How would you define yourself professionally apart from being a welder?

[bigegg]

Colour matcher by trade, then a book-seller by choice.

Nowadays, I'm an "Aerospace Engineer specialising in recycled materials"
(I make paper aeroplanes).

 

[CompoSimmonite]

Is there any difference between a civil servant and a retired civil servant though in terms of output?

I was one of the old school "Established Civil Servant" from an era where you were classed as a professional and were expected to work accordingly. Even today I can still legally countersign passport and firearms applications - although haven't done so for many years. My type of civil servants don't exist any more and the current "unestablished" offerings are probably just doing the job until a better position at McDonalds is available

 

[Erie Fred]

I was one of the old school "Established Civil Servant" from an era where you were classed as a professional and were expected to work accordingly. Even today I can still legally countersign passport and firearms applications - although haven't done so for many years. My type of civil servants don't exist any more and the current "unestablished" offerings are probably just doing the job until a better position at McDonalds is available

Are they often heard asking on the phone "Do you want fries with that ?".....

 

[dieselsamurai]

Started out as a Trawlerman with my dad and buying/selling boats then he died so got a safer job with a large telecommunications company until they sold off out dept so been an Computer 'Engineer' for the last 22 years . Spend about 10% of my time in front of a computer mostly physical work handy really as I have no interest in computers at all google is my friend ! Due to the nature of the work I get a lot of days where theres just no work so it gives me time to start more projects i seem to rarely finish

 

[Smallfry]

Interesting that there does not seem to be any/many people on here who do run of the mill ordinary, basic wage jobs . Or are they keeping their heads down ? I feel somewhat inadequate, and maybe a bit ashamed that I have not done more with my working life. But I was always more interested in fiddling with stuff in the workshop/garage at home.

If I had my time again ? Who knows ? I quite fancied being an Undertaker.

 

[northwest]

If I had my time again ? Who knows ? I quite fancied being an Undertaker.

My missus' dream job, or mortician (I know, probably why I lie awake at night) I quite like the idea of being a firefighter but how long I would have stuck at it is the question. I don't think I would have changed much if anything though it would have been nice t have actually been paid for some of the stuff I did.

 

[MattF]

Interesting that there does not seem to be any/many people on here who do run of the mill ordinary, basic wage jobs .

One here.

 

[RichardM]

Interesting that there does not seem to be any/many people on here who do run of the mill ordinary, basic wage jobs . Or are they keeping their heads down ? I feel somewhat inadequate, and maybe a bit ashamed that I have not done more with my working life. But I was always more interested in fiddling with stuff in the workshop/garage at home.

If I had my time again ? Who knows ? I quite fancied being an Undertaker.

Just keeping our heads down, my last job was Materials Control, ie working with spreadsheets, SAP, and suppliers. Mundane and boring, unless you want a spreadsheet knocking up.
Now wifey worked out we could retire early I tinker.

 

[addjunkie]

My missus' dream job, or mortician (I know, probably why I lie awake at night) I quite like the idea of being a firefighter but how long I would have stuck at it is the question. I don't think I would have changed much if anything though it would have been nice t have actually been paid for some of the stuff I did.

Odd my Mrs was told in careers when she wanted to be an undertaker….not to be so stupid women dont do that. As for fireman, Ive spent enough time in a nomex suit and BA set to know those boys are under paid and under valued.

I wanted to be a lollipop man and start work at 65, but as I approach the starting age Ive changed my mind. Would I do it different if I were to get another go, probably not, as Im still not really sure whatI wanted to do in the first place.

 

[Robotstar5]

Odd my Mrs was told in careers when she wanted to be an undertaker….not to be so stupid women dont do that.

My youngest sister was told the best she could hope for was serving behind the counter in a shop. She served behind the counter, worked her way up to manager, then area manager of a group of shops while doing business quals at night school, she's now the business manager (basically 2nd in command to the head teacher) of a pair of schools, one of them was the one that predicted her career.

 

[selectedgrub]

Interesting that there does not seem to be any/many people on here who do run of the mill ordinary, basic wage jobs . Or are they keeping their heads down ? I feel somewhat inadequate, and maybe a bit ashamed that I have not done more with my working life. But I was always more interested in fiddling with stuff in the workshop/garage at home.

If I had my time again ? Who knows ? I quite fancied being an Undertaker.

A gambler will tell you how much he has won.
Never what he's lost.

 

[northwest]

I wanted to be a lollipop man and start work at 65, but as I approach the starting age Ive changed my mind. Would I do it different if I were to get another go, probably not, as Im still not really sure whatI wanted to do in the first place.

I am right there with you on this one, ex mrs NW will tell you I really didn't start any sort of career until I was forty five. I don't know, it has kept people on their toes that's for sure.

 

[Morrisman]

Lucky git?

Not sure luck came into it. I have to admit, I thought I was living the dream, in the Philippines. On my 56th birthday I received my first pension cheque. I was stood on the roof garden of our luxury 3 story house, drinking a beer and thinking “I’ve made it, I’ve arrived, I’ve actually achieved everything I ever dreamed about”

Six months later it was over. My retirement from the oil fields meant I was home all the time, which interfered somewhat with my wife’s ‘extramarital activities’. Once I discovered what she had been up to for several years the sticky stuff really hit the fan. Long story short, I took my daughter, left everything else behind, and moved back to the U.K.

 

[Mad Mick]

Gosh Morrisman, that sounds grim, hope things improved later in your life.

 

[Morrisman]

Gosh Morrisman, that sounds grim, hope things improved later in your life.

I’m better off than many people, so I shouldn’t complain, but it’s still painful remembering the lofty heights I achieved in life, before dropping back to the real world.

Better to have lived and lost, than never to have lived at all.

Or something like that.

The house



The toys

 

[CompoSimmonite]

If I had my time again ? Who knows ? I quite fancied being an Undertaker.

An ex neighbour was an undertaker. He said in bad accidents the "deceased" had to be collected with a dustpan and brush ! Whenever he had a garden bonfire we used to say he was "doing a foreigner"

 

[Tinbasherdan]

'Those that can, do - those that can't, teach...'

Sadly I have worked with many that fall in line with that. In fact the less you can do, the higher up in education management you seem to get. One of the many reasons I’m looking for a way out

 

[Memmeddu]

Interesting that there does not seem to be any/many people on here who do run of the mill ordinary, basic wage jobs . Or are they keeping their heads down ?

We live of hope and dreams
Maybe more dreams than hope .
Anyway I do a job which in the other parts of my country is paid around 2000 euros month .
My paycheck now is 1150 euros cause I'm not in a industry but in private company.
That's more than what I should get paid since government said I should get 740 euros month for 160 hours of work .
That's what I've got as first payment,then 950 for a year or so , lately 1050 .
Despite that we worked for NATO too.
In Switzerland for example an experienced machinist in the right place can get 7 to 10 thousand euros month for 120 hours of work.
And I usually do 200 working hours.

Unfortunately isn't enough to do everything I would but, enough to slowly setting up a future .
I can't ask much either cause we all get paid roughly the same spacing between 950 and 1400 euros per month.

 

[addjunkie]

Interesting that there does not seem to be any/many people on here who do run of the mill ordinary, basic wage jobs . Or are they keeping their heads down ? I feel somewhat inadequate, and maybe a bit ashamed that I have not done more with my working life. But I was always more interested in fiddling with stuff in the workshop/garage at home.

If I had my time again ? Who knows ? I quite fancied being an Undertaker.

We all can only do what we think is right at the time, jobs, spending, saving, wifes, girlfriends etc….dont look back, just keep moving forward. If you seek change, only you can make it happen!

 

[sparkysy]

I have pretty much always been an electrician, since leaving school!
I did a stint as an electrical wholesaler for about a year and decided it was better on the tools!!
For the last at least 20 years I have been my own boss and don't know if I could go back to being employed.
I have however last week gone LTD after 6 years of building the business back up to where I was 7 years ago.
Most of the time I love it and wouldn't change it for anything, like all jobs it has its ups and downs but I will continue until I don't enjoy it anymore and then hopefully retire.
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