What is your occupation?

[JDarvall]

1. Don't work....robbed a bank when I was 18. Still living off that....Down to me last 10 grand though. Have to rob another soon. But mustn't be too greedy. A bank a decades me rule.

2. Yes, I did like robbing the bank. addrenilin rush. Better than sex and chocolates.

3. Cause I didn't get caught of course !....what a stupid question.... Instantly rich. Nobody got hurt. Banks are insured anyway. Bout time someone screwed over the banks. Always screwing us over.

[havenoideaatall]

Got a Law Degree.
i. paratrooper
ii. Naval Intelligence
iii. IT - developer (programmer)
Volunteer CFA firefighter

I can telecommute; there are plenty of problems to keep the grey matter sparking; the customers don't have a clue what they want, don't know what they've been given, and don't know why they needed it in the first place. OK, I love it really.

On IT:So true, noone really knows what they want, you get the satisfation of giving them what they need and then being the only bod that can fix it. You're dealing with tangibles and detail rather than intangibles.

I tell everyone that will listen that I hate IT. My poor wife. This is because I KNOW that other bods are much better at it than me and really want to live and breathe it and whilst I've had a good innings haven't made quite as much money as I could have done due to needing job security at few key moments.

I always wish I could do a job which involves a shed load of skills and situations like firefighting fulltime, medic, or a geologist/scientist the sort of job which makes women go weak at the knees, like F1 driver. Good litmus test that. Someone once said - there's only 2 roles in this world, soldiers and women Of course, I'm married now so no need to impress the chicks.

I like IT programming better than I admit because:
i) I can sit in the corner, and do something that will keep me fully occupied for a working day.
ii) Although I love personal interaction and being at the pointy end I nonetheless hate the business meeting / BS side of things and-would hate being a Project Manager/Team Leader/Business Analyst.

3. Because it beats the hell out of working for a living and they let me do it from 500km away.

I am just waiting for the moment now not far off when I work far less hours, for a lot more money - and maybe locally - and/or from home.

Ultimately I want out as I want a lot more personal satisfaction. So I've applied for full-time firefighting.

Have

[Andy Mac]

Ultimately I want out as I want a lot more personal satisfaction. So I've applied for full-time firefighting.

Seems to be no shortage of work there.

I'm working part time (4 days/wk) as a studio manager in an arts dept at uni. Run the various studios like printmaking, textiles, ceramics, sculpture etc., order supplies and equipment (even make some!); liaise with tradespeople, cleaners, lecturers; show staff and students how to use the facilities safely; maintain the plant and equipment etc. I get to work on a heap of different equipment, like kilns, looms, presses and workshop gear (wood and metal), so its a pretty wide ranging job, and mostly I enjoy it. 15yrs at it now, so sometimes I get bored.
At least one day a week I teach in the sculpture workshop, demonstrating various skills like woodcarving, forging, welding, and assist students with the technical side of making stuff.
I came into the job after being a tradesman for 12 or so yrs (aircraft maintenance, then diesel fitting) when I chucked that in to study art. The two strands wound together, so I'm a technical artist! In my 1 day a week I take on commission work...sometimes make stuff on spec, but eventually I'd like extend that...just a matter of getting the commissions and sales to outweigh the uni work. But I shouldn't whinge, I've certainly had worse jobs!!

Cheers,

[squashedfrog1]

[quote= Of course, I'm married now so no need to impress the chicks.

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Havenoideaatall,

Oh boy. SWMBO read that and now I'm in trouble! . "Is that how you boys think?" She says, "i'm not worth impressing?"

I'll just go put her on her chain down at the back fence..........


Is that MFB you've applied for?

[Doughboy]

1/ Chef
CFA Volunteer
Motorcycle Reviewer
2/ I do it cos everyone needs to eat and I can travel the world while getting paid for it
3/ Hell no I dont like it. It is the most anti-social job I know of. While two kids as well it is not condusive of spending time with family.

The other two are just interests that I love to be involved in.

I am a boring kind of bloke but isn't that how the saying goes. Women love the simpler things in life ........ men.

Pete

[Gra]

Project Manager/Business Analyst.

will give you project manager. That job sucks, who wants to be a target of both management and staff...

But cant agree on BA, but then again most of us BA's are usually wannabe PM's or programmers right

[mcarthur]

1. IT researcher & non-professional photographer
2. enough to keep coming in.
3. on the good days the problem solving and creating and doing things noone else has ever done are great; on the other days it's as fun as any job with useless meetings, inane upper and middle management, rampant administration, etc.

Actually, looking up rampant in the dictionary online, there's a few very apt explanations of administration:
- growing luxuriantly, as weeds
- in full sway; prevailing or unchecked
- Occurring without restraint and frequently, widely, or menacingly; rife
- very common and uncontrolled


Rob

[havenoideaatall]

But cant agree on BA, but then again most of us BA's are usually wannabe PM's or programmers right

(No!) I'll tell you why the preference:, when programming, you can address the problem until it is solved and fill in the blanks from the spec. This fills the day, and it either tests OK or not - putting it 0 or 1.

I'd hate BA because it would not go into enough detail to keep my full undivided, attention yet all the BAs I know run around madly trying to get some detail for us - but often never getting any or enough- if that makes sense...

Put it another way:with programming you can quickly work out all the answers to the questions, with BA it's trying to come up with the questions which noone knows.

On the other hand, a good 'easy' day programming is a lot easier than BA. A bad day programming is HELL.

Haveno

[havenoideaatall]

Havenoideaatall,

Oh boy. SWMBO read that and now I'm in trouble! . "Is that how you boys think?" She says, "i'm not worth impressing?"

I'll just go put her on her chain down at the back fence..........


Is that MFB you've applied for?

Yes....just for the ride.

[Gra]

Haveno,

You realise we put the gaps in the spec just to annoy you

In fact I have been thinking of putting a reference to the flying spaghetti monster in my next spec, just to see who actually reads it

[silentC]

Mate, it's simple. BAs have to deal with clients without getting to do the fun bit.

[Grunt]

BAs are also the ones that know one can tell if they are doing a good jobs until it's far too late.

[havenoideaatall]

BAs are also the ones that know one can tell if they are doing a good jobs until it's far too late.

Indeed - it's a very gray area. And up to a point, what comes to be a bad piece of BA may be excusable for a multitude of reasons.

I've found I've skim-read a spec and then vaguely consulted it weeks later. There's been no need to look at it again or I've had to send it back.

I do not envy BAs.

[havenoideaatall]

Haveno,

You realise we put the gaps in the spec just to annoy you

In fact I have been thinking of putting a reference to the flying spaghetti monster in my next spec, just to see who actually reads it

Lol. There is a bit of area in my current role where no BA can ever reallly understand the calls. I expect there to be gaps and often nothing at all. I just politely take delivery of the spec and nothing more is said.

[silentC]

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