What's your job?
- Thread starter A320_phill
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North Yorkshire
1) Job
2) Brief description of role/responsibilities
3) 3 good points
4) 3 Bad points
5) Any second job/business?
1) SMART Repairer
2) Repair and Paint small to medium damage to cars inc. wheels.
3) My own boss,meet some lovely people and work on some very nice cars.
( had the pleasure of repairing some very minor damage on a couple of ///Ms recently,mention no names) :wink:
4) Weather,quiet periods,...if I think of a third I'll add it.
5) Fully trained chef.... not really,I dont have a second job.
2) Brief description of role/responsibilities
3) 3 good points
4) 3 Bad points
5) Any second job/business?
1) SMART Repairer
2) Repair and Paint small to medium damage to cars inc. wheels.
3) My own boss,meet some lovely people and work on some very nice cars.
( had the pleasure of repairing some very minor damage on a couple of ///Ms recently,mention no names) :wink:
4) Weather,quiet periods,...if I think of a third I'll add it.
5) Fully trained chef.... not really,I dont have a second job.
BMWZ4MC said:Moving the front door is one thing but actually moving the stars themselvesbluestreak56 said:now that's an achievement :lol:
Ahem stairs..
1) Job
2) Brief description of role/responsibilities
3) 3 good points
4) 3 Bad points
5) Any second job/business?
1) Chartered Surveyor
2) Capital/Asset Management in the F&B industry. I buy, or tell people where to buy, pubs and restaurants, how much to spend, which brand/concept to trade them as, when and how to refurbish them, sell them etc.
3) I get paid to be in pubs and restaurants
I get paid to be in pubs and restaurants
I get paid to be in pubs and restaurants
4) My boss, lots of travel and many hours on trains, don't get time in the week to do much other than work, eat and sleep.
5) Not yet but considering options at present.
2) Brief description of role/responsibilities
3) 3 good points
4) 3 Bad points
5) Any second job/business?
1) Chartered Surveyor
2) Capital/Asset Management in the F&B industry. I buy, or tell people where to buy, pubs and restaurants, how much to spend, which brand/concept to trade them as, when and how to refurbish them, sell them etc.
3) I get paid to be in pubs and restaurants
I get paid to be in pubs and restaurants
I get paid to be in pubs and restaurants
4) My boss, lots of travel and many hours on trains, don't get time in the week to do much other than work, eat and sleep.
5) Not yet but considering options at present.
Some genuinely gifted & talented folks on the forum , i'm more than a bit impressed by some :wink:
1) Job
2) Brief description of role/responsibilities
3) 3 good points
4) 3 Bad points
5) Any second job/business?
1) Joiner 28yrs ( self employed since i was 18 )
2) Have done anything & everything remotely connected to joinery from all renovation works on a £500k barn conversion to installing the hanging tile system on the inside of the Royal Exchange Manchester after the IRA bomb
3) Helping to take someones ideas & make them workable & affordable
Creating something for myself & family that i couldn't afford to buy or pay someone else to do
Flexibility from being self employed
4) Building trade is a transient profession with no career path or security for the self employed
Cynical towards others who don't provide for their own financial future but expect me as a taxpayer to fund them
Long hours commuting to chase the better jobs
5) Property & the odd set of alloy wheels
1) Job
2) Brief description of role/responsibilities
3) 3 good points
4) 3 Bad points
5) Any second job/business?
1) Joiner 28yrs ( self employed since i was 18 )
2) Have done anything & everything remotely connected to joinery from all renovation works on a £500k barn conversion to installing the hanging tile system on the inside of the Royal Exchange Manchester after the IRA bomb
3) Helping to take someones ideas & make them workable & affordable
Creating something for myself & family that i couldn't afford to buy or pay someone else to do
Flexibility from being self employed
4) Building trade is a transient profession with no career path or security for the self employed
Cynical towards others who don't provide for their own financial future but expect me as a taxpayer to fund them
Long hours commuting to chase the better jobs
5) Property & the odd set of alloy wheels
Cognac
I must say I am loving this thread. What an interesting group of people linked to an amazing car. Anyway this is me.
1) Job
2) Brief description of role/responsibilities
3) 3 good points
4) 3 Bad points
5) Any second job/business?
1) Owner of a renewable's business in France selling /installing solar thermal systems, self use PV systems, biomass boilers etc
2) Everything from sales,design through to installation.
3) Its very interesting, we get to meet some lovely people, and I get to travel around other parts of France other than where I live.
4) It's in France, French social charges on my business( 47% of any profit I make ), French red tape. ( if anyone thinks that europe is one happy club ,the French are doing everything possible to only sell French products in France)
5) We still manage some holiday properties over here, which is a hang over from when we first came to France 11 years ago, and we have a mobile home near St Tropez which we let as a holiday rental.
1) Job
2) Brief description of role/responsibilities
3) 3 good points
4) 3 Bad points
5) Any second job/business?
1) Owner of a renewable's business in France selling /installing solar thermal systems, self use PV systems, biomass boilers etc
2) Everything from sales,design through to installation.
3) Its very interesting, we get to meet some lovely people, and I get to travel around other parts of France other than where I live.
4) It's in France, French social charges on my business( 47% of any profit I make ), French red tape. ( if anyone thinks that europe is one happy club ,the French are doing everything possible to only sell French products in France)
5) We still manage some holiday properties over here, which is a hang over from when we first came to France 11 years ago, and we have a mobile home near St Tropez which we let as a holiday rental.
1) Job
Aircraft maintenance coordinator
2) Brief description of role/responsibilities
I am dealing with customer representatives for VIP aircraft (more specifically Gulfstream). My role is to arrange the planning of maintenance slots vs our work load, taking in account all customer's requests to insure smooth maintenance inputs, making quotes, coordinate with various repair shops and purchasers for parts, reporting maintenance status to customer....
Then I turn back to guys like A320 Phil (OP) and leave him to fix the airplane :evil:
3) 3 good points
- I love airplanes since ever, so just can't get bored with that part of my job.
- Being key contact for our customers is a real motivator (our customers bring their aircraft from everywhere, world wide), as well as to be everyday in touch with skilled technicians who knows the systems by heart!
- BMW is one of our customer, so I can joke about my car and enjoy being maintenance provider for them
4) 3 Bad points
- can be stressful in some situations when you have to conciliate demands from the customers and the realities of the job / aviation regulations.
- working hours, as you can't sometimes just leave the office and postpone to tomorrow. This also applies to week-ends and holidays...
- it's either very quiet or very busy, no matter how hard you try to schedule with customers. Most of the time it is very busy, so I take it as a good point.
5) Any second job/business?
Just enjoying days off with the wife, the Zed, and some video games.
Thanks for reading.
Aircraft maintenance coordinator
2) Brief description of role/responsibilities
I am dealing with customer representatives for VIP aircraft (more specifically Gulfstream). My role is to arrange the planning of maintenance slots vs our work load, taking in account all customer's requests to insure smooth maintenance inputs, making quotes, coordinate with various repair shops and purchasers for parts, reporting maintenance status to customer....
Then I turn back to guys like A320 Phil (OP) and leave him to fix the airplane :evil:
3) 3 good points
- I love airplanes since ever, so just can't get bored with that part of my job.
- Being key contact for our customers is a real motivator (our customers bring their aircraft from everywhere, world wide), as well as to be everyday in touch with skilled technicians who knows the systems by heart!
- BMW is one of our customer, so I can joke about my car and enjoy being maintenance provider for them
4) 3 Bad points
- can be stressful in some situations when you have to conciliate demands from the customers and the realities of the job / aviation regulations.
- working hours, as you can't sometimes just leave the office and postpone to tomorrow. This also applies to week-ends and holidays...
- it's either very quiet or very busy, no matter how hard you try to schedule with customers. Most of the time it is very busy, so I take it as a good point.
5) Any second job/business?
Just enjoying days off with the wife, the Zed, and some video games.
Thanks for reading.