What occupation are you in?

[AndyR]

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!!    :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   or possibly even  :shock:
(depending what side of the bed I got out of that morning!)

[prozacbear]

I'm a biomedical scientist and currently managing a lab that makes blood products.

[Modular1]

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.

[Adam.M]

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.

[HTH AMPS]

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?

[Will]

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?

[Catalyst77]

Well, i'm not an international rock star - so i'm def in the wrong profession :band1:

[headtheball]

Scratch my previous entry. I got laid off today. Six weeks pay in lieu of notice.

I feel utterly sick.

[Kilby]

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)

[headtheball]

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.

[Kilby]

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.

[WezV]

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!!

[Ted]

I'm a Chartered Surveyor, keeps me in guitars... :D

[richie]

im a Entertainer :D  im a solo act  been playing  guitar  since i was 16

[Modular1]

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.