Lets hear what your occupation is ...

RicksPick
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Sun Dec 13, 2009 3:55 pm

Hi Everyone

I did several jobs before finding my career within the UK,s
Health Service as an EMT, Ambulances, Blue lights you know the thing, 15 years now.
A wife and child also keep me very busy.

RicksPick


rcsnydley
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Sun Dec 13, 2009 9:08 pm

I've done everything from pizza delivery to professional musician. I've even been a "professional" unemployed person, for 6 months this year. Fortunately now I am a Systems Engineer with a major international corporation. I'm loving the job, but it does cut into my guitar playing time. I do what I can though to try to get in at least a little bit of practice time every day.


michelew
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Sun Dec 13, 2009 9:19 pm

I forgot to say that I used to be a Target checkout chick (when I was 16-18). Yep - been preparing for Target for a long time....

For those of you not familiar with Target - it is a budget department store.


reiver
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Sun Dec 13, 2009 10:08 pm

My first career was in Civil Engineering, building roads in the West of Scotland. The outdoor aspect of this job may be great if you live in California, MusicJunkie, but in Scotland it's cold, wet and miserable. And that's in summer.
At age ~30 I went back to full time education and did a couple of science degrees, culminating in a Masters in Analytical Chemistry. I know!. I think that makes me a geek. I then went back to work, this time in the pharmaceutical industry, then the petrochemical industry.
More recently I gave up the lab based life and became self employed - installing, qualifying, repairing and maintaining analytical instrumentation, specifically Gas Chromatographs and High Performance Liquid Chromatographs (GCs and HPLCs to the CSI: viewers)


heyjoe
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Mon Dec 14, 2009 9:48 am

Time for me to do this now I think.

Ok, I graduated from University of Humberside, its is Hull in 1995 with a B.S (Hons) in Administrative Management. Came back to my home town of Sunderland and quickly found a job working in the customer service department for the largest telecoms provider in the UK. What was supposed to be a 3 month contract ended up being 9 years with the company! I left the company due to illness.

Since then I've had a couple of short term contracts with companies in the banking and energy sectors- customer service jobs again.

I also spent some time working for the prison service. I worked with young offenders, which was an eye opener, and for 6 months I escorted contractors and visitors around a large prison in the north east, I really enjoyed that, I was outside all day, walking all over, many miles every day, I was so fit at the end of the summer, and had the best tan I've ever had.

I left that job because my round trip to and from work was 2 hours a day minimum, that and I found a better paying job closer to home- which unfortunately fell throu the day before I was due to start it.

Since then I've continued to work in customer services until my health deteriorated at the start of this year. Since July I've been unemployed, my medical issues are pretty much under control now ( fingers crossed), so I'm back to looking for work now.

Joe


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Mon Dec 14, 2009 10:16 am

Awesome topic. What a great mix of backgrounds here. As for me I took a long route to where I am now. Not sure how I got here either. After High School (1987) I went into the Air Force where I was a life support specialist. Trained pilots on how to survive an ejection and live off the land. Also trained them on escape and evasion techniques. Got out of Active Duty after after 4 years and remained in the National Guard for 6 more. Went to college for Aviation Science/Flight Concentration. Became too old to get a flight slot (27) and then found myself working for Cabletron. Then went to Digital Equipment Corp, got bought by Compaq, got bought by HP. Left and went to Dell where I am now. Have a wonderful wife of 13 years and twin girls who will be 5 later this month.

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Happy New Year from a cold and snowy NH.......


MarkM


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Mon Dec 14, 2009 10:18 am

I have been in the retail food business for the past 34 years. I started bagging groceries when I was in high school. Went through the ranks and trained in every position of the retail grocery industry. Went to college right after high school and then quit after a couple of years, thinking that I would just take a short break, save some money and go back to finish my degree. Seems like the years flashed by and the next time I looked, my life had fast forward 10 years and I had a wife a 2 children. For those of you that have not ever worked in a retail setting, the hours or horrible and for a guy with a young family it was especially tough. I decided that I needed to change the direction of career path, so I went back to school and finished my degree. I immediately got out of the retail side and went to work for the wholesale side of the business. I now work for one of the largest co-op wholesale grocery warehouses in the midwest. We operate and supply 2000 stores in a 13 state area. I have a specialized corporate position of having the sole responsibility of doing the schematic merchandising layouts for all of our 6 divisions. So the next time you go to one of our stores and can't find something or wonder who's bright idea it was to place something in a particular position, you can point the finger at me.

Happy Holidays!
Kevin


mark
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Mon Dec 14, 2009 11:51 am

I'm a computer programmer specialising in web sites.

I program using microsoft tools (.Net/c#/asp.net) if that means anything to anybody.
I was a contractor for nearly 15 years but now I'm safely in a permanent job.

We tend to do big corporate sites. Nothing as interesting as Totally guitars


Max
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Mon Dec 14, 2009 1:19 pm

Well,

I went on vacation and came back to an overwhelming amount of forum news.....Dennis has a heart; Ojai tops the naughty list; at least 6 new target songs; a really useful strumming section in AGS; a long distance collaboration (looking forward to hearing it).....it's a good thing I don't have a job so I can get caught up!

My degree is in finance. I was in the vending business for 20+ years. I sold my business in July and I am now committed to doing only volunteer work for the next couple of years. The community has been very good to me and now it is my time to give back. I don't think I can afford to take this path indefinitely but for now I am going to cherish the opportunity...I am so very fortunate!

I enjoyed reading through this thread. This really is a very diverse, interesting group of people.


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Music Junkie
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Mon Dec 14, 2009 1:56 pm

reiver wrote:
My first career was in Civil Engineering, building roads in the West of Scotland. The outdoor aspect of this job may be great if you live in California, MusicJunkie, but in Scotland it's cold, wet and miserable. And that's in summer.
At age ~30 I went back to full time education and did a couple of science degrees, culminating in a Masters in Analytical Chemistry. I know!. I think that makes me a geek. I then went back to work, this time in the pharmaceutical industry, then the petrochemical industry.
More recently I gave up the lab based life and became self employed - installing, qualifying, repairing and maintaining analytical instrumentation, specifically Gas Chromatographs and High Performance Liquid Chromatographs (GCs and HPLCs to the CSI: viewers)
Well Reiver, I will tell you that here in Southern California, it is nice. When I was in the Central Valley of California is was a completely different story. Summers at 110 degrees F plus and cold winters at 35 degrees F minus with a fog so thick you cannot see the front of your car..... Do not miss those days.....lol


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