Question What do you do?

[Scouse]

Epic amounts of free time may have a *small* amount to do with it, yes


And I think you mean "General", Job.

 

[Job]

OT!
Puts fingers in ears.

 

[Zarjazz]

Lead engineer for a "cloud based telecoms provider". Basically we're the outsource, typically internet based, for a load of call centres and dialer systems. So all those annoying automated calls you get, some of those are mine

 

[Billargh]

Personal delivery assistant for one of the biggest retail companies in the country.

Basically, I drive a van and deliver shopping for Asda.

I'm not entirely sure what I'd like to be doing, I write the odd 'review' on video games, I guess I'd quite like to be a video games journalist.

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Ahhhhhhhhhhh, thats why you've turned mega-troll recently

I won't deny that in part this thread was trying to discover why Scouse has become such an activist on here recently

 

[TdC]

And the winner of the Zeitgeist job title award goes to...

it's true

 

[djpringle]

I am currently an Operations Coach at a large, old, rusty and creaky oil and gas site in Egypt. I train, coach and assess the locals in all sorts of production operation related tasks so they don't blow themselves or me up

 

[WPKenny]

I'm a Senior Technical Support Engineer for one of the UK's leading airport car parking and hotel re-sellers.

We run over 300 mac desktop and laptops here and I look after them all with just one junior tech to do a lot of the grunt work.

I'm a fully Apple Certificed System Administrator (one step below teaching it to others).

What I actually do is look after the servers, the deployment, the software and the repairs of the 300+ macs as well as being lead tech on our VoIP deployment which is replacing a 25yr old telephone system for our 100 person call centre and I also look after all of our Google Apps related crap since the director made a snap decision to go with Google a couple of years ago and gave me two weeks to roll it out company wide despite me not having any hands on experience of an enterprise class mail service.

I'm also a general dogs body since while people are more than capable of say, lifting heaving shopping bags into their home, it's beyond them to do a two man lift on a small table. I also used to be responsible for setting up the PA system because the two guys that operate an entire suite of video recording products including HD cameras and a professional editing suite, somehow found plugging in a power lead, a mic and two speaker cables too much of a challenge.
Just this monday a director decided to pour an entire cup of coffee into his £1200 laptop. This meant all plans I had for the morning went out the window as I struggled to save what bits I could so we could at least come out of it with some working spares.

Not entirely sure it's "me". Would like to do something else, possibly nothing do do with IT but I'm not sure what since it's one of the very few things I seem to have a knack for.

 

[Cyradix]

Senior System Engineer (internal IT only) for our local internet/tv/mobile phone/network/etc provider.

 

[eksdee]

I'm the graphic designer for a magazine called Mobile News. I'm the only designer that works here, aside from a freelancer who is in a few days per month to work on another magazine we do, so I pretty much do a bit of everything - from liaising with printers (I hate talking to people on the phone or any kind of wrangling over numbers etc, derp), to preparing images for our websites, to designing adverts and babysitting the journalists to make sure they provide copy for the pages in a timely fashion rather than submitting everything on deadline day.

It's a really easy job in truth, I am left to my own devices almost all day every day and the requirements of the job are pretty much below my skill level so I have a bunch of free time which I use to either play around drawing or watching tv shows. The hours are great - 9.30 - 5.30 - and I work 20minutes door to door from work. On the other hand, it's often boring and I know I could command more money elsewhere with my skillset - I earn 21.5k here and while I'm comfortable financially, and only 25, more money would always be welcome . Alongside that, we only get 20 days holiday per year, there's no company pension etc - limitations of working for a small (10 full-time employees, 1 part-time and 2 ad-hoc freelancers).

I'm eager more than anything to not just get too comfortable here. It would be very easy to coast along, find myself 30 and not earning much more money than I am now while having not moved on my skillset at all due to the fact of not working with other designers every day. First world problems, I know, earning good money to do a job I find extremely easy..!

Some examples of my work here:

Spoiler

 

[Tom]

would love to do something in that vein but at 31 and no chance of attending uni to get a degree its pretty much just a fantasy..

The Open University.

 

[gohan]

I'm a Student bum by trade

did work for Barclays bank for 5 years but decided to go back and get a degree, 70% of the way through an Access course ATM (on course for 60 distictions which is equal to 3 A's at A level) then going Uni of Southampton in Sept to do Accounting and Finance degree. Work part time at both B&Q and O2, i say part time, it's 32 hours a week :S will cut it back down to 16 when I start at southampton tho, also work at a painball site as and when I have time/ can be arsed.

 

[JingleBells]

Officially I'm an IT Consultant for a large multi-national IT services company, however the only places I get to visit are lovely places like Staines, Leatherhead, Northampton, London and Birmingham. In reality I've been a Java dev for 4-5 years but I'm slowly moving away from pure development into a junior technical architect, which means I get to draw up the delights of requirements documents + high level designs and tell 3rd party suppliers how to actually use the tools they use.

I tend to be the project goto guy when code breaks, so this year I've ended up: modifying a C++ DLL to work with our code, upgrading server software, teaching our support staff how the system I wrote works and what they have to do to support it, rewriting a PDF form so it doesn't look shit when it's filled in ando p bug fixing other peoples applications. My old line manager said I shouldn't go on any technical training courses as I'll be bored and I pick up new tech/languages quickly anyway, I suppose it helps messing around with code and stuff outside of work.

I'm kind of unsure where to go in the future, I can either go contracting, carry on the road away from code and into Technical Architect/Solution Design or go pure Java development elsewhere. I'm not sure the latter is a viable option the way lots of things are being offshored and I quite like actually having a say in how things should work.

 

[ECA]

I play online poker and transport precious metals occasionally.

It's always fun going through an airport with >£1mill of gold on you and watching the x-ray machine techs balls drop out of their body when you put it through as they punch the ZOMG SECURITY button as soon as their brain reboots and they realise they have a job to do today. ( Although once I did get to sit in a security room for over an hour while some german douchebag didn't believe it was mine and checked w/ local police to make sure there hadn't been a bankjob today lol. )

 

[gohan]

how the fuck do you get a job that lets you walk around with £1mill in gold, I want that job, obviously I'd get off the plane and never get back on it tho.......

 

[ECA]

Family business, picking up stock basically. Most I ever carried was about 50kg of gold and 10-15kg of silver. ( you can work out that yourself but >£1.7m worth ).

 

[- English -]

Did you by any chance sell it off at a discount price like Gordon Brown?

 

[ECA]

We take the opposite approach

 

[Wij]

I'm the graphic designer for a magazine called Mobile News. I'm the only designer that works here, aside from a freelancer who is in a few days per month to work on another magazine we do, so I pretty much do a bit of everything - from liaising with printers (I hate talking to people on the phone or any kind of wrangling over numbers etc, derp), to preparing images for our websites, to designing adverts and babysitting the journalists to make sure they provide copy for the pages in a timely fashion rather than submitting everything on deadline day.

It's a really easy job in truth, I am left to my own devices almost all day every day and the requirements of the job are pretty much below my skill level so I have a bunch of free time which I use to either play around drawing or watching tv shows. The hours are great - 9.30 - 5.30 - and I work 20minutes door to door from work. On the other hand, it's often boring and I know I could command more money elsewhere with my skillset - I earn 21.5k here and while I'm comfortable financially, and only 25, more money would always be welcome . Alongside that, we only get 20 days holiday per year, there's no company pension etc - limitations of working for a small (10 full-time employees, 1 part-time and 2 ad-hoc freelancers).

I'm eager more than anything to not just get too comfortable here. It would be very easy to coast along, find myself 30 and not earning much more money than I am now while having not moved on my skillset at all due to the fact of not working with other designers every day. First world problems, I know, earning good money to do a job I find extremely easy..!

Some examples of my work here:

Spoiler

Serif'd font on a headline ?!?

 

[Wij]

I'm the performance and application support team manager for a local authority. First management job for me after 10+ years of various support roles and loving it so far (now nearly 2 years in).

Saving cash by renegotiaing software contracts. Reviewing it systems, streamlining performance reporting so its used for something meaningful and trying to help the council stay productive after restructuring.

Which council?

 

[eksdee]

Serif'd font on a headline ?!?

Yeah, I don't like it either. I've managed to reverse a lot of bad decision that were made when the magazine was redesigned by an agency before I started here, but that's one thing I haven't managed to convince them looks bad yet. Making it my own inch by inch.

 

[Olgaline]

I am the finder, seller and creator of alcoholic related items such as wine, whisky, cognac, beer, vodka, tequila and so forth.
It's a job I love as I get to treverse the many levels of work and employment from the hotshot tie cunt to mopping the floors

what do I enjoy the most ?
Finding new and securing new casks, bins, brews and so forth.
oh and as much as I love french wine, I equally hate doing buisness with the french négocient firms...aaarg!!!
the scottish are almost as bad though! last november Springbank decided to screw me over for 2 16yo casks after we had already signed the deal, done the advertisments
and a few preoders....the decided...naah we'r gonna use them for something else! AAAAAAAAAAAAARrg!

 

[Wij]

I am the finder, seller and creator of alcoholic related items such as wine, whisky, cognac, beer, vodka, tequila and so forth.
It's a job I love as I get to treverse the many levels of work and employment from the hotshot tie cunt to mopping the floors

what do I enjoy the most ?
Finding new and securing new casks, bins, brews and so forth.
oh and as much as I love french wine, I equally hate doing buisness with the french négocient firms...aaarg!!!
the scottish are almost as bad though! last november Springbank decided to screw me over for 2 16yo casks after we had already signed the deal, done the advertisments
and a few preoders....the decided...naah we'r gonna use them for something else! AAAAAAAAAAAAARrg!

Booze-related job. You live my dreams

 

[TdC]

Making it my own inch by inch.

that's what SHE said!!!

 

[Scouse]

Family business, picking up stock basically. Most I ever carried was about 50kg of gold and 10-15kg of silver. ( you can work out that yourself but >£1.7m worth ).

You ever thought of being "mugged"?

 

[eksdee]

that's what SHE said!!!

One day, I want to be like you.

 

[Shagrat]

Which council?

The littlest one in the country

 

[Wazzerphuk]

Wij's penis doesn't have a council, no matter what he claims.

 

[russell]

I like this thread

 

[Appollo]

I'm manager of a independent tile shop, we sell tiles, adhesive, grout and all other tile shizzle. Best job I've had so far.