Day Jobs!

[British Red]

Double tap

 

[British Red]

I train and assess in project, programme and risk management for large organisations.

:borgsmile

 

[Landy_Dom]

Graduate forester but re-trained in manufacturing engineering

now a design engineer (otherwise known as "the professor" or "mad inventor")



Dom.

 

[reddave]

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

I find the cracks. Kinda annoys the welders and inspectors though.

 

[dwardo]

Just started my own IT support company with a good friend and colleague. Never been so broke or stressed but never been so happy

 

[Mikey P]

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?

You would be right!

I'm seeing more and more people doing complete 180s with their resettlement and move away from the more traditional plumber/gas engineer (sorry Spamel! )/sparky/bricky courses. I did my CTW about 2 months ago and was quite surprised at the range of jobs people were looking at, from starting their own catering businesses to making wooden hurdles!!!

Ah, the pension - ohhhh yeshhh!

 

[Karl5]

Nothing bushcrafty at all.

I'm a Materials Engineer working for a major Gas Turbine manufacturing company.
Dealing with everything what enters the lab: Failure analysis, Production process development and improvement, Quality control, Materials choices, Purchasing support and so on and so forth... No real R&D work though, which is a shame, as that would have been interesting and fun to do.
Mostly a desk jockey job, but very rewarding, as it means doing work for all parts and aspects of the company, and puts me in contact with a lot of people.

/ Karl

 

[StJon]

I'm a lecturer in Art & Design working mainly with access and NQ students, very challenging but rewarding when you get through to them,
jon

 

[loz.]

Unix sysadmin for Aerlingus.com

Would love to be a full time WoodTurner, whislt living in a lock keepers cottage on the shannon.

 

[saddle_tramp]

Im a sicky for the past year n a bit, got something called M.E which is kinda depressing, but hey, im better than i was and without getting poorly id never have got a computer and so never have found this place. woop woop

 

[sam_acw]

I work in TEFL - I work for one of Warsaw's biggest language schools teaching English (well, often just talking) to high profile people - company directors, prosecutors, HR directors etc.
Despite all these contacts it is still basically to get a job outside teaching for an Englishman here unless you have lots of management experience or work in a few very specific IT areas.
I don't mind the teaching too much but the schools are shockingly badly organised and you never know how much you'll earn from one month to the next.

 

[ANDYRAF]

I came out of the RAF in 02 and am still looking for something inspiring to do, have looked at possibly going for something in the archaeology field as I have dug an aweful lot of holes in my time, some with a spade and some with my mouth.

 

[PJMCBear]

IT Manager for a prominent consulting civil engineering partnership. I enjoy it most of the time, but it's quite stressful and demanding at times.

 

[Wallenstein]

I'm a project manager for the UK division of a big american IT firm, all day in front of a computer working in an air-conditioned office under fluorescent light. Much rather be outside (until it starts raining!).

We run the HR/Payroll system for the NHS, and a bunch of NHS clinical systems.

I'm also supporting my wife while she completes a medicine degree, so not a lot of spare cash (or time!) around.

 

[Bob]

Woodsman; prior to that a Countryside Ranger,

Bob

 

[firecrest]

I glad to see the majority of people here have as boring and mundane a job as I do *runs and hides!*

 

[John Fenna]

Canoe coach, river guide, Mencap relief support worker and sometime Expedition leader, gear reviewer for three magazines........and anything else I can get people to pay me for!
Great fun work but I have not earned enough to pay income tax on in the last 29 years and the week long holiday I will be taking in the South West in 2 weeks time is going to be the first holiday my wife and I have taken in over 20 years!
Love my work though!

 

[Chris G]

I'm a Project Manager as well. 10 years in mobile comms, now working for British Waterways; fixing things using your money!

Chris

 

[Templar]

I'm an English teacher living and working in China right now...

 

[jacko1066]

I no this is a very old thread but looks like fun!!!
As much as I would love to say I have a really cool outdoorsey type job unfortunately Im just a train driver for Greater anglia trains!! (formally national express, formally one, formally wagn!!)
Possibly the most boring job in the world!!
But, pays the bills and only working 35 hours over 4 days has its advantages!!
All the best
Steve