What does everyone do? [Archive]

Ally

12-08-2006, 21:52

I thought this might be a fun one to start.
I'm currently a school leave and I start studying photography at Dundee college on the 31st of august. I'm also a basketball coach, I do some volunteer and some is paid. All the volunteer stuff is the big stuff like north of Scotland, Tayside and national league. paid is council stuff like the dundee distict squad ect ect.

IanC_UK

12-08-2006, 21:55

LOL

I work for a computer reseller in the services dept, as a senior systems engineer.

In the past i have been a fully qualified Toolmaker, CNC Machine tool Setter/Programmer/Operator for a company that did a lot of defence work (aviation mainly, but some land based lol) and Formula 1/Motorsport Parts.

matty

12-08-2006, 22:02

i am a Dolphin trainer, having trained dolphins to do many things, such as type, and watch tv.

I might also be lying....

really i am factory manager for a company that manufactures acoustic treatments for sale across europe and export to the US. Famous customers include Whitney houston, Peter gabriel, The darkness, Morcheeba, Alicia Keys and many many more. how cool is that. Shame the job sucks

IanC_UK

12-08-2006, 22:26

i am a Dolphin trainer, having trained dolphins to do many things, such as type, and watch tv.

Bet you have used that line loads of times to impress women ;) :cuckoo:

Ally

12-08-2006, 22:28

Bet you have used that line loads of times to impress women ;) :cuckoo:

the question is, did it work...............:naughty: ..............because i might steal it :p

matty

12-08-2006, 22:51

works a treat...give it a go!

brummie

12-08-2006, 23:06

total layabout but soon to be a sales rep again (misses made me go backk to work) :'(

petemc

12-08-2006, 23:35

I'm a freelance photographer :D

Hoodi

13-08-2006, 00:02

uhm, photography is my main source of income, but I also cook part time in a pub // restaurant to help make ends meet!

Warspite

13-08-2006, 00:24

For me photography is my main source of "outgoings" ;) - I cant see this changing, it will always be an expesive hobby and I'm happy with that aslong as I'm enjoying it :thumbs: .

Most of the time I'm an IT Admin for a small training company in the North East, when not wearing my admin hat I'm charged with the task of being the technical trainer for qualifications like Comptia (A+, Network+, etc) and Microsoft (MCP, MCSA, MCSE). Not to exciting but I enjoy computers and have been doing it for quite a while so it keeps me off the streets:D

Witch

13-08-2006, 00:38

I run the hire desk and transport for the plant hire division of a construction company, mainly arranging the movement of site accomodation (Portakabins) around the country. quite interesting for the most part, and generally a nice crowd I work with!

Johnny1982

13-08-2006, 02:24

Working Freelance Photographer (Its not fast paced but I wont deny starting at the lower end)

I make simple HTML websites also.

Hacker

13-08-2006, 04:34

I currently work in Information Security having moved across from corporate and telecomms fraud investigation and I find it incredibly dull and boring. Just recently made the decision to give the photography a serious go and I'm working on a two year plan to give up the corporate bollox and bull****, although with a family and mortgage.......

Gary Bagshawe

13-08-2006, 11:02

I take pictures of all the pretty ladies and shiny things that sparkle and go bang and make a neenaaaw sound.

digitalfailure

13-08-2006, 11:22

I drink lots of tea.......but it doesn't pay that well :(

minimeeze

13-08-2006, 11:33

I bring new :baby: into the world :lol:

(Not personally, I might add.... I'm a midwife ;) )

RobertP

13-08-2006, 11:38

I and my business partner ran a manufacturing business making lighting for over 25 years. End of last year we gave it up as we could not compete with Chinese imports.

So I'm retired :) and loving it so far :D

SammyC

13-08-2006, 15:49

According to my business card I'm a IT technical specialist who designs mission control systems for spacecraft and satellites. That's what it says on the tin so it must be true! :D

Jonny

13-08-2006, 15:56

Starting college in September studying Photography, Physics, Maths and Computing.

nilagin

13-08-2006, 15:59

I am a press toolmaker at Ford. I work on new press tools, (which will eventually produce car panels) Currently working on tools for the Next Mondeo due out next year. I've worked there 27 years including a 4 year apprenticeship.

Joe T

13-08-2006, 16:55

Soon-to-be-qualified Chartered Accountant about to go and work for PricewaterhouseCoopers as an Executive.

Glen

13-08-2006, 17:05

Team Leader in Repro Dept. at Heanor Gate Printing.

Sean_Mcr

13-08-2006, 17:08

I own/run a small but beautifully formed transport company in Manchester

Bachs

13-08-2006, 17:15

I'm a printer/copier engineer.

I fix little ones, big ones (very big ones), colour ones.
My main responsibility is for the networking side of things, network scanning, printer setup etc and I used to cover the whole of the North East of Scotland up to not far short of John O Groats, but these days because of my extra responsibilities and some important key accounts I look after, I am kept nearer to Aberdeen to hit the silly response times.

I need a helicopter. :gag:

13-08-2006, 18:00

Retired cop - 10 years uniform, 20 years CID. I'm loving every minute of retirement, but my zero level of BS tolerance makes me virtually unemployable anyway. ;)

mrgubby

13-08-2006, 18:32

27 years in Electronics Design/Project Management then Redundancy :)

Now Self-Employed Health & Safety Consultant , jobs a bit :bang: but get more free time for the family & hobbies :clap:

Ps Witch, I've probably been in your Portakabins & your clients probably know me :)

daveyuk

13-08-2006, 18:35

Desktop and hardware support, in other words trying to do as little as possible for as long as possible :naughty: :lol: :lol: :lol:

CarlOgden

13-08-2006, 18:46

IT Manager with the added benefit of looking after all the offices, toilets, stationary, visa's for those employees who go abroad and are too busy to go themselves, driver to take staff to bank, dogsbody to go get the bosses coffee from whittards, assistant health & safety person, when it suits them, lock up building (means late nights no pay), open building (means early start no pay) and anything else they throw at me :-(

Tried to make my photography pay but I've chosen supermoto bike racing and they're all too tight to buy photos, magazines/papers don't pay me so I've given up with that and only take photos for those that pay and my mates race team.

Carl.

Ross

13-08-2006, 19:43

IT contractor

Specialise in large networks & WANs but currently doing senior desktop support for a bit of a change

busterboy

13-08-2006, 20:20

Sad but true...:(

http://www.timprocter.co.uk/photography/Various/busterboy-lorry.jpg

digitalfailure

13-08-2006, 20:50

buster, nowt sad about that m8.

could have been much worse, they could have given you a V reg Iveco eurotec to play in.......then you'd be sad :D

busterboy

13-08-2006, 20:57

buster, nowt sad about that m8.

could have been much worse, they could have given you a V reg Iveco eurotec to play in.......then you'd be sad :D

Our firm had one of those things, Good thing about it was you never went over your driving hours with it... It was always broken down..:lol:

Always been a Volvo man myself, Had this for a few years now, 500bhp and pulls like a train..:D

digitalfailure

13-08-2006, 21:14

It
vibrates
Everything
Comes
Off

:thumbs:

ppp

13-08-2006, 21:29

I own my own computer shop with my mate, we have been running about 3 1/2 years, it's a struggle which hopefully will pay off in the long run but is fun and can be rewarding.

dazzajl

13-08-2006, 21:30

Hired gun, have camera will travel.

Or people can save me the effort and come to the studio. :D

Marcel

13-08-2006, 21:31

I'm a house husband :) Full time daddy while my wife works.

Witch

13-08-2006, 21:44

It
vibrates
Everything
Comes
Off

:thumbs:

LOL - I've had dealings with some real dog Ivecos in the past - now however we seem to have what must be the ONLY reliable (touch wood) one in the country....a knackered old S Reg Hiab truck that the company keep threatening to replace with a brand new sparkly Volvo - the driver is threatening to handcuff himself to the old girl so they can't take her away!

busterboy

13-08-2006, 21:46

the driver is threatening to handcuff himself to the old girl so they can't take her away!

He needs a slap then, Tell him to wake up..:cuckoo: ....:nuts:

whitewash

13-08-2006, 21:47

Sad but true...:(

http://www.timprocter.co.uk/photography/Various/busterboy-lorry.jpg

do you keep a truckers sock with you in the cab?....

im a graduate engineer and i work as an engine technician for M-sport who most will be more familiar with as fords WRC team.

Clint_Black

14-08-2006, 08:01

I make toilet roll!

Well not exactly, I look after the data in the SAP system for Andrex, Kleenex, Huggies, Kotex etc. etc.

SDK^

14-08-2006, 08:10

I work for National Grid as a Project Planner during the week.

Braeden

14-08-2006, 08:11

Well, I am supposed to be the team leader in the system assembly dept for a computer firm in Bradford... for the last 5 or 6 weeks I have been working as a picker in the high value store to cover long term illness so my manager has been left to cover my dept...

I am dreading going back to it as I have no idea what state it will be in now that he's had a hand in it...

Luchie

14-08-2006, 08:34

I've probably been in your Portakabins & your clients probably know me :)
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

I am a student, I am studying design; just about to start the second year.:gag: lol:lol: :D

Diego Garcia

14-08-2006, 08:37

I work for a company called La Poste - The French Post office, one of Europes largest employers.
I manage a ledger for them in the UK divisions Bristol office with an average turn over of £1 million per month on my work and £10 million overall each month. Dealing with international haulage and parcel delivery to places as far flung as Mexico and OZ.

Sadly my french colleagues get more hols and better wages - par for the course :(

Diego.

Marcel

14-08-2006, 10:03

Sadly my french colleagues get more hols and better wages - par for the course :(

Diego.

Yeah but they're french so that balances things out a bit :D

sue

14-08-2006, 11:40

I am a childrens nurse and have been for the past 6 1/2 years :)

jewel

14-08-2006, 13:14

Well, technically I am a "starving student" come September, :lol: no more stay at home mom title for me. :( :'(

Oh, Cedric, you really a retired cop or you just pulling our leg?

I like threads like this,lol good to see what yall do besides taking pics and surf porn,lol ;) :p

Jewel

Kev M

14-08-2006, 13:36

I fix helicopters for the RAF up here in the grim north-east, Search and Rescue (:help: )helicopters to be precise. It's not great but it has it's rewarding moments and as far jobs in the military go it could be worse, I don't wear camo, I don't live in a tent and I don't get sent anywhere less civilised than the falklands but my job is being contracted out to civvies soon so all those perks will be short lived:thumbsdown: .

:thinking: Now I'm hatching my escape plan, I've got just over a year to complete it but first I need to decide which direction to dig my tunnel in.:exit:

Forbiddenbiker

14-08-2006, 14:09

I’m self employed, 18 years now... run one main and two mediocre small profitable businesses to do with Motorcycles, Motor sport and Mechanical Engineering. I'm trying to get the main one to go national soon...possibly next year, fingers crossed... and paper work willing. :D

I like to invent stuff too....not made £££ with anything yet though.:(

Forbiddenbiker

14-08-2006, 14:32

but my zero level of BS tolerance makes me virtually unemployable anyway. ;)

I know just what you mean, I left the army myself years and years ago...tried working for a few peeps, a week here and their...godamn these employers are so full of poop and that's just so annoying as their meant to be your leaders, show by example and all that....needles to say, I'm not sure if its because there full of it...or weather I simply have a problem with authority, but I've never been able to hold down a job for more than a week or two....Good job I don't care really.

Living of my wits was so much more enjoyable as it turned out... and more profitable too.

markgray

14-08-2006, 15:25

Been in the printing industry for 17years, various positions Graphic Design, DTP, Scanner Operator.

As of the 1st September i will be unemployed as i had a big falling out with the management over working conditions. Going to do some Courier work which is quite well paid and also starting up my own photo printing company. Doing prints onto Gloss, Matte, Canvas, Mugs, Mousemats, Keyrings, bags etc.

lee

14-08-2006, 15:45

I work for a small software development company, only 6 of us so as you can guess I have multiple roles, but officially I'm an Account Manager.

GfK

14-08-2006, 16:35

I work in Customer Services just now.

If the SIA ever bother to send me my licence I'll be working as a bouncer.

Matt Charlton

14-08-2006, 17:33

Braeden

14-08-2006, 18:29

yes, unfortunately I work for CCL :bang::bonk:

Keltic Ice Man

14-08-2006, 18:42

I'm an IT Manager for a large services company. - yer I know Boring! but work has been a bit of a rollercoaster since mixing for bands, and then GCHQ during the Gulf 1 - it had to settle down at some time.

I mainly work in training and support of a schools management system responsible for its use in Cumbria and the north of England.

Hey Kev when you next fix the S&R Helicopters can you quieten them down a bit - living next to Carlisle Hospital helipad I get used to be woken up at 3am when they try taking my roof off!

Gandhi

14-08-2006, 18:45

Me?

I do contract work for a Company in Bath who produce high quality images, brochures and floorplans for Estate agents like Jackson stops & staff & Knight Frank.......www.quidos.co.uk (shameless plug)

I also do some freelance stuff, starting doing weddings etc next year.

At weekends I'm a pump monkey at the petrol station 30 seconds from where I live. It's a terrible job but pays my rent as my other work can be a bit off and on!

Matt Charlton

14-08-2006, 19:51

yes, unfortunately I work for CCL :bang::bonk:
I went for a job interview at CCL when they were still down at Leeds road for sales, about a year after I left school, they decided that I would be wasted in sales and so got the head technical bloke in and I was offered a job in technical. Wonder if I did the right thing in turning it down all those years ago now :(

Oh well, I'll just keep playing the lottery and searching cwjobs :)

Braeden

14-08-2006, 20:01

3 sets of redundancies in 2 years... and that's not the whole story...

I'll leave you to work it out :exit:

Darryn

17-08-2006, 18:25

I work as an Dimensionally and Visual Inspector of Wide Core Fan Blades for the RR Trent Engines. As for what I do.... not alot. :nuts:

moomike

17-08-2006, 18:32

Yeah but they're french so that balances things out a bit :D

:lol:

I Illustrate kids books & other design work, which is fun :)

Glen

17-08-2006, 19:19

markgray

17-08-2006, 22:08

Will do Glen

Catdaddy

17-08-2006, 22:17

I head up a team of software testers during the day. In the evenings, I turn into scum. Unless it's an evening when I play in the band. And then I become lowlife scum... ;)

Dark Star

17-08-2006, 22:42

I'm a project manager in a large IT company - dull, dull, dull...

Dark Star

aka John, Robert's mate

2blue4u

17-08-2006, 23:37

John Holmes's body double.

um...... not really.

I started a little part time thing a couple years ago helping people reduce and better manage their utility bills. I'm now able to start winding down my day job so I can spend even more time doing, um, er, other things like reading forums, travelling and standing in for my mate John :)

Kate

18-08-2006, 05:26

I'm a Commodity Buyer for an aeroplane engine manufacturer.

Marianne

18-08-2006, 07:01

right now I am off sick with infamed tendons in my left shoulder, have been for weeks now, I am left handed BTW. The job that caused it is hateful, well not so much the job but the spiteful people that work there, it is making the most beautiful wedding veils, the glue gun is the culprit, which is used to attach the gorgeous Swarovski Crystals in pretty patterns. It made me sad that these horrid women, that swore constantly and slagged anyone that left the rom were making these special veils used as a symbol of love, I had a theory that the weddings using the veils that I produced would last and the veils they made wouldn't :lol:

I qualified as a DTP in 2003 and was working for Southampton University producing brochures, pamphlets, flyers and a newspaper promoting their part-time courses until I moved here to be with Baz and haven't been able to find any work in that department as yet...

Before that I was a Sugaring Practioner, did that for year's so I could work from home

Before that I was an auxilliary nurse in a maternity department

Before that I hand stiched curtains for a company down the road from where we lived

my ex reckoned I never worked...hmm...go figure!

Catdaddy

18-08-2006, 08:58

"Sugaring Practitioner" - do you mean cake decorator? Or are you just really good at adding sugar to cups of tea and coffee?

Janice

18-08-2006, 09:21

I do engraving via computer.
Its not high street type engraving, but data labels for electronics firms to put on their cabling panels mainly. Full time mostly.

My husband and I have a light haulage (courier) company of our own too, which he does full-time and I will do a trip to Wales or up north once a week or so to help out so he can go elsewhere. I often start out at 3am and then once Ive delivered in Wales I go back to work on my way home and finish the day till 5pm! :cuckoo:

I also sort out peoples computers in my "spare" time...software and hardware.

For 5 years I ran an Under 13's boys cricket team in a local league every Sunday.

In the past I have: - Reared calves
- worked in an office
- converted donor Triumph cars into Marlins...
(bodywork and engines)
- Oh............and brought up 2 boys too! (one of which got his A level results yesterday and has been accepted into University after his 4 month trip to Australia soon) :thumbs:

Marcel

18-08-2006, 09:33

Oh............and brought up 2 boys too! (one of which got his A level results yesterday and has been accepted into University after his 4 month trip to Australia soon) :thumbs:

There's the hardest job out of them all ;)

Congrats on your boy BTW :thumbs:

SammyC

18-08-2006, 09:34

"Sugaring Practitioner" - do you mean cake decorator? Or are you just really good at adding sugar to cups of tea and coffee?

Um, I think it's a different type of sugar here mate! ;)

Marianne

18-08-2006, 09:45

"Sugaring Practitioner" - do you mean cake decorator? Or are you just really good at adding sugar to cups of tea and coffee?

its hair removal...a bit like waxing!

Oh and four children too...well done Janice's son, hope he can afford it!

Catdaddy

18-08-2006, 09:49

Yes, I know about waxing :nono:

Marianne

18-08-2006, 09:50

I know...has it all grown back yet?

ChrisB

18-08-2006, 09:53

I head up a team of software testers during the day....

I am a software tester.... been doing it now for 2 years for the largest credit referencing company in the country.

Before that I was in telesales.... never again! How they come up with targets that are way, way, way too large to ever meet is beyond me :bang:

Chris.

HIMUPNORTH

18-08-2006, 10:09

I am in charge of our family business which sells fresh food to commercial and institutional caterers,convenience stores and delis. We are based in Inverness and distribute throughout the Highlands - how lucky is that!

I joined the RAF at 17 and trained as an aircraft technician but gave it up when my late father asked me to join firm. Been here ever since. I once owned a parcel company (never, ever again!) and currently own a deli and a couple of greengrocer shops which do not make any money but are nice to look at!

If you have any questions about Scottish or artisan food I am your man!

Would rather make a living flying my paraglider and taking pictures (of naked women preferably) but reality bites. This job makes a good living so photography will remain an outgoing for the forseeable future.

BTW I like this thread. It is good to hear what everyone does :wave:

Catdaddy

18-08-2006, 10:20

I know...has it all grown back yet?

Getting there. Might have to do it again soon, before I get my winter coat back!

I am a software tester.... been doing it now for 2 years for the largest credit referencing company in the country. *snip*

Been doing it 8 years now. Can't say I enjoy it too much though... but the company I work for is fairly flexible, which is a good thing

Marcel

18-08-2006, 10:23

BTW I like this thread. It is good to hear what everyone does :wave:

Aye, :thumbs: on the thread starter.
It's interesting to hear about everyone else on here. Forums can become quite anonymous, and its nice to read about the people we chat to every day...get to know them that little bit better.

Marianne? You just keep your sugar where I can see it..lol

Janice

18-08-2006, 10:29

well done Janice's son, hope he can afford it!

Well WE certainly cant!! He will work for 10 months when he returns from Australia and will then decide whether to go to Kent or Hertfordshire Universities, or stay at work (my bet is, once he has been earning.....he wont want to stop!!):D