What do you lot do for a living?

[Foogs]

anal paperwork goblin

If I had a band, I'd call it Anal Paperwork Goblin.

But instead I work in advertising.

Started my 'career' in Bristol working at a television post-production company.

Moved to the BBC for a year and a half as a production assistant aka dogsbody/jack of all trades - filming, editing, sound recording, lighting.
(A couple of highlights: going on cannabis farm raids with the police (apologies if this interrupted your supplies) and being trapped in a museum basement during a power cut with David Attenborough.)

Then an old friend in London offered me a job at their production company (all hail nepotism).

That production company turned into an ad agency and I became a 'creative copywriter' - namely coming up with headlines and scripts for commercials and billboards.

It's what I still do now, only freelance following redundancy during Covid.

I wish I'd gone freelance earlier tbh - it's more erratic but I love the time off.

 

[Jared]

I don't think the value in higher education is fading, it's just the value has been diluted with too much BS. We are producting too many people with BS degrees that probably aren't worth the time to study. Eg

Loving the Brine Shrimp: Exploring Queer Feminist Blue Posthumanities to Reimagine the ‘America’s Dead Sea’

published in the "Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics"

 

[TeeDee]

Then an old friend in London offered me a job at their production company (all hail nepotism).

If its good enough for Popes..

 

[Tengu]

Yes, theres days I wonder too.

And that is me as a person who has always admired hardcore, hardnosed academia.

 

[Machiavelli]

Director in Local Government. Doesn’t mean much to most people (including me these days), so I rarely discuss. In short, I make decisions in the hope I can make a difference to people’s lives, though in reality I’m so far away from actual delivery it’s hard to judge if that’s the case.

My other job is running a very modest honey production operation. We have around 150 - 180 hives depending on the time of year. It’s therapy from the day job.

 

[Chris]

My other job is running a very modest honey production operation. We have around 150 - 180 hives depending on the time of year. It’s therapy from the day job.

And you don’t need to be a straight A* student to get into it, either. You just need to get bees.

 

[Kepis]

Im now medically retired

I worked in the aerospace industry for over 20 years, firstly gaining an engineering apprenticeship at the local airfield working on stuff like Pitts Specials & Extra 230's, then moving onto working at a big Flight Simulator company, then i moved to working in the aircraft spares industry (commercial & military spares) where i stayed for about 20 years and only worked for two companies in all that time, went all over the world with the second one who were a specialist distributor rather than a general spares broker.

I left in 2010 with a view to working for a competitor but it didn't work out, so i set up my own small outdoor business and spent ten years working for myself visiting schools, conservation groups etc and doing outdoor shows and Church fetes where i demoed green woodworking, i also ran a number of short courses teaching people things like spoon & bowl carving, ash gate hurdle making and stuff like that.

On top of that i also worked as a Fishery Manager for a local complex of private fishing lakes & ponds.

Good times.

 

[Damascus]

Both my wife and are full time retired, I’ve been in armed forces, police officer and worked with disadvantaged people till retirement. My wife feels though I should return to some work away from home now, for my health as she says she will kill me being under her feet all day!

 

[Furbles]

I get paid to write and teach at university. Essentially, I never grew up, and I enjoyed being a student so much I never wanted it to end. So, after my degree I did a Masters. That was lots of fun too and so I signed up for a PhD…you get the idea.

 

[CLEM]

Currently not a lot. Concentrating on rebuilding my health and body.

 

[Keith_Beef]

I'm paid to work on a project that aims to revolutionise communication on Teh Intarwebs.

In real life, I have four full time jobs: son, husband, father, cultural critic and for gits and shiggles I'm a cunning linguist, horseman and maker of all kinds of things.

Oh, and: cook, nutritionist, nature steward, foster carer for all the neighbours' cats, driving instructor, and a thousand other things that I think most of us do without attaching any labels to them.

 

[The Frightful]

I don't think the value in higher education is fading, it's just the value has been diluted with too much BS. We are producting too many people with BS degrees that probably aren't worth the time to study. Eg

Loving the Brine Shrimp: Exploring Queer Feminist Blue Posthumanities to Reimagine the ‘America’s Dead Sea’

published in the "Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics"

So true, i left school in 77, 3no of 150 kids went on to 6th form then uni. All studying real professions law, Education and Medical etc. Now it is almost a right of passage for a p*** up and 40k in debt to attain a worthless degree because the whole world and his dog has one, scam, plain and simple. Obviously top end Oxbridge degrees are still respected but i have never used mine

 

[Tengu]

I did a vocational degree, most folk in my class got a job somewhere in Heritage.

(You could argue you dont need an Archaeology degree to do my job and most of our crew come from all over. Some are even Historians).

But most degrees in Archaeology are for folk who want to graduate.

And there is a shortage of Archaeologists. (The job pays peanuts, maybe thats why)

 

[Man of Tanith]

I do my best ok
After two decades and change in health and social care I binned that path, too much paperwork, too much treating the people we support as cash assests not people, too much treating the staff as problems not potential.
So I resigned, with nothing as back up.

Since then I've done agency work to keep the wolves at bay, obsessively studied, worked with troubled young un's using bushcraft to develop self awareness, resilience etc, offer men's group work, therapeutic nature reconnection, coaching, mentoring, and bushcraft instructing


Basically I help people

 

[Glow_worm]

There is an amazing variety of backgrounds here, no wonder we're such a diverse and interesting lot!

 

[demographic]

Self employed subcontractor carpenter.
Mostly commercial work, very few houses.

Museums, schools, firestations, car sales garages type of thing mostly. Some shuttering/formwork, timber framing.
I've built all sorts of stuff. This is one me and a mate framed, roofed and clad.
We didn't fit the skirting but did pretty much all the rest of the woodwork on the place.

Ha, as I've just looked for a pic of the building I've only just now found out it was shoristed for Commercial Property Of The Year award 2021. Well I never.
Bit surprised but clicky here.

 

[Johnnyboy1971]

I'm the annoyer of Road users in my tortoise fast HGV

 

[reddave]

Non destructive testing technician - surface and subsurface disciplines.
So, looking predominantly in carbon steel welds or structures for things that shouldn't, or should be there.
Looking for things you can't see, with sound you can't hear.
Good innit ?

 

[TeeDee]

Non destructive testing technician - surface and subsurface disciplines.
So, looking predominantly in carbon steel welds or structures for things that shouldn't, or should be there.
Looking for things you can't see, with sound you can't hear.
Good innit ?

Like a Ghost hunter?

 

[Laurentius]

I am retired but I have been many things before that. I suppose I could technically describe myself as a forester which I do on my linked in account, but that really depends on how you define a forest however I do forestry like things for love not for money. In my day I have been carer, advice worker, photographer, copy editor, journalist, academic, researcher, consultant, company director, trustee and so on.