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Offline simon15

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« Reply #60 on: April 03, 2007, 16:23:54 »
Aluminium Fabricator...

thats the posh word for it. i make aluminium windows (oh what fun_)  :lol:  :lol:

at least i can get hold of ally and stuff if i ever need it for the truck :):)
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« Reply #61 on: April 03, 2007, 16:36:06 »
Sales Manager for an IT company..
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« Reply #62 on: April 03, 2007, 16:43:18 »
Mother, home maker, student and voluntary worker at the local school.
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« Reply #63 on: April 03, 2007, 19:41:14 »
Domestic Gas Service Engineer for Wakefield District Housing.

Pretty boring repetetive job but the pay is decent and I get Friday afternoons off.
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« Reply #64 on: April 03, 2007, 20:01:54 »
Driving instructor.
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« Reply #65 on: April 03, 2007, 20:24:05 »
IT Support. However, like Bobtail, i used to make concentrates (for Britvic). A long time ago, when i had just got out of college.
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« Reply #66 on: April 03, 2007, 20:30:10 »
I refit armoured vehicles for the MOD and in the process of setting up a garage with a mate
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« Reply #67 on: April 03, 2007, 22:06:50 »
Hi

i get paid for working tues/wed/thurs at a civil eng. company doing admin and work unpaid for the rest of the time being servant to Lauren & Jodie (the twins) :lol:

geoff is currently ASBO oops sorry i meant Ass.Pro. (associate professor) at nottm uni in mech. eng. altho' he is being approached for professor at a couple of places - yes he fits the idea of a mad professor - i am looking for leather patches for his jackets and jumpers

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« Reply #68 on: April 03, 2007, 22:27:53 »
Work for ICI in the paint recipie and distribution department.
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« Reply #69 on: April 03, 2007, 22:56:54 »
i own my own business in leicestershire, i cator for peugeot 205 and 309 Gti's ,road, track, and rally cars
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« Reply #70 on: April 03, 2007, 23:05:42 »
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I install and commission all manner of communications kit - from simple little ADSL routers to GigE beasties, this includes all the network links inbetween, be they fibre, copper or radio !

And no, I don't work for BT or NTL/Virgin Media !!!!


Ex Mercury/Cable & Wireless network planning engineer here...  :D


Ah, one of the good ones then !!!!!

I'm ex-TR, ex-MCL, currently C&W, but waiting to see what happens next  :evil:

Where were you based ?


Initial London... Nine Elms lane then round the corner a Vauxhall Cross. Planned the customer and network circuits using MORI/COPS etc.

Then a move to Glasgow... home... change of pace change of life! Moved into training HR L&D around 95/96 but stayed in Glasgow. Did lot's of time a the C&W College at Coventry...

What about you?
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« Reply #71 on: April 03, 2007, 23:08:00 »
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I refit armoured vehicles for the MOD and in the process of setting up a garage with a mate


Working on the TERRIER Project for BAE...  :D
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« Reply #72 on: April 03, 2007, 23:23:09 »
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Sometimes I play with lasers; big lasers.  8)


Me too- all day, every day!

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« Reply #73 on: April 04, 2007, 04:47:32 »
I work for The National Trust as a Reserve Warden on the Suffolk Coast, the reserve is 2000 acres (10 miles long & 1 mile wide) been here since 1997.

Before that I was a contract warden for 10 years other conservation bodies and working on private estates around the country
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« Reply #74 on: April 04, 2007, 20:49:57 »
:D I was a flight attendant (trolley dolly), now I am a self employed seamstress and mother of 2 kids and 3 fur/feather babies.  My husband is area manager for a traffic management company.
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« Reply #75 on: April 04, 2007, 20:53:51 »
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i look after the kit that runs...

www.autotrader.co.uk / ie / nl / za

plus loads more i cant remember!


Know someone else that works there, only i dont actually remeber her real name :)

Network Security Support Engineer By day
Electronics Consultant & Design Engineer + Alarm installer when I'm not doing that.


and by what name do you know her as? which part of the UK is she based? as we have 13 mag centres plus the digital side of things (last count)


Aunti Bumps, drives a Snot green Scooby.

Eeyore - Got an mine DPSS units you can 'loose'  :wink:
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« Reply #76 on: April 04, 2007, 21:12:02 »
I own a company that designs and builds wooden houses......not posh sheds as most of my friends say............ www.timberhomesalgarve.com
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« Reply #77 on: April 04, 2007, 21:34:27 »
caravan service engineer

at campbells
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« Reply #78 on: April 04, 2007, 21:45:18 »
Landscape gardener for 10 years in Northampton

Now running a B&B / guesthouse on The Isle of Skye
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« Reply #79 on: April 04, 2007, 22:10:42 »
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[Working on the TERRIER Project for BAE...  :D


working on Bulldog conversions also a BAE project but as a contractor

Terrier looks like a good bit of kit.
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« Reply #80 on: April 05, 2007, 09:46:01 »
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Work for ICI in the paint recipie and distribution department.


There's got a member on here (he doesn't come on much though nowadays) who works for one of your rivals (Manor Paints at Shipley)
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« Reply #81 on: April 05, 2007, 11:18:30 »
14 years as a Toolmaker/ Toolroom manager now working for EFDA at JET culham as a Engineering contractor


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« Reply #82 on: April 05, 2007, 20:22:31 »
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I refit armoured vehicles for the MOD and in the process of setting up a garage with a mate


Working on the TERRIER Project for BAE...  :D

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 my work mate came from bea where are you working,must tell him as a lot of his old muckers still work for b.e.a systems
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if its got boobs or wheels its bound to be trouble

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« Reply #83 on: April 05, 2007, 21:30:00 »
i served my time as a diesel fuel injection enginer and worked as such for ten years approx,i then went to work as a project enginer for liebherr earth movers for 4 years got home sick moved back to north yorkshire worked for a demolition company as part of a team looking after the heavy plant.i now work for a leisure company sevicing and repairing motor homes and caravans now in my tenth year..
                             regards john. t :D
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« Reply #84 on: April 05, 2007, 21:52:28 »
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I refit armoured vehicles for the MOD and in the process of setting up a garage with a mate


Working on the TERRIER Project for BAE...  :D

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 my work mate came from bea where are you working,must tell him as a lot of his old muckers still work for b.e.a systems


Be very surprised if he knows me... working on the training side of the TERRIER project in Leicester office.

Pen and Pooter rather than Hammer & Spanner!  :lol:
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« Reply #85 on: April 05, 2007, 23:40:54 »
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I refit armoured vehicles for the MOD and in the process of setting up a garage with a mate


Working on the TERRIER Project for BAE...  :D

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 my work mate came from bea where are you working,must tell him as a lot of his old muckers still work for b.e.a systems


Be very surprised if he knows me... working on the training side of the TERRIER project in Leicester office.

Pen and Pooter rather than Hammer & Spanner!  :lol:
im  i right in thinking that the terrier is the replacement for the CET?? :?
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« Reply #86 on: April 05, 2007, 23:49:31 »
Until last year I was selling software for the global storage company AndyCWB now works for.  But now I'm a trainee physics teacher.
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« Reply #87 on: April 06, 2007, 08:18:35 »
I'm a Marine Engineer, responsible (along with about 63 others) for keeping the army's aged fleet of landing craft afloat and servicable.

Keep being told though, that being a soldier comes first and my trade comes second, which is why I still have to all the boring military stuff....
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« Reply #88 on: April 06, 2007, 09:31:32 »
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I'm a Marine Engineer, responsible (along with about 63 others) for keeping the army's aged fleet of landing craft afloat and servicable.

Keep being told though, that being a soldier comes first and my trade comes second, which is why I still have to all the boring military stuff....
amen brother :lol:  :lol:  why cant they just let us play with the toys all day long instead of crap dutys etc etc  :wink:  :wink:  :wink:
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« Reply #89 on: April 06, 2007, 09:43:46 »
Service dept for TOYOTA dealership....
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