On another note.....

Surveyor of waterways also carpenter

Apprentice Boilersmith, bodger, get and gofor.......etc

Software development manager. Trying to make those pesky computers do something useful. At the moment playing with digital pens

Owner of a Cable Termination company, Mechanial injunear in Manufacturing

Qualified mechanic for 13 years but finally had enough when a customer overheated his toyota and all he had to top the radiator up was a can of beer a bottle of fresh orange and his own ****! not the best combination when your underneath dropping the "coolant" out
Now drive BIG lorry's for a living "Keep on trucking!"

scotchgit said:

I dispel it occasionally usually after beans

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Spring cabbage gets the ballast to evacuate the premises, sharpish!!!

Now:- Carer and housewife to my Gwennie
last 30 years, L.G.V. technician/mechanic for Scania, Volvo and M.B.
previously Rig Mechanic on offshore platforms
before that, Marine Engineer & Naval Architect (first wife buggered that up) the end.

since leaving school i did

apprentace MOT tester
high performance tuning apprentace
made earpieces for hearing aids ( fukkin boring )
side hemming rig technician ( seweing machine in a curtain factory )
night shift making pvc electrical trunking
vehicle stripper in a scrap yard
worked on a mates cattle farm ( lived there aswell for a few months)
conservatory builder moved up to site foreman moved up to site manager moved up to area manager then the fukker shut down the business due to stress and couldnt keep up with demand
went into site joinery picked up bricklaying plastering roofing tiling and traditional leadwork n glazing in the 13 years i was at it
got made redundant
worked in a HGV trailer builders as a fabricator / welder got overworked and threatened with my job on a daily basis
now on SSP for a nervous breakdown and clinical depression

Work for a telecoms company, sort out their large diesel generators, air handling units, compressors, UPS, DC systems etc. Done it for 6 years nearly, enjoy the work but hate the people up top

Started out as electrical draughtsman then made redundant so joined Civil Service (can't say which bit) on a short term 6 week contract - that was 29 years ago.

Job's OK, big plus point is flexi time & decent pension

electronic engineer......oh and I can repair welding equipment.

Left school and joined the Royal Navy as a Marine Engineering Mechanic (basically everything from Gas Turbines to the **** House), left that and became a Wind Turbine Service Technician now a Service Coordinator for the same company, just starting to dislike sitting behind a desk all the time.

minidod said:

Left school and joined the Royal Navy as a Marine Engineering Mechanic (basically everything from Gas Turbines to the **** House), left that and became a Wind Turbine Service Technician now a Service Coordinator for the same company, just starting to dislike sitting behind a desk all the time.

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So you work for Ecotricity?

fanatic said:

So you work for Ecotricity?

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No, work for the Service department of a German Manufacturer of multi MW trubines.

in reverse order, shop boy, truck roof assembler/welder, mechanical design engineer, student (them were the days...), extraction engineer, automotive engineer, call centre jerk off, IT project manager. How the hell do 25 years go by that quick?

Hawaii said:

Started out as electrical draughtsman then made redundant so joined Civil Service (can't say which bit) on a short term 6 week contract - that was 29 years ago.

Job's OK, big plus point is flexi time & decent pension

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I bet he's a tax man and daren't tell us.

Pretty much any thing that make's few quid , legally .

Apprentice in the good old Sheffield Steel works (it were a job for life lad )
Transport Supervisor for a Rotherham Steelworks
Scrap Inspector for a private scrap company supplying said steelworks
Stoodent
Test procedure, and test equipment designer (good job, cr@p pay)
Process Engineer for 'large Japanese electronics manufacturer'
TPM bod for a valve manufacturer
Process improvement bod for same
IT projecct manager for same
Process Engineer / 'elf n safety bod for same

In other words, I've bin around a bit and can turn my hand to most stuff. Not mentioned the self employed mechanic bit while in Uni, it paid for beer and allowed me to impress impressionable young wimmin away from home for the first time I was a bad man, but by ell stoodenthood was fun

Theatre Technician, Freelance Sound Designer & Engineer, Technical stage manager for a couple of small companies.
Oh and full time post-grad student.

All of that means i'm both very busy and very poor.

(secretly want to be a lorry driver)

didn't realise we were doing "what i've done in the past".

ok so i survey mains water, sewers and rivers. also do the odd bit of carpentry for people and tree clearing for my uncle.

when i left school...

kwiksave cashier,
erm safeways cashier,
autoglazier, towbar fitter, stereos, etc.
ultra high pressure waterblaster,fire warden, kaizen rep (all in the same foundry)
retrained as a carpenter joiner,
traditional joiner at black country museum,
multi-skilled handyman for government asylum contractor fixing houses and locksmithing.also did evictions with ukba cos non of the others wanted to risk it. kurds brandishing machetes and bread knives aint fun.
quit that as they cut staff and i was covering 300 homes alone, so dangerous.
left brum and back to malvern having squatted for 3 months for a new start...

confined spaces rescue and surveying, mainly thames water and anglian. part of company broke away and i went with. and thats where i am now.

and breath.....:5bhurray: