What is your occupation?

[Shedgirl]

My job?

I'm a full-time mum.

But I used to be pretty intelligent.

In those days I was a photo retoucher, freelance writer and horticulturist.
Parenting is a rewarding job and at times incredibly heartwarming. It also turns once-normal people into gibbering idiots. Thank goodness, only another year 'til the last one is at kindy...

[Gra]

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.

My problem is the tech side, I came from the business, so I understand the business process, so I have spent as much time with the dev team as I can so I understand what they want. Any good BA is just an interpreter anyhow, we interpret what the business say they want into what they really want, then explain that in developer terms, well that was what I was taught anyhow.

What industry group are you in involved in? i'm in the banking side

[corbs]

1. Physical Trainer in the RAN since 2001, Radio Operator before that since 94.

2. Love(d) both jobs but am thinking that the time is approaching for a change, anyone got a job for me?

3. Always been an active person so making it my job seemed the obvious thing to do. There is nothing like taking someone who obviously hasn't had a physical upbringing (see health problems like obesity) and training them to realise their potential. The look on someones face when they pass the fitness test after months of training and struggeling with it is worth it.

Corbs

[AlexS]

... Thank goodness, only another year 'til the last one is at kindy...

...and then how long before the oldest is a teenager?

You don't know what a gibbering idiot is yet

The good news is that usually, by the time they're 30, they're no longer teenagers.

[Daddles]

..The good news is that usually, by the time they're 30, they're no longer teenagers.

Who told you that furfy?

Richard

[Farm boy]

For the past 5 years i have been a train controller and look after the railway track from Gloucester to glenapp ,prior to this i was a train driver

I am seconded by the NSW Govenment to ARTC until June 2007 when i will be redundant after 26 and a half years service.
I love my job ,hate the state govenment for leasing out the railway line for 50 odd years and love the money that me and 35 other people will be getting off the state govenment as a redundancy

[echnidna]

The Fat Controller ?

[Felder]

1. I am a General Practitioner in Armidale
2. Yes, I like it
3. As a country doc I get to do a lot of things that other GP's don't do. I do anesthetics, obstetrics, and numerous other things.

I don't like having to go to the hospital in the middle of the night though.


Hi Terry!

[Terry B]

1. I am a General Practitioner in Armidale
2. Yes, I like it
3. As a country doc I get to do a lot of things that other GP's don't do. I do anesthetics, obstetrics, and numerous other things.

I don't like having to go to the hospital in the middle of the night though.


Hi Terry!

Hi Brendan
Summed it up pretty well.
Nothing like dredging up old threads and it isn't even Friday

[Honorary Bloke]

1. Semi-retired estate agent (2 years)
2. Yes.
3. Because I can work from home and more or less set my own hours.

This is but my latest re-incarnation. It's a way to make a little money whilst slowing down a bit. In previous lives I've been (in order and not including student jobs):

Computer programmer (Air Force)
Cash register sales manager
Hardware store manager
Appliance salesman (you know, cooktops, fridges, and the lot)
Auto parts salesman
[long break to return to uni]
Educational designer
Army training programme designer (IHAWK missile system)
National Defence Foreign Language fellow
Adjunct professor of Russian History (University of Virginia)
Director of human resources and security (Sperry Marine--you seagoing blokes should know about Sperry gyros, etc.)
Free-lance writer
Vice President of a marketing/ad agency

And now, in my dotage, I'm flogging houses to the unwary and trying to improve my WW skills.

My favourite is teaching, but I couldn't afford it. Pay is too low.

Still don't know what I'll be when I grow up.

[Cliff Rogers]

I never could get my head around writing on a lance for free.....

[Honorary Bloke]

I never could get my head around writing on a lance for free.....

You don't think someone would PAY you to write on a lance, do you?

[Cliff Rogers]

You don't think someone would PAY you to write on a lance, do you?

I understand that bit, I don't understand why you would still do it..... maybe some kind of weird art?

[Shedgirl]

I never could get my head around writing on a lance for free.....

I don't write on the lance for free, I am free to write whatever I please upon it, because I am an artiste!

Alex, my daughter was born a teenager, so my gibbering skills are very advanced.
Corbs, you should become a personal trainer, then you can come and make me fit and svelte again... Seriously, though, it would be a great job for you, and you can set your own hours so you have plenty of WW time.

[Honorary Bloke]

Cliff, Do not mess with a lady who is in the shed with a hammer.