i grow organic veg and sell it for a homeless charity. its great but there are times i find myself thinking of comfy desk jobs i've had in the past.
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I retired in 2001. I was 24. Since then I've run a night club, and now am a ranch hand on a 168 acre wilderness preserve and land trust. I fix solar panels, generators, clear brush, coordinate volunteers, trap varmints, ride ATVs and our solar horse (neat little modified golf cart) fix fences, and hate chainsaws. No, I mean I really hate chainsaws, spent 20 hours this week limbing dead trees, then cutting it up into firewood. The new 36 inch bar and HUGE motor cuts great, but if you've ever used a chainsaw for an extended period of time, you'd know why I keep going back to the cheapo 12 incher.
Before that wild life, I was the e-support retailer for a major online retailer, and revolutionized online customer support. I still get kinda giddy when I get help from reps using systems I designed.
Sigh. hating chainsaws, it's the weekend and the county fair is on. Gonna get drunk and dance this weekend. If my feet and arms stop hurting.
hate . . . chainsaws . . . but not as much as a cubicle and desk.
Before that wild life, I was the e-support retailer for a major online retailer, and revolutionized online customer support. I still get kinda giddy when I get help from reps using systems I designed.
Sigh. hating chainsaws, it's the weekend and the county fair is on. Gonna get drunk and dance this weekend. If my feet and arms stop hurting.
hate . . . chainsaws . . . but not as much as a cubicle and desk.
Charge Nurse multiple speciality ward everything from cardiac surgery to gastroscopies in a small private hospital. there is a country park next to the hospital but never get time in the working day to walk it. shifts suck. thinking of a change not sure what though.
Hi,
I'm a Trapper / Ranger with the New Zealand Department of Conservation.
I ride about 60km's a day on a quad bike checking trap lines to try to remove predators that eat really rare skinks (lizards) around here. They are in danger of becoming extinct within the next 10 years or so, so it's a pretty important but not too glamorous job. It's pretty bushcrafty though. I have to be prepared for any type of weather and work in an extremely remote area. I have to carry a radio and personal locator beacon so search and rescue can find me if it all goes pear-shaped, plus a rifle and various emergency/first aid bits of kit.
I've had few career changes and done many different things and I know it can be hard doing it all with a young family, so hang in there, follow your dreams and keep telling yourself that nothings impossible, some things are just a lot harder than others!
Cheers,
J
I'm a Trapper / Ranger with the New Zealand Department of Conservation.
I ride about 60km's a day on a quad bike checking trap lines to try to remove predators that eat really rare skinks (lizards) around here. They are in danger of becoming extinct within the next 10 years or so, so it's a pretty important but not too glamorous job. It's pretty bushcrafty though. I have to be prepared for any type of weather and work in an extremely remote area. I have to carry a radio and personal locator beacon so search and rescue can find me if it all goes pear-shaped, plus a rifle and various emergency/first aid bits of kit.
I've had few career changes and done many different things and I know it can be hard doing it all with a young family, so hang in there, follow your dreams and keep telling yourself that nothings impossible, some things are just a lot harder than others!
Cheers,
J
I've beeen a Self employed forestry/fencing/dyking, chemical sprayer, reserves officer for SNH, countryside ranger, deer farm ranger and after breaking my spine and a long slog through uni and a post grad...qualified community worker/youth worker working with addictions and now a registered worker within a secure establishment working with traumatised teenagers who are a danger to themselves or their community.
Ideal job would be to work my own land and be self sufficent while running an environmentally friendly b and b with wildlife/canoe tours!
I'm a lift engineer. I repair and service lifts. Why is there no ''yawning'' smiley?
Some ''fun facts'' about lifts:
- It is nearly impossible for a lift to fall. Lifts are probably the safest places in a building. 'Safe' is synonimous with 'boring'.
- The only time I've ever heard of a lift falling was 9/11, when the planes wing cut through all the ropes. None of the people who were in the lifts at the time died when they fell.
- The World Trade Centre had it's own dedicated company of lift engineers. Not one of them died in the 9/11 tragedy. Why? They were all skiving down the cafe having breakfast at the time.
- Pretty much every breakdown we attend is through misuse, not mechanical failure. Lifts are among the most reliable machines in the world. You know how every time you go into a building the lift has broken down? It's not the engineers fault, so stop cursing him. Trust me, we've got better things to do than sneak into your office when no one's looking and break your lift. It's probably broken because some stupid, careless little turd has broken it. Take away the human element and lifts will run forever.
- 90% of people don't actually know how to use a lift properly. If you're thinking ''how can someone not know how to use a lift properly, you just press the button'' then you're one of those people.
- Although lifts are extremely safe to use, they are very dangerous to repair. It's cheaper to insure an astronaut then it is to insure a lift engineer.
- If Health and Safety rules were followed explicitly, to the letter, then by law no one would ever be allowed to work on a lift in the event of it breaking down. Think about that next time the lift's taking too long to get to you and you impatiently kick the door. Chances are you'll break the lock safety-circuit and the control panel will shut the lift down.
- Lifts are incredibly boring things. Most people who saw the first line of this post and saw the word 'lift' won't have bothered reading this far.
- If you ever find yourself at some kind of social event and are approached by someone who you really don't want to talk to, tell them you're a lift engineer. ''I'm a lift engineer'' is the best conversation-killer known to man.
I hope you've enjoyed my fun-filled facts about the lift industry.
I hate my job.
Some ''fun facts'' about lifts:
- It is nearly impossible for a lift to fall. Lifts are probably the safest places in a building. 'Safe' is synonimous with 'boring'.
- The only time I've ever heard of a lift falling was 9/11, when the planes wing cut through all the ropes. None of the people who were in the lifts at the time died when they fell.
- The World Trade Centre had it's own dedicated company of lift engineers. Not one of them died in the 9/11 tragedy. Why? They were all skiving down the cafe having breakfast at the time.
- Pretty much every breakdown we attend is through misuse, not mechanical failure. Lifts are among the most reliable machines in the world. You know how every time you go into a building the lift has broken down? It's not the engineers fault, so stop cursing him. Trust me, we've got better things to do than sneak into your office when no one's looking and break your lift. It's probably broken because some stupid, careless little turd has broken it. Take away the human element and lifts will run forever.
- 90% of people don't actually know how to use a lift properly. If you're thinking ''how can someone not know how to use a lift properly, you just press the button'' then you're one of those people.
- Although lifts are extremely safe to use, they are very dangerous to repair. It's cheaper to insure an astronaut then it is to insure a lift engineer.
- If Health and Safety rules were followed explicitly, to the letter, then by law no one would ever be allowed to work on a lift in the event of it breaking down. Think about that next time the lift's taking too long to get to you and you impatiently kick the door. Chances are you'll break the lock safety-circuit and the control panel will shut the lift down.
- Lifts are incredibly boring things. Most people who saw the first line of this post and saw the word 'lift' won't have bothered reading this far.
- If you ever find yourself at some kind of social event and are approached by someone who you really don't want to talk to, tell them you're a lift engineer. ''I'm a lift engineer'' is the best conversation-killer known to man.
I hope you've enjoyed my fun-filled facts about the lift industry.
I hate my job.
I'm a Photographer, my clients are mainly deceased by means of being murdered. If you havent already guessed I'm a Crime Scene investigator (CSI) and mainly photograph fingerprints and murder scenes and PM's.
Im a student mental health nurse who will be specialising in forensic mental health. I have done the job as a nursing assistant for about 10 years now but have finally got financial backing to become qualified. I (fingers crossed) qualify in march 08.
I'm a Business Intelligence consultant (That's IT and databases to most people).
The great thing about this right now is that work haven't found me an assignment for this week, so I'm currently being paid to sit around, drink coffee and troll the Bushcraft forums in my dressing gown
What more could a woman ask for
The great thing about this right now is that work haven't found me an assignment for this week, so I'm currently being paid to sit around, drink coffee and troll the Bushcraft forums in my dressing gown
What more could a woman ask for
An Information Scientist, there are post Grad quals in that.........most of them end up working at GCHQ, shhh! Interesting though, trawling around finding information and its relationships.
Alright SWITCH, me too..........how should I be pushing the two buttons presented to me when calling a lift?
I've had enough of the rat race and I'm altering my direction to do something I enjoy more than anything in the world - hopefully!
Life's too short to get bogged down with all the things that matter not in the end.
Get out there and enjoy life before it's too late and look at all the things that you think are important to you (material items don't count). Refocus and move forward on a new path is my advice. We're only here once and a long time dead
Phil.
Ah the insperation running threw my blood..
Amen to that
I work as a wood work instructor, part time, which I enjoy. I am trying to get a small business off the ground with sign carving etc, but with the amount I get for that at the moment, I am sure I could move to under a very nice bush at the end of the lane.... Wouln't mind too much on my own, but a bit cramped with my wife and teenage chidren.
I make knives and some leatherwork as a hobby and wouldn't mind incorporating this into a small business, I can build you a wooden boat almost any size or almost anything made of wood. Even make you a coffin if you want one Anyone intersted???
I used to be a Registered Mental Nurse for years. It was soul destroying. I had to do it because of a young family. Now I am no longer a qualified nurse. I would rather live under my bush at the end of the lane than do that again.
Before that I worked as a car mechanic and was a qualified tool maker, useful for making knives although I hated it at the time!!
My wife has the sensible job, and luckily for both of us, mostly enjoys it.
I make knives and some leatherwork as a hobby and wouldn't mind incorporating this into a small business, I can build you a wooden boat almost any size or almost anything made of wood. Even make you a coffin if you want one
Anyone intersted???I used to be a Registered Mental Nurse for years. It was soul destroying. I had to do it because of a young family. Now I am no longer a qualified nurse.
I would rather live under my bush at the end of the lane than do that again.Before that I worked as a car mechanic and was a qualified tool maker, useful for making knives although I hated it at the time!!
My wife has the sensible job, and luckily for both of us, mostly enjoys it.
I'm a quality control manager for an oilfield construction company here in northern Alberta. I usually get half the week out of the office and in the field.
Sometimes so far out in the bush I have to come in to hunt.
Sometimes so far out in the bush I have to come in to hunt.
I work in a foundry melting magnesium for aerospace & mod applications, 50% of seaking & lynx hellicopters have gearbox,s on them that i have cast, Pretty cool job but i still love to get away to a woods somewhere at the weekends kids now grown up & i would love to start up my own blacksmith biusness but don,t have the money or the land , never mind maybe in my next life
Scots_Charles_River
Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
I'm an IT equipment repair engineer, I repair everything from computers, monitors, printers and pretty much anything else that are needed to help companies computer systems work.
If it wasn't for the Great Outdoors and my dog I'd probably go nuts.
If it wasn't for the Great Outdoors and my dog I'd probably go nuts.
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