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Chat & Social => The Bar - General Chat => Topic started by: Bobtail on April 02, 2007, 02:39:30
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What in the world do you do for a living?
Just to see the diversity in land rover / 4x4 ownership :shock:
I'll start as its only fair...................
I work for coca-cola in the process area making up the syrup
I'd just like to buy the world a COKE :roll: :roll: :wink: :wink:
come on then ...................what are you in the world :?: :)
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read my signature ;)
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oh this too -
http://abyssdjhire.no-ip.com/
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1998 to 2000 worked for a bodyshop as a sprayer.
2000 to now work for a ford dealer has a mechanic.
muddydisco
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hgv driver, general haulage - anything to anywhere!!
driving this:-
(http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c173/bezzabsa/card017.jpg)
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Well I used to work with old folk, looking after them and doing their shopping etc. but since the new manager took over everything went to pot so now I work for my other half and although I have the job title of company secretary I am all round general dog's body really :lol:
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I'm a wages clerk for a small bus company & do general office duties - answering the phone & typing aswell :D :D
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Security :shock:
Butch job for a shirt lifter :wink:
Seriously tho, good job, get my fair share of idiots to deal with, but most of the time its quite a pleasant job
On the side, i'm a DJ and Lighting Engineer.
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Assistant Headteacher at a secondary skool!
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Plod!
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Finishing (spraying and powder coating) Plant design
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Plod!
Ditto................4 to go till retirement :D
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Plod!
Ditto................4 to go till retirement :D
13 years, 9 months and 6 days. Not that I'm counting! :lol:
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HGV night trunk driver (which explains some of my very early posts) :shock: working for a bunch of clayheads, known in the trade as the "mandella mob" (work it out)
Tim
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i look after the kit that runs...
www.autotrader.co.uk / ie / nl / za
plus loads more i cant remember!
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work for Dastek Uk who do all the chips etc for the TD5's & other vehicles on the market,
Currently im a sales & service admin But also im the technical help for the diesel products 8)
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Run a Pet Food and Garden Supplies shop in Llanidloes, Powys.
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Area manager for a air conditioning company
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Learning & Development Consultant... currently helping to design training using instructors, computer based training & motio9n platform simulators.
In past:
Call centre induction, train the trainer, communication skills, technical system training (database use), technical telecoms engineering, team leader & team manager workshops etc.
Incidently... I know a family run garage that is looking for someone with a Land Rover interest as a mechanic. Don't think their necessarilly looking for a stealership trained person... if you know anyone.. get them in touch with me and I'll pass detaiuls on.
Skibum
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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.
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Have had my own landscaping business for about 20 odd years now
Don't do grass cutting etc. - it's all hard landscaping, decking,patios drives,walls,fences etc.
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Information Security Architect, whatever that is.
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i'm a IT support engineer.
if microsoft wrote a reliable OS, i wouldnt be in a job.........
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I worked for TVR Eng in Blackpool for 10 yrs before moving to Whitehaven 2yrs ago and i now look after my 3year old daugter in the day and drive around the lake district for tesco .com 4 evernings a week :lol:
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Programmer and IT Director .... oddly :-)
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anyone want a new website? :D
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Plod!
Ditto................4 to go till retirement :D
Likewise........but with a few more years left!!!!
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I look at interesting engineering stuff for interesting companies (predominantly automotive), supporting new manufacturing technology.
Sometimes I play with lasers; big lasers. 8)
Cheers
8)
Eeyore
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Engineer - big engines, and I mea very big, 580mm Bore 640mm stroke, or therebouts depending on which ship.
Currently workign as a complience officer (make sure everybody else does it right) on Queen Mary 2. Last on QE2 and join the Queen Victoria late this year.
The good bit is I am now at home for 2 1/2 months - on pay!
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Sometimes I play with lasers; big lasers. 8)
Cheers
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Eeyore
Are they attached to a shark's head? Or are they big ones like the one that Goldfinger used? Do you have any spare ones? :twisted:
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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)
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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 !!!!
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Self employed property repairer, plumber, kitchen/bathroom fitter, etc.
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IT Security Consultant
Do pen tests for clients and research/develop exploits for internal use.
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Plasterer' boarding 'drilining and have just started to wet screed floors as it nice and easy and we get finshed fairly early most days.Can't play with the truck though because my wife has to use it for going to work.
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Plod
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Agricultural engineer(not a farmer as some think) i currently work for a Case/JCB dealer
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Self employed Custom Painter. Mainly painting Smart Cars www.smart-suits.com although that hasn't been updated for a while!
Also export Minis and Land Rovers to the USA www.barnhillminis.com www.barnhill4x4.com although not done much exporting for the last 18 months - 2 years since the dollar went t!ts up
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Barman during the evenings/weekends. Building site labourer/dumper driver/banksman by day. Also doing some web design and 3d architectural visualisation stuff in my own (very limited!) time. Though that is tied in with the building site, so when it's time for me to get moving with it they're setting up one of the rooms in the showhouse as my office ;)
Want to swap over to full time computing, which is a possibility at the moment as the architects we used are interested in what I'm doing. The other thing I'm considering is doing a degree in Naval Architecture, though beforehand I'd need to redo a couple of my A levels.
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Hubby is a Fire Safety and Protection Engineer I am a childminder and full time mum!!
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Fishery maintainance contractor as and when the work is available (hint :lol: )
I also do a few odd jobs for people, fix a few cars and fiddle with engines now and then.
Im at uni as well at the moment studying a BSc (Hons) in Aquaculture and Fishery Management so no full time job really
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bricklayer by trade, then went in engineering 15 odd years ago aerospace fastners , now make tin cans ie coke cans ect.. plus ta reme. :)
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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
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Another Agricultural engineer here. More welding and fabrication than working on tractors.
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Senior electrical engineer for one of the biggest chartered building services engineers in the Midlands 8)
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here we go.........................play paintball!!!
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Unemployed and about to go even worse...................... open university student!
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Run my own business, retail/wholesale of Mini (the proper one!) and Morris Minor parts all round the world.
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I drive a dust cart for the local council :)
though i'd like to get into the grounds maintinance/landscaping department as a career change, cos a collage course is way too expensive and i side step in the council might give me the "on the job" training :wink:
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I'm currently working for Park Resorts as a maintenance man. did nearly 20 years in nuseries (salad crops) and a EITB engineering apprenticeship before that.
Regards, chris
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Run my own business, retail/wholesale of Mini (the proper one!) and Morris Minor parts all round the world.
ohhh thats good to know my mate is trying to rebuild a MM and might need some new bits, will let him know
dan
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trained mechanic had to give it up as i was an mma cage fighter smashed my back up so got an easy job now as a secruity gaurd :)
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work for maself as roofer 23 years, had enough goin to sit ma hgv,ma girl and her sis run a hotel on this buetiful island,if anybody visitin a could do you a good deal!!
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i was an mma cage fighter
I once watched that "Britains Hardest" and thought that Martin Freeman was a proper tool. Then the missus started watching UFC and I saw him on there and I realised he was a proper nut case. :shock:
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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 ?
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did ok at it 2 years ago took the heavy weight belt out of wales :)
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my job sounds crap compared to some of those
im a FLT driver at the michelin warehouse, where we dispatch the good old BFG's aswell
oh by the way, will people stop buying BFG's, there bloody heavy you no when you shift 100's aday
:lol:
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I work as a charge nurse in A&E..... Just like a sister but no tights.......................cept fridays. :oops:
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full time mother, to a bunch of animals lol
:lol:
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Did my bit for queen and country in the army then did my back in falling out of a plane.
So now drive a big truck up and down the country instead. Well it saves getting board at home :roll: :wink:
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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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Sales Manager for an IT company..
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Mother, home maker, student and voluntary worker at the local school.
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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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Driving instructor.
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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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I refit armoured vehicles for the MOD and in the process of setting up a garage with a mate
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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
regards
ela
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Work for ICI in the paint recipie and distribution department.
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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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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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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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Sometimes I play with lasers; big lasers. 8)
Me too- all day, every day!
(http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f206/laser_jock99/YAG_DYE_AUTOTRACKER.jpg)
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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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: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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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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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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caravan service engineer
at campbells
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Landscape gardener for 10 years in Northampton
Now running a B&B / guesthouse on The Isle of Skye
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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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Work for ICI in the paint recipie and distribution department.
There's got a member (http://forums.mud-club.com/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=8) 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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14 years as a Toolmaker/ Toolroom manager now working for EFDA at JET culham as a Engineering contractor
Darren
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Service dept for TOYOTA dealership....
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unemployed on medical grounds (bi-polar)
so i get to play with my toys quite alot. 8)
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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:
Tell me about it.....
Just got back from 6 months in Germany were I did few duties and got to play on luxury yachts and not so luxury powerboats all day....
Back to the real world on Tuesday :roll:
I presume your up Salisbury way??
Shameless recruiting drive (http://www.armyjobs.mod.uk/Jobs/JobDetail.htm?armyjobid=RLC380%2f389&category=2)
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im i right in thinking that the terrier is the replacement for the CET?? :?
That's right... and it can outrun challengers...!
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im i right in thinking that the terrier is the replacement for the CET?? :?
That's right... and it can outrun challengers...!
aslong as it dont sink like a CET :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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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:
Tell me about it.....
Just got back from 6 months in Germany were I did few duties and got to play on luxury yachts and not so luxury powerboats all day....
Back to the real world on Tuesday :roll:
I presume your up Salisbury way??
Shameless recruiting drive (http://www.armyjobs.mod.uk/Jobs/JobDetail.htm?armyjobid=RLC380%2f389&category=2)
Yeah im up salisbury way :wink: :wink: as for the recruitment drive i swicthed from the REME to the RAF :wink: :wink: :oops: :oops:
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I work in a local school as a network administrator. The pay is naff, but in the 8 month i have been there I have worked on the roll out of VoIP through out the building, Server virtualization (using VMware), as well as upgrading to blade servers and implementing a SAN.
Previously i was a UNIX/Linux network admin for a satellite telecoms and telemetry company. Was made redundant after a buyout.
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I m a nurse, ex A+E , got too stressed so now minor injury/illness at a Walk In Centre