Author Topic: What area of work are you in... (Read 13920 times)

SimonB · « **Reply #50 on:** 02 April, 2008, 11:20:47 am »

General purpose slave.

alchemy · « **Reply #51 on:** 02 April, 2008, 11:34:26 am »

Self-employed Accountant (commerce, not tax) and Bookkeeper. I work with small businesses, and I do everything from the admin work to producing the financial reports, depending on the client. I also have a shareholding in another business which I'm a director of.

Essentially, I play with numbers and paper

Gandalf · « **Reply #52 on:** 02 April, 2008, 12:54:42 pm »

Telecomms, with an emphasis on Broadband, glorified WVM of sorts.

IanDG · « **Reply #53 on:** 02 April, 2008, 01:45:37 pm »

I plumped for medical/healthcare. Trained as a biomedical scientist, now a hospital laboratory manager

bobajobrob · « **Reply #54 on:** 02 April, 2008, 01:59:19 pm »

I'm a ~~code monkey~~ software developer. I write code mostly in Java, C, C++ and Perl. I'm also rapidly growing tired of the IT industry.

hellymedic · « **Reply #55 on:** 02 April, 2008, 02:05:08 pm »

Retired A&E doctor.
No box checked as not working.

Quisling · « **Reply #56 on:** 02 April, 2008, 08:08:52 pm »

Quote from: Bluebottle on 01 April, 2008, 11:42:56 pm

I circumcise elephants.

The job is lousy but the tips are enormous.

Fiddle-le-dumph!

I circumcise whales - well, me and my team of four skin divers.

Ba-doom-tish!

peliroja · « **Reply #57 on:** 02 April, 2008, 08:38:53 pm »

Cake-eating.

Jules · « **Reply #58 on:** 02 April, 2008, 08:58:21 pm »

I ticked teaching as after many years working in IT I took off to live in Italy for a couple of years. Since returning I've taught IT (mainly web design, office apps and systems analysis) for commercial training organisations (few of whom employee staff tutors) and in the FE and HE sectors. I'm also a part-time stay-at-home dad and a student as this year I'm taking both an MA (History of Art) and a PGCE in teaching in the post-16 sector.

I love teaching and wish it wasn't endless IT but that's where the work is.

keepontriking · « **Reply #59 on:** 02 April, 2008, 09:01:44 pm »

Cycle training.

...and a bit of graphic design.

Bluebottle · « **Reply #60 on:** 02 April, 2008, 09:08:28 pm »

I thought you were a news reader? Your avatar reminds me of Trevor MacDonald

Séamas M. · « **Reply #61 on:** 02 April, 2008, 09:14:13 pm »

I've ticked engineering, as I'm in charge of the design and certification of my employer's range of aircraft passenger seats.

Gus · « **Reply #62 on:** 02 April, 2008, 09:30:26 pm »

Transport ; I drive trains for a living.

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CathH · « **Reply #63 on:** 02 April, 2008, 09:34:19 pm »

Another one for IT sector here - I look after my local police force's poor overworked hardware - they refer nasty problems to me when people are about to beat their kit with a hammer. I try to step in before things get ugly....

Eccentrica Gallumbits · « **Reply #64 on:** 02 April, 2008, 09:36:27 pm »

Quote from: Cath H on 02 April, 2008, 09:34:19 pm

Another one for IT sector here - I look after my local police force's poor overworked hardware - they refer nasty problems to me when people are about to beat their kit with a hammer. I try to step in before things get ugly....

If you don't get there quickly enough, do they tell you it fell down stairs?

CathH · « **Reply #65 on:** 02 April, 2008, 09:40:17 pm »

What can you possibly mean? The usual one is that they accidentally drove over the laptop bag. I also have a surprising number of broken keyboards reported constantly.....

Still, Blackberrys ahoy which will solve most of my problems.

andrewc · « **Reply #66 on:** 02 April, 2008, 09:56:26 pm »

I work for a large telecoms firm usually referred to by it's 2 initials.......

Started out phoning people up to sell them office telephone systems, after multiple re organisations I volunteered to look after the LAN on site and was trained up as an assistant sysadmin before that function was centralised.

More retraining and I ended up bringing customers IP networks on line and with a CCNP qualification. Currently spend most of my time setting up resilient internet links for corporate customers (2M - 1G) and investigating problems with same.

spesh · « **Reply #67 on:** 02 April, 2008, 10:43:18 pm »

As I'm currently testing satellite components, that probably puts me in manufacturing.

TimO · « **Reply #68 on:** 03 April, 2008, 01:03:44 am »

Quote from: spesh on 02 April, 2008, 10:43:18 pm

As I'm currently testing satellite components, that probably puts me in manufacturing.

Interesting, sub-systems or actual components ?

Valiant · « **Reply #69 on:** 03 April, 2008, 03:11:07 am »

Film & Media industry as an IT/AV techie, consultant, filmmaker & facilitator. Also do the odd stint of events management & teaching.

border-rider · « **Reply #70 on:** 03 April, 2008, 06:00:42 pm »

2 jobs:

I am a consultant* in one, and director of a company that designs and sells stuff** in the other. They are closely related though

*Consultants' motto: If you're not part of the solution, there's good money to be made in prolonging the problem

**we have other people do the actual making.

Tom B · « **Reply #71 on:** 03 April, 2008, 06:09:51 pm »

Write and edit questions for high-brow TV quiz shows

bobmick · « **Reply #72 on:** 03 April, 2008, 06:13:01 pm »

I could have ticked more than one.

Background in radiotherapy and radiotherapy physics. Teaching (work in a University). Student (finishing a PhD relating to immersive visualisation technologies).

Zipperhead · « **Reply #73 on:** 03 April, 2008, 06:37:45 pm »

I'm a hit man for Lego - so you lot behave yourselves.

chillmoister · « **Reply #74 on:** 03 April, 2008, 06:59:14 pm »

this month i've mosty been

riding a bike
absorbed in the new acf soap opera
fixing a bike

oh .....and building large cisco networks when my manager is looking .....but fortunately that's not too often.

Poll

If you work - in what area..?

Author Topic: What area of work are you in... (Read 13920 times)

SimonB

alchemy

bobajobrob

CathH

CathH

border-rider

bobmick