What's Your Job?

[Davey]

So....... what's your job?

Thought it'd be nice to find out what people do professionally, as a lot of us probably spend the time we should be working browsing on here instead, lol!

I'll start. I'm an account executive for a print management company. Basically we're a print brokers so we buy and sell print production for publishers, someone wants a magazine or poster or flyer or mailer printed then we sort it for them!

It's great because the people here are a laugh and I've been in print for 6 years so I know what I'm doing, plus it's an office but I don't have to wear shirt and tie!

So what do you do and why do you like/dislike it?

Davey

Edited May 31, 2007 by Davey

[Thurston]

Professional Bum

[THE trials commentator]

im a Sparky...

Carl

[Caleb]

student

[Davetrials]

i work at mjcycles, selling shit fixing shit.

[Wrayvon]

I'm a student, just finished school with my a levels in a week or so. Then off to lancaster uni hopefully!

Work in an italian restaurent as a waiter part time

Edited May 29, 2007 by Merlin man

[tank_rider]

I'm a graduate systems engineer for Xerox. Do trouble shooting and problem identification/solving on pre-production digital multifunctional photocopiers. Generally working with machines that do 32 to 87 prints a minute, fit in an office environment and cost between £5K and £25K. The range i work on is responsible for about $1.5billion turnover a year, so pretty damn huge numbers! I'm currently managing a test fleet of 17 machine, 14 in Welwyn where i work, 1 in Uxbridge and 2 in Henrietta in the US.

Really enjoy how varied the work is in that i have to know pretty much the entire machine inside out and nearly every problem i get called to is different, and needs me to be on my toes. Got the potential to travel the world, to Melaysia where we've got a manufacturing facility, to the US for pre-launch external customer testing support and pretty much anywhere on the globe if the need arises within one of our major customer accounts. Also being on the grad scheme means i get a payrise every 6 months of a min of 5% and get to chage department every 6 months to get a nice varied experience. Dislike, having to do software upgrades on 17 machines once every two weeks at the moment, a bit repetative, but still theres always something unique about each one which helps the development etc. Oh and the 7.30 conference call which means a 5.30 in the morning alarm

[robonatomz]

im hard at work in Cyclist discount center right now, mechanic mainly, but sometimes have to talk to the mad people of stoke and sell them really toss bike's

o and about 6 trials bikes a year! lol

rob

ps did you just start this thred to show off your fancy job? lol

[Ducko]

CNC and manual machinist

[trials_pimp]

Ford Motor Vehicle Technician

[Davey]

ps did you just start this thred to show off your fancy job? lol

No, it's not fancy at all and i need a pay rise. I was just thinking it'd be interesting to see what people did, and thought there might be a few surprises, like if it turned out Fat pants was a contracts manager for a mutli national opperations interface manufacturer! Not likely because he's only 12 but you know what I mean!

Davey

[Sneakers O'Toole]

Well i've just applied to be a cashier at the local bookies. I spend a stupid amount of time in there anyway so i might aswell work there.

[UrbanPoet]

Unemployed as of three days ago. It's been great so far.

[PaRtZ]

sales assistant at blacks. not much to say really

oh and I mean blacks outdoor shop not anything else

[Si-man]

Training to be a service engineer on injection moulding machines.

Do all sorts at work though, in the maintenance department.

When i finish my apprenticeship ill be more qualified than most the people who work there haha

Supreme Plastics

Could get Trials-forum goodies made for dead cheap, minimum order is 250 but its like 80p for a plastic mug, shown on the site.

Danny or Tomturd, if you want a brochure can get you one

[Barbra]

paper lad!!!!!

Gonna be going college doing some new computing/business course soon, and working at keele service station in the coffee shop. But once my college is over i'll be going uni to do forensic computing i think.

[TomR]

Civil Engineer. Not too bad but it can get a bit repetitive.

[Walleee]

'advanced communicator' for 15 measley hours a week. Basically when you have a question about your passport the first port of call is me. I often leave wondering do people actually wipe their own arses.

After having been there for two years now I can handle myself on the phone, arsehole's get put in their place, or hung up on!

Im a student finishing off my HND n engineering aswell.

That job I hate, I want to be an engineer of some sort, but have decided to go away to uni and get a degree before doing proper work. Would like to get into CNC/PLC/robotic's/automation sort of thing.

Edited May 29, 2007 by jake1516

[SamHolmes]

Student

Currently on the look out for a job though, applied for Woolworths and Wilkos so far

[Si-man]

'advanced communicator' for 15 measley hours a week. Basically when you have a question about your passport the first port of call is me. I often leave wondering do people actually wipe their own arses.

After having been there for two years now I can handle myself on the phone, arsehole's get put in their place, or hung up on!

Im a student finishing off my HND n engineering aswell.

That job I hate, I want to be an engineer of some sort, but have decided to go away to uni and get a degree before doing proper work. Would like to get into CNC/PLC/robotic's/automation sort of thing.

I do that aswell

[OD404]

Product Development Engineer for Cummins Inc at their High Horsepower plant in Daventry. We're responsible for the continued development and tailoring (our engines are customer specific) diesel and natural gas engines ranging from 38 to 91 litres (roughly 1000hp to 3500hp depending on the calibration).

Started in September as a graduate and have had some very exciting and challenging projects so far. Highlights include heading up the stress analysis of some failing injector pushtubes, doing the modelling for our latest revision to the 78 litre cyclinder block and troubleshooting an application that was chewing up our alternator belts. So far there hasn't really been any bad points to the job, but it's early days yet

[guineasmithpig]

Currently doing my degree; Motorsport Engineering BEng at Oxford Brookes. Hope to go into to top end motorsport for a few years after that, but I've been warned not to make it your life's work!

Work part time at Cycle King (get a badge that says 'Cycle King' and everything!) which sucks ass. How long will it be before people realise riding through glass and knackering your tyres isn't covered by the warranty? And anyone who knows about bikes thinks you're an idiot because you don't work in a specialist bike shop. Anyways, it pays well as it's in Oxford and my rent is like £300 (ex. bills) a month for a room in a shared house, and thats cheap!!!

Tis quite funny as I'm moving in with my missus who is on for a first in Law and Politics and is currently applying for jobs on about £20k+, so I'm a kept man for the next 3 years!

Smithy

[OD404]

Tis quite funny as I'm moving in with my missus who is on for a first in Law and Politics and is currently applying for jobs on about £20k+, so I'm a kept man for the next 3 years!

You wish mate, I'm earning more than that and I still don't have any money (and my house is costing me bugger all too )

[tomturd]

I've applied my computer science degree well to a job doing decking, fencing and stuff with my mate who's been doing handyman kinda stuff for a few years now while I was at uni. Only just started taking on bigger jobs, but its fun and a good laugh. Beats an office job any day!

[Danny Kearns]

Dont' currently have one . Just finishing exams and stuff at school and im gonna have a break for 1 -2 months and then get a job anywhere for a year to earn some money and then move to Leicester and start college there hopefully.

Danny.