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Re: What do you do for a living?
« Reply #90 on: March 10, 2011, 09:14:22 pm »
Bricklayer man and boy , and I love it  :laugh:

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Re: What do you do for a living?
« Reply #91 on: March 10, 2011, 09:25:26 pm »
One more to the engineering pile. Aircraft engineer on search and rescue helicopters in the South West. Really enjoyable job but very uncertain future at the moment
Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?

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Re: What do you do for a living?
« Reply #92 on: March 10, 2011, 09:29:01 pm »
Freelance Aircraft Engineer, commercial or military  :smiley:

Ok I'm a contract aircraft fitter that goes to whoever is payin the most  :laugh:

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Re: What do you do for a living?
« Reply #93 on: March 10, 2011, 09:31:37 pm »
I'm an Engineer for Otis Elevators, world's largest lift company and a member of the United Technologies Corporation  :smiley:

Carry out service repair and call-outs on lifts, platforms, escalators and pretty much anything else that goes up and down, covering the NW, North Wales and the Midlands


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Re: What do you do for a living?
« Reply #94 on: March 10, 2011, 09:37:05 pm »
Freelance Aircraft Engineer, commercial or military  :smiley:

Ok I'm a contract aircraft fitter that goes to whoever is payin the most  :laugh:


So who is paying the most at the moment?
Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?

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Re: What do you do for a living?
« Reply #95 on: March 10, 2011, 09:38:31 pm »
Ive jumped on the video bandwagon lol, hope this works.....

 




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Re: What do you do for a living?
« Reply #96 on: March 10, 2011, 09:41:43 pm »
I'm an Engineer for Otis Elevators, world's largest lift company and a member of the United Technologies Corporation  :smiley:

Carry out service repair and call-outs on lifts, platforms, escalators and pretty much anything else that goes up and down, covering the NW, North Wales and the Midlands, lounge, dining room, bedroom, back garden in the summer

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Re: What do you do for a living?
« Reply #97 on: March 10, 2011, 09:44:32 pm »
I'm an Engineer for Otis Elevators, world's largest lift company and a member of the United Technologies Corporation  :smiley:

Carry out service repair and call-outs on lifts, platforms, escalators and pretty much anything else that goes up and down, covering the NW, North Wales and the Midlands, lounge, dining room, bedroom, back garden in the summer

 :happy2: :grin: :grin:

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I have miniature lifts in each of those locations so just keeping my training up  :grin:



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Re: What do you do for a living?
« Reply #98 on: March 10, 2011, 09:56:11 pm »
Beddie is it true OTIS have an office in Reading?  :grin:

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Re: What do you do for a living?
« Reply #99 on: March 10, 2011, 10:02:22 pm »
Shift manager at a papermaking company managing 25 operators, electricians and fitters. Convert paper to Kitchen rolls, toilet rolls, napkins, tissues, wipers etc.

Originally did my HND in mechanical and production engineering, so ended up implementing what I was educated for. :smiley:
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Re: What do you do for a living?
« Reply #100 on: March 10, 2011, 10:03:37 pm »
Freelance Aircraft Engineer, commercial or military  :smiley:

Ok I'm a contract aircraft fitter that goes to whoever is payin the most  :laugh:


So who is paying the most at the moment?

rates are pony at the minute mate, but I'm at Monarch Manchester

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Re: What do you do for a living?
« Reply #101 on: March 10, 2011, 10:08:07 pm »
Beddie is it true OTIS have an office in Reading?  :grin:

Yeah we do  :signLOL:

It's in Wokingham and i really do hope they answer the phone 'Hello, Otis Reading'  :grin:


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Re: What do you do for a living?
« Reply #102 on: March 10, 2011, 10:10:21 pm »
Beddie is it true OTIS have an office in Reading?  :grin:

Yeah we do  :signLOL:

It's in Wokingham and i really do hope they answer the phone 'Hello, Otis Reading'  :grin:
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Excellent, I always crack that 'joke' whenever I get in one of your lifts and now I know I'm not spouting crap!  :grin:

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Re: What do you do for a living?
« Reply #103 on: March 10, 2011, 10:10:32 pm »
R&D Mechanical, Electrical & Electronic Engineer.
My official title is Product Development Engineer, but i seem to do everything from special one off projects from start to finish, production machine design, golden sample building, component sourcing/buying, BOMs, build files, test documentation, manuals, final customer & production problem solving, prototype testing, production of machines and PCBs, Quality control, calibration, testing, servicing and much more......
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Re: What do you do for a living?
« Reply #104 on: March 10, 2011, 10:19:22 pm »
Beddie is it true OTIS have an office in Reading?  :grin:

Yeah we do  :signLOL:

It's in Wokingham and i really do hope they answer the phone 'Hello, Otis Reading'  :grin:
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Excellent, I always crack that 'joke' whenever I get in one of your lifts and now I know I'm not spouting crap!  :grin:


Haha! It's a better one than the usual comment i get about 'are Schindler lifts really named after the movie?'...  :grin:


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