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benham wrote: spending my days traveling all over the UK visiting sewage farms

That sounds like a [strike]$hit[/strike] job. :whistle:

My job is boreing and I hate it. That's all.

Left school.worked in car body shop for 8 years (Still can spray and do the panel beating) Im a dab hand with a spray can now for my spoiler.Left that, now a painter/decorator for over 27 years,and still loving it.Need more work thoughAnd thats me now

Gee - seems like this is the right place to be for any engineering\mechanical questions!!! :omg:

Me, I work in IT - I'm a database developer, mainly on the Business Intelligence front working with giga\terabytes of data to enable companies to run more productively and make more £££... things like the targeted Sainbury's "nectar points by products" slips would have started its days in basket analysis as part of the sort of stuff I do day-in day-out... You're welcome!

As I know chuff-all about anything engineering or mechanical, swapping over the HT leads on the MGF rates as a win for me

Luckily I spend 95% of my time working on the stuff that comes out the end of the works, rather than the stuff that goes in.

The other 5% though....

Regards,
Andy

I worked in the Water industry for 30 years.
I started as a Chemical analyst in a water laboratory, checking river waters for pollution levels, then river pollution inspection, then inspection of companies for waste pollution of rivers and public sewers. Then I changed tack and went into water plant management, treatment works and pumping stations.
Got offered early retirement and snatched their hands off.
Since then I have helped out for a while mechanic-ing in a Range Rover LandRover garage. Best job was building a 3,9V8 efi up from a box of bits, fitting into an old Range Rover and hearing it run.:yesnod:
I've always maintained my own cars since my first, bought in 1973.

When I left school in 1972 I went straight into the DHSS as a clerical officer and stayed there a month short of 19 years. I left to become self employed as an area manager for a direct sales company during the recession of the early nineties - Good timing eh? Since then I've worked for Sandwell Council and contracted for Rover and Jaguar in various admin roles. Then I taught computer courses (Beginners, Clait) for the Workers Educational Association and Sutton Coldfield College on a sessional basis. The problem with that was that the main program I taught for the WEA was cancelled and I found myself with only one course to teach so in September 2000 I became a temporary Postman to tide me over until Christmas! I'm still there though I now work in the Delivery Office handing out parcels to customers amongst other things. As I'm now 58 I suppose that's it until I can retire

David Aiketgate wrote: I worked in the Water industry for 30 years.
I started as a Chemical analyst in a water laboratory, checking river waters for pollution levels, then river pollution inspection, then inspection of companies for waste pollution of rivers and public sewers. Then I changed tack and went into water plant management, treatment works and pumping stations.
Got offered early retirement and snatched their hands off.
Since then I have helped out for a while mechanic-ing in a Range Rover LandRover garage. Best job was building a 3,9V8 efi up from a box of bits, fitting into an old Range Rover and hearing it run.:yesnod:
I've always maintained my own cars since my first, bought in 1973.

I used to run Effluent plants and you were the very type of person that made me rattle when told your there to take a sample of effluent lol

well i started at macdonalds,got a job as a trainee at a sports cars dealership and stayed there for two years,but as my father had got me the job there the staff often gave me a hard time.got a job at rover and stayed they for years.but weekends did private work on cars.when rover went bust i was out of a job,so went truck driving for a 4 year time period .i worked mainly nights so during the day as was able to start building some work up.started repairing trucks and repairing trucks belonging to the company i drove for.So for about 12 months had a car and truck repair company of my own.
Got divorced and got sole custordy of my then small child.So decided simply to sell up and move miles away from my ex wife.
The plan was to simply look after Henry and Gina was working full time.but got bored and said to Gina.I will just do the odd head gasket on the odd Mgf every know and then.And where we live we can fit two mgfs in our workshop dead easy.So thats is it really.

Way back when, I did 12 months as a retail assistant in the local computer store, ended up being technical support for the entire chain but got bored and went back to college. After getting a number of qualifications I joined an it service company on trial, creating the bench engineer role and doing repairs that the field engineers either couldn't do or didn't have time to do on site. After a while was taken on permanently, 6 months after that was promoted to field service engineer, working my was to senior field engineer, mainly because I got a better choice of car that way

After an incident with one of my colleagues revealing himself to be a low life git, I resented working with him so much either one of us had to leave or I'd slash his brake pipes, so I applied for voluntary redundancy, but was turned down. Had a chat with the boss of a consultancy department and on the 30th December 2000 left field engineering behind and started as a managed services consultant on January 2nd 2001, stayed there until being made redundant in October 2006 at which point I decided not to do work that would take me away from home a lot in an attempt to save my marriage.

Bad idea...

Anyhow, worked office based in IT support in a few companies ever since, got divorced, recently remarried and retraining to be a teacher/lecturer as I'm disillusioned with the IT industry at the moment.

Oh, and I have a small studio and worked on numerous small tv projects. Was part of a team which had material shown at Cannes in 2003 and nominated for a BAFTA for best short animation in 2004. Not doing much on that side through at the moment.

Blindly! From this thread I can deduce that...........




....you're all old

Me? I quit half way through my a levels, joined the navy at 18, as a marine engineering artificer. Did my apprenticeship, learned how to fix everything from sewage treatment plants to marine gas turbine engines and loads in between. Left after 8 years or so, worked on fermenters and stuff at GSK, then started working as an engineer on automated cranes and conveyors for a German company called Witron, and now I manage a team of engineers that do the same thing for a company called Ocado.

Next? Who knows lol I quite fancy some project management next but would also like to go back to hands on engineering again, rather than the management side. I suppose it mostly depends on what's out there......

Lee

Just clocked up 30 years as an offset lithographer(printer)


I know same job since i left school but it's a warm in door job that pays well.