So..what do you do for a living ?

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Catfish1972

Member
Feb 11, 2013
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London
Ever been asked to write about your other job as a banker?

Wow! Banker and journalist? Two jobs that have fallen out of favour with the general public. Unfair though to be blamed for actions of others. We've bankers in the family. All good ppl.

Thankfully I don't write stories for our newspaper - I edit them - so I don't really have any conflicts of interest (although it is a specialist newspaper covering the activities of investment banks!). But I do often catch wind of things going on at the bank that would be of interest to my colleagues at the newspaper. I have to keep them under my hat until they find out from other sources.
 

MertzMan

Settler
Apr 25, 2012
752
0
Cambs and Lincs
Full time student and part time receptionist at the main city hospital to make ends meet.
Im studying History and International Relations...

In the past I've worked in everything from labouring to IT support to call centres to driver..
 

greensurfingbear

Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Senior park ranger in Scotland's largest regional park.

More desk work than I'd like but I sometimes slip the chains and do what I really love getting people excited about being outside. This week I did a presentation to school kids about barn owls, took a group of people with mental health issues out for a walk in the woods and dealt with a stolen portaloo, located a lost sheep, rescued lost hikers and it's not the weekend yet lol


Orric
 

Ivan...

Ex member
Jul 28, 2011
1,771
0
Dartmoor
I wasn't gunna, but! I was a tree surgeon for years, then a bookmaker, had a video shop for a year (Blockbuster put pay to that, what goes around comes around!) ) Then drove a lorry, then got a dream job managing an estate on Dartmoor, which finished last year. Now i do a few logs a little bit of tree surgery(too old to climb now)But mainly muck about in the woods, camping with some of the most amazing, interesting,genuine people i have ever met, thanks to BCUK!

I get my pension in March, and depending on what the government have done with it! i intend to do less worky type stuff, and even more camping and playing in the woods.

Ivan...
 

SiWhite

Nomad
Apr 1, 2007
343
22
45
Deepest North Hampshire
Police Officer, after leaving the Army. I'll have served 10 years this May.

I've been on the Roads Policing department (Traffic as it is widely known) for the last four years, although I've spent the last 6 months as a response Sergeant on a temporary basis to gain experience for promotion one day. Back to fast cars and crashes next month - I can't wait!
 

nigeltm

Full Member
Aug 8, 2008
484
16
55
south Wales
Yesterday I was an operations & IT manager for a large independent multi-utility company, specialising in GIS/computer mapping/GPS technologies for as-laid drawings and spatial analysis.

Today I'm laying in bed, effectively unemployed, on the first day of my gardening leave. Over 100 employees have been made redundant following the sale of the company to our biggest competitor. Not a happy bunny!!

In the past I've; managed a nightclub, managed paintball sites, run a scrapyard/garage, security guard, land surveyor, opencast mine surveyor, IT engineer, software developer and worked in a cinema.
 

Hugo

Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Nov 29, 2009
2,588
1
Lost in the woods
Last job was a tanker driver for 30 years until I went sick one day, found out I had a tumour in my head so now live off savings and enjoy myself as and when I can, met some great people on this site who I go out into the woods to play with, life can be sweet.
 
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mousey

Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Jun 15, 2010
2,210
254
42
NE Scotland
I'm a [posh title] Naval Architect, more like a draughtsman/ general office lacky and what passes for an IT "expert" in our small office [the older folks bemone the fact of giving up thier pencils and drawing boards]. 6 years now and still enjoying it:)

Have been getting into doing alot of visualisation stuff creating nice images and animations to use for marketing to sell our vessels :)

Also a father of three with a house full of pets.
 

nickliv

Settler
Oct 2, 2009
755
0
Aberdeenshire
Air traffic controller for the last 14 years. Looking after a significant chunk of the UKs offshore helicopter flights over the North sea. Radiographer before that, in Cumbria and on the Isle Of Man.

Prior to that I was a student and barman, before even that I was doing all the horrible jobs nobody else wanted to do in my dads business. Mostly in and around Sellafield.

Spent the last 4 years of my spare time doing a diy barn conversion, married with 3 kids.
 

Two Socks

Settler
Jan 27, 2011
750
0
Norway
Full time student in molecular cell biology. On the side I do what I think is called 'remedial teaching' in chemistry and biology for highschool students.

Great thread idea! Interesting to see the wide variety of people here :)
 

kiltedpict

Native
Feb 25, 2007
1,333
6
51
Banchory
Prior to that I was a student and barman, before even that I was doing all the horrible jobs nobody else wanted to do in my dads business. Mostly in and around Sellafield.


Ahhh, that might explain the ethereal glow you exhibited at the Glen Tanar meet then!!
 

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