I work as a product manager in natural gas company. I mostly design and execute boiler plants. My work was intresting, but novadays it's just sessions and reporting. I think I'll find a new job...

Just ride 'till the cash runs dry dude ;)

Hi there, I'm a project manager for a company that manufactures polyurethane and plastic componets.
The work is to much, guess the bucks are okay..hahaha

I WAS a decorator but jacked in the stress to work in a factory. I now build diesel injectors for Daimler and Daf engines and hate every minute of it!!!

I'm a builder doing high end refurbs on victorian properties, including basements, i'm a site manager who also gets on the tools

In the Army (Royal Engineers) for 12 years then I was a Civil Engineer for 5 years.
Now I am a cop in London, I work in intelligence but get out as often as possible.
I have 2 hats. One is to deal with firearms intelligence and that often results in executing violent and armed entries into armed suspects addresses (it's not as sexy as it sounds - health and safety takes all the fun out of it) although most times we do not enter with guns. I am usually first through the door on entries without armed support, it's scary but fun (I never ask anyone to do something I won't do myself - besides, I did set it up). The paperwork is so vast when using police guns that its easier not to bother and on balance the risks are worth it.
My other hat is to deal with the Turkish mafia on a local level. This part of my job is very interesting with serious drug importation, guns and extortion being the main issues.
I love my job but having had some grim experiences I am ready to retire. (2 years time).

When i left school i was a mechanic/panel beater, got made redundant after 2 years of training and somehow got into IT
i now work for a financial software house in London, been here for 8 years now, my offical title is Software support Manager but i tend to be a general dogsbody, project managing support work, consultanc, looking after the 16 guys and gals that apparently report to me and so on. Sometimes its fun, most of the time its borring, but the money is fantastic with very good job security and allows me to play as i want to when work and family commitments allow.

builder turned IT nerd!
 

I'm a 'solution architect' for Fujitsu (working on the feted NHS programme) but I started out as a builder / chippy. Twenty or so years ago I sold all my power tools and went on a Computeach course. Started work as a computer operator for an electricity company and worked my way up. So now the pay is good, but the job is stressful, long hours and I have to travel a lot to some not very excting places (Slough, Leeds etc). I would never complain though....

I was a 3D Computer Aided Design trainer for Computervision, then worked in QA as a software tester , then swapped to development in 91 and haven't looked back. Now work for a company writing data Visualisation software to help the good guys catch the bad guys. CIA ,FBI, DEA, UK Police forces, Prison Service, Customs and Excise banks etc etc all use it :-)

Great job but difficult to leave at work as it's all in yer head.

I am an Information Technology Prostitute. Or in laymens terms an IT Consultant whose main focus is Service Management. Yes just writing this is making me sleepy.

and reading its no different!! HAHA:yahoo::yahoo::yahoo:

I'm a Senior UX (user experiance) Designer for a travel software technology company in South Wales, used to be a tank commander (recce) in the Army but left 5-6 years ago and haven't looked back.

Use my XTX to get to work, 54 mile round trip, going to work is fun, so is going home :)

market stalls
bars
video shops
furnature remover
I.T (3 yrs)
Banking (3.5 yrs)
Bookmakers

I now work for an offshore helicopter company which flies passengers+cargo to oil rigs,basically loading/unloading/towing/washing helicopters, making sure passengers dont get their heads chopped off etc

its the best job iv had, outside in all weather not stuck in an office, no one is up their own bum and you get left alone to get on with your job, no-one breathing down your neck! the pay isnt too bad either

:sleepy7::sleepy7::sleepy7:
failed exams not allowed into further educatiominfs
Started working life in charge of the back door!!! Shop.
Forklift truck driver Wool merchant
Drill press operator- L.S.Starrett and co
Screw machine operator
Trainee Screw machine setter
Junior programmer IBM GSD machines
Programmer
Programmer trainee analyst
Analyst programmer
Analyst programmer - Parsons Chain
Analyst programmer - C.P.Programming services
Programming manager - Exacta circuits
Senior Analyst programmer - Quorum System
System Consultant - (Contractor) Currenty working for Scottish & Newcastle PLC unitl the take over work is complete, then be looking for a new contract.

I read this post from the beginning (Things slow today awaiting for Business to come back with answers to questions), see the factor of FIVE.

Read a post from Dreadger in Swadlingcote (Thought used to go swimming there when I worked for C.P. Programming in Ashby-de-la-rouch), then lo an behold a few post later cant remember his name there was some one else who went to swim at Swad.

Also done the DIY stuff Re-built house while we still lived in it (Not recomended).
Fixed own cars Autotested them, navigated in rally cars and Land-Rovers.
Trialed, and Comp safaried Land-Rover's. Now MotorBikes, use to get to Work when not sharing (A7 to Edinburgh), + IAM on Sundays.

Back to Job OLD IT "Mainframe" Analyst programmer, can Project manage, design Business systems, Program and Test, as long as it is traditional stuff, love it and hate it would love to do something else but what:googly[1]:....

Colin

I left school at the age of 17 moved 800km away for everybody I know started working for a upholster for about 2 years then worked for a company that specializes in roofs that was nice as I saw the hole country after about 4 years started working for a contractor doing some welding/building/roofs/pluming just refuse to lay tiles and then about 6 years ago started at a dental technician, s*^ty job really missing the out doors http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/k...008/101457.jpg

I work in the auto industry as a robot programmer. Its an interesting job that has taken me all over the word,problem is that I'm away from home for long periods of time.:sad1: Good news is that I run my own company I can choose when I want to work and when I want to:boozer: er, relax

In the army for 6 years now...

whats your job??
 

Well, left school, intruder alarm/ electricians apparentice at Thorn EMI, qualified, got bored,went into building trade, bricking and plastering, done good, got bored, went into BT, business systems, had injury whilst at work. long term sick, got bored so started buying / selling cars, as well as doing various college courses to pass the time( plumbing, gas, building trades in general). opened my first MOT garage in chadwell heath 6 years ago, second in collier row 5 years ago, but havent had to be there myself really, so got back into building trade, now run my own building company doing mainly disabled adaptations for local authorities, as well as extensions etc... In between, my second wife wanted to do something so we decided to open up a cafe, which she took with her when she gone!!! god bless and all who sail in her!!! lol.
Into small time property landlord/developement and allways looking for something new and exciting......and lucrative, he he........watch this space, who knows.... bar, restaurant, refuge for tired brasses!!

WOW what a bizarre story Mick, funny and sad at the same time, specially the bit about your second wife getting away with your Cafe, but I am curious now.... what happened to the first wife?

You can't just tell us half the story, c'mon man!!

Well, i built a new patio, called her to have a look and couldn't find her, then noticed a 'bump' in the slabs...... a few passes with a wacker plate and it was good as new!!!...total mystery??

;-D

She lives happily in clacton on sea! lol....

:blob1:

Hi, I used to be a journalist for some 12 years before getting into communications and media relations for various companies for the last 9 years.

I also used to be the President of the Federation of European Motorcyclist's Associations (FEMA), which is a Brussel-based organisation fighting for rider's rights in Europe.

I work in graphic and packaging design in central London, been doing that for various studios for around 11 years and before that I worked in Law specializing in commercial litigation. Trust me what I do now is a lot more interesting.

Me well work at a place '' Where every little **** up helps'' ........lol no guesing where that it ...
I work in merchandising and planning and anoy customers in moving stuff around the stores . Boring but its a job beter than not having one :-)

jobs
 

hi all, im only 41 love the xt660x :-) im an ex forces puma pilot and gunnery sgt ( marksman / sniper )spec ops and own my bell jet ranger heli, retired as such at 41......lol...... love the website.....ray

A lecturer at Lule� University of Technology. Don't hand me a screwdriver and ask me to fix your bike though, I work at the design department. :brushteeth:(<-- random smiley)

My Great Jon
 

I'm a photographer for a world news agency (A wire agency) which takes me all around the world on everything from sport news and politics to wars protests and conficts. My last couple of jobs to give you an idea were the MtoGP at Phillip Island then the next day to Japan - Mt Fiji Raceway for the F1GP and now back in Sydney for the Rugby leauge world cup. its very dull.

Rob

Salesrep for one of biggest suppliers of laboratory instruments in South Africa. Dealing in pharmaceutical, automotive, industrial, agricultural, pathology, medical, research and food and cosmetics industry.
Very interesting , not one day the same ...guess you meet new people every day...from weird to wonderfull. Maybe they say the same about me...:040:

I'm an oceanographer. Now trying to complete my thesis and finally get the PhD degree. Very like my job. Especially dew to travel opportunities.

Can you come & pick me up for the next meet by any chance? :toothy10:

I'm an industrial and commercial heating engineer. Love to get my hands inside a big dirty boiler from time to time. An often do.

I think I'll be giving you a call soon

You changed your avatar from a little p*ssy to and old plucker, what's that all about?

At 16 i went to college to study motor vehicle matinence. After 2 years I got my lvl 3 qualification. Whilst being at college and a short time afterwards I worked for a cleaning company where every sunday I would go in with a team and clean a massive newspaper print press. I was getting sick of the work and was about to leave untill the same company offered me to do security work. I was doing saturday and sunday, 12 hour days at either severn trent sewage works plant (bloody stunk!!!) or a plastic injection mould plant (******* hooooogeee, but did smell nice when the machince was on ;D) I did this for another 1 1/2 years as the pay was quite good. But then a great oppertunity arose. I found out that MAN truck and bus was wanting an apprentice hgv mechanic. I got the job and ive been doing it for about 3 months now :D

Suppose I'd better fill this bit in now then....
 

What is my job? That's something I ask myself every day :042:,

The thread looks to me like a load of CV's so here goes:

After leaving school I was a complete layabout, dad was working in India, Sudan and Austrailia so he just kept giving me money (mainly because he though I was still in 6th form!). Anyway I had to get a job and opted for the RAF, passed the entrance exams and was due to start, until I got a job packing pies, but the money was reall good and I stayed there for a few years, scotching the RAF idea (I know, I know)

Anyway, after a while I got sick of that and got a job fixing Computers, the kind of fixing that requires a scope, meter etc. I'd been playing with radio controll and communications so I knew one end of a diode from the other.

This progressed to field support and IT was my path for the rest of my cursed days

I've been doing this for the best part of 20 years now, progressing a bit more with each new possition.

Today I work for the UK's main Telco provider, running a small team of technical guys rolling out Voice and Data communications.

The job sucks ( I might have mentioned this somewhere already), but the Pension is a bit better than elseware, I work from home, I get loads of leave and anything I work over 36 hours I have to take as time off, the following week!

I've worked in lots of places that many people haven't even seen, I've been irradiated, stripped naked and showered (outside - in November, in Scotland), had guns pointed at me and nearly been shot when I drove through the first checkpoint into faslane naval base....

I once brought the MBNA (credit card) customer call centre to it's knees, because I conected a fibre cable to the wrong port, and I managed to turn off the network in the Dublin Stock Exchange before leaving for lunch, although I never made it from the trading floor! but these were over 14 years ago, I'm much better now.

I think I've enjoyed the experiences of where my job has taken me, over the job itself.

If anyone has an urge to wonder how an IP address actually works - I could tell you, but I might have to kill you afterwards, or myself!

It's the result of a funny game based on a theme called "bass head" from a friend's music forum. People were displaying their basses in a pic where the bass is placed upside down in front of your face like in the examples below, (and these have to be only basses of a particular make, in this case, Music Man Ernie Ball StingRay 5's)

http://i178.photobucket.com/albums/w...ss/SR5Head.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4.../bongoenvy.jpg
http://i144.photobucket.com/albums/r...0/DSC01335.jpg

And here i thought we were looonies :grouphug[1]:

They must do a pill for that.

No, I think that is beyond medical science!

Ive studied IT in highschool and tried to take that a little further in colledge but dropped out 6 months later... I've been building websites and programming from the age of 17, and that's where I've stranded today.
I'm a webdesigner and developer for a local company for about a year now, and hope to be so for quite a while...
got lovely colleagues and super bosses who I cant keep up with when we're in the pub!:moonshine[1]:

iam a spanner monkey in a motorcycle workshop 9 til 5 but iam a full time 365 days ayear allweather lifeboat crew member