continuing the theme of peoples personal details i thought i would ask what people did for a living as i am interested what people do with their
time.
i am a student at southampton university studying oceanography, so donn't have a living yet!
wonder what the strangest job will be?
Hi
I'm the planning manager for a large property development company. I time manage all the preconstruction activities such a site procurement
planning permissions, design and finally the construction of projects up to £450,000,000 over time periods of upto 30years.
plan for a living, but cannot plan my own life for toffee...
I'm just seeing how far i can go on my HND certificate in building studies. Must be the biggest bulls****r around i guess.
Ditch
Currently a manufacturing engineering student at Warwick University. In the summer I do project engineering and get paid pretty well for it
considering its a summer job (it just about pays for my car anyway!).
Hi. I'm a teacher.
Primary at the mo but moving into comp teaching in September.
I work for Codemasters - we make computer games for the PS2/PS3/Xbox/Xbox360 and PC.
Won't say what job I do though
I am a Geoenvironental Engineer. Basicly I dig holes (or have someone dig or drill them for me, and then fill them back in.
Looking for a career change....
Processing Engineer, fix mail sorting machines and stuff for Royal Mail
I have my own business, a property management and lettings agency.
I'm a sales rep for an electrical product distribution company. Mostly industrial cables and such.
I seem to have a part time job wrecking company cars, tho thats more like a hobby at this stage.
Professional layabout!!
Yep it's true!! ask the Mrs
I do do a bit of web design but not much these days.
me and lawnmower have a lot in common
Only on the ground
[Edited on 16/5/06 by planetester]
Engine development,
Im a bit of a lay-about at the moment too!
I have recently completed a Business Management degree, but have been filling my time selling all my friends 'stuff' on the bay-of-E to fund
the car
Anyone need a new employee?!
'masing how many people dig holes and fill 'em back in agin. Me too although I'm poshly called a utilities design engineer!!
quote:
Originally posted by theconrodkid
me and lawnmower have a lot in common
Run my own safety inspection business. Carry out Gas and Electrical safety inspection in residential properties for letting agents, property
management companies, landlords, homeowners and surveyors.
Hopeful the forthcoming Home Inspection Pack will generate lots of new business.
Got to care about work to hate it. Now if I could get a job with Williams, Mclaren, Ferrari - dream dream dream
I work in Architects as a technician; also do fabrication and 3d drawings for large span portal frame conservatory as a side line. personal mechanic to my godsons moped and car restorer for his mini.
light and sometimes heavy commercial mechanic. musta done something bad in a former life to go down this career path.
I am a mere peasant of a window fitter, it sucks, but need to fund me toys!
I do care about what I do, love been outdoors on site, its more all the work place/office politics that i hate. Plus the firm that i want to work for
that is based 2 miles from my house wont offer me job, and instead I have to do a 50+mile each way commute every day to a humdrum office.
Good job i'm not bitter.
Was a Mechanical Engineer now a System Engineer so spend my days integrating/deugging/specing electro/mechanical/software stuff. Its nice to get in
the garage a just make stuff.
Training Instructor in the Fire Brigade (or Fire and Recue Service as it is now),
BA, Backdraught & Flashover, Tactical Ventilation etc.
18 years of shift work and being a Lazy ba*%$d, according to some M.Ps recently.
Coiled tubing operator offshore (north sea). Started off as a diesel mechanic but discovered you get way more for breaking stuff as opposed to sorting it!
computer engineer and a couple of phone / computer shops
so god know why i started building a car ?
Smoke ventilation engineer, I go to the meetings, design the control panels, install the systems and commission them.
Low voltage 24v switch polarity motors or pneumatic systems.
Jason
Airline Pilot...(MUCH MUCH better than working for a living
(used to be a telecoms engineer!)
Studying Automotive Engineering at Oxford Brookes. Have learnt more about cars by building one, than at uni. Its just advanced maths and physics with
a automotive twist really.
Problem is even if i do get into motorsport the money is rubbish and the hours are very long. I was at Nissan last year on my placement and they
offered my a job on my graduation, not the most exciting work, but its 8-5 and after 3 years its about 10k more than my mate will be getting at
RedBull Racing.
God, what has happened to me! I used to value job satisfaction so highly!
I also work part time at David LLoyd Gym (maybe thats where the job satisfaction hope died!)
ANEL BEATER
Very handy job to be in when building kit cars
What the f**k, not anel beater but panel beater
obviously better at my job than using these dam computers
quote:
Originally posted by matt.c
mechanical engineering student at imperial college london. not that i learn much engineering if any its purely theory most of which can never be
directly applied practically and some of the senior people in the dept wonder why 85% of the graduates go into banking instead of engineering.
a few weeks back a girl from my course was in the workshop and couldnt work out which way to tighten up a normal rh cap screw, one of the technitions
had to show her whilst trying not to laugh, and shes on for a first
[Edited on 16/5/06 by cossey]
quote:
Originally posted by cossey
mechanical engineering student at imperial college london. not that i learn much engineering if any its purely theory most of which can never be directly applied practically and some of the senior people in the dept wonder why 85% of the graduates go into banking instead of engineering.
a few weeks back a girl from my course was in the workshop and couldnt work out which way to tighten up a normal rh cap screw, one of the technitions had to show her whilst trying not to laugh, and shes on for a first
Gas engineer for British Gas
ATB
Mark
run a garage (mechanic )
try not to get too dirty these days or do too much
have to work on my car when i get home
Automotive powertrain engineer....
Product Manager - Deployment.
Well thats the title. basically sort out deploying our pharmacy IT system into 2,400 shops and dealing with all the associated crap from an amazing
array of sources as efficiently as possible.
Dream about the days when i used to be excited about going to work.
Court Team Member / Lisiting Officer at my local Magistrates' Court.
Evening student in Electrics (16th Ed and all that).
Pat...
I'm a trainee gynacologist, no qualifications yet, but I've had plenty of hands on experience
i'm a car audio fitter for the nation's largest car accessory chain.
it sucks mighty ass, under-paid, under-appreciated, and now they've told us we can't even park infront of the shop anymore! been there 3
years now, and can't seem to leave. the job's too easy. minimum wage is a p!ss take.
going to uni in september though. studying motorsport engineering at uddersfeel'd. should be a laugh if nowt else.
tom
quote:
Originally posted by fesycresy
I'm a trainee gynacologist, no qualifications yet, but I've had plenty of hands on experience
Heavy end of the engineering food chain, self employed mechanical fitter/welder currently subcontracting at Corus Scunthorpe rebuiling one of the blast furnaces. Hot, dirty work but well paid.
quote:
Originally posted by cossey
a few weeks back a girl from my course was in the workshop and couldnt work out which way to tighten up a normal rh cap screw, one of the technitions had to show her whilst trying not to laugh, and shes on for a first
[Edited on 16/5/06 by cossey]
i install wireless networks for large chain stores. not to mention all my mates houses.
trust me, nothing over wireless is safe and secure!!
GLISTENER
Make up artist to the porn industry.
Sorry thats the job i would like, just a mere print finisher
quote:
Originally posted by fesycresy
I'm a trainee gynacologist, no qualifications yet, but I've had plenty of hands on experience
Office temp until friday
After friday a car builder and possible student (got an interview with person at the local college to talk about engineering courses)
quote:
Originally posted by bob
GLISTENER
Make up artist to the porn industry.
Sorry thats the job i would like, just a mere print finisher
Systems Engineering student at Loughborough Uni. All theory no real hands on, but to be expected really.
Thats why i'm now chairman of the motorclub here. Now that is hands on!
Andy
Im a Hgv/Plant mechanic/fitter its shite it pays the bills and im in charge
Talking of being a gynacologist i work with cxxxs all day does that count
It says health and safety manager on my contract but I seem to do everything else nobody wants to do.
Thats the downside of being a practical sort (time served carpenter) but hey it pays for the hobby
Software Engineer working for Rentokil Initial Electronic Security Systems aka Shorrock.
Project Manager for a major Railway comms. project.
Engineer by trade though...
Too many chiefs, not enough indians.
sure we dont work for the same firm?
I work for a company killing off six thousand jobs.....the product of a merger and a take over involving the Bearded one..... Branson
Broadband telco engineer till they pay us all off......
Retail Space Designer (well someone has too )
I've got a degree in Automotive engineering though - one week about 4 years ago I had one interview with a FIA GT race team based near Runcorn
and another with a Shopfitter, the shopfitters offered me waay more money and here I am........... Haven't regreted the decision once and
it's cool to know that I could have had the 'dream' job (although in reality it probably would have been far from it) if I'd have
wanted to. 
Art founder. Cast works of art into bronze, copper or ally, though last week we did a pour with 22kg of silver for a not so local jeweller.
Would of been an expensive fup if pot had popped or mould split
ATB
Simon
[Edited on 16/5/06 by Simon]
part time landlord, full time self employed kitchen fitter. Cracking work to be honest, imagine making stuff all day! Just a shame we have so much on atm, 12 days on the trot and 12 hours a day on a fair few...
IT Manager, systems techie, 24hr pc support for family and friends of the family, and friends of friends or so it seems!!
i run a test station up to class vii
Im an automotive technician. Sorry mechanic for the Post office. Someones gotta keep them vans going!!!
Always on the look out for a new job..
Volunteer gigolo and mechanical design engineer....machinery, factory automation....own company and employed too.....
Mechanical design engineer.....but currently employed putting down a patio and fitting a garage door. Rock on...
BT field engineer working on the overhead network - i.e. pole erection, overhead cabling and jointing.
My actual job title is UTC Engineer, which basically means controlling and managing traffic control systems for the local authority. But enough of the
boring career stuff....
Will be a qualified tig and mig welder within a couple of weeks when i complete my Cambridge Institute of Welders Level 2 course that i have been
taking two eves a week.
I also run my own little company coating dash boards for rally cars, www.suffolkflockingservices.co.uk, which seems to take up all my spare time at
the mo hence not much progress on the car!
quote:
Originally posted by andrew.carwithen
BT field engineer working on the overhead network - i.e. pole erection, overhead cabling and jointing.
Respiratory physician....
Chris
Seller of smut.
Ian
purveyor is a much better word, and garage19, that makes you a right flocker
well there are some deffo interesting careers out there that peeps have! i finish uni in a year and i doubt i can cut myself as an oceanographer so am thinking about what to do with myself, i would like to do something in the automotive trade, but have got no further than that!
Just resigned from ym current job of Process Improvement Engineer and started a newun as Continuous Improvement Engineer at another company
Power Station engineer. 24MW but I can't take any home........
I am Music Manager
And it's FUN FUN FUN
14 years as a bored quality controller ( stuck it as the engineering workshop was superb),
Made redundant and took my LGV1, hated every minute of it.
Sacked it and now working for myself fixing cars'n houses. No more getting up at daft 'o'clock
and working 50 odd hours a week, well happy
So why is the build not progressing any better ??????????????????
Analyst/Programmer for a University
I specialise in Corporate Data Integration - basically writing interface programs that shuffle and split/merge data between systems. Currently team
leading a project to develop our new access provisioning system - creates computer accounts and electronic door accesses in near real time as staff
and students flow in and out of the various sytems. Interesting stuff but runs into more political problems than technical ones
Through most of the 80's I was a computer technician on Macintoshes and PC's. Don't miss that at all
Dominic
Blimey you lot are nearly all engineers. So i have decided to become a domestic engineer!!
Mezz, What the hell is a music manager?
Quality Manager for a small software company in London.
That's why my hobbies include engineering stuff -'cos is got s*d-all to do with computers!
[Edited on 17/5/06 by David Jenkins]
Diesel Engine Development and Calibration Engineer....for the company that brings you the TDCi
Project engineer for heating and plumbing manufacturing company for last 5 years, previously fixed tellys for Currys / Dixons.
Bit of a mid life career change - but, hey, I'm enjoying it!
Marcus
I am a mechanical engineer. I work at management level for a company (www.oddy.co.za) that manufactures bulk liquid transport equipment (20 foot tank
containers and swap tanks) out of stainless steel, carbon steel, aluminium and fibreglass. We make about 5000 of these a year.
Started here as a trainee (in 1984) in the drawing office. I was lucky that in an effort to learn the product and market, my MD sent me to work with
some of our customers and suppliers in various parts of the world for most of the period 1991 to 1996. I am now part of "Marketing" but I am
still very involved in the technical side, interpreting the customers needs, and making sure what we build is actually what the customer wants. I work
out and issue quotes and specs, book jobs (over 100 per year) into the factory and do customer servicing.
Cheers
Fred W B
quote:
Originally posted by chris mason
setting off for the sun next year, in an experiment to see exactly how hot the gases are, and how much heat a space craft can handle before it melts. The project manager thinks we'll be lucky to return but what would he know
I'm one of them new fangled IT consultants, working in the Netherlands, generally breaking mobile phone infrastructure.
Car park engineer - take a perfectly good building, wait for somebody to set fire to it - we turn up - two weeks later it's a car park!
Seriously - fire officer - now head of service delivery (operations) for our 'Brigade'. Started at the bottom of the ladder (excuse the pun)
and taken every opportunity thrown at me - loved nearly every minute apart from the really scary or really horrible bits. Got an honours degree in
Maths and IT along the way somehow.
Wyn
Quality Engineer for steering columns.
Mainly Ford at the moment.
Steve
Teacher. (Let me show you the right path grasshopper)
student really but working for a year in import and export - thrilling stuff (not) and no help whatsoever with the car (even tho i tried to blag free
stuff off kent camshafts when i brought them into the UK )
I was a PCB design engineer, but then an external sales job came available with the same company. Now I work from home and on the road - getting a
comapny car when yours is about to die is a very tempting proposition (oh and a good bit more £££ too )
quote:
Originally posted by daviep
Coiled tubing operator offshore (north sea). Started off as a diesel mechanic but discovered you get way more for breaking stuff as opposed to sorting it!
Just started fixing/changing domestic leccy meters for BG. Nice outdoors job. Except we're in Britain so it rains all the damn time.
Hey 'trogdor' What year you in at Southampton? I know a couple of folk doing your course..
Oh, and im at Glasgow Uni doing Mechanical Engineering. Working in call centre to pay the rent now though.... <ducks to avoid barrage of
abuse>
Iain
Have you moved to Delhi then?
ok, ive added up all these jobs, divided by the total, the average seems to be 'bodger'. Sound right?
quote:
Originally posted by owelly
Power Station engineer. 24MW but I can't take any home........
as fopr taking it home, do what we do, charge yer mobile phone at work
This week I'm mostly a Pattern Maker and Mold Maker.
Last week I was mostly an R&D engineer playing with cars.
Next week I'm mostly a Composites Laminator/Trimmer/Assembler.
And through all this I work at my most important job as a parent to 4 teenage+ sons, that's the hardest job of the lot! (Where've all my
tools gone?? Who's got the grinder?No you can't, it's out of gas.. .....)
Cheers,
Syd.
am in my third year at southampton, most peeps are finishing now but i still have a year to go as i am doing a masters course!
what courses are ur friends doing?
maintenance tech
for corus scunny ,steel works
been here too long now , got my name down to turn lights out when the chinese
take over the world
Getting paid as a post-graduate student for a year at the moment but will start working as a Mechanical Engineer for VOSA in September
[Edited on 18/5/06 by matt_claydon]
Some nice sounding jobs there. I wish I was still a student, only working 12 hours a week, but with the salary i have now. Not such an exciting job for me, I am an accountant. Someone has to be.
Mechanical Engineer
But now run my own Lightning Protection and earthing company. Also run steeplejacks doing all high building stuff including industrial chimneys etc
Fred Dibner type stuff.
Plus have holiday appartment for rent
quote:
Originally posted by Lightning
But now run my own Lightning Protection and earthing company.
Mechanical Engineer.
Graduated last year and now working for a company who do gearbox design consultancy (anything with gears in from cars up to wind turbines!).
chartered mechanical engineer working as a programme manager designing warheads, well it beats working for a living and yes I do get to use the workshop occassionally
Firmware engineer working for a company developing/manufacturing fiber optic telecoms products. 50% of jobs to be lost just announced for the facility I work at...
Started off as an Instrument Artificer but a car smash gave me partial amnesia, resulting in qualifications with the value of toilet paper. Since then
I have been; a Bouncer, Property investment broker, Security consultant, Armourer, Production worker, Technical manager, Production manager, had my
own Electronics company, then retired after a massive heart attack, followed by a triple by-pass and a busted ulcer.
Currently enjoying life and hitting lumps of metal with hammers. They may just turn into a car.
Ok, started off as,
Student,
Pilot,
Car parts sales man (accesory shop), and engine builder
Diving Equipment seller,
Under water salvage (2 weeks diving on Mary Rose),
Professional Driver,
Light mechanical Engineer and City & Guilds examiner (whilst gaining paper work for City & Guilds motor vehicle technician),
Mechanic (gynaecology mostly - working with a load of c***s), MOT tester
Biological, chemical engineer with a remit in time and personel management, on going job (read husband and Father of 2)
Current job has to be the best in the world. I go out and pick up young women, I take them home and they even pay me for the pleasure of it. Even
better is that the wife actively encourages me to do it. So any one like to hazard a guess?
The correct answer will appear here shortly. Taxi Driver
Enjoy
[Edited on 20/5/06 by jollygreengiant]
[Edited on 21/5/06 by jollygreengiant]
Pilot - Royal Navy (not Top Gun , its helicopters i'm afraid)
JollyGreenGiant
Taxi or bus driver.
Am I close?
ok, beat this one, I sell Teddy Bears for a living - yes really
Oh yes, and I used to be a paparrazzi - taking pics of celebs and royals in London and abroad.
Also worked as a sound man and production manager for a video production company producing short 'news pieces' for RTL (German TV) of all
the mad crazy things us Brits do - hopefully and often incuding t*ts
Dead boring. Hot, dirty, smelly, and worst of all, your told how to do it by someone who hasn't the faintest idea.
Even welding inspectors are all ex bus conductors.
Rant over
Paul G
Those who can't, inspect....
Am a commercial vehicle body builder in wakefield. Not that interesting really but if you look on the back of a truck and it says 'MICRA' under the back doors then odds are I probably built the shed!
I work for these......
but im a service engineer on the passenger lifts- so dont get to speak to grannys!
NCO in the Royal Air Force. but mostly as little as possible.
ATB Dan.
IM A MILLIONAIRE! well its original at least!
i noticed that none of you have put down SVA INSPECTOR!
im a delivery manager for the clothing company 'NEXT Retail', i would hazard a guess that you have all been in one of our stores across the
country, there are approx 400 of them. im in charge of logistics and stock procedures in the store, but im looking for a new job, anyone got any going
in the midlands area
ATB Alex
[Edited on 21/5/06 by omega0684]
quote:
Originally posted by MikeR
JollyGreenGiant
Taxi or bus driver.
Am I close?
It wasn't that difficult, I mean, how many other jobs have those 'perks' and are legal?
You could always buy me a cola at newark
Started working life as a toolmaker. (apprenticeship served)
Now work as an electro mechanical maint engineer for a security printing company.
On the way I have also been:
Lighting technician for a theatre company.
Butcher.
Cinema projectionist.
Pyrotechnist. (organising and firing LARGE comercial firework displays)
Plumber
Airconditioning engineer.
Oh and I worked in a supermarket for a week as well
Currently working for a company in Portland Port that does specialist marine welding and engineering. From propeller polishing to maintenance on Royal
Navy and Royal Fleet Auxilary ships. In September I'm moving to Silverstone and the National College for Motorsport to be a Motorsport Race
Technician! woo-hoo, I'm gonna be living the dream baby!!
quote:
Originally posted by MikeR
It wasn't that difficult, I mean, how many other jobs have those 'perks' and are legal?
You could always buy me a cola at newark
currently own a construction company, and landlord. served time as a mechanic,
Ex BT engineer/domestic appliance fixer/call system installer and now i work for ADT
systems engineer for large diesel engine manufacturer. boring half the time but quite fun other times (raced a double decker bus around bruntingthorpe prooving ground!!)
LOVE the tag line!
Any objections to me stealing it ?
(come on, i've asked nicely before "borrowing" it on a semi permanent basis.)
Err....Chef.
Cheers,
Cheffy/Mart
sheetmetal worker/fabricator welder which might come in handy
Underpaid/Overworked Airline Pilot
Mental Health Counselor-work for the State of Oklahoma, USA
I hear a lot of very weird stories.
Cars are MY Therapy
self employed electrical maintenance engineer, specialising in machine controls
mechanic for the last 18 years only 32 years left till i retire (bo**ocks must find new career)
Full-time student, mostly leeching off my parents and the government.
IT SUCKS! I WANT TO WORK!
I need some money to go buy my own stuff!
The shite is that the way the minimum wage system is set up here in Holland, the minimum wage increases every year until you are 24. Now, this works
brilliantly to keep kids in school longer, but it sucks for us poor students. After all, why would any shop hire us if they can hire a 16 year old for
1/3 the money? And I can not get a 'real' job until I finish uni!
Currently student at Harper Adams, doing Meng. in off-road vehicle design. Currently playing with two Range Rovers so 1/2 built Locost has taken a back seat. When not at college working for Dad, farmer, 500 acres arable. Good workshop, tools, etc.
Snapper, bit of a clue..... Photographer, working for .The Govenment. so a Civil Servant really. The job has taken me all over the world but mostly the nasty bits, i have been in most things that fly, float, or travel over rough ground, can't belive my luck really, quite good for a poorly educated eastend kid from the 50's
Agricultural, automotive & fabrication engineer. If its something that a farmer uses, sooner or later I will have to fix or make it.
Went there on work experience & started the day after I finished my GCSEs, never even had an interview.
Pay is nowt special, conditions can be terrible & the hours long but its a brilliant job. Skills should come in useful if I ever get round to
building a car!
quote:
Originally posted by hillbillyracer
Agricultural, automotive & fabrication engineer. If its something that a farmer uses, sooner or later I will have to fix or make it.
Went there on work experience & started the day after I finished my GCSEs, never even had an interview.
Pay is nowt special, conditions can be terrible & the hours long but its a brilliant job. Skills should come in useful if I ever get round to building a car!
Structural Draftsman........... London, Cirencester, Bath, Hong Kong now Brisbane, QLD.
Oh the sunny weather beats almost everything !!!
Bit late adding to this one but hey, better late than never! Or not in my case as i work as Paramedic on a car and also on the helicopter. Good days and bad but still full of politics like everthing!!! Chris
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Originally posted by matt.c
Very handy job to be in when building kit cars
