Question What do you do?

[Gwadien]

What's that got to do with boats, you weirdo?

Everyone knows that Eastern European houses float

 

[Scouse]

You on the shrooms again Gwad?

 

[Gwadien]

You on the shrooms again Gwad?

 

[DaGaffer]

What's the biggest and best ocean-going live-aboard I could get for 100 grand.

Always wanted to sell my house and fuck off round the world and live on a boat. Like Quincy

You could get a second-hand sailing yacht around 40-45m. 100K seems to be about the going rate. Of course the cost of running a boat is the real killer.

 

[Scouse]

Of course the cost of running a boat is the real killer.

That's the bit I know absolutely nothing about.

 

[Gwadien]

I met this guy on holiday who spent his life going to countries where millionaires have their yachts, he would paint the yacht with a special paint or something, he was saying he had a 3 week long job and was given a huge amount of pay to do it, and the guy who owned the yacht was like do it in two weeks and ill give you a couple more grand to spend on your week off in this baking hot sun

 

[DaGaffer]

That's the bit I know absolutely nothing about.

I get the impression from various people I've known with boats down the years that its a bit like owning a football team; a good way to turn a large fortune into a small one.

My ex-wife is now the office manager for a boat yard in the south of France, I'm sure I could get some real figures for you if you like.

 

[Scouse]

Awesome

/starts boat thread

 

[chipper]

i wish i could go to uni but i have a family to support so the only option i have is home learning and that just aint gonna cut it when up against a proper uni degree

 

[TdC]

I get the impression from various people I've known with boats down the years that its a bit like owning a football team; a good way to turn a large fortune into a small one.

my lady friend of the time and I got friendly with a couple in France who lived off their sailing yacht. after a few bottles the fellow offered to sell me the boat as they were thinking of kids, settling down and getting boring. the asking price was well over a mil, but what really freaked me out was the running costs. I asked the guy what he did for a living and he mentioned he didn't really work, but when they were in warm places he would be a freelance diving instructor or some such. After that I stopped believing I would ever own a decent yacht

 

[Scouse]

MEG! Merge Teedles into the boat thread please.


You're such a fucking n00b teeds

 

[Cerb]

my lady friend of the time and I got friendly with a couple in France who lived off their sailing yacht. after a few bottles the fellow offered to sell me the boat as they were thinking of kids, settling down and getting boring. the asking price was well over a mil, but what really freaked me out was the running costs. I asked the guy what he did for a living and he mentioned he didn't really work, but when they were in warm places he would be a freelance diving instructor or some such. After that I stopped believing I would ever own a decent yacht

"Got Friendly" eh? Always knew you were a swinger!

 

[Ormorof]

i work part time in marketing for a car company and study engineering full time (not related to my job at all )

i was originally studying chemistry but after i ballsed that up and moved countries a few time i figured i should have another crack at uni

 

[Helme]

I'm a telemarketer... yeah. It's shit. I sell radon tests to households by phone. I guess I should see something positive in it? Like, I'm saving lives? But that takes a kind of optimism I just can't summon. It's 40 hours a week with shit pay, shit environment, shit perks, and it's utterly thankless. The only real positive thing I've gotten out of this job is a fuckload of time to spend on my online dating profile(lol)

I start studying in the fall though so that's an escape from this bullshit. Going to get an organisational sociology degree, which will probably land me in some HR department but I'm hoping I'll end up doing some negotiations for unions.

 

[Levin]

I work for the Swedish tax agency, the census department (Folkbokföringen for you Swedish types out there).

 

[TdC]

MEG! Merge Teedles into the boat thread please.


You're such a fucking n00b teeds

I...I....

"Got Friendly" eh? Always knew you were a swinger!

 

[Raven]

I'm a telemarketer... yeah. It's shit. I sell radon tests to households by phone. I guess I should see something positive in it? Like, I'm saving lives? But that takes a kind of optimism I just can't summon. It's 40 hours a week with shit pay, shit environment, shit perks, and it's utterly thankless. The only real positive thing I've gotten out of this job is a fuckload of time to spend on my online dating profile(lol)

I start studying in the fall though so that's an escape from this bullshit. Going to get an organisational sociology degree, which will probably land me in some HR department but I'm hoping I'll end up doing some negotiations for unions.

ha! a hobby of mine is wasting your time!

 

[Helme]

Mate, I prefer talking to people who take the piss. Honestly, the few bright memories of phonecalls made I have are with people who are wasting my time

 

[Overdriven]

Dynamics and Sharepoint skills are gold-dust at the minute in the contract market. I get phone calls nearly every day asking if I want to be a Sharepoint admin or some such just because I mention Sharepoint in my CV

Decided to test this last night. I updated my CV and stuck it on Monster. Already had several calls regarding both =| Awkward.

 

[Wij]

Decided to test this last night. I updated my CV and stuck it on Monster. Already had several calls regarding both =| Awkward.

I knowze everythingz

 

[Turamber]

I'm an accountant. Self employed but do most of my work subcontracting for firms of Accountants. Especially strong at double entry an accounts preparation but can hold my own with company and personal taxation. Have good VAT knowledge even if it isn't a subject I like a great deal!

Recently started doing the bookkeeping for a German company breaking into the UK and they offered me a job. Don't think they could afford me or even get the best use out of my skill set at this point but maybe in the future. Would like to try my hand at running a company's accounts department at some stage, although with 50 on the horizon that might be something I need to move into sooner rather than later.

 

[Everz]

And now I'm doing nothing. yay.

 

[Cerb]

I'm an accountant. Self employed but do most of my work subcontracting for firms of Accountants. Especially strong at double entry an accounts preparation but can hold my own with company and personal taxation. Have good VAT knowledge even if it isn't a subject I like a great deal!

Recently started doing the bookkeeping for a German company breaking into the UK and they offered me a job. Don't think they could afford me or even get the best use out of my skill set at this point but maybe in the future. Would like to try my hand at running a company's accounts department at some stage, although with 50 on the horizon that might be something I need to move into sooner rather than later.

What you don't work for a local place and are considering working for a company from another country? I just don't know how you could have any passion for something that isn't from your own town.

Plastic accountant.

 

[Aada]

Work for Microsoft, sales.

 

[Litmus]

I am a transport planner for a medium sized haulage company.. have to tell the trucks where to go etc!

 

[rynnor]

According to most of the wankers on here you're just work-shy and should never strike

With respect I think most people have the wrong idea of what the core services are.

Healthcare isnt actually critical - the really critical jobs supply basic needs like gas/electricity and food/water.

Without those critical jobs you dont have a functioning society.

People are just so used to them being there that they no longer notice them.

 

[Gwadien]

I am a transport planner for a medium sized haulage company.. have to tell the trucks where to go etc!

Got to deliver some sweets to Lands End *wait till they get there* oh, shit, I read it wrong, it says John O'Groats

 

[mycenae]

With respect I think most people have the wrong idea of what the core services are.

Healthcare isnt actually critical - the really critical jobs supply basic needs like gas/electricity and food/water.

Without those critical jobs you dont have a functioning society.

People are just so used to them being there that they no longer notice them.

Ok, so healthcare isn't critical for a functioning society....but if EVERY single nurse in all the london hospitals walked out on strike simultaneously.....a lot of people would die. Might help with overcrowding the population explosion and stuff....but still....

 

[Raven]

Sounds like a plan!

 

[old.Tohtori]

Without those critical jobs you dont have a functioning society.

People are just so used to them being there that they no longer notice them.

To be fair, it's only critical to current society. We would have a functioning society without electricity too.

So if we really want a critical job, that would be teachers. Then again, we could teach our own larva to suck eggs.

I guess, nothing NEEDS to be done, or in very short terms; job's a job.