[Closed] What do you do during the day?

Offshore Medic and Registered Nurse.

I design, prototype, build and test armoured vehicles. Leads me into some interesting countries around the world!

raccoon - Member

I design, prototype, build and test armoured vehicles. Leads me into some interesting countries around the world!

Sounds dull 😀

I'm a specialist in fibre test and measurement. In reality I run seminars and webinars, and generally get paid to talk about some fairly interesting (to me) stuff.

research scientist - I watch paint dry although I'm about to move department and start setting fire to it.

Semi-retired Excel monkey, part-time househusband, part-time chainsaw whisperer, part-time plumbing student, part-time tree-wrangler, full-time tinkerer-cum-bodger.

I call it a "portfolio of employment" 🙂

So not actually that many IT people then. 😉

I fight a constant battle against nefarious individuals and organisations intent on causing mayhem, destruction, theft and death. I meet shadowy government figures in secret locations who tell me who these people are and then how best to defend our resources against them. I am the last line of defence. I guard us while we sleep.

In short, I work in IT security.

I get to play bikes and get paid for it 🙂
I only work 170 days a year 😀
Unfortunately I only get paid for 170 days a year 🙁

Senior Project Manager in your favourite Banking Industry.

But you can tell that yeah?

Split personality.

Day to day run and work in a "small, but perfectly formed, specialist trade PR company focusing the Events & Exhibitions, Construction and Packaging sectors and based in Hope. Cool job yesterday in ExCeL London - Destination StarTrek nursing a couple of key editors and seeing all 5 captains interviewed by John Barrowman - the audience were 'interesting' but really friendly even if they were dressed up as Klingons/Federation/Borg etc may share some pics later!

Also am MD for a web application development company - but I'm just the looks of the outfit, the proper geeks and propellorheads are all based in 'ull.

I ask others to go on great quests, battle dragons and goblins, and join together to defeat powerful enemies.

aka computer games marketing.

Satellite Communications Integration/Field Engineer

I install/fix/integrate sat comms systems for various people who will remain nameless 🙂 I get to travel the world at my employers expense,every week, but as mentioned elsewhere in this thread, not so good, as I have a young family.

I'm responsible for changing the way that we look after old people so we can carry on looking after them in the future when there are twice as many old people and half the budget.

Rubber Technologist... really.

Doctoring for thst there NHS thing. Well, assuming it continues to exist.

Great job when politicians stop interfering. Long hours and hard work but wouldn't give it up for (almost) anything.

I tell people to turn it off and then turn it back on again - IT support for a network of financial advisers

I only work 170 days a year
Unfortunately I only get paid for 170 days a year

That's funny because I only work about 170 days a year and get paid only when I'm at work too. Most odd that only getting paid when you actually at work.

I design stadiums and arenas. Every 5-6 years I get to build one too, or at least tell people how I want them to build it.

I'm a fireman in sunny Scarborough

Picture Framer.

To be honest, I don't really know, but people seem happy to pay me for it.

Train Driver, self loading freight. If travel by train in Yorkshire then I've probably taken you home 😉

I build wings for the Airbus A330 line of aircraft, I like it, fun interesting work (on the tools), bikes are easy in comparison, and small

Semi retired but still work about 50% as a technical consultant in sports betting

Project manager for a property developer/landlord. Make buildings happen, offices, industrial units, retail etc. some new, some refurb.

I restore,prepare and look after historic racing cars and most days thats as good as it sounds!

I take pictures of shiny things, spaces and sometimes famous people.
I don't do weddings, pets, kids or have anything to do with the general public.

I restore,prepare and look after historic racing cars,and most days it's as good as it sounds!

Full time farm worker part time fire wood accumulator

mugsy m8 -

Freelance Engineering Geologist. Went freelance 4 years ago after moving to France. My sole client to date is my former employer.... Last 24 months have seen me supervising drilling 800m deep inclined holes for a prospective gold mine in Mauritania and supervising poxy shallow holes for oil pipelines across Georgia and Azerbaijan. Also do home office based geotechnical design (foundations, earthworks, slope stabilisation) etc.

...You wanna drop me a line, we have something in common !

Operations at a local cycling holiday company. If you ring us I answer the phone take your instructions, book the holiday and send you the bill. Once or twice a year I get to cycle abroad for work. I meet a lot of happy people during the summer (hah!). This time of the year it's quiet and involves a lot of data analysis. I also make tea and support the IT systems. Occasionally I get oily hands too.

I am a fluffer-it's a hard job but I am never one to enjoy the soft option.

Teach science to children who have been raised by parents who don't give a monkies as long as the benefit check arrives.

I used to work very efficiently and adjust old analogue radio's for the railway. Since devolution I now work VERY inefficiently for the railway adjusting the same radio's BUT now with three times the paperwork, a daily rather than four weekly plan and a management team that think continual change is the same as progess. Oh and I've inherited a pile of crap from a colleague since a boundary change as well.

Business manager for a German car company, beloved of ladder climbing, middle management, IT types.

I dig up weeds some of the time. I used to do more demanding stuff but it was boring.

P/t hourly paid peanut eating, low ranking bureaucratic knowledge infuser that one day will turn into Dear Leader that steps on maggots. 😈

I melt bits of thin glass together, and occasionally get called out in the middle of the night to fix a broken bit of glass which is not usually as simple as it sounds. (I provide and fix fibre optic stuff)

My company have also just decided to save money by taking my colleagues van from him, and making us share. The downside is my van is now overweight so I have had to remove lots of essential gear, things like a generator, water pump, and all my cabling gear. So we are both on call, yet probably won't be able to fix 50% of our faults any more, not to mention the disruption for day to day working. We now generally take turns to watch each other work rather than splitting up and working effectively...

Don't worry Ming, the guys at the top know what they are doing 🙄

I stop planes trading paint over the south of England. 😯

fireman in lincs.

@ Spooky, got so bad with my new "manager" doubting my technical abilities (testing batteries for ****s sake) that the van with 100K's worth of test gear nearly ended up in Sovereign Harbour with the words F..K Y.U scratched into the body work.

Technical Manager for a Large European Health safety and Environmental Consultancy. I specialise in the really freaky dangerous bits that normal HSE geeks run away screaming from (usually involving bits of bodies, exploding things and very toxic substances, If I'm lucky I get all 3 in one project)

I design things on my computer, get them made, put them together (sometimes they even work).
Also known to write some software to make the bits move in the right order.

If I'm really lucky I get to install them at the customers.

Playboy

I am really enjoying this; what a great eclectic mix of jobs!

Makes me also feel super unfulfilled work-wise!

I mostly help Oil & Gas and Mining companies to understand what they should avoid trashing for the biodiversity assessment arm of an "intergovernmental agency".

I'm a Project Manager for a company that designs, builds and maintains Air Conditioning, Refrigeration and Process Cooling equipment for Navy Ships and Submarines all round the world, however our biggest market is with the UK Navy.

My current job role involves making sure all our kit on these does what it is supposed to do...

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The official Secrets Act prevents me from telling you much else, other than modern combat vessels are pretty awesome!

D'you think post it notes sell themselves? 😉

A civil engineer who helps design, procure and supervise construction of shipyards and container ports. More targets I guess . .. .

Work in embedding silicon die technology in power systems , which is nice...

I engage in human experimentation

I work for a large college in one of the nice parts of the garden of England. I'm in charge of health & safety, security, first aid/welfare and safeguarding. It is far too much for me to do on my own and I'm lucky to have a large team of top folks who make me look good at my job. Actually it's all about them.

Alcoholic Beverage Manufacturing Consultant.

Well, I try to be.

singletrackmind...............just sampled a couple of pots of Itchen valley junga tonight. twas very nice too.

satellite/aerial/cctv sales man.

I am responsible for all of the inappropriate behaviour of young people in our area.....I am a Headteacher

analyst/programmer for a company that makes doors and cubicles.
sometimes i do training too.

for fun I hit things with bits of wood

Account manager at an IT storage/security/virtualisation distributor. Chances are all you IT bods have bought something from someone who bought that thing from me or one of my colleagues!

A bit like djaustin,I like experiments .
I gather data from STW ,I then use some of the more interesting internet character profiles on herds of mice .
The mice are confined to a small village that I built,but they do have some trips out to an exercise yard.
They seem to argue a lot,mostly about the choice of equipment that is available in the yard or why their deluxe cheese is taking so long to be delivered. Sadly,there has been a few fights over missing cheese portions ,but I am almost finished a new super profile that should fix things. I love science 8)

Self employed Chippy......not the deep fat fried type 😆

Staff geoscientist for a major oil and gas company helping work out fluids and gases 50% and spend the rest of my time doing R&D type stuff either in France, Norway or Cambridge.

Edit, stupid keyboard.

I am very happy to hear that Ton.
My first attempt at a Ruby Mild.
Wasnt till we had made a few batches I was told it was supposed to be a 3.9% smoked beer , I had been making a 3.6% Mild, with a few more hops than you might find on some milds .
That in a M&B pub ooop north??

The Palace in Leeds mate
proper spit n sawdust spot. very nice drink.

I'm a Product Manager for a large American Chemical Company. If you brush your teeth, there's a fair bet you've had some of my thick creamy liquid in your mouth this morning.

But; I'm open to offers because since we were taken over a year ago they've driven me mental with ridciulous levels of beaurecracy and internal politics. Employment consultants working in the science / technical / chemical industries - mail me......

I'm a fire engine or a motorbike or a cowboy or a astronot.

analyst

I run a small (the company not the speakers!) loudspeaker manufacturing company.

During the day - Sleep, I work nights.

During the night (my day) - drive a drillship.

Drive being a silly description cause we have to keep in the same spot. The details are boring (HA!)

when jen asks what the people she'll be working with are like... well, that's me.

Data Engineer for Rolls Royce, good job most of the time, but long hours lately, so getting less and less bike time

I am a Contact Centre Systems designer / systems intergation specialist...... "press one for this, press two for that" 🙂 I love my job, like a massive train set to play with every day 😀

scottyjohn- i'm headed that way too. currently getting to grips with an avaya switch, everything from patching/installing phones through to writing/modifying vectors. it's pretty fun, to be fair!

I used to repossess people's houses (as a last resort...), now in internal Security & Fraud for a large financial organisation.

Workshops manager and part time precision engineer based in Mk, we act as an overflow for the current f1 constructors champions doing the nasty bits they haven't got time to mess with, also machine composite engine parts for the biggest engine builder in brixworth and a few other teams, also make commercial bits for satellites, bits and pieces for the government and its agencies etc etc,

Long hrs especially as we are at RB's beckoning call , why do they always call at 530 on a Friday ?

I hate hardened Ti it doesn't do as its told,

On the plus side I do get to go to the factory 3-4 times a week and today got to see the new reception and the new trophy cabinet, I went back to my car to get my phone and got some pictures,

Really should get a life !

Motor Engineer Assessor basically write accident damaged cars off for insurance company's occasionally I get to see one that's worth repairing.

Oh, and if next week goes badly, I might tell you a bit about a large telecommunications company near Newbury...

I'm a physio student who happens to have a job providing physio (under supervision) to an elite sports squad. Most physio people are desperate for a job in elite sport but never get there. I on the other hand appear to have stumbled into such a job without trying or even wanting to work in that field (it's not exactly top of my list as I prefer working with older people), but I wont knock the work back.

I do bikes.

Details are boring, bike's and bike bits aren't.

Then after they day, it's bikes.

Bikes, eh!?

This is fantastic....in my mind this all blows the stw stereotype out of the proverbial water!