After leaving University as a Chemistry Graduate

Laboratory Manager
R&D Chemist
Head of R&D and Lab Manager in Electroplating industry
Operations Manager for a Computer Company (Complete change of direction)
Operations Manager and then Owner of a Computer Support Company

With a couple of diversions into Software writing and Picture Galleries

Now finally this year I have retired and sold the business, and what was the first thing I did spent 3 weeks in hospital with Gall stones and lots of complications.  Just about recovering now though there will be more surgery next year.  I was so glad that I had finished work and that was the first time in hospital since I was eight when I swallowed the sixpence out of a Christmas pudding

Iam a correctional officer with the Texas Dept of Criminal Justice. I have just started my 3rd year with them I worked at a different unit and had a 12 hour shift with a 2 hour drive each way 4 on 4 off after 15 months I quit as it was effecting my health. I rehired to a unit closer to my house.

Started as a Trainman 'D' (Guard) in 1991 and then Driver with BR (NSE) and several variously more chaotic set ups since. I currently book on at Bletchley.

Interesting thread
Although I have worked since before I left school, and been to college and stuff, I would still say "railwayman" if any one actually asked "what do you do?" - and that is only half of my working life to date and not for the last 6 years 

I must think I want to return to getting up at 03:30 etc

I forgot to say that much of my life has been in construction and landscaping with a touch of property development* ( haha!) thrown in on the side.

Just doing what one has to, but i do miss being part of the Western Region's successors, that special part of the Railway

* that term is so "TV Show"

Quote from: 47845 on November 20, 2015, 10:44:33 PM
I couldn't possibly say what I do...


Some of you may know already though, if you know my alias!

You're a Co-Co diesel locomotive?

Fascinating thread - have just come across it.

For the last two years I have done very little beyond collect my pension, fiddle about in my train shed, watch ice hockey on TV, and walk my dogs.

Before then, I worked for Australia's Commonwealth, Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation as a research scientist specialising in the hydrodynamics and thermodynamics of rivers, lakes, and estuaries particularly as these affected water quality and algal blooms etc. Skills required included undertaking field projects, dodging crocodiles, data analysis, computer simulation, and gut feelings.

But, this was my second career choice as I really always wanted to be a train driver.

Webbo

In the mit 90s I di an apprenticeship as a mechanic for industries (drilling, welding, milling, etc).  After these I wenn to Scholl again and acquiert a degree. Then I had to join the german army. After these I did an apprenticeship as nurse.  And since 2002 I work at a
mental health hospital in northern bavaria

Markus

Thanks for posing the question, but only 'cos you asked...

Currently a Historian, researcher and writer, specialising in the history of gold-mining on New Zealand's Coromandel Peninsula, but over time working variously in such fields as military aviation, railways, teaching, engineering, librarianship, dairy processing, as a box wallah and a tyre retreader (to name but a few)...

They have been 'interesting' times.

As I said, only 'cos you asked...

Someone mentioned Yoppies way back. I was a supervisor on a scheme in Bristol, after uni where I qualified as an agricultural scientist. Became a safari truck driver in Africa, where I met my Aussie wife so came to Melbourne to marry her and never went back to UK. Spent most of my life here in international sales and management, moved into export consultancy and now teach a variety of export related subjects at Uni and TAFE.

I'm retired which has to be the best occupation in the world - you get paid for doing nothing. And what's more no deadlines, no pressure, no idiots that you have to be nice to.

I was an IT project manager and now I manage my two N gauge layouts and my (G scale) garden railway. Project management is a good skill for building layouts - working out the tasks to be done, making sure all the tools and materials are ready when required -  and overrunning my budget!

Currently work in the booking office dealing with angry passengers and occasionally I get to sell tickets to travel on the train!

Alistair

Research Assistant

Research Fellow

R&D Scientist

Laboratory Manager & R&D Scientist

Retired
- weed killer
- animal feeder

Quote from: newportnobby on January 14, 2012, 09:01:40 PM
Having been made redundant at the end of 2006 from Sales, I worked in a pub, then did a 6 month contract as warehouseman/order picker at RAF Stafford (I could tell some stories but I'd have to kill you, or they would kill me ) then waxed cheese in a dairy before finding another job in Sales. Now I sell rubber goods and lubricants

Odd, I always imagined you as a man of the cloth.

Dishcloth, washing up cloth ........ 

Wedding photographer here. I don't know if it's a forever job as it's not an old man's game (unless you've got an assistant to bag carry!) and with the way the retirement age is headed, I'll be working for the next 50 years! I do enjoy it though, sharing some of the happiest days of people's lives :-)

I'm the technical director at a web design and internet marketing company. I did some "almost railway related" work for a nursery called The Railway Nursery. Also did logo design and version 1 of the current website for Wickness Models