In a previous life

[alan]

Inspired by a comment in the "out of it" thread I wonder what various types of employment forum members have had.
Me...
apprenticeship in sheetmetal fabrication
formal training in engineering draughtsmanship
heating & ventilating engineer
air conditioning training
a/c management
redundancy
bus driver
suspended ceilings & partition management
self employment in susp. clgs & partitions installation.

I try to forget the time spent drug running,pimping & arms smuggling

[peliroja]

Policy work for a political party
Conference management for a private events company
University liaison for a big tech company

[Kathy]

Worked in a blood research lab growing HeLa cells and investigating haemophilia.
Was a PhD student/research assistant developing PCR-based methods of testing strawberry plants for virus infection.
Was a Lab Technician at an agricultural college (and was generally treated like scum when other staff members deigned to notice me).
Now work in Pensions.

[Regulator]

My past employment has included:

Sub-Post Office work
Security management
Nursing
Member of a religious community
Homeless shelter worker
Professional education administration
Aid work
War crimes investigation
Charity management
University administration
Professional regulation


God knows what's next....

[kyuss]

1 day in a fish factory producing kippers (the smell was unbearable)
1 week selling burglar alarms door to door (comission only and made precisely £0)
1 week night shift cleaning toilets at the Gyle shopping centre (colleagues were the biggest bunch of brain dead idiots you could possibly imagine)
1 week as a trainee sound engineer in a recording studio (boss was a total coke head that spent his time sleeping under the desk when he wasn't running around maniacally being a complete arse)
15 years as a graphic designer (still doing that)

[rogerzilla]

Paper round
Christmas stockroom job in Currys
General dogsbody in Sainsbury's all the way through sixth form and university
Management trainee (i.e. building society cashier)
Building society manager
Senior house price and mortgage analyst
Senior auditor

You'd never guess my degree (a good one, surprisingly) is in chemical engineering.

[rogerzilla]

By "social lubricant", do you mean Bacardi Breezer or KY Jelly?

[Jurek]

Collar ironer - in a shirt factory.
Sainsbury's dogsbody.
Milkman.
AA man.
Car  / motorcycle hire firm dogsbody.
Builder.
HGV driver.
Ran catering business.
Production manager - products for the disabled.
Dabbled in illustration and graphic design.
Paper engineer (pop-up books and models).
Model / prototype maker.
Industrial design engineer.
Client Technical Services Executive (that job title had been nominated for an award)
Museum / exhibition, build / refurb / install manager.
Print production manager.

Like Regulator - who knows what is next.....

[αdαmsκι]

I've never had a real job. While still at home I did a paper round for a bit & was a lifeguard for a few hours a week.  During my PhD I've done a fair amount of teaching assistance (in exchange for my stipend) and was the office monkey administrator for our research group for about 8 months.

[Jezza]

Stock control clerk
Kitchen porter
Roadie for an Irish band
Lorry Driver
Outward Bound Instructor
Safari Lodge Driver
Journalist
Aid Worker
Wood chopper
Vacuum cleaner salesman
Metal factory operative
Boner and jointer in turkey factory
Lorry Driver again
Editorial Assistant
TV documentary researcher
Marketing executive
Travel editor
Writer

...Threadkiller



      

[mike]

moving boxes in a food distribution centre
tractor driving x 3 harvests
grain shovelling x 2 harvests
pigshit shovelling
shop assistant in a wine shop
hop picking x 2
bar work x 2
worlds worst waiter in an italian restaurant
Project engineer
Sales / sales management x 3

[chris]

Soap packer
Part time shop assistant
Hospital cleaner
Laundry van driver
Sorting office temp
Paint delivery van driver
Organ tuner
Wurlitzer cinema organ restorer
Odd job man
Sofware engineer

[Julian]

Envelope sorter (Royal Mail)
Photocopier unjammer, paperclip counter (DHSS, now DWP)
More in a similar vein for other companies
Customer complaints handler (IKEA)
Telephone operator (Pow Wow Bastards Water)
Bar bird
Kitchen bitch
Typist
Paralegal
Trainee Solicitor
Solicitor

[hatler]

Lab assistant for seaweed processing company
Student engineering trainee
Pork pie / sausage / stuffing maker
Quality assurance engineer (making sure tank shells ended up in the right place)
Pyrotechnics processing engineer
Ski-bum - Part time (two days a week drving job)
Ski-bum - Professional. Organising the drivers
Conference organiser and marketing material copywriter
Ski Holiday rep (twice)
Mini-cab driver
Corrosion engineer (stopping Libyan oil wells rusting)
House measurer
Accounts assistant
House jacking engineer (remember the Beachy Head lighthouse move ?)
1st mate on world's oldest active square rigger
Software helpdesk 'professional'
Software implementation consultant
Tech assistant on a global system roll out
Manager of global system

I think that's it.

[alan]

Bar bird
Kitchen bitch

what wonderfully descriptive titles

[Rhys W]

What an interesting thread. And what a boring life I've had:

General dogsbody in council office
Barman
University research associate (Physics)
University research associate (Electronic engineering)
Design Engineer x 3

[Eccentrica Gallumbits]

I've worked as an occupational therapist since I qualified in 1992, but other jobs have included
babysitter,
paper round (£1.20 per week for 6 days a week, at least an hour every morning!),
child-minder (one summer looking after 3 kids under 7 along with 7 dogs, 9 cats, 2 rabbits and an owl, 5 days a week for £50 a week!),
shoe shop assistant,
food counter server in Helios Fountain,
care assistant,
waitress,
general office assistant dogsbody in a chartered surveyor's office and
guest columnist for a trade magazine

[Butterfly]

Papergirl
Trainee carer at day centre for the elderly
Trainee Carer at facility for adults with special needs
Clerical temp
Student Nurse
Auxilliary
Carer
Nanny
Maternity Nanny (nanny for newborns)

[clarion]

Er...

Car mechanic FAIL
Noise boy
Lampie
Crew boss
Roadie
Catering crew
Conference organiser
Kinematographic projectionist
Bouncer
Sculptor
Mail sorter
Film processor
Insurance nobody
Call centre monkey
Youth Worker
Filing clerk
Beer festival organiser
Out of hours GP service manager
NHS manager
Dogsbody manager for ICE
GP Practice Manager

It goes on...

[peliroja]

I forgot student-y jobs:

Secretary to the Chief Exec of the local council
Au pair (x3)
Campsite assistant (bog cleaner) in the Pyrenees
Chalet girl
Mountain guide

[Chris S]

Left skool when I was 16. Jobs:

Watching paint dry for Unilever
Contractor computer programmer
Computer Games tester. Right on Commander!
Product Manager at BT
Contractor computer programmer
Software Developer

[Robbo5]

Apprentice fitter and turner,
Turner,
Draughtsman, with  a spell as a modelmaker,
Soldier (sapper),
Tree feller,
National trust park warden,
Fitter and turner again, making steam engines for launches.
Wine making,  

[cc93]

Forecourt Retail Excecutive (petrol pump attendant)
Xmas Postman
Soda water bottle filler / warehouse stock-checker (deputy)
Sheet metal machine operator
Stage Lighting Engineer
Pop Festival site electrician
Graduate Apprenticeship
Design Engineer (times n)

[Malandro]

paper round (2 weeks)
clothes bag distributor (2 months)
assistant baker (sacked)
fruit picker
shit shoveller (leachate at the local landfill - smells worse than shit)
pine tree pruner
dogsbody for civil engineering firm (labour only)
dogsbody in carpet warehouse
dogsbody in rubber factory (made everything BUT condoms)
post office van driver
call centre slave
slightly-better-call centre slave
pensions administrator
trainee chartered surveyor
qualified chartered surveyor

Looking for a change now.....

[Jurek]

Robbo - seeing your smiley appendages has caused me to go back and embellish mine.