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Process technician turning black orrible goo into the finest petrol,diesel and lube oils you can buy!!!! Love it but I had (ahem) a wee bike accident a few years ago and now all I drive is a desk :( :(

Still it pays well and is better than not working.

Before that I was a non-destructive tester in the petrol chem industry and the aerospace. Loved working on the plane parts it was all so clean and I had so many big boys toys to play with like walk in media blasters, shot peening and even plasma spraying with of course lots of machinists at my disposal :lol: :lol: :lol:

Shame the money was pants
 
7.5T Delivery driver for a well known dept store(john lewis) :msn4: good hours early starts mean early finishes :D
enjoy the job meet some nice people and some famous people as well but i`m not a name dropper :lol:
waiting on the bonus to buy more bling for the bus :roll:
cheers shaun
 
I did half a technician apprenticeship when I left school, then dropped out and squatted in London for a few years. Since I got going again, I've done everything from tractor diving, maintaining lights on petrol station canopies, fitting windows and roller shutters. Had to take life seriously with kids, so career changed into engineering design. I ended up with own design consultancy designing installations on buildings, towers and pylons for mobile phone base station transmission equipment. Good money.

Burnt out - took a year off, scratched head and ended up mending and restoring T2's which I've been doing for 4-5 years now. Crap money but fun sometomes and I meet nice people now instead of hard-faced engineers. :)
 
I was a builder until my back and neck gave up. :? ( I still manage to crawl about under the bus though :lol: )
Had to come out of the building trade and am now sitting behind a desk in the import/ export game.

It bores me brainless but I do manage to get a lot of 'bus' stuff done in the warehouse.
Once the bus is finished ( if they are ever finished ) I will be on the lookout for a change ;)
 
I'm a self employed carpenter, after completing my apprenticeship and getting laid off by the next 3 or four firms i worked for due to them having a lack of work i decided to go it alone, i love my job and its even better now i only have to deal direct with customers!
 
I am living the dream and get to talk about VW's all day long selling parts for VWHeritage

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Second to Last on the right hand side :mrgreen:

So if you ever have any Early Bay enquiries feel free to ask for Alex
 
well just trying to find one :roll: as an old school mechanic theres nowt around and not enough air cooled to set up on my own,the rents exorbitant for anythink decent or large enough around here.
dave -------------bored looking at job websites
 
I trained as a Quantity Surveyor now a Commercial Manager for one of the big boys as part of their development arm. Good job. Pay ok. Hours shite.
 
Doris said:
I drive these things up & down the country,freight only,no rude passengers! :D My job is traction Instructor which is like a driving instructor for train drivers....love it!!

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Oooh one of the new Class 70s. Very cool! 8)
 
I'm on the lookout for a new job as the self-employed game just isn't working for me any more.

I pay my current bills through database and website development along with the odd photography job thrown in for good measure.

Reckon I will go back in to data work as I find it the most rewarding [read: profitable] and it's where I speciailised
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StuF said:
Hi all, I am a Weapons Technician in the Royal Air Force. Currently in charge of an Armoury containing several hundred automatic rifles and semi automatic pistols.

Been all over the world including Vegas, Amarillo, Oman, Jordan and so on.
I have worked on everything from Single seater fast jets to a humble pistol.

Completed two Iraq tours and one in Afghan.

Love my job


A - I'm an armourer

B - I'm an ............. ;)

Sorry mate, couldn't resist! I'm ex RAF by the way.

Now I'm an air traffic engineer.
 
I foster kids and a have done for about 8 or 9 years , we have 5 at the moment 2 (soon to be 3 ) of my own and 3 others were adopting one of them a little girl whose been with us since she was three days old ,only a few more weeks and she will be one of us by name :D the most we have had at one time was 9 :shock: for two weeks it was mental but fun .........we have fostered around 30 kids so far from 0 to 18 .....its hard work but we love it :D

chris
 
crede999 said:
I foster kids and a have done for about 8 or 9 years , we have 5 at the moment 2 (soon to be 3 ) of my own and 3 others were adopting one of them a little girl whose been with us since she was three days old ,only a few more weeks and she will be one of us by name :D the most we have had at one time was 9 :shock: for two weeks it was mental but fun .........we have fostered around 30 kids so far from 0 to 18 .....its hard work but we love it :D

chris


Cap well and truly doffed Chris. :)
 
StuF said:
Hi all, I am a Weapons Technician in the Royal Air Force. Currently in charge of an Armoury containing several hundred automatic rifles and semi automatic pistols.

Been all over the world including Vegas, Amarillo, Oman, Jordan and so on.
I have worked on everything from Single seater fast jets to a humble pistol.

Completed two Iraq tours and one in Afghan.

Love my job

I'm an Armourer too, i wear green though. The number of times i've had the 'A is for ...' song sung at me.
 
Day job I'm a mum.... Night job I've worked for NHS for 16 years :shock:
Trained as surgeons 1st assistant for emergency caesarean section, for last 8 years
 
I'm a product manager for an ISP and managed services company (data centres/cloud/LAN/WAN/Storage).....used to be a techie specialising in network management, networking (Cisco) and Novell - but went to the dark side as someone told me they had space hoppers in the marketing department :D
 
I stand around all day in a museum.
8)


except when the council sends me on courses or i go to schools on outreach, then i drive into leeds, sit in a room for a bit and bugger off to nandos or the pub.
 
Dan is deputy head gardener on a country estate and I'm a freelance graphic designer.
 
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