Day Jobs!

[Tadpole]

I’d love to have a really exciting job to amaze you all with. A job that sounds as interesting or as meaningful as some of yours. Sadly, neither my education nor inclination is for such highbrow things. I am a facilities assistant for a cell phone company. Responsible for maintenance, cleaning, security, aircon and gardening contractors.
Long hours, hard work, poor money, mostly boring repetitive pen pushing. Weekends I come alive and this weekend I’ll be going ‘all bushy’ in my tiny garden converting my Frosts crook knife from double sided to single sided lefty, with a file and course oil stone.

 

[Mikey P]

Well, I'm a year from 'end-of-contract' in my current job as a project manager/communications engineer. It'll have been 16 years with the same organisation by next September and, whilst I've enjoyed most of it, it's time for a change.

I'm shortly doing a course in arboriculture so I'm able to do contract and voluntary work outdoors.

I'm also a qualified project manager, a member of the IET, and have a first degree and masters.

However, I'm planning to go back to university next year to study to be ... a Dietician!

Currently redoing a couple of A-levels so I meet the entry requirements and am looking at Plymouth, Glasgow and Edinburgh. I actually quite fancy Scotland...

Anyway, assuming I get a place, it'll be 4 years of study and, guess what? I can't wait!

I'm pretty nervous about leaving but I'm sure I've made the right decision. It's taken me a long time to work out what I want in life and I've spent too long away from my wife and my home.

Anyway, should give me more time for bushcrafting activities and climbing/walking/biking/etc. And I'm looking forward to cheap beer in the SU.

 

[Toddy]

"I design the patterns that go on biscuits - I am currently working 18 hour shifts getting the checkering right for the new custard creams " Quote Aaron


Really ? , I live less than a mile from Tunnock's factory, we can tell what day of the week it is from the smell as we walk down the Main Street I don't like toasted coconut day though


Technically, I'm an Archaeologist, but in reality it depends on what day of the week it is in what season of the year.
Today I'm writing kit guides, and doing the illustrations, for wardrobe for a film. Tomorrow I'm teaching natural dyeing. Next week I'm pattern making for costumes, and then making ropes for a heritage centre exhibition and, hopefully, having a day with a countryside ranger who specialises in fungi and lichens.


cheers,
Toddy

 

[Jedadiah]

Well, I'm a year from 'end-of-contract' in my current job as a project manager/communications engineer. It'll have been 16 years with the same organisation by next September and, whilst I've enjoyed most of it, it's time for a change.

By 'The Same Organisation' i'm assuming it's the same one i'm leaving next February? Limited clothing choice? (blue / green & brown / biege), varying climates, travel?

That organisation has served me well for the last 24 years (as i have it) but, as you say, it's changing and so am i so i leave 'officially' next Feb but start University next month training to be a................Social Worker! Seems my R to I experience enhances communication skills!

Going to be tough with a wife, two young 'un's and a mortgage, but thats what your pension is for eh?

 

[Mike Ameling]

I'm a civil engineer working at a small engineering company (there's only four of us) specialised in finite element calculations. We do bridges, large steel structures (stadiums and the like, for you British, we were involved in the new Wembley stadium roof and the Millennium Wheel), crane vessels and tons of other stuff. Analysis range from stresses and deformations to eigenfrequencies, buckling, fatigue, etc.

Nothing to do with bushcraft, but I love my work.

Oooh ... potentially rough stuff work. Too many people don't realize the mental stress/worry about a wrong calculation when working with structures. Everything seems fine until they find "cracks" in the bridge or it collapses. Then everything jumps back to how it was designed and engineered. It's a ... concern ... of a level that few people ever have to think about.

Glad you enjoy the work. We need people who like that type of work instead of just "putting in their time". Just be careful of those sporadic wave harmonics! 50 thousand people in a stadium all stomping their feet in unison to the music can create a lot of extra stress on the structure.

Mikey - that grumpy ol' German blacksmith out in the Hinterlands

 

[EdS]

Environmental Health. Dealling with statutory nusiance (noise etc) but mostly with drainage realted problems. Before that 10 years in the water industry keeping sewage works running and treatment of and disposal of sewage sludge to agricultural land/land remediation sites.

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Really ? , I live less than a mile from Tunnock's factory, we can tell what day of the week it is from the smell as we walk down the Main Street I don't like toasted coconut day though ,
Toddy

Uuumm Tunnock's my favourite again except the coconut ones. The plain chocolate wafers are exceptional nice.

 

[EdS]

Environmental Health. Dealling with statutory nuisiance - noise etc. but mostly with draiange related issues. Before that 10 years in the water industry dealling with sewage works compliance and efective running then the treatment and disposal of sewage sludge to agricultural land or land remediation

Really ? , I live less than a mile from Tunnock's factory, we can tell what day of the week it is from the smell as we walk down the Main Street I don't like toasted coconut day though

cheers,
Toddy

Tunnocks my favourites except the coconut ones. The dark chocolate waffers are exceptionally nice

 

[drewdunnrespect]

well guys i am a night time manager in a hotel for three nights a week its not brilliant

 

[Barn Owl]

I was retired on ill health from the Police.

Now i'm a house husband and do voluntary work for wildlife.
Serve on a committee etc...(do surveys,fundraise et al).

Actually had more time to myself when working it seems.

Sounds good, but i've got to manage a lot of pain due to injury.

 

[JDO330]

Im an account manager for a mobile phone company (Orange). Ive been with them for 7 years and am generally pretty happy.

ATB, Jon.

 

[Fallow Way]

Countryside Ranger
Forest School Practitioner
part time instructor with one of the Bushcraft companies

 

[spamel]

I am a naff super hero:

Gas Man! Nanananananananah Gaas Maaaaaaaaaaan!



Sang to the theme of the original Batman TV series!

 

[Bernie Garland]

I'm a knifemaker

Bernie

 

[kai055]

professional layabout but im lookin for work

 

[Womble_Lancs]

I'm a desk jockey. Despite having a degree in IT & Computing, I don't use any of it for my current job.

It's hard to describe what I actually do, because it varies so much. I tend to describe myself as an 'Official Complaints Forwarding Service'. Most of the people I help have got themselves into a mess and don't know how to get out. Some of them are in a mess through no fault of their own, and a very small number are complete and utter idiots and I really wish I didn't have to help them at all :sulkoff:

When I'm not doing my main job, I help to write a website to show other people how to do the same job.

 

[Seagull]

Master Mariner.

Ceeg

 

[hiraeth]

I am a plasterer (there are worse jobs i suppose)

 

[Rhoda]

At the moment I'm juggling 3 careers and a 3 year old child! Partner in bushcraft/tracking/expedition company, yoga instructor and events organiser. I am incredibly lucky to work for myself doing things that I love - it's hard work and long hours building up the businesses, but I get to stay home with my son when I'm not away instructing so worth it!

 

[listenclear]

I be an acupuncturist - i run a clinic with my partner who is also a therapist - and I also get payed to make noise as a musician.
Love it!

www.tnhc.biz

 

[a12jpm]

I've got my own wee business to supply and install office furniture to offices,building sites etc all over the uk. I also do a bit of kitchen supplying/fitting and a wee bit of joinery on the side when things are quiet. Got to keep food on the table somehow!!!