What job do you do?

[Newportnobby]

(you men are so predictable!)

Oi!  don't know what you mean, gorgeous 

Two timer

[Lawrence]

There was a rogues gallery somewhere, but some folk are so shy, others however, are not     

[edward]

Hi
I started as an apprentice electrician in civil engineering. After that I spent 9years as a domestic appliance engineer, then 10years as machine electrician/chargehand wiring Ultrasonic cleaners. Then 10 years as a maintaince engineer in the food industry, The last 6 years I have been working as an engineer with a facilities management company in Pharmacutical research

[kenbury]

hi   i am cabinet maker +wood working machinist making  fitted bed rooms

[bs3198]

Brass teacher for 38 years retiring at end of school year.

[Malc]

I'm a broadcast engineer. I build broadcast facilities, TV studios, control rooms etc. I work all over Europe. At the moment sitting in Oslo. Get home weekends, but building my layout is taking ages as SWMBO likes to see me at some stage over the weekend.

[railsquid]

I currently work in IT as a System Administrator. Also work part time as a university tutor in e-business.

Just about to change jobs to work for another government department as a Information Manager (mostly project management work)

Interested to see how many other modellers work in IT.

(raises hand)

I work on the Linux kernel as a job for Intel mostly getting stuff working on little laptop devices and the like and bits of weekends and some evening chunks doing Ultima/Etched Pixels stuff.

Thankfully I work from home so I don't lose three hours a day to travel which gives me time to do Ultima instead.

Several orders of magnitude beneath Alan's level, but my name does pop up occasionaly in the commit logs of what could be considered the Linux of the database world.

Before that I sold newspapers in Berlin and cleaned toilets in Tokyo. Have lived in the latter (Tokyo, not toilet) for almost 8 years now, apart from a single 10 month period working at a bank I've been lucky enough to avoid the whole peak-time commuting thing which is evidently so popular here, and for the last 18 months have been working from home in my railway room home office.

[31374547]

Airline Pilot.

I started my working career though as an apprentice technician on British Rail S&T.

[Tdm]

Only just come across this Thread, and have just ploughed through all 14 pages of it as I am nosy. Only fair therefore if I relate my own career history.

1961 - Ist job as a Bank Clerk in Chorley, then as a Cashier at a bigger branch in Bolton.
1965 - Left Bank to become trainee Cost Accountant at Manufacturing Firm in Chorley,     
            then an Analyst/Programmer when they acquired their 1st Mainframe Computer.
1968 - Moved to Fylde Water Board in Blackpool as a Senior Analyst/Programmer, then   
            when it became part of N.W.W.A. appointed I.T. Financial Systems Manager based
            at Great Sankey HQ. near Warrington.
1975 - Left N.W.W.A to take charge of new Computer Installation at Wyre B.C.,
            Fleetwood.
1978 - Appointed Computer Manager for Halton B.C. in Widnes.
1985 - Appointed Computer Manager for Aberconwy B.C. in Llandudno.
1994 - With the formation of new Conwy CBC, offered & took early retirement.
1999 - Became a Rural Postman in North Wales based out of Colwyn Bay.
2004 - Emigrated to Tenerife (in my Classic Car) and have never worked again since.

[themadhippy]

Done an apprenticeship in knitting electric string,moved to on site building maintenance (playing cards and drinking coffee) and  hated it,was doing a bit of casual equipment relocation at a local venue so decided to give that a try full time,got offered a 6 week contract in  theatre, seven years later got itchy feet and went back on the road  ,many years and 100's of gigs later im still doing it along with the occasional air guitar backline work,maker of things louder and occasional bringer of light.

[Lawrence]

Only just come across this Thread, and have just ploughed through all 14 pages of it as I am nosy

Well it was started four and a half years ago, I wonder how many members, like me, have had to, or chosen to, change jobs in that period.
I am now working as an Instrumentation Engineer for a company that is involved in sub sea data logging as its core business but we can pretty much design a build a system to measure and log data for any applications

[Malc]

I decided to retire since my last post. Still not doing as much on the layout as I want. Too many days out, too many steam railways to visit.

[willike1958]

Travelling backwards through time:

• Public policy and programme evaluator (Lyon, Brussels and Paris)
• University student (London, Nantes and Lyon)
• English language trainer (Lyon)
• Secondman, Relief Driver then Train Driver - Class 08s, 25s, 31s, 37s, 40s, 45s, 46s, 47s and 56s (Good ol' BR - Holbeck, Healey Mills and Manchester Victoria)
• Laboratory assistant (Castleford)
• Paperboy (Pontefract)

[joe cassidy]

I've worked for the same paper manufacturer for the past 30 years.

I'm an export salesman so I travel quite a bit.

Best regards,


Joe

[BLOKEY]

Started on BR as an signal technician S&T. finished as a powergen engineer.