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  1. #31
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    RAAF Electrical (Aircraft) Fitter Apprentice, Electronic Technican, Broadcast Engineering Officer and Woodturner.
    Cheers
    Barry
    If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck and looks like a duck then it's a friggin duck.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zed
    trained as a wanka, workong as a bullshyte artist
    Yer a politician?

  3. #33
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    Default There seems of be a lot of ex RAAFies

    Still working on Her Majesty's flying circus. Started as a radtech and now on all the queer trades (things with electrons).

  4. #34
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    Default Another ex RAAFie

    RAAF as a rad tech then got a commission in logistics (called supply then).
    Went to Uni got a BA in Photography Science stream, then BA in Psychology followed by MA and Phd, worked with villains for 20 years retired last year and back at work again.
    Worked for myself for 12 years importing and manufacturing fishing gear, selling electronics, recently developing software and now selling it with hardware.
    Beats having SWMBO nagging at me.
    Stupidity kills. Absolute stupidity kills absolutely.

  5. #35
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    started as a kid doing paper delivery lad then a milk money collector, did building renovations for my tech studies teacher while in high school
    after I left school got a job in a factory making eletric motors then trained as an industrial spray painter with the same mob for a bit then
    print shop hand
    storeman
    deliverys for schweppes drinks
    service station operator
    sheet metal worker making averies
    shi% kicker for holdens, but I had my own office
    worked as a life guard at public swimming pool
    truck tyre fitter,car tyre fitter,wheel alignment technician all the same mob
    hurt my back playing indoor cricket 4 nights a week so had some time off then
    transport/dock supervisor
    truck driver
    lab technician/delivery driver
    garbo driver (more money )
    air conditioning installer
    air conditioner sales person
    air conditioning contractor/ repairs/ sales, my own business
    study building for a while
    building works supervisor
    and now only twenty five years to go :eek:
    Some People are like slinky's,
    They serve no purpose at all,
    but they put a smile on your face when you throw them down the stairs.

  6. #36
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    Boy! is there anyone left in the RAAF

    I started my working life as;
    Appr Cabinet Maker, (boss went broke, not my fault),
    Banking & Finance,
    Office Admin,
    Financial modeller(retrenched),
    Electricians Assistant(Retrenched,
    Law Clerk,
    Computer Tech & Programmer (retrenched after Y2K:mad:,
    Viticulturist,
    Farm Hand/Driver,
    Builders labourer,
    Aluminium frabicator,
    Almost retired!

    I have never lost the taste for wood!!
    Russell (aka Mulgabill)
    "It is as it is"

  7. #37
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    Quote Originally Posted by ivanavitch
    now on all the queer trades
    Ya should of joined the Navy by the sounds of it.

    Al :eek:

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    Did my time as an apprentice brickie.

    Did my time as an apprentice boiler maker 20 years later.

    Now laying bricks and picking up crap.
    Al

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    Now laying bricks and picking up crap.
    Hey Al, there's plenty of crap out the back yard. Come around and get'em.

    I must learn to poo in the toilet one day.
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  10. #40
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    Quote Originally Posted by Grunt
    Hey Al, there's plenty of crap out the back yard.
    Woodborer said that a few weeks ago
    Stupidity kills. Absolute stupidity kills absolutely.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ozwinner
    Did my time as an apprentice brickie.

    Did my time as an apprentice boiler maker 20 years later.

    Now laying bricks and picking up crap.

    Al
    Are you picking up crap the to lay as bricks?

  12. #42
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    Electrical, Electronics, management, computers ( support of users)

  13. #43
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    did my time as an apprentice carpenter but now I'm an unemployed millionaire (the money is good if you can get work)

  14. #44
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    Quote Originally Posted by julianx
    did my time as an apprentice carpenter but now I'm an unemployed millionaire (the money is good if you can get work)
    If you want do Work For The Dole I have some vacancies coming up soon
    Regards, Bob Thomas

    www.wombatsawmill.com

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