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Chat & Social => The Bar - General Chat => Topic started by: thermidorthelobster on December 09, 2005, 17:08:39
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(reposted as the board gremlins ate this first time round)
It occurred to me that most of us here either seem to drive trucks (or other large vehicles) for a living, or work in IT. Apart from Bush Tucker Man, of course, who works for the NHS.
Anybody want to prove me wrong?
David (sells software)
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I dont work due to disability, but when i last worked i was a night club manager!
Admittedly before that i was an IT engineer, but thats besides the point!!
Now would the damned gremlins leave the threads alone, cos i aint typing it out for a third bleeding time! lol
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i allegedly servie and maintain trains :D
Steve
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I'm an accountant (yawn :roll: ).
I'd have thought an almost as popular question would be who does/did work for the armed forces, lots of people here seem to have been connected somehow.
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I'm a process engineer specialising in advanced technologies for auto structures.
I play with robots and stuff. Coooool.
cheers
8)
Eeyore
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My job is riot control
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i work in an alarm recieving ctr for a major telecommunications company dealing CCTV, burglar, gas, fire and flood alarms i'm a supervispor before that i've worked in forestry and 2 many things to say!!!!
dazza :D
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So far it's 50/50 IT&truckers vs other. Come on Colin009, Tufftee, Thrasher and the rest!
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Have done lorry driving..computers are beyond me...now run my own workshop/servicing+repairs+mot,s. :roll:
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So far it's 50/50 IT&truckers vs other. Come on Colin009, Tufftee, Thrasher and the rest!
*sniff* what am I ? Chopped Liver ?
Internet Security
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I serv queen and country 8)
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*sniff* what am I ? Chopped Liver ?
Internet Security
Ok if you say so Daz? :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
I'm an "Aircraft PushBack Driver" and "Aircraft Brake Rider"
Means i play with Boeing 747's and go in the cockpit and start the systems up etc
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go in the cockpit and start the systems up etc
Do they know? :D
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I used to deliver trucks for rental companys then i got bored of that and started cleaning cars.
But there's better money on the road so, now, I drive an arctic for a living.
Not the best job in the world but i get to see interesting things and the pays...OK.
:D
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go in the cockpit and start the systems up etc
Do they know? :D
Yes cos its part of my Job!
I get a Whole extra £42.00 a month to do that!
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Hmmmm..
Well....I "work with computers" :-)
Most of you will, if you own a mobile phone, come across one of my systems ;-) (especially if you have a Vodafone or Vodacom phone!)
Or if your TV/Video/Electrical thing/Washer etc etc goes wrong ... well, we've got that base covered too :-)
....and if you don't own a mobile phone/tv/etc then the chances are one of our systems might sell you one.....gosh! If you own an Orange phone ... you may well have a receipt from one of my EPOS systems <giggle>
That's enough selling I think <grin>
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I'm a dog groomer..............with all the knowledge gained from a BioMedical Science degree going to waste!
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Im both a trucker and a Open Source software guru. I voted on truck tho :wink:
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Same as pux Queen and Country for 12 years now(http://www.websmileys.com/sm/trans/fahr39.gif)
Got my HGV so I suppose im a trucker too.
Dont know a thing about computers though(http://www.websmileys.com/sm/comp/comp26.gif)
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Oooo well, I'm a Drayman (do you know what it is yet)
Have been a tyre fitter, hire car preparer and retail warehouse manager,
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Used to be in the military driving, then driving trucks round Europe and fitting, but now a carer for the wife and father, computers wise, not too bad, can fix them hardware wise, but now my knowledge is a bit out of date, too much new stuff to keep up with
Gives me more time to spend with the motors I have now :wink:
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Oooo well, I'm a Drayman (do you know what it is yet)
Have been a tyre fitter, hire car preparer and retail warehouse manager,
draymen hey u deliver yummy beer
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*sniff* what am I ? Chopped Liver ?
Internet Security
Ok if you say so Daz? :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
I'm an "Aircraft PushBack Driver" and "Aircraft Brake Rider"
Means i play with Boeing 747's and go in the cockpit and start the systems up etc
please take extra care on any Quantas 747's heading for Singapour next friday
H
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I am semi-retired and work as a Pestand Vermin Controller , been trying to nail that RAT BLAIR for ages -need a bigger trap,
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I make sheds
I deliver sheds ( only a 3.5 tonner)
I built my company web-site
I'm an Ex-bootneck.
One crazy mixed up kid!
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I make sheds
I deliver sheds ( only a 3.5 tonner)
I built my company web-site
I'm an Ex-bootneck.
One crazy mixed up kid!
:roll: dam boot necks :wink: :lol: :lol: just jokin wish i could have my own buisness me and a mate were thinking survival and a few other things we are both qed in survival and afew other things 8)
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I make sheds
I deliver sheds ( only a 3.5 tonner)
I built my company web-site
I'm an Ex-bootneck.
One crazy mixed up kid!
And I thought Sheddy was because of your L/R :lol: :lol: :twisted:
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I used to install and repair networks but now drive a truck money better and i enjoy the open( :shock: ) road
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I do embedded Linux systems, currently working on a WiMAX broadband wireless base station & radio head.
Neil
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thats the other bit i enjoy no trying to rack my brains out on complex systems. :shock:
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school caretaker.
so i clean up what comes out of both ends of children.
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Driving instructor, completely the other end of the scale.
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i am a landscape gardener
although i am preparing a business plan for my new business.
i will sell my body to extremely rich and beautiful ladies between the age of 18 and 36.
as the turnover will be so high,i will of course have to be vat registered straight away.
as a contingency plan,if the takings are not as forecast then i will diversify and accomodate an age group of up to 45.
the various tools and extensions that i will possibly need to aquire will of course be offset against my tax.
a great amount of funds will be paid into my personal pension and i shall retire after my third year in business.
a happy man :D
mike
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i was a driver in the army, then a taxi driver, then a dreyman, now i'm a carer for my wife who is disabled and trying to fix my disco on a "ant's" shoe string...... 8)
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now i'm a carer for my wife who is disabled and trying to fix my disco on a "ant's" shoe string...... 8)
would it not be quicker and a lot less trouble for your wife if you fixed the disco instead of her :lol: :lol:
only joking good look i used to look after a young lad that was left totally paralysed after a car accident its was hard work
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I fix landrovers 5 days a week & play with them offroad the other 2 :lol: :lol:
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I make sure people dont kill themselves while at work :lol:
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:D spent 9 years in armed forces and driving hgv for 16 years in that time had my own truck and was running europe and beyond into eastern bloc countries european fridge freight used to have a volvo globetrotter f16 500 horses under your ass is good fun fitted out with a middle east pack which use to include shower will dig some pics out now .....im a house husband the wife is working :lol: and i look after 4 children 2 dogs and 3 landrovers and i love them all :lol:
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I make sure people dont kill themselves while at work :lol:
What - do you throw yourself in front of industrial machinery whilst shouting "Nooooooooooooo........" :)
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I'm an electrical design engineer for one of the largest building services consultancies in the Midlands.
The general lighting, emergency lighting, fire alarm and general power systems for the L322 Body In White at Lode Lane are my design :D
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The general lighting, emergency lighting, fire alarm and general power systems for the L322 Body In White at Lode Lane are my design :D
Wasn't that the building which recently burnt to the ground after the electric system shorted out? :? Only joking...
My claim to fame is that my best man Greg designed the mud guards on the current Defender (yes, the ones which rub on the exhaust - it was the exhaust people's fault of course) and the bonnet release catch.
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I work in the IT department of a satellite communications and tracking company, also do some development work on new products.
Even currently doing the nerdy thing of sitting in front of the telly whilst browsing MC on my laptop. :oops: what a great idea WiFi is.
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Almost twenty years welding/fabricating/7.5t lorry driving................
Now unemployed...just before christmas, eh, hows that.
Just a little pi@@ed off..
Looking to take class 2 Lgv in new year then class 1.
Two wheeled hardtail/three wheeled trike/18wheeled monstrossity...
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Apart from Bush Tucker Man, of course, who works for the NHS
But, Bush Tucker Man wants to drive trucks & not work for the NHS any more
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spent 4 years training to be an engineer, then promptly went into retail for the best end of a decade. been on the tills, manager and auditor (copper with a calculator). Spent time in car sales, as a mechanic doing servicing and repairs and currently spend my time working in my mates bodyshop stripping & fitting. Still do a bit of retail - another mate owns a petrol station & I run that when his manager is on holiday.
Time for a change again soon - moving up to Lincs/Leics in the next 6 months which means finding a job up there.Anyone need a dogsbody?? :D
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I work for a very large organisation and test vehicles from PSV / HGV downwards to ensure they are roadworthy.
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Coach driver for 13 years - UK & Continent :D , keep thinking of a change but aint got a clue what else to do :?
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Currently it's 20 to the nerds & truckers, 19 to the rest. So potentially over half the members here drive trucks or mess around with computers! There's a message in there somewhere, but I'm not sure what it is.
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Have spent the last 18yrs driving HGVs............3yrs in HM Forces all over Europe, left and went into civiy street driving..............all over Europe............. :?
Now drive a skip lorry on a 40mile radius from my home town.
Before that I worked on farms...........milking, calfing, lambing, ploughing, hay-making.......you name it.. the works
NOW..............
I want to get of the road and back into farming.............fat chance of that happening............with farming the state it is now. :cry: :cry:
Am seriously looking for a small holding in north Wales, got a plan........Buy & raise a few hundred sheep ...... and to help with this I would breed & train sheepdogs.
Just one small problem
No bl**dy money................... :cry:
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I have my own business - doing web site hosting and development - that's more making it do stuff rather than making it look fancy :wink:
Worked for myself for 10+ years.
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Local Council Gas Engineer and NO I don't do jobs on the side before you all ask !. :lol:
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I work for a prestige body shop assessing damaged vehicles for insurance company's, basically mean's taking images & compiling a computerised estimate,
Rest of the time on hear ( :-$ dont tell the boss ),
John.
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i have worked 20 years as a HGV fitter, was great fun playing with Scania's and refuse vehicles.
now i am an ICT technician coz i culd spel that on the aplication from and now werk in a scool wiv kids
just found out i could earn more filling shelves at LIDL :oops:
sad world we live in
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Currently it's 20 to the nerds & truckers, 19 to the rest. So potentially over half the members here drive trucks or mess around with computers! There's a message in there somewhere, but I'm not sure what it is.
Nerds have internet access? now there's a shock ;)
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Currently it's 20 to the nerds & truckers, 19 to the rest. So potentially over half the members here drive trucks or mess around with computers! There's a message in there somewhere, but I'm not sure what it is.
Nerds have internet access? now there's a shock ;)
And truckers are used to staring through glass all day
:lol:
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I am a director in my own business selling parts for classic Minis. Much of my time is spent packing parcels and pallets for shipping to Japan or the US. That's not when I'm on the phone answering the same old questions about fitting 1275cc Metro engines into 1000 cc Minis..... must be at least 3 times a week!
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And truckers are used to staring through glass all day
:lol:
Does that help for Friday nights down the pub too?? :lol:
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I've been driving trucks in various guises for the last 15 years and spent 15 years before that driving buses and coaches, have been pretty much all over this country and lots of bits in europe, I'd love to get off the road but at the moment it isn't possible to earn a decent living anywhere else with my qualifications, (none apart from vocational licences).
I'm expecting to be forced into other employment eventually because I'm diabetic and as soon as the DVLA hear the word "insulin", they snatch your vocational licences and your livelihood away from you, nice eh?
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Work for Queen and country too, comms engineer.
:P
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I'm an Assistant Technical Officer in N.H.S. Blood Bank. :(vamp):
As part of my job I drive an Emergency car.
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I work for Age Concern, basically driving from one persons house to another and helping folks in their homes. I used to drive for a living though :lol:
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I am from another planet sent here to try an understand the human race. The males of your species are simple enough but the females I have still to figure out? While here I have done various jobs to keep my cover including driving a 7.5 tonner for 3 1/2 years, I have also weilded spanners for a wage and worked as a freelance Grips in the film & TV industry mounting cameras on things for programs such as Top Gear and and Only Fools and Horses. On your plannet I have also done some engineering and even worked as a welder fabricator for a few years. At the moment I am working in the motor industry testing ECU's and supplying garages with technical products and informaton as well as service products and garage equipment. :lol:
Still I know very little about the female of your kind even though I have been what you call "MARRIED" for many years!! :lol:
By the way best job ever was pilot of a Valurian deep space core mining ship running the Kalrian blockades on the outer edge of the Silisan quadrant. :wink: (a sort of truck driver)
nanoo nanoo
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I`ve been a driver, Sales man, ran my own landscaping business but now running a B B with the wifey
Always wanted to be a kept man but she said a bloody big no to that ho hum
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I'm a self employed electrician, mainly central London shopfitting work, sometimes it's office refurbishments but over the last couple of weeks it's been fitting Christmas lights in several London stores. :roll: :roll:
Gary.
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I`ve been a driver, Sales man, ran my own landscaping business but now running a B B with the wifey
The other half and i have been looking at a holiday in scotland do tell me more about your b&b i like the isle of skye
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I drive fuel tankers for Total, before that I drove fuel tankers for Asda and before that I drove fuel tankers for Queen and Country, you could say I'm a Tanker driver for All and Sundry :(scared):
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gtomo2,
You have a PM.
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I fix trucks. Mainly Foden and DAF, but worked on most makes in the past. Only driven as far as Breda in Holland, but enjoed the drive in a left hooker FH12 Globetrotter on full air 8) 8)
Feel like retiring the spanners, see what the new year brings.
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I love the Volvo Trucks!
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i drive a globetrotter for a living the boss tryed to buy me a new iveco stralis told him were to park it. so i am staying with the globey
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I'm a carpenter & joiner spend all day in a workshop making one off doors and windows and the like boring same four walls but the money keeps the landy's going, :wink: works just a means to an ends.
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I fix police cars. Im ALWAYS busy.......
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ive completed my 5 year mechanical enginnering apprenticeship this year, cnc milling/ turning all the fitting skills welding etc, used to make a lot of moulds,
now assembly and install massive water and sewage pumps!
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ive completed my 5 year mechanical enginnering apprenticeship this year, cnc milling/ turning all the fitting skills welding etc, used to make a lot of moulds,
now assembly and install massive water and sewage pumps!
Moulds and sewage......... kinda goes together (http://users.pandora.be/eforum/emoticons4u/obscene/eck15.gif)
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STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODENT!
say no more :wink:
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HM Coastguard. Keeping the crews of Britains Inflatable lobsters safe. :wink:
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i am an electrical test engineer . was truck driver, worked as spark for film and tv b4 that. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,b4 that sat in my family security company, doing not a lot. started as hairdresser. now i work hard trying to do litle as poss.
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started off as an agricultural engineer, meaning i used to repair farm machinery etc , then worked for a company building and repairing woodchippers and large wood recyclers and now i work for a company repairing chippers and stumpgrinders, oh and i have a class 1 HGV but i dont do it for a living :D
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Just about to embark on my new career, working in a womens' domestic violence refuge - I start on Thursday! :D
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Here you go David! Just to wet your appetite?
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And a couple More?
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me I just teach people how to use Landrover products ....used to drive trucks got fed up with morons screaming down the phone that you should not obey the speed limits,telling customers that you have had a break down /puncture or just nip to x and collect a load its only an inch on the map and being cut up by suicide merchants that think you can stop an artic in 3 metres ............now my mobile office has a screen saver that changes with the seasons and also i meet some really relaxed people i dont have any stress and feel great i also get to do the shows too, you wont see life any better than this :lol:
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Served in RAF for 24 years (aircraft tech) now teach RAF and other military students how to be technicians. So still work for the govt!! :roll:
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Well I started as a Toolmaker making / repairing rubber mould tools
now I am a self employed mechanical Inspector working on / in a Nuclear Fusion reactor :shock:
Darren
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Spend most of my time designing pharmaceutical process equipment and machinery on a 3D CAD system.
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Nev u keep the planes to ur self matey i see to many of em everyday aswell but not as brightly coloured as yours :lol: :wink:
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Ooooh! Nev, those pics shoulda come with a warning to flying phobics!!!! :(bigshock):
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Funny really.
You get your HGV licence and all you want to do is drive massive motors.
Tufftee, your trucks are well small.
:lol:
The trailer is *quite* large though
:oops:
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Im with the NHS too.
an orthotist if that means anything to anyone :?
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Im with the NHS too.
an orthotist if that means anything to anyone :?
oo i know ah no i dont wot is it :lol: :lol:
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its what used to be thought of as surgical appliances.
range from hospital/orthopaedic footwear, insoles for almost anything and can get to the very serious looking halo ring and vests (the ones like daniel beddingfield had to wear for ages) to immobilise the neck.
great aye!
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its what used to be thought of as surgical appliances.
range from hospital/orthopaedic footwear, insoles for almost anything and can get to the very serious looking halo ring and vests (the ones like daniel beddingfield had to wear for ages) to immobilise the neck.
great aye!
cheers now i know :wink: :D
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I sell crap, lots of crap.
Mike
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I sell crap, lots of crap.
Mike
You either work for Ratners, or a fertilizer manufacturer, then?? :lol:
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I'm a toolmaker by trade. Injection moulds, jigs and fixtures and press tools. Drifted into special purpose machinery in my early 20's and spent 20yrs traveling this green and pleasant land. (When it was). Now work as a maintenance engineer (chargehand) for paper manufacturer. Also part time digger driver, fencer, paver and anything else. Looking forward to retirement if Blair will let me. :roll:
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Nev u keep the planes to ur self matey i see to many of em everyday aswell but not as brightly coloured as yours :lol: :wink:
Pux! Not as Big As Either :wink: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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ah nev are c17s aint that small :lol:
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ah nev are c17s aint that small :lol:
Wonder How many of them we could get in a Jumbo Freighter? :lol:
I spent 5 days on a C5 Galaxy a few years Ago? Now that is Big!
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umm we only have five so u probaly still have room :lol: :lol: we could fill the gap wit one of are hercules :lol:
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Pux! Let me know if they are interested in a Fully Qualified and highly experienced PushBack/Tow Driver?
I could do with getting a Job Closer to Home? :lol:
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i'm an on train engineer - spend all day stood in engine rooms of high speed trains attempting to keep things running (which sometimes leads to some very interesting flashes and bangs) :lol:
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Pux! Let me know if they are interested in a Fully Qualified and highly experienced PushBack/Tow Driver?
I could do with getting a Job Closer to Home? :lol:
we do have civilian bowser drivers and tug drivers here on camp and every now again jobs pop when one leaves so i will keep my eye out for ya they have an easy life here they only deal with the hercules ere so that will be like pushing a match box round for you :lol: :lol: :cry:
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Pux! Let me know if they are interested in a Fully Qualified and highly experienced PushBack/Tow Driver?
I could do with getting a Job Closer to Home? :lol:
we do have civilian bowser drivers and tug drivers here on camp and every now again jobs pop when one leaves so i will keep my eye out for ya they have an easy life here they only deal with the hercules ere so that will be like pushing a match box round for you :lol: :lol: :cry:
Whatever! I enjoy my work! 8)
I hate the company i work For? :shock:
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i'm a tree surgeon ! :D
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i'm a tree surgeon ! :D
"I'm a lumberJack and i'm Ok! I work by night and i sleep all Day"!
Don't worry i forgot the Rest? :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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umm we only have five so u probaly still have room :lol: :lol: we could fill the gap wit one of are hercules :lol:
Last time I looked, we only had 4! :?
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Well from the look of the poll so far truckers ain't winning but the nerd's are even lower down the heap :shock:
So It looks like us "Doing something totally different" gang are in the lead then :D
We mend broken buildings, believe me if you think you can break a LandRover that's the tip of the iceberg compared to mother nature ......... or a truck running into your house ............. etc
When you go to a 2 storey Terrace house with a basement and attic, find a hairline crack in the basement................
gets a bit wider as you look up .......................
Then you go into the attic and can walk through to next door ........
:shock:
By comparison a stuck diff lock switch isn't a big problem :)
But it makes life interesting :!:
In this particular case sticky backed plastic and string wasn't quite enough :wink:
Dave
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umm we only have five so u probaly still have room :lol: :lol: we could fill the gap wit one of are hercules :lol:
Last time I looked, we only had 4! :?
There not ours anyway, just rented.
Only got nasty noisy old Jags near me.
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By comparison a stuck diff lock switch isn't a big problem :)
Damn, you just reminded me...
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I would like to drive a truck, but lack of relevant licences is kind of stopping me... :(
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I've worked in comms for the last 19 years for a well-known comms company (not BT !), covered all sorts of radio, fibre, PDH, SDH, modems, bridges, routers, switches.
Would love to get out of the industry and do something else, but I reckon a certain little incident in Hemel will keep me occupied for the next few months !!!!
Jim