The "what do you do for a living?" thread

[Genghis the Engineer]

No, I claim the top of the boring league table - try four months dived in a nuc boat. I tell you, you really appreciate green things like trees, grass, a blue sky and rain on your face (and a bit of beaver of course) after that lot.

Surely if there's ever a job you WANT to be boring, it's being locked in a tin can with a nuclear reactor and handful of ballistic missiles and their warheads?

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[Paul_Sengupta]

The Guildford tramp used to be a civil engineer. I was chatting to him one night, may years ago now, and he was telling me all the different projects around the county he was either responsible for or had a hand in. Quite fascinating.

[felixflyer]

I can see why he choose the life of a tramp over a civil engineer though.

I remember when I was studying civils and my brother was doing media something or other. We both had assignments to do, his was to watch Goodfellas and write an essay about it. My assignment was to write about the properties of concrete.

I should have got out whilst i had the chance.

[George]

Adman and designer. Been running own business for that long now unemployable.

[garethep]

No, I claim the top of the boring league table - try four months dived in a nuc boat. I tell you, you really appreciate green things like trees, grass, a blue sky and rain on your face (and a bit of beaver of course) after that lot.

Having just gone across to the "Dark Side" I'll back Bill up on this one.....i used to enjoy my job but a lack of "Runs ashore" or indeed anything actually happening really does put a downer on things

[Tall_Guy_In_a_PA28]

Electronics Engineer by trade. Now Technical Director of a small (but growing) Defence engineering company.

[Carole P]

Yes, there's a certain techy-geekiness with flying and I think it attracts similar technically minded people. Some would say it attracts those not quite at the bottom of the Asperger scale...

Having just read Andrews post viewtopic.php?f=6&t=80993
which went whoosh straight over the top of my head I can assure you some of us haven't got a techy bone in our bodies and I've done the Aspergers test I am so not afflicted

I was a Air Traffic Control Officer before damaging my spine out on the airfield, sadly very early retirement ensued. I now have the role of fund raiser in chief and Treasurer of a fabulous new Air Cadet Squadron in Cardiff, the Treasurer bit using some of my skills learnt when serving in the WRAC.

[chipmeisterc]

Wow thanks for all the interesting replies! Very interesting to see the types of careers, and the high proportion of IT related careers.

Perhaps we should do a left/right handed thread as well?

Game developer

..there are a couple of us on here. Where are you studying?

Ooo cool! Studying at Glamorgan... http://courses.glam.ac.uk/courses/562-bsc-hons-computer-games-development (self explanatory URL hopefully), and no, that's not me in the photo. Where do you work, and in what role?

I'm a Senior Software Engineer - which means getting stuck into pretty much anything and everything that could need coding from gameplay to low level systems. The majority of which is C++ and C# although I have occasionally had to dabble in other languages when required such as Objective C, Python, Perl and Java. I have worked on titles on most of the recent games platforms at some point - PC, PS2, PS3, XBOX360, Wii and more recently IPad/IPhone.

Haven't come across the Glamorgan course, I too did a games degree when they first started. I can't say that it set me up particularly well for the industry when I got my first job 7 years ago..and the drop out rate was fairly high. If I can recall correctly, of the 70 of us that started, only one other and myself actually graduated on time.

Others either didn't make it through or had to retake modules the following year!

I have heard that things are improving now that the courses are starting to mature, but during my time in the industry the best graduates have always come from CS degrees with lots of hands on coding.

All the best with your course!!

[AndyR]

I fly aeroplanes.





















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[Katie1]

I work for myself I run http://www.scentedhome.co.uk and http://www.rista.co.uk

I've also recently qualified as an Microlight AFI and will be training at Chatteris airfield

[vintage ATCO]

I do bu@@er all.





















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[Paul_Sengupta]

I do bu@@er all.

But still manage to remain really busy especially during the air show season?

[Skyhawk-N]

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[pb6797]

Not a lot.

I think I work for you ...

[Dave Phillips]

I don't do IT. Herself tells me that 'working in aviation' is an oxymoron.