What occupation are you in?

[Matt77]

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.

[Roobubba]

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

[Brow]

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:

[ToneMonkey]

I'm quite often waiting for Morgans to finish stuff so that I can make even more roadworks  :D

[MDV]

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))

[Kilby]

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

[ToneMonkey]

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

[MDV]

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

[ToneMonkey]

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  :(

[MDV]

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.

[ToneMonkey]

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:

[MDV]

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!)

[ToneMonkey]

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.

[Matt77]

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

[gingataff]

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: