Occupations?

The lowest of the low....Marketing

Well actually it does require involvement with the creation of new products. The "products" being specialized Lithography systems for I.C. fabs which sell for upwards of 20 Million EACH!!

More low again.
Worker in a warehouse of a worldwide company producing glasses and sunglasses.
Before i've worked for an israeli diamond company with a base in centre of Italy.
Needed to come back home to take care of my father who got seriously sick.
Very hard to get "good jobs" here.
You always need someone to "kick you in"!

Consultant Shitworks Engineer.

EW

Ex Pornstar now employed in the lowest occupation of them all IT.

Spock

Do they take over 40 years?

Knuckle dragging valve wanker.......

In the off-shore oil and gas industry, working the North Sea.

Cheers,
Ali

Purchasing consultant

When you work it is lucrative but you often get the sack with 5 minutes notice.

So I could be pensioned off again next week.

I worked for 7 months in 2005 which was a nice balance.

I intend to work for no more than 2 years and then call it quits. I do not seem to be able to do the hours like I used to.

Regards

Mick

Just entering my third self employed year as an IT Consultant/Project Manager/Trainer/General Purpose Trouble-shooter. Long hours, high mileages and decent pay when the work’s there.

Cheers

Harry

I was a partner in one of the biggest law firms around until I jacked it in five years ago. Now I dabble in property development to keep the wolf from the door.

Graham

Advertising & Mail Order Fashion Photographer.

Like HTK, great pay when the work is there. Unfortunately, the business is as fickle as you can possibly get so you never know when the next Dollar will appear.

http://www.ian-mac.co.uk if you want to take a peek. I'm not pitching for work here so I hope I haven't broken any Forum Rules....

Ian

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Advertising & Mail Order Fashion Photographer.

What fun. Better than local government finance.

Nigel

Ian you win so far "best job after Adams".

I am semi retired after 38 yrs of "slaving" for the GPO,PO Telephones, British Telecom and BT. I drive for National/Alamo car rental on a part time(keytime worker) basis.

Howard

Electrical engineer for a very large medical device company by day. Designing surgical instruments.
Partner in a professional audio electronics company designing electronics for musical instruments by night. You've seen and heard our stuff but probably don't know it.
No legal conflicts between the two gigs.
Balancing family life between the two is interesting.
With all the efforts going on in corporate America and corporate Everywhere to outsource technical work to China and India, I'm working to "insource" myself some extra income and perhaps a path to financial and employment independence.
So far the Chinese and Indian companies have no idea how to design pro audio gear to satisfy the discerning professional musician…
David

Oh and I would be happy to add Ian's gig to the list! Lucky dog!

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Originally posted by HTK:
Just entering my third self employed year
Harry

Make that fourth!

I must be enjoying myself.

quote:

Originally posted by Tarquin Maynard-Portly:
Curmudgeon.

What's the pay like?

I am a writer, of novels and poems.

Have I published?

Yes, just enough to keep me in my white van doing multi drop deliveries 12 hours a day.

still, if that muppet dan brown can succeed...

Ian that's a great way to make a living. I know it's back breaking and life destroying at times but on balance - nice one.

Cheers

Harry

gigolo

Director. Mail Order, Private label cosmetic company that sells to the trade only (technicians). Soon to launch a new range to public.

Uneducated, self taught, produce my own online catalogue websites, product catalogues and labels myself.

In other words a clever bitch that can't spell. But who cares

Veronika

Servile wench wretch.

I'd swap with Voltaire sans repeated white van episodes.

Wot I wrote.

By Nime

Aircraft techie/engineer (My company doesn't know how to differentiate) hoping to break into F1.... if only to make me realise how lucky I am right now.

Tony

Director, owner of small IT consultancy. Money's tight, times are hard... still love it though.

Everyone, have a great 2006.

Dave

Thanks Dave. I know the unique excitement of running your own business. There is nothing quite like it apart from actually making some money and getting some sleep.

I wish you well.

I've been unemployable (for health reasons) for years but I'm fairly confident I'll be fit to work within a few months.

I think my chances of getting a job are close to zero so I'll have to start my own business. Writing simple web pages for people who don't need server-side stuff [e.g. writers and artists, perhaps] has, for some time, seemed the obvious way of starting since it has low start-up costs, isn't intellectually demanding and has a large supply of potential customers around the world. Whether I would be able to do enough work to make enough to live on is another matter but it would be a start...

Jeremy,

Good luck!

All the best for 2006,

Phil