occupations

Bloody-Hell! What a great list of Occupations all united by one letter.

Me?

  • Ran the school tuck-shop, school disco, and anything else I could make money from
  • Business Degree - Manchester 1979
  • Some years (too old to remember how many (13)) selling electro-mechanical components and military connector to industry and defense contractors
  • Tried running a building firm for 3-years, too much like real work
  • 1995 started with Prudential "Man from the Pru" Financial Adviser
  • 1997 Independent Financial Adviser/Mortgage Broker
  • Been Independent Financial Adviser/Mortgage Broker ever since then for clients here (UK) and in Spain (lived in Mallorca 7 1/2 years now back in UK 2-years ago)
  • Dabbled in Property Development since the 80's - made a few quid, lost it, and made it again
  • Messed about with Classic Cars since school - a list of cars I should have kept as long as my arm
Maybe it is time to build Ferrari replicas and sell them????
 
t-tony said:
I worked in the motor industry Mechanic, Technician and MOT Tester until I retired a couple of years ago. I started for the first 5 years as an Agircultural Fitter learning how to repair things and not just bolt on new bits, Farmers appreciated that back then.

Tony.
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A man who can fix stuff instead of chuck and replace, excellent!
 
Stevo7682 said:
Motor trade since left school served my time with Vauxhall back in 80's worked a few different dealers over the years been an mot tester last 20 yrs
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Hi Steve

So you are the go-to man for MOT questions then? Shame I never knew that earlier, I had a few MOT-related questions building my beastie.
 
NZ00Z3 said:
35 year in the Electricity Industry. From the bottom, apprentice electrician, engineer, manager, to the top, Chief Executive Officer. Worked in New Zealand and internationally. I was either making electricity or shipping it around the country.
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Love it, worked your way up to the top.
 
Devon Z said:
Site maintenance engineer on a leisure Marina, jack of all trades. Previously motor mechanic after leaving school then 15years in motor vehicle electrics.
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Motor vehicle electrics? - You may just be my new best friend!!!!
 
Robert Wiles said:
Started out after graduating as a Project Engineer for an American company that made electrical interconnection products. My first project was the fuse and relay module for the 1981 Ford Cargo truck.

In 1982 I joined MK Electric as part of their management development scheme which gave me the development opportunities that youngsters sadly don't seem to get today. After a variety of projects and assignments across the business, I ended up as engineering manager looking after around 100 staff and being trusted to spend lots of the company's money on a complete new product range. Tough, but the best time of my working life.

After a couple of takeovers, MK Electric was aquired by a US conglomerate and I was asked to move into quality management, ending up as manufacturing quality leader for 12 sites across Europe, which had its moments. Investigating product safety issues on gas valves for domestic boilers grabs the attention....

As is the way with American businesses, the overriding imperative is to do more and more with less and less to the point where the wheels fall off and I found that I no longer shared the values that the business was being run by. In 2017 I got the opportunity to retire early after 35 years service with a brown envelope full of cash and a good pension, so it wasn't all bad.

After 3 years of gardening, decorating and rebuilding old pushbikes and mopeds, I missed the intellectual challenge of work so I took a job as a quality engineer for a local manufacturer. Pays for holidays (which we can't have at the moment) and attending to the zed.

Would I have done it differently? Well, in my final year whilst looking for a job, I did get an interview for Copersucar which was Emerson Fittipaldi's Brazilian sponsored F1 team. It never came to anything, but I sometimes wonder what would have happened if it had...
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I know what you mean about the Yank companies, I sold for 3M Interconnect, Thomas & Betts and AMP. Numbers, Numbers, Numbers!!!!
 
Eddie Zedder said:
I remember AC/DC at Donington in '84 being exceptionally loud, mind you we were right next to the speakers. Thumping headache and deaf for a few days afterwards, but well worth it :).
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I was there AC/DC at Donnington - Could not hear if my car (Lotus Cortina MK1 Red & Gold with a straight-through exhaust) had started or not when I left, I thought I had stalled it for about 2-hours afterwards on the way home. LOUD!!!
 
Eddie Zedder said:
In this day and age I'm not surprised at all by that Paul. I bet there will be plenty of blood sucking lawyers willing to take that on.
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Fortunately no "blood-sucking lawyers" seem to have a Z! at least none that will admit to being such. Come on folks there must be an actual:

Lawyer
Estate Agent
Hairdresser
Financial Adviser (Oh s***! That's me!)

On here, step up and be counted.
 
Rha said:
After reading all your very interesting work experiences I'll shorten mine to a list or it might bore the arse off you all.
1, Farm hand at 15.
2, Trainee mech motorcycle/ scooter.
3, Cloth cutter in woman's coat factory. !!!!!!!!
4, Building labourer.
5, Royal Armoured Corps, 2nd Royal Tank Regt. Tank driver, radio op, gunner, commander, staff car driver, army driving instructor all Corps vehicles inc HGV up to class 1, PSV. 9.5yrs.
5a; London Country bus driver, one of last to qualify on Chiswick double decker skip pan.
6, Civvy driving instructor all groups.
7, Turned down MI6 interview for driving job as it meant commute to London every day.
8, Owner driver HGV with CPC, 17yrs.
9, Prison service 20yrs.
10, This job is the one I had to work for from 1963-2013 to get and currently best so far. ????? Wouldn't change it for the world.
11, Then life took on a whole new meaning, I bought a Z and found you ugly lot. Lol
RHA,Roy.
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Tank Driver? Should have bought an old Mercedes SLK - that is like driving a tank!!!
 
Mandyminor said:
Started out as a Technical Apprentice at Ford and went on to design Engine Assembly Lines. Then moved to Nissan at Sunderland then Cranfield working in Trial production. Moved to Johnson Controls who make Automotive interiors and was the Supplier Improvement manager for Europe. Did a short spell in Food and Pharmaceutical after the motor industry collapsed in 2008. Now work at Lotus in Norfolk working in Supplier Quality . 43 years working of which 38 have been in Motor Manufacture. Not the average CV for a woman 😯
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Not a bad CV for anyone! Love it
 
Chris Hunter said:
25 years firstly as design engineer in the aerospace industry. Rocket launch vehicle propulsion and pressurisation systems with De Havilland Aircraft & Hawker Siddeley Aviation, (now both part of British Aerospace) then as Flight Trials engineer. UK, Australia, South America, French Guyana (Devils Island.) retired since 1997.
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Had to be a rocket scientist on here, where is the brain surgeon?

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MisterP007 said:
Had to be a rocket scientist on here, where is the brain surgeon?

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He lives abroad, in the Netherlands. . . . . . . ;)

Tony.
 
Im new to the site , havent posted any pics of my Z yet , getting a little work done first . I work in the lab at a Polypropylene plant here in the states. Im Ive been at the same place for 29 years , hard to believe.
 
I'm a bit late to this thread but here goes:

When I was working ;):whistle: I worked in various roles within Telecommunications mainly for BT or the GPO as it was when I joined.

After my three year apprenticeship I was involved with the fault diagnosis of the National Trunk Network in the good old analogue days.

Then I moved over into the data environment in the mid '70s, working in the test centre and accepting faults and initial diagnosis of problems with early modems. Earned promotion and was a field engineer/electronics repair for a couple of years before becoming full time field based for 8 years.

Having become a bit fed up of driving down the same roads to the same customers with the same faults I decided to take a role in the training environment. Initially delivering basic data courses but in time moving into much more technical courses such as protocol analysis in the X25 Packet Switching days. Then I progressed to the LAN/WAN Internetworking arena specialising in Cisco Routers.

I was then poached to join the Global Team involving designing and delivering technical training to very tight timescales all over the world. This was definitely my best role, combining face to face training with travelling the world, what's not to like. When that came to an end I spent a few years designing courses, some of which were online and also running a team of trainers. The company then offered me some money to leave early........I couldn't refuse and that was nearly ten years ago, pretty much the same as my Zed ownership. I got my Zed in September and retired in November. I’ve never looked back.:thumbsup:
 
MisterP007 said:
I know what you mean about the Yank companies, I sold for 3M Interconnect, Thomas & Betts and AMP. Numbers, Numbers, Numbers!!!!
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Robert Wiles said:
The first company I worked for was AMP. Even 40 years ago it was all about the numbers.....
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I was with Accenture for 10 years, same for me ...
 
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