What's your job?

1) Senior Quantity Surveyor / Claims consultant
2) project controls management, general commercial management of construction projects, estimating, analysis of construction claims and contracts, usually airports, power plants, mines, gas plants etc
3) a) Takes me to some cool places and projects b) the pay is good at the moment c) my role can vary project to project
4) a) On some consignments it can be mind numbingly monotonous, silly arguements, dealing with.. interesting.. people b) Has its quiet periods c) Not sure it's what I want to do forever
5) Small business starting in sporty/jap/muscle car importing / fixing up / re-selling which is picking up
 
Xiaxio said:
Am I the only one that noticed that a lot of our members have experience in engineering, or something to do with houses?
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Working in an engineering company, everyone and there dog thinks they are an engineer, we actually have very few degree qualified/professional engineers. In the UK, as the home of the industrial revolution, with the likes of Brunel et al, it seems you can be qualified to repair a domestic boiler and that's qualification enough to be called engineer. Go to Germany or France and you are known as a technician, the guy who designed the boiler is an Engineer.

No disrespect to those who service/install boilers, work on motor vehicles or anyone else I might need in an emergency in the future :D
 
1. Director, US Software company
2. Delivery of solutions to various businesses worldwide
3. Travel, different challenges every day
4. Developing a mild (at the moment, but increasing) case of misanthropy. Lack of zed availability.
5. Various voluntary work (when I'm at home!)

Oh, and yep, another engineer :)
 
1) Job
2) Brief description of role/responsibilities
3) 3 good points
4) 3 Bad points
5) Any second job/business?

1) Multiskilled engineer for a UK rail company.
2) Examinations, repairs, mods, testing & fault finding on rolling stock & power units, safety critical work.
3) Excellent pay, 30 days holiday, 4 on 4 off day shift pattern.
4) Can get repetitive at times, weekend working every other month, not many progress opportunities at the moment.
5) My fiancé keeps me busy, although I'd imagen I will have a different job later in life.

:)
 
1: Senior Analyst - Software Engineer
2: er, write programs and help run company IT
3: Small company, pay & small company
4: Can't think of any :D
5: Nope, too busy :driving:
 
1) Software Engineer, primarily C#.Net, for a multi-national IT consultancy firm.
2) Deliver bespoke software to client specification, albeit they don't always know what they want.
3) Expenses, good company, good people to work with
4) Can work away from home alot
5) Nope.


@Mark-Z4, currently working on a Engineer Rostering System upgrade for a UK rail company, I wonder what the chances are of it being yours...
 
1) Job
  • Self-employed/freelance project support for business consultants - for 25 years (i.e. since I was 19) - working at lots of the big name companies (GSK, Tesco, Lloyds, Asda, Boots, BT, British Steel, Rolls Royce, etc.)
2) Brief description of role/responsibilities
  • Do everything needed to enable the consultants to spend their time doing consultant stuff, rather than the minutiae - mainly tarting up Powerpoint/Word/Excel/Visio for them and converting their diagrams on flip-charts and brown papers into digital formats
3) 3 good points
  • very good pay - which means I could afford to run modified cars or M-cars as daily drivers
  • work in different industries/sectors all the time - sometimes it's a 1 month job, sometimes it's a 36 month job
  • get to travel all over the world
4) 3 Bad points
  • irregular/unpredictable workload
  • irregular hours (8-36 hour 'workdays') for the same daily rate
  • being away from home most of the time makes relationships 'difficult'
5) Any second job/business?
  • I'm self-employed, so have always got other clients on the boil, which means my free weekends/evenings are not always free
 
I will take the title for lowest skilled on here then.
1) Janitor
2) Everything and anything that needs doing around the high school
3) Spend lots of time outdoors in the good weather, semi-own boss
4) Odd hours, snow and ice clearing, picking up litter
5) Hong Kong Fooey
 
1) Category Development Manager, for a consumer healthcare company.
2) Working with grocery retailers, using data and insight to understand how shoppers shop and improve sales of the dental category.
3) Good pay, working with everyday products everyone can relate to, good to see results of your work in stores.
4) Lots of similar days in the office, very competitive with other suppliers, dealing with very busy buyers
5) None unless you count occasionally buying a weekend toy then selling it for profit!
 
1) technical officer for london underground
2) When the trains grind to a halt because the signals have stopped working, i get a phone call to go & fix it
3) pay/pension satisfactory & plenty of time off
4) work on the track with traction current on, if i trip over im fried,
shift/weekend work gets on my tits
5) enjoy my time off so not interested in other work

regards
 
1) Internal Audit Manager for one of the world's biggest companies you've never heard of
2) Running and conducting Internal Audits throughout the world, based in Brentwood UK
3) Pay, location, flexibility
4) Travel to dodgy parts of Africa, generally away a lot living out of hotel rooms, interferes with my second job (see below)
5) I am a football referee (contracted to do two games a week where possible)
 
1) Telecoms Professional
2) Wish i could actually answer this, basically anything from sales to operations to procurement, to just about anything related to a business environment.
3) Constant challenge, ever changing environment, decent boss
4) All of the above, lol
5) No but recently been offered a new job and a percentage of the company and a director title. Thinking it could be worth a roll of the dice 8)
 
1) operations manager for a biotec
2) chief cleanerupper/teamaker/sop writer/annoy-the-md-bod/etc
3) SME/easy going/hands on
4) SME/no benefits/hands on
5) not anymore, used to tutor maths/phys alevels
 
Here goes me:
1) Job
2) Brief description of role/responsibilities
3) 3 good points
4) 3 Bad points
5) Any second job/business?

1) IT Service Desk Analyst
2) Support / Fix IT issues around the building for staff etc including phones, tablets, printers etc etc.
3) Fairly relaxed atmosphere/ Good bunch of guys that I work with/ Good personal development program.
4) Some "Needy users"/ Can be frustrating at times/ Hardly any natural light (1 main window which is at the back of the office!)
5) No second job but would love to do a bit of car detailing on the side.
 
1) Chauffeur/driver
2) Working mostly in central London for one family who are occasionally in the public eye, driving some executives and a couple of well known names on a regular basis. Did a RoSPA course, bespoke Porsche course at Silverstone in a Panamera, a security driving course last year and have a Mercedes-Benz course on the cards in the new year. Occasional long drives up to Manchester and other cities.
3) Get to know my way around London quite well, meeting lots of interesting people and seeing interesting places, driving some nice cars which get changed often - currently a new Range Rover Autobiography and RR Sport and new Mercedes S400 Hybrid with all the toys.
4) Often lots of waiting around (TV or ipad/book in car is necessary), playing chase the parking warden, occasionally long and unpredictable hours, but the thing I hate the most is the M25!
5) Set up http://www.smellmyclutch.com as a hobby with a colleague doing car reviews, test drives and write-ups on events we attend and about general car stuff we find interesting. Becoming more and more popular with guest writers submitting their articles and us acting as ghost writers and regular contributors for national magazines and blogs.
 
1) Creative Director
2) Responsible for all creative across merchandise, live events, publishing and gaming for well known UK TV titles,
3) Its fun, I get to play with stuff and I get to visit and interact with things I used to watch as a kid.
4) Red tape, red tape, red tape.
5) Not yet, but looking to create and produce my own children's animated TV show one day.
 
Can I say, some very interesting jobs here and a great insight into what's behind the avatar :lol: :thumbsup:
 
inkey$ said:
1) Creative Director
2) Responsible for all creative across merchandise, live events, publishing and gaming for well known UK TV titles,
3) Its fun, I get to play with stuff and I get to visit and interact with things I used to watch as a kid.
4) Red tape, red tape, red tape.
5) Not yet, but looking to create and produce my own children's animated TV show one day.
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Wow!! there are some talented folk on this forum & not just Inky :)
 
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