What is your occupation?

[Lignum]

I'm not a Gynocologist but I'll have a look anyway ;)
Correct me if im wrong, but ive been under the impression your a photocopy repair man :?

[Groggy]

Correct me if im wrong, but ive been under the impression your a photocopy repair man :?That is like calling a plastic surgeon a pimple popper. I did a course with Cliff many years ago, it went for about 18 months. Most people who applied for the course didn't get in. A lot of those who did get on it failed. Cliff was one those that finished the course, in fact, he duxed it. That is quite an achievement, and I dips me lid to him.

I know you're having a bit of fun, but there you go. There is a bit more to just about everyone on this BB than meets the eye.

[martrix]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but Ive been under the impression your a photocopy repair man :?
Fair point there Lig. I see what you're getting at.

[Lignum]

. There is a bit more to just about everyone on this BB than meets the eye.

How true

[Cliff Rogers]

Fair point there Lig. I see what you're getting at.
I don't. :? You want to give me a hint?

[BobL]

As well as my current Job I have done all of the following for money:
Sewage tank cleaning
Grocery store shelf stacking
Soft toy stuffing
Inflight Astronomer/commentating for Halleys comet Airflights in 1986
Cray fish processing
Shoe store sales assistant
Swampy for a truck driver for the Swan Brewery *** Best job ***
Builders labourer
Clothing store sales assistant
Dogman
Gardening
Chemical analyses
Astronomy Lecturing
Cement mixer operator in a concrete tank/slab factory
High School Science Teaching
Fixed personal computers - Hardware and software
High School Photography Teaching
Photographer
Driving Instructing
Physics Tutoring
Cosmochemist
Computer programming
Supervised the construction of various laboratories
Final year high school exam marker and examiner
and
Written articles on Beer for a food and lifestyle magazine

There are a few more but I can't remember them

Cheers

[silentC]

There is a bit more to just about everyone on this BB than meets the eye.
Not me. I'm every bit as insignificant and non-noteable as I seem. :)

[Grunt]

Amazing really, you've had 8000+ posts and I've never noticed you before.

[Cliff Rogers]

Amazing really, you've had 8000+ posts and I've never noticed you before.
Who?

[silentC]

It's OK, my friends and family tell me that all the time...

[Grunt]

Who?

That's odd, can't remember now.

[Cliff Rogers]

friends and a family? :p

[masoth]

I've had only three "jobs" - publishing company storeman, a soldier, and a local government bureaucrat. If the experience doesn't qualify me for retirement I don't know what will.

soth:aussie5:

[Burnsy]

This looks like a great place to stop lurking and show my face. I am a jack of all trades master of none who puts up with 11 and 12 years old swearing at me so that I can be paid to have lots of holidays and knock off work at 3.00pm. I spend this extended leisure time working for others to try and keep up with what everyone else except public servants is earning. This is generally done through undertaking landscape construction jobs, preferentially timber based.

Prior to taking up my chalky role I ran my own landscape construction buisiness for four years as a filler while I decided what I wanted to do other than the Environmental Management roles that I had been undertaking in the mining sector for the nine years previous. In the end it seems the older I get the closer I get to where I started which was wanting to leave school at 15 to become a chippy. Something I was told I could always do later after I had been to university and got myself an edumacation.

Having been a "tradie" I do enjoy not having to be outside when it is 44 degrees or pissing down with rain but still having the choice to do it when I want to knowing that I will still be paid at the end of the week even if I don't.

Oh and great forum guys.

Cheers,
Mike

[rat52]

Carpenter by trade.

self employed most of my life in commercial construction and currently working towards retirement as a site superviser.

I like it most of the time. The work is ok. It's some of the peopleyou have to put up with that make it difficult.

You do what you know best and can earn the most money at.

Besides, the government refuses to pay me to live in a manner to which I am accustomed.

[Jedo_03]

Originally Posted by Wongo http://mt0.woodworkforums.com/images/button2/viewpost.gif (http://www.woodworkforums.ubeaut.com.au/showthread.php?p=69686#post69686)
Tell us
1. What you do for work
2. Do you like it
3. Why
:)

I'm with Allied Health -Qualified Speech Pathologist
I work with all Adults...
Primarily I'm a dysphagiologist - I assess patient's swallowing abilities after they are admitted to hospital with stroke (CVA), progressive neurological conditions, head and neck cancer, dementia, confusion, or just plain old age... (just to mention a few...) (swallowing and feeding problems are more common than you imagine - and the sequelae of dysphagia is aspiration pnuemonia and possible death) That's about 75% of my hospital and community workload.
Next, I'm a tracheosophageal-fistula-specialist: looking after people who have had their larynx (voicebox) surgically removed - ususally due to throat cancer. Simply put, I'm the health technician who removes and replaces the voice-prostheses in these patients (well - a lot more than that...)
Next, I look after tracheotomised patients - people with holes bored in the front of their necks with a plastic tube inserted so the poor buggers can even breathe... (Not too many in my remote area - they usually get sent to the big city...)
Next, well I provide a consultancy-service to people who've recently had radiotherapy and chemotherapy... All those radio-active rays and harsh chemicals leave people with swallowing problems, dry mouths and dry throats...
Next, I provide 'speech' and 'language' therapies to people who have lost their capacity to "talk properly" - stroke, Parkinsons, MS, MD... etc etc...
And a LOT more...

Of COURSE I like it...
I'm a proud practitioner - deep and wide skills base - evidence-based-practice - and I strive to do the best for individual people.
Downside is the effin beaurocracy of the health service - and the legions of wonkers in managerial positions who know shat all about my job and couldn't care less about it... Shame on all of the bastard bean counters who treat us as "business units"
Time was when 'Patients come first'...
Not any more...
Beaurocracy and dogmatism and egoism reign now...
Selfish, self-centred, egoistic managers, only interested in their career pathways...
Laterally it's good - Doctors and Nurses value what I do...
It's warm and fuzzy when a physician says "well done" or when a patient or the family says "thanks"
And it's interesting - challenging...
I'm heaps proud of what I do...
People appreciate it...
Pity the f'heads managers don't - but what do they know... F-All...
There - I said it
Nearest to me (far as I know) is Felder...
Jedo

[la Huerta]

was doing lawnmowing for about 10yrs, never successful because it was just a crapy job and i could'nt find anything else i was willing to commit to...always liked building stuff as a hobby but was'nt that good at it, i then saw some rustic dining tables in a shop that cought my imagination, and wanted to have a go at building them, hated the lawnmowing by then, i kept teaching myself woodworking through using this forum, google, books and lots of mistakes...

now i do furniture design and custom furnituremaking, no more lawnmowing !, don't make a good profit yet but as i get better i find i can charge more and business is growing...

...and most importantly, i love my job, i can think up furniture designs and build them, i was depressed when i was doing the lawns but not anymore...

i'm now teaching myself website construction too (web 2.0 style), and finding that very exiting, and do it when i can't make sawdust, like night and weekends...

if anyone needs a website built , redesigned or improved or just needs some help, , just ask, happy to assist so i get more experience...

La H

[Metal Head]

It's some of the peopleyou have to put up with that make it difficult.

You do what you know best and can earn the most money at it

Hi Rat,

I am in a fulltime job now that I earn the most money I ever have - a whooping $50,000 (give or take a few $$$):) - but it comes with working with some of the laziest tradespeople I have ever worked with:((. They are seen by the Boss as top tradesman - obviously he hasn't seen that many in his life. He never gives me any feedback on the extra work I do so once my probation is up I will join the lazy club - no extra $$$ for breaking my neck.

At the end of the day it is easier (if you can afford it) to do a less well paid job and be happy in what you do.

MH

[DIY DAN]

I've been the following:-

Telegram boy, shop assistant, lift mechanic, electrician, electrical engineer, electronics salesman, sales manager, party shop owner, owner of electronics importing company, retired, and now owner of D.I.Y. Woodworks.

Did I enjoy them? No, except the last one. Should have done this 30 years ago.

Why? I had no interest in the subjects, they were just a way to make a living. The last one involves passion for the subject. I just love wood and in making objects in wood.

DIY DAN

[la Huerta]

I



Why? I had no interest in the subjects, they were just a way to make a living. The last one involves passion for the subject. I just love wood and in making objects in wood.

DIY DAN

:2tsup:my point exactly...

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

1. Procrastinator
2. Let me think on it.
3. Money's just a way of keeping score... and I'm playing a different game. :p

[SPIRIT]

im a kept man
wife gets the big bucks and l sit at home most of the time watching Dr phil :D

[Audiowizard]

Tell us
1. What you do for work
2. Do you like it
3. Why


1) Radio
2) Yes
3) Where else is 4 hours a full day of work.

[BobR]

Retired. Before that - 6 years in the RAAF in electronice. Then into the IT industry. First as a main frame hardware engineer, followed by systems programming, a little applications programming, a stint in marketing, finishing up in sales. Started when a main frame filled a large room and was not as powerful as current day PC. Saw the first disk drives come into the industry - as big as a washing machine and only held 250K on 20 surfaces. Remember punched cards, paper tape, 1/2" tape drives on metal spools.

These days I spend 6 months in the caravan travelling around, and 6 months at home in the shed. Will be off again in 8 weeks :D

Did I enjoy my work? Mostly yes.

Why? It payed the bills and gave me an opportunity to do a large amount of international travel.

[Shedhand]

im a kept man
wife gets the big bucks and l sit at home most of the time watching Dr phil :DSo Spirit, where in NZ do you come from? :D

[Shedhand]

Shedhand
Retired
Government Minder
Member of Parliament
Ministerial Adviser
Industry Consultant
Union Organiser
Campaign Director (Politics)
Cab Driver
Unemployed
Hardware and Timber salesman
Self employed kitchen maker and installer
Uni Student (Adult)
Unemployed
College Student (adult)
Unemployed
Duct Fitter
Sheet Metal worker
Council Worker
Railway Ganger
Railway Fettler
Itinerant Fruit Picker
Butter Packer (don't ask)
Set Builder (stage)
Soldier
Proof Reader
Printing Apprenctice
Painting Apprentice

Hated all of 'em except my current one - Shedhand :D

With that work history you'd think I could find a casual job. Seems you have to be a single mother or be covered in pimples to get a job these days. :~

Cheers

[SPIRIT]

So Spirit, where in NZ do you come from? :Dlook my dear old dad said hard wont kill you boy but why should l risk it


:2tsup:

[arfabuck]

1. What you do for work
2. Do you like it
3. Why

1.Restore antique furniture - or make replica's when I can't get hold of an original to complete a set.
2. Wouldn't be doing it if I didn't.
3. The cook earns the big bucks and get to spend it on timber and tools.:U

Actually earnt enough farming and then 10 years with BHP to retire early and go back to my trade of Furniture Maker - NOT cabinet maker.
Big difference in the 50/60's. Cabinet making, turning, carving, gilding, marquetry etc. Nowadays they are all specialised trades - but I do admit that learning the new finishing techniques actually puts money in my pocket for a change. ( no pun intended ).

I particularly like meeting the old ducks who want granpa's old chair refurbished, especially when it is a Queen Ann original etc.. Usually developes into a lasting friendship.

Hate having to rectify previous bodge jobs that have virtually destroyed the integrity of the piece in question.

Love the detective side of discovering who the original craftsman was by the style of workmanship etc.

Highlights: Handling Grinlon Gibbons work, being able to authenticate certificates of origin.

Downside: Having to inform a client that their masterpiece is a fake or reproduction at best.

Love being in the position of being able to do what I want, how I want and when I want to. All it took was a different mind-set, ( and a bloody big leap into the unknown ).

Can recommend it anytime for peace of mind.

Art

[Harry72]

1. What you do for work
2. Do you like it
3. Why


1 Im a Metallurgical process technician... errr I work in a metal refinery!
Includes being a
1. crane driver
2. Rigger/dogman
3. Forklift driver
4. molding machinist
5. process assay assessor(custom alloy blend)
6. SAP R3'ist
7. Furnaceman
8. Skidsteer driver
9. Jackhammerologist
10. Sledgehammerologist
11. Putupwithdickheads'ologist!

2 Only during winter, nothing like a sweaty 40° night shift(about 60~70° on the job)working over a furnace... or swinging a sledgey next to a roaring trace heater(bonfire hot). This kind of work isnt for everone just silly fools like me.
3 See answer#2.

[Gingermick]

Civil Design Drafter

Often.

We do a lot of land development. I create a 3D model of what I want the subdivision to look like and then make all the services work, underground drainage, overland drainage for major storms, sewers etc.
I use 12D software now for my models and enjoy getting everything to come together and look good on a plan. Which the contractor will hopefully make look good on the ground.:oo: Happens often as well.

[Vernonv]

1. Software Development Manager for a small software company. Basically I develop software from start to finish - specification, design, documentation, implementation, testing, etc, etc.
Started out as an electronics/production technician and worked my way into hardware/software R&D, then into real-time application software development and project work, before this.

2. Most of the time.

3. I enjoy the challenge of creating a piece of well designed and usable software. I reckon software development (mainly "mass market" type software) is as much about art (look and feel), as it is about the maths and logic behind it.

[Wongo]

I reckon software development (mainly "mass market" type software) is as much about art (look and feel), as it is about the maths and logic behind it.

Your not wrong.

[rona]

I have enjoyed reading all the above, so now I had better add my few details.
Left school at 16, and started a Carpentry and Joinery Apprenticeship with a local building firm.Ended up building houses for 4 years and joinery work for another 7 years, then spent 1 year designing and building the first proto-type modular house for the firm, we then built about five houses 3 of which went to melbourne and 2 to Kambalda in WA, where I spent over 3months erecting them also. From there I applied for teaching in the Tech system and spent 25 years teaching Woodwork, Graphics, Solid Geometry and Carpentry Apprentices; All of this was enjoyable until some clown (we all know his name), decided to amalgamate the Tech and High Schools into one identity.
After 2 years of this stuff-up by the Government, I decided to leave as all the values and ideals that existed in the Tech system were thrown out the window over night by th High system. (it was the old story of the people with nothing and coming from conditions like the bronx, suddenly gaining power and being able to walk over everyone in the Tech schools). To add to this the existing Principal became the new principal of the combined schools; he was the next thing to 'Hitler' that I have seen............ a complete 'ar''ho'e'.
From there I went and worked with a mate of mine who owned the local Newsagency, i stayed there for 10 years, something that everyone should do.............. work with the public!, this was an experience also, however I enjoyed this 95% of the time. I also became a qualified Locksmith after leaving teaching and I turned to this for the next four years thrown in with an occasional building job. However 6 months ago I was diagnosed with prostate cancer with a PSA reading of 1966, and bone cancer to 95% of my body.( I have written a thread re- Prostate Cancer approx four months ago), I am currently undergoing treatment for this and slowly managing to get back onto my feet for a coupleof hours each day. To help me with this steady return I convinced her worship that I needed some new machines in the workshop and have finally set this up so I will be able to spend 2 - 3 hours a day hopefully out there ( I purchased all my new equipment from Carbitec in Melbourne who were fantastic and gave me a discount of $8,000.00 discount for the $30,000.00 that I spent; Dean, the manager is A1 and I would recommend them to anyone for purchases.
I now enjoy reading and participating in the Woodwork Forum on my down times throughout the day.
I have rambled on enough for now, so all the best,

Kind Regards,
Ron.

[bfx]

Winemaker. (I own a vineyard and winery.) Previously I was an accountant for a mining company working and Africa, South America and various parts of Oz.

I love it - winemaking that is. Selling the stuff is a bit more difficult but overall I'm following a dream and loving it. Did I enjoy my previous vocation. Definetly. I specialised in underperforming companies that needed to be turned around so I got a lot of position in far off places and a real sense of satisfaction when we got the companies back into shape. But I prefer to be winemaking (and changing the shape of timber for a hobby).

Chau

Bill

[Poppa]

1. What you do for work
2. Do you like it
3. Why

1. Trade the share market.

2. Love it. Be nice to make some money as well, but can't have everything...

3. I like puzzles and games. The markets are the biggest puzzle on the planet. Plus I get to stay home and be with my kids.

[Hafgan]

1. What you do for work
2. Do you like it
3. Why

1. Veterinarian
(previously barman, cocktail waiter, wardsman, cleaner,....whatever would pay the bills....)
2. Yes now, no a few years ago.
3. Because my job now is challenging, interesting and changeable. I have been involved in responses to fire, flood, drought, fruitfly, anthrax and something else (that is going on at the moment) this year, along with my normal 'day job'. I have no idea what any day is going to bring, where I am going to end up and what I will be doing.
And I am appreciated, better paid and given more responsibility than I had before. That helps!
Now I just have to keep SWMBO happy - usually means a bottle of Bolly on the way back....

Cheers

[Wild Dingo]

Well someones diggin up memories eh?

1. What you do for work
2. Do you like it
3. Why

1) started looking again today... been of since Feb with the bung knee COMPO SUCKS BIG TIME... REHAB SUCKS WORSE!!... so Ive decided to hell with their crappy workers comp system and their rehab bitches who dont know their friggin earholes from there a... hem holes Im goin back to friggin work!! ENOUGH of morons who wouldnt have a bloody clue trying to control what I damned well do when I bloody do it and threaten to bloody cut your compo of if you dont perform like a blasted performing friggin seal!!

2)... see above


3)... see above


I am now about 75% right in me knee and me others about 85% right so between the buggars theres a bit over 150% good knees... thats enough!! Back to bloody work slacker

Now go on ask me "doin what?"


And the answer is... I HAVE NO FLAMIN IDEA!! theres no way in gods green kingdom that Im going back counselling no way Im going back to career guidance no way... well I would go back into training that would be right up my alley just no employer seems to recognize that even though the experience and qualifications are there :roll: hey their loss like I give a shyte :no: no way Im going underground again NOT A CHANCE!! and Ive been given the dictum "no more fly in fly out" so presently Im looking around Bunbury for something that befits me age good looks interests thats steady EASY not slack but easy is partly inside and partly outside has benefits and lurks beyond just bein "a job"... not necessarily with wood nor boats (unlike my last post back in Feb)

Anyway its all good! :2tsup:

[Sebastiaan56]

1. What you do for work
2. Do you like it
3. Why

1. I own and run a print shop franchise. So briefly

Managing director, shareholder commitee chairperson, marketing director, sales director, director of external complaints, director of internal complaints, IT and network guru, engineering director, purchasing and supply director, logistics director, director of cleaning staff's nappies, director of first and second impressions, debt recovery director, director of directing legal counsel, director of health and hygiene, environmental director, director of resolving petty staff issues, social director, fair pay director, etc,

How did I get here, 30 years of stuffing around trying to make ends meet. Everthing from Ship's cook to Corporate Enviornmental Manager.

2. When its going well.....

3. Because Im the boss!, at the end of the day its my own stupid fault if we fly or drown. No overpaid pimply faced MBA theorist telling me how to run things when any fool could see that the problem is overpaid pimply faced MBA's.

That said Im working on the Sunday of the long weekend, when there's work to do......

[Tonyz]

Dingo either a Pollie or journilist.:wink: Course could try and sell cars:oo:

[Glen]

1. Firefighter

2. Nearly finished my 18th year, will decide if I like it after another 12.
(can't be too bad a job, I reckon 99% retire from this job, very few resign and move on.

3. Everyday is different.

[Wild Dingo]

Dingo either a Pollie or journilist.:wink: Course could try and sell cars:oo:

Yeah rightio... a pollie? not bloody likely some wakker has a go at me like those idiots do in Parliment and Id cross the floor alright with fists an boots flyin!! :~ A journo? too old mate at least around here they want young just outta nappie wearers for cadetships (yep tried that and didnt get past the damned interview and they put on a couple of kids so much for mature aged bein in demand eh :roll: )... and a car salesman? cant lie straight in bed mate so thats out! :doh:

Thanks for thinkin of me!! :; keep makin the suggestions I'll listen :2tsup:

[Tonyz]

YOU underate yourself the stuff thats comes across the internet to us Id beleive you for anything

[TermiMonster]

From the start
Nursing Orderly,
Trainee Dyer&Finisher (Textiles)
Lab Technician
Unemployed
Builder's Labourer
Ice Skating Rink Dogsbody
Truck Driver
Taxi Driver
Waiter
Handy Man (Painting/Basic Carpentry mainly)
Landscaper's Labourer
Flower seller
Car detailer
Bakery assistant
Handyman/Carpenter
Salesman
Builder's Labourer
Carpenter
Student
IT trainer
Software Programmer
Termimesh Installer
Carpeter (again)
Postman
Carpenter (again)
Unemployed (quit my job last week):doh:

Cheers
TM

[notenoughtoys]

While at school I worked nights in the local KFC and weekends at Bullens Animal World (anyone remember that), left school and hit the road with Bullens doing such shows as Disney on Parade and Moscow Circus etc, then got a job as store manager with KFC for awhile but left to go overseas with another circus. Came back to Australia with fiance so time to "grow up" as I was told and took on the lease of a Golden Fleece Roadhouse at Collector NSW (perhaps I cooked your breakfast some time). The Highway eventually bypassed us and the fiance had long gone :doh: so I travelled O/S for 12 months getting a job in a pub in London when the money ran out. Came back to Australia in '84 and worked for Telecom for short while till I got a job in the fire brigade and like Glen says




I reckon 99% retire from this job, very few resign and move on.



I retired from it last year after 21+ years

and I have loved every minute of every piece of my life :2tsup:

[rod@plasterbrok]

Plasterer by trade.

Still keep my hand in on difficult work not to be trusted to a contractor!

Run a plaster contracting business in Melbourne. As well as plasterboard sales.

In my spare time I maintain a DIY web site for plastering.

I love the plasterboard industy my first job was selling plasterboard.I have had the great fortune to have been involved in just about every aspect of my trade.

Now I enjoy sharing that knowledge with others.

[q9]

No idea. I work in multi-media now, in the true sense of the word. Film, TV commercials, interactive CD's/DVD's, website production, streaming media, internet broadcasting, etc.

I seem to do a lot of "delegating" :)

[Afro Boy]

Manager in an ITS department at a somewhat elitist business school. I manage the team responsible for delivering new software, project management, etc.

I absolutely love it.

I love it because of the people. The work is usually interesting, but the people are great. Reasonably flexible work ours too which is a bonus.

[Waldo]

and weekends at Bullens Animal World (anyone remember that)...

:yes: My Grandad took me there when i was a little bloke. I remember it's name as Bullens Lion Safari. Those were the days :sigh:

[Ashore]

pommies on bicycles free :D

[scooter]

Bullens Animal World (anyone remember that)


Remember as a young fella falling off the top of a bloody big slide they had there & splitting open my bonce... :-:rolleyes:

[Blocklayer]

:yes: My Grandad took me there when i was a little bloke. I remember it's name as Bullens Lion Safari. Those were the days :sigh:

Is that the place they had the elephant chained at the entrance?

[Waldo]

Is that the place they had the elephant chained at the entrance?

rings a bell.

[Geoff Dean]

1. What you do for work
2. Do you like it
3. Why

From the start:
Hand and Machine compositor apprentice/Printing plate maker 8.5 years
Navy as a Clearance Diver- told them to jam it after 53 days
Graphic Reproducer/Team Leader/Branch Manager 9.2 years
Pre Press Supervisor 11 years and still going.

OK
Hated it, place was full of idiots.
Good for about 8 years
Good for 7 years, went bad for 12 months, has come good again

It pays the bills.

[LotteBum]

I'm a secretary/personal assistant. Don't mind it - it pays the bills, hours are reasonable and it keeps the old brain ticking away.

At the moment, however, I'm off work indefinitely waiting for this baby to pop out. Looking after one of them is a role I haven't given much thought - it's quite frightening to think about.

Lotte

[jerryc]

Retired

Dunalottafings gotta
cupladegrees but after ploughing through this thread too tired to remember what they were.

Enjoy what I do now..


Jerry


Everyone is entitled to my opinion

[AV Elec]

In my spare time I maintain a DIY web site for plastering.
Now I enjoy sharing that knowledge with others.

Great site, well done :2tsup:

[Phil Spencer]

Occupation is BORING I would rather be doing woodwork :2tsup:

[Matt88s]

Getting a bit bored at work, so it is time for a post.
Tell us
1. What you do for work
2. Do you like it
3. Why

If you are no longer working then tell us what you used to do before you got lucky.


Ok I will start as usual, I am computer programmer. 80% of the time I enjoy my job because I get to use my Mathematics and logic a lot. The other 30% is dead boring.

Cheers :)

I am a Circulation Assistant for a system of county wide libraries.

I love it.

For one because I grew up using this library system, for two I work at my home branch where I read away a great deal of my youth. I started volunteering in my teens, as a "Teen Teamer" which is what we call our group of youthful volunteers that assist us during our summer reading program, which signs up about 40-50,000 children every summer. After four years of that I hired on as a shelver and then worked my way up to my current position, and recently received my 5yr pin. I have known my current boss for over a decade and we have a great relationship and we also alway have the best people and we all work together as a team beautifully.

Our branch is one of the smaller branches and the city we are in, although the fastest growing in the state, has a lovely small town downtown area and feel too it, and a great deal of characters that keep things interesting.

My job is customer service oriented and the tasks are varied and new situations come up day to day. Since we are a smaller branch with a smaller staff than most branches, we are not as specialized in our positions and tend to do a wider array of tasks. I spend a lot of time helping patrons with computer issues, software, showing them how to use Word, Excel, how to search the catalog and order items from other branches, charging and discharging items, checking fire extinguishers, booking the meeting room, placing and pulling holds and hold items, helping patrons find specific items or subjects, etc, etc. The varity of requests that we get from our patrons is interesting as well, it helps if you have a little bit of interest in everything and about everything, you'll have questions on everything from, Hi, I'm looking for a tax for XXXX, oh, I need it from 2004, to people looking for information on building straw bale houses or how to lay in their own French drains or can you order me some quilting patterns or I need a picture of a penguin skeleton or Do you have any books on role playing, sure our acting section is right over here, Oh, you mean that kind of role playing...:roll:

It's very nice and will be very hard to leave. Pay is competitive too.

I'm currently in college and seeking a degree in physical therapy.

[Eli]

1. What you do for work

Motion Picture Studio Grip for the last 12 years, in LA. Not sure if I'll do it here (not legal yet), I'm enjoying home renovation and side gigs remodeling at the moment. The wife's working from home, we're both with the kids everyday, and there's no immediate financial pressure. The boys are real young, I can always go back on the road in a few years when they hate me. :doh:

2. Do you like it

I loved it, I hated it. It was mostly exciting, until about the thirtieth take of something at one in the morning, then you just wished you had a gun.

It was always different, I worked on a fair share of big movies. It's still kind of fun when somebody asks you about somebody famous and you can tell them a little story. Was one of those jobs I couldn't wait to get out of and miss terribly now. The only job I ever liked more (and I had a few all over the map, mostly trade related) was first mate on board the Lene Marie, a 106' gaff rigged ketch.

3. Why

Well, I quit didn't I. It wasn't a good job for family, and not seeing my young sons was driving me and everyone around me crazy. It was good money for really long hours, and I was surrounded by guys (and girls) with drug problems, broken marriages, and broken bodies. I saw the writing on the wall. It's just a good chapter of my life story now. I could still handle about three months of it a year I reckon. The rest of the time I'm gonna do something else. Not quite sure what that is, but I'm off and running. Have had a few steady job offers, and have enough work lined up for at least a year fixing things in people's houses and businesses.

I've really, really enjoyed being a member of this forum. Houses and construction have been part of my life since I was sixteen, and being able to go somewhere and figure out the right names for everything and figure out what all the building standards are has been really invaluable to me.

If I was rating every element of my life for the past eight months in terms of it's importance to my integration into Australian life, the forum would be 60-70% overall, and that's more than my in-laws, even though they brought me to the footy at MCG every weekend.

Thanks everybody.:C

:aussie3:

[Honorary Bloke]

If I was rating every element of my life for the past eight months in terms of it's importance to my integration into Australian life, the forum would be 60-70% overall, and that's more than my in-laws, even though they brought me to the footy at MCG every weekend.

Thanks everybody.:C

:aussie3:

Really, Eli. Get a grip (pun intended). Nothing worse than a Seppo fawning over his new masters. :rolleyes:

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

[Eli]

Not many new masters here, far as I can tell. Just old ones.:harhar:

[RETIRED]

Not many new masters here, far as I can tell. Just old ones.:harhar:Behave yourself you young whipper snapper.:D

[Eli]

Behave yourself you young whipper snapper.:D

Not until I'm cold in the box, if everything goes right.:;

[wayfarer]

Well, spose being new here I better introduce what I do for a quid.

I am a qualified Industrial Designer managing a small studio and project team for a company which designs and installs exhibition stands, point of sale displays, retail fit-outs, showrooms, mobile displays etc.

We use CAD and 3D modelling to communicate our ideas and specifications including such programmes as VectorWroks, Cinema 4D, CorelDraw suite.

here's some samples of the work I've done:

This one won the highest industry design award: (brag :))

http://www.igdesign.com.au/modelling/projects/photos-small.jpg

This one never got off the ground: they changed the brief so we did something different which I can't show just yet.

http://www.igdesign.com.au/modelling/projects/render-front-left.jpg

A typical low cost exhibition stand.

http://www.igdesign.com.au/modelling/projects/KBR-concept-02.jpg

a POS item. acrylic.

http://www.igdesign.com.au/modelling/projects/render-right-blue.jpg

Two form studies for an outdoor kiosk...

http://www.igdesign.com.au/modelling/projects/cube-1.jpg

http://www.igdesign.com.au/modelling/projects/bullet-1.jpg

[Dirty Doogie]

Hi Wayfarer - Seriously cool work.

What happens to those exhibition stands when the company is finished with them? I have often gone and investigated similiar stands at various exhibitions - tried to work out how it was made etc - much to the chagrin of the persons working the stand. I love the bullet shaped outdoor kiosk.

Cheers

[Ivan in Oz]

G'Day Wayfarer,
Welcome aboard.

Like the Kiosks, for me the Orange one; :2tsup:
though I do like the Propeller NoseCone:D:D

What is "a POS item. acrylic."

POS....Hmmmm????:- All I can think of is Piece of ****
or
Plastic outfor Service:doh::no::no::no:

[Eli]

Point of sale

[Ivan in Oz]

Point of sale


POS ArrHHH!!!!:doh::doh::doh::doh:

Perhasp my Brain is a POS ATM
and I do not mean Point of Sale:rolleyes:

[Geoff Dean]

??? Automatic Teller Machine??? :D:D

[Ivan in Oz]

At the Moment:D

[prozac]

1. What you do for work
2. Do you like it
3. Why

1. Licenced Real Estate agent. C'mon, I'm not that sort of agent. Work mostly with commercial property, and also as a buyer's agent for commercial investment property and development sites.

2. Yes.

3. Work for myself when I want which isn't much except when...nah, sometimes I work very hard. Mostly the job gets done on the phone and internet so I seldom have to dress-up and never wear that agent's obligatory "uniform". If I do have to meet someone I'm often on the motorbike or in shorts at the beach (good place to do business).

This job was a late start for me when I had to find a new career after a work accident. Always had a real estate interest so when I could not think of anything else to do used it as a fallback. At the time I don't think I could have coped studying something new.The job enables me to get out every Thursday for a jaunt on the motorcycle with a bunch of other like-minded bods, work my own hours, or not work when I'm crook. I am really semi-retired.

Reading earlier posts I am in awe of ppl doing very interesting work, some with real talent, some who love their work (they just don't know how fortunate they are), others who are just lucky to be plain happy with their lot.

prozac

[wayfarer]

Thanks all, I like both the kiosks. The one the customer is going for is not shown... it's still happening, which reminds me I have to find an engineer. They wanted a "funky" design, which more often or not translates into a "retro" look rather than true "funky". Funky would be the bullet shaped one and retro the cube. They went for a retro feel in the end and not the funky one. Go figure.


Hi Wayfarer - Seriously cool work.

What happens to those exhibition stands when the company is finished with them? I have often gone and investigated similiar stands at various exhibitions - tried to work out how it was made etc - much to the chagrin of the persons working the stand. I love the bullet shaped outdoor kiosk.

Cheers

Well, a couple of things. The top one for Energizer is a re-usable one. It's just finishing it's second year (currently in the workshop being refurbished). They use it about 8-10 times a year all over Australia. They'll destroy it when finished since they don't want anyone capitalising on it. (It's familiarity on the trade show circuit is worth something) We'll harvest anything useful from it like the LCD screen, LED lights, ally extrusions etc.

It's made from a lock-together aluminium extrusions system (post & beam) white melamine panels framed up with lights inside, a white melamine ceiling with breeze cloth insert and yellow fluros, a white melamine floor (where all the electrics are hidden). The top signs are 25mm thick acrylic with a logo cut in with overhead CNC router and edge lit. The banners on the two corners are breeze cloth with large digital print on them. The whole thing can be unpacked, erected, dusted down and tidied up in 2½hrs with trained staff to about 4½hrs with new staff.

The KBR stand, on the other hand, is almost entirely hire components that will be re-used in another configuration for another exhibitor. By coincidence it's made from the same extrusion system as the Energizer one. The infill panels are tinted blue acrylic with a frosted finish, the floor is a hire system of 1x1m tiles (melamine timber-look) that again routes the electrics. The counter at the front is made from laminated and painted MDF, the curved white walls are custom made painted MDF which would be tipped after the show. The KBR logos are acrylic letters on white styrene foam.

I've been doing this for 22yrs this January. In my hey-day I was designing well in excess of 100 stands a year in various degrees of complexity and size but now days client liaison, administration, OH&S compliance, looking after staff and work flow means I probably only design 10-15 stands per year, if that.