View Full Version : And what's your other job?
Yeah, I know, I could trawl through the member lists, but that's far too obsessive for me, and besides, loads of people haven't put it in, so I was just wondering, what do you do for money?
Me? I'm on benefits at the moment. Working hard on my book, and I work at Game on a Sunday. Oh yeah, and I'm a mum, not a naturally tidy one either, so I find that job hard! :lol:
Sez
Roger Gregory
24-09-2003, 20:51
I'm an Insurance Claims Adjuster and Project Manager, mostly dealing with US Pollution, Asbestos and Health Hazard claims.
You at the back, stop yawning! :D
Roger
I'm a domestic engineer........ aka a house-husband (maybe that should be house-significant-other as we are not married). lots of hoovering, cleaning etc... you get the idea :-D .My significant-other (a lurker to these forums) works for a local adult education authority (including teaching computer studies)...... we both love treking the brecons in our spare time.
Ed
bigjackbrass
24-09-2003, 23:50
I'm an occasional cartoonist, amongst other things. Or, as my business card puts it, "Charlatan, Humbug and Imitation Humorist."
Jack
RN, I work in a trauma ITU. The hours are long, it gets a bit messy and the pay sucks, but I like it.
A real mix of people! That's great.
Sez
MartiniDave
26-09-2003, 14:54
I work as a mechanical design engineer, designing bioscience lab instruments that will reduce the need for drugs testing on animals by automating alternative, labourious methods.
When I'm not doing that I'm usually out and about in the great outdoors as a hunter gatherer or mending the old land rover. Oh - and indulging the single malts given the chance :wink:
Studying for a masters degree in business and looking for a new (ethically sound) industry. Previously in international telecomms. :-)
gurushaun
28-09-2003, 15:51
4x4 tyre sales for an independent Landrover dealer, I'm also doing MCSE but I'm wondering if it will lead to anything :banghead: :banghead:
Cheers
Shaun
I work on a corrigator in a cardboard box factory. Hell of a machine uses about 10 ton of paper an hour. Money's good. Its very noisy (110db) and dusty. I absolutley hate the place. Rather be out in the wilds with my dogs.
Looking at the local flora and fauna. I was watching a Grass Snake the other day untill one of dogs ran up and stood on it. It shot off into the grass at lightening speed never to be seen again.
I'm coming to the end of a BA in English Literature at the Univeristy of Reading...though I'll hopefully be starting a more outdoors orientated qualification next year. :-D
Degrorobogo
29-09-2003, 20:53
Got a MSc in Forest and Naturemanagement and am currently employed as a policyadviser at the department of nature and landscape at one of the dutch provinces. In january I wil take up a PhD position at an agrigultural university in the field of applied philosophy.
acw_akkermans
09-10-2003, 13:03
I am a bushcraft instructor (Cheekey advertising), flintknapper and bowyer but also work as a Technical Computer support agent. (People phone me with computer problems)Hope to quit that job soon though and be an instructor full-time
How Ironic is it to have to extreme jobs like that!
Roving Rich
20-10-2003, 14:57
Hi Folks I'm the sales office manager for a Photographic wholesale company - we also do scopes and binos...
So basically i'm a slave to a the phone, fax and email stuck in an office 40 hours a week, wishing i was in the woods.
Rich
Hi Folks I'm the sales office manager for a Photographic wholesale company - we also do scopes and binos...
So basically i'm a slave to a the phone, fax and email stuck in an office 40 hours a week, wishing i was in the woods.
Rich
So it's 'not so Roving Rich' :mrgreen:
I'm a Creative and Marketing Director working for a couple of businesses.
hi all
i'm a single parent and (not with!) a frustrated bushy......
used to run bodyshops 'down south' before moving nr lincoln, then a short spell as a bin-man (locals hate outsiders so difficult to choose well!!)
had big meltdown and am now at college studying computing to try and set up a cottage industry that i can work around the kids
kids by the way already have the bug, sj (oldest) has done the kiddy fundemental and is currently in morocco and sam is on reserve list for next year
(just read above, kinda turned into a life story.........oooppppsss sorry) ally xxx :oops:
Dave Farrant
27-10-2003, 14:15
I'm a Medical Devices Salesman
But currently looking for a new position.
In the mean time I am Driving Trucks (Class 1 and 2)(That is the Big ones) to pay the Mortgage.
clcuckow
27-10-2003, 20:29
I am computer consultant, working in the Sun Microsystems Channel, thats Unix(£10k-£3m) and not the dark side(Micro$oft). To much driving, to many late nights, to much coffee if thats possible!! ;-)
I am a Management Systems Consultant / Auditor, making sure that the quarrying and asphalt industry churn out good quality kit in a safe and environmentally friendly manner. Thankfully times and practices have changed enough now that my firm is 9001, 14001 and 18001 accredited (the first in the industry).
Would rather be out teaching people to shoot bows in a simulated hunting situation, drive Land Rovers and set light to stuff in the woods tho. :-?
Or is that next year???? :-D
MartiniDave
29-10-2003, 09:04
Rob,
Can I come out to play with your toys!
"Would rather be out teaching people to shoot bows in a simulated hunting situation, drive Land Rovers and set light to stuff in the woods tho"
Dave
I am always happy to share :-)
bushwacker bob
29-10-2003, 23:59
Im a sales manager for an independant builders merchant in Winchester.so if any of you plan on doing any building work in hampshire give me a shout! bushcrafters discount!
i'm a maintenance engineer in a plastics moulding factory, lots of excuses to use my trusty multitool. and i've managed to contaminate a few co-workers with the multitool bug! but all that steel and plastic and hydraulic oil isn't anywher near as much fun as just sitting in the woods with the dog and a small fire with a brew on the go...
cheers, and.
ChrisKavanaugh
30-10-2003, 05:36
I received a degree in Archaeology after 6 years military service and made a go of that for 20 years until cash flow forced me to decide between getting a teaching credential or running away. Right now I am doing several 'survival ' jobs. I train people's riding horses to drive ( I am one of a handfull of west coast owners of the wonderfull english Hackney pony,) work part time with a London born mechanic sorting out real motorcars ( Jaguars, Rolls Royces etc.) by virtue of having owned a MGA coupe, Austin Mini -cooper 1100 S in RHD and understanding what "get the whitworth spanner from the boot for this damned SU before the petrol leaks all over my moleskins"means :shock: . I also do the ocassional field test of gear with Doug @ equipped. last year we tested Marine Aviation Liferafts in a wave pool in Arizona.
i'm a student and i fill the shells of a store, unload the lorry ( have to be there to roll out the things that will go back with the lorry at 8.00 AM, ZzzZzz ), unpack trolly's and load them in to smaller one's to distrubute around the store. pay check ain't big, but loads of females there... :roll:
tenbears10
02-11-2003, 19:16
Having survived a series of office jobs which I did try to enjoy (honest) I start basic training to join the Army Intelligence Corps in two weeks. The only thing I will miss about 'normal life' is seeing my wife every day.
Hopefully they will teach me some military bushcraft if there is such a thing and I get a chance to use it.
still a student living off the state!! got a degree in chemistry, and am in the last couple of months of my PhD, just got to write it all up now. done quite a few other jobs part time and not so part time! when i graduated, tried for a load of jobs, couldn't get one, so ended up pushing trollies round my local asda car park for 6 months before getting the funding for my phd.
chris, 1100s, nice car! my dad had a 1275s himself.
steve
I'm a biologist and I teach at a university in Michigan. I dabble in all kinds of biology, in the laboratory and the field. Keeps me off the streets. :newbie:
ditchfield
30-11-2003, 11:14
I'm in pretty much the same situation as PC2K. I'm a student and I have a part time job working in a toy distributors unloading lorries. However, I live in the countryside overlooking the Somerset levels and I have a fair bit of time to practise Bushcraft.
Fallow Way
30-11-2003, 12:30
I am a Forestry Instructor, teach poeple how to use chainsaws, about biodiversity, woodland management etc etc Quick lucky tht i get to spend all day out in woodlands (though very small ones) then all my free time as well :-)
I work in the armed services. Can't really say a lot more than that about it, except that I travelled a lot earlier this year.
Don't worry - nothing 'special' or anything like that...
I love my job, have got to travel the world, done some pretty exciting things, get a reasonable wage, but am looking to retire in 6 years and take a second career - something a bit more practical/hands-on but absolutely nothing to do with military or defence industry. Will probably start by building eco-orientated house if I can find somewhere where I can afford the land. We'll see - a few years to go yet....
Cheers,
Mike
i am a dental technician making gold crowns and bridges at Birmingham dental school. boring stuff but it pays the bills. hobbys include martial arts
this allows me to let of some steam when required. :banghead:
larry the spark
19-12-2003, 13:01
I work as an architect and have in interest in ecological/green building materials and practices though have not had any building experience in the field. So, Mikey P, if you need any advice or references I could see what I could do.
I look after operations at an outdoor centre in NW scotland. Sounds great I know, but these days I get to spend post of my time paddling a desk and climbing mountains of paperwork!
I do live in one of the most spectacular places in the UK though. (I'll give you a hint, it's reached by going over probably the steepest road in the UK, sea level to 2000ft in less than 4 miles!). So it has it's rewards.
my wife and myself have just got a croft here and as well as growing organic food/pigs/chickens etc. the whole river cottage thing, we're looking to build a house - from sustainable local timber if the planners will let us. So Larry and Mikey I'd be interested in sharing any tips hints or ideas.
larry the spark
19-12-2003, 18:45
I will start a new thread in the unrelated topics forum and put a bit of info there if anyone wants to look.
Justin Time
19-12-2003, 22:45
Applecross? Lucky so and so, mind you last time I was there I was the only Scot in the pub at lunchtime! Last time I was near there, I was in a RIB out of Kyle, took us up to a wee bunch of Islands, where people could spend a week or so. Must check out the name of those islands and find out about costs....
Justin
RAPPLEBY2000
19-12-2003, 22:55
presently a student half way through a "diploma in outdoor activities" hopefully i should get a job as an activity instructor early next year.
previously i was a shop assistant in "outdoors(scout shops)" and "Blacks" before that loads of temp jobs from insurance to chicken factories!
:idea: one thing i would reccomend!
go on 1 factory shift, just 1, even if its just and hour or two, once you've done it you can always look back and say:
"at least my job ain't that bad!" :wink: i do it all the time!
Amen to that. I used to work in a frozen pea factory, watching millions of them drop through little holes in a vibrating stainless steel plate...
used to dream about peas after a twelve hour shift. Paid off the student debt though.
I'm now a rural general practitioner- though I also have a part-time hospital post in psychiatry.
LarryTS/George,
Would certainly be interested on where to start! I've got 6 years (just less) of service left to think about this and me and the missus are both keen to do something to:
a. Build a home that is not only cheap to run but is efficient, using K-glass and solar power, etc, so that we can be smug and not gobble up valuable natural resources all of the time.
b. Attempt to have a slightly simpler and less materialistic lifestyle (attitude change!).
c. Have career change (me especially) to something both cereberal and practical. And nothing to do with guns/bombs/missiles.
Sounds idealistic really, doesn't it? Gotta have goals!
I've done a little bit of research into wooden houses and whils the houses themselves can seem good value, I have been absolutely shocked by the cost of land. Niaive perhaps? I don't know - maybe we need to look abroad.
Sorry - rambling now...
Are we going to continue this eco-build thread in the other forum?
Applecross? Lucky so and so, mind you last time I was there I was the only Scot in the pub at lunchtime! Last time I was near there, I was in a RIB out of Kyle, took us up to a wee bunch of Islands, where people could spend a week or so. Must check out the name of those islands and find out about costs....
Justin
Justin
You're possibly thinking about the island of Rona. There are a couple of cottages for rent there - no power, phones etc. great place. They've also got a little bunkhouse on the island that costs about a fiver a night to use.
Mind you if you're looking for a "remote" place to spend a couple of days then the bothy on Raasay is pretty good or if you look on the map to the mainland just to the north the bothy at Uags is great too, they're free too!
Justin Time
28-12-2003, 19:39
George,
You're spot on with Rona. I do fancy some time there but it looks like their boat only goes across from Portree once a week. I don't think I could persuade my daughter to spend a whole week on the Island, at 14 I think it would be a very cruel thing to do.... This year I managed to get her to go "wild camping" with me at Sandwood Bay, magical experience for both of us :-D
So I may look to the bunkhouse on Raasay, thanks for the hint.
Rona has a website for anyone who wants to know more: http://www.isleofrona.com
Cheers
Justin
Well I'm a Pooter Techie for Local Govt. Look after about 8000 PC's and the numpties that try and break em !! :-D
jamesdevine
05-01-2004, 15:16
Hello All,
I have had alot of different jobs since leaving school 10 years ago the most interesting ones being a Milk Man (professional cross country runner that deliveried dairy protects) That end with an injury.
Then as a labourer on several local restoration projects. i worked mainly with stone masons but also to some oppurtunity to work with thatcher's, blacksmiths etc. I really enjoyed it, but the pay was really bad so I went back to school for a year and started working for one of the large mulitnationals now here in Dublin.
Like a lot of people I would much prefer to be outdoors doing somthing worth while instead of making some one else rich. Who knows what the future will bring.
James
I'm a civil servant who works in central London (which is why places like this are such a godsend...)
i`ve already put what i do now but before that i was a baker making it all by hand, served in the royal marines for 7 years , was a baker again and now a security guard in a nuclear bunker that hosts websites, i love the job as the people are good people and i get loads of time off and i get 18 acres of land to play in , cheers al :-D
Well I’m a Herpetologist. A professional venomous snake handler, caring for the largest collection of venomous snakes in the UK (350 specimens / 50 species). I’m also the only person licensed to extract venom from snakes. I work for a Venom Research Group. Also provided snakes and wrangle them for the film industry.
I'm a Tooling Engineer for a Printed Circuit Board Manufacturer , producing all the bits and pieces needed to make a PCB , its dull , its boring , its shiftwork , thank god for the little bit of woodland i can go strutting in just outside the factory when i've finished for the day.
one other bonus is that i am designing and building a LED flashlight for myself using the latest type LED (aparrently powerful enough to be used for home lighting) for under a tenner :)
Treebeard
09-01-2004, 20:10
Al,
Is that bunker near Ash?
MagiKelly
12-01-2004, 22:49
Hi
I hope to win the prize (if there is one) for jobs least like each other. I am the commercial manager for a building company (glorified Quantity Surveyor) and a Magician (as on conjouring not occult)
I'm a soil sample/ sludge technician for the local water company.
Not bad when the weather is good as I get to spend time walking fields. Was better when I had a company Landy, rather than the Ford Ranger I've got now - show it mud and it stops dead.
Hjaltlander
07-02-2004, 17:27
Hi all,
I've had many jobs over the last 20+ years since i left school, building sites, shops, offices, bouncer etc, etc.
For the last five years i've been a taxi driver, you'd be surprised the mileage you can do on a little island no longer than 75 miles, in the last 14 months i've done about 92,000 miles!
Starting to think of a serious career and location change, something woodcrafty, building log cabins or timber framed buildings or such like. Figured if i got into that, i'd have to leave here, because there are NO trees! lol
Cheers, Karl