Whats everyone do for a living in the real world?

[Toddy]

I'm an archaeologist (there's a few of us on this list too), but I work for Historic Scotland, Galgael Trust, SNH, Countryside Ranger Services, environmental groups, etc., teaching & demonstrating traditional handcrafts. Mostly fibre stuffs, cordages, natural dyes and the like but I also do a bit on lotions and potions and famine foods and some authentic period clothing.
My sons both work in IT though, can I still get to play?

Toddy

 

[Fallow Way]

I`m a forester...community forest..jobs include forest management, forest planting, hedgerow management/planting, rights of way work, assortment of other things

 

[RovingArcher]

I retired from the rat race a long time ago. Now I dabble in collectables on a limited basis, but was recently contacted by a single woman, who is a friend of a friend and she asked if I would help to sort through and catalogue her deceased mothers estate, locate buyers, etc. So, I may be embarking on a new and expanded direction of what has up to now just been a passionate hobby.

 

[2blackcat]

I work for a local authority.

Strange hours, stranger tenents

Still, shift work gives me time for playing - and the decorating :roll:


Steve

 

[hootchi]

I'm studying Chemical Physics at Uni' in my first year. Alot of outgoings and not much income so I guess I'll have some work to do when I finish. :roll:

 

[hobbitboy]

Geography student, its a hard life but someone has to do it! :Crazy_071

 

[zackerty]

Electrical Surveyor... getting electricity to houses and farms, rural sections... designing powerlines through the countryside of North Canterbury, New Zealand, so I can see thick warm forests in the morning, snow at lunchtime, and at my desk doing Autocad plans in the afternoon...

 

[alick]

Day job as project management consultant - teach it part time too.
Also director of a business launching a new range of electric powered golf trolleys into the UK market this year - I don't play, but the products are good !

:biggthump

 

[Abbe Osram]

I was working as a animator for 15 years doing cartoon movies before the times of computers changed our life. After that I worked for 6 years with computer games as animation director. Leaving the rate race I moved to the north of sweden to find myself and start a live between art (painting and drawing wildlife and nature) and bushcraft. At the moment I have a small teacher job teaching some ours a week art. Then I get some money from the unemployment office too.

cheers
Abbe

 

[Scally]

currently i work as a supermarket manager for a reasnable big food giant but i used to be a game keeper working for rossway and wentworth estates. i wish the money didnt matter i would go back to working outside tommorrrow....

 

[spamel]

Plant Fitter in the Royal Engineers. I fix generators, JCB diggers, power tools and all that sort of good stuff.

And like Graham I also get all my kit exchanged in stores when it gets broken aswell. Hey, there's got to be a few perks in our line of work!!

The great thing about my job is using explosives and having axes, machetes and bill hooks in our troop stores!!

 

[Adi]

If I lived in the US a would say I work in Law Enforcement, I don’t really have one title, I do criminal investigation, crime prevention, loss prevention, surveillance and close protection for retail, manufacturing and distribution companies and local arthritis. I am not in the police but work very closely with them and sit on some local police boards.

The best part of my job is getting an arrest the worst thing is the violent arrest (which most are).

 

[martin]

I work in a Cardboard Box Factory
Double Backer Operater on a B flute Corrugater. I get to push 2 and 3 ton reels of paper about, manually :yikes:

On Sunday mornings I do volenteer conservation work on Crowle Moors. :Crazy_071 It's a Lowland Peat Bog. The Reserve I work on is 450 acres but with English Natures bit there's 8000 acres in all. No roads, houses or farms and hardly any people. Brilliant place and I get to play on a 6x6 Quad. :super:

 

[bambodoggy]

The great thing about my job is using explosives and having axes, machetes and bill hooks in our troop stores!!

Spamel...that's about the funniest thing I've read in ages! :rolmao: :rolmao: :rolmao: I went up and had a butchers round the armoury at our TA RHQ and felt exactly the same with all the toys they had in there! :rolmao: :rolmao: :rolmao:

 

[Pocahontas]

Well for my sins i am an accountant!

Got made redundant on the 4th of Feb and got offered a job on the 18th feb so i have had 3 weeks off and start working again tomorrow!!! Eek

 

[BorderReiver]

Been retired just over a year :Crazy_071

Worked for 38 long years as a Biomedical Scientist in the NHS.

 

[woodrat]

I am a "jack of all trades", with the exception of eletrical and complex plumbing, you name it I can do it. I change jobs about every 3 years or so , [short attention span!], always something new to learn and I've found for me that its better to find someone to pay me to learn something " on the job", than for me to pay some school or college to learn it.

 

[TAZ]

i,m a bench joiner so I get to play with sharp things most days. been doing this for 18 years now. tried to become a forest ranger in the new forest but was told I had to have a degree!!!
I love my work and would'nt work in an office again (tried it and hated it).Unfortunately it means I have to wait until i get home to get on the "puter".

 

[Bob Hurley]

Retired coal miner.

 

[Carcajou Garou]

In the past, a hardrock miner, crane operator, a furnace tapper, now a soon to be retired machinist, all the while was a part-time firearms instructor for the military/police/civilian. No wonder I'm tired ):