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Re: What do you do for a living?
« Reply #45 on: March 10, 2011, 07:13:48 am »
I'm an auto electrician working for national express fixing coaches and buses but also do mechanical work on them when I'm needed  :signLOL:


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Re: What do you do for a living?
« Reply #46 on: March 10, 2011, 07:29:53 am »
Refractive surgeon :smiley:
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Re: What do you do for a living?
« Reply #47 on: March 10, 2011, 08:36:53 am »
Refractive surgeon :smiley:

Group buy?????  :signLOL:

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Re: What do you do for a living?
« Reply #48 on: March 10, 2011, 09:10:22 am »
I have a degree in Geology, used to be a geotechnical engineer testing mud and soil for the chemical and physical suitability for building on.  But now I work for an international network selling commercial bandwidth to companies in carrier neutral datacenters.  Always wished I had stuck with the practical stuff would be much happier tinkering and fixing things than writing proposals, best thing about my job is the interaction with people.

OP as mentioned think the best bet would be to find a company that will sponsor you through further education while you work for them, degrees are all well and good but now adays unless you have a first or minimum of a 2:1 at the other end of it you will struggle to see a massive advantage in a specialist industry.  From someone who ended up with a 2:2 hardly any graduate scheme will be interested its too competitive a market!

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Re: What do you do for a living?
« Reply #49 on: March 10, 2011, 10:23:42 am »
Refractive surgeon :smiley:

what does a refractive surgeon operate on?

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Re: What do you do for a living?
« Reply #50 on: March 10, 2011, 10:28:03 am »
Refractive surgeon :smiley:

what does a refractive surgeon operate on?

i work in emerging markets at an investment bank =  national hate figure!  :pomppomp:

thats eye surgery innit?

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Re: What do you do for a living?
« Reply #51 on: March 10, 2011, 10:48:18 am »
I don't have time to work...  I'm lucky enough to have retired over 10 years ago and used to run my own graphic design consultancy based in Chelsea and with a few international and filthy rich clients.

I suppose that I am now a musician but I don't do so for a living.





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Re: What do you do for a living?
« Reply #52 on: March 10, 2011, 10:50:39 am »
Im a cinema projectionist/digital media technician
and drive class 2 wagons in my spare time :happy2:

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Re: What do you do for a living?
« Reply #53 on: March 10, 2011, 11:01:23 am »
pipeline inspector on north sea oil platform. hate it apart from the time off :happy2:

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Re: What do you do for a living?
« Reply #54 on: March 10, 2011, 11:02:46 am »
employed/self employed wholesaler.  :smiley:


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Re: What do you do for a living?
« Reply #55 on: March 10, 2011, 11:11:47 am »
I have to say this has been one of the best threads I have read for a while.

I am amazed at the varied careers TBH.

Really interesting.

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Re: What do you do for a living?
« Reply #56 on: March 10, 2011, 11:25:10 am »
Race Mechanic for Drayson Racing.

Used to work for SWRT and since then have worked on Aston Martins and LMP1 cars and done Le Mans twice with our very own jonnyc.

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Re: What do you do for a living?
« Reply #57 on: March 10, 2011, 11:31:55 am »
IT security consultant.

I design firewall networks basically, current one is a global estate of around 350. Also Cisco boxes, WAN/LAN blah blah...
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Re: What do you do for a living?
« Reply #58 on: March 10, 2011, 11:32:39 am »
employed/self employed wholesaler.  :smiley:


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Re: What do you do for a living?
« Reply #59 on: March 10, 2011, 11:47:36 am »
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