What do you do for a living? :)

[Louis123]

Im a level 3 qualified paint refinshing in the automotive industry, currently working in the building trade doing mainly joinery and construction will be doing a joinery apprenticeship sopn though so i have some paper work, also do bits of plumbing, sparking, brick laying etc

[Kezzieboy]

Self employed sports coach, specialising in Swimming, Trampolining, Gymnastics, Athletics and Personal Training.

Work around 16 hours a week.

Ooh, another gymnast? I've taken it up at uni, and am loving it.

[Midnightclub]

Currently working for comet and have been for the past 2 and half years doing computer software support

[306carter]

IT installations engineering supervisor.

Install all hardware for sainsburys some software also stop the lads I work from eating Lego ect.

Often drive 6hr round trips to install a printer or upgrade some memory that takes 15minutes. Spend most of try time on the road tbh.

[Midnightclub]

Ouch.. that'd do my head in! Kinda glad all of our work is done over the phone or via remote assist..

[306carter]

Ouch.. that'd do my head in! Kinda glad all of our work is done over the phone or via remote assist..

They have team that do remote software updates think it's in Amsterdam. I once drove to Nairn near Inverness 6 hours there 6 back to fit a printer in the managers office. Just a hp color printer like you'd have at home. Got there he'd installed him self. 14hours, night in a hotel and deisel. Cost sainsburys ££££ for nothing.

[Midnightclub]

That's insane! I swear big companies just throw money away for lolz..

[Stephen]

I like this thread, interesting stuff as I have no idea what I want to do in the long run!

I did work in pizza hut full time, kitchen and out front until the 15th Of July but now im just doing nothing as im off travelling on the 1st of August for a year or two, in which time i hope i decide upon a career i want to do!

[Toms306]

I like this thread, interesting stuff as I have no idea what I want to do in the long run!

I did work in pizza hut full time, kitchen and out front until the 15th Of July but now im just doing nothing as im off travelling on the 1st of August for a year or two, in which time i hope i decide upon a career i want to do!

How are you funding that? Finding jobs where you're travelling to? Should be good either way, where you going then??

[ginge191]

I'm a student! Cheers guys!

Nah in all seriousness, through summers im either working abroad as an acitivites instructor (high roping, archery, fencing, water sports) or a duty manager in a pub on the Island... pays the automotive habbit

[Stephen]

Saved up 10k while working at pizza hut and I will be getting a job when I get to Australia

Im interailing around europe for a month, then going to st petersburg and getting on the trans siberian railway through russia mongolia ending in China which takes a month.
Staying in china for a month
Then travelling around Thailand, cambodia, laos and veitnam for 3 months, and then going to Australia for a year? maybe more Who knows

[Tom]

Saved up 10k while working at pizza hut and I will be getting a job when I get to Australia

Im interailing around europe for a month, then going to st petersburg and getting on the trans siberian railway through russia mongolia ending in China which takes a month.
Staying in china for a month
Then travelling around Thailand, cambodia, laos and veitnam for 3 months, and then going to Australia for a year? maybe more Who knows

Thats gonna be an amazing 2 years!

[Stephen]

Yeah should be good

[Toms306]

Sounds awesome mate, enjoy it.

[Jonny b]

Sounds awesome mate, enjoy it.

Sounds like something you ought to try Tom

[Toms306]

Sounds awesome mate, enjoy it.

Sounds like something you ought to try Tom

I meant it sounds awesome for Stephen, I'd hate it lol, don't like foreign stuff.

[Rippthrough]

Ouch.. that'd do my head in! Kinda glad all of our work is done over the phone or via remote assist..

They have team that do remote software updates think it's in Amsterdam. I once drove to Nairn near Inverness 6 hours there 6 back to fit a printer in the managers office. Just a hp color printer like you'd have at home. Got there he'd installed him self. 14hours, night in a hotel and deisel. Cost sainsburys ££££ for nothing.

Could be worse, my dad does something similar for rolling mills and the like, flew all the way to taiwan to diagnose a fault on a machine that had been plugged in, 28 hours of interlinking flights at short notice + coach trips, got to the mill, found someone hadn't wired the monitors in.

30 seconds with a screwdriver and 2 plugs later.....

[Niall]

We get these problems all the time at work.
Had a callout one eve to a site where the house manager insisted the panel had gone mad and wouldn't stop flashing and beeping.
Got there, pushed reset and it was fine.....she did her weekly test and didn't reset it!

[Jonny b]

We get these problems all the time at work.
Had a callout one eve to a site where the house manager insisted the panel had gone mad and wouldn't stop flashing and beeping.
Got there, pushed reset and it was fine.....she did her weekly test and didn't reset it!

But that's your favourite job ain't it boyo?

[C.A.R.]

Ditto the pointless site visits.

Got sent to Epsom in Surrey once (granted, not the other side of the world) just to measure a door frame. That was it. Got there, took 5 minutes to measure up then turned around and went back to the office. Utterly, utterly pointless!

[THE_Liam]

I'm pretty jealous of my dads job. He's a mechanic for a bus firm, which uses indestructible Volvo buses. He works nights, and spends most of his shifts asleep in the canteen

[Niall]

Ditto the pointless site visits.

Got sent to Epsom in Surrey once (granted, not the other side of the world) just to measure a door frame. That was it. Got there, took 5 minutes to measure up then turned around and went back to the office. Utterly, utterly pointless!

Should of pm'd me. I live in epsom! Haha

[declantg]

Just finished my college course (extended ND in land based technology) and now trying to find a job!
have previously worked in customer support for Hawkins bazaar so hopefully I find a similar job.

also still unsure on Uni but I want to do some voluntary work overseas at some point

[HDIkyle]

When i left school i did a 2year apprenticeship in Plastering and Rendering, did that for 3 years.

Worked in Morrisons and pubs for afew years

Now i am a Level 3 Paint Refinisher working for a company that paints trains and rolling stock, Like so:

Currently doing the full glasgow Underground fleet
Before:

After:


also got 10 Class 56 going to the Netherlands:

[samass]

Glasgow has an underground?
surely its just full of skegheads?

[InkedMuttley]

Started off as a mechanic, then a vehicle dismantler then went to college to do photography and got a diploma (with distinctions I may add) then worked in a BT call centre answering 999 & 100 calls then had an accident and been off work since been trying to gain employment again doing either driving or mechanics but for the time being I mainly transport school kids and disabled people to schools, hospital appointments, etc for 45p per mile which stops me going mad.

Oh and I'm also an Advanced First Aider with St John Ambulance trying to get into PTA work though as I'd like to work on the ambulances too!

[Craig-o]

TO amend my original unemployed post, I now work in a call centre again!

[THE_Liam]

TO amend my original unemployed post, I now work in a call centre again!

Welcome back to hell.

[Tom]

This thread is well good! Its wicked to find out what all you lot do when your not on here causing trouble

[rocker8742]

Started off as a mechanic, then a vehicle dismantler then went to college to do photography and got a diploma (with distinctions I may add) then worked in a BT call centre answering 999 & 100 calls then had an accident and been off work since been trying to gain employment again doing either driving or mechanics but for the time being I mainly transport school kids and disabled people to schools, hospital appointments, etc for 45p per mile which stops me going mad.

Oh and I'm also an Advanced First Aider with St John Ambulance trying to get into PTA work though as I'd like to work on the ambulances too!

Those PTS Crews are always grumpy, you'll fit right in