Me working
Just wondering what career everyone else has, I'll give you a hint of mine.
Me working
Nice outfit,are you a wildlife keeper Derf?
I'm "working" for the city council in the study/devellopement road department for the last 30 years and getting more and more fed up
with so called "safety guide lines".
Pedestrians,bicycles and public transport play a major role and if there is some room left than perhaps one lane can be squeezed in for the
"poluting car owner".
Oh well... it's allways "fun" to see a forecasted traffic jam, drafted on paper,turns out to be real traffic jam when the
"improvement" is done
good post i'm a mobile windscreen fitter
im an airframe fitter working on c130 hercules maintenance and modification
Think the avtar says it all, Engine man me.
Dan.
p.s. Damn that radios nearly bigger than you dude.
[Edited on 27/5/04 by scutter]
Two jobs.
Main job: 3rd line network/server support for major IT out-sourcing company. Primary customer is a large mobile phone manufacturer.
Part-time job: gearbox work for F1 team.
Derf, are you a paintball marshall??? 
There was a poll done awhile ago (I think posted by AlanB) about what jobs people do- if you're interested!
James
quote:
Originally posted by derf
Just wondering what career everyone else has, I'll give you a hint of mine.
Me working
quote:
Originally posted by stephen_gusterson
forest flasher?
I design systems used in the food industry to inspect contamination in food, specialising in x-ray based technology.
possibly the prize for the most obsure job?
atb
steve
quote:
Originally posted by derf
Just wondering what career everyone else has, I'll give you a hint of mine.
I work as a consultant/programmer for a small IT consultancy specialising in accounts software and associated shenanigans.
I'm currently sat in Unipart's HQ in Oxford looking at hundreds and hundreds of minis out of the window.
[Edited on 27/5/04 by mackie]
A f##king project accountant for BT.
Just take me out the back and shoot me, Derf.
Work....whats that all about then?
I'm a student .
But i do have a summer job (hopefully) working in the project/planning department at a local engineering company
David 
I'm a student too flack!
where and what you studying?
I work in the drawing office in a refinery, i am making a digital archive of engineering drawings and documents, posh photocopying
student not for much longer, my finals are next week (immunology)
Then working for a car rental company for a while...quality job!
Mark
work,whats that?
I'm a sales droid for an industrial plastics and rubber company. We make tooling for the auto industry. Real love is photography, freelanced for
the national newspapers and magazines here in Canada for about ten years (still do a bit) but the market dropped out after 9/11.
I say Derf is a specialty gardener .
Cheers, Ted
Derf....you don't know Stan Collymore do you?
Mark
Senior mechanical design engineer for company specialising in product packaging using robotics....
link to my company
We have just been taken over, as explained on the link.
edit....question for Steve....
Could there be a link between obscure jobs and non-standard builds?.....
[Edited on 27/5/04 by Alan B]
Alan - I thought that you were a self employed boyo?
Dover Coporation nearly bought the co I work for 4 years ago. Life would have been better if they had. Seemed like a professional bunch - we had 5
prospective buyers - dover were the only ones that did a presentaion to us about themselves - the others just wanted to listen.
we were told that their philosphy was simple - make 10% gross each year, or your out.
atb
steve
answer about obscures...
could well be!
However, I have produced sysrtems from scratch in a lot less time than I have this friggin beasie.
Im just about to trim the interior - want a break from glassing and bashin metal - then in a month im on the home strait finishing the grp bodywork -
which will take rest of summer / fall I think.
[Edited on 27/5/04 by stephen_gusterson]
NT 2000 2003
Microsoft System Engineer
(Over qualified under aged)
More fun than it sounds
Steve, I was until about 2 months ago...they were my main customer (95%)....made me a good offer to come onboard....so I did....still have other
things going on the side of course....like you do...
Yes, you right though, Dover do seem a good company.
Self employed Mechanical Design Engineer
I was recently made redundant.
But I'm working on something that will be of interest to you guys. All will be revealed soon.
Professional Mechanical Engineer working for Tier 1 braking systems supplier.
quote:
Originally posted by paulbeyer
I was recently made redundant.
But I'm working on something that will be of interest to you guys. All will be revealed soon.
quote:
Originally posted by paulbeyer
...But I'm working on something that will be of interest to you guys. All will be revealed soon.
there was a thread about jobs awhile ago, but i cant find it...
still dossing, me.
Im "working" as a student!
Studying Automotive Engineering at Oxford Brookes in my 2nd Year
Hi all: Im a fully time served vehicle construction technician engineer. I used to build all specialised vehicles ie. police riot vans - prison vans -
horse boxes - formula one car transporters - and special trailers for the IT industry - I now work in the bus industry repairing smelly buses.
Jacko
I spent over 14 years repairing busses and its not just the smell, im sure some were flea infested. I now spend my time replacing car glass after some
idiot breaks in.some are so thick they break into unlocked cars.
[Edited on 27/5/04 by nicklondon]
CNC setter/programmer by trade but is was dead boring so now I'm maintenance engineer at Castle Cement
Print finisher
Whatever that is
Ferous and non ferous metal fusion technician.
I must have been a real bastard in a former life.
Project engineer (ha bloody ha). Or as i introduce myself to work and customers "Hi im MUGGINS which position would you like to shaft me in
today"
www.attendo.co.uk
quote:
I'll give you a hint of mine.
quote:
Posted by Viper
Ferous and non ferous metal fusion technician.
...
student just doing gcse's however get ema £30 a week and a £5 an hour part time technintion job at collage next year
International man of mystery.
Cheers
Chris
I sense another poll coming on.....
a poll about chrisg?
quote:
Originally posted by flak monkey
quote:
Posted by Viper
Ferous and non ferous metal fusion technician.
Calling welders fancy names now eh Viper?
David
I design high reliability power electronics (power supplies mainly) for the medical industry, the company I work for designs and manufactures X ray machines. Until very recently, I've been designing power electronics for satellites and stuff in the UK, working for a company called Surrey Satellites.
quote:
Originally posted by JAG
Professional Mechanical Engineer working for Tier 1 braking systems supplier.
Jobbing machinist (turning , milling , gear cutting , vertical and horizontal boring etc) work for a small local company , different job everyday and
get to play with big machine tools
Gosh...
Some of you do have fancy job titles and descriptions.
Me, I'm a mechanical and electrical plant maintainence and intallation technician according to my contract.
I prefer to call myself a fitter...
John
Me, art founder
ATB
Simon
In the week Community Support Worker (mental health) for the NHS.
At the weekend semi pro musician , to make up for NHS wages............
Still it's all better than working
[Edited on 28/5/04 by Surrey Dave]
Quality Assurance Manager - I test software for a small software house. Get to play with prototype mobile phones and PDAs, write test harnesses in C++
and MFC, and all that sort of stuff.
David
Que?
quote:
Originally posted by Simon
Me, art founder
ATB
Simon
Technical Architect - or you tell me what you want to do and I'll tell you how many computers my company is going to overcharge you for.
Used to work for Royal Mail doing the same thing but I was outsource to an alliance of 3 companys. I supossedly work for Xansa, but at the moment
I'm pretenting to work for one of the other partners (CSC) so it's all a little confusing.
Andrew
Me - I sell Teddy Bears - no really, I do, been a family business for 30 years, though I've only done it full time for the last 4 years. We have
a shop in the Lanes in Brighton.
That's why I build cars and do DIY in my spare time, keep the testosterone levels up!
Hmm
woulda thought that selling teddy bears would have high testosteron levels anyway - you must have had one of two steiff'ys
its Friday, you cant expect too much
quote:
Originally posted by Jasper
Me - I sell Teddy Bears - no really, I do, been a family business for 30 years, though I've only done it full time for the last 4 years. We have a shop in the Lanes in Brighton.
That's why I build cars and do DIY in my spare time, keep the testosterone levels up!
mechanical craft fitter in a power station - in english I swing big hammers, break things, then repair them again.
[Edited on 28/5/04 by chris.russell]
Quantity Surveyor. Financial Management in Highways Maintenance.
Working to support the Highways Agency's aims of safe roads, reliable journeys and informed travellers. (Allegedly)
Development Engineer in Diesel Engine Calibration, FMC.
I'm spotting a distinct pattern here...
mechanical engineering student finishing 1st year at Loughborough uni
Male prostitute.......then I woke up
Shug.
[Edited on 28/5/04 by Hugh Paterson]
I am a Control Systems Engineer in the exotic field of water and sewer plant control and telemetry.
Doing my student bit at 40 years old, and at present finishing my finals and dissertation. and then I will have more time to spend on my Viento.
I am Studying Automotive Engineering and Transport Studies.
And my second job is
Manufacturing Engineer for a large company that produces gearboxes for big US trucks.
Electronic Engineer designing Sound Level Meters.
If I fail my noise test at SVA I'll be pissed
quote:
Originally posted by chris.russell
mechanical craft fitter in a power station - in english I swing big hammers, break things, then repair them again.
[Edited on 28/5/04 by chris.russell]
quote:
Originally posted by gjn200
CNC setter/programmer by trade but is was dead boring so now I'm maintenance engineer at Castle Cement
Telephone man with BT.
Actually I'm Dole Scum at the moment.
I'm "resting"
At leisure, so to speak.
Keep paying your taxes lads.
Cheers
8 ace
Peteff IS a super model - he's a 1/72 scale Spitfire
quote:
Actually I'm Dole Scum at the moment.
Yes, I'm a charity case.
Don't think i'll be able to buy ANY beer at Goodwood, Gordon.
Bottoms up!
Cheers
Chris
I'm a carer working for an old friend of mine who's severely disabled (on trachy ventilator 24/7, can't get out of bed or feed
himself). Used to be a computer bod.
Applying to the police force now.
Office jockey working for a Medium size Logistics Company in Southampton. Was a Transport planner, am now working on imports, (general cargo - Flashy cars, Boxes of nuts - multimillion pounds lathe centres) bit dull really. Never ceases to amaze me what tat some people choose to import, we had a Ford Focus from America last week, nothing special, just basic model.
Estimator in a medium sized bodyshop, fixing about 35 cars a week, my car is made out of all the leftovers!!
Perhaps as well you don't work at McDonalds then Mark.
I guy I work with knows someone whos not in too dissimilar state. Was an able bodied 30 something. Until he went to a pool party, and dived in shallow
water. major spinal trauma ala christopher reeves.
Double figures of people do this in the UK every year. poor sod
atb
steve
quote:
Originally posted by blueshift
I'm a carer working for an old friend of mine who's severely disabled (on trachy ventilator 24/7, can't get out of bed or feed himself). Used to be a computer bod.
Applying to the police force now.
When someone knows what i do, please let me know. Cant keep up with the changes!
And I'm the lucky bas*ard that gets to endorse all your driving licences when you speed through Kirklees, West Yorkshire.
I'm a nice guy really though!
I work at Magistrates' Court and do lots of exciting things like type warrants to send people to prison and deal with nutters at the counter!
Pat....
quote:
Originally posted by Peteff
Perhaps as well you don't work at McDonalds then Mark
I am a small group instructor, I teach urban squad sized combat tequniques and procedures to soldiers going on deployment. I also teach Building
clearing, and urban defensive procedures.
It's a great job when people wee me off I just kill them with my "God gun".
quote:
Originally posted by drmike54
I am a Control Systems Engineer in the exotic field of water and sewer plant control and telemetry.
The actual job title is "Senior Corporate Systems Analyst - Data Integration" which is pretty impressive sounding
In practice, I lead a team that build & maintain data transfer/transformation links between corporate databases for a large-ish University in
Brisbane, Australia.
Dominic
My job is really shitty...
I inspect the lap dancers poles for skelfs and grease them up
skelfs???is that what i think it is???
Former DBA/Programmer for 10 years. Jacked it all in for a life-changing experience - now I'm an ICT teacher in a comp in Wolves.
It's definately NOT a proper job; I'm on holiday again!
Neil.
I'm a Control Systems Engineer, - Design Build and Repair of Control system in the Oil and Gas industry. These are mainly in the field of Motion
Compensation (compensating for movement of ocean) and Riser Recoil Systems.
Or in laymens terms -Software Eng / Electronic Eng with a bit of Mechanical Eng thrown in.
I'm an Oil Company Instruments & Control Engineer by background, now manage IT data group - Software systems such as SAP/INtools/document and
data etc.
Building cars keeps me sane
I survey ships and constrction barges for the offshore oil/gas industry and act as underwriter's rep. for platform and pipeline installations.
Geoff.
I race cars, play tennis, and fondle women, BUT I have weekends off, and I am my own boss
You are a see you next tuesday.
And soon we will all know who you are and be able to laugh at you in the street.
Sad
Cheers
Chris
Lost none of that northern wit and charm ChrisG
Well, you didn't have any in the first place so that would have been hard
When I find out who you really are, I'm going to hurt you.
What a nasty, nasty man.
yep
Steve,
Bit slow responding - been busy.
Art founder - cast works of art into bronze.
Sculptors sculpt their work (in wood/clay/plaster/stone/whatever), bring them to us."We take a mould (flexible silicone rubber (with plaster
case). From the mould we make a wax copy which then has runners (air and feed tubes) and another mould built up round the wax.
That goes into kiln for a couple od days (Lost Wax Process), then bronze poured in.
Mould broken open runners cut off, piece blasted/welded/chased.
Job done.
Hope this makes sense.
ATB
Simon
Question for all you students...
How the hell can you afford to build and run a locost??!!
Andy
I'm a building surveyor.
I work with a local authority and get to approve ( or not ) repair and improvement grants.
Everybody is my friend ;-)
Own and run a domestic soundproofing company. Noisy neighbours in flats and houses.
Dad's used to be in engineering, lots of 1inch steel tube got liberated oh and sheet