jobs

[ingocaius]

probably been done if so tell me to go away politely if not just wondering what you all do.
im a cnc woodmachinist, used to write cad progs and machine patterns for f1 cars, made bodywork for the porche and bmw cars that won le mans 98 and 99 and made a 7 foot replica helicopter used in the movie black hawk down.
gone up in the world now i make hardwood conservatorys lol well i changed jobs to be with my wife up north so good reason

[Spirit]

Has been, but always worth an update.

I am now joint MD of a company called Tamar Finance Ltd.

Our main core business is debt management, along with being brokers for IVA's, secured loans and remortgages.

As the business is quite new I am doing several roles at present including:

sales, accountancy, HR roles, business development etc. - damn hard work, scarey employing other people, yet rewarding as at least it's for us for once.

[ANTHONY]

Telecoms /ADSL Technician for openreach (BT)

[KiwiTT]

Most know what I do. IT Manager.

Pays well, but sucks to work where I work.

[muppet]

Not your average 9-5 then? I've not seen a thread like this, and as a relative newbie, it'd be interesting.

So from one extreme to the other; I don't work at the moment, I have Crohns disease Used to install artificial practice areas for cricket clubs though, in one of my many employments (civil servant, petrol station manager, wood machinist, silk screen printer, general manager for a recovery firm.etc. etc.)

Best job had to be doing pre-delivery inspections on plasma TV's, got to get paid for watching DVDs all day.

[GroundControl]

I'm a software developer who will probably be made redundant next week

But the job market is good

[I-S]

I'm an Applications Engineer with specific responsibility for audio products, working for a semiconductor company.

What that means is that when we design a chip that's for audio use, my job is to design reference circuits for that chip to demonstrate to customers, and help customers design it into their equipment. My last reference design was a subwoofer amp, 500W into 4ohms, better than 0.05% distortion to 90% full power (still less than 0.2% at full power) and 93% efficient.

[Little Miss Road Rage]

I'm a qualified dispensing optician and I used to be a manager of an opticians till I went off sick last year

[NevGroom]

Contract IT Programme Manager specialising in Business Intelligence Apps. Currently "Slumming it" in SAP BW for BG Group (it is only 5 miles from home though!!)

[Throbbe]

Civil Engineer, specialising in Highway design.

Sorry.

[peter thomson]

Lab Tech running 3 Mass Spectrometers and a fourth from next week

[Nick VR4]

IT Security Engineer work at home and surf the net using varies bit of software for changes

Work about 14 hours aday sometimes longer

[Nutter_John]

Freelance IT Consultant , currently working for the goverment and have been for 3 1/2 years running a team support lots and lots of stuff

Working upto 24 hrs a day sometimes

Also work for WRD at weekends

[Physician]

I gave up work some 12 years ago - work was simply too tiring and it sucks!

Used to have my own businesses in Hong Kong & subsequently Dubai.

However Ingocaius, it may interest you to know that I used to be Export Manager at Wadkin Ltd (Woodworking machinery & tooling). I'm guessing that you will have heard of them as well as Bursgreen Ltd which is very close to you in Houghton-le-Spring.

Rich

[SGHOM]

Ex electrician here !!
been there done that.... wired 1000's of houses in my time. now I just run sites for other people. lot easier than getting dirty. money's cr@p though, less than £50K pa.

/ edit; I also spend weekends at WRD... making tea & pointing at things !!

[g8legnum]

Most know what I do. IT Manager.

Pays well, but sucks to work where I work.

Deja-vu. Except pay is only so-so and I'm suffering from ageism, so struggling to move on.

I'm a software developer who will probably be made redundant next week

But the job market is good

Thats tough! I thought the IT job market was good in NZ, so hope your aspirations come good!

[Beastlee]

IT Manager for the MoD, currently supporting the only Aviation Unit in the Army. Soon to be back as an IT support engineer for the MoD in Germany. I always preffered the hands-on side of things, trying to do paperwork in the MoD is like pulling teeth, and what car nut would turn down the opportunity to work in Germany with free housing and cheap fuel, not forgetting tax free cars!
Thankfully I don't do the sort of hours John does!

[BraindG]

Technical Project Leader is my official title, currently acting as a resource in a global roll-out and development of Vmware ESX V3 - at the end of next year aims to be within top 5 largest virtual landscapes in the world

[SGHOM]

currently acting as a resource in a global roll-out and development of Vmware ESX V3 - at the end of next year aims to be within top 5 largest virtual landscapes in the world

but whats your job ??

[BraindG]

but whats your job ??

i develop solutions, test solutions, write documentation, surf the web for info and challange the plebs that wrote the high level design document for the virtual infrastructure.

i build esx hosts, create virtual machines, configure them, template them write design guidelines, train the indians in how to use it and spent 3 hours out of every day in meetings, discussing meetings...

its great.