What do you do for a living?

[damoegan]

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......

Didn't know you were a engineer too, Geof 

Any jobs going 

[Greeners]

Beddie is it true OTIS have an office in Reading? 

Yeah we do  

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

Excellent, I always crack that 'joke' whenever I get in one of your lifts and now I know I'm not spouting crap! 

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

[big al]

Dont want to get political but this overtime thing is a joke, i read one chap earned £66k in overtime alone last year.. Just think about the 18 year old squaddie on £14-16k in afghanistan right now dodging bullets and iod's every day does he get paid for overtime.. No, it kind of puts your argument in perspective. You've been getting paid far too much for too long and its time to get real, all imo of course

Don't mean to throw this off topic also but try to tell the family of David Rathband that he is overpaid for what he does/did.
The guy who earnt £66k worked for it, yes it is excessive, but he must have worked every opportunity.
Not a lot of people know as well, but if you work over your shift, IE, 2pm-midnight, if you still have paperwork/prisoner etc and don't finish until 1am,2am etc, that you give the first half an hour for the queen, so you work an hour and only get paid for half, tell me any other job where they can do that?!

I put my life on the line daily and get paid £29 000 a year, do you think that is too much?!

[Top Cat]

100% agree Al, what is wrong with overtime.  Its cheaper to pay overtime than to employ more staff. Some of the lads i work with take home lots of money while others complain about them. In reality they are paid the same rate, just put in more hours.
£29,000 is a pittance for having to chase and collect the scum of society day in day out. 

[QD MBE]

Hair dresser for my sins.

[Beddie]

so you work an hour and only get paid for half, tell me any other job where they can do that?!

Mine  

I'm expected to give the first 30 mins of my first hours overtime if working on my own patch foc too!

[Janner_Sy]

Dont want to get political but this overtime thing is a joke, i read one chap earned £66k in overtime alone last year.. Just think about the 18 year old squaddie on £14-16k in afghanistan right now dodging bullets and iod's every day does he get paid for overtime.. No, it kind of puts your argument in perspective. You've been getting paid far too much for too long and its time to get real, all imo of course

Don't mean to throw this off topic also but try to tell the family of David Rathband that he is overpaid for what he does/did.
The guy who earnt £66k worked for it, yes it is excessive, but he must have worked every opportunity.
Not a lot of people know as well, but if you work over your shift, IE, 2pm-midnight, if you still have paperwork/prisoner etc and don't finish until 1am,2am etc, that you give the first half an hour for the queen, so you work an hour and only get paid for half, tell me any other job where they can do that?!

I put my life on the line daily and get paid £29 000 a year, do you think that is too much?!

the lowest paid squaddies on the frontline are on alot more than 14-16k when in afghan.

By the time they get the long separation allowance and operation allowance (tax rebate) it works out another £6000 ontop of the minimum 16k annual wage.  

However there are lots of guys specifically the specialist trades who earn less than the equivalent civilian jobs.  i could easily get the same job i have now in  london or on airfields etc earning another 10-15k over what i do now doing M&E building services and facilities management however the pension we accrue over our career makes up for that loss.  hence we all stick it out.

But if they drop the pension system were on, as the papers seem to think ill get straight out as will huge amounts of the senior members of the forces especially the technical streams who are only staying in to fulfil the pension criteria.  take it away, we might as well get out  as theres no incentive anymore.

i dont mind the wage freezing and other cuts, but the pension is a no go.

[Strat]

Dont you start!  

That is hilarious! 

[holty]

I'm a Technical Director of a Web Agency, in short I build websites :)

[Degudodger]

Release Project Manager delivering software into UK multi franchise Dealerships.

[Msportman]

Dont want to get political but this overtime thing is a joke, i read one chap earned £66k in overtime alone last year.. Just think about the 18 year old squaddie on £14-16k in afghanistan right now dodging bullets and iod's every day does he get paid for overtime.. No, it kind of puts your argument in perspective. You've been getting paid far too much for too long and its time to get real, all imo of course

Don't mean to throw this off topic also but try to tell the family of David Rathband that he is overpaid for what he does/did.
The guy who earnt £66k worked for it, yes it is excessive, but he must have worked every opportunity.
Not a lot of people know as well, but if you work over your shift, IE, 2pm-midnight, if you still have paperwork/prisoner etc and don't finish until 1am,2am etc, that you give the first half an hour for the queen, so you work an hour and only get paid for half, tell me any other job where they can do that?!

I put my life on the line daily and get paid £29 000 a year, do you think that is too much?!

the lowest paid squaddies on the frontline are on alot more than 14-16k when in afghan.

By the time they get the long separation allowance and operation allowance (tax rebate) it works out another £6000 ontop of the minimum 16k annual wage.  

However there are lots of guys specifically the specialist trades who earn less than the equivalent civilian jobs.  i could easily get the same job i have now in  london or on airfields etc earning another 10-15k over what i do now doing M&E building services and facilities management however the pension we accrue over our career makes up for that loss.  hence we all stick it out.

But if they drop the pension system were on, as the papers seem to think ill get straight out as will huge amounts of the senior members of the forces especially the technical streams who are only staying in to fulfil the pension criteria.  take it away, we might as well get out  as theres no incentive anymore.

i dont mind the wage freezing and other cuts, but the pension is a no go.

The goverment are already gearing up for a fight.....I wonder whether the public know how much highly paid Judges pay into their huge state pensions....1.8% !! On their huge salaries too...way below us little workers...the Police pay the highest at 11% shortlty to be 15% of salary. What do our wonder politicians pay? Half of them public educated lawyers many on board of directorships and many get 24 hr Police protection for life even when retired out of cabinet...treated like royalty in their cacooned bubbleworlds.

[Andy]

Trained as a mechanic but now Manager of a tyre and exhaust company

[parks]

Lots of engineers and technicians on here.

Maybe that's why we're on here, the reason of liking how things work and bettering them?

Civil Engineer myself.

[TimS996]

I clean roads cones for a living usually on the M6. 

Ok so so i lied. I does this 

 

And a bit of this, Balfours version though, with different stickers.   

OH WELL!!!! if we're posting video.......   

 

You want hairy, try the Friday night Ibiza!

[TimS996]

Freelance Aircraft Engineer, commercial or military 

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

So who is paying the most at the moment?

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

That explains a lot can you cure the bogs on Miss Piggy?