Whats your day job?

[Smudger]

RETIRED!!!!!


Just recently - can you tell?

 

[pren]

Warehouse monkey for a local £ shop!

Totally fulfulling.

Just what I spent 3 years at University for! :roll: :lol:



Is it me, or does there seem to be a disproportionate amount of IT types on here? :-s

 

[Peter T]

Technical director for an American laser machine tool company. That's why I get go there a lot!!

 

[Shultzy]

Before I retired I was in IT, amazing how many IT people's hobby is woodwork.

 

[Digit]

I was thinking the same shultzy, is it something to do with the job or what?

Roy.

 

[DaveL]

Is it me, or does there seem to be a disproportionate amount of IT types on here? :-s

Well after spending the whole day arguing how something you can't see working should work, when it don't, it's good to get into the shop and work on something you can touch. :lol:

 

[joiner_sim]

At school I took woodwork for GCSE, and less than a month into the course, I was given the chance to change courses and go into GNVQ ICT course. So I did. Left school I started apprentiship in carpentry and joinery!?! explain that? Maybe being stuck at a computer desk isn't physically challenging enough and causes the mind to want to do practical work?

 

[oddsocks]

Retired

Jealous :wink: :roll:

Head up a third line support team in IT, we support a large national network.

But if asked at a party I will say a traffic warden and duck as it stops all the questions about their home PC. ](*,)

I manage a technical network and applications design, implementation and support team in NA, EMEA and ASIA responsible for the network infrastructure that allows the company to deliver managed services (keeping other peoples voice and data services working).... my wife is fond of saying 'but you're in communications' (typically when the TV signal is bad, then something about getting a man on the moon etc)
Similar to the other DaveL - I say 'People Manager' so as not to fix other peoples computer and internet issues (doesn't work though!).


I saw in this thread the comment re IT in woodworking......I started 25 years ago when on a deep tech course and had spent the winter term calculating the voltage needed to bend a beam to hit the edge of the TV screen (no LCD then!) -others on the course signed out machine code programmers to use over christmas.......I bought some cheap tools, laminate board and made something I could see - a slide for my children. Next end of term I built it again with proper wood having discovered chipboard and rain don't mix.

I guess it's that the stress of modern IT & networks (when it breaks you know in minutes and the $ per minute of downtime is acute) that needs a hands on visible results hobby


Dave Long

 

[Digit]

At the end of the day a man who can build his house will have somewhere to live, the one who designs it may well have to hire someone to build it.
We need Indians as well as Chiefs and something you craft has something special about it.
You can't really leave your son a computer programme but you can leave him a lifetime of pleasure.

Roy.

 

[oddsocks]

Is it me, or does there seem to be a disproportionate amount of IT types on here? :-s

Well after spending the whole day arguing how something you can't see working should work, when it don't, it's good to get into the shop and work on something you can touch. :lol:

Exactly!

And if I knew why the issue that happens randomly (1 minute to 3 hours) for less than a second in my network for the last week was occuring I would be much happier! Not really disruptive but highly visible and no indication in any log file or trace :-( . Where is that hammer?

 

[Rich]

I'm not a techie byany standards, but i thoroughly enjoy the benefits they bring, this forum is a prime example, having said that, I still stick by my old saying that computers don't jump off desks and make and mend things, it still takes manual skills to do that.

Regards,

Rich.

 

[mailee]

Waisting my lfe away repairing and spraying cars, Looking forward to retirement in China. Oh and drinking lots of beer.

 

[Digit]

Why China?

Roy.

 

[mailee]

SWMBO is Chinese Roy, Back home to the family and the sun.

 

[Jay James]

Safety Equipment Engineer for the MoD. (work in a bomb disposal regiment). 8)

 

[Raggy]

CNC programmer / machine setter making bits for aeroplanes

 

[Waka]

Retired

 

[PowerTool]

Tankplanner for worlds largest intermodal operator,importing and exporting bulk chemicals;also Dangerous Goods Safety Advisor and Product Steward (means I have to both find the tanks,and make sure I don't wreck them :lol: )

Andrew

 

[AndrewC]

Applied physicist working in semiconductor manufacturing - yes, I'm one of those guys who goes to work, dresses up in a white bunny suit then gets to play with cool machines with lots of flashing lights Except that most of the time is spent working out the equivalent of why when I pushed the button the lights didn't come on

 

[Philly]

Hurray! Get to say this - Plane Maker
Been a long and windy road to reach this point but now doing this full-time.
Cheers
Philly