What do you do?

[srixon 1]

Author.

Unfortunately, the books I write are not a great read unless you want to maintain your military helicopter.

 

[Red devil]

Started my life in the catering game, restaurant’s, hotels etc. Long hours, hard work caused marriage breakdown led to a lot of self evaluation. Fast forward and have been driving trains for the best part of 25yrs. Own boss no emails, no phone calls no manager’s breathing down one’s neck.To tell you the truth I love it, should have done it when I left school. I’ll keep the politics out of it, but as a vocation and for camaraderie etc. Love it

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

I deal with these from the other side. I've always wondered who writes them.

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

For about 5 yrs I was my company’s Quality and Risk Manager on a major UK Government service. One key part of my job was ensuring adherence to company quality standards of all documentation produced for the service and all its projects - boy did that make me a popular bunny.

Not half as much fun though as trying to get all on the teams to understand the difference between a risk and an issue, and then if they had a risk to understand what their risk actually was; how to write a description of the risk; then understand and document it’s mitigations and contingencies…painful?…jeez…

 

[ExRabbit]

Take care of our working cocker spaniel puppy (young adult now I guess) - no idea how people with full-time jobs manage!

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

This last week I‘ve spent each and every day working through a massive pile of 35yrs of paperwork and documents trying to understand my MiLs financial affairs as she is going to be transferred to a care home in the coming few weeks and she will be self-funding.

Boy it’s complicated. With me being an acting financial advisor (), my wife has told her (with smile on her face) that my rates are very reasonable @£200/day (I wish).

….and I haven‘t finished

 

[Deleted member 21784]

Prob about this time 20 years back I was boarding a train to meet my apprentice group for the first time.

How time flies.

11 started. 1 joined in January. 3 left for various reasons

All but one that's left ended up in service control

Only 5 more years until we get an extra days holiday

 

[Deleted member 1740]

Full time Plumbing & Heating Engineer and Part time taxi driver to the kids.

 

[Doh]

Retired now but worked for many years as an acute mental health nurse, but for the last sixteen years I set up and managed a disability service for a children’s charity.

 

[stevieb15]

Commercial manager, engineering, semi conductors, building materials, retired since 2016 and now perfecting the art of active sloth, on and off the golf course.

 

[louise_a]

over 30 years in IT, before being made redundant and retiring over 12 years of mostly golf since then.

 

[howbow88]

20 years a driving instructor
Now in semi/permanent retirement and playing as much golf as my body will let me.
Living the dream

I'm considering making the jump from the dark side (examiner) to instructor... I love being an examiner - most of us are jolly nice chaps, despite what some may tell you - but the wages are just getting me down. I get paid £14 an hour, but there is a decent pension, sick pay arrangement, and holiday allowance...

But in my local area, instructors are getting paid £45 an hour I know that you guys have a lot of costs and petrol is extortionate right now, but £45 an hour!!!

Would you recommend it?

 

[Slime]

I'm considering making the jump from the dark side (examiner) to instructor... I love being an examiner - most of us are jolly nice chaps, despite what some may tell you - but the wages are just getting me down. I get paid £14 an hour, but there is a decent pension, sick pay arrangement, and holiday allowance...

But in my local area, instructors are getting paid £45 an hour I know that you guys have a lot of costs and petrol is extortionate right now, but £45 an hour!!!

Would you recommend it?

Imurg is your man for that.

 

[stefanovic]

Worked in office, factory, warehouse, but never stayed long.
Retired for 16 years and wondering how I ever found time to go to work.
Not a facetious comment that, but an indication of how we all experience time differently.
Runs relatively slowly when you are young and quickens as you get older.
Proves that General Relativity (Einstein) is true not just for the Cosmos but for individuals too.

 

[Deleted member 21784]

Worked in office, factory, warehouse, but never stayed long.
Retired for 16 years and wondering how I ever found time to go to work.
Not a facetious comment that, but an indication of how we all experience time differently.
Runs relatively slowly when you are young and quickens as you get older.
Proves that General Relativity (Einstein) is true not just for the Cosmos but for individuals too.

See now the wife and I wonder how on earth we filled out time before the kids.

Now we fit out entire adult life's into 2 hours after their bedtime

God knows what we will do when we retire

 

[Voyager EMH]

See now the wife and I wonder how on earth we filled out time before the kids.

Now we fit out entire adult life's into 2 hours after their bedtime

God knows what we will do when we retire

Spend lots of time with the grandkids?

 

[Deleted member 21784]

Spend lots of time with the grandkids?

Most likely , that's what our parents seem to enjoy doing

 

[SocketRocket]

Was a rear gunner on a milk float in Digbeth, then I decided to give it up for music and a free electric band.

 

[Imurg]

I'm considering making the jump from the dark side (examiner) to instructor... I love being an examiner - most of us are jolly nice chaps, despite what some may tell you - but the wages are just getting me down. I get paid £14 an hour, but there is a decent pension, sick pay arrangement, and holiday allowance...

But in my local area, instructors are getting paid £45 an hour I know that you guys have a lot of costs and petrol is extortionate right now, but £45 an hour!!!

Would you recommend it?

Tricky one....
As you're probably aware, as an instructor, you need to work when your clients want you to work..up to a point.
There's no sick pay or holiday pay, you need to keep your car up to date as the kids murder them, fuel ain't cheap either.
For me it was the waiting lists.....I just don't have the crystal ball to tell me how well someone is going to be driving in 6 months time.
Back in the day you could take someone on, get them to do their Theory, get them up to the standard, book a test for 4-6 weeks time.
And if they failed you could get another within 2 weeks.
Now it's 24 weeks wait..most get to the standard in that's months but some don't and its really hard to turn round and say..sorry you're not ready ..and you've got to rebook for 6 months time. And it'snot going to change unless they can employ 1000 new examiners - they couldn't even get 300 in 3 campaigns..plus, at 45 quid an hour, it's hard for some of them to afford more than a couple of hours a month...
If it was like the old days I'd still be doing it...now?
Wouldn't recommend it.
Plus the DVSA are a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be first against the wall when the revolution comes.....

 

[Voyager EMH]

I have settled for suburbia and a little patch of land.

But I might give them up for .....................

 

[SocketRocket]

I have settled for suburbia and a little patch of land.

But I might give them up for .....................

My parents and lecturers could never understand