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Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Barry Haynes, Oct 12, 2018.

  1. Terrordales

    Terrordales Nightshift

    One doesn't like to boast.

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  2. Hubba!
     
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  3. Poptop2

    Poptop2 Administrator

    That’s the best you’ve looked in ages mate. The diet’s working I can tell, and that clothes guru you go to, pure style.

    Well done Donald!
     
  4. Terrordales

    Terrordales Nightshift

    You boys *blush*
     
  5. He's definitely been working out...
     
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  6. Louey

    Louey Moderator

    I do a bit work for a neighbour who runs a small memorial company - he doesn't do the big gravestones, he does the small markers for cremations and pets and flowers.
    www.affordablememorials.co.uk
    I'm not surprised your back is screwed from the work.
     
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  7. Louey

    Louey Moderator

    My real job is a Learning Advisor in a FE College Learning Resource Centre. The title makes me the job sound more than what it really is most days.
    I help run the centre, make sure students are in here for studying and not dossing (I'm a proppa killjoy :p ), help run the library bit, help students with their studies and the best bit - I run workshops on Technology inthe classroom (to staff and students) and Study Skills workshops.

    I used to be:
    An IT teacher. Loved and hated it
    A floorplan designer for an exhibition company. Why did I let my ethics make me leave?
    Civil Servant for Highways Agency and Benefits Agency
     
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  8. scrooge95

    scrooge95 Moderator and piggy bank keeper

    My job ain’t bad.... there are worse things to do than grow trees for a living. The pay isn’t going to make me rich but I can live on it, and when it rains constantly all winter and then all summer, I do wish for an indoor job; it’s physically tough, and there are days when I feel like I’ve been flattened by a steam roller (especially as I get older). But the pros definitely outweigh the cons. I get to see the seasons change; I know spring is on its way when the little splits start appearing on the leaf buds; I get to really appreciate the warmth of the first days of May, and feel the sun on my face when the skies are clear and blue on a frosty winter morning. Plus I get to help fill the world with trees. Not too shabby.
    That said, if I won the lottery tomorrow, I’d be gone like a shot!!

    Previous jobs, good and bad: production line factory work was only ever good if the other workers were nice, then it could be a laugh. Film industry boom operator, exciting, fun, but stressful when the work didn’t come in. TV sound recordist, short lived as was made redundant when TSW lost their franchise. Galley slave and bar work on a sailing boat round the Dodecanese Islands.... fab times but my liver would’ve packed up if I’d done it for too long. Cleaner, care worker, market trader.....
    not a bad life
     
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  9. :TTIWWP:
     
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  10. Don sent me a few pics from his modelling days. You wouldn't want to see them.
     
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  11. crossy2112

    crossy2112 Supporter

    Without you growing them I can't cut them up and make things so :thumbsup:
     
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  12. scrooge95

    scrooge95 Moderator and piggy bank keeper

    Perfect cycle of life then!
     
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  13. CollyP

    CollyP Moderator

    I have been in the exciting world of office furniture since leaving school at 16!

    I was supposed to be an electronics engineer with Thorn EMI via apprenticeship.
    This didn't happen because the world is unfair! (or because I was so 'clever' I didn't bother revising for my maths O Level (one of the two, ignore the details))
    EMI were happy to take me based upon my other results but the local college said no.
    So my cousin got me a job in the firm he worked in as a filing clerk (those were the days).
    By the time I had re-taken maths and was ready to go, I was already earning more than I would at the apprenticeship so decided not to do it :rolleyes:
    One of my would be contemporaries went on to be head of flight simulators at BA - nice!!!

    Anyhoo - I am now, and have been for a few years the Operations Director of an office furniture company.

    I do like this job, I have always been interested in design and architecture - I get to visit all of the latest buildings and appreciate the view from many stories up.
    It is interesting as I am always using my brain to overcome the latest issue caused by someone or another and it also satisfies my inner child / designer as it is basically big lego / meccano and we are always making bespoke solutions for high end clients. :)

    I got to this job via Customer Services, Project Management, General management etc BUT..........

    Along the way I 'dropped out'

    I went to a Kibbutz for 4 months to 'work'.
    04.30 shift in the Olive factory, working on the conveyor belt line, picking out the bad olives and throwing them down the chute (you guys know I love an early morning),
    the eastern european women who lived there would arrive with a full face of makeup at 04.30.
    I don't eat olives BTW, and if I told you some stories, neither would you!
    I progressed :) to the canteen where my job was to rearrange the tables and chairs for each sitting (still furniture!) and to unload the ovens and deliver the roasting hot food to the serving trolleys. Bearing in mind that at one point it was 46 degrees (2 million chickens died in the neigbouring Kibbutz), it was rather warm.
    The best perk of this job was the big walk in fridge. We set up a few chairs inside - that is where we took our breaks.
    Working in the pickle factory - not so much fun. Elbows deep in brine trying to maximise the qty in the barrel.

    Did a quick tour of Egypt on the way home.

    Got myself a minimum wage job driving hire cars for a hire company, business division. it was a total blast, loads of youngsters with brand new cars driving them around Heathrow and the neighbouring towns - enough said about that on an open forum.

    Sadly, my friend's wife died so I quit that and we went snowboarding in the french alps for a while.

    Back to hire company - got made redundant, didn't care as I was just treading water anyway.

    Decided to sort myself out and got back in the rat-race.

    Can I retire yet?


    EDIT. - also worked in a wine bar. That was tres fun!
     
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  14. Who said money doesn't grow on trees.

    All your life experiences @Barry Haynes make mine seem extremely boring .
    I am now 15 years into retirement after 37 years teaching science and being a local union secretary -
    - but enjoyed being the Cross country running coach - and being in charge of the lighting and sound for school productions ( would have liked doing that for a living @Ermintrude !).
    Summer and Christmas jobs in my younger days included Post office sorting , van driving, warehouse work, making wooden pallets and shop assistant.
     
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  15. I can see why you have attachments to women priministers now then , confessions of a Downing Street postman :eek: .
     
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  16. Lazy Andy

    Lazy Andy Supporter

    I feel dull now.

    I studied to be an architect, became an architect and stayed like that. I've worked for a few firms since qualifying and am currently designing big houses for good budgets for demanding clients. I enjoy this a lot but do wonder if I've lost a sense of social responsibility!

    I also do some university tutoring in the same field.

    Whilst you can't predict it, I think i'm at the mid point of my career. I know that earning a crust and supporting a family is the first target, however, I sometimes wonder what I would do with other opportunities... The construction industry is fickle and so responsive to market changes... The industry changes after every economic down turn and if there's another funding crash after Brexit I wonder what will be after that.

    Would love to make money out of wood and tools... maybe furniture design or even camper fit outs, but I doubt this would keep me in bread and water for long!
     
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  17. My paper round was like the sound of music ,sooo many hills ,
    my experiences at hotel differed from kitchen to bedroom ,
    my experiences landscaping with my uncles was up and down and lots of digging .
    My apprenticeship was engineering design draughsman which was good in parts , my move to vent design draughting fa a few years then went out on my own with business partner , was more straight lines but lots of interesting jobs meeting lots of different people and being involved in jobs in this country like the millenium dome and as far away as Siberia setting up a coke cola plant in a brewery .
    I did lots of other little jobs for enjoyment part time to while away the hours ,then circumed to computers taking over the fun of drawing and other stuff . So I thought long time dead and after seeing alzheimers take my dad over ,I decided to retire early and rock until I dropped but injury put a damper on that so I drop a lot more now .
     
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  18. Barry Haynes

    Barry Haynes I dance in leopard skin mankini’s

    You still haven’t paid me yet :p
     
  19. Flakey

    Flakey Supporter

    You forgot that you were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar when I met you !
     
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  20. Barry Haynes

    Barry Haynes I dance in leopard skin mankini’s

    I picked you out, I shook you up I turned you round and turned you into someone newo_O
     
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