know Broadcasting Company for the past 13 years. :chicken:.
Previously a Marine Engineer in the Performance Powerboat sector.
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Race Mechanic for Drayson Racing.
Used to work for SWRT and since then have worked on Aston Martins and LMP1 cars and done Le Mans twice with our very own jonnyc.
Cal
....Say Hi to Jonny - He's a top bloke :drinking:
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employed/self employed wholesaler. :smiley:
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....You beat me to it, VC! :happy2: Although my thoughts were a bit more inclined towards Rodney. There's more than a passing likeness :evilgrin:
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Dont you start! :booty: :booty:
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:surprised: :signLOL:
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I love it when you two lock horns. :grin:
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self employed truck driver
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I clean roads cones for a living usually on the M6. :happy2:
Ok so so i lied. I does this
And a bit of this, Balfours version though, with different stickers. :happy2:
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Dont you start! :booty: :booty:
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spat coffee on the screen at that one :signLOL:
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You can see by the handpositioning that it ain't RR :grin:
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Software Engineer, making the mobile internet work for you (or not as the case may be). In short we write software for mobile operators such as Vodafone, O2 etc. etc.
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Mechanical and Electrical design engineer in the army.
But not for much longer if they change the pension like the papers said today :fighting:
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I clean roads cones for a living usually on the M6. :happy2:
Ok so so i lied. I does this
And a bit of this, Balfours version though, with different stickers. :happy2:
OH WELL!!!! if we're posting video....... :wink: :happy2:
:star: :star: :star: :star: :star: :star: :star:
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^^^^^^^
That video is well better than TC's :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin:
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DaveB you have a lovely singing voice, though you did sound like Eveness. Not sure i would be singing while landing. :scared: :P
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you held that camera so still whilst landing it as well. You've obviously practised :grin:
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Nice vid... Our airports shut at the slightest bit of dandruff on the ground.
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I clean roads cones for a living usually on the M6. :happy2:
Ok so so i lied. I does this
And a bit of this, Balfours version though, with different stickers. :happy2:
So top cat your in the rail industry aswell then! what area do you cover for balfour beaty? i work for Readypower if you have heard of them?! supply road railers, digging bugs ect!
mitch
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i write code (sometimes) and look after development issues for an arm of a well known used (and recently new cars too) automotive selling website :happy2:
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Electrical Engineer for the Underground
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Lost of us Engineer type's on here :happy2:
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IT ...Computer Operator for RWE (Owners of npower) based in the midlands.
Look after the whole company estate Network both in the UK, part Germany and some parts in the Cech Republic. IT Helpdesk out of hours. Mainframe and Cosbatch, MVS, JCL, UNIX (all flavours). Tape Librarian :signLOL: . Lots of monitoring and batch work etc.
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Cool mixture of careers and employment here :happy2:
I'm a Service Desk Engineer and CRM Account Manager for a small business.
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I used to crew on Superyachts...
Now I work as a Marine Consultant for the RBS Group and also work occasionally as a bouncer!
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Bricklayer man and boy , and I love it :laugh:
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One more to the engineering pile. Aircraft engineer on search and rescue helicopters in the South West. Really enjoyable job but very uncertain future at the moment
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Freelance Aircraft Engineer, commercial or military :smiley:
Ok I'm a contract aircraft fitter that goes to whoever is payin the most :laugh:
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I'm an Engineer for Otis Elevators, world's largest lift company and a member of the United Technologies Corporation :smiley:
Carry out service repair and call-outs on lifts, platforms, escalators and pretty much anything else that goes up and down, covering the NW, North Wales and the Midlands
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Freelance Aircraft Engineer, commercial or military :smiley:
Ok I'm a contract aircraft fitter that goes to whoever is payin the most :laugh:
So who is paying the most at the moment?
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Ive jumped on the video bandwagon lol, hope this works.....
and im the 1st car through in this clip, worth watching for the spin near the end of the clip :notworthy: :signLOL:
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I'm an Engineer for Otis Elevators, world's largest lift company and a member of the United Technologies Corporation :smiley:
Carry out service repair and call-outs on lifts, platforms, escalators and pretty much anything else that goes up and down, covering the NW, North Wales and the Midlands, lounge, dining room, bedroom, back garden in the summer
:happy2: :grin: :grin:
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I'm an Engineer for Otis Elevators, world's largest lift company and a member of the United Technologies Corporation :smiley:
Carry out service repair and call-outs on lifts, platforms, escalators and pretty much anything else that goes up and down, covering the NW, North Wales and the Midlands, lounge, dining room, bedroom, back garden in the summer
:happy2: :grin: :grin:
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I have miniature lifts in each of those locations so just keeping my training up :grin:
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Beddie is it true OTIS have an office in Reading? :grin:
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Shift manager at a papermaking company managing 25 operators, electricians and fitters. Convert paper to Kitchen rolls, toilet rolls, napkins, tissues, wipers etc.
Originally did my HND in mechanical and production engineering, so ended up implementing what I was educated for. :smiley:
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Freelance Aircraft Engineer, commercial or military :smiley:
Ok I'm a contract aircraft fitter that goes to whoever is payin the most :laugh:
So who is paying the most at the moment?
rates are pony at the minute mate, but I'm at Monarch Manchester
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Beddie is it true OTIS have an office in Reading? :grin:
Yeah we do :signLOL:
It's in Wokingham and i really do hope they answer the phone 'Hello, Otis Reading' :grin:
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Beddie is it true OTIS have an office in Reading? :grin:
Yeah we do :signLOL:
It's in Wokingham and i really do hope they answer the phone 'Hello, Otis Reading' :grin:
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Excellent, I always crack that 'joke' whenever I get in one of your lifts and now I know I'm not spouting crap! :grin:
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R&D Mechanical, Electrical & Electronic Engineer.
My official title is Product Development Engineer, but i seem to do everything from special one off projects from start to finish, production machine design, golden sample building, component sourcing/buying, BOMs, build files, test documentation, manuals, final customer & production problem solving, prototype testing, production of machines and PCBs, Quality control, calibration, testing, servicing and much more......
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Beddie is it true OTIS have an office in Reading? :grin:
Yeah we do :signLOL:
It's in Wokingham and i really do hope they answer the phone 'Hello, Otis Reading' :grin:
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Excellent, I always crack that 'joke' whenever I get in one of your lifts and now I know I'm not spouting crap! :grin:
Haha! It's a better one than the usual comment i get about 'are Schindler lifts really named after the movie?'... :grin:
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R&D Mechanical, Electrical & Electronic Engineer.
My official title is Product Development Engineer, but i seem to do everything from special one off projects from start to finish, production machine design, golden sample building, component sourcing/buying, BOMs, build files, test documentation, manuals, final customer & production problem solving, prototype testing, production of machines and PCBs, Quality control, calibration, testing, servicing and much more......
Didn't know you were a engineer too, Geof :happy2:
Any jobs going :signLOL:
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Beddie is it true OTIS have an office in Reading? :grin:
Yeah we do :signLOL:
It's in Wokingham and i really do hope they answer the phone 'Hello, Otis Reading' :grin:
:signLOL:
Excellent, I always crack that 'joke' whenever I get in one of your lifts and now I know I'm not spouting crap! :grin:
Haha! It's a better one than the usual comment i get about 'are Schindler lifts really named after the movie?'... :grin:
:signLOL:
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Dont want to get political but this overtime thing is a joke, i read one chap earned £66k in overtime alone last year.. Just think about the 18 year old squaddie on £14-16k in afghanistan right now dodging bullets and iod's every day does he get paid for overtime.. No, it kind of puts your argument in perspective. You've been getting paid far too much for too long and its time to get real, all imo of course
Don't mean to throw this off topic also but try to tell the family of David Rathband that he is overpaid for what he does/did.
The guy who earnt £66k worked for it, yes it is excessive, but he must have worked every opportunity.
Not a lot of people know as well, but if you work over your shift, IE, 2pm-midnight, if you still have paperwork/prisoner etc and don't finish until 1am,2am etc, that you give the first half an hour for the queen, so you work an hour and only get paid for half, tell me any other job where they can do that?!
I put my life on the line daily and get paid £29 000 a year, do you think that is too much?!
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100% agree Al, what is wrong with overtime. :chicken: Its cheaper to pay overtime than to employ more staff. Some of the lads i work with take home lots of money while others complain about them. In reality they are paid the same rate, just put in more hours.
£29,000 is a pittance for having to chase and collect the scum of society day in day out. :drinking:
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Hair dresser for my sins.
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so you work an hour and only get paid for half, tell me any other job where they can do that?!
Mine :fighting:
I'm expected to give the first 30 mins of my first hours overtime if working on my own patch foc too!
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Dont want to get political but this overtime thing is a joke, i read one chap earned £66k in overtime alone last year.. Just think about the 18 year old squaddie on £14-16k in afghanistan right now dodging bullets and iod's every day does he get paid for overtime.. No, it kind of puts your argument in perspective. You've been getting paid far too much for too long and its time to get real, all imo of course
Don't mean to throw this off topic also but try to tell the family of David Rathband that he is overpaid for what he does/did.
The guy who earnt £66k worked for it, yes it is excessive, but he must have worked every opportunity.
Not a lot of people know as well, but if you work over your shift, IE, 2pm-midnight, if you still have paperwork/prisoner etc and don't finish until 1am,2am etc, that you give the first half an hour for the queen, so you work an hour and only get paid for half, tell me any other job where they can do that?!
I put my life on the line daily and get paid £29 000 a year, do you think that is too much?!
the lowest paid squaddies on the frontline are on alot more than 14-16k when in afghan.
By the time they get the long separation allowance and operation allowance (tax rebate) it works out another £6000 ontop of the minimum 16k annual wage.
However there are lots of guys specifically the specialist trades who earn less than the equivalent civilian jobs. i could easily get the same job i have now in london or on airfields etc earning another 10-15k over what i do now doing M&E building services and facilities management however the pension we accrue over our career makes up for that loss. hence we all stick it out.
But if they drop the pension system were on, as the papers seem to think ill get straight out as will huge amounts of the senior members of the forces especially the technical streams who are only staying in to fulfil the pension criteria. take it away, we might as well get out as theres no incentive anymore.
i dont mind the wage freezing and other cuts, but the pension is a no go.
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Dont you start! :booty: :booty:
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That is hilarious! :grin:
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I'm a Technical Director of a Web Agency, in short I build websites :)
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Release Project Manager delivering software into UK multi franchise Dealerships.
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Dont want to get political but this overtime thing is a joke, i read one chap earned £66k in overtime alone last year.. Just think about the 18 year old squaddie on £14-16k in afghanistan right now dodging bullets and iod's every day does he get paid for overtime.. No, it kind of puts your argument in perspective. You've been getting paid far too much for too long and its time to get real, all imo of course
Don't mean to throw this off topic also but try to tell the family of David Rathband that he is overpaid for what he does/did.
The guy who earnt £66k worked for it, yes it is excessive, but he must have worked every opportunity.
Not a lot of people know as well, but if you work over your shift, IE, 2pm-midnight, if you still have paperwork/prisoner etc and don't finish until 1am,2am etc, that you give the first half an hour for the queen, so you work an hour and only get paid for half, tell me any other job where they can do that?!
I put my life on the line daily and get paid £29 000 a year, do you think that is too much?!
the lowest paid squaddies on the frontline are on alot more than 14-16k when in afghan.
By the time they get the long separation allowance and operation allowance (tax rebate) it works out another £6000 ontop of the minimum 16k annual wage.
However there are lots of guys specifically the specialist trades who earn less than the equivalent civilian jobs. i could easily get the same job i have now in london or on airfields etc earning another 10-15k over what i do now doing M&E building services and facilities management however the pension we accrue over our career makes up for that loss. hence we all stick it out.
But if they drop the pension system were on, as the papers seem to think ill get straight out as will huge amounts of the senior members of the forces especially the technical streams who are only staying in to fulfil the pension criteria. take it away, we might as well get out as theres no incentive anymore.
i dont mind the wage freezing and other cuts, but the pension is a no go.
The goverment are already gearing up for a fight.....I wonder whether the public know how much highly paid Judges pay into their huge state pensions....1.8% !! On their huge salaries too...way below us little workers...the Police pay the highest at 11% shortlty to be 15% of salary. What do our wonder politicians pay? Half of them public educated lawyers many on board of directorships and many get 24 hr Police protection for life even when retired out of cabinet...treated like royalty in their cacooned bubbleworlds.
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Trained as a mechanic but now Manager of a tyre and exhaust company
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Lots of engineers and technicians on here.
Maybe that's why we're on here, the reason of liking how things work and bettering them?
Civil Engineer myself.
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I clean roads cones for a living usually on the M6. :happy2:
Ok so so i lied. I does this
And a bit of this, Balfours version though, with different stickers. :happy2:
OH WELL!!!! if we're posting video....... :wink: :happy2:
:star: :star: :star: :star: :star: :star: :star:
You want hairy, try the Friday night Ibiza!
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Freelance Aircraft Engineer, commercial or military :smiley:
Ok I'm a contract aircraft fitter that goes to whoever is payin the most :laugh:
So who is paying the most at the moment?
rates are pony at the minute mate, but I'm at Monarch Manchester
That explains a lot :happy2: can you cure the bogs on Miss Piggy?
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I clean roads cones for a living usually on the M6. :happy2:
Ok so so i lied. I does this
And a bit of this, Balfours version though, with different stickers. :happy2:
OH WELL!!!! if we're posting video....... :wink: :happy2:
:star: :star: :star: :star: :star: :star: :star:
You want hairy, try the Friday night Ibiza!
What the flying or clientele??? Must be the clientele got a 250 till 3 there last time :driver:
Do you know Andy Smart? And whats the problem with the toilets? Overfilling?? Straight and Level so you dont spill any ???? :laugh:
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Didn't know you were a engineer too, Geof :happy2:
Any jobs going :signLOL:
Its why when you were looking for a job i said i would keep an eye out :smiley:
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Im a driver/valet...get to drive some nice cars but I do have a degree in Business Computing. I am lacking experience so effectively im a graduate without a job.
IMO get an apprentice position and they will be investing in you. The salary may start off low but will increase much quicker than what I am doing. Still looking for a career move myself!!
My 2p worth on the Police issue, a mate of mine was paid to sat on the moors all day waiting for a lad on an off road motorbike because its where his superior lives. Ridiculous, in that aspect I dont agree but as the officer on here has said, if something happens towards the end of your shift then there is nothing you can do about that. Cant pack up and go home.
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They cant pack up and go home but they can turn a blind eye lol
Overtime is key to my job and over 60% of my wages come from OT.
I'm a Maintenance Fitter and Valve Service Technician in the Petro-Chem industry for 6 months of the year.
I'm a Doley Bum for the other 6 months
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wow there are quite a few Aircraft engineer/technicians on here you lucky bunch of gits :notworthy: :notworthy:
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Didn't know you were a engineer too, Geof :happy2:
Any jobs going :signLOL:
Its why when you were looking for a job i said i would keep an eye out :smiley:
Appreciate it too, Geof :happy2:
Start at Armstrongs on the valley on Monday :innocent:
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stock manager at argos in banbury, pays the bills just
alex
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Maintenance engineer at a dairy. The company takes in lots of milk and turns it into skimmed milk powder and butter. Near on 2.5 million litres a day in the busy part of the year and 1.5 million litres of water down the drain that's evaporated from the milk. I'm electrical bias, but do a bit of most stuff, working on my own a fair bit.
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work nights for these guys:
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I'm a full time firefighter and part time detailer. I get alot if days off due to my shift patterns, so they get filled up with my passion for cleaning and detailing cars. :smiley:
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Damn, I've got the worst job on here so far making datsuns for a living :sad1: :sad1: :sad1: :sad1:
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Building datsuns can't be too bad. What about trying to wash a car when it's -7 outside! Haha!
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im an electrical engineer, specialise in cctv, fibre optics, and security systems. we do the cctv for 90% of the housing estates in glasgow and a few police stations so as you can imagine i get to see some wierd and wonderful things on camera :grin: altho i dont get paid enough because theres so many things i want to buy for my gti that i cant afford lol :sad1:
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Full time copper for me too......the bullseye on Cameron's fund cut dart board :stupid: :fighting: :mad:
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Dont want to get political but this overtime thing is a joke, i read one chap earned £66k in overtime alone last year.. Just think about the 18 year old squaddie on £14-16k in afghanistan right now dodging bullets and iod's every day does he get paid for overtime.. No, it kind of puts your argument in perspective. You've been getting paid far too much for too long and its time to get real, all imo of course
And you believe what the papers say?
If a police officer got £66000 in overtime then he must have worked for the money. Basic maximum pay for a PC is £36000. If he got paid at double time for all of it he would have had to work 40 extra hours a week. thats 80 hours total a week. :evilgrin:
Guess what i do !
Yes thats right a Police Officer too :innocent:
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I shoot guns for the queen and do as im told.... sometimes :evilgrin:
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I shoot guns for the queen and do as im told.... sometimes :evilgrin:
....Royal Artillery gunner or a royal gamekeeper?
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I shoot guns for the queen and do as im told.... sometimes :evilgrin:
....Royal Artillery gunner or a royal gamekeeper?
Close but no Cigar.
Royal Armoured Core
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Royal Armoured Core
:signLOL:
Is that like the Royal Armoured Corps :P
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Royal Armoured Core
:signLOL:
Is that like the Royal Armoured Corps :P
we call it the core, it makes us sound tougher
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Royal Armoured Core
:signLOL:
Is that like the Royal Armoured Corps :P
we call it the core, it makes us sound tougher
....Don't you mean it makes you sound harder? Like in hardcore.
Hmm, and you work for a queen... Gay porn star? [RR dons helmet and ducks to avoid incoming]
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Royal Armoured Core
:signLOL:Is that like the Royal Armoured Corps :P
:laugh: :laugh:
was just about to say the same.
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Hard Corps
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Hard Corps
you know the score! :grin:
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Dont want to get political but this overtime thing is a joke, i read one chap earned £66k in overtime alone last year.. Just think about the 18 year old squaddie on £14-16k in afghanistan right now dodging bullets and iod's every day does he get paid for overtime.. No, it kind of puts your argument in perspective. You've been getting paid far too much for too long and its time to get real, all imo of course
Don't mean to throw this off topic also but try to tell the family of David Rathband that he is overpaid for what he does/did.
The guy who earnt £66k worked for it, yes it is excessive, but he must have worked every opportunity.
Not a lot of people know as well, but if you work over your shift, IE, 2pm-midnight, if you still have paperwork/prisoner etc and don't finish until 1am,2am etc, that you give the first half an hour for the queen, so you work an hour and only get paid for half, tell me any other job where they can do that?!
I put my life on the line daily and get paid £29 000 a year, do you think that is too much?!
the lowest paid squaddies on the frontline are on alot more than 14-16k when in afghan.
By the time they get the long separation allowance and operation allowance (tax rebate) it works out another £6000 ontop of the minimum 16k annual wage.
And its still not enough, but i wont go into it as,this is not the topic for it.
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Royal Armoured Core
:signLOL:Is that like the Royal Armoured Corps :P
:laugh: :laugh:
was just about to say the same.
:fighting2: And this is what happens when i reply using an iphone with Spelling / text replacement :confused:
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Hard Corps
you know the score! :grin:
Ir is it scorp?
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Hard Corps
you know the score! :grin:
Ir is it scorp?
All aboard the FAIL train! Chooo chooo! :signLOL:
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Full Time - Interior Designer
Part Time - Grease Monkey
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Hard Corps
you know the score! :grin:
Ir is it scorp?
All aboard the FAIL train! Chooo chooo! :signLOL:
Dammit, I is a gud spelist, two!
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Wow we've got a real good mix of jobs on here :congrats: this has turned into an amazing thread :happy2:
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Hard Corps
you know the score! :grin:
Spacious..... :signLOL:
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Motor trade Accountant - I'm Mr Boring, but I like my cars - see my sig below!!
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Graduate Property Surveyor.
Dealing with the sale of commercial property assets as fixed charge receiver, on behalf of the banks.
(not an estate agent :signLOL:)
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I'm a student at Bournemouth University studying Software Engineering Management on the Software Systems Framework. :laugh:
Currently, I'm in my 3rd year on placement with a leading IT firm. I provide software support for some specific Business Analytics software. I'm Looking to get into Consulting or Sales once I graduate next year.
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Investment Manager for a boutique investment house that creates portfolios for high net-worth clientele.
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Im a hero for distraught women
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Im a hero for distraught women
......the makeup counter in boots? :laugh:
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I'm a Traffic Policeman .... :evilgrin:
I specialised within that and now manage the investigations into Fatal Collisions and deal with the families ......
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I'm a Traffic Policeman .... :evilgrin:
I specialised within that and now manage the investigations into Fatal Collisions and deal with the families ......
what a nice job, suppose somebody has to do it
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I'm a Traffic Policeman .... :evilgrin:
I specialised within that and now manage the investigations into Fatal Collisions and deal with the families ......
I'd pay good money to do a week on the job seizing cars off scummers. :evilgrin:
The other bit I have no envy of.
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I'm a Traffic Policeman .... :evilgrin:
I specialised within that and now manage the investigations into Fatal Collisions and deal with the families ......
I'd pay good money to do a week on the job seizing cars off scummers. :evilgrin:
The other bit I have no envy of.
I'm plain clothes .... it's only the last bit I do now .... :(
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I'm a Traffic Policeman .... :evilgrin:
I specialised within that and now manage the investigations into Fatal Collisions and deal with the families ......
An FLO? guess it's not a good thing I know that! We've had "the knock"
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Im head receptionist/trainee manager at Goals Soccer Centre and I also compete horses :smiley:
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Im head receptionist/trainee manager at Goals Soccer Centre and I also compete horses :smiley:
ohh cool
My friend Tina and Graham, also compete in horses and are trying for olympics at the moment
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I used to work with horses but not for a living. I studied Natural Horsemanship and 'worked' at private stables: One stable of 14 American Quarter Horses :notworthy: and the other private stable with 3 Endurance Event Arab Horses and one very frisky Arab youngster (from 6 months to 2 years old) who I had a heck of a job convincing that I wasn't a horse! I have a wonderful story about just how clever that horse was but it's very long and very off-topic.
So how do you compete horses, Tara? Trainer? Rider?
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An FLO? guess it's not a good thing I know that! We've had "the knock"
Yes, I am an FLO ... but do that job alongside dealing with my own investigations .... I don't act as FLO for the jobs I am managing as it causes complications - and a totally screwed up head !
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I used to work with horses but not for a living. I studied Natural Horsemanship and 'worked' at private stables: One stable of 14 American Quarter Horses :notworthy: and the other private stable with 3 Endurance Event Arab Horses and one very frisky Arab youngster (from 6 months to 2 years old) who I had a heck of a job convincing that I wasn't a horse! I have a wonderful story about just how clever that horse was but it's very long and very off-topic.
So how do you compete horses, Tara? Trainer? Rider?
Rider :) I showjump
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An FLO? guess it's not a good thing I know that! We've had "the knock"
Yes, I am an FLO ... but do that job alongside dealing with my own investigations .... I don't act as FLO for the jobs I am managing as it causes complications - and a totally screwed up head !
Yeh I bet. Your a brave guy mate. A screwed up head is not the best. We've got a restraining order against our flo after he was trying to be a bit more of a shoulder to cry on to the widow. Crazy lol. I know they're not all like that though ;)
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I used to work with horses but not for a living. I studied Natural Horsemanship and 'worked' at private stables: One stable of 14 American Quarter Horses :notworthy: and the other private stable with 3 Endurance Event Arab Horses and one very frisky Arab youngster (from 6 months to 2 years old) who I had a heck of a job convincing that I wasn't a horse! I have a wonderful story about just how clever that horse was but it's very long and very off-topic.
So how do you compete horses, Tara? Trainer? Rider?
Rider :) I showjump
so do my friends,
maybe you heard of them, Tina fletcher, graham fletcher,both have been competing for many years
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An FLO? guess it's not a good thing I know that! We've had "the knock"
Yes, I am an FLO ... but do that job alongside dealing with my own investigations .... I don't act as FLO for the jobs I am managing as it causes complications - and a totally screwed up head !
Yeh I bet. Your a brave guy mate. A screwed up head is not the best. We've got a restraining order against our flo after he was trying to be a bit more of a shoulder to cry on to the widow. Crazy lol. I know they're not all like that though ;)
OMG :surprised: No, they are not normally like that ! It is sometimes very rewarding if you can ease a families pain .... but not supposed to be that rewarding !!
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Civil Engineer - Construction
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Specialist Social Worker (Mental Health)...and the only one on here thus far...don't hate me please, someone's gotta do it!
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Specialist Social Worker (Mental Health)...and the only one on here thus far...don't hate me please, someone's gotta do it!
Why would we hate you, do you beat up them up. :chicken: Nothing but admiration for you guys.
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I have a mate in child protection who's job it is to rip families apart, all for the good of the child but gotta be one of the toughest jobs out there.
Social workers get alot of respect from me :happy2:
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Specialist Social Worker (Mental Health)
You've come to the right place. It must be a bit like a busmans holiday here. :laugh:
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Another Civil Engineer to add to the tally. I design road maintenance schemes for the motorways in the northwest of England. So yes I am the one responsible for all those cones on the motorway. :grin:
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Specialist Social Worker (Mental Health)...and the only one on here thus far...don't hate me please, someone's gotta do it!
A very apt forum name if I might say :congrats:
TonyZ
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Specialist Social Worker (Mental Health)
You've come to the right place. It must be a bit like a busmans holiday here. :laugh:
Was thinking exactly the same! You got your work cut out here though! :signLOL:
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Another Civil Engineer to add to the tally. I design road maintenance schemes for the motorways in the northwest of England. So yes I am the one responsible for all those cones on the motorway. :grin:
and the pot holes :grin:
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Another Civil Engineer to add to the tally. I design road maintenance schemes for the motorways in the northwest of England. So yes I am the one responsible for all those cones on the motorway. :grin:
and the pot holes :grin:
Why is no one sorting out the M62 between manchester and liverpool? Its got to be the worst laid motorway in england. :mad:
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Another Civil Engineer to add to the tally. I design road maintenance schemes for the motorways in the northwest of England. So yes I am the one responsible for all those cones on the motorway. :grin:
and the pot holes :grin:
Why is no one sorting out the M62 between manchester and liverpool? Its got to be the worst laid motorway in england. :mad:
because most mancs and scousers don't realise the wheels are missing off there car till they hit the m62,it would be busted again within a week
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I work for BT Retail managing Business orders for Medium to large companies :innocent:
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Caravan technician :happy2:
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Specialist Social Worker (Mental Health)...and the only one on here thus far...don't hate me please, someone's gotta do it!
Why would we hate you, do you beat up them up. :chicken: Nothing but admiration for you guys.
generally the very mention of being a social worker conjures up all sorts of negative conotations in many people's minds. thanks for the support from yourself and others below. :happy2: cheers!
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There's some interesting jobs on here :happy2:
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Just realised I have not posted in here yet - been a tad busy. I am an Assistant Headteacher at a specialist technology college in Basingstoke. Been teaching for 17 years and would not change my job for the world. Graduated and then did my PGCE in Geography and Outdoor education whilst also doing my masters. Got lots of outdoor qualifications including Winter/Summer MLTB, BCU Level 4 coach, orienteering, climbing etc...- certainly one big paper chase, especially with all this legislation and accountability. In 2000 transferred across to becoming Head of IT - hold quite a few IT related qualification including Cisco CCNA/P, loads of MCSE stuff and am also an Apple Educator :happy2: Still love being in the classroom, but only spend 20% of my time there now being involved in strategic management of the school.
Must say I have really enjoyed following this post - found it interesting and eye opening :happy2:
Dom
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im an electrical engineer\designer in the leisure retail industry , if you ve been in clubs such as flares , reflex , rb s or time up and down the uk you ve seen my work
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lift engineer. remove old lifts install new ones always working away from home
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lift engineer. remove old lifts install new ones always working away from home
I used to work on lifts :happy2: I was always working away nights out... that's why I jacked it in. Gud job tho
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lift engineer. remove old lifts install new ones always working away from home
I bet that job has it's ups and downs eh?
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lift engineer. remove old lifts install new ones always working away from home
I bet that job has it's ups and downs eh? the old ones are the best :signLOL:
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Sorry mate, I couldn't resist that one!
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on building site no one even looks on the road you are on but when you have the lift up and running
everybody wants to be you friend.
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lift engineer. remove old lifts install new ones always working away from home
Same here, who do you work for mate? :happy2:
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i'll take a guess and say optis ?
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i'll take a guess and say optis ?
Not sure who they are, but i work for OTIS... lol :wink:
There are literally hundreds of lift companies out there though..
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lmao yeah them :signLOL: :signLOL:
yeah but otis are the biggest aren't they ?
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Yeah Otis are the biggest lift company, guess i should also say the best but my nose will only get bigger... :signLOL:
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worked for express then otis got out of otis seven years ago best move ive made
work for a large company with a very small lift dep cbes do a lot of work on asda
jobs
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worked for express then otis
Same route as me then :happy2:
Started as an apprentice at Express, went through the Express Evans merger and finally to Otis, 20 years for me this year man and boy :signLOL:
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Kone then?
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Lot of interesting jobs on here! Am self employed, property proprietor, run a takeaway and just opened up a new chippy (3 weeks this sunday) :smiley:
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IT ...Computer Operator for RWE (Owners of npower) based in the midlands.
Look after the whole company estate Network both in the UK, part Germany and some parts in the Cech Republic. IT Helpdesk out of hours. Mainframe and Cosbatch, MVS, JCL, UNIX (all flavours). Tape Librarian :signLOL: . Lots of monitoring and batch work etc.
Same job here, apart form MVS, and JCL that is. I work on Solaris and VMS platforms mainly now for Accenture, with various others. We dont do out of hours Helpdesk anymore, (used to when I worked for EDS and Airtours years back though). Used Cos systems back then too on Unix boxes.
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beddie what area did you work out off for express evans then otis i mabey know you
im fae glasgow
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i'll take a guess and say optis ?
Not sure who they are, but i work for OTIS... lol :wink:
There are literally hundreds of lift companies out there though..
Booooo! :P I work for kone haha :happy2:
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I make car springs for ford,volvo,land rover company allevard rejna automotive. is great for powdercoating stuff black :smiley:
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beddie what area did you work out off for express evans then otis i mabey know you
im fae glasgow
Been at the Manchester branch since the Express days mate :happy2:
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Booooo! :P I work for Kone haha :happy2:
Booooooooo! :signLOL:
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Roadside Technician for a major breakdown organisation :driver:
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Booooo! :P I work for Kone haha :happy2:
Booooooooo! :signLOL:
Hahaha, how do you find OTIS to work for?
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Booooo! :P I work for Kone haha :happy2:
Booooooooo! :signLOL:
Hahaha, how do you find OTIS to work for?
Taz it's ups and downs. :evilgrin: I know I will grab my coat on the way out. :star:
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Booooo! :P I work for Kone haha :happy2:
Booooooooo! :signLOL:
Hahaha, how do you find OTIS to work for?
Taz it's ups and downs. :evilgrin: I know I will grab my coat on the way out. :star:
Haha if I had a fifer for every time I heard that! :P
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Hahaha, how do you find OTIS to work for?
It pays the bills i suppose... :signLOL:
Seriously though i cant complain, always done very well out of them although the OTT safety policy gets a little frustrating at times! For the most part i've always thought that working for any reasonably large lift company is the same as the next albeit with a different van and t-shirt :grin:
Got friends that work for Kone, Schindler, Pickerings, Rubax, Thyssen etc and my uncle works for Stannah and they all have the same moans and gripes lol
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Booooo! :P I work for Kone haha :happy2:
Booooooooo! :signLOL:
Hahaha, how do you find OTIS to work for?
Taz it's ups and downs. :evilgrin: I know I will grab my coat on the way out. :star:
Haha if I had a fifer for every time I heard that! :P
^^ If only! :signLOL:
And of course there is the other lift engineers fave... "oooh we've got the right man in with us if we get stuck".... er no you haven't actually as i'll be stuck with you :grin:
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Is it true that you can force a lift to go straight to a specific floor with a "magic button pressing sequence"? :signLOL:
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Hahaha, how do you find OTIS to work for?
It pays the bills i suppose... :signLOL:
Seriously though i cant complain, always done very well out of them although the OTT safety policy gets a little frustrating at times! For the most part i've always thought that working for any reasonably large lift company is the same as the next albeit with a different van and t-shirt :grin:
Got friends that work for Kone, Schindler, Pickerings, Rubax, Thyssen etc and my uncle works for Stannah and they all have the same moans and gripes lol
Yeah Kone have a ridiculous amounts of health and safety policies as well.
Booooo! :P I work for Kone haha :happy2:
Booooooooo! :signLOL:
Hahaha, how do you find OTIS to work for?
Taz it's ups and downs. :evilgrin: I know I will grab my coat on the way out. :star:
Haha if I had a fifer for every time I heard that! :P
^^ If only! :signLOL:
And of course there is the other lift engineers fave... "oooh we've got the right man in with us if we get stuck".... er no you haven't actually as i'll be stuck with you :grin:
that is also a classic haha
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Is it true that you can force a lift to go straight to a specific floor with a "magic button pressing sequence"? :signLOL:
Not on Kone lifts but on some elevators there is supposed to be a magic sequence :signLOL:
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Is it true that you can force a lift to go straight to a specific floor with a "magic button pressing sequence"? :signLOL:
Kind of but not in the same way as the t'internet would have you believe :wink:
Some lifts will be programmed not to travel to a restricted floor or a stockroom etc by a single press of the relevant car push but may need another button pressing before or after or even during pressing the restricted floor push, its usually the door close button if you fancy some unauthorised urban exploration haha!
The above method is rarely used now though as modern stuff will just have a card reader or pin keypad fitted, i however can play god from upstairs with my service tool and send you wherever i fancy and keep the doors shut.... :grin:
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Is it true that you can force a lift to go straight to a specific floor with a "magic button pressing sequence"? :signLOL:
Kind of but not in the same way as the t'internet would have you believe :wink:
Some lifts will be programmed not to travel to a restricted floor or a stockroom etc by a single press of the relevant car push but may need another button pressing before or after or even during pressing the restricted floor push, its usually the door close button if you fancy some unauthorised urban exploration haha!
The above method is rarely used now though as modern stuff will just have a card reader or pin keypad fitted, i however can play god from upstairs with my service tool and send you wherever i fancy and keep the doors shut.... :grin:
Which is ever so fun when a painter and decorator decides he wants to ride in the lift when you are testing it. That and crash stoping the lift, they don't tend to get in it again :evilgrin:
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Cracking thread guys.. :congrats: Shame on me for having not read it yet.. :ashamed:
Well when i'm not flying up the 1/4 mile strip or appearing in the tabloids :ashamed:, I'm normally travelling the country as a sales manager for a company that supply engineering equipement and signage to the rail industry.. :happy2:
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Roadside Technician for a major breakdown organisation :driver:
....VW Assistance/RAC by any chance?
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Armed Forces here :)
Survival Instructor for Royal Navy/Marines & Survival Equipment Supervisor
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Armed Forces here :)
Survival Instructor for Royal Navy/Marines & Survival Equipment Supervisor
Now that sounds like a top job!
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I clean roads cones for a living usually on the M6. :happy2:
Ok so so i lied. I does this
And a bit of this, Balfours version though, with different stickers. :happy2:
So top cat your in the rail industry aswell then! what area do you cover for balfour beaty? i work for Readypower if you have heard of them?! supply road railers, digging bugs ect!
mitch
I used to Work with those back when I was a technical engineer with Grantrail / Jarvis. Now I'm a project manager with Network Rail :happy2:
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Sadly for me i work all over the UK mainland. :sad1: Our office is based at Nottingham, i live in the Northwest, but could work anywhere from Aberdeen to Estleigh. I used to enjoy all the hotels and night life working away, but much prefer all my home comforts nowadays. :happy2:
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Armed Forces here :)
Survival Instructor for Royal Navy/Marines & Survival Equipment Supervisor
Now that sounds like a top job!
LoL yeah it pays the bills! :)
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Armed Forces here :)
Survival Instructor for Royal Navy/Marines & Survival Equipment Supervisor
Now that sounds like a top job!
LoL yeah it pays the bills! :)
So when you moving to Cosford then.... :signLOL:
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Armed Forces here :)
Survival Instructor for Royal Navy/Marines & Survival Equipment Supervisor
Now that sounds like a top job!
LoL yeah it pays the bills! :)
So when you moving to Cosford then.... :signLOL:
Huh? RAF Cosford. I ain't going there lol I did do a NVG course there once though lol
Currently at Cottesmore (well on sick leave for 6-7 weeks atm lol, only 5 weeks to go :laugh: ) but government decided to scrap the Harrier lol so will be going down to Culdrose in Cornwall in the near future :)
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Armed Forces here :)
Survival Instructor for Royal Navy/Marines & Survival Equipment Supervisor
Now that sounds like a top job!
LoL yeah it pays the bills! :)
So when you moving to Cosford then.... :signLOL:
Huh? RAF Cosford. I ain't going there lol I did do a NVG course there once though lol
Currently at Cottesmore (well on sick leave for 6-7 weeks atm lol, only 5 weeks to go :laugh: ) but government decided to scrap the Harrier lol so will be going down to Culdrose in Cornwall in the near future :)
:signLOL: Aye my cousin was in the strutures bay at Cottesmore working for BAe after retiring from the RAF a few years ago, bloody crying shame what thay have done to Harriers :fighting:. My wife is a Survival Equipment fitter, she's currently at Cosford teaching the sprogs Survival Equipment, she also been to Culdrose (ASRA testing in the late eighties) and was at Sultan a couple of years ago when they first kicked off the amalgamation of the schools... :laugh: We also holiday in Coverack each year so not far from Culdrose... :drinking:
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Armed Forces here :)
Survival Instructor for Royal Navy/Marines & Survival Equipment Supervisor
Now that sounds like a top job!
LoL yeah it pays the bills! :)
So when you moving to Cosford then.... :signLOL:
Huh? RAF Cosford. I ain't going there lol I did do a NVG course there once though lol
Currently at Cottesmore (well on sick leave for 6-7 weeks atm lol, only 5 weeks to go :laugh: ) but government decided to scrap the Harrier lol so will be going down to Culdrose in Cornwall in the near future :)
:signLOL: Aye my cousin was in the strutures bay at Cottesmore working for BAe after retiring from the RAF a few years ago, bloody crying shame what thay have done to Harriers :fighting:. My wife is a Survival Equipment fitter, she's currently at Cosford teaching the sprogs Survival Equipment, she also been to Culdrose (ASRA testing in the late eighties) and was at Sultan a couple of years ago when they first kicked off the amalgamation of the schools... :laugh: We also holiday in Coverack each year so not far from Culdrose... :drinking:
I was at Sultan back in 1997 :) Yeah Cosford is RAF Training School, I'm Navy and we do our training at Sultan :)
Bet you they are kicking theirselves now scrapping the harrier with Libya kicking off, idiots!
As for Culdrose, love it down in Cornwall, was based there 1998-2000, then also from 2006-2009. Yeah it miles from home as I'm from Scotland lol but I have ALOT of experience at NOT being home much lol
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I am a commercial and Finance Director of a Pharmacy service support business. I have a degree in Auto Engineering at Loughborough, used to build F1 engines then took a 'wrong' turn 15 years ago and became a chartered accountant and spent years in Corporate Finance :ashamed:
But it does pay for my hobbies :wink:
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From Building F1 Engines to Bean Counting...... Thats not a wrong turn mate thats a corrupted TomTom :grin:
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duct work erector but i own my own company .
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duct work erector. but i own my own company .
Oh really.......... :chicken:
being an Erector always will draw in the jokes :signLOL:
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Employment advisor helping long term unemployed people back to work...
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(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Ffarm3.static.flickr.com%2F2464%2F3788275327_62eb800ffa.jpg&hash=8d174059ec88249d7e1070ed7402c9fae58e318b)
:signLOL:
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Didn't know you were a engineer too, Geof :happy2:
Any jobs going :signLOL:
Its why when you were looking for a job i said i would keep an eye out :smiley:
Appreciate it too, Geof :happy2:
Start at Armstrongs on the valley on Monday :innocent:
Small world I'm an Electrical Engineer at Domnick Hunter on the Valley
Andy
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I'm a quantity surveyor
go to uni part time, just about to finish my 4th year at uni out of 5 years
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3rd Level Senior Technical Analyst for the queens Bank. Which sounds more impressive than it actually is.
Amature Photographer as well - which i would like to do more of! Got a Job coming up in May for Ford Motor Co.
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Left BT yesterday, started at Barclays today.
It's ace!
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Didn't know you were a engineer too, Geof :happy2:
Any jobs going :signLOL:
Its why when you were looking for a job i said i would keep an eye out :smiley:
Appreciate it too, Geof :happy2:
Start at Armstrongs on the valley on Monday :innocent:
Small world I'm an Electrical Engineer at Domnick Hunter on the Valley
Andy
Small world as you say im just across the river.
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In limbo....was an assistant site manager at Balfour Beatty (construction)...just done a masters in town planning! Looking for work. Not a great time to be a young graduate/post-graduate!! Part time security officer at heathrow! lol.
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I'm a quantity surveyor
go to uni part time, just about to finish my 4th year at uni out of 5 years
Snap, I'm also a QS, going to uni part time and just about to finish my fourth year of five!
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Small world I'm an Electrical Engineer at Domnick Hunter on the Valley
Andy
Small world indeed, Andy :happy2:
Keep an eye out for a Steel Grey ED30 bombing up and down the valley :evilgrin:
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Self employed Graphic designer specialising in Branding, Logos, Websites running my own comapny called Logo Logo set up exactly one year ago. Best choice I ever made! I am also a freelance printer/digital operator if anyone owns a printing company :evilgrin:
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I'm a quantity surveyor
go to uni part time, just about to finish my 4th year at uni out of 5 years
Snap, I'm also a QS, going to uni part time and just about to finish my fourth year of five!
happy days, which uni are you at?
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Didn't know you were a engineer too, Geof :happy2:
Any jobs going :signLOL:
Its why when you were looking for a job i said i would keep an eye out :smiley:
Appreciate it too, Geof :happy2:
Start at Armstrongs on the valley on Monday :innocent:
Small world I'm an Electrical Engineer at Domnick Hunter on the Valley
Andy
Small world as you say im just across the river.
Where do you work mate?
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Will be leaving my managers position at Tesco and moving into the world of IT contracting soon. Currently self learning C# coding and starting up my own website for fun :smiley:
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I'm a quantity surveyor
go to uni part time, just about to finish my 4th year at uni out of 5 years
Snap, I'm also a QS, going to uni part time and just about to finish my fourth year of five!
happy days, which uni are you at?
I'm at Northumbria Uni in Newcastle. Live in Teesside but work down at West Burton Power Station near Retford!
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I'm a quantity surveyor
go to uni part time, just about to finish my 4th year at uni out of 5 years
Snap, I'm also a QS, going to uni part time and just about to finish my fourth year of five!
happy days, which uni are you at?
I'm at Northumbria Uni in Newcastle. Live in Teesside but work down at West Burton Power Station near Retford!
How do you two find this?!
After 4 years as a Joiner i'm looking at getting into something more office based and quite fancy the QS side of things
Matt
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Just applied to Audi for a Service Advisor role!
Applied to a marketing firm for a trainee ecommerce and new media exec but im not holding my breath!!
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BMS Controls engineer
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On-site repair technician and training to become an Applications engineer for a mechanical seal company. I am based on a customers site at the Oil Refinery at Fawley!
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On-site repair technician and training to become an Applications engineer for a mechanical seal company. I am based on a customers site at the Oil Refinery at Fawley!
So your near me then spiky? In southampton area?
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Used to live in Southampton, but moved to Horndean. But yeah, roughly the same area! :)
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How do you two find this?!
After 4 years as a Joiner i'm looking at getting into something more office based and quite fancy the QS side of things
Matt
The work or the part time uni?
The work is good and interesting especially as I work in a more industrial environment to alot of the other quantity surveyors I go to university with and sometimes the stuff that they tell me they do from day to day seems a little boring.
The degree isn't too bad although alot of it is very basic stuff for the part time students as we work in industry and the course is ran with the full-time university students and some of them barely know what a building is never mind the costs associated with constructing one. I am pretty fortunate too that my employer pays for all of my uni fees and travel to and from, whereas some of the other guys I am on the course with pay for themselves.
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How do you two find this?!
After 4 years as a Joiner i'm looking at getting into something more office based and quite fancy the QS side of things
Matt
The work or the part time uni?
The work is good and interesting especially as I work in a more industrial environment to alot of the other quantity surveyors I go to university with and sometimes the stuff that they tell me they do from day to day seems a little boring.
The degree isn't too bad although alot of it is very basic stuff for the part time students as we work in industry and the course is ran with the full-time university students and some of them barely know what a building is never mind the costs associated with constructing one. I am pretty fortunate too that my employer pays for all of my uni fees and travel to and from, whereas some of the other guys I am on the course with pay for themselves.
i did around 3 months of QS for my degree. If im honest at times i was clawing my eyes out when they were going on about contracts, but tbh thats very likely due to the fact we have dedicated contract specialists working with us,so i will never get to involved with them, hence had no interest in listening to it all lol. Once you get into doing take off's and more interesting stuff its actually quite good.
Ive had my degree fully funded for full time education as well. That and the fact that ive been on full wages the entire time are probably the only reasons ive stuck it out. If i had to go to uni with no solid wage or my own place i dont htink i could have been arsed :laugh:
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Thanks a lot folks :happy2:
I work with my dad and were a reasonable sized building company in the area doing all kinds of work from private extensions to new builds for the NHS. As far as office based jobs go, this is the one that appeal's to me most I think. Working for my dad also means it would all be fully funded and would be part time at uni (couldn't live without a wage now!)
We already employ 3 QS's but hopefully work will pick up enough so were in a position for me to be able to go for it sooner rather than later as I can't stand doing Joinery anymore.
Thanks again,
Matt
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On-site repair technician and training to become an Applications engineer for a mechanical seal company. I am based on a customers site at the Oil Refinery at Fawley!
Deep Sea Seals?? John Crane??
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On-site repair technician and training to become an Applications engineer for a mechanical seal company. I am based on a customers site at the Oil Refinery at Fawley!
Deep Sea Seals?? John Crane??
Ah, someone in the know. However I work for Flowserve! :innocent:
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Work for BAE Systems in cheshire, working on the TPM project.
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UK Components Technical Engineering Manager for a World Wide Engineering Company.
Basically we sell, design, build and commission any sort of plant that sends a liquid though a pipe (Beer, Spirit, Pharmaceuticals, Food Stuffs, Milk etc.).
Sounds grander than it is, but it certainly pays the bills.
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Software and Systems Test Consultant.....work for myself now as a contractor..
My job is to make Developers lives hell......and I'm scarily god at it :signLOL:
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Technical support engineer for a massive dental company.
I install, service and repair dental chairs, xrays, pumps and compressors basically :happy2:
Served my time as an electrician though......... :party:
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print production manager :innocent:
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Inspector at Airbus :happy2:
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Inspector at Airbus :happy2:
Sweet :happy2: You lads had any of the XWB come your way yet?
Luke.
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I work at the local airport.Boring as hell,but it pays the bills. :indifferent:
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Technical support engineer for a massive dental company.
I install, service and repair dental chairs, xrays, pumps and compressors basically :happy2:
Served my time as an electrician though......... :party:
You wouldn't happen to have been to Denmark these days at Scandefa?? My wife works at a dental clinic :smiley:
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I work in project management/R&D for a large global technology company.
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Technical support engineer for a massive dental company.
I install, service and repair dental chairs, xrays, pumps and compressors basically :happy2:
Served my time as an electrician though......... :party:
You wouldn't happen to have been to Denmark these days at Scandefa?? My wife works at a dental clinic :smiley:
Unfortunatley not Danish! Been to Finland and Germany a few times on Courses as some of the products we supply are manufactured there but mostly keep us to our areas. Mines is Scotland and the north of England... :happy2:
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Help run the NHS Network system n i hate grumpy docs when there computers dont work!!! ( I build the cisco networks that link all the sites ) :rolleye:
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Self employed estate agent :ashamed: (Now there's honesty for you!!) :laugh:
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Manage elearning development for most major financial institutions in the UK :happy2:
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Fleet manager for a whole load of Helicopters. Started out as a plant engineer for a Petro-Chemical company called Octel, then started out in the Aviation world, all the way through maintenance, test flight engineer, maintenance manager to fleet manager.
couple of years time will find something else to do. Fly Hot air Balloons for a hobby.