Back in my day there was no Computer Design courses, of which they are now, so I just studies Business Computing and Computer Science. Mostly, between the ages of 10 and 20, I played more games than I 'knocked one out', so my knowledge was vast before I got the job.
My brother was a fireman for a number of years, its what he always wanted to do, after a few year in the job he ended up hating it and quit. He spent a small amount of his time cutting seriously injured people out of cars on the M6. The rest of the time was going round giving out free smoke alarms or being abused by gangs of kids who would set fire to the grass to get the engine there, then they would attack the firemen with rocks and bottles.
Had a stack of jobs; some good, some crap, but none I've regretted.......in chronological order: Glass collector in a working men's club Petrol pump boy Shelf stacker Civil service Salesman Lab supervisor in a gold mine Uni Process engineer then project manager in the oil industry All up I'd say for max giggles/min pressure it has to be the shelf stacker.........a faster price-gun hand you'll never see Dream job? Motorcycle test rider (once I've won the lottery)
Fair enough, I'd love to get involved with this sort of stuff but I'm guessing there is a lot of competition for even the lower jobs
Sort of. I quickly found due to working shift that I was off when all my friends were working so I decided to go college and train as electrician. Haven't really used qualification as I became a dad and I look after my little girl whilst woman is at work. Saves on child care and I've got to see daughter grow up...... though when she's got a raving strop on I sometimes wish I was carving out walls and pulling cables
Great thread this. Some top jobs and locations some of you have like. Work in financial services sales which is boring but good in terms of money and enjoy the self reliance of it. Reason to get up in the morning you know. You're quickly managed out the door if not trying and delivering. Funny how you can find your groove in something you just fall into eh?
Retired now but when I was working I had well over a thousand people under me, I used to cut the grass in the cemetery
Worked at Grundfos for 10 years near Ferryboat lane in Sunderland, then moved down to Leeds. Been here for 8 years and design and sell pumps for a living. Enjoy it quite a lot.
I started off my career in military intelligence then made a transition into government intelligence, not a lot I can say about the military side but made some amazing friends whilst serving, then went on to criminal intel and eventually onto fraud detection and prevention. That job was great, seizing assets from proceeds of crime was the gist of it, but the bank account analysis was cool, seeing how the stinking rich spend their illegally acquired money. Got offered a job to establish and manage a brand new in-house intelligence unit for Virgin Media but turned the position down as it wasn't right for me at the time, then quit my job out of the blue because one day I woke up wanting to do something else. Got into buying, for a construction company and moved up the ladder pretty swiftly, now I'm head of buying for the group, managing staff in Europe and North America. I am either in the boardroom or ****ing around in my office nowadays, I get a percentage of every buyer's purchase as my own commission plus any commissions due on pre-existing suppliers that I brought on board over the past few years. Turned down the chance to be a director last year, as I am due to go to work for a mate of mine in Bahrain in January 2017 so I'm happy to tread water until then. My worst job was whilst I was waiting for my join up date to join the forces, I worked in a factory snapping pieces of frozen fish that were too long to fit into the frozen fish-pie trays. My ideal job would be to be paid a seven figure salary to be a human 'filter' for people attempting to gain access to the country illegally, whereby my tools would consists of a lockable room and a barrel of water.
Really surprised at how well this thread seems to have gone down. After reading it, and taking a lot of interest, i wouldn't mind having a sticky (and i hate a load of stickied threads anar) about work, people who are looking for a job, or people who are looking to recruit. Be class, even if one member off here, managed to get help in getting a job, or if they just fancy a change.
Best job I've ever had was building Kenworth trucks down in Melbourne Victoria, was about 11yr ago now and we were building about 8-9 trucks a day for all over Australia, PApua New Guinea, & New Zealand. Was the best pay too, was earning $1000 a wk back then which would be the equivalent of $1500 nowadays.. Worst job was cotton chipping out at goondiwindi, was only 14 at the time and lied about my age ( had to be 16 to work) $10 an hour but for a school kid in 1999 that was good money, they overpaid me $300 in my paycheck one day and I never said a word haha Put the money towards my Pop & Nanna's 50th wedding anniversary Nowadays I'm doing landscaping and gardening here on the Gold Coast at a few Hotels & resorts, the money is average, although I do enjoy the work and I believe that's half the battle! Plus their's hot chicks to perv on everyday so I can't possibly complain!
Hahaha yeah, they need to find a more suitable name for them really. There were quite a few nuggets that I worked with, one of the lads lobbed a piece of banana at David Blunkett inside GCHQ once and didn't see his body guards 10 steps behind him, they absolutely origami'd him into a ball on the floor and he was just laughing his head off saying "I thought his guide dog looked hungry".
Isn't that a bit dodgy, Oz is hardly known for it's nice friendly wildlife? All them spiders, snakes and nearly everything else that wants to bite you.
