Non-motoring > What jobs have you done in your life? Miscellaneous
Thread Author: RattleandSmoke Replies: 77

 What jobs have you done in your life? - RattleandSmoke
Mine is quite varied

13 to 15 - Paper boy £12 a week
15 - leaflet boy - £18 per 1000
17 - computer factory (for two weeks, left as I was so bored).
22-23 - CSS coder part time while I was university - could make £250 in a weekend and then get an award as a result - loved that job!
23 - course work sorter - slightly imoral that job, but it paid well, I could make over £100 a day by sitting at my computer.
22 - 25 - Moderator of a large student forum - unpaid
23 - Was a student escort showing new students around the campus
24 till now - Self employed in IT Support
25 - Worked for Currys as a Sales assistant for 6 months part time.

I think that is all the jobs I have ever had.

Not quite sure how I got the Curry's job as I am the worst sales person in the world!
 What jobs have you done in your life? - Mike Hannon
I was always in newspapers - but that's not the real world, is it?
Seems quite unreal, looking back...
 What jobs have you done in your life? - Mike Hannon
Sorry, my fabulous half megabyte 'broadband' connection died while typing the above.

As usual my brain took time to kick into gear, so, among others:

Newspaper boy at 12 BOB a week
Butcher's boy
Labourer in chicken processing factory, 5 quid a week in 1965
International Stores grocery delivery driver (I still remember that old Austin half ton van with affection)
TV and radio aerial rigger
TV technical installer (for a once major rental firm that believed I was someone else)
Shop assistant in TV and radio business
Hi-fi and camera trader before and after the dawn of the internet, which was a nice little spare time earner when I was bored.
 What jobs have you done in your life? - Robin O'Reliant
Apprentice Engineer
Quality controller in a plastics factory
Ink Mixer
Dog Handler
Driving Instructor
Door to door sales
 What jobs have you done in your life? - commerdriver
saturday job school/university - league tables for pink evening times (remember that one)
holiday jobs as above - copy boy in paper for 2 summers, swimming pond attendant for 2 years

left university in 1977 - joined large IT company still there after 33 years this week
variety of jobs & job titles started as systems engineer now IT architect.
 What jobs have you done in your life? - Zero
Shelf Stacking
Transformer winding,
Aprentice Avionics engineer
Assembling Photome booths
Computers and computing.

 What jobs have you done in your life? - Perky Penguin
Mens haberdashery sales
RAF Pilot
Military Pilot (Middle East)
Aircraft Sales
Flight Safety Consultant (Middle East)
RAF Pilot (again)
Flight Simulator Instructor
NHS Administration
 What jobs have you done in your life? - Dog
Newspaper delivery boy.
Worked on a market stall selling everything from leather boot laces to Condoms.
Dispatch Clerk (packer) for an 8mm film Co.
Filing systems assembler & installer.
Van driver/Lorry driver.
Petrol station cashier.
Car tuner (mobile)
Buying/improving/selling 7 properties (and still @ it)
 What jobs have you done in your life? - Number_Cruncher
Vehicle mechanic (light & heavy)
HGV agency driver (to pay me through university)
metalworking (CNC and conventional machines)
Researcher in vehicle noise & vibration
Consultant mechanical engineer (planes, trains, and submarines)
Aircraft systems engineer (Boeing, Airbus, and CASA)
Space instrument mechanical engineer

and a new interesting job which I start soon.....

 What jobs have you done in your life? - Mike Hannon
>Assembling Photome booths<

The great Alexei Sayle once said that Photome booths straddled a crack in the space/time continuum, so that the face you saw in the mirror was actually not you but a sad denizen of another, less fortunate, reality. He also said that, in that other reality, one of the reasons everyone was sad was because it was always raining - and that was why, when you received your prints, they were always wet.

Zero, I have been looking for years for someone to corroborate this - would you care to comment?
 What jobs have you done in your life? - Zero
Alas its a pack of lies.

They had a pretty good lens and developer system in them, and provided the chemicals were changed on time and cleaned out, it gave a pretty good accurate print. (unless some oik smeared vaseline (or worse) over the glass covering the lens)

And they were wet, because they used a wet developing system, dumping the little strip of photo paper in the various chemicals.

I think Alexi Sayle said that because he could never really believe he was actually that ugly and miserable looking. A bulldog chewing a wasp had a better disposition.
 What jobs have you done in your life? - Mike Hannon
hahaha!
 What jobs have you done in your life? - Biggles
Cleaner, BL Longbridge
Market surveyor
Nuclear Power Plant technician
Post doc.
Army
Civil Servant
Present Job

Why do you ask?
 What jobs have you done in your life? - Zero
>> Nuclear Power Plant technician

HOMER!

DOH!
 What jobs have you done in your life? - RattleandSmoke
I find it interesting to see what varied jobs people have had. Also amazed how many aircraft engineers there are here.
 What jobs have you done in your life? - MD
Well perhaps they could hurry the Dreamliner along a bit!!
 What jobs have you done in your life? - Zero
>> Well perhaps they could hurry the Dreamliner along a bit!!

Slight problem with the RR engines. Apparently a turbine blade failure test was not contained within the engine. Thats a real no no in the aircraft power plant world.
Last edited by: Zero on Fri 3 Sep 10 at 20:25
 What jobs have you done in your life? - rtj70
>> Apparently a turbine blade failure test was not contained within the engine. Thats a real no
>> no in the aircraft power plant world.

Interesting. Did anyone see the BBC programme on jet engines. How a jet engine survived what they did to it I have no idea.
 What jobs have you done in your life? - Zero
I tell you one thing, They should bring back a proper apprentice system for all the craft and technical trades.
 What jobs have you done in your life? - RattleandSmoke
They still exist but its a different world now. Do a degree in Aero engineering these days you will probably end up working in the factory joining wings together. 30 years you ago with the same degree you would be designing the aircraft.

That said of course its very important that young people come into any industry the UK still has.
 What jobs have you done in your life? - Mike Hannon
Absolutely. I did nearly six years as an apprentice compositor (typesetter). And even though the job doesn't exist any more the system is worthwhile. When pressed, I still describe myself - after everything else I've done - as a journeyman compositor.
 What jobs have you done in your life? - Zero
Ever use the IBM composer MH?

I used to fix them. In those days I knew my points from my picas.
 What jobs have you done in your life? - Mike Hannon
Yes! After a demonstration of the famous golfball Selectric in about 1969.
I remember asking the price - it was 1200 quid!

Still got my last NGA card...
Anyone else here at Winwick Quay in 1983?
 What jobs have you done in your life? - BiggerBadderDave
" I did nearly six years as an apprentice compositor (typesetter)."

If it hadn't been for Apple Mac, I'd probably have done the same thing.
 What jobs have you done in your life? - Redfire
SNAP! I did exactly the same The good old days of hot metal type and the NGA.
 What jobs have you done in your life? - MD
Listen to that man PM
 What jobs have you done in your life? - BiggerBadderDave
"Assembling Photome booths"

I've had sex in a Photome booth so cheers Zero.

And sorry about the mess.
 What jobs have you done in your life? - Zero
I bet you had to wind the seat all the way up
 What jobs have you done in your life? - BiggerBadderDave
"I bet you had to wind the seat all the way up"

There wasn't time. My train was due.

It was about 1997, I remember I was freelance but on contract to a company near the Old Vic so it would have been the photome booth in the nearest big station to there after a company drink. It was the secretary, and she hadn't spoken a word to me all night but as a group of us walked to catch the last train, she grabbed my hand and led me into the booth. Quite a shock. Must have been the cowboy boots.

I saw her a couple of times after that but couldn't commit to her as I was just about to get married.
Last edited by: BiggerBadderDave on Fri 3 Sep 10 at 21:08
 What jobs have you done in your life? - Cliff Pope
>>
>>
>> I saw her a couple of times after that but couldn't commit to her as
>> I was just about to get married.
>>

But you still had the photos, for old time's sake.
 What jobs have you done in your life? - crocks
Paper boy
Leaflet delivery
Pools round
Menswear shop assistant
Saw mill worker
Chainman
Site engineer
Design engineer
Property renovator
Factotum
 What jobs have you done in your life? - Tigger
Paper boy
Office cleaner
trainee programmer
sponsored student (first degree)
software engineer
sponsored student (MBA)
contract manager
project manager
global data architect
Group IT director
competence centre manager
Group IT director (different company)
Enterprise systems manager (yet another company)
IT effectiveness consultant
sponsored student again!
IS Strategy director
Client director
company expert in a particular market segment
 What jobs have you done in your life? - Robin O'Reliant
So, no one's had any job in the "Adult Industry" then?

I once taught a woman to drive who was a pick and packer for a firm who sold sex toys, and she once packed a large order to be sent to the female caretaker in her block. She would never get in the lift with her after that.
 What jobs have you done in your life? - Redfire
Paper boy (18 months for 7 days per week)
6 year Apprenticeship as a Compositor in Print Industry
Customer Services/Estimator - Printers ( 2 years)
Production controller - Legal book printers (2 years)
Paper/Outwork Buyer - Book printers (2 years)
Print Buyer - Documentation company (2 years)
Project Manager - another documentation company (7 years)
Managing Director of Localisation company present role (15 years)
 What jobs have you done in your life? - henry k
Paper round
Dispensing in a chemist and delivering using a "butchers bike" while still at school.
Probationary apprentice with a lift maker
"improver"( an apprentice without the paperwork) in engineering at the BBC then on installations e.g TV Centre.
Communications installer
Computer programmer, then installation, training, selling software, support, consultant, expert witness, IT security and many other roles all for the same company.

since retirement
Dooor knocker etc for the National Census.
Poll clerk and ballot counter for local / national elections.

What SWMBO wants! - too too many to list :-(
 What jobs have you done in your life? - Runfer D'Hills
Paper boy
Saturday boy in tailors shop
Saturday boy in trendy denim shop
Ski instructor
Student ( not a job I know ! )
Management trainee - big international company. Total gas of a time. Allocated to more or less every department including manufacturing, retailing, sourcing, marketing and wholesaling both in UK and abroad.
Sales rep
Sales manager
Product manager
Buyer
Marketing manager
Marketing director
Proprietor of wholesale business
Sales director

Ambition ? To be a 21st century lumberjack. One of those guys who drives thiose great big felling and logging machines while drinking hot sweet tea from a flask and listening to Nickleback too loudly..
Last edited by: Humph D'bout on Fri 3 Sep 10 at 22:27
 What jobs have you done in your life? - Robin O'Reliant
Saturday boy in a "Trendy denim shop" and now you want to be a lumberjack. Something you're trying to tell us Hump? ;-)
 What jobs have you done in your life? - Runfer D'Hills
I like plaid shirts.
 What jobs have you done in your life? - R.P.
That's a sort of Nationalist shirt in Wales !!

At least a LJ would wear tassle free shoes unless he was rather Pythonesque !
 What jobs have you done in your life? - Runfer D'Hills
Yellow nubuck steel toe capped safety boots. Might get a pair anyway just so I'm ready for the job at a moment's notice. Got the shirts already and rarely wear any other trousers than jeans now so I'm nearly sorted.......

:-)
 What jobs have you done in your life? - AshT
Paper boy
Garden centre worker
Lab Tech
Sales rep
Technical Writer
Export Administrator
Builder's Labourer
FLT Driver
Export Consultant
IT Support
 What jobs have you done in your life? - Stuu
At 16 I joined my dads company woking in the stores and doing deliveries.
At 18 I went to work at the local MG Rover dealer as a trainee car valeter.
Made redundant from valeting job at 21 but was moved internally to service dept doing collection/delivery and service car cleaning ( loved that job - easy to excell at it and good money )
At 22 I went self-employed back doing valeting and have been ever since. Cant imagine doing anything else really.
 What jobs have you done in your life? - Dave_
13: Paper boy (local rag, 2 hours on a Thursday).

15: Work experience at an IT co - complete waste of time, was tasked with designing a font to fit in 8x8 pixels (rather like the Sinclair Spectrum one) and left to it all week.

16: Shelf stacker at a supermarket.

17: Junior bank clerk - processing cheques, putting statements into envelopes, tallying up collection buckets from the carnival. All the jobs that have now been centralised.

19: 2 weeks entering card records onto computer at a scrapyard, followed by 6 months on the spanners there.

20: On the rock'n'roll.

20: Spanner monkey at a car bodyshop.

20: Part time cashier at the petrol station next door.

22: Van driver for small courier firm (who had a local account at the above petrol station).

23: Van driver for plant hire co.

24: 7.5t driver for fancy goods importers.

25: Agency 7.5t driver.

25: Service driver for Mercedes Benz dealership.

25: Part time minicab driver.

26: Full time minicab driver, later extended to office controller, sales rep and van / 7.5t driver.

33: 7.5t driver for egg producers.

34: Agency 7.5t driver.

34: 7.5t driver for haulage company.

36: Single parent on benefits.

37: Part time 7.5t driver for same haulage company again.

Pretty much every single change has been to satisfy the SWMBO of the time's whims. Finally realised last year that not having one to obey might be a good move.

My CV comes in two versions - rather long and detailed; and abridged to about the length and content of this post. :)
Last edited by: Dave_TD {P} on Fri 3 Sep 10 at 23:47
 What jobs have you done in your life? - corax
>> I like plaid shirts.

I take it you'd want to do this in Europe and not America. Judging by the programme 'Axemen' those guys deserve all the money they get. Dangerous doesn't describe it. If that's typical then Europe is light years ahead. The machines they use to manage logs are just amazing. I can see the appeal :-)
 What jobs have you done in your life? - Avant
I claim some distinction on here never having been a paper boy.

Only four jobs in 41 years:

Trainee, then qualified chartered accountant
Accountancy tutor
Client liaison director for another firm of accountancy tutors
Training manager for firm of accountants

If accountants are boring and trainers are boring, that's me both....
 What jobs have you done in your life? - AnotherJohnH
Not a paper boy.

"Holiday jobs" as
lift operator in a cotton mill one summer, mechanical shovel driver the next.

BBC as technical assistant (sort of apprenticeship)
BBC as Engineer in Comms and Radio links.
BBC as Studio Engineer/Outside Broadcasts vision engineer.
ITV as MCR engineer.
ITV as Studio engineer.
ITV as Tech op.
ITV as tech maint engineer.
Siemens as Broadcast systems Engineer.

More courses than can be good for anyone, and no real work since driving the shovel with the 3 cubic yard bucket.
 What jobs have you done in your life? - Pat
I was a part time silver service waitress at dinner parties at the 'Big House' ( Manton Hall) around my day job.
Sales Assistant at Timothy Whites
Library assistant at Boots Library Dept. ( anyone remember those?)
Farm worker including milking for 2 happy years:)
Seasonal potato picking in fields now under Rutland Water.
Petrol pump attendant and dleivered service cars back to customers
Van driver for brake relining firm.
Home Help ( to fit around having a child)
Van driver in the heavy commercial and plant world.
Van sales assistant in the above.
Sales Rep for 9 years in the above.
Lorry driver.......forever ( I found my niche)
Trainer now in the haulage world.

Circumstances made it impossible for me to stay at grammar school for the extra year to take my GCE O levels, so I had to leave at 15 (and always resented it) but I often wonder if I had been able to stay, would my career path have been any different.
I doubt it, as lorry driving and farm work were the two jobs I loved the most.

Pat

 What jobs have you done in your life? - DeeW
Holidays/Saturdays shop assistant in bakery
Babysitting
Trainee on national newspaper followed by stint in "Hatches, Matches and Dispatches"
Advertising Dept on a magazine
PA in accountancy recruitment (working for a friend)
Student
Teacher
Joined other half running hotel
Parent of special child - which became full-time
Trustee of local charity, having set it up with friend.

Wondering, what now?

 What jobs have you done in your life? - Dog
Ere!!! I've forgotten 2 of me jobs ...
I went on a course to Multilith in Croydon to learn to use an offset litho printing thingymajig,
And, when we lived in Tenerife we got some work 'servicing' rental appartamentos,
cleaning the bogs and scrubbing the floors in other words.
 What jobs have you done in your life? - BiggerBadderDave
I had a paper round.

I worked at Rotunda Sellotape Factory in Denton, Manchester for about six years every summer until I graduated. They employed students to clean up during shut-down and it was hard work, filthy and dangerous and the smell of the glues was nausiating and intoxicating. I class it as one of the most important experiences of my life. I drove forklifts, cherry pickers, used pneumatic drills and all sorts of other things, all without guidance or training. Nobody cared. But the biggest lesson was learning that I didn't want to do any of those things ever again and to pull my finger out at college.

I also held down a job at Asda, Stockport all the way through sixth form and university.

I did a bread delivery round for a baker in Cheadle Hulme which included a drop-off at the airport, I think that was during an easter break. Best smelling job I've ever had.

Worked at HarperCollins in Hammersmith after graduating, starting as a junior designer putting barcodes on book jackets. Did that for 7 years until I'd run out of secretaries and PAs.

Went self employed, set up a design agency with my best friend.

Got offered a great opportunity to direct a magazine in Warsaw. Hated the work but loved the place and decided to stay.

Parted company with them and went back to proper self-employment running a small agency with wifey.

There are a couple of other things I still want to do, unrelated to design work, just waiting for the right time and funding.

 What jobs have you done in your life? - Dog
And ... there's more,
When I came out of 'approved' school, my brother the s.e. london gangster got me a job window cleaning,
I worked for 2 geezers, one was a fireman by the name (surname) Sampson,
and the other (Charlie) was a wrestler,
Sampson used to have a habit of disappearing from the top of his ladder to visit certain Ladies for some extra curricular 'activities',
Charlie used to tell me that wrestling was a con really, and they would rehearse their moves before getting into the ring, and when they were laying on the canvass in a half nelson or some such,
they would actually be looking up someones skirt.
Last edited by: Dog on Sat 4 Sep 10 at 09:57
 What jobs have you done in your life? - Iffy
...wrestling was a con really...

The boxing promoter Mickey Duff once said to me: "Wrestling must be straight, because nobody bets on it!"

Ol' Mickey could have told these Pakistani cricketers a thing or two.
 What jobs have you done in your life? - Zero
no-one bet on it, because everyone knew it was a con.
 What jobs have you done in your life? - Iffy
...no-one bet on it, because everyone knew it was a con...

Mickey was being ironic, but only to a degree.

If the bout was fixed, the fixer would be backing the 'winner'.

 What jobs have you done in your life? - DP
Paper round
Weekends / evenings at Tesco - made some friends for life here.
Car sales (first full time job)
Sales consultant at a specialist hi-fi shop. Probably the most fun job I've ever had, but I remember those long, quiet summers earning next to no commission on an £8k basic salary. I would seriously consider doing this for a living if I won the lottery, didn't need the money, and could actually afford to buy some of the wonderful kit that I enjoyed helping other people choose. So enjoyable, it was untrue!
Telemarketing (agency lied, sold it as a customer service job). Horrible company, nasty job Lasted 8 weeks!)
Trainee Technical Support Engineer for a printer company. This was in 1997. A move to an area/industry that I'm still in today.
Technical Support Engineer - once I'd finished being a trainee.
Pre and Post Sales Support Specialist for a printer / print solutions reseller
Pre Sales Support Manager for a printer manufacturer. It's taught me a lot, not least that upper management (my next logical "progression" from here) in a big corporate, doesn't interest me in the slightest, and I need to rethink my career. But for now it's relatively secure, and it pays the mortgage until I can think of something more interesting to do.



Last edited by: DP on Sat 4 Sep 10 at 11:00
 What jobs have you done in your life? - Dog
Back in the early 70's, me and the missus went into the iron and steel business,
She did the ironing ...
 What jobs have you done in your life? - MD
>> Back in the early 70's, me and the missus went into the iron and steel business, She did the ironing ...
>>
I gotta meet you, Arthur..........on a Daley basis!!
 What jobs have you done in your life? - borasport
Waiter
Welder
Hinge Fettler
Bakery hand
Ink Mixer
Printer
Campsite Warden
Mountain Acitvities Instructor


and then...

'I.T.' - where did it all go wrong ;-)

Last edited by: borasport on Sat 4 Sep 10 at 12:28
 What jobs have you done in your life? - Fenlander
Antique clock restoration (teenage weekends/holidays - first paid job)
Banking (straight from school)
Petrol station cashier (Nights)
Adminstration (Utilities)
Engineering(Utilities) - with several house renovation projects evenings/weekends.
Self employed + Househusband
Self funded 2yr break to renovate own house.
Immediate future as of this month - find something interesting part time?
May 2011 - Draw company pension early before someone else spends it!



 What jobs have you done in your life? - Robin O'Reliant
>> Waiter
>> Welder
>> Hinge Fettler
>> Bakery hand
>> Ink Mixer
>> Printer
>> Campsite Warden
>> Mountain Acitvities Instructor
>>
Another Ink Mixer!!!

Where did you ink mix, bora?
 What jobs have you done in your life? - Ted

Paper round......unreliable, got sacked......back problems, couldn't get it off the bed !
School holiday job with City parks dept......can't remember much about it.
Police Cadet at 17
Police officer at 19.
Motoring Organization patrolman at 42.
Regional Supervisor/Troubleshooter for a different one at 45.
They went into liquidation.
Bought a transporter and went self-employed. Servicing, repairs, welding and MOT inspections in between call-outs. Also bought and sold trade-ins from dealer connections in the area.
Added Medical Repatriation to my services.

Joined a customers firm as controller.........good pension scheme.
Had a coronary and retired hurt !

Part time job now, as and when, for a national car-share club. troubleshooting again and generally helping them out around the city.

Ted
 What jobs have you done in your life? - Mike Hannon
Friend of mine started as a Saturday butcher's boy when he was about 14 - in spite of his real life he was still doing it when he was nearly 30!
 What jobs have you done in your life? - borasport

>> Another Ink Mixer!!!
>>
>> Where did you ink mix, bora?
>>

QC Colours North - for a whole three days, I think it was somebody at the job centre being spiteful as I earned less than I would have got claiming a fortnight's dole. I only put it in as I saw it in yours and suddenly remembered doing it

 What jobs have you done in your life? - Robin O'Reliant
>> QC Colours North - for a whole three days, I think it was somebody at
>> the job centre being spiteful as I earned less than I would have got claiming
>> a fortnight's dole. I only put it in as I saw it in yours and
>> suddenly remembered doing it
>>
Mine was at the Bacofoil factory in Silvertown, oddly enough one of the best paid jobs I had. What minimal protective clothing we were supplied with in those innocent times we mostly didn't bother with and you'd often come home with gold hair while producing purple sneezes into a handkerchief.
 What jobs have you done in your life? - movilogo
As I grown up and studied in India, my life was quite a bit different.

I never worked till I finished university at the age of 25. During my 23-25 age, I was studying masters degree in univ, so I was getting govt. grants. That's some way of earning.

Then I joined in I.T. straight out of univ. Worked in India for 3 years. Then came to UK and continued working in IT for last 7 years.

No other profession ever!
 What jobs have you done in your life? - PeteW
Butchers boy
Deli manager
Food store manager
NHS manager
Sales Rep
 What jobs have you done in your life? - Skip
1) Parts Dept Assistant in a Vauxhall/BMW Dealership
2) Sales Assistant at Bejam (remember them ?) - rising to Senior Sales Assistant !!!
3) Touring Caravan Salesman (have never owned one though)
4) Sales Assistant at a motor factors eventually making Branch Manager
5) Trainee Financial Services Advisor (that lasted 6 working days !)
6) Sales Rep
7) Started own company selling enviromentally friendly cleaning products when they first started to appear in the early 90's - the gear was crap, and i gave up trying to convince people otherwise !
8) Self employed mobile car valeter (needed to do something to bring some dosh in & it proved to be quite successful.
9) Went back to job number 4 for 2 years.
10) Warehouse Operative - hard work, but well paid
11) Stores Manager
12) Service Manager in the marine safety equipment industry

Part time bar work a couple of times around jobs 7/8

Andy
 What jobs have you done in your life? - Netsur
Ages 11-16 I had holiday jobs at father's business, keeping the site tidy, cars clean and annoying the staff.

After university went into a graduate training programme with BTR, but lasted 4 months. They were a total shower, typical of British industry - keep the money with the bosses and feed the real workers on scraps.

Went into surveying and worked and studied for four years to become a qualified Chartered Surveyor by age 27. At 30 I left to travel but came back and joined another firm of surveyors where I became partner at 35 and senior partner at 43. Still there trying to expand the firm in the teeth of a recession, but hoping to take semi-retirement by age 50/51.
 What jobs have you done in your life? - devonite
11 - 21 general farmwork
21 - 23 contract herdsman
23 - 25 relief herdsman (mobile)
25 - married swmbo
25 - 26 supermarket warehouse bod
27 - 30 prison officer (life?) no chance
30 - divorced swmbo
31 - 37 lead process technician in pharmacutecal factory
37 - 1st heart attack - didnt listen went back to work
37 - 40 2nd heart attack - still hadne learnt my lesson, went back to work
41 - 45 lighter duties - developing chemical processes
45 - 3rd heart attack - lesson learnt - retired
45 - 54 still retired - broke but alive, living in sin with swomfac (she who obeys ME for a change) - and absolutely loving it! (apart from mi gout, artheritis and gouty artheritis!) oh! an cod-liver oil capsules ! yuk!
Last edited by: devonite on Sun 5 Sep 10 at 00:34
 What jobs have you done in your life? - Pat
.and good luck to you devonite:)

Pat
 What jobs have you done in your life? - AnotherJohnH
>> innocent times we mostly didn't bother with and you'd often come home with gold hair
>> while producing purple sneezes into a handkerchief.

That reminded me of a summer job I'd forgotten about -

3rd man on a paper coating machine.

The stream running through the factory regularly ran Cadbury's purple during the machine clean between runs.

 What jobs have you done in your life? - Robin O'Reliant
>> That reminded me of a summer job I'd forgotten about -
>>
>> 3rd man on a paper coating machine.
>>
>> The stream running through the factory regularly ran Cadbury's purple during the machine clean between runs.
>>
John, the purple sneezes I was referring to came from the dye used for coating the foil wrappers for Cadburys. Horrible stuff, it was very fine and the mix took copious amounts of the stuff which drifted everywhere. I can still recall the taste.

 What jobs have you done in your life? - Zero
>> 37 - 1st heart attack - didnt listen went back to work
>> 37 - 40 2nd heart attack -
>> 45 - 3rd heart attack
>>mi gout, artheritis and gouty artheritis!)

she who obeys ME for a change, If I were her
I would have taken you to the vet for your "final" injection!


;)
Last edited by: Zero on Sun 5 Sep 10 at 10:00
 What jobs have you done in your life? - devonite
>>I would have taken you to the vet for your "final" injection!<<

I`m sure there were times she thought about it! ;-) but then i had my quad in 2004, and there was life in the old dog yet, now she seems quite happy with me ;-) until we go for a walk, and she almost has to piggy-back me home! Anyway cant be spending my beer money on taxis!
 What jobs have you done in your life? - AshT
I was a lab tech and a sales rep for the Coates group for quite a few years - did my fair share of colour matching and blending back then. I can remember the technicolour sneezes very well, as well as watching the shower tray change colour at the end of a day.
 What jobs have you done in your life? - hawkeye
Washing & valeting cars
Lab assistant in dye manufacturing plant
Insurance and mortgage sales
Accounting machine programmer (with odd-shaped bits of metal) and installer
Accounting machine programmer (using a keyboard for a change) and installer
Computer systems analyst
Computer systems project manager
PC & software installer/trainer
Software sales
IT company owner/manager and general dogsbody
IT system sales

Now, concurrently;
Swimming teacher/coach
Handyman/gardener
 What jobs have you done in your life? - RattleandSmoke
Its interesting to see what I will end up doing, at 28 I think I am stuck in a rut and will do this for ever but in reality I won't be doing.

The way things are heading at the moment I think I might end up in the music industry in some form. These things sort of happen though its about being in the right place at the right time. Probably will setup some sort of rock/punk night or just do anything for a bit of fun with IT still being my main sorce of income.

I've always fancied becoming an HE lecturer but it seems very hard to get into for too little pay.

 What jobs have you done in your life? - paulb
1) Paper rounds x several

2) Bit of reception work at my Dad's GP practice, for beer money. Cue many old dears coming in and saying "Ooh, I remember when you were born, young man!"

3) Selling bets for the Tote at various racecourses. What I learned from that is that a lot of people think it's OK to blow cigar smoke in your face just because you're behind a counter wearing a nametag.

4) Clerical officer at the Revenue's internal admin office - never did work out what I was actually supposed to be doing there, but given that they had to increase my salary to comply with the minimum wage law when it came in, it didn't seem to matter very much

5) Collection officer at the Revenue - fair bit of going out and banging on doors involved, total waste of time most of the time as people tend to be out working during the day; questioned this and got told to be quiet. That, and taking endless stroppy phone calls from people wanting to appeal against tax calculations they'd actually done themselves, got pretty old pretty fast

6) Financial janitor, firstly at medium-sized and more recently at very large accountancy firm.
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