What do you lot do for a living?
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Yonks ago I did Mag Particle testing, Dye Penetrant testing, Radiographic testing and radiographic viewing.
Had a bash at Ultrasonic just in the boilermakers I was working in at the time but never did the course, just to get an inkling of it.
We used to use wallpaper paste as the UT transducer couplant, I imagine thats frowned upon nowadays but it got washed off after.
Qualls long since ran out now though.
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
Respect. You are the sort of person who can and does make a difference, these small projects change lives and direction and should be seriously funded with big money, it won't happen tho because theres no short term profit in it. You are nurturing saplings and i guarentee there will be a profitable woodland in the future
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University of hard knocks, Electrical and mechanical 1000v ac 1500v Dc and qualified as automotive as well. Do all manner of things from 400k machines to fixing a toilet.
I've not won the lottery, or I would be going anywhere on an adventure- I now embrace mediocre and two steps from success.
I realised I was getting old when temp traffic light lads in transits look about 12 yrs old.
Computer revolution is both amazing and toxic.
Gigabit fibre and yet I'd rather sleep in a bothy
I've not won the lottery, or I would be going anywhere on an adventure- I now embrace mediocre and two steps from success.
I realised I was getting old when temp traffic light lads in transits look about 12 yrs old.
Computer revolution is both amazing and toxic.
Gigabit fibre and yet I'd rather sleep in a bothy
Some of you already know me...
I am a multi skilled scientist, specialising in botany, hydrology, plant genetics, geology, agriculture and environmental chemistry. Basically most of applied practical sciences.
I used to be a farmer in my youth, shepherding mostly with 1800 sheep, which I did for ten years. Unfortunately the family farm was mostly sold, and I had to do something else, eventually finding science and academia....I found my niche.
I had a stint in government, working as a senior specialist in air and water, working for the chief scientist directorate... writing UK and European law and guidance for agriculture, etc...but could not make the real changes on the ground that I wanted.
So work in the water industry now, leading a highly educated and skilled team of scientists and agricultural advisors. I am also a PhD second supervisor at 3 different universities, all PhD's funded through my work and environmental based.
@Furbles That's my dream job, I had a brief stint as a lecturer for 3 years and loved it, I took on the students that were alternative and built them up, normally the ex military rotation, that got paid university education....and the classical lecturers could not handle. Everyone of my undergraduate students under my watch achieved either a 2.1 or first class degree....and all of my PhD students have passed with no more than minor corrections, I am proud of that.
I am a multi skilled scientist, specialising in botany, hydrology, plant genetics, geology, agriculture and environmental chemistry. Basically most of applied practical sciences.
I used to be a farmer in my youth, shepherding mostly with 1800 sheep, which I did for ten years. Unfortunately the family farm was mostly sold, and I had to do something else, eventually finding science and academia....I found my niche.
I had a stint in government, working as a senior specialist in air and water, working for the chief scientist directorate... writing UK and European law and guidance for agriculture, etc...but could not make the real changes on the ground that I wanted.
So work in the water industry now, leading a highly educated and skilled team of scientists and agricultural advisors. I am also a PhD second supervisor at 3 different universities, all PhD's funded through my work and environmental based.
@Furbles That's my dream job, I had a brief stint as a lecturer for 3 years and loved it, I took on the students that were alternative and built them up, normally the ex military rotation, that got paid university education....and the classical lecturers could not handle. Everyone of my undergraduate students under my watch achieved either a 2.1 or first class degree....and all of my PhD students have passed with no more than minor corrections, I am proud of that.
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Commis, CDP, Sous, Head Chef, Bar Cellarman, Bar Manager, Pub Landlord, Shop Owner and now a House Husband (Early retired), living off of savings and the wife's salary 
CDP being "chef de partie", I suppose, not "common depth point"...Commis, CDP, Sous, Head Chef, Bar Cellarman, Bar Manager, Pub Landlord, Shop Owner and now a House Husband (Early retired), living off of savings and the wife's salary
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Dear Bhod. This is a "family friendly" forum and there is a rule against posting profanity, even if you say you are only relaying what other people call you, and even if you have substituted a few * here and there. That people call you these things doesn't enlighten anyone here about what you do for a living.
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Just waking up in the morning and making good use of oxygen, these two are are enough to make a day a "good one". Anything else is a bonus at my age!
Due to physical "challenges" I was forced to find a non-physical job.
So now I am a (substitute) teacher, currently at an international English school.
So now I am a (substitute) teacher, currently at an international English school.
Smallholder, antique dealer and restorer, fixer and hoarder of broken junk… I pretty much do what I want to since we paid off the mortgage because we can get by on very little.
Not all, I am 67 and retired for ten years, I did run training courses a few days a month until my state pension kicked in. But apart from child benefit, which my wife done, I never claimed benefit in my life apart from my state pension, but I paid NI since 16 years old…..So I have earned that.
Do you sell many antiques and have site or anything? I'm half way there in that I've bought a fair few old items, not sold anything so far...
Currently I work on a highland sporting estate as maintenance turning my hand to anything from minor plumbing, electrical work, building, carpentry, bridge repair, road building, boat work, forestry and stuff then through the summer and in winter I'm a stalking ghillie working the ponies in the stags and argo through winter. Also a self employed wilderness bushcraft instructor which I did full time before moving north 
And clothes model iirc.
If I have recalled correctly you got very wet on a cold day getting that promotional photo for a certain magazine, wearing a certain make of clothing.
I have a very strange memory that forgets what I need but remembers what I really don't need. This is one of the latter I think I remember.
Didn't you write for a hiking magazine and a canoeing magazine at one point? The great outdoors and canoeist? I think I've read some of your articles.
The list of outdoor mags I wrote for is longer than my arm -TGO and Canoeist for sure - I wrote for anyone who would pay me SWAT, Combat and Militaria, Gun Mart, shooting mags, paintball mags the lot .... oh and Bushcraft magazines as well
Swimming in the Tivy wearing Buffalo clothing was pretty cold at first ... but I soon warmed up
SWAT, Combat and Militaria, Gun Mart, shooting mags, paintball mags the lot .... oh and Bushcraft magazines as well Swimming in the Tivy wearing Buffalo clothing was pretty cold at first ... but I soon warmed up
I left school for a degree course that offered no prospects.. Got that degree a year later than I should have so missed all that graduating with mates. Went into low paid agency work with periods of time selling my signature to the state every fortnight while volunteering for a conservation charity.
I nearly went into full time conservation volunteering while selling my signature to the state but I got the opportunity to get on a fully funded masters course on a recognised subject. Somehow I got that degree, very close run thing, so went back to agency work and selling my signature.
Eventually I got a job that was a kind of technical job. In that I started by setting up and writing test procedures and acting as backup technical advice to be colleagues and customers. Then I got into tech support for construction materials side of the company. I learnt a lot about passive fire protection, building codes for construction and fire testing of products. I've set up quite a few fire tests over the years I did that.
Then I carried on but got a massive pay drop after a redundancy. I did 13 years on a low pay and lost all confidence in abilities. Despite that I somehow got out and into a proper company in quality engineering and I'm catching up on a career that never truly started. I'm getting my pieces of paper in the field and seriously working on becoming a chartered quality engineer.
Paper pusher, or modern digital version, but it's a decent job and I deal with people from all levels and all departments of a very large company. Sometimes it's interesting, other times it's not but more routine. What we do isn't respected by some but I'm part of a wider team that's driving cultural change that is making a big difference. I have to keep reminding myself as I am but a small cog in the machine. At least our product is pretty cool. Not like my old job.
I nearly went into full time conservation volunteering while selling my signature to the state but I got the opportunity to get on a fully funded masters course on a recognised subject. Somehow I got that degree, very close run thing, so went back to agency work and selling my signature.
Eventually I got a job that was a kind of technical job. In that I started by setting up and writing test procedures and acting as backup technical advice to be colleagues and customers. Then I got into tech support for construction materials side of the company. I learnt a lot about passive fire protection, building codes for construction and fire testing of products. I've set up quite a few fire tests over the years I did that.
Then I carried on but got a massive pay drop after a redundancy. I did 13 years on a low pay and lost all confidence in abilities. Despite that I somehow got out and into a proper company in quality engineering and I'm catching up on a career that never truly started. I'm getting my pieces of paper in the field and seriously working on becoming a chartered quality engineer.
Paper pusher, or modern digital version, but it's a decent job and I deal with people from all levels and all departments of a very large company. Sometimes it's interesting, other times it's not but more routine. What we do isn't respected by some but I'm part of a wider team that's driving cultural change that is making a big difference. I have to keep reminding myself as I am but a small cog in the machine. At least our product is pretty cool. Not like my old job.
I've seen that ad, how long ago was that?The list of outdoor mags I wrote for is longer than my arm -TGO and Canoeist for sure - I wrote for anyone who would pay me
Swimming in the Tivy wearing Buffalo clothing was pretty cold at first ... but I soon warmed up
Its grim oop Norf when you are the South....Currently I work on a highland sporting estate as maintenance turning my hand to anything from minor plumbing, electrical work, building, carpentry, bridge repair, road building, boat work, forestry and stuff then through the summer and in winter I'm a stalking ghillie working the ponies in the stags and argo through winter. Also a self employed wilderness bushcraft instructor which I did full time before moving north
