Im a nosey git :wavecry:
Im an aerospace engineer, mostly electronics nowdays but used to work in both paint shops in longbridge as a maintenance engineer.
Run a small Retail Security company looking after EAS tagging, CCTV, RFID and Access Control. You have probably walked past a lot of my work on the high street and supermarkets.
10 years in the industry and 6 years working for myself....
And you may have benefited from my work in the past as I worked in a FAB on vapour deposition equipment which made, amongst other things, RFID and access control chips.
I spent 25 years driving coaches all over europe. Mainly driving tour busses for rock bands and singers when they go on tour, hence my forum name. After 18 years of that i quit wanting to spend more time at home, I am now a self employed taxi driver doing what i want to do and slowly winding down.
Worked as an apprentice plumber from school, gave it twelve months but couldn't take to it. Joined the RAF nearly four years ago where I now work as a Weapons Technician.
I let one go during live missile training at Valley, the motor went but the release bolts didn,t.
That was one big hole I can tell you and the aero dynamics were sh$t until they repaired it
I'm an analyst programmer, working for an American company in London. I was outsourced from (and still contract for) a major employer in the capital. I could tell you who it is, but I'd have to get one of them to kill you.
Professional Musican from 1988-2008 (session guitarist) did some personal retraining during the last few years so I could get out!
Started working for Hewlett Packard as a contingent worker in 2008, went full time HP in 2010.
Now the out of hours service desk manager seconded to the Atlas Consortium (still as a HP employee) supporting the MoD IT Infrastructre
I used to be a former semi-pro guitar player and also worked in the field of strength and conditioning and I am a chartered physiotherapist in my country (Italy).
I've been working in the NHS for the last 4 years as a clinical exercise physiologist and I'm also a graduate sport nutritionist (don't have much time for the latter unfortunately).
Music Industry is great when the works there isn't it :broon: Sadly the wages haven't changed for the last 10 years and even studio's are trying to push the rates back down!
That's why I got out, costs up, wages down or flat lined
Restaurant worker whilst at school, Film and television graduate, driver for Domino's, now shift manager for domino's and freelance editor in my spare time.
Another Graphic Designer here. Print, web, exhibition stuff, and anything else I get the chance to have ago at Though the only place I seem to see product packaging I've worked on is in garden centres and TK Max!
At uni I worked for a wine merchant. So I like nice cars and nice wine
I used to be a former semi-pro guitar player and also worked in the field of strength and conditioning and I am a chartered physiotherapist in my country (Italy).
I've been working in the NHS for the last 4 years as a clinical exercise physiologist and I'm also a graduate sport nutritionist (don't have much time for the latter unfortunately).
Worked for British Rail, Railtrack, Network Rail for past 37 years as a problem solver, retired last Sunday.
Used to own a garage but that was over 37 years ago.
Finished school then an apprenticeship as an Offset lithographer,been doing that for almost thirty years.
I've printed labels for tin cans bottles and boxes for almost everything in the supermarket.
God I'm tired of working and I'm ready for retirement.
I'm self employed Data Analyst for a healthcare provider but since my contract got drastically reduced last year, I now also work as an administrator for two retained fire stations.
My job sounds slightly dull compared to a lot here, but I enjoy it and can't complain about my working environment :minxy:
I worked in IT for years as a field engineer keeping car dealerships running by repairing all the computers and printers that had coffee spilled on them or were so full of brake dust and oil that i needed a spoon to get inside them.
Was made redundant at the end of 2008, moved to Belfast to care for my mum until she died in april 2010 then was made homeless when they wouldn't let me stay in her house, had to find my way back to Chester to my dad then found my own place to live and do what ever temporary work I can to get by until I find something permanent. any day now.
I have no work at the minute so I'm currently one of the 100s of people applying for every job and never getting a reply.
Trying to get a job is harder work than any job I ever did, can't wait until I'm employed again and can start looking forward to my day's off :lol:
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