What do you do?

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

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.

Indeed the work I was doing on building new service/help desk solutions to support our clients globally involved a lot of AI and Amazon chatbot technology.

 

[Neilds]

33 years as an engineer in the RAF and now an engineering consultant within Defence (posh title for a work force substitute earning more than the person who should be doing the job if only the Civil Service paid more and could fill the vacancy )

 

[Voyager EMH]

I'm an Emergency Medical Hologram.

OK that's not true.

I'm an actor who plays the part of an Emergency Medical Hologram.

 

[Deleted member 15344]

Joined the RAF straight from doing a levels as an electronics engineer in telecoms

Spent 22 years then left and joined an Business Wifi company as a shift manager and now a senior engineer

 

[venger]

i work at a crematorium, but if you ask She who must be obeyed then I’m a professional arsonist

 

[BrianM]

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

You’ll No be hurting for a pound working on a pelagic
Have you seen the new Christina S

 

[Fade and Die]

Try to make poorly people feel better for the NHS.

Do you own a Therapy Dog?

 

[Piece]

A Bid Director for a global systems integration and consultancy company. I have worked in the space & defence and energy & utilities market. Currently working in financial services market, based in London, managing deals anywhere between £50k up to over a £billion.

 

[Rlburnside]

You’ll No be hurting for a pound working on a pelagic
Have you seen the new Christina S

Yes seen her impressive vessel

 

[chrisd]

For the last 25 years I owned a plant and tool hire business with a mate. We had worked together for around 40 years and when the company we worked for went bust in the 1990's recession. We both remortgaged our houses and bought some of the assets from the receivers. We owned diggers, dumpers down to drain rods and wallpaper strippers

We closed in 2016, to retire, but later in 2016 I got fed up and took a job bookkeeping for a working man's club. That closed for good when covid hit and this week I will sell their site. I also do my son 's bookkeeping for his new business

 

[Beezerk]

I'm a senior service engineer for a company who make cnc machining centres for the upvc window industry, been with them just over 17 years. Although I studied electrical engineering at college the job is multi skilled, mechanical, pneumatic, bit of IT, cnc programming and obviously electrical work on servo drives and motors, 3 phase motors, 24vdc control systems etc.
I generally enjoy the job and every day is different, one day I could be doing a service, the next day a breakdown, day after some programming, I was installing a machine at a local company all last week which was good fun.

 

[Red devil]

For the last 25 years I owned a plant and tool hire business with a mate. We had worked together for around 40 years and when the company we worked for went bust in the 1990's recession. We both remortgaged our houses and bought some of the assets from the receivers. We owned diggers, dumpers down to drain rods and wallpaper strippers

We closed in 2016, to retire, but later in 2016 I got fed up and took a job bookkeeping for a working man's club. That closed for good when covid hit and this week I will sell their site. I also do my son 's bookkeeping for his new business

Sad news that. I like a working man's club

 

[chrisd]

Sad news that. I like a working man's club

Indeed, the plan was to build flats and a new, smaller, club but as time has moved on it appears no one wants a new club

 

[hairball_89]

I'm a Technical Manager in a Theatre. So manage the technical and production operations - staffing, H&S, builds. if it happens on one of our 3 stages, it goes through me at some point. We're also mid build of a new space, a 1000 seat former cinema space.

Started out as a sound engineer, moved into theatre full time in 2016/17 ish. Decided I needed to work my way up the ladder a bit after 2020 brought the industry to its knees and here I am now.

 

[TimShady]

Might need some work on that bedside manner

Not overly important in my line of work thankfully.

 

[Slab]

Since I left school I've always been in the customer service sector in one form or another. At the moment I run an offshore customer service business (on a tropical island) not my company so it's mostly about looking forward to the weekends' golf

 

[Whereditgo]

Left school at 16 and did a 5 year apprenticeship in refrigeration and air conditioning, qualified as an HVAC engineer at college, then spent 15 years as a contracts manager for building services company's, the last 15 years and currently a PM for a company serving the horticultural sector, mainly running large heating systems projects.

 

[Robster59]

Left school at 16 and worked for a small chemical company, first as a sampler and then in the lab.
I then joined ICI (only older people will remember this once great company) and worked for the for 27 years in various roles from laboratory, technical service, customer service, UK Sales, Export Sales (allowed me to travel to various different parts of the world on business) and then left about 18 years ago when they were part of Ineos.
I moved to Scotland and worked or 2.5 years as a chemical sales rep for a chemical distributor.
I moved to my current company, starting as selling gases into Scotland and then got asked to do my current role as Product Manager for Life Science (mainly cryogenic storage equipment using liquid nitrogen). Been doing that for the last 15 years. Still enjoying it. Still plenty of challenges and meeting lots of interesting people.

 

[Orikoru]

Document Controller for a major construction firm. Yes, every bit as dull as it sounds.

 

[SurreyGolfer]

Same as paddy and SILH, technology consultant with a focus on cloud and infrastructure. Work for a company of ~2,000, started in Energy where we're market leaders but across pretty much all industries and capabilities nowadays.