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Not done this one for a bit, and I'm curious!
Me: currently LBS employee, previously lawyer & various other stuff, most interestingly hifi loudspeaker designer.
You?
Current- Compliance Manager airline catering company
Previous - Design engineer & research deleopment engineer for motorsport and top end road cars
Current is technical operator at a tv studio, before that was junior technical operator at a different studio (was only there 6 months before being poached for my current job via linked in!). The title makes it sound a bit better than it is, I basically do audio, graphics and EVS stills/replays for live racing. Before that was web design with a bit of video editing. Very happy where I am now 🙂
Current design / business analyst
Previous:
Programmer
Record shop assistant
Chef
Printers assistant
Glue factory assistant (worst job ever)
[i]most interestingly hifi loudspeaker designer[/i]
surely 'most interestingly spoon experimenter' 😉
I've worked in software development since I was 18. So for 28 years now...
present= aerial, satellite, cctv and solar salesperson.
previous= steel stockholder crane driver.
worked in software development since i was 21
Currently "Specialist Engineer" if my email signature is to be believed.
Previously, variations on the theme since I was out of short pants.
Current: Product Manager for Oceanographic instrumentation company
Previous: Oceanographic Analyst for MOD.
Part time music workshop leader/festival organiser/various other things for a community music charity
Part time self-employed photographer
That's kind of my current and previous jobs 🙂
Have previously only done quite crap/boring things tbh.
Graduate Civil Engineer working on Highways.
Plumber for the previous
Plumber plus all the other crap for current
Current: artist and illustrator,
Previous: managed a record shop, worked in admin at a university and various other temp jobs such as telesales, labourer and at a kids club.
Previous steel fabricator
Present shift process operator (gas plant)
Current: Airsoft site manager plus other bits and bobs.
Previous: Trading manager for B&Q.
Last fourty years:
Do-nothing layabout druggie (eight years).Drummer in a rock band (seven years).
Occupational Psychology Bureau Manager (twenty years).
Post room supervisor (to date).
Currently - Self employed Will Writer and Probate Administrator (past 7 Years)
Previously - 1 Bank, 3 Insurance Companies, 1 Bike shop and Halfords head office for a while.
previous...
-paperboy
-cocktail whizzkid
-barman
-skin biomechanics research
-quality control and auditing processes
current
-surface engineering research
future
-bike designer and guide for mtb holidays in southern Finland
Currently - Product designer for several UK outdoor brands (love reading know-it-all threads on here about waterproof clothing and tents, but try not to intervene...)
Previously - Office furniture designer
Currently: System Designer for radio networks (although I spend 95% of my time writing SW tools to do the actual job for me).
Previous: 20 odd years in Telecoms, starting off as an RF design engineer and doing variations on a theme
Current: Air Traffic Controller
Previous: Various jobs on oil rigs, making marble/granite kitchen stuff, mid level drug dealer (not just talking a few ounces to mates here), hospital porter
Carpenter. Mostly maintenance and troubleshooting of all things wood! Nationwide company inc van so jobs far and wide.
Previous job: Apprentice Carpenter.
Current. Multi skilled Senior Operator (basically cameraman) for BBC News. Done this since 2000
Previous. anything and everything tech ops wise for BBC news..
been there a while.....
Current: Security Response Manager
Previous: Software tester, Unix Sysadmin, Highways Inspector, hardware support engineer.
now
clutch system engineer
then
halfshaft engineer on commerical veh. at same co.
suspension engineer on commercial veh. at same co.
chassis engineer at plant in liverpool different co.
project engineer at company that made structural cf parts for superyachts
chassis engineer at TWR automotive (company long gone)
quality engineer at company that remanfactured engines for OEMs
petrol station attendant
pea factory operative (student). very minging.
lathe operator for dad's light engineering business
pomona - Member
mid level drug dealer (not just talking a few ounces to mates here),
Hi pomona. I've a feeling we may have met in a past life...
past: Soreen factory operative (1974)
present: software engineer
future: malodorous derelict
Current: Retired
Previous: LBS employee, lots of IT stuff which I've recorded in an Excel spreadsheet.....
Past : tree surgeon
Present: motorcycle instructor.
Current and previous : Accountant
Best job ever? Working at the Golden Arches...honestly - such a good time!
Current: Engineering rather nice lasers
Previous: playing with a couple of Her Majesty's war ships
buyer for a v large online biking website, basically deciding what and how many of each item to bring in
previous (in rough order): programmer, project manager, consultant, garden designer
current: full time job seeker, with occasional breaks for riding bikes (or did I get that the wrong way round?)
present: self-employed chippy/joiner. part-time bike guide. used to build houses, but am now building trade fair stands or the back drop to confrences. sees me spending a few weeks in a workshop and then off to somewhere exotic (or not) to do the show. riding takes place in the Alps.
past: english teacher for a while when i first arrived in germany plus numerous odd jobs whilst travelling.
Current - SPM Banking
Previous - SPM Banking
buyer for a v large online biking website, basically deciding what and how many of each item to bring in
The better you are at your job, the less stuff gets reduced, so I'd like to encourage you to up your alcohol intake and maybe experiment with some recreational drug use. 😀
[i]SPM Banking[/i]
any suggestions for what SPM stands for in this post Barclays-LIBOR days?
Current - BDM for a Factoring Company - Anyone need any cashflow Assistance for their business 🙂
Prior
BDM - Tax and Payroll Company
G/M and Senior IVA Advisor - Dodgy Debt Company
Incident manager BT
Rec Con - Hays IT
Telesales - Phone company
Basicaly allways been a shite salesman !!
Current: business analyst/consultant for an insurance company
Previous: Transport Planner for regional Government
Current: work in a wood yard
Previous 30 years: building surveyor
OR Analyst - Simulation Model Building for somewhere very big in West Cumbria
Currently Freelance Simulation model Builder in Tasmania/Bike Riding/Finally editing 700gb of GoPro Footage
About to start work as a support worker for a charity. Part time alternative therapist.
Past: Bike shop, supplement company, photographer, photographers assistant, headhunter, telemarketing team leader, buyer and seller of various 'things', barman, door to sales, kitchen sales.
Mountain Bike Coach (2002-present)
Previous-
Teacher in FE (5years)
All sorts of Mechanical Engineering jobs - a long time 😀
Now: Offshore Medic
Previous: Registered Nurse - A+E/CCU/Army
Before that: Pub Manager/Dogsbody
Want to be: Bike shop owner/Porn Star/Apache Pilot/Brad Wiggins/slimmer. 🙂
Present - chief network / systems admin
Previous - various roles within IT (starting at the bottom on 1st line telephone support!), including penetration testing, software development, user training, website design... mixed bag really
Appraisal Scientist is what is says at the end of my emails. I wince every time someone asks 'so what do you do?'. Basically I'm a bean-counter for the NHS in Wales looking at whether new drugs are affordable. Whenever the Mail are screaming 'PATIENTS DENIED NEW CANCER MEDICINE' that's me, that is (no headline for the 90%+ of products that get approved of course).
Before that: Technical Author at a medical communications startup (followed, predictably for a startup, by redundancy). Before that, a biochemistry PhD. I sponged off society, or at least paid very little tax, til I was 27 🙂
Previous - Ski Patroller, LBS mechanic, Bin man
Present - Oilfield well design engineer
Current - provide support for children in care and foster carers.
Previous - record label manager for high end audio equipment manufacturer.
I like reading about the career changes!
Current- Self Made Millionaire
Previous- Sales and involved in making others millionaires.
Current - legal counsel for european investment arm of construction/engineering company
Previous - lawyer for big bad law firm
Also - chef, snowboard rep/test pilot, snowboard guide in various alp resorts, nightclub PR manager, precognition agent, farm hand, and many many jobs as a youngster (i "owned" my own bird box company at 14, sales were going well before we ran out of stolen wood and had to actually buy some, resulting in mass redundancies - i.e. I had to sack my 12 year old brother and wind up the company) 🙂
Current - Category manager for a marketing services outsourcing company.
Previous - Retail development design manager for a major UK home electricals brand.
Al - you're giving me ideas!
Been, am or thinking of applying for Support/Technical/Senior/Business Analyst.
The job title tells you nothing but to clarify I'll do anything if there's anal in it.
I'll try to keep it brief!!
Current: Self-employed Oakwright & boat-builder
Previous: Boat-builder, yacht skipper, management consultant, outboard engine sales, regional manager in dental industry, motorsport - suspension and engines, digital media... I'm sure there's more.
Then: 'Design Engineer' (geotechnical, mining and environmental)
Now: PhD student in Carbon Capture and Storage
Previous +1: Temping, call centre, restaurant, general stuff.
Previous 1: Developer out of uni, learning C# and stuff for a tiny Cambridge based company.
Now: C# and Oracle developer for 6 long years for a reasonably well known internets retailer.
Work-life not that exciting.
Future intents: No IDEA!
Current: Paramedic Team Leader
Previous: Paramedic, Advanced Technician, Ambulance Technician and Ambulance Cadet
I briefly stacked shelves and framed pictures whilst waiting to start my Ambulance career. I got a job within a week of leaving school and never been out of employment.
Now: PhD student in Carbon Capture and Storage
Isn't that what was used to 'store' Han Solo at the end of The Empire Strikes Back?
previously...
fudge-packer/chocolate factory operative
car washer
chalet cleaner
chef at BV
ice cream/lemonade/crepe/doughnut stall
volunteer at BTCV and a bike recycling project
feasibility report writer for an NGO in Tajikistan
Currently...
co-founder of an adventure travel website recently voted one of the Guardian's 'best travel websites ever' 8)
Oakwright
nice!
i built a two oak benches the other week for a poncey ski manufacturers stand. really enjoyable... working with "real" wood. i like it when you oil the wood once it is finished and it comes alive....
Now:
Childrens mental health nurse.
Previous:
-Various registered nursing and nursing-auxiliary jobs
-Teaching Assistant
-EFL teacher
-summer holiday 'camp cousellor' for the impeccably-behaved offspring of the French Gendarmerie (bet I am the only stw-er with a Gendarmerie payslip!)
-industrial baker
-civvy toilet cleaner and pot-washer on Royal Navy battleships.
Isn't that what was used to 'store' Han Solo at the end of The Empire Strikes Back?
Yeah, we keep Harrison Ford mounted on the wall in the office. His fingers make handy key hooks.
Now: lawyer (in house - telco)
Then: lawyer (private practice - M&A)
Other: a plethora of jobs in school and university holidays. Nothing glamorous.
Now - QHSE Manager for an Oil Service Company
Previous - Quality Control Engineer
NDT Inspector
All Oil & Gas Related. Not the best of jobs to have but i do get to travel to lots of different countries (good & bad).
Cheers alpin! Tis truly wonderful to see the grain :-).
Not for here, but I'd be interested in the oil you used... on the benches.
What an interesting cross section of society we have here!!
Then: CNC machinist, asian fruit picker, cleaner, sausage factory worker.
Now: Run my own gardening business.
Previously: Self employed gardener, barman, marquee erector, model (more backdrop than front of house!), lbs employee (Singletrack bikes, glos/worcs), Blacks (when they were reasonable).
Current: Head gardener for a large family run estate in S Wales and volunteer with the Welsh ambulance service as a CFR.
Future: Not sure yet. Would love to do bike guiding and training. Always enjoyed helping people, especially newbies to the sport, and passing on the (limited) knowledge that I have.
your a porn star ain't yaincluding penetration testing
Head gardener for a large family run estate in S Wales
Glanusk?
SPM - Banking = Senior Project Manager. Current hot topic of the day is RDR....
Pre/Post Barclays, makes not a jot of differance TBH, we'll all still be here in 3 years time tidying up the mess that is/will be "non advisor"/"inadequate advisor"/"you told me what?"/"wheres me money?"/"how much???"/"ferking bankers bonuses" questions and FSA "inspired" quidlines..
Thankyouverymuchly.
Current & past: Freelance designer of interactive things.
Best job: Working in an ice cream and cake factory.
Worst job: working a fat press in an abattoir / meat processing factory.
Previous - call centres and pub's
Current- Nothing apart from the odd firework display on self employed basis.
Future - I'd like to either work with the homeless or people with LD.
Previous - Lorry driver
Current - Part time warehouse bum/ full time parent.
Current - Marine Consultant working with Offshore Renewables and some Salvage work.
Previous - Salvage Master for the MoD. Driving various types of ships for a few different companies.
previous: photographer (film)
current: photographer (digital) + the odd bit of director/DOP/cameraman/editor/retoucher
Current - Layabout for Environment Agency
Previously - Layabout for local council
Current - Design Engineer for a trailer manufacturer.
Previous;
Fabricator/ Welder
Driver of 7.5t lorries
Pig farmer
Thatcher.
Planning officer (resigned)
Full time dad for 3 years
Just started driving for three days a week and a couple of days voluntary in a local authority planning office to get my experience current again with a view to getting back to being a full time planning officer early next year.
Student
before that on placement with firm doing hard/harsh environment gear/fabric design.
have been
hair model, art model, deadly assassin*, beautiful, enigmatic and aloof saloon assistant.
Want to be
Rock guitarist godess with armies of haughty blonde groupies that do my bidding.
* this is possibly not true
Mulletus Maximus - MemberCurrent - Design Engineer for a trailer manufacturer.
Previous;
Fabricator/ Welder
Driver of 7.5t lorries
Pig farmer
[b]Thatcher.[/b]
So, it's all your fault then.