So what do you do?

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I fix computers for a computer games company :D awesome job :D
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scottish pug estate wrote:

But i am a paranormal investigator,

going into edinburgh vaults tomorrow 8)

i seen that place on joe swash believes in ghosts or something along that name , it looks creepy as f*ck down there :shock:
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i forgot to add that im a van salesman , no i dont sell vans i sell peters pies out of mine :cheesy: , great job days regular monday to friday , excellent wage plus commission on top and i get plenty of samples :cheesy:
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I was the Senior Buyer for a big construction company in Manchester, then the credit crunch came along,goodbye contracts, goodbye job :( ,

so now I've retrained as an English as a Foreign Language teacher and moved to Poland with my wife (she is a native Jam) and 2 year old son, the 406 did an admirable job of getting us here.

Always interesting to see what others do to pay the bills.

good thread matey :)
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I'm doing consultancy and work based learning, mostly quality, lean manufacturing and environmental stuff with a bit of IT, health & safety and customer service thrown in for good measure, I deliver NVQs & modern aprenticeships and some other qualifications. I used to work as a Quality Engineer in manufacturing, then worked for a training company run by lunatics, then went self employed for a while, and now I've joined a new training company as a director, so it's been an interesting few years. I'm also at college doing a PGCE at the moment. Hope it settles down a bit soon, I'm knackered! :supafrisk: :lol:
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To those that don't know already, I'm a self employed mechanic....30 years in business, 40 years in the business altogether.

I thought i'd done well keeping my sons out of the job, but my 17 year old is an apprentice with Volvo, the other two are both computer programmers.
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I represent the dark side.

Good old Local pube-lick transport.

Wasting government money and making people late for work since 1990.
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Erm...
Clue's in the u.n. :cheesy:

Prior to that I've installed and piloted a deep diving ROV (6000 metres), been a test engineer on electronic systems of all sorts from the early 70's, designed and built and supported hooge database applications and whatnot, been a milkman, done telephone software support, was at Abbey Road for a brief while as an apprentice, worked on CCTV and broadcast TV systems, CATV in the early days, the first CITRAC system, repaired and installed pc's and all sorts of 'tronic stuff from 140ohm balanced line measuring sets to 350kVa alternator sets and 250 HP haydraulics, programmed motorola 68xx, zilog z80, intel 8080, 8085, 80286, 80386 processors in assembler, sure I've forgotten something or other...

Brainstorming project bid's in red team environment... ahh... it's all bollocks if it doesn't win. If it does you're a super hero :lol:

Now I'm a middle aged git struggling to just pay the sodding bills 'cause I'm seen as over experienced and inflexible - probably true actually, but I can keep me mouth shut. Even with edited and tailored CV's as soon as they see me I'm fuc@+d.

Hobbies? Miniature railway engines up to about 15 inch gauge, fire and drive 'em (since 1980), fix 'em if I can.

Never mind eh... Onward and upward... Atenolol and Fluoxetine are our friends... 8)

To infinity and bey.. cough... hack... cough... stumble... Ahhh gotta layoff the Golden Virginia... and red wine... 8)

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Currently a Bounty Hunter, though I started my career as a field tester for Durex. The hours were crap, but the minge benefits were good!
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I suppose I should come clean, I'm a director of a small specialist construction services contractor and do everything from tendering for work to paying the leccy bill.

Have no 'Boss' as such as the partnership has very different roles.

Oh and I'm not an up-hill gardener; although I do like gardening :mrgreen:
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turbolag wrote:Currently a Bounty Hunter!
If you track down any of the plain chocolate ones, could you get me a couple?

....and a toothpick


Me? until recently ran the engineering department of a large plastics manufacturer, now doing projects / development etc., (yawn)!
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turbolag wrote:Currently a Bounty Hunter, though I started my career as a field tester for Durex. The hours were crap, but the minge benefits were good!
ROFLMAO

I was going to say I'd been a Formula 1 driver for Scalextrix and am now a test pilot for Airfix... :lol:
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Im a third year Media Production (quiet voice) student at the University of Sunderland, and technical operator for Sky Sports at the Stadium of Shi... Light. Training to be a camera operator in studio production or outside broadcast (whoever pays me more)
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Welly wrote:I suppose I should come clean, I'm a director of a small specialist construction services contractor and do everything from tendering for work to paying the leccy bill.

Have no 'Boss' as such as the partnership has very different roles.

Oh and I'm not an up-hill gardener; although I do like gardening :mrgreen:
He really works for "Help The Aged " as transport Co-ordinator hence the Volvo :twisted:
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