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I am a healthcare manager by day, vermin controller by night and do some freelance coaching in weight training/bodybuilding/powerlifting. I was born to be a gamekeeper but the pay does not offer my young family the opportunities they need right now. When I hit the big five O I am chucking it all in and a gamekeeper I will be 
So who's going to start the poll ?
Do you work in:
- IT
- Land management
- Viking-ing
- Professional bushcraft
- Other
I don't work in IT, so I can't post polls (or photographs).
Do you work in:
- IT
- Land management
- Viking-ing
- Professional bushcraft
- Other
I don't work in IT, so I can't post polls (or photographs).
I'm in the Forces and get paid a decent wage for teaching, standing around looking aggressive, standing around and looking approachable (i also display the previously mentioned skills, sitting, squatting and lying down), accquiring shiny things, shooting ply wood targets, being gassed, running around, and intimidating and scaring very intelligent people into telling me things that they should'nt. It's a game really, i'm really nothing like me out of work (as people who met me at the Moot will hopefully testify). In my last year and a half now and going to start training to be a social worker. I do voluntary work with young offenders and i'm a qualified mediator specialising in family mediation as well as a husband and father.
Without this sounding like a CV, i do enjoy my job, or at least parts of it, but it aint what it was and it is definatly time for a change. I think it's unrealistic nowadays to expect someone to decide what they are going to do for the rest of their lives when they are 14.
Without this sounding like a CV, i do enjoy my job, or at least parts of it, but it aint what it was and it is definatly time for a change. I think it's unrealistic nowadays to expect someone to decide what they are going to do for the rest of their lives when they are 14.
Oooh I don't know .. i Had a good idea what I wanted to do when i was 14/15 but was told by school teachers/career officers that it was not a "proper job" and so i've had a string of jobs that i've though were ok right through to downright hating. At the moment I'm off sick (long term) but am straining at the bit to get out and start doing what I wanted to do all those years ago.
RAF. Have done a lot of jobs and ops that I loved. Unfortunately, the job I'm doing at the moment sucks so much that it blows. I work in a HQ that is run by committee and is totally uninspiring. It's one of those places that meets the requirement of 'give a busy man a job' and 80% of the work is done by 20% of the people. I'm sure many of you know what I'm talking about.
I was on the Wing too - 96-98. Had a great time.
I've not got long left before I can leave and I'm just starting Chemistry and Biology A-levels so I can qualify to study to become a dietician. I've had a great time but things have changed so much that I don't feel a part of it anymore.
Anyway, looking forward to having a bit more leisure time for bushcraft...
I was on the Wing too - 96-98. Had a great time.
I've not got long left before I can leave and I'm just starting Chemistry and Biology A-levels so I can qualify to study to become a dietician. I've had a great time but things have changed so much that I don't feel a part of it anymore.
Anyway, looking forward to having a bit more leisure time for bushcraft...
Wow - you other IT lot sound really depressed!
I get LOADS of free time during the day and manage about 500 servers, i'm right in the middle of london with more bandwidth than you can shake a stick at, a view of all the passers by on the street, cheap subsidised Costa coffee, on site company parking underground for my motorbike (rare for London EC1a!), nice blokes in the post room that take all my incoming deliveries, as much holiday as I like (i'm a contractor) and a good salary... oh, and very good air-con.
Plus, the days it's cold, raining sideways and you have to be out in it to earn a living when you have one of these "perfect jobs" I am snug at my desk... I like getting out there on my terms to do what I want when I want.
IT's not perfect but it makes my home life just spot on. it's a no brainer trade off for me.
I get LOADS of free time during the day and manage about 500 servers, i'm right in the middle of london with more bandwidth than you can shake a stick at, a view of all the passers by on the street, cheap subsidised Costa coffee, on site company parking underground for my motorbike (rare for London EC1a!), nice blokes in the post room that take all my incoming deliveries, as much holiday as I like (i'm a contractor) and a good salary... oh, and very good air-con.
Plus, the days it's cold, raining sideways and you have to be out in it to earn a living when you have one of these "perfect jobs" I am snug at my desk... I like getting out there on my terms to do what I want when I want.
IT's not perfect but it makes my home life just spot on. it's a no brainer trade off for me.
Started my working life as an engineer, mainly watermills and mill restoration. Left that chopped and changed jobs for 10 years then going into making explosives and fertiliser on an industrial scale, had a work accident and broke my back in two places. Now I work permanent nights in a cell phone switch with a couple of hundred server cabinets generating so much heat that we have 20 office sized air-condition units just keeping the place on the edge of melting down. Oh the joys of nights
My trade is an HGV mechanic. I have done some lorry driving and worked for a music shop for 6 years (best 6 years of my life).
For the past 12 years I have worked as a private investigator for a company which specialises in tracking down stolen plant and agricultural machinery.
Nick
For the past 12 years I have worked as a private investigator for a company which specialises in tracking down stolen plant and agricultural machinery.
Nick
Scots_Charles_River
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Work with High School Children, 13wks off a year, bell rings at 3.15pm, 5 evenings a year work, used to be an Outdoor Instructor.
Currently had 5 1/2 wks off. Off up NW tomorrow with hammock, tent, canoe etc etc.
Nick
Currently had 5 1/2 wks off. Off up NW tomorrow with hammock, tent, canoe etc etc.
Nick
I left 96 might have known you, You tech or op ?
I was a tech, and without giving any names away a member of the "cosford 4" if you remmember that incident ?
xylaria
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
I am a housewife. Which has the potential to be the most boring job in the cosmos, but I can go out for walks most days, and bushcrafty things are great to share with the children. It also means i have the freedom to cure rabbit skins in the house.
I have done other jobs, which I normally describe as been beaten up for a living. Challenging behaviour care work and prison education. I got to thirty and thought I don't want to deal with violence anymore more over the constant threat of it is not healthy. I have retrained for a desk job but I don't want a desk job.
I have done other jobs, which I normally describe as been beaten up for a living. Challenging behaviour care work and prison education. I got to thirty and thought I don't want to deal with violence anymore more over the constant threat of it is not healthy. I have retrained for a desk job but I don't want a desk job.
I drive buses.
It is not fun...
Unless there are no passengers in which case it's not too bad
I was driving the number 30 bus behind the one that got blown up in London. That was a thrilling day
Am currently looking for any other job as i can no longer stand the threats and criminal damage caused by the local chavs. :BlueTeamE
Please help!
It is not fun...
Unless there are no passengers in which case it's not too bad
I was driving the number 30 bus behind the one that got blown up in London. That was a thrilling day
Am currently looking for any other job as i can no longer stand the threats and criminal damage caused by the local chavs. :BlueTeamE
Please help!
xylaria
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
I drive buses.
It is not fun...
Unless there are no passengers in which case it's not too bad
I was driving the number 30 bus behind the one that got blown up in London. That was a thrilling day
Am currently looking for any other job as i can no longer stand the threats and criminal damage caused by the local chavs. :BlueTeamE
Please help!
Some jobs really make you understand the chinese curse 'may you live in interesting times'
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