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SERCO zero hour contractee working in fringe roles relating to COVID. I could tell you more but then I’d have to cough on you.
🙂
I met IHN when working on his site. I started a thread on STW to see if anyone was in the area who could lead me on a ride and it turned out he was sat on the desk behind me.
Ha ha, yeah, true story. Not been at that particular site for a long time, in fact it's now been taken over by the, ahem, "civil service" *cough*gchq*cough*
Mining Engineer. Digging holes so you can have all your shiny things.
Spent my working life under the sea breathing helium. Its affected me :o)
Mining Engineer. Digging holes so you can have all your shiny things.
I was on the ncb scholarship scheme in 82/83 but after a year digging coal decided it wasn't for me & decided that I didn't want their £1500pa uni sponsorship either 🙄
Director of Strategic campaigns for a global engineering consultancy, specialising in nuclear decommissioning. Also chartered Process Engineer. As I tell my kids, I keep the lights on, and the wolf from the door.
After 18 years of predominantly solo working frontline for the NHS I can now officially call myself a Charity Worker.
One of the weirdest things in the transition is having a desk to sit at, it helps that the view is one of the most unique in the Cotswolds. Ditching nights, weekends and public holidays was a breeze.
I sit between a psychologist & a counsellor, I've no idea what they make of me and my baggage...
I put wood and paper covered items into specific slots in a frame, gather them up in logical manner and then take them outside where I put them on the ground for specific people to pick up off the ground. In recent weeks I've also began training to become a professional photographer, taking pics of people picking some off these items off the floor. Most days I'll pick up some other wood or plastic covered items from ~18" above the ground and take them back to base.
I put wood and paper covered items into specific slots in a frame, gather them up in logical manner and then take them outside where I put them on the ground for specific people to pick up off the ground.
Post / parcel delivery?
I am a Gravity Sewer Network Operations Specialist. Most of the time behind a computer but it’s good to get out and solve complex network issues in the public sewer systems with the guys on the ground.
After 18 years of predominantly solo working frontline for the NHS I can now officially call myself a Charity Worker.
Ooh, who with?
Head of pricing for a big insurer
Research technician/lab manager in Cancer Research Isntitute, mostly bowel cancer these days
Ive seen the inside of more colons than you can imagine
Dynamic Positioning Operator and 2nd Mate on a big ship.
Basically, I do the opposite of what most seafarers do, and make sure that the ship says in one spot.
Occasionally we move a few miles to another spot.
Basically, I do the opposite of what most seafarers do, and make sure that the ship says in one spot.
Was that you on the Evergrande then? 😉
I’m a Delivery Relationship Lead.
You work it out (and let me know).
Professional Dog-Walker?
the guys on the ground
presumably they are under it and knee deep in the brown stuff?
I got as far as an assessment day for that, probably failed when too many of the arrows on my screen flew into each other. It was possibly a job I wasn’t suited for.
yeah they don’t like it when you bang them together.
Freewheeling dreamer.
Also perennially skint. The two things may be connected.
Try and make government look good
(You might argue I'm not very good at my job 😀 )
I’m a train driver. Was a copper for years but was pretty unhappy. Got the opportunity to change careers in my 40s so took the plunge and don’t regret it
Tennis Coach at an all girls school
For those who care mainly VBA and bash. The VBA bit is a classic example of scope creep where a few 20 line macros written 15 years ago have morphed into a 200k+ line monster from my id which won’t die…..
So not just me then 🙂
General tinkerer.
Employed at present to look after Fire Suppression systems. Not a job to do with a hangover, things get quite exciting/expensive if you cock up.
And let them use my airport.
Ah, so not a proper controller then 😉
Spinner of plates, fingers in pies, pure entrepreneur, seasonal ski instructor....
After working for a large software company for a few years i realised that the corporate world is a trap designed to steal your soul and mind so i packed it in and got involved with a couple of startup's and went from there.....13 years on and i still love every single minute of the rollercoaster!
Now retired, but for 27.5 years I made cylinder heads in the casting plant for a well known car manufacturer in NE UK.
For the last 12 years, we never made anything for Sunderland built cars, all heads went to Renault, Dacia and Daimler Benz. Cylinder heads we used on engines, were brought in from Japan. Never did find out the reasoning for that
Waste management consultant, helping Councils buy incinerators. I get paid to be pedantic and argumentative and spend huge amounts of other peoples money.
Waste management consultant
Mrhoppy, earlier
I’m a train driver. Was a copper for years but was pretty unhappy. Got the opportunity to change careers in my 40s so took the plunge and don’t regret it
@Kato do you mind if I drop you a message? I'm Job and would gladly entertain a change...
Development Manager at a Games company. I like video games 😊 but not the ones we make 🤨
Picture framer to the stars.
Currently driving trucks delivering specialist paper to printers etc. Nothing special but it's enjoyable and pays the bills.
Official advice from my government employer is to not reveal my occupation on social media.
My previous job had it written in the contract that revealing or discussing your job on personal social media (including job sites) was a stackable offence, a few did lose their jobs over it too! Understandable as the threat of you or your family being taken hostage so as to gain access to company premises was very real, one or two cases a year.
The job? Cash delivery driver.
I am an Estate Planner and Probate Lawyer and I also have a home clearance company.
Retired now, so the answer to the question is either 'not much', or 'whatever I want', depending on how I'm feeling.
Before that I spent 35 years in software development, starting as an ICL Cobol programmer on VME 2900 systems for the Gas Board, ending up as a development methods consultant for one of the world's biggest cloud software providers.
I count bricks. And price them. I also dream up new ways of describing the process to meet ever changing government requirements (with every govt dept requiring it done a different way).
I arrange for people to hang from ropes and fix things, clean things or paint them. Also have the delightful task of sorting all the H&S related paperwork for the above.
Sometimes I dangle off things myself but nowadays that’s usually trees, while I make them smaller.
I get to play with maps all day long. I’m a GIS Officer for a national park.
MI5
I used to transfer tiny amounts of liquid from one tiny tube to another. Now I get abused verbally by 11-18 year olds.
I do freelance consultancy, training and interim work for charities and social enterprises. I'm also a trustee of two charities and sometimes do voluntary mentoring for charity managers.
Resell redundant (mostly used) healthcare equipment from the UK around the world. Not glamorous or even super interesting after the initial novelties wear off.
I’m the head of media wholesale for a large online retailer. Also helping with sustainability for the company. Looking at everything from the packaging we use, to waste management, staff education, scope emissions and carbon reduction plans.
Stuff, unless I don't much feel like it.
Semi-retired with aspirations to be Tobermory’s first dotcom millionaire - I’ll probably die trying. You can find me on Mondays hawking my wares.
For over 30 years I worked in the engineering and defence sectors, increasingly becoming overly-familiar with the incompetence of Government and Civil Service.
Medical engineer: I used to fix useful machines in hospitals, now I mainly drive a computer and look after the other engineers.
Site engineering, Marking out where to dig holes and fill with concrete then build stuff can be vagually interesting but often frustrating cos someone driving a computer says it will work but often wont!. Its better than teaching ( DT)wot i used to dobut having a well equipped workshop is one thing i miss.
I look after three big energy companies for a very, very big American technology company.
The fun stuff is helping them do things that have never really been done before, but a lot of my time is dealing with random questions, finding people to help answer the questions and reading documentation when those people aren't around.
Yard person for generator hire company, cleaning equipment before dispatch, loading and unloading using a big ass 18 ton forklift.
Occasional fuel deliveries to building sites etc.
Manage the bakery for a small, artisanal (sorry..) Cornish biscuit company.
Although it seems we can bake them quicker than we can sell them, down to 4 day week, so time for a change I think.
I used to transfer boxes of grapes and pineapples from one place to another. Now I get verbally abused by 11-16 year olds.
Mobile App developer / Head of Development. - looking for an ios developer btw.
Was an overpaid government-employed security guard. Now an overpaid private sector security guard.
The only time I ever get asked what I do is when I get stopped by the police (there will be random stops of vans travelling back from the Highlands then theres been a tip off that drugs might have come ashore somewhere)
So every now and then I get pulled over on some remote backroad for a bit of polite small talk and one of the questions will be 'whats your occupation'. The trouble is I don't really know - or I do but its difficult to summarise. But when an officer of the law asks it feels like the answer matters. On the last occasion:
"well officer I'm sort of an artist but I don't make art very often so usually I work in film and tv but thats not what I'm doing today'
"what are you doing today?'
'Long story.'
'OK...... do you mind if we have a look in back'
'Be my guest'
Opens van door to reveal a severed head and a burnt corpse.
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My accountant quite enjoys going through all my receipts and trying to figure out what I get up to "you bought £2k worth of wildflower seeds, and £28k worth of high explosives in the same week - were they for the same job?" "Yes"
My accountant quite enjoys going through all my receipts and trying to figure out what I get up to “you bought £2k worth of wildflower seeds, and £28k worth of high explosives in the same week – were they for the same job?” “Yes”
Surely there's a killing me softly joke in there somewhere.....
Eat: Haddock and new potatoes.
Drink: Red Wine
Listen: Friday Night Comedy.
actually I *am* a rocket scientist
Make the lights and other things work on motorways/highways and build solar farms - just finished on the biggest one in the UK
Wind people up on here
Uni I became a tree surgeon for about 9 years. Then I got my rope access tickets and dodged around the railways, industrial and commercial projects now I'm leading a team structures examiner on the railway.
Here's a picture from my glory days when I used to properly work
test software
did start getting into cybersecurity but got pulled back to work on covid stuff
now just counting the days till retirement and unfortunately it's a big number to count
Aerospace Research Engineer/Scientist focusing on generation after next math, science and technology for aircraft, spacecraft, rotorcraft and all the bits that design, build, connect and maintain them.
I love my job…most of the time.
My job title is 'Scotland Director'.
Don't tell Nicola.
you bought £2k worth of wildflower seeds, and £28k worth of high explosives in the same week – were they for the same job?” “Yes”
One way of scattering the seeds I guess.
I´m a government approved Austria guide.
Currently working a lot in the Wachau Valley, Linz and Mauthausen concentration camp.
I do many varied tours, walking, biking, alcohol based, historical, art, gastronomy and much much more.
I have my own company, I´m my own boss and love my life.
I do many varied tours, walking, biking, alcohol based, historical, art, gastronomy and much much more.
Winning.
I spent 15 years building, testing, commissioning, warranty and handover training for Sunseeker yachts, now I look after service and training in the EMEA region for Seakeeper stabilisers.
Rubber technologist...
Civil Engineering design. Used to design roads and sewers for residential and industrial developments, now flood defence. Feels much better.
I do many varied tours, walking, biking, alcohol based, historical, art, gastronomy and much much more.
I have my own company, I´m my own boss and love my life.
This sounds amazing. Well done, @iolo!
I've always wondered if people on here guessed what I did. There are some whom I've met and know, but discounting them, I've tried to keep it subtle.
@stretch… we may well have crossed paths, and you won’t need more than 2-3 guesses for who I work for!
Rubber technologist…
I've a BIL who is global engineering lead for rubber products....
I'm a Mountmaker.
Create displays for museums.
Industrial/process engineer in Automotive. Surprisingly interesting most of the time, but get dragged in to too much politics between manufacturing plants recently.
@matt_outandabout - I may even know your BIL - it's a relatively small industry 😀
I draw things, usually cars but occasionally other things too. I draw things using pens, pencils but mainly using computers, I also 3D model the things I draw using computers and then make them look nice and shiny and almost real, I now do this using VR (which is nothing like it seems in the movies). Occasionally I muck about with 3D printers and a variety of CNC machines (which is a lot slower than in the movies but still very cool). Some of the things I have drawn have been turned into real things that, to my constant amazement, actually work. A few things that I have Drawn/CAD modelled/made shiny/played with etc. are driving around. Some of my time I spend teaching students how to draw, play with CAD, make stuff and think about things too.
I also drink a lot of coffee and read the internet.
Automotive Environmental Test Engineer (bit boring now) and EV HV safety engineer (quite hands-on and much more interesting).
Explaining it was a lot better when I did chemistry cos very few people understood it.
"Synthetic organic chemist"
"Yes but what do you [b]do[/b]?"
"We make chemicals for university research labs, pharmaceutical companies and so on"
"What sort of chemicals?"
"We have about 25,000 in our order book, do you want me to explain it all?!"
That usually changed the subject fairly quickly. 😅