What job do you do?

[tim-pelican]

Currently Engineering Manager, heading up the team that runs our global backbone network, and develops new products / services to sell on top of it.  Previously other telecoms and IT related things, including another global engineering role, technical trainer, tech support, sysadmin and software developer.

Worst job prior to all of that was dog-washing in a poodle parlour, which I stuck out for a day and never went back 

[Newportnobby]

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

[Jack]

This seems to be a good a place as any for my first post on the N Gauge Forum-

Having spent time in the Royal Signals including working with EOD units in NI, I've been a HGV driver, I've been involved with middle management in the Care Home industry and now... I'm a self employed window cleaner who can finish work when I like and then forget work until the next day go home and think about trains... live can be good sometimes.

Regards

Jack

   

[longbridge]

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Now I sell rubber goods and lubricants

Oh Yeah

[Newportnobby]

This seems to be a good a place as any for my first post on the N Gauge Forum-

Having spent time in the Royal Signals including working with EOD units in NI, I've been a HGV driver, I've been involved with middle management in the Care Home industry and now... I'm a self employed window cleaner who can finish work when I like and then forget work until the next day go home and think about trains... live can be good sometimes.

Regards

Jack

Hello Jack, and welcome to the forum
Another post in the Introduction section would be great, just to let us know where your interests lie in N gauge

   

[Dock Shunter]

Now I sell rubber goods and lubricants

  ........And i thought it was just women that held Ann Summers parties.......

[Dave F]

Trained as a teacher and did that for six years until realising I'd made a BIG mistake. Then went into the Civil Service for 19 years before taking a voluntary severance package in 2005. After two years as a self employed training consultant I went back into the civil service as a training manager and business analyst. Hopefully the next career move is into retirement.

Here's hoping. 

[brbluewill]

joiner since leaving school currently self employed

How's your base board work?  and are you cheap    Nothing like a friendly local tradesman 

RAF (airfield radar, comms and navaids technician) for 15 years, now a radio engineer for the last 17 years.

Mark

I'm ex aircraft leckie - been in simulation for the last 13 years - demobbed in '94

just keep me going with cups of tea lawrence 

[Hearts1874]

left the UK to work on the railway in NEW ZEALAND

[Lawrence]

left the UK to work on the railway in NEW ZEALAND

Thats a fair trek back to Gorgie from there 

[Flakmunky]

I'm a university lecturer, teaching computer animation and motion capture.

[RussellH]

Hi Guys
25+ years at Hinkley Point power station consisting of 4 year craft apprenticeship in control and instrumentation (good solid practical training), 3 years for a HNC in engineering. 4 years maintaining the autocontrol equipment, next 4 years on reactor safety systems, then shift technician for 7 years and now shift operations (fuel route). (No, we dont glow or get cheap/free electric)

Regards
Russ

[cookiescrumble]

I've just given up 7 1/2 years working in retail to join South West Trains as a Gateline Assisstant.

My career on the railways starts here 

[hairygit]

Started out as a time served electrician, but in the real world the job sucks! Either working on building sites 25 feet up in the air, often before rooves and windows and floorboards were fitted, or moving furniture, lifting carpets and generally pulling peoples homes apart to do re wires. I realised that wiring was less than 20% of the job, the rest was ripping things out and then making good, and I hated plastering! So I decided I'd give bus driving a go for 6 months while I decided what I really wanted to do, but stayed at that for 20 years Then moved from Hastings to Devon about 6 years ago, and started work for a coach company, got a feeling this is what I will stick with, no two days are ever the same, get to see plenty, like working outside, but nice and warm in winter, and air conditioned comfort in the summer , and no bosses breathing down my neck

[Ollie3440]

I started with the standard Paper round between ages 13-16. From there i have worked as sales staff in two model shops. Shrewsbury Model Centre (up until august last year) and now Rails of Sheffield (October 2011 - Present)

Ollie