What do you do?

[ColchesterFC]

Can’t talk about it but here’s a picture.
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You created the DeLorean for Back to the Future? That's definitely a flux capacitor.

 

[Bunkermagnet]

You'd have thought I would be redundant now, the amount of internet experts there are who can do my job in a timely and neat fashion and keeping appointments, getting around London and finding legal parking.

 

[jim8flog]

Play golf , sadly it is not for a living.

 

[Jamesbrown]

Are you Homer Simpson?

Starting to look like him!

 

[Dando]

Insurance broker for Marsh.

I specialise in Professional indemnity so I insure accountants, lawyers, surveyors, building contractors etc.

 

[BiMGuy]

I try to find more efficient ways to do stuff, and also try to get people to do their job properly.

 

[Fade and Die]

Electrician man and boy, now Director of a SME. Although often a player/manager role on some of the more challenging jobs.

Was a good career choice… I had an interview to be a “postal cadet” on the same day as my interview at the company I did my apprenticeship with, a real sliding doors moment as I was offered both jobs, the Post Office were paying £60 a week and the Electrical apprenticeship was a YTS paying £27.88p a week, but with a guarantee of a full apprenticeship if I passed the 1st year. Mum and Dad swung it by saying if I did the Apprenticeship I wouldn’t have to pay rent for a year.

 

[Alan Clifford]

Retired now but you know how holiday prices always are doubled during school holidays ....

 

[Pants]

I try to find more efficient ways to do stuff, and also try to get people to do their job properly.

Far more satisfying job than mine where I was employed to identify the inefficient practices and employees at specified levels within an organisation. You probably picked up the pieces and took the credit

 

[Hobbit]

I spend my benefits down the pub

 

[BiMGuy]

Far more satisfying job than mine where I was employed to identify the inefficient practices and employees at specified levels within an organisation. You probably picked up the pieces and took the credit

There is a very good chance I have .

Thankfully my job is not to try and find ways to do what we do with fewer people. But to maximise what we can do with the people we have. That could be either an improvement in how much work is done, or improving the quality of the services we provide.

 

[Maninblack4612]

Qualified as a chartered accountant. Post qualification worked for a mutual marine insurance group (P & I Club). Left when I realised they would go bust, which they did (shared a floor with Laker Airways at the liquidator's office). Back to the profession with Deloitte, then Bank Inspector & Business Banking manager with TSB / Lloyds.

Took VR in 2001 & spent 17 years as an event photographer, meeting the rich & famous, including Princess Anne, Alan Shearer, Shay Given, Gary Speed, Ricky Hatton, Chris Kamara, Steve Cram & many others. The only job I can say I really enjoyed. To be working whilst drinking alcohol & not wearing a tie was luxury. Happily retired after selling my business just before the Pandemic - good move. Full time golf now, the more I play the worse I get.

 

[PhilTheFragger]

Paper round from age 12
At 15 started supermarket work
At 18 joined Barclays and worked in various branches around Wycombe, Slough & Wokingham taking a VR package after 17 years. During my time at Barclays I spent 8 years in the TA)

After the bank I was a professional house husband looking after the 3 mini fraglets, then started doing book keeping and computer support,

Computer side took off so dropped the book keeping and spent the next 20 years as a self employed mobile computer engineer.

Health issues caused that to implode, so at age 57 started afresh and I’m now a senior logistics planner / professional driver and driver trainer for a car delivery company for the last 4 years

 

[Rlburnside]

Fisherman on a pelagic trawler for going on 40 years, perfect job for me love the lifestyle and thankfully it’s more automated and importantly safer nowdays.

It’s a shame that the uk market has faded over the years and most of catch is all landed abroad

 

[Crow]

I was talking to a guy who works in Artificial Intelligence recently, it's frightening how many jobs we think only humans can do will soon be done by AI.

It's learning capability is scary, ChatGPT and the like are only the scratching the surface.

 

[AmandaJR]

Retired (I think). Keep looking for a role where all I have to do is play with puppies for a few hours a week but so far no luck.

Fortunate to retire young (ish) and fit (ish) so enjoying more time for sporting pursuits and being with my dogs (and husband)

 

[PJ87]

I was talking to a guy who works in Artificial Intelligence recently, it's frightening how many jobs we think only humans can do will soon be done by AI.

It's learning capability is scary, ChatGPT and the like are only the scratching the surface.

Which is entirely fine, once we accept that all the money generated from making our life's easier with AI like this means a basic income provided

 

[KenL]

Used to be an electronics engineer working in astronomy.
Re-trained to be a secondary maths teacher in 2006.

 

[paddyjk]

I was talking to a guy who works in Artificial Intelligence recently, it's frightening how many jobs we think only humans can do will soon be done by AI.

It's learning capability is scary, ChatGPT and the like are only the scratching the surface.

That's probably a bit of scaremongering, but yes it will certainly do a fair few things, but it's pretty rubbish at times. Chatgpt likes to make stuff up.

 

[PNWokingham]

After Uni (Law) got a job at Johnson & Johnson (1995) in custmer services for a year then accepted for Junior Sales Rep selling hip and knee replacements - spent a lot of time in theatre helipng guide surgeons with the kit during opps - and i felt very underqualified! Redundancy 1 followed after 2 years. Joined a Financial Adviser as a fast track trainee - FPC courses done in a few months - but once let loose realised that this "presigious, high end" IFA was not what i expected - phoning clients who ticked a box on pension planning in the Telegraph for a few hours one evening...finding out that your 300 assigned clients (that came on the dot mattix green and white lined printout and that about 10% were actually dead (!!) and that the rest were other Financial Advisers cast offs with no potential, meant this was not for me - a great job if you had loads of rich contacts who wanted help but a nightmare if not. Then got into other Finacial firms in an investment marketing, communications perspective (first a South African firm then a UK/US large fund manager) - ended up heading a team of 14 Investement Communications Managers and the RFP team - then redundancy 2 at the end of 2007. 8 months searching and took a Marketing Comms role for a European fund manager but based in Dublin - travelling every week. Moved back to the UK in late 2011 with the firm as i eventually got a job as a Junior Fund Manager in the Emerging Market Bond team (41 and a YTS again!). Still there today managing emerging market bond (corporate and government bonds) portfolios (listed funds in Luxembourg and sold in Europe - heavy in Italy - and Latam and Asia - plus segregated funds for large pension funds, other investment firms and sovereign wealth funds) along with some European High Yield exposure. Love the job but boy is it stressful - especially over the last 3 years with Covid, Russia's invasion of Ukraine (2 key geographies for our universe) and now the Chinese property crash (the largest sector in our universe) causing the biggest headaches since the 2008 financial crash (that occured 1 month into my job with this firm!). And on top of that a five percentage point increase in benchmark (US - although same rise in UK - interest rates) - key thing with Bonds is that prices fall as interest rates rise!