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At The Back => The Dressing Room => Topic started by: Will on July 03, 2008, 11:26:41 AM
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Title says it all really.
I better start off by saying I have finished A levels, awaiting to start with an electrician for the summer, then hopefully an apprenticeship :)
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Right this second I'm working in a forensic lab, and at the weekends I work for Gala Bingo as a web chat moderator. Yes, I get paid to talk to housewifes in chatrooms.
In August I'll be a chemistry teacher. Exciting stuff.
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At uni doing Media Production BSc which is fun, going for a week at the BBC in the 2nd and 3rd years!
My summer job now is night shift stacking shelves at Tescos Kettering, fun stuff :P
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i'm a semiconductor designer. its pretty cool.
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I'm a guitar and amp guru/salesman/shop owner trapped in an IT Systems Manager's job.
But in my spare time I'm a rock guitarist :D
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I'm a CAD tech. Nothing exciting, but it leaves my evenings & weekends free for playing gigs. 8)
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Audio Engineering/Recording Arts degree student, and a weekend Morrisons worker to keep the money coming in :)
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I'm a former Navy electronics technician and a current law student and "service assistant" :)
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Software Engineer - been doing it for 11 years...
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I do lots of stuff -- design audio systems, home theaters and other acoustic environments; freelance audio engineer and studio musician; freelance arranging. I'm also an itinerant guitar teacher, depending on what else is going on in my life. Busy life and wouldn't have it any other way!!
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I'm a Contract Delivery Manager, so I sit above the Project Managers. I sort out installing new BIG electric supplies. Playing with about £30m of projects at the minute bt trying to swap them all for one REALLY BIG one......... Although I'm a Mechanical Engineer, so usually call myself that, it's not quite so tw@tish sounding :D
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Business Consultant for an IT company - sounds very pretentious, doesn't it? It isn't really - just trying to help customers figure out how they could do things better.
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I have a degree in Business Computing, but i work as a temp for Zurich... so much untapped potential!!
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I'm a CAD tech. Nothing exciting, but it leaves my evenings & weekends free for playing gigs. 8)
Same! :drink:
What do you draw? We draw bridges and walls mainly.
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I'm at college doing a BTEC National Diploma in Popular Music, i also work part time at Waitrose (oh yeeahhh! :? )
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I'm operator in a petroleum refinary...
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I'm a CAD tech. Nothing exciting, but it leaves my evenings & weekends free for playing gigs. 8)
Same! :drink:
What do you draw? We draw bridges and walls mainly.
I used to be a CAD Technician, although I was always called the CAD Monkey.... which is quite apt considering my user name.
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I'm a technical author in an IT company - user guides, technical specs, training materials and wotnot. Although they seem to have been using me as a business consultant and application designer for the last 12 months :evil: (And wondering why they don't have any up-to-date documentation :lol: )
However - it has meant lots of overtime... resulting in 3 new guitars, a new modeller, and four sets of BKPs since Christmas :twisted:
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I'm a sub-editor for a local newspaper, which mostly means correcting spelling mistakes and making sure the commas are in the right places. It's pretty thankless - you only get noticed when you $%&# something up. If you do it right, you get no credit. It might not come as a suprise I'm looking to move on.
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Currently driving a 32 tonne rolonof truck. I do some photography work when i can get it too.
Done a few things over the years.
Stick at learning to be an electrician Will, you'll earn a fortune and have guitars amps and pedals falling out of cuboards all over the house!
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Chancery Barrister and occasionally a history lecturer
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Stick at learning to be an electrician Will, you'll earn a fortune and have guitars amps and pedals falling out of cuboards all over the house!
Exactly my plan :twisted:
I have been forced labour on the farm for many years, and with the pay from an apprenticeship, it looks like I could even stretch moving out straight away :D
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I do admin for a big huge logistics company, and I only started on Tuesday! (and I got a pay rise because I have to get a bus and a train there, when I've been there 6 months I get another rise, woo!!!)
guess who's going to save for a custom!!! (after I've bought a load of other random stuff first)
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I'm a water analyst. Yes. Working with something that exciting!
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well, after reading all those posts I can safely say I have the worst job so far, ha ha... Executive Complaints handler in the customer services department of utilities company.
when people have a problem with the company I work for (fairly often) and they go through the usual call centre route, they usually get yeah-yeah'd and nothing gets done. they'll complain to the call centre and a 'complaint' gets logged - once it's gone up the food chain past operations managers and they can't resolve the customer's problem, I get the dubious honour of sorting out all their false promises and bullshitee lies they've told over the preceeding weeks (me jaded? - ha ha).
I also handle press-complaints and liase with the energy ombudsman on occasion if the customer is a total c--k and is demanding something that we cannot possibly agree too (also common). typical scenario... you $%&#ed up my bill, I've had to call you five times and write two letters - I want 5 hours of my own time compensated for, phone calls, paper, pens, depreciation on my shoes walking to the postbox to send you this letter, etc. etc. amounting to £1000. typical response... dream on.
I'm also looking to move on, ha ha :lol:
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I work for an Insurance Company and I train and supervise a large department and I have to be the technical guru and deal with any complicated issues and sort out disputes. I deal with commercial insurance only and jolly exciting it is too.
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Work for social care and health for council....as a support worker with 6 tenants with learning difficulties...so I probably win the shite job
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IT git for an advertising/media agency.
I've been banned from talking to clients, fwiw. :D
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I'm a guitar maker and repairer ( no surprises there for most of you)
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I'm a guitar maker and repairer ( no surprises there for most of you)
And part time hair farmer :D
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This week the job title is Network Analyst.
Previously I worked for the Daily Mirror in the network dept, now for an IT services compant where I get overtime and paid for out of hours coverage (hurrah).
The term networks actually means the dept every other IT dept sends stuff to because they can't be arsed to do their own jobs properly.
ie, your monitor isn't working, well your PC is connected to the network so it must be a network issue.
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I'm a guitar maker and repairer ( no surprises there for most of you)
And part time hair farmer :D
Part time?
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I'm a Sound Engineering and Production (BSc) student.
I also water flowers in the burial ground for two hours every night :)
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Software Developer / IT support for a mortgage broker.
(I can't claim software engineer because I don't get time to engineer my projects)
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Director of a print & promotions company....but that amounts to not a very lot! Mostly telesales
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Now playing: Bon Jovi - Mystery train (http://www.foxytunes.com/artist/bon+jovi/track/mystery+train)
via FoxyTunes (http://www.foxytunes.com/signatunes/)
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I'm technical and operations advisor for vitrification of highly active nuclear waste.
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(I can't claim software engineer because I don't get time to engineer my projects)
:lol: :lol: :!: :lol:
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:shock: Still waiting to start, meant to start the Monday before last
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I'm a CAD tech. Nothing exciting, but it leaves my evenings & weekends free for playing gigs. 8)
Same! :drink:
What do you draw? We draw bridges and walls mainly.
I used to be a CAD Technician, although I was always called the CAD Monkey.... which is quite apt considering my user name.
Well, they've just changed my job title on a whim... I'm now a Technical Aurthor. Still doing mainly CAD like.
I draw lighting, electrical, data & fire alarm layouts for installations (mainly banks).
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I'm a CAD tech. Nothing exciting, but it leaves my evenings & weekends free for playing gigs. 8)
Same! :drink:
What do you draw? We draw bridges and walls mainly.
I used to be a CAD Technician, although I was always called the CAD Monkey.... which is quite apt considering my user name.
Well, they've just changed my job title on a whim... I'm now a Technical Aurthor. Still doing mainly CAD like.
I draw lighting, electrical, data & fire alarm layouts for installations (mainly banks).
Wot-wot-wot??!
Now now, we can't have itinerant CAD doodlers suddenly joining the ranks of Technical Authors on the whim of their employers... especially if they can't even spell it!! :wink: :D
We're under-valued enough as it is!
Perhaps I will have to change my title to the more modern "Information Developer" or "Information Architect" on my CV after all...
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I'm a networky bloke come systems admin and general techy for a company that specialises mainly in enterprise Wikis and issue tracking software. It's a smallish (shite, thinking about it we're into double figures now!) start up in the North West that's been going just over 3 years. In those three years we've amassed over 5000 odd customers worldwide, and all without advertising!
We all work from home which has it's benefits and drawbacks, all my guitars are in my office :) but on the whole it's great environment to work in. I think I'd find it difficult to go back to a 9 to 5 in an office now...
We also meet lots of interesting clients from little one man companies to large multinationals and everything in between.
We're looking for a ninja java developer if anyone is interested. ;)
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Work for social care and health for council....as a support worker with 6 tenants with learning difficulties...so I probably win the shitee job
Don't put yourself, or your clients, down Sgmypod ! You are doing a f'in ace job - making a difference in the lives of people who really need a help in life - not just making money for your own comfort.
I have been a scientist/teacher/policeman/nurse at varying times in my life - now a carer for my disabled wife and autistic daughter. If I ever get a chance to work again, I think I'll seriously be looking into working with adults with learning disabilities.
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Gosh... Well, I'll own up to being ANOTHER IT bod...
I run a HPC (high performance computing) infrastructure for an investment bank.
But I've also been a careers adviser and managed the night shift in a pork pie factory.
I love change!
Mark.
PS - I've never quite been the guitar hero that I thought I should be, possibly due to a sizable lack of talent...
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I'm a CAD tech. Nothing exciting, but it leaves my evenings & weekends free for playing gigs. 8)
Same! :drink:
What do you draw? We draw bridges and walls mainly.
I used to be a CAD Technician, although I was always called the CAD Monkey.... which is quite apt considering my user name.
Well, they've just changed my job title on a whim... I'm now a Technical Aurthor. Still doing mainly CAD like.
I draw lighting, electrical, data & fire alarm layouts for installations (mainly banks).
Wot-wot-wot??!
Now now, we can't have itinerant CAD doodlers suddenly joining the ranks of Technical Authors on the whim of their employers... especially if they can't even spell it!! :wink: :D
We're under-valued enough as it is!
Perhaps I will have to change my title to the more modern "Information Developer" or "Information Architect" on my CV after all...
ha ha. Well it's a good job I spell check everything at work I'd be lost with out it :roll:
I've been doing O & M stuff as well as the drawing for a while now anyway, so I guess it's not too far off technical author stuff... even if I can't spell.
Perhaps technical monkey would suit?
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Kitchen porter for about three years while in education.
Doing a sound engineering and multimedia HND next year though so thats another two years being a kitchen porter :( .
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Wot-wot-wot??!
Now now, we can't have itinerant CAD doodlers suddenly joining the ranks of Technical Authors on the whim of their employers... especially if they can't even spell it!! :wink: :D
We're under-valued enough as it is!
Perhaps I will have to change my title to the more modern "Information Developer" or "Information Architect" on my CV after all...
ha ha. Well it's a good job I spell check everything at work I'd be lost with out it :roll:
I've been doing O & M stuff as well as the drawing for a while now anyway, so I guess it's not too far off technical author stuff... even if I can't spell.
Perhaps technical monkey would suit?
Could be the right term - certainly I feel like that somedays. Doesn't quite have quite enough authority to it though :D
You want to watch out though, sounds like your place could be like mine: "we don't want to pigeon-hole people with names or roles, we need flexibility"
... then in six month's time, just because your job title is "Technical Author", all the other people in the company think you're responsible for every single sentence written in the place, or every document layout, etc, etc... (and no-one else has to bother getting that stuff right anymore, "the author is responsible for it"), meanwhile you're busy being flexible enough to do their jobs for them as well...
:roll: or :evil: or possibly even :shock:
(depending what side of the bed I got out of that morning!)
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I'm a biomedical scientist and currently managing a lab that makes blood products.
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im a fully qualified electrician. domestic/industrial.
i would love a career change and would really love to use my electrical skills in the live music business tho. i have no idea where to look into this tho. if anybody could point me in the right direction id be extremely grateful.
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Nah, i have the worst job, full-time casheir at netto's. only because asda and morrisons pay less and is further away (nettos being just around the corner) and i refuse to ever have anything to do with tesco's!
have been trying to decide what i want to do and have tried just about everything, its either go back to computing, preferably in networking or IT Management or somesuch, or photography, of which im sure would not be able to sustain me what so ever... but i wish it could.
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im a fully qualified electrician. domestic/industrial.
i would love a career change and would really love to use my electrical skills in the live music business tho. i have no idea where to look into this tho. if anybody could point me in the right direction id be extremely grateful.
I'm pretty handy with building/modding valve amps and pedals but want to transfer these skills to be a full time sparky. Any advice on going down that road to a 33 year old? I can do basic wiring/spuring of sockets and lights, but distribution boxes/rewires would be a bit out my depth. I'm not a beginner by any stretch, but I'm looking at getting some kind of accreditation via college/uni in no more than 2 years. What qualifications hold any water for sparkies?
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Not answering the question, but about the opposite, as I am to be going into the profession (whenever the bloody bloke sorts out his time management), are general sparky skills going to be of help to valve amps?
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Well, i'm not an international rock star - so i'm def in the wrong profession :band1:
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Scratch my previous entry. I got laid off today. Six weeks pay in lieu of notice.
I feel utterly sick.
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Scratch my previous entry. I got laid off today. Six weeks pay in lieu of notice.
I feel utterly sick.
Sorry to hear that it's an utter killer when that happens (it's even worse when you realise you have to head home and inform the wife and kids)
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I'll see your "go home and tell the wife and kids" with my "go home to an empty house because the missus buggered off on a three week girly holiday this very morning".
Lucky enough, though, made a few calls, and have a nice wee temp job squared up, and hopefully something more permanent on the way. Going to drink like hell for the next week though (this would happen the one week of the year I daren't go to the pub on friday night, as well) and do a few odds and ends I've been meaning to get round to.
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Lucky enough, though, made a few calls, and have a nice wee temp job squared up, and hopefully something more permanent on the way. Going to drink like hell for the next week though (this would happen the one week of the year I daren't go to the pub on friday night, as well) and do a few odds and ends I've been meaning to get round to.
Not so bad then (my wife was away on a 5 month course when I was made redundant a few years back)
Glad to hear about the temp job (and the possible permanant post).
Know what you mean I personally would like to hole up this weekend with some decent beers (and a decent single malt) as there will be absolutely happening outside of the house that I want to be involved in :( Unfortunitely I'm on out of hours cover until the 16th so I can't even drink anything till after 01:00.
Anyway I will raise a can of Red Bull as I drive past Finaghy (I got your location right didn't I) tonight.
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i'm mostly a psychology/sociology teacher but hoping to go part time in the next few years to focus on the guitars more fully - hard to give up the regular wage though
luckily the summer holiday starts next friday so i should get chance to pull my finger out and get some new guitars done!!
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I'm a Chartered Surveyor, keeps me in guitars... :D
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im a Entertainer :D im a solo act been playing guitar since i was 16
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im a fully qualified electrician. domestic/industrial.
i would love a career change and would really love to use my electrical skills in the live music business tho. i have no idea where to look into this tho. if anybody could point me in the right direction id be extremely grateful.
I'm pretty handy with building/modding valve amps and pedals but want to transfer these skills to be a full time sparky. Any advice on going down that road to a 33 year old? I can do basic wiring/spuring of sockets and lights, but distribution boxes/rewires would be a bit out my depth. I'm not a beginner by any stretch, but I'm looking at getting some kind of accreditation via college/uni in no more than 2 years. What qualifications hold any water for sparkies?
you need city and guilds 236 part1&2 then to qualify you need your final AM2 practical exam. the 236 part 1 and 2 is usually complete at the end of 2 years a day release scheme for apprentices. you could probably do it quicker than that tho. there will probably be a college near you that does this stuff. you will also need onsite experience. see if there is info on the city and gulds website. or give them a ring. once you have those qualifications an electrician firm would maybe employ you as what is termed as an 'electrical improver'. after 2 years of onsite experience you can then do the final am2. you can probably do that quicker but to try and get employed as a qualified electrician with no site experience would not be a wise move.
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I'm a benefits scrounger.
I've not been working since Feb because of a heart problem.
I've nearly recovered and now live a life of daytime TV and guitar practice. I'm going back to work in September :(
I'm a Human Resources Consultant; pretty much revolves around getting people to join a company or getting people to leave a company and then spending my wages on guitars.
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I'm a drug design scientist for a large public & charity funded cancer institution. I solve the 3D structures of proteins and help to use these to design and develop new drugs to treat various cancers.
I sometimes wish I'd become an electrician or a plumber, as they earn considerably more than I do, and the training isn't *quite* so many years as I've spent!! Still, you don't go into science for the money! :)
Roo
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I'm an office lackey that works for a company called Morgan Utilities.
We fit electric and gas onto building sites for new housing developments and also repair electric cable faults.
Anyone that's ever driven in or around Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, Shrewsbury, Shropshire etc has probably been held up by our roadworks :lol:
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I'm quite often waiting for Morgans to finish stuff so that I can make even more roadworks :D
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I'm a drug design scientist for a large public & charity funded cancer institution. I solve the 3D structures of proteins and help to use these to design and develop new drugs to treat various cancers.
I sometimes wish I'd become an electrician or a plumber, as they earn considerably more than I do, and the training isn't *quite* so many years as I've spent!! Still, you don't go into science for the money! :)
Roo
Outstanding.
(And, no, you dont go into science for the money (I'm a physicist))
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I'm a drug design scientist for a large public & charity funded cancer institution. I solve the 3D structures of proteins and help to use these to design and develop new drugs to treat various cancers.
I sometimes wish I'd become an electrician or a plumber, as they earn considerably more than I do, and the training isn't *quite* so many years as I've spent!! Still, you don't go into science for the money! :)
Roo
Outstanding.
(And, no, you dont go into science for the money (I'm a physicist))
If it's any consolation most of us in the IT industry don't get it either
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I'm a drug design scientist for a large public & charity funded cancer institution. I solve the 3D structures of proteins and help to use these to design and develop new drugs to treat various cancers.
I sometimes wish I'd become an electrician or a plumber, as they earn considerably more than I do, and the training isn't *quite* so many years as I've spent!! Still, you don't go into science for the money! :)
Roo
Outstanding.
(And, no, you dont go into science for the money (I'm a physicist))
If it's any consolation most of us in the IT industry don't get it either
Same goes for Engineering
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I dont actually work in academic research, though, so I dont suffer from the cr@ppy wages of a pure scientist ;) I planned to, but it didnt pan out like that.
And I know fine well that IT can earn you mega-bucks!
Edit: And engineering!
Mayhaps you two are in the wrong avenues of your particular disciplines? Engineers on contract here get upwards of £25 an hour, and up to 40.
There are SAP trainers in my company (not quite sure what they're calling themselves now, but it was BNFL once upon a time) that get £500 a day
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I dont actually work in academic research, though, so I dont suffer from the cr@ppy wages of a pure scientist ;) I planned to, but it didnt pan out like that.
And I know fine well that IT can earn you mega-bucks!
Edit: And engineering!
Mayhaps you two are in the wrong avenues of your particular disciplines? Engineers on contract here get upwards of £25 an hour, and up to 40.
There are SAP trainers in my company (not quite sure what they're calling themselves now, but it was BNFL once upon a time) that get £500 a day
Oh, I know how much contractors can get paid, I paid someone £66 an hour the other day. I've been intending to set myself up for a while. I think that with in the next two years (economy depending) then I'll have set myself up.
When you say SAP: do you mean the accounting programme (which is perhaps the biggest pain the arse I've come across) or Senior Authorised Person..... if the second then I need a Primary SAP to write a schedule for me for Saturday. If you could sort one out, then I'll pay both of you £66 an hour untl the works done (it really is that much of an emergency), otherwise I'm going to be liable for about 15,000 litres of deisel a day for the next two weeks...... which will probably cost a fair bit :(
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The remarkably cumbersome accounting program
Good luck setting yourself up. Though I dont think it needs that. Just apply for an agency engineering job in any big company.
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The remarkably cumbersome accounting program
I use SAP, it sucks arse. I'm sure that it's powerful and can do a lot of thinkgs....... but no one knows how to make it work :lol:
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Which is probably why SAP trainers get £500 a day (albeit for 3 or 4 months of the year, buts its still quite a bit of money!)
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I know a Primary SAP (the one's that I am trying to get hold of) who's on £10k a month. Now that's starting to get close to propper money.
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I dont actually work in academic research, though, so I dont suffer from the cr@ppy wages of a pure scientist ;) I planned to, but it didnt pan out like that.
And I know fine well that IT can earn you mega-bucks!
Edit: And engineering!
Mayhaps you two are in the wrong avenues of your particular disciplines? Engineers on contract here get upwards of £25 an hour, and up to 40.
There are SAP trainers in my company (not quite sure what they're calling themselves now, but it was BNFL once upon a time) that get £500 a day
I worked on a contract as part of a SAP project scheme in a large insurance company. They spent £53 million pounds in 2 years just getting it to work. That's why car insurance is so expensive
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My GF uses SAP at work, she can't find out how to use it properly, so she asked her supervisor, they didn't know either. So.... she found a SAP training course. It costs about 15k (GBP). :gib:
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And I know fine well that IT can earn you mega-bucks!
Edit: And engineering!
Mayhaps you two are in the wrong avenues of your particular disciplines? Engineers on contract here get upwards of £25 an hour, and up to 40.
Oh you can earn stupid money, and indeed I used to in the early 90s as a contractor in London, but I'm my wife & kids get in the way of that lifestyle (plus I am so tired of London & Dublin)
Personally it's I think it's a case the people who have the actual skills and do the actual implementation (ie fix what the consultants, trainers, project managers and sales people promise) that are paid the least.
It seems the same in engineering and other spheres
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I am an Acupuncturist and Sports Massage Therapist. Keeps me busy :D
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Nurse
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I don't have an occupation, going to Leeds in September to do a BA in Pop and World music, will this get me a job? NO! and yes I am an idiot for persuing my dreams, it's so hard in this game to get anywhere...