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Chat & Social => The Bar - General Chat => Topic started by: Spacemud on February 02, 2006, 23:11:08
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Well, no i don't, but most previous were worse! Anyone on here got a job that they REALLY like, wouldn't do anything else, and that has no downsides like worrying when the next payment will come in?
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spend all week being payed to fix landrovers,started off as a hobby IE trials etc n now do that at the wknds,also due to my persistance (?) i was chosen to reprisent the college i attend for the scottish young engineer of the year competition & also recived "best motor vehicle apprentice" awarded by the RTI 8)
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:D ive been offroading sinse christmas :D :D
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i love my job!
i'm a nurse in an busy acute orthopaedic ward, and i enjoy what i do. i rarely get up and think 'oh i don't want to go to work' and the good old nhs pays us on time :D
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I work for a women's refuge and I love it!! No two days are ever the same, and I feel like I'm doing something really worthwhile, and we get paid on time :(contented):
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I had to give a Mangers postion due to Health problems and i have found out that thier is more to life than work and money as long as you are Happy!! :lol:
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I work with old people, shopping and helping them do what they just cannot manage on their own.......as was mentioned by tazbabe there is rarely a day where I get up thinking I don't want to go to work.....and I get sooooooo many good things said about me to my manager which is nice cos it shows me I am appreciated too :) Did I forget to mention that I am on minimum wage for this...still I really enjoy it :lol:
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im a psychiatric nurse by night and do a part time bit in my mates garage by day .. well days off anyway keeps the repair costs down that way :lol: :lol:
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I really enjoy lecturing most of the time! Pay is'nt too bad. Management are crap :(
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I work in a school with kids,great to play and be 6 again!
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I hate my job. This morning it particularly sucks. I'm stuck in a windowless airless office staring at a computer screen. I'm attempting to guess what profit margin to put on the quote for a job which the boss doesn't want to win despite the fact we are all facing redundancy due to lack of work. :(
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Strangely, I've just last week given up my low-pressure, highly-paid, enjoyable & easy job selling software, in order to become a teacher...
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you actually want to be a teacher :shock: my job has ups and downs one week it sucks then the next its good
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i used to work as a HGV fitter ( 20years) great fun
even when i worked repairing refuse vehicles, what a stink but i did everything from MOT prep, electrics welding bodies etc :D and i enjoyed it
only had a change of direction due to Child Support Agency
spent three years in college and i now work as an ICT technician in a school, great holidays cr*p pay
i also teach adult education for local colleges and community groups to help make up my money
i have enjoyed my jobs over the years but i still miss the hands on type of job
anybody need a manager for a Land Rover workshop :wink:
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Just become a ski instuctor for the Army, avreging 10 weeks a year skiing, all paid for :D
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speaking of being in the army do all you who have joined enjoy the job even if it means you might be in a combat zone and have the possibility of being killed? out of curiousity :?
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3 years ago I was a manger of a Engineering shop Worked all hours I could then I lost my job.....................and manged to pick up a self employed consultants job
I now drive for 1 hour to and from work love it no stress, not in charge of nobody
My stress levels are non existent, I drive at the speed limit and sit watching the idiots bombing past me on the M40
I actually enjoy the drive cause a use it for chilling out
my out look has changed money isn't everything, time with kids and family is
Darren
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I manage a warehouse by night, and retained firefighter by day, just about to become a youth instructor for the fire service as well for 2 afternoons a week, love it all ,plus it pays well. :) :)
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i get paid to go fishing - trouble is i have to take about half a dozen kids with me most of the time :lol:
heres my work -
www.second-chance.org.uk
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JOB, JOB!
Just about to lose mine due to being to ill to work at the mo.
Here start all the worries. lol
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My job has it's ups & downs but that's only down to the incidents that we deal with.
the week before last I was co-ordinating the search for a crewman who had gone overboard in the North Atlantic and last week I was working with a Channel 4 film crew making a documentry about the weather. Which involved having to go out on this:
(http://www.tugspotters.com/tugs/fotos/a/ANGLIAN.PRINCE.jpg)
while we did a winch exercise with this :D :
(http://www.hebrides-photos.com/surf13.jpg)
You get into the press when a job goes well like this one (http://www.wired-gov.net/WGArticle.aspx?WCI=htmArticleView&WCE=PrintClick&WCU=ARTCL_PKEY%3D26092) or this one (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/973384.stm) and sometimes when things are not so good like here (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4624300.stm).
I get to do, see and take part in things I never would have imagined when I was at school and I've not got tired of it so far and I've been doing it since 1987. :D
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I own my own business, well half of it anyway! My then boss at Lotus and I got fed up and decided to set up selling parts for Classic Minis and Morris 1000's. That was back in 1993 and it has been a serious struggle with times of real worry. But we have been consistantly bringing in more than we earned as design engineers at Lotus for some years, so that worry is far less now. Some of our customers can be a pain :lol: But overall it's been worth it.
It's interesting dealing with people from all round the world who all share a common interest. Just demonstrates that we are all the same really. Oh, and I have a trade customer in Florida who is insisting I go and visit soon :D Mind you, I think he will have me serving at the counter :? :lol: I reckon he thinks an English accent will boost his sales :lol:
There is no way I could go and work for someone else again.
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Love my job - work in haulage. All that diesel and horsepower!!!!!!!
Normally not in the office as I am the business development co-ordinator, so get to travel and see the delights of Leics. My job makes me happy and I get paid well. The weller I do, the more I get paid. :D
I LOVE MY JOB :(contented):
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..while we did a winch exercise with this :D :
(http://www.hebrides-photos.com/surf13.jpg)
:shock: :shock: you must have been SERIOUSLY stuck in the mud!! :lol:
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:shock: :shock: you must have been SERIOUSLY stuck in the mud!! :lol:
Well it does have a twin winch system fitted!! :wink:
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i drive a truck around the uk. thats the good part the bad part is car drivers and customers. It would be a great job without them :D .
Oh and Beast5680 left the army did first gulf war, bosnia, irland and a few cushey tours aswell. no worries about killing someone its you or them. guess they lost :?
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Just started working for myself and love it, so wouldnt have it any other way.
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speaking of being in the army do all you who have joined enjoy the job even if it means you might be in a combat zone and have the possibility of being killed? out of curiousity :?
Every job has it down sides, MOD just makes them a bit more permenant. You just don't think about the what ifs when your home, and when your there your usually to busy to worry about it.
Although it helps more when your office is a harden cold war bunker, and the company cars are Landies!
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I wouldn't say that I love my job but it gives me a lot of satisfaction knowing that I'm keeping people alive by checking their gas appliances for safety.
BTW, I'm a Corgi reg gas engineer for Wakefield & District Housing.
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I love my job because I know if it wasn't done then the residents wouldn't be able to do it themselves, and they are always so greatful for what you do for them. I work in a nursing home with the elderly doing nights so don't have to see the managers who always think they know best, but if they had to do the job's we do thet wouldn't know where to start! You get used to all the blood spit and poo and if you don't you are gone within 5 mins. :-&
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I did like my job I have been in the knitting trade since I was 18 working and mending the machines I have worked on some really brilliant old machines all belts and chains they used to make a brilliant noise as they ran with a real rhythm to them just like a steel heart beat. I am being finished in just over a week. It’s sad the knitting trade is dead so at 41 I have to find something that I will want to do for many years to come. So one more step into the unknown. :? :(
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at 41 I have to find something that I will want to do for many years to come. So one more step into the unknown. :? :(
Best of luck for the future!! :)
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I love my job, I’m a Network Administrator for a satellite tracking and communications company.
We get some interesting contracts, many in the Middle East and Africa.
We have just been brought out, the new company already has several network administrators so there is a chance I might lose my job when we merge. :cry:
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I love my job too. I'm in the workshop one day, out on site the next. I love dealing with customers and making sure that they get exactly what they want, within construction restraints that is.
www.shedshop.co.uk The Bespoke work is my favorite type.
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Coach driving for 13 years. Has its downsides - long hours :cry: . Has its up sides - cheap beer and ciggies from over the pond :wink: get to see places I'd never even dreamed of going to, and full use of workshop and tools for Landy maintenance 8)
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two years ago we moved to the Isle of Skye to run our B&B, love it here, great people, wonderful place, don't even mind the rain.
Have some really nice guests and a few weird ones
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I'm getting to the point of hating my job.
Snotty Doctors who only want to talk to other Doctors (& ingratiate themselves with the Consultants)
Drunks, Junkies (how can I forget them :lol: ), Psychiatric patients, attempted suicides, etc.............
Being bled on, puked on, walking into a cubicle & finding the occupant peeing in the corner :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
Little old ladies with broken Femurs, RTA's, 'knock-downs'.
After all this time since asking , I still haven't got off my bum & organised any LGV test training (http://forums.mud-club.com/viewtopic.php?t=10008)
It's no good, I'll have to do it!!
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The most interesting job that I have ever done was mining for gold in a little mine outside Dolgellau in Wales.
Yes a real life Welsh Gold Miner! Not many of us left these days.
The mines have been shut for a number of years now.