Model Boat Mayhem
Mess Deck: General Section => Chit-Chat => Topic started by: hopeitfloats on May 20, 2008, 10:23:17 am
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outside of modelboat mayhem i work as an engineer/welder installing irrigation and domestic/stockwater pumps.
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I'm the one you all love to hate when you are late for work and there's a queue of traffic crawling along at 4mph...bet your life I'm at the front.
I drive a big road sweeper...or I did before this bloody heart attack. But as the great Arnie once said..."I'll be back...."
"who needs traffic calming when there's a sweeper in front of you..."
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Computer hardware repair..... at least that's what I claim! O0
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Working hard, very hard at being RETIRED!
Roger in France.
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Technical Director for a conference and live events production company, so I get to design the lighting and stage sets for such huge product launches, such as (and in no real order) Pampers, Coke Light (yuk !!!) Macdonalds (long while ago) Ford Sierra (humm) and a host of strange pharmacutical products, which as far as I can see all claim to cure anything that you have got !!!!!!!
P
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Electrical/Electronics Engineer/ with a crew of 130 men who need a lot of work to keep them busy nationwide so if anybody needs any jobs doing then let me know! O0
Russ
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Marine Engineer on ex RMAS Ships.
Bob
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Just like Roger in France only I am Barry in Spain...
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Better join in this one then.
Im a Night replenishment Section Manager for wait for it..... TESCO O0 {-)
On the side im a Graphic designer making signs and graphics for cars, vans, shops etc etc (when i get the time that is).
Jay
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Engineering Technician for Britvic Soft Drinks, where I work we produce Pepsi in PET bottles all sizes, also Tango and R Whites Lemonade (no singing).
I have about 4 1/2 years before I retire ;) ;) ;)
Brian
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Amateur (very) model boat builder O0
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Looks like i better join in this one then.
A customer service auditor >>:-( ( no not a bean counter ) i look after big BLUE pallets. ::)
Timo2 O0
PS Full time BOAT BUILDER
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I spent 22 years in the RAF, then 21 years as a Technical Author, before taking early retirement. I now divide my time between old Austin Sevens, model warships and foreign holidays.
I don't suppose it would apply to Mayhemers, who all seem to have at least two hobbies, but a lot of people, when I decided to retire, said "What are you going to do to fill all that spare time?" What spare time? I've never been so busy!
Rick
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I drove Semi Trailers for twenty years, then stayed at home for the next twenty
getting to know my four kids, and while staying at home was an airconditioning
serviceman, now fortunately for the last 8 years very happily retired.........
Roy
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Engineering Technician for Britvic Soft Drinks, where I work we produce Pepsi in PET bottles all sizes, also Tango and R Whites Lemonade (no singing).
Brian
Must resist........ must resist.... can't! "R W Lemona-a-ade!" ..... Stop! Stop! Must fight it!!!
Soryy Brian... it's the law! {-) {-) {-)
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The Army pays me to stay at home! ( They think so much about me that they fight their wars without me!!)
Part time "Security Team" member" for those pharmaceutical people that make "upstanding" drugs. Ask Pele' he knows. ;)
The Govt pays me a pension as well. ('cos I'm old)...
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Run my own company that supplies and maintains coin operated gaming and amusement machines, pool tables, sound systems to Pubs, Clubs and other such salubrious outlets...
And I'm always open to offers so that I can retire and get down to the serious business of making models...
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here we go:
Shift engineer in a gas fired power station.
Ian
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Started working life as a time served carpenter and joiner, worked my way up to being a surveyor, then got fed up.
Went truck driving for twenty odd years in this country and Europe, then like Roy thought I'd better spend some time with the wife and kids so went back into building.
Took over my Father in Laws company when he died and retired at 56 with Emphysema.
I am now stuck at home building model boats.
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FULL TIME MINI BRICK LAYER
( SENIOR MODELMAKER LEGOLAND WINDSOR ) {-)
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work for Kidde IEP division . That stands for Industrial Explosion Protection , what fun it is and were there a spare second i try and build my boats well say try.
john
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1.Car salesman 38 years
2.Part time Mussell Shooter
3.Part time model boat Constructor
4.Pork pie enthusiast {-)
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Was a generating station shift engineer in both coal fired and nuclear, then a power system dispatcher, then ealry retirment. Now I'm a steam boat engineer on a nice little (94') steam yacht with a triple expansion engine, plus a little farming on the side.
oldiron
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Not the 'Gondola' is it, Oldiron?
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Martin
Slightly off topic who wrote the song, no do not go looking it up have a guess.
Brian
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Retired Panel beater sprayer now a Driver /Handyman much much more money than the motor trade
Stavros
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Martin
Slightly off topic who wrote the song, no do not go looking it up have a guess.
Brian
Status Quo?!?
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Elvis Costellos dad wrote it and Elvis Costello sung on the backing, when the newer adverts came out Elvis Costello sang the song.
Brian
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Martin
Slightly off topic who wrote the song, no do not go looking it up have a guess.
Brian
Status Quo?!?
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I now print letterheads, business cards, ncr sets, brouchers in fact almost anything that comes along. In the past I was involved in security printing, very interesting, airline tickets, passports, certificates of deposit, bearer bonds and cheques etc. Once printed a single piece of paper that with the correct signatures was worth £5,000,000 (yes 5 million). Needless to say I didn't know the people that had to sign it.
Alan
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Marine Engineer on ex RMAS Ships.
Bob
Meant to ask earlier but forgot! What is the "new" outfit like? PM me if you wish. Bryan.
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................. for a minute there Mr Young - I thought you were going to tell them your real job a 1/48 test pilot for Airfix {-) {-) {-) {-) :D
hey I am only having a laugh mind !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
john
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Hi john...............more like a hod carrier for lego :D {-).........seriously though ........teacher of building skills and N.V.Q assesor to 16 to 20 year olds.
regards all............bob.
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For what it's worth...........Been in the motor trade as a mechanic and MOT tester since I left school and as of 4 months ago, I am now a GRP laminator making of all things chimneys for the building trade??????
Mark.
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Hi
My job is the same as djrobbo i am a assessor for nvq carpentry and joinery
Regards Dave w
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Time served Watch & Clockmaker, 4th generation and the last by the looks of it.
currently, IT trainer & NVQ assessor; presently, exam invigilator at a schools on the Wirral (like watching paint dry in reality but oh the power I have! :D)
Semi-pro photographer and maker of models (boats preferably but anything considered if remuneration is adequate)
BTW if you the song referred to previously is "Any Old Iron" then i can remember Lonnie Donagan (sp) blasting it out during the skifle era around 1957/8.
LB
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Hello,
VERY Retired Engineer !!!.
John, O0 O0 O0
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Not the 'Gondola' is it, Oldiron?
I'm not familiar with the "Gondola". This is the Wanda III. It was built for the Eaton family in 1915 and runs on its home lake in the Muskoka Lakes chain.
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I work part time as an electrician and troubleshooter. Most of the time I work as a vocalist and play bass guitar.
I also spend a lot of time building inland river work boats.
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Status Quo?!?[/color]
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Cheeky whipper snapper! ;)
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Hi
I'm a Chef - unemployed at the moment - good job though! (pardon the pun)
It's taking all my efforts to build my Marie Felling - just started.
regards
Gary
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Hi Mayhemmers,
I'm an Account Co-ordinator with a well known steel company (British, then AngloDutch and most recently Indian).
I enjoy the challange of work but wish I had more time for boats.
(It'll have to wait for retirement I guess)
Oh and when not working it's the shared job of bringing up 2 children with SWMBO.
Mogsy
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Thats a fine boat Oldiron.
Sorry, I wrongly assumed you were in uk. The Gondola is a steam yacht on Coniston in the English lake District. She lay sunk for many years, and I used to play on the wreck as a lad. Then she was recovered, taken to a local shipbuilders and renovated into her current glory by apprentices.
Ian
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Don't know if I dare,
My trade is mentioned in the Karma Sutra.
Plumber, you know you stay in all day and no one ever comes.
Colin H.
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Thats a fine boat Oldiron.
Sorry, I wrongly assumed you were in uk. The Gondola is a steam yacht on Coniston in the English lake District. She lay sunk for many years, and I used to play on the wreck as a lad. Then she was recovered, taken to a local shipbuilders and renovated into her current glory by apprentices.
Ian
"Gondola"'s a nice looking vessel. The people who put it back together deserve a huge congradulations. It's to bad, though, that it was allowed to get into a derelict condition as you mentioned.
John
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wow you lot are old {-) i drive a kenworth sand trailer, oshkosh cement mixer, peterbilt lowboy
if it has tires or tracks i'll drive it sooner or later >>:-(
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This one used to be good.....
(http://homepage.mac.com/robertdavies/814.gif)
but that was a fair few years ago now.
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International playboy/babysitter/maintenance tec
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I drive mobile plant in a quarry or sit in front of a control panel pushing buttons.
Dave
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Was Electronics technician until osteoporosis caused 3 crush fractures of the spine, now disabled pensioner & very slow builder of R/C model boats that will never see water other than the test tank or bath.
Damien.
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what an interesting variety of jobs we have. i served my apprenticeship as a diesel mechanic (plus another 15 years) working on tractors and farm equipment before changing to irrigation stuff as i mentioned at the start. seems i cant get away from the farms.
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hi all
I served my time as fitter and turner in the Dockyards - followed by some time at sea and some various other jobs including working in the fibre glass industry (when there were no engineering jobs to be had in the North East).
Worked for an aero engineering manufacturer for a good while.
What I regarded as my best job of all is I worked for a small engineering Company - used to do work for the Ministry of Defence and worked all over the UK with them places such as Rosyth, Portsmouth, you name the place {-) As I always away from home, I then took a job working for Formica Company as a maintenance engineer - ooo those shifts :-\ - then, I was retired - they could find no more work in me :o and put me on the scrap heap. :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
aye
john e
bluebird
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Started my working career as a commercial trawlerman , then had a year as a Fishery Officer ( poacher turned game keeper lol :police: ) before back to the fishing before 9 years as a Fishery Scientist working for the Government at the Marine Laboratory in Aberdeen. Been disabled with 2 squashed disks in my lower back since August 1999 and been on my Pension since 2001 ( aged 33.... )
Currently got more boats to build than hours in the day just need my back to stop hurting so much to get started on them !!!
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A few assorted jobs after leaving school then a few years installing / changing electric meters for the SEB. Two years at
County Tractors on final fitting plus converting new Ford D series truck chassis from 4x2 to 6x4s. Another two years at
Dennis Bros fitting pumping gear / water tanks etc to fire engine chassis's. Then twenty nine years servicing or assembling
and testing new hydraulic pumps / motors / control valves etc until the company went bust. Finally, four years building
Pinzgauer trucks for the MOD. Retired two years ago. YIPPEE. O0
Now, like most retired people, I find the time just fly's by. At work it was "Has that clock stopped". Now it's "B - - - - Y
H - - L, is that the time already"
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Ex Architect.
Now I'm a coronation ticket seller on a retainer. O0
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Avionics Engineer for an Awfully long time - then Data Analysis Black Box Recorders plus sold things that went "Bang". Dept of Defence Consultant - then had enough of all that.
Now semi retired, work part time driving delivery trucks for Hardware Store to feed my hobby, which is turning out to be a very expensive hobby.....
Looking forward to NOT working at all...... ;) ;)
Martin doon under
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Semi-retired, so unofficial job is flying as many tools and as much boat buiding stuff under the radar as possible.
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Here goes (if I can remember :-\)
National Service in Royal Marines (landing craft) 1952/3. Slight mixture of jobs but, finally, 29 years in the police (North Yorkshire and Metropolitan) until retired after heart op in 1985. After recovery (and a while being fairly idle) I spent 5 years with the London Borough of Barnet but retired (again) in 1996 after a slight heart attack. Did a few driving jobs but had another slight heart attack in 2003 and decided to give up completely and concentrate on more important things (like model boats). Now living in the quiet seclusion of a Norfolk village.
Derek. :police:
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Here goes (if I can remember :-\)
National Service in Royal Marines (landing craft) 1952/3. Slight mixture of jobs but, finally, 29 years in the police (North Yorkshire and Metropolitan) until retired after heart op in 1985. After recovery (and a while being fairly idle) I spent 5 years with the London Borough of Barnet but retired (again) in 1996 after a slight heart attack. Did a few driving jobs but had another slight heart attack in 2003 and decided to give up completely and concentrate on more important things (like model boats). Now living in the quiet seclusion of a Norfolk village.
Derek. :police:
You keep drawing that pension and enjoy life. 29 years deserves it.....I did 22 and went kicking and screaming in 1998 after picking up a hip and wrist injury in a riot. I only had 2 men on duty that night and against 250 screaming yobs, we had no chance. Anyway all in tha past now and after running our own property managemant company for a while and having a go running a building company for a short while, decided to call it a day for good. Now enjoying the models and life in general..
Barry :police:
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Thanks for your kind thoughts Barry. The only thing I envy is your climate - keep enjoying it (and the boat building, of course). ;) O0
Derek. :police:
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Left school to go to sea then joined the now defunct Queens Own Highlanders at 17 seved just under three years when medicalled out with a bad back went back to sea until 2002 when the last vessel I was on sunk in the Atlantic and have been on sites for the last 6 currently a sparkies mate and away to start Adult Training as a spark in August
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served time caulker & burner in llairds. Went onto site work then for people who make exceedingly good cakes ;D took money and like Banjo am now a member of a security team. Next who knows .
Botchit
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1, Projects Director for a major European parking equipments manufacturer
2, stock car racer - just retired
3, football ref - very retired
4, model boat builder (when I can find time)
O0
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Hmm...
what a varied lot we have, well via a stint in the Canadian Armed forces was followed by time at university, then many years being a glorified chaffeur and back to university and for the past 8 years have been in health and social care, but due to surgical complications have been forced to seek more office type of role with fingers crossed should have shortly.
I am also a part time football manager for under 10s, a hydro-ceramic engineer and head distributor of animal food products.
Oh, and have just finished my first model boat!
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I work on the London Underground as a Signals Technical officer. Was transferred to the private sector about 6 years ago under the government PPP initiative, so I am now employed by Tube Lines.
Andy
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so what does that job involve. sounds like it could be interesting :)
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I deal with signal failures and maintenance and some commissioning of new signal works.
The nature of the works is hands on, which suits me as paperwork bores me silly. The work is chiefly electrical, although as I work on point equipment and signal frames there is a fair amount of mechanical work too. We do some work with computers, although they're quite ancient by todays standards- the average home pc is far more powerful.
Downsides to the job are the hours (shiftwork) and some of the grotty holes you have to work in at times- tunnels aren't the cleanest of places!
Andy
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Left school and did the Apprentice thing for auto engineering along with study for heavy industry's, got C & G distinction, worked an Thames and Medway rivers for pocket money from the age of 12 ? (cheap labour)
Went to work on London Tugs then to clearance dredgers then to Survey ships then back to Tugs then back to dredgers and any ship tub vessel I could get work on.
If not on a ship tug vessel then worked on agricultural, industrial plant machinery. though some times getting work was hard when the employer found out I was a Ship's Engineer, it took some explaining that just because a ships engine was the size of their Dutch Barn didn't make it any different to the one in the combine harvester.
I am now working as a second engineer aboard an aggregate dredger (will probably end up as one of the chief's)
When I get the time I like to alter models for other people (mainly my skipper) and build a tug now and then, my next project is a model of the vessel I am now serving on.
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i saw a programme on the london underground on discovery chanell. who knows. i might have been looking at you Andy.
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catengineman you have my dream job. O0
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order picker at Argos RDC acton gate working shifts.
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Degree in Archaeology -> BBC TV cameraman -> Web Developer at a Scottish University.
It's been a funny old trip. :D
This work thing doesn't half eat up my boat-building time, though. :(
Andy
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Best job of all early retirement from mod, except the wife keeps finding irritating jobs for me to do!!!
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OK seriously,
RAF - general electrical mechanic
GEC Reliance - telephone exchange installer
Stock Exchange - data tech
Union Bank of Switzerland - data tech
Goldman Sachs - data tech
A year caring for terminally ill family member
Garden Centre - dogsbody
Data systems contractor at various places such as Glaxo & Fords
Audio visual tech at Birkenhead college & then National Army Museum Chelsea (my dream job, involved getting payed to make working models)
Electrical fitter in heavy machinery manufacturing company including installation of plant at several sites around Europe
Presently maintenance technician at the airport, so back to square one in many ways (though it pays a little better these days)
Only 20 years to go & I can retire (unless they change the age limit :'()
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catengineman you have my dream job. O0
After several years of doing this YES even I have dreams about it (Oh Err that may be nightmares {-) ) but on a serious note the job I do gives me loads of free time (1 for 1 leave) and even more free time while at work which is where I built Tito ;)
There is a lot of paper pushing now though.
R,
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Time served engineer(milling turning etc), started my own business 23 yrs ago, retired at age 55, 3 yrs later started another engineering business, this time just me and the wife. Should never have gone back, can't wait to retire again.
Barry
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Downsides to the job are the hours (shiftwork) and some of the grotty holes you have to work in at times- tunnels aren't the cleanest of places!
Andy
Subculture. That's a neat handle - now that I know what it means.
Mate, been there, done that.
Along similar lines, I too have worked in some pretty grotty conditions. You remind of one time where I'm pulling cables in a cramped roof space. The headroom was no more than 18 inches, so the only way to move around was by crawling on your belly. Cap that with the sun beating down on the roof and sweat pouring from just about every pore, then add a six-inch-thick layer of fibreglass insulation. The heat is so unbearable that you can only work wearing just shorts. And all the while you're vying for some elbow room in order to pull the cables... with all that grotty fibreglass against bare skin.
Just before she died, my wife inadvertantly set me going as a professional pubic hair remover. Word got around and before you knew it things just took off. Thing is, although you sometimes work in grotty conditions your job sounds dead interesting. Like you, I'm a hands-on sort of bloke. And I never thought I'd hear myself saying that I sometimes miss all those grotty jobs.
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Best job of all early retirement from mod, except the wife keeps finding irritating jobs for me to do!!!
So you did manage to "get out from under". Pleased for you. Best thing I ever did was to convince the MoD that I was past my "sell by" date. Now I can concentrate on learning how to be a modeller! Cheers. Bryan.
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Firstly i was an egg collector on a chicken farm then tate picker,stubble burner,bush beater after that i got a paper round then after school i became a fully time served electrician i worked on mainly MOD contracts also industrial and nuclear sites then i had a few years in forestry, then i fitted fire and intruder detection systems for Chubb and ADT and now i work on a small holding with horses cattle and sheep.
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i was a paper boy then i worked in the bakery section of my local co-op then i left school. I worked in Halford bike hut for 2 months then i got a job as a trainee draughtsman at a commercial diving company and im still there nearly 4 years later. O0
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I design big computer systems - most in the region of £100m - £1billion. (software, hardware, algorithms, interfaces - all of it )
I'm in an odd situation where I'm essentially a contractor, but I have groups of guys who I feed work to. At the same time as doing design, I sometimes do project management as well, usually on the same projects - mostly in the sales phase.
I get to see some very interesting companies, government departments and lots of interesting problems, but I also get to see a *lot* of very senior people being stupid. A prime example being a very senior civil servant tacking £140million of completely un-needed money onto a budget for a project becuase another department was buying a different type of database, and this guy wanted one "bigger and better than theirs" - so the entire thing got re-designed to stroke a single guys ego.
And you wonder why govermnent projects over-spend. Although I'll be honest - the only place I've NOT seen this happening is at the MoD. I know they get a lot of bad press, but the people I've come accross seem to have their heads screwed on pretty well.
Steve
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Nor sure what my job title should be... "Pain in the A..." I write shed loads of software in various languages, heavily involved in web development and advise on computer security. Have a background in electronics, that's where I started in computers, many years ago. I have worked for some interesting organisations, Reuters, Sun Microsystems, various Well known Investment Companies. What do I want to do.... Live in France, in the country side. Just come back there from a two Holiday, it was great...
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and if you happen to get a house that the tour de france passes by ...... well save me a room. :)
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I design big computer systems - most in the region of £100m - £1billion. (software, hardware, algorithms, interfaces - all of it )
I'm in an odd situation where I'm essentially a contractor, but I have groups of guys who I feed work to. At the same time as doing design, I sometimes do project management as well, usually on the same projects - mostly in the sales phase.
I get to see some very interesting companies, government departments and lots of interesting problems, but I also get to see a *lot* of very senior people being stupid. A prime example being a very senior civil servant tacking £140million of completely un-needed money onto a budget for a project becuase another department was buying a different type of database, and this guy wanted one "bigger and better than theirs" - so the entire thing got re-designed to stroke a single guys ego.
And you wonder why govermnent projects over-spend. Although I'll be honest - the only place I've NOT seen this happening is at the MoD. I know they get a lot of bad press, but the people I've come accross seem to have their heads screwed on pretty well.
Steve
Are you good at maths then? If you are then this forum needs your skills! (mine included).
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Fog sweeper on the river Humber...thankfully it's a part time job {-)
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Tube train driver for 35 years. Medically retired in 2006 because my left wrist is gimpy following an incident where some old woman in a car separated me from my motorbike at 40mph. >:(
Now a part-time caretaker in my village hall.
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... to put it in a short way: My job is....... lousy..... :P
Disposition managing desk in a testing dept. of a vendor for automobile industry. Whatever you do, whatever you try to arrange- you`re always some hours to late. Very stressfull- but my collegues are the best you can find. ::)
Jörg