What do you do, where are you heading?

[madameye]

So from memory, this is what I have:

Eon is a Copper
Maritz is a navi
Peach is...erm.... some manager in some company that does work for local authorities??
Bags is ..erm.. a civil servant
Doomus works in Game
Speakfreaka is/was studying computer science in between coding software synthesizers
Cal40k is studying gaming stuff
CK-iller is in the army
Liquid is in the army or was
Sunscramble is at uni
Sayottleoveer - don't know - web coding stuff
Andy M - don't know



Please correct and add to the list as you see fit.

[Maritz]

Do me a favour - I was supervising the labourers! A navvy indeed! 

Anyway, I've now moved up in the same company and advise various different construction / engineering / whatever projects on quality assurance matters. Yes, that is as yawnsome as it sounds, but it was either that or face redundancy when my construction project finished. Plus they now pay me more.

I'd love to be a bit more hands-on again on a construction project, so I'm currently trying to get some work on the Crossrail job, or any other interesting civil / M&E work that comes along.

Also, you didn't include yourself on the list...

[madameye]

Everyone knows what I do - "Traffic Design" as some old timer called it when he misheard me.

So what's your core trade/skill Martiz?

[Maritz]

Other than talking shit, but sounding convincing? Well I've actually got a degree in Archaeology, but that's not been much use for anything apart from increasing my alcohol tolerance. I'm qualified as an "Internal Quality Management Systems auditor", which could apply to any field, but really it's mainly common sense and experience in highways engineering that keeps me where I am today.

I've kind of just fallen into what I'm doing as I've never had a particularly burning ambition to do any job. I'm more of a "work to live" than a "live to work" type guy, as I just see working as a means to fund what I want to do outside of work. I'd love to have a job that I really enjoyed, but I'm yet to work out what that job is, so for the time being I'll stick with something that pays ok and where the colleagues are nice.

[madameye]

I'm sure I remember you mentioning the archeology degree in the past. I always used to wonder if you were this guy and you were just keeping it a secret. 

[Maritz]

Haha, no I'm not that "famous", but that is a bit of a coincidence.

[Liquid]

I'm still in the Army, protecting your freedoms one beer at a time. I think you'll find CK-iller is a dirty, dirty RAF though.

He must have an internet connection in his current 5 star accommodation so I know he can see this 

[peachFUZZ]

Waste. Your shit is my life!  I used to be a Transport Manager in the commercial/industrial waste sector, but following yet another mental breakdown I rewrote my book (it's still shit), got heavily medicated (mmm sleepy) and eventually buggered off to wholesale furniture distribution.  That was so boring I found myself devising new and interesting ways to stab pencils into my palms.  Wouldn't have been so bad if it was job and knock, given that I would do the weeks scheduling and bookings in a day.  I could have just spent the rest of the week at home and they could have called me if anything happened.

Then one fateful evening, as I gazed into the night sky, the image of a binbag overflowing with banana peel and used spank mags appeared on the clouds.  I answered the call and found myself back in the waste industry, only this time working in municipal waste (though for the same parent company as I'd left less than 18 months previous and vowed never to work for again!).  Hypocrite? Me? Fuck yeh!

So, to be a bit of twunt about it, I'm a road haulage transport professional currently working as a low paid Traffic Controller within a council's PFI waste management contract until we see if I'm likely to go mental again, the outcome of which will either be going back on the management trail or being referred to on the news as "Quite quiet. Kept himself to himself!".  .

There's loads of misinformation about waste, landfill and incineration, mostly spread by 4x4 driving local 'personalities' who know someone on the council and are worried about the 'environmental impact' (house price) of having a HWRC/Incinerator/MRF in the area.  The NIMBs (Not In My Backyard).

[Pygmemam]

Until this Sunday I'm a support worker in a home for people with Learning Disabilities, then I'm becoming a dirty rotten student of Mechanical Engineering.

[Bagsabbis]

Well, I haven't been a civil servant for a few years now, ever seen I was out-sourced.  Arguably I haven't been 'civil' for a lot longer either...

Currently leading a life of leisure, contemplating re-training in web-design (second line support is a dying trade now).  Trying to avoid the temptation of spending money on booze, gadgets, and wanton tarts!

[SunScramble]

I'm currently "enjoying" a ridiculously low-paying tech-support job, mainly dealing with folk who shouldn't be let within 30 feet of anything with buttons. It's soul-testing, yet often entertaining at the same time. There really are people in the world who, when attempting to add a PCI network card to their machine, will pull the PCI slot from their motherboard with a pair of pliers to "make it easier to put it in properly". 

Before that I was the manager of a projection dept. in a multiplex cinema. It's not a terrible job as such, and there are a lot of benefits, but it didn't leave much time for any kind of "real life", and the level of bulls**t and politicking I had to deal with from slimy and ambitious non-technical staff made it tedious at best. I probably spent as much time protecting my own staff from interfering middle-management with too much time on their hands than I did actually maintaining the machines. I walked out of that one when the old maintenance guy left and instead of replacing him, they expected me to start coming in at 6AM to do his job as well as mine. (With no extra pay, of course.)

[Andy_M]

Trained in microbiology, currently selling working for a small firm of travel insurance brokers. Unfortunately from next month, am going to be part-time because of the downturn in the economy and people basically not going on holiday so much.

[Cal40k]

I'm still a student. Graduated from Computer Games Technology this year, heading back for a Masters in Games Development in September.
Moved in with my girlfriend in June, on the hunt for a part-time job so I can afford to keep up with the rent now.

[CK-iller]

I'm still in the Army, protecting your freedoms one beer at a time. I think you'll find CK-iller is a dirty, dirty RAF though.

He must have an internet connection in his current 5 star accommodation so I know he can see this 

I'm very clean thanks very much, living in a hotel as opposed to a tent keeps my pedicured tootsies many stories above the 'ground' and other such unhygienic locations.