I still train fish

Been retired a while now.

This topic sent me off to my archives to find my original apprenticeship agreement (Sept 1963) and came across the pay scale figures per week.



The company originally manufactured rheostats for trams and trollybuses. DC control at a scale of 1:1! 

http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Rheostatic_Co

Left school 1949, couple of years at a plant nursery then a commercial grower

Joined RAF 1951, airborne Radar, various duties over 23 years, maintenance depots, first line servicing (you bend'em we mend'em), & instructing.

1974 Plessey instructing  traffic control systems, redundant 1982, moved to Serco same job as Plessey just a different location for more money!

1990 redundant again worked at various electronic jobs including repairing printers, plotters, monitors etc, also an 18 month contract at Seimens on test/development of communications equipment.

Retired 1999, widower since 2008

Accountant , end of story.

My pal who lives in Kent was a meter reader in London and read
Francis Rossi's meter.  showbiz connection....

Quote from: Agrippa on November 21, 2015, 02:39:02 PM
Accountant , end of story.

My pal who lives in Kent was a meter reader in London and read
Francis Rossi's meter.  showbiz connection....

Oh wow 

And he's a Quo fan, as am I ! 

I'm a train driver for GWR (formerly First Great Western, First Great Western Link & Thames Trains). Started on the railway as a clerical officer in 1991 and worked at the old Reading TMD before transferring to the driving grade in 2002.  I wanted to be a train driver when I was at school in the mid 1970s, but for various reasons didn't go onto the railway when I left school in 1979.
Graham

Happily retired  after a career in light and heavy construction.

Pre- and during college: - insurance broker filing clerk; drug company customer service rep; project manager's assistant relocating a factory to Andover, Hants.; HVAC factory go-fer and HVAC commissioning assistant in France and Monaco.

College in London (Mech Eng at Imperial)

Project Engineer/Project Manager (UK, France and US) on Upstream Oil & Gas, Petrochem, Refinery, Power, Engineering R&D, Chemical and Pharmaceutical projects; Director Commercial Ops, Project Services, Engineering Ops for engineering contractors and (finally) Director Project Services for a pharmaceutical company...long enough in the last one to qualify for an early retirement  .

QuoteFrancis Rossi's meter.  showbiz connection....

Mates off on tour with em next month   If its name dropping ya want,2 random piccys from the day job



Bonus points if ya can name the bands

One of the guitarists in the second shot looks like Steve Diggle, so I'll have a shot at The Buzzcocks.
Kevin

And perhaps The Damned?

spot on sir

I am a musician.

A mixture of teaching and gigs.

I am the owner / director of a aviation engineer training business in Australia for the past 17 years. Before that spent 20 years as a helicopter engineer with the Royal Australian Navy.

Regards Ken

Local Government Officer "specialising" in economic development, leisure and maritime issues!