What do we all do??? - Page 5

MacGWC · 25 Jul 2008, 19:55 (Ref:2257897)

Previously a coal miner, Metropolitan Police Cadet, Cost Accountant and now happily retired ex-co-owner of fairly large plastics processing company. If you like the plastic milk bottle (4 pint size, etc) my business partner designed it; if you do not like it, someone else did! Nearest thing to full time work now is the work I do for the Marshals' Club!

Sheila M · 25 Jul 2008, 20:51 (Ref:2257925)

My first job on leaving school was with a firm of electrical wholesalers. Apart from 2 years when I was Practice Administrator for a small firm of lawyers, the rest of my working life has been in property departments of various law firms - started off doing residential conveyancing then moved to commercial property. Since February this year I've been a Legal Secretary in the Child Care Department of a reasonable sized firm of lawyers. We deal with children in care and sometimes the cases can be particularly harrowing but the job satisfaction is immense even though the salary isn't!

blueflagger · 25 Jul 2008, 21:54 (Ref:2257954)

I am self-unemployed.

I work as a contract software trainer and instructional designer (an off-shoot of technical writing). Given the US economy, there's not much work to be had at the moment. I might have to fold my business and become an employee again.

speedy jon · 25 Jul 2008, 21:59 (Ref:2257957)

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Originally Posted by Nighthawk

vehicle technician (mechanic) is that not something of the past,
Dont it have to be a computer expert now as thats always what they do at my local garage just connect up . it sort the problem out.
then chare the earth for it.

we have to plug in the computer to read fault codes and carry out certain diagnostic tests / update modules but we still need to know about vehicle systems to sort other problems.and we still have to use the spanners to rip them apart when they go wrong.

Jon

flags · 25 Jul 2008, 23:17 (Ref:2257983)

retired factory maintenance technician ( or electrician as i preferred to be called ).besides marshalling am now into metal detecting !

Leighton Irwin · 26 Jul 2008, 02:08 (Ref:2258014)

Retired marshall, race driver, mechanic, company owner, company officer, hit man and mercenary. You figure out the true ones.

JIMGOD · 26 Jul 2008, 05:34 (Ref:2258030)

Trained Mechanical Fitter, Used to travel world Commissioning and installing Underground Mining Machinery.
Now work Assembling, Testing and Overhauling Gearboxes for Crushing Machines.
Anything in size from 150kgs to 20 tonne.

PMS1234 · 26 Jul 2008, 14:53 (Ref:2258163)

work for a small engineering company who build special purpose machines and also service machines all over the would just back from ireland but back out again monday just home for trucks tom

Metro6r4 · 29 Jul 2008, 11:37 (Ref:2259533)

I am a Design Engineer and if I told you what I am working on I would have to kill you all. I also work part time at Brands plus spend a lot of my time making repairs to our rescue unit

Alan.F · 29 Jul 2008, 13:34 (Ref:2259620)

I work for the Daily Mirror in the post press dept i run a machine that puts all the crap in that falls out of your paper in the morning

mmm_five · 29 Jul 2008, 14:10 (Ref:2259637)

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Originally Posted by Alan.F

I work for the Daily Mirror in the post press dept i run a machine that puts all the crap in that falls out of your paper in the morning

Is it the pre-press people who put all the crap in the rest of the paper

jonbryant · 29 Jul 2008, 14:24 (Ref:2259649)

I'm a Quantity Surveyor building £3m+ houses in Surrey

blueflagger · 29 Jul 2008, 15:09 (Ref:2259672)

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Originally Posted by jonbryant

I'm a Quantity Surveyor building £3m+ houses in Surrey

Does that mean you count the houses already built so you know how many more are needed?

Seriously, I have not heard the term before. What does a Quantity Surveyor do?

BeeJ · 29 Jul 2008, 15:43 (Ref:2259691)

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Originally Posted by JIMGOD

Trained Mechanical Fitter, Used to travel world Commissioning and installing Underground Mining Machinery.
Now work Assembling, Testing and Overhauling Gearboxes for Crushing Machines.
Anything in size from 150kgs to 20 tonne.

Same sort of thing the company I work for builds then. Well one of the divisions.

jonbryant · 29 Jul 2008, 15:46 (Ref:2259692)

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Originally Posted by blueflagger

Does that mean you count the houses already built so you know how many more are needed?

Seriously, I have not heard the term before. What does a Quantity Surveyor do?

We procure everything you need to build a house from bricks to bathrooms. We also establish a budget on how much it's going to cost, administer contracts and report on cost control all the way through the development.

So we're money men basically.

Happy to help

blueflagger · 29 Jul 2008, 15:48 (Ref:2259694)

Procurement, got it. Thanks JB! I learned something new today.

Burnsie · 29 Jul 2008, 16:01 (Ref:2259699)

I'm currently a bar manager, but that won't be for much longer

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Originally Posted by cornish

A business development manager for a Cornish bakery.
My Area, Lands End to John O Groats and any in between !!

There are plenty of circuits in between Lands End and John O Groats... how about sending some boxes of Cornish pasties to the marshals?! Purely to develop your business by obtaining invaluable feedback of course

cowchap · 29 Jul 2008, 18:35 (Ref:2259782)

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Originally Posted by jonbryant

I'm a Quantity Surveyor building £3m+ houses in Surrey

so that'll be a ' two up-two down' terrace then
Im a dairy farmer btw

Bodysnatcher · 29 Jul 2008, 19:08 (Ref:2259812)

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Originally Posted by blueflagger

What does a Quantity Surveyor do?

C'mon JB, it just means you know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall.

r.arthur · 29 Jul 2008, 19:10 (Ref:2259814)

im a land surveyor

b1gfrenchy · 30 Jul 2008, 10:50 (Ref:2260205)

I repair church organs for the best named company I know;
Makin Organs Ltd.
All over the south.

The STIG · 30 Jul 2008, 11:13 (Ref:2260215)

I think my current occupation has changed to "The guy who is keeping the South Wales post office in business" I've sent more letters this week than I did last year!

devon kev · 30 Jul 2008, 13:34 (Ref:2260315)

Was a heavy plant operator in the quarry industry, had surgery on my back this year and now i've retrained as an electro plater in the electronics industry

Oscar114 · 30 Jul 2008, 17:21 (Ref:2260409)

Instrument / Electrical Engineer looking after 2 manufacturing units and company workshop facility for 3rd largest petrochemical company in the world and UKs largest privately owned company.

Alan Green · 30 Jul 2008, 17:44 (Ref:2260426)

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Originally Posted by Ianwales

Hi all
I work for Network Rail in a signalbox

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Originally Posted by Robin_D

Currently I am working for Virgin Trains within Customer Relations. Extremely busy this year.

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Originally Posted by Micky.H

Engineering Compliance Manager for a Train Operating Company (after 24 years in the industry thinking of making a career out of it - unless the lottery win materialises).

So when the train that Micky.H has engineered screeches to a halt at the red signal that IanWales has just thrown in front of it, and Robin_D's Virgin service gets stuck on the line behind it...

I manage the team that puts into plain English what has happened, publishes it to the National Rail website and advises the customers, National Rail Enquiries advisors & the media why the trains are not running, again.

And I love it, despite it taking away many free weekends at the moment

Al.