What do you work at?

[Dod]

I'm a Quantity Surveyer, I get house/building/industrial plans and price how much it'd cost for goods, services and to build it.

The Celtic Tiger has Died and the Building trade has slowed a lot. So Things are pretty quiet and I'm bored.

What do you lot do?

[Jack]

Secret Agent http://totalmotorcycle.com/BBS/images/smiles/ph34rsmilie.gif

[big gra]

im a ninja!! :)

[Sherco]

Im a Coach Builder

[lj]

not aloud to mention what i do! my cover job is a player!

[Lee]

At present i mince about the house due to Crash Gordon fecking up the economy :(

[Dod]

Jack, Big Gra and LJ..

GAY!!

[mowgli]

I'm a Quantity Surveyer, I get house/building/industrial plans and price how much it'd cost for goods, services and to build it.

The Celtic Tiger has Died and the Building trade has slowed a lot. So Things are pretty quiet and I'm bored.

What do you lot do?

I am sorry, i heard the celtic tiger wasn't very well for some time.
http://www.celtic-connexions.com/mid_451cb721bbfea_cat1.jpg (http://www.manxinspirations.com/enlarge_image.php?ProductID=47)

I visited co.Mayo in feb & there were loads of empty new houses about.


I am a groundworker, so most of my time is spent falling out with architects, structural engineers & qs's. sometimes I actually get round to building stuff. Maybe its the english qs's but most of them seem to think that pixies will do the work for magic beans.....one recently thought we would do a £2000 paving job for about £400.........

[Dod]

No, thats a QS for you. Although I'm not a Qualafied one, I built my way up from a General Labour job. I loved those days, turning up drunk, smoking 20 Ciggies in a day and barely breaking a sweat!!

As for the Empty houses, they're still selling but the Council seems to buy most of them to house Refugees or ASBO type familys.

[Dod]

Well, either that or the fact it was just Mayo!! LOL

[Matt2107]

At present I'm an Accounts Assistant above Mitsubishi, Mazda and Volvo but possibly looking to do a paint sprayer/bodywork apprenticeship

[mowgli]

Well, either that or the fact it was just Mayo!! LOL

I have to admit that i'd thought co. Kerry was weird until I visited Mayo.....

A couple of years back I was in co Clare & there were builders from London working in Ennis, ironic or what??????

Me & my Brother have to do our own qs work, we get plans thrown at us & we decipher a price from it then we do a site visit to find out what the developer isn't telling us, ie. the 2000ton pile of crap that needs moving or the toxic waste or the traveller camp next door etc... then we modify it to suit. but the actual building work is by far the best bit.

[Dod]

Agreed. I loved it when I was at it. Especially when you're 17 with a fortune of money in your pocket at the Bar on a Student night in a Club!! :D

[NatJK]

I'm stuck in retail. :cry: Worst sector ever, customers are horrible!
Had the option to do a welding appreticeship, but I turned it down as I had plans to go travelling, and it all fell through.
Am currently trying to decide what I want to do for my career, lol at 19 I have many things I want to do and being indecisive I can't decide!

[AlexW]

Whats a job?
All i do is sit on my pc thinking about errr yer.

[CoolTiger]

middle of exams at the min but already got a job for after them

Apprentice Panel Beater & Car Sprayer :)

[novait]

mechanic/mot tester...

[walshc]

Im in the import/export trade

[NovaLad]

Bum.

EDIT: Allthough i'm at college still.?

[Welsh Dan]

I build and repair PC's mainly. When I'm not doing that I'm explaning to customers why it was important to back up that 4 years worth of accounting data they just lost lol.

[Nick]

I am a groundworker, so most of my time is spent falling out with architects,
lol

I will soon be an Architect.

I design buildings. Respect me

[NASTYNOVA]

build car floors for nissan, welder

[Jim Mcrae]

Work at a campsite, bar work, reception, on the phones, cleaning and groundswork. Its alright actually. I have many talents.

[chris gsi]

i am a van mechanic at a vauxhall dealer

[twistysnovagte]

im a plant operater,driving this:
http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa168/twist6151/DSCF0713.jpg?t=1211814580
and my little/big foriegner im in the process of doing,80%completed cant wait until its finnished and the fish are in:
http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa168/twist6151/DSCF0825.jpg?t=1211814749
http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa168/twist6151/DSCF0820.jpg?t=1211814780
http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa168/twist6151/DSCF0821.jpg?t=1211814864

[Stuart]

Senior Automotive Systems Design Engineer :) basically design software for the current model Transit and Landrover (oh and also the French/Itallian version of the Transit but I pretend they dont exist)

[Mike]

Painter & Decorator.

Will very soon be going into a business partnership with two childhood friends of mine & hopefully will make it mucho's big :D

[Dod]

lol

I will soon be an Architect.

I design buildings. Respect me

I'm a QS, lets do battle!!!

[Graeme]

Service Engineer for an auto door company, I basically tell people there broke and 'its gonna cost ya...' and the rest of my work involves sitting in the outside lane of any motorway in the country, flashing sales reps out of the way whilst they eat a sandwich, have a conference call and insist on doing 75 mph in the outside lane of a clear motorway, I consider myself to be a service to society

[Mike]

^ lol i do that in my Nova Van but mostly bellow copias amounts of unburnt diesel smoke across the front end's of 08 reg BMW's lol lol & ping the occasional fag end of there windscreens :thumb:

[Dave.]

at school lol.. but in the holidays work at the police immpound garage.. usually messing about with the nova as thats really the only time i get with it :thumb:

[Smurf-Xx]

I was a kitchen manager and waitress, we did everything you had to. But I walked out today and I'll soon be at sainsburys yay!! lol

[CoupeUK]

Recovery Operative......I recover bikes, cars, trucks, buses/coaches off the M1 motorway. Also drive a crash cushion when required so I can shut anything from one lane to the whole motorway at will :) :) :)

[big gra]

i drive tractors around, clogging the roads up :)

[Andy]

Glazin Squad:thumb:

[FUSION X16XE]

qualified chippy and qualified baker, would like to go to college to studie some form of music corse? can anybody recomend?

[Philsutton]

Physics Research Technician at Loughborough University, basically help undergrads with final year project work and PhD students with their research as well as other things that are Experimental Physics related.

Oh and repairing anything students have broken which is alot.

[FUSION X16XE]

Recovery Operative......I recover bikes, cars, trucks, buses/coaches off the M1 motorway. Also drive a crash cushion when required so I can shut anything from one lane to the whole motorway at will :) :) :)

secret street race me tinks!! :thumb:

[Ash]

I wish I knew lol I guess im the boss' right hand man, I work in a dealership doing contract hire and van conversions.

I meant to be in a graphic desgin job tho - Still working on it, hard to get interviews with the limited number of jobs round 'ere

[CoupeUK]

secret street race me tinks!! :thumb:

Been there done that ;)

[smcgsi16v]

I'm a carpenter by trade but had to give it for health reasons so now I survey/design new kitchens on behalf of housing associations.

[Jeff16v]

Network\server technical analyst for a hospital.

I see dead peoplelol

[krobinson]

I work in an Insurance Brokers, currently awaiting promotion :D

Keith

[Dod]

Can you do anything for my Insurance Keith or is it just NI you cover?

[KITT1972]

Im a Southern uk area sales manager for a company that makes security products for house alarms:D

[John]

V.W tech.

[stuartyj21]

i work for a roofing company doing sales/tech support:thumb:

[novacabrio]

Vauxhall Car salesman!

[krobinson]

Can you do anything for my Insurance Keith or is it just NI you cover?

Just NI at the moment boss :mad:

[hendrix]

Estimator for railways. Pretty much the same as a QS really. Work on multi million pound tenders. Hope I don't get it wrong lol

[Dod]

i work for a roofing company doing sales/tech support:thumb:

Scotts?

[wilson_sri]

I work as a car valeter cleaning up after messy motha ****as. It sucks.

[R1CH]

Rebuild Turbos, Wastegates, EGR's, Water injection pumps ... plus various engine ancillaries for Focus WRC cars.

[blackpoolbouncer]

well as the name suggests im a bouncer(door supervisor) in blackpool,i run the vip lounge and look after vips,the vip door and another part of a 2600 capacity nightclub (Sanuk if anyones ever been to blackpool):D
i do that 4/5 nights a week and also help run a family owned private static caravan park 3 days a week.
however im a qualified motorsports technician and fully qualified paint,body and vehicle repair technician amongst other qualifications but dont have the time or oportunity at the minute to execute my talents in the field of cars :cry:
oh and i do the odd bit of car modification still even though i shut my company down,mainly just sound systems now though
rant over anyway haha im a busy boy for 19 :roll:

[mowgli]

lol

I will soon be an Architect.

I design buildings. Respect me

Right, when you draw a picture of some drains, remember this, some poor sod actually has to dig the holes & fit them.........drain pipes do not bend & downpipes look pants when they pass right down the middle of a window. Building inspectors demand manholes at every change of direction, it is not clever to stick storm drains under someones living room & only 5% of all soakaways actually work properly.

Also we are on to you.... When you draw a plan & don't stick a really important dimension on but put a note on saying 'To be decided on site by contractor' we know the building won't, ever in a million years, fit the plot.

And why do you draw hundreds of plans with the walls on but not one with the dimensions (centre of trench) for the footings?

[mowgli]

Estimator for railways. Pretty much the same as a QS really. Work on multi million pound tenders. Hope I don't get it wrong lol


That must be hard......

turn up at work.

Ooh it will cost loads of taxpayers money
Mmmmm. it will cause months of disruption......

Now I'll get my feet up for the rest of the day ;)

[draper]

start at a new place today doing plastic extrusion for packaging, after my 3 month trial there sending me to college to actually get my electrical papers then onto there maintenance - thats the plan anyway

[Alex.]

well as the name suggests im a bouncer(door supervisor)

I like bouncers!!

I'm an English Literature student at the University of Gloucestershire (although I like to say Cheltenham!)
I work part time at the race course when something is going on.
And I'm in desperate need of a summer job.

All fun being a student!!!

[paulnova]

I dont have a job :cry:

[Paul]

technical officer on railway, basically make sure trains dont hit nothing, or trains dont come off rails.

[MK999]

I know all about the desperate need of a summer job thing, it's even harder than usual to get a job round here with the current failings of the economy though :(

[BEN187NOVA]

finance broker ,, bit dodgy at the mo with the state of this country, banks lending went up half a percent today ....its my own business and i bought a house about 2 months ago so a bit stressfull at the mo

[FUSION X16XE]

well as the name suggests im a bouncer(door supervisor) in blackpool,i run the vip lounge and look after vips,the vip door and another part of a 2600 capacity nightclub (Sanuk if anyones ever been to blackpool):D
i do that 4/5 nights a week and also help run a family owned private static caravan park 3 days a week.
however im a qualified motorsports technician and fully qualified paint,body and vehicle repair technician amongst other qualifications but dont have the time or oportunity at the minute to execute my talents in the field of cars :cry:
oh and i do the odd bit of car modification still even though i shut my company down,mainly just sound systems now though
rant over anyway haha im a busy boy for 19 :roll:


Anychance of some free entry/vip treatment? :):thumb:

[NovaJackie]

Im finishing my Alevels at the minute, but work as a service adviser in a bank and im a tour guide at the weekends!

[draper]

well as the name suggests im a bouncer(door supervisor) in blackpool,i run the vip lounge and look after vips,the vip door and another part of a 2600 capacity nightclub (Sanuk if anyones ever been to blackpool):D
i do that 4/5 nights a week and also help run a family owned private static caravan park 3 days a week.
however im a qualified motorsports technician and fully qualified paint,body and vehicle repair technician amongst other qualifications but dont have the time or oportunity at the minute to execute my talents in the field of cars :cry:
oh and i do the odd bit of car modification still even though i shut my company down,mainly just sound systems now though
rant over anyway haha im a busy boy for 19 :roll:

cater for stag-dos ;)

[Matt Pickering]

Machainical Fitter, Lathe and Milling Machine Operator as well as Welding Fabricator.

[dan16v]

Qualified pipefitter (marine+ petrochemical).
But now work for exxon mobil as a process tech. process being fuel and oil!

[turbodrew1]

i'm a self employed joiner working in glasgow area at the moment.

[djshaggeh]

I work for a local motorfactors. Its boring as hell but the moneys good. I should get a promotion to a salesman in the next couple of month (either that or the sack)

[NatJK]

everyones jobs seem so much better than mine lol change of career needed possibly.

[Dod]

Meh, I want a job change and I'm only in this one 4 months. The Moneys good, the hours are 9-3 Monday to Friday but its very very quiet!!

[blackpoolbouncer]

cater for stag-dos ;) yes we do,as long as your well behaved,which hearing from various comments on here about your drinking habbits may well be a problem:roll:however im sure we could sort something out. just to add,you will not be allowed in VIP though

Anychance of some free entry/vip treatment? :):thumb:
if you come down then quite possibly yes,depending on how you dress/conduct yourself :thumb:

just give us a shout if you are up this way

[draper]

yes we do,as long as your well behaved,which hearing from various comments on here about your drinking habbits may well be a problem:roll:however im sure we could sort something out. just to add,you will not be allowed in VIP though



i drink alot so therefore i misbehave ??

[djshaggeh]

^he listens to hardcore, hes a pussy cat :)

[blackpoolbouncer]

im not saying your badly misbehaved at all,the comment was made in good faith,im in the same boat as you,i drink one hell of a lot too when i go out,and im never usually any bother and from the amount of stag parties and general idiots blackpool attracts im sure you will be like an angel compared to the vast majority,most members on here seem to have there heads screwed on right,even if they are missing a few washers lol

[Ben]

Non destructive testing

[Dod]

I'm Irish, can I get in?

[draper]

^he listens to hardcore, hes a pussy cat :)

you mean im normally sat in the corner dribbling at 6.30 AM ;)

[mowgli]

^he listens to hardcore, hes a pussy cat :)


you mean im normally sat in the corner dribbling at 6.30 AM ;)

I think he means you lick your own bottom when aunties come round for tea

[AlanH]

was an apprentice vehicle body repairer/panel beater for a while. sucked. worked in retail for a cppl of years then bust my wrist in april 07 crashin a bike. I'm now working in a car chassis plant bushing car subframes for ford, the shame!!

[tookie]

Debt collector/securityguard/tea makerlol

[Dod]

But what if people want to drink Coffee?

[Lee H]

Management Accountant.

[Riggy]

cnc turner

[Prey]

Web design/development, graphics work.

[Ernie]

I work at the HONDA factory in swindon.
I put the sound deadening in all day.

[tookie]

But what if people want to drink Coffee?

they can make it themselfs :D

[raymond]

im a postman:)

[Nick]

I'm a QS, lets do battle!!!

You shall do what i say.

I are architectz

[djshaggeh]

I used to be a postman - I hated it.

They really messed me around. Pays quite good though, just a shame you have to wake up at stupid oclock and work saturdays.

[raymond]

i love it

everyone calls us lazy etc etc

calls the company to hell

but they pay us good and the pvs tickets would be fooked without us lol

[AlexW]

but they pay us good and the pvs tickets would be fooked without us lol

true

But As of today, I work in a vauxhall garage, mainly doing services but the usual.

[Dar]

I'm a full time idiot. The hours are crap and the money is rubbish, but it's easy work.

[ste porter]

welder and fabricator specialising in structural steel mainly well thats my official trade but im now working for a garage called kingsway doing all genral mechanical work from tyres to complete engine rebuilds were trying to venture further into the modified car scene at the minute doing full custom exhausts lowering engine conversions ect ect and its picking up nicely!

( i will have our yard looking like the ace cafe in no time lol)

[ade]

brilliant. I'm a team Manager for a big insurance company.


We're a clever bunch and if we all got together loads of you could help me out on a potential renovation project I'm hopefully gonna be done on an old farm house.

Finance, Architects, planners, surveyors, builders, joiners, welders and even security! You lot could do it for me - and at mates rates too!

I'd supply the beers obviously

pmsl!

[General Baxter]

im waiting for kieth to say drug dealer lol


i smack hgv trailers and tail lifts with a very large hammer lol

[Dod]

Ah the art of precision eh? No fumbling about there.

[NovaLad]

im waiting for kieth to say drug dealer lol


i smack hgv trailers and tail lifts with a very large hammer lol

And chavs with your hand.

[Count Vaux Alot]

My jobs a bit like baxters only i use a gas axe as well lol lol i think the title is mechanical engineer what ever that means :confused:

[Rich]

I try to be a mechanic at a vauxhall dealer lol

3 Years is long enough for me now though need to find somthing else

[Novaboyleon]

I drive this beast!

http://i28.tinypic.com/21doi2p.jpg

[karl194]

i get to draw on peoples bodys and make holes and put bits on metal in them! in other words im a tattooist and piercist however its spelt.
got an appenticeship when i was 16 2yrs sweeping floors and cleaning and now i do it for a living.
moneys pretty good but bit unpredictablelol

[General Baxter]

lol when i left school, i was making export cases for min wage, but i used to use a 50psi nail gun, with the saftey removed, fire nails about 40mph about 30ft across the factory lol

[Andy_L]

Management Accountant.

The job of champions :thumb:

Oh and if anyone wants some book-keeping etc help drop me a PM (no charge)

[Dod]

lol when i left school, i was making export cases for min wage, but i used to use a 50psi nail gun, with the saftey removed, fire nails about 40mph about 30ft across the factory lol

We used to do this with Nail Guns on a Building site, using Wheel Barrows as targets. Then the Contractor went bust. Unrelated of corse.

[Jeff16v]

The job of champions :thumb:

Oh and if anyone wants some book-keeping etc help drop me a PM (no charge)

Bean counterslol

[stuartyj21]

Scotts?

no dod, redland mate:thumb:

[chimp007_uk]

I'm a SERP Engineer for Jaguar Land Rover... Its as exciting as it sounds :)

Its cool, do a 37.5hour week get paid a pretty good salary for my first job after uni, work with some funny guys, have a laugh... And parking the Nova in a carpark alongside brand new XF's and XK rs's does put the **** up some people lol

[draper]

I drive this beast!

http://i28.tinypic.com/21doi2p.jpg

a silver mondeo ??? unlucky pal

[Dod]

No, thats a new design wing mirror on the New Mercadies Lorrys

[Mike B GTE]

Bean counterslol

I'm a quantity Surveyor and my girlfriend is an assistant management accountant - lots of bean counting in our relationship!! lol

[Andy_L]

Bean counterslol

Mmmmmmm Jelly Beans!!

[Jay]

Tyre/Exhaust/Brake fitter.

[L33 LEG]

i sell expensive petrol :thumb:

[dhdev (Oli)]

I work for Caparo AP braking and my Job title is Design Engineer, although that is a bit of a fib as I spend more time testing than designing, and I don't have a degree in Engineering yet so personally I don't think I qualify as an ''Engineer'' yet.
Really pisses me off all the people that walk round with ''Engineer'' titles, a bloke that fixes your leccy is an electrician in my book, not an electrical engineer, I doubt any of them know space-state equations, and a bloke that fixes your boiler is not a heating engineer, do they know anything about thermodynamics or fluid mechanics, do they ****. Just makes a mockery out of those of us that spend years studying at uni :mad::mad::mad:

-Rant over :(

[Stuart]

I work for Caparo AP braking and my Job title is Design Engineer, although that is a bit of a fib as I spend more time testing than designing, and I don't have a degree in Engineering yet so personally I don't think I qualify as an ''Engineer'' yet.
Really pisses me off all the people that walk round with ''Engineer'' titles, a bloke that fixes your leccy is an electrician in my book, not an electrical engineer, I doubt any of them know space-state equations, and a bloke that fixes your boiler is not a heating engineer, do they know anything about thermodynamics or fluid mechanics, do they ****. Just makes a mockery out of those of us that spend years studying at uni :mad::mad::mad:

-Rant over :(

agreed!!!!!
I dont feel I am a proper engineer (not like Brunel, Watt etc). Yeah I have an engineering degree and I do work designing systems to control engines, but its not real engineering in my book.
Similar to the "software engineers" here..... nooooo they are code monkeys!

[meritlover]

i agree with your rant Mr Oli.
didnt know you needed a degree to be a satellite engineer (sky installer who can work a signal meter, terminal driver and masonry drill)

seems now more and more technicians are being referred to as engineers.

people forget that a career in engineering does not make you an engineer.

[dhdev (Oli)]

Glad I'm not the only one, I already had my flame suit on! lol
They actually had a petition going to get the situation rectified, but as with all those e-petitions I think it just got fobbed off.

[meritlover]

I dont feel I am a proper engineer (not like Brunel, Watt etc)!

how dare you compare yourselves to these heros of the industrial revolution.:eek:

[Stuart]

how dare you compare yourselves to these heros of the industrial revolution.:eek:

Brunel is my hero :D
I just wish I could be as innovative as his little finger lol

[Martin]

I Drive Bobcats...


perm 6-2 but do about 3hours work all day..

hopfully doing a jetting course soon.. £13 an hour here i come...

[tom_beverley]

I'm a trainee quantity surveyor and work for HBG Construction who are currently the 3rd biggest construction company in the UK! I've been doing this for only about a year having moved on from labouring and forklift driving.

My job is basically procuring subcontractors, comparing, ordering, remeasuring, and payments [or lack of lmfao]

Just waiting for the money to get better... :(

[fix]

I work in sales selling ink and toner cartridges how exciting! lol

[Lynsey]

I'm a chef/ catering manager. Can't beat the kitchen banter lol Shame the rest of the management are complete tango whisky alpha tangos though :( I'm currently looking for a new job :D

[fix]

Painter & Decorator.

Will very soon be going into a business partnership with two childhood friends of mine & hopefully will make it mucho's big :D

Is there good money in this? Thought about decorating,wallpapering,painting,plastering etc.Even landscape gardening etc worked in an office for too long!

[Dod]

I want a new Job. In fact, I want Phil Suttons old job.