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Mrs Reject

14-03-2005, 12:04 PM

My theory is everyone hates their job, I certainly hate my part time job! But then I detest all nursing and have developed a phobia of sick people and hospitals which isn't great if you're a nurse :D
What is it you like or hate about your job abd are you prepared to do anything about it i.e move to Swaziland and live off dhurka dhurka beetles and grubs!

gollum

14-03-2005, 12:14 PM

Crofty

14-03-2005, 12:23 PM

Being a student's ok, but anyone that tells you that it's all one big piss up either does fashion/psychology/media studies and/or has mummy and daddy pay for everything. My job is ****. I work as a silver service waiter at an agency, they ship me all over for not too much wedge (£4.85 an hour) not including travel time, which can be up to an hour. If I go really far (like birmingham-via sheffield) I get £6 for the time I'm actually there usually 11 hours which aint so bad, but from getting up to travelling there and coming back and moving between jobs coming home and getting back to bed, it works out at about £66-72 for a 23 hour day. (up at 5 meet in Leeds at 630 loads o travelling about, then back to bed at 4.) So no, my job is ****. And I dont get tips because we're only shipped in to serve then we get shipped out as soon as the coffee's poured, so the cleaners at the end get them.

Crofty

14-03-2005, 12:25 PM

just don't feel like I got the right.
Don't got the right to go into full-time education? 'Course you have.

Otter

14-03-2005, 12:35 PM

Don't hate my job.

Okay - it takes me away from the boys (sons 10 months and 4½ years) and my toys (a number of bikes on the road and in the workshop) - but the people I work with and the work (a bit stressy at times) are okay.

dracken1

14-03-2005, 12:42 PM

i love every aspect of my job except the paperwork ;)

Yoda

14-03-2005, 12:47 PM

my job is great....oh wait i aint got one.....ahhh thats why its so great then :-)

yoda

Mrs Reject

14-03-2005, 12:50 PM

Been in automotive engineering most of my life, its changed so much over the years with the decline of manufacturing you are now expected to be more flexible, read de-skilling, I hate it. Which is why I'm back studying with the OU, trouble is its going to take fecking forever. Tempted to go back full-time but at my age I just don't know, just don't feel like I got the right.

The only reason why I'm at uni doing podiatry is because I will then be able to afford to work 3-4 days a week when I've qualified and spend the rest of my week doing the things I want to :D The only drawback is being skint for 3 years but it'll be worth it and I'll never have to do any nursing again ever.
Will also then be able to work from home and not have to suffer being an employee.
About half my course consists of mature people who are totally burnt out and re-training so they can have a better life.How long is your OU course then Gollum?

memnoch

14-03-2005, 12:57 PM

Been in automotive engineering most of my life, its changed so much over the years with the decline of manufacturing you are now expected to be more flexible, read de-skilling, I hate it. Which is why I'm back studying with the OU, trouble is its going to take fecking forever. Tempted to go back full-time but at my age I just don't know, just don't feel like I got the right.

Of course you have the right - there are too many feckers takin these opportunities that don't really want them or deserve them. Your decision to get on and do it because you really want to, earns you the right to do it and to succeed!

I 'ran away' from home and school before I was fifteen and never thought I'd achieve anything...went to college (aged 38) to get some GCSEs and it snowballed from there...ended up a teacher (fcuk! Can u believe that!)

My old ma will be laughing and turning in her grave! lol School beetle spent more time at our house than he did at his - poor fecker! Used to come in and make himself a cup of tea and a sandwich BEFORE he gave me a bollocking! LOL

You get on m8 and best of luck to you!

mr.chaz

14-03-2005, 01:01 PM

Being an International Playboy and Man of Mystery sometimes takes it's toll.It's a dirty job , but someone's gotta do it! ;)

Bag Lady

14-03-2005, 01:03 PM

I am lucky, I love my job -

I am actually a qualified electronic engineer and worked for years in the industry. I never enjoyed it though, but it paid the bills....It is soul destroying slogging away and hating the job but having to carry on because you cannot afford to do anything else. I was a single parent then and had to put up with it. At least I earned really good wages and could afford to live well.Dreaded getting up in the morning though and hated everything about it.

I now just work in an office, have been here just over a year. I am on my own most of the time so I get to choose my own workload. I answer the phone and deal with technical queries and generally keep things going. Only work 9-5 Monday to Friday, all weekends and bank holidays off + 4 weeks annual holiday. Bliss....no overtime, no mobile calls. Just leave and go home and switch off.

My boss (and his wife - she works here part time) are BRILLIANT. They treat me really well and make the atmosphere here really good. It is the best place I have ever worked and I have been working for the last 35 years....They make it a pleasure to be here. I even get to have Fridays off to go to rallys...I am allowed to bring the dog into work if I want to as well. I plan to be here for as long as I can.

Bosun

14-03-2005, 01:23 PM

main jobs ok, but looking for something more interesting for Part time ( rally party money fund)

so sadly i suppose yes i like the jobs

mindyou wanna become suddenly rich and learn the rock n roll lifestyle of journalism

Jay

14-03-2005, 01:23 PM

I gave up my job as a Bank Manager because after 10 years, the work bored me. I took a £12,000 per year pay decrease - Gave up a Big non-contributory Pension - Company Car was handed back - Massive discounts on company shares - Generous Clothing Allowances - Very Prestigous Office - 37 hours per week - Free healthcare for my family

I now work 60 hours (if I'm lucky) as a manager of an engineering company, it's filthy with no prospects, no pensions, no healthcare, no car, total mayhem, everyone's had enough of it all, including the boss who gets nose bleeds from all the stress.......

I do however have a part time gardening job - which really is the dog's dinner!

gollum

14-03-2005, 01:28 PM

The only reason why I'm at uni doing podiatry is because I will then be able to afford to work 3-4 days a week when I've qualified and spend the rest of my week doing the things I want to :D The only drawback is being skint for 3 years but it'll be worth it and I'll never have to do any nursing again ever.
Will also then be able to work from home and not have to suffer being an employee.
About half my course consists of mature people who are totally burnt out and re-training so they can have a better life.How long is your OU course then Gollum?

It will take 5 years to BA, 6 years to BA Hon, fecking long time :D

blackhack

14-03-2005, 01:45 PM

As most of you know, I run a couple of taxi's in Glasgow...And F/N love it to bits... I used to be a caretaker working for the local council housing dept, where you were just the poor bastard who cleaned up the piss and vomit in the lifts of the tower blocks and most of the tennants blamed you for it anyway. start at 8 am tea at 10 lunch at 12 stuck as a slave to the clock....

Now I'm just a househusband mid week (to let Mrs BH work) and taxi driver at weekends.....Never the same job twice, One min im going into town, next job its out of town....never knowing where i'm going next (no boredom) ....my own boss..(abselute heaven) start when I want...Finish when I want...

And all the money I make is Mine...ALL Mine ....... he he he

Mrs Reject

14-03-2005, 01:47 PM

Jay was a BANK MANAGER!!!!!!! :eek: :eek:

Blimey some people lead secret lives on this forum :D

bill?

14-03-2005, 01:55 PM

the jobs ok, its the dickheads I work with that really feck me off.

technoboiler

14-03-2005, 01:58 PM

my jobs ok if i have a driver and can get drunk ;)

Yoda

14-03-2005, 02:13 PM

i used to be in catering, Buffets and organised meals etc... and was my own boss, the money was good when it was there (summer, xmas) but i was always skint when it wern't...so i became a bus driver,....steady job, sh1te pay, Sh1te hours, sh1te Job....
driving a bus was fun, if it wasn't for the people getting on/off it would be a cracking job.
now i feel any job that has to deal with the 'general public' is god awful (when i couldnt drive a bus no-longer the company tried to get rid of me, but i took em to court under the DDA and won, they give me an office based job which i loved as it was deffo my cup of tea, except for the bit where we had to deal with the public...
put me off dealing with the general public it has..
Yoda

memnoch

14-03-2005, 02:33 PM

It will take 5 years to BA, 6 years to BA Hon, fecking long time :D

Stick with it m8 - the self-satisfaction alone will be worth it. :D

Blue

14-03-2005, 02:37 PM

It will take 5 years to BA, 6 years to BA Hon, fecking long time :D

And do you bugger all good when you have got it.

gollum

14-03-2005, 02:38 PM

Stick with it m8 - the self-satisfaction alone will be worth it. :D

Was considering one more 60 point course after this one and then finishing it full-time next September, if they'll let me on second year of course.

memnoch

14-03-2005, 02:45 PM

Whatever option suits ya best is good m8. either way, like I say, it'll be worth it.

No reason why they shouldn't let ya back (is there?).

ninjagal600

14-03-2005, 03:00 PM

Just lost my job but its a ideal oppurtunity to re train in something a bit more exciting ....worked in jobcentre and was posted out to some sh1te places as part of the job......places were a lot of thee wouldnt really want to go... :( :(

brandersnatch

14-03-2005, 03:46 PM

OOh I love my job! Monday mornings hold no fear for me. Company FJR1300, company riding kit, company phone, pension, sick pay, hob-nobbing with celebrities, 'rider training' trail bike weekends in Spain, I'm at the pc in the office writing this because we're a bit quiet at the moment, what's not to like? :D :D

krammer

14-03-2005, 03:47 PM

i really do like my job as a humble council plumber. occasionally you get to work in some complete wankers house or flat but bye and large the people are sound..... the things i have seen in my 27 years there however i could fill a book. :D

dracken1

14-03-2005, 03:48 PM

from yoda
my job is great....oh wait i aint got one.....ahhh thats why its so great then

yea we know yoda. "the moneys crap but the hours are bloody fantastic"

i guess i only meet 10% of my customers most are phone or internet.
the downside of many jobs is dealing with the general public.*slimey mode on* "not you yoda" *slimey mode off* the ones who know xactly what they want are great. it's the ones who think they know what they want then change thier minds umteen times that get to me *slimey mode on*"not you yoda" *slimey mode off*
or the worse of the lot. the ones that bring me something to make or weld, because they cannot do it. and question you as to weather you are doing it correctly :D
or even worse the ones were you follow thier instructions to the letter and when they get it they realise that was not exactly what they wanted and try to blame you for it, even though you have thier own written instructions in your hand. *frown face on* "better not be you yoda" *frown face off* :D :D :D

Yoda

14-03-2005, 04:09 PM

from yoda
yea we know yoda. "the moneys crap but the hours are bloody fantastic"
the hours are brill mate, and my side job of pimping out taxi dave pays the bills

i guess i only meet 10% of my customers most are phone or internet.
:) what you do one of those internet strip joints :)

*frown face on* "better not be you yoda" *frown face off*

i dont mind you calling me a BLEEPing pain (cuz i am)

Now i cant really say it wasnt what i wanted..after all the changes and info i have made..can i :D

r30

14-03-2005, 04:24 PM

work in a foundry like it, not much of a future though with all the work that`s leaving the country

Yoda

14-03-2005, 04:28 PM

my ideal job would be computer repair/building and graphic design

but as i enjoy it so much as a hobby, i guess doing it for a living would ruin that.

so maybe its not my ideal job then.

:) i could be a supermarket trolley :)

blackhack

14-03-2005, 04:42 PM

i could be a supermarket trolley

Lets have a competition to see what shyte job we can get for yoda....

A big pair of scissors and he could get a job as a flymo....:)

Yoda

14-03-2005, 04:49 PM

Lets have a competition to see what shyte job we can get for yoda....

A big pair of scissors and he could get a job as a flymo....:)

A rollerskate for a giant ?????????

Jay

14-03-2005, 05:02 PM

Tie a big piece of elastic to the back of his chair and send him down a hill.

Yes thats right, I suggest we patent the worlds first

'YO-YOda'

Yoda

14-03-2005, 05:07 PM

Tie a big piece of elastic to the back of his chair and send him down a hill.

Yes thats right, I suggest we patent the worlds first

'YO-YOda'

ROFLMAO

Yoda

chimaera

14-03-2005, 05:33 PM

how about chief shower head adjuster at a all girls boarding school

gollum

14-03-2005, 11:02 PM

Whatever option suits ya best is good m8. either way, like I say, it'll be worth it.

No reason why they shouldn't let ya back (is there?).

None that I can think of :D

Crofty

14-03-2005, 11:21 PM

mY **** JOB JUST GOT BETTER, JUST DID A RUGBY PLACE SOMEWHERE NEAR LEEDS, AND WE GOT FREE FOOD AND BOOZE! ALso sorry about the caps lock :(

ForestFred

14-03-2005, 11:52 PM

The pays not great ,have to work 7.00am til 5.15 pm. the place is a ****hole the boss is a wanker. I voted no I dont hate my job why you ask?. Coz I dont have to work Fridays :D

technoboiler

14-03-2005, 11:55 PM

i work every weekend,,,,unless i book them off

but i do get the equivalent of about 100 quid an hour,,,,so i shouldnt grumble :p

gollum

15-03-2005, 12:00 AM

i work every weekend,,,,unless i book them off

but i do get the equivalent of about 100 quid an hour,,,,so i shouldnt grumble :p

Good for you girl make the most of it.

Bassman

15-03-2005, 12:04 AM

Work for myself, got a couple of guitar shops... no other fecker would hire me anyway... I hated working for someone else...
Now i get to please myself if i just work 100 hours a week or just 85.... :confused:

BikerGran

15-03-2005, 12:14 AM

Do I hate my job? No, the jobs ok, a bit boring sometimes - but I do hate the bosses who don't give us enough staff to do the job as well as we used to do it, and then decide to employ new people who don't know anything about the job to give most of our work to, so that it'll be done better!
And can't make up their minds for years whether our office will stay open or close down - so we've all spent the last 3 years not knowing how long we'll have a job......
Last year when I was off I was pleased to get back to work after 4 and a half months - this time it's 5 months already and I'm not missing it!

Sir Ewok

15-03-2005, 03:23 AM

Same here, don't hate the job (however boring it gets, I like boring) it's the wankers that are in control or arsehole creeping too them. Did and failed an appreticeship with the gasboard 'cos I was too busy drinking, riding me bike and chasing girls.
Worked for the post office, Timken bearings, and a Polystyrene Moulding company.
From there I went contract enginneering working anything up to 110 hours a week. Some jobs were 14 hours a day, 7 days a week. me and my mate used to do a 16 hour shift Thursday so we could get home Friday with the wages cheque. 2 hours drive each way and about 6 hours at home. Does wonders for your marriage. Started my own firm and bought a house after doing a six month contract in Nigeria (for coco-cola). Was paying £360 a month mortgage in 1980 and pulling around £900 a week (had 3-4 guys working for me) got well and truely f*cked in 1985 after building (did it myself) a £5,000 kitchen and getting asked for a divorce five weeks later. Went into silver recovery from film and ran that for about five years and then ended up working for Cosworths (road engines) for 3 and a half years. Did some temping including a dustman on wheelybin round and now work for Kab Seating in Northampton as a welder. There are two good things about the job, I don't have to work Fridays unless I want to do 4 hours overtime and I qualified as a welder (NVQ 1) and had the opportunity to go on to do the D32/33 weld assessor and C25 trainer (also became one of a team of three who test all company welders and train all new welders).
That's it so far, can't talk about my part time job as a film viewer, but I am watching 'Anal Angels' at the moment. It's a dirty job, but somebody has to do it......

Friar Tuck

15-03-2005, 06:54 AM

Erm, I actually enjoy my job! The work colleagues are good fun. The pressure of "I must have that report, etc, before you leave tonight!" bully boy tactics just aint there! Yup! I like the Naarfolk way of life!

Erm, do I need psycho-councelling, then?

HEATZ

15-03-2005, 10:54 AM

i love mine :D

im an international coach driver

get payed to drive all over Ireland/UK/mainland europe in a 300,000euro merc coach
boss aint breathin down my neck

and get to lots of enteresting places and events
(was at the Irish masters snooker final last sunday nite with a good seat for free... i was payed to be there :D )

dagon22

15-03-2005, 03:36 PM

i do F all
i enjoy it

krammer

15-03-2005, 03:57 PM

i work every weekend,,,,unless i book them off

but i do get the equivalent of about 100 quid an hour,,,,so i shouldnt grumble :p a hundred quid an hour for lying on yer back? :p christ you must provide one hell of a service................omg..omg....omg....omg....o mg.

technoboiler

15-03-2005, 04:48 PM

a hundred quid an hour for lying on yer back? :p christ you must provide one hell of a service................omg..omg....omg....omg....o mg.

i get more than that for lying on my back darlink

i am soooooooooooo pleased i started this kick boxing malarky,,,,gonna have fun this season methinks ;)

Dougie

15-03-2005, 07:33 PM

My job sucks!My place of work sucks!My terms and conditions suck!My pension's pretty good,but they're looking to change it,which sucks!The management sucks!The folk I work beside (in general) suck!My pay sucks!The only good things about the job are I met Fran there :) and it keeps the wolf from the door.
I have never had a job I like,and I really envy those of you who have!

krammer

15-03-2005, 07:52 PM

Dougie

15-03-2005, 07:55 PM

Yeah,for all the good it'll do........

krammer

15-03-2005, 07:56 PM

Yeah,for all the good it'll do........ i know. but i guess a stand has to be taken somewhere.

Dougie

15-03-2005, 08:00 PM

True,true.

Jim

15-03-2005, 08:02 PM

I manage a lighting showroom at an old train station in rural suffolk. Its in the middle of the countryside (just off the A14) and its great. The owner pays me a reasonable salary (won't ever be rich but I won't starve). I get to run it pretty much as I like, do the display work myself, deal with stock, new customers every day.

Only downside is that I work most Saturdays.

For eight years prior to this I was the production supervisor for Durex in Cambridge. I could definately write a book about that !

Grav

15-03-2005, 08:05 PM

I have had plenty of jobs I hated but did them to keep food on the table and my bike on the road.

I really enjoyed my last job, Saw Operator/Labourer in a small engineering firm. It was a great place to work as the boss was a complete nutter and everyone got on really well. I had to leave cos of my back injuries and was hoping one day to be able to return, but my latest medical report has put the kybosh on that. :(

Crafter

15-03-2005, 08:36 PM

I'd feel better about my job if I'd not just been given a shut down notice :(

26 years I've been there.I gave them the best years of my life.........1981- 1982.

fingers crossed the company will find my another post.

technoboiler

15-03-2005, 08:38 PM

Dougie

15-03-2005, 08:41 PM

duz fran suck too! ;)
That is a question unbecoming a lady!DON'T BE FOUL!

technoboiler

15-03-2005, 08:42 PM

cant help it,,,,was crying out for that particular comment ,,,and u know it was :o

Dougie

15-03-2005, 08:46 PM

Aye,okay,I'll let you off.

m@rk

15-03-2005, 09:40 PM

left school at fourteen swarfing out lathe beds for a local engineering company,
stayed with engineering for a while and re-trained.
done me microsoft certified and a plus in networking.
eventually had my own I.T. company..lasted 3 years and i pulled the plug.
now back in engineering(aerospace stuff) and im back working with normal people an me lifes me own.
the jobs complete ****e but the people are great.....
it aint the job that matters its the people....

gollum

16-03-2005, 02:20 AM

i

i am soooooooooooo pleased i started this kick boxing malarky,,,,gonna have fun this season methinks ;)

Feck your in trouble now ern :D

TaxiDave

17-03-2005, 05:37 PM

the hours are brill mate, and my side job of pimping out taxi dave pays the bills

You needn't worry about ever working again Yoda, what with all the cash you've got stashed from your old job as a stuntman doing the trolley dash with Dale Winton pushing you round that supermarket. All the tips that you made by helping him get on and off his sunbed in his dressing room after the show would double the comic relief total single handedly.

Talking of single handedly .................... no thats another story. :D

Yoda

17-03-2005, 05:39 PM

You needn't worry about ever working again Yoda, what with all the cash you've got stashed from your old job as a stuntman doing the trolley dash with Dale Winton pushing you round that supermarket. All the tips that you made by helping him get on and off his sunbed in his dressing room after the show would keep would double the comic relief total single handedly.

Talking of single handedly .................... no thats another story. :D

PMSL.....ooops wet meself

TaxiDave

17-03-2005, 05:41 PM

PMSL.....ooops wet meself

You're not making those films again are you!!

Oh well, the eleventh commandment doth sayeth, "he who wants an expensive trike, must wank off men to pay for it"

muskrat

28-11-2005, 08:43 PM

been an undertaker{honest thats my job} is a pretty dead end job !but somebodies got to do it makes me slow down (just a little!!)but enjoy it in a strange sort of way

krammer

28-11-2005, 08:49 PM

been an undertaker{honest thats my job} is a pretty dead end job !but somebodies got to do it makes me slow down (just a little!!)but enjoy it in a strange sort of way you will never be short of customers mate.

andy_k

28-11-2005, 08:49 PM

Yes I LOVE my job, as a nursing assistant on a physciatric intensive care ward, just been made permanent after 8 months temp, am now going to get the boss to pay for me to go and get qualified, would eventually like to emigrate to New Zealand eventually.............................

And - this is the best bit - I am doing the one job I said I would NEVER do look after sick people, but as the wife said, that was probably thinking about the general side if things, can honestly say I wish I'd done it years ago..................................

rommel

28-11-2005, 09:04 PM

I've enjoyed being self employed for the last 18 years the first 15 as a boat repair and maintenance man and now as a painter and decorator but I've never made any money at it no matter how hard I work or how long I work so I have now just had an interveiw for a job back with the military (civilian side) which I have been offered subject to background checks etc., at least I will have a steady income, not much, but probably more than I have ever earned in self employment.

tone

28-11-2005, 09:19 PM

I got pissed of working for a guy who just ripped off disabled folk.

So the beginning of this year i started my own business servicing electric wheelchairs and scooters(most mobility shops get salesmen to do it ,so you can see what a good job they would do)And custom wheelchair mods if folk ask.
I try and give good old fashion customer service,the money is crap.But i get to work the hours i want.
Got a little factory unit with a lathe/miller and saw and a TIG welder so i can make anything i want,so thats fun.
So just struggling on.
tone

Mustang Boy

28-11-2005, 09:25 PM

Welder, MIG TIG and bit of Stick.
Love it.
Hopefully be living in Oz (thanks to my trade being in demand) in June '06.

Cheers'en. :D

Dogz

28-11-2005, 09:30 PM

Been a Train Driver i get paid loads, work very little n the only problems i have are Leaves !!!! :rolleyes: But if i won the lottery, i'de tell em to f off tomorrow if i cud n treat myself to the lardy davidson i want (The one in Taffs post will do!)

brandersnatch

28-11-2005, 09:31 PM

Hell yes! :D :D :D

Taff

28-11-2005, 09:52 PM

I work on the motorways, on barrier.
No, i'm NOT A CONEBOY EITHER.
Its brilliant, hard work, often lodge, always miles away, outrageously well paid.
Sub contract, so if i got something better to do, i just tell em i dunt wanna go.
Course, there's always the risk of falling from a great height onto the M25 and smashing your head and bod to bits, and being out the game for a year.
Guess its a risk we take...

:mad: :mad: :mad:

STEViE

28-11-2005, 10:16 PM

I consider myself very lucky. I love my jobs. Mon - Fri lookin' after folks dogs whilst they're workin' an' then I get to rally most weekends it seems 'cos I'm there to entertain folks an' I get to party too. If I'm really lucky there's a p.a. on site so I can ride my bike there too. I have, on the whole, a bloody fantastic life :D :D :D

ozzybiker

28-11-2005, 10:36 PM

i think i have found the right job. get a car, all paid for. work is all over exmoor, north devon, to bits of dartmoor and a bit of exeter thrownd in for good masure. all my customers are a good bunch and seem to get paid enough most the time. yep i'm a sales rep. :o . but i'm in the motor trade and my product is second to none.

i just wish the company i work for would catch up. dont get me wrong, i'm not out there looking for a nother job and dont think i'd take another one if it was offered to me, but we all have our own little niggles. the only real way i can see my leaving this job is when i move back to oz and even then i'd probley just transfer to the oz branch. :D

Juke

28-11-2005, 10:44 PM

body piercer, and run our 'gift' shop................. :D

No boss, (except the ol' man, but I can handle him!!), no early mornings.. :D

No regular pay day but would rather still work for meself......... :)

Yes.....I love my job............ :D

pyro

28-11-2005, 10:51 PM

Work in the office of a courier company, and I really hate it!!!
If I didnt need the money or could pick up another job I would have gone long ago.....

Nobody wants you when you're down and out...... or over 50.... or had a break of 18 months in the IT world.... or if you ride a bike in all weathers.... or (shut up Pyro you whinger..)

Juke

28-11-2005, 10:58 PM

i was a driver for a major courier company (City Link) for 7 years, and bloody hated it too, so I know how you feel Pyro.......... :(

griff2000

28-11-2005, 11:08 PM

Student. Third year plumbing. Do odds and sods to fill in between attendance.
Plumbing work, used to run a certain band around the country, organise stage, bands and transport for various people/clubs/companies and I while away my free time in the pub or Jukes shop drinking coffee,

And I still manage to get good exam results.... :confused:

Oh, and general all round gigolo.......

Life is good...... :D ;) :D

the boatman

28-11-2005, 11:10 PM

body piercer, and run our 'gift' shop................. :D

No boss, (except the ol' man, but I can handle him!!), :D

HMMmmmmmm is that so ?????????

Womble_Lancs

29-11-2005, 12:36 AM

i am soooooooooooo pleased i started this kick boxing malarky,,,,gonna have fun this season methinks ;)

It is good fun, innit? I get twitchy if I don't train now.

Doro

29-11-2005, 08:50 AM

I loved my job - it was my manager I hated, and since I had o work very closely with him it was a BIG problem - I asked to be moved etc but nowt was done - I also did too much travelling - they wouldn't change that either

so I left

bunbag

29-11-2005, 08:56 AM

BLOOD AND GUT,S LUV IT :confused:

Mrs Reject

29-11-2005, 09:13 AM

I've had an about face since I started this thread, I actually like my job now - just took a long time to settle in :) They heaped a lot of responsibility on me right from the beginning which I wasn't used to so it was a bit of a baptism of fire, and definitely out of my "comfort zone". But now I've got used to it and it's ok.

Sid

29-11-2005, 09:13 AM

I hated my job so much that I told them to stuff it last week!

Baloo

29-11-2005, 11:11 AM

Best job I've ever had and can't see meself doing owt else again. Money could be better, mind ... ;)

Urban Terrorist

29-11-2005, 11:13 AM

Best job I've ever had and can't see meself doing owt else again. Money could be better, mind ... ;)

Only job you've ever had, cos no-one else want's ya!!

Money could be better? try not crashing all the time and working harder!!! :p :D :D

Santa

29-11-2005, 03:32 PM

Love what I do (sound engineer/stage technician)! Hate where I do it! Council run venue, beaurocracy is mind staggeringly stupid, management can't organise a fuck in a brothel and won't listen to the people at the sharp end who know, and best not mention political correctness! The vast majority of the turns I meet are really pleasant and I have many good friends among the touring freelance technicians that it's always pleasant to catch up with whenever they come through.Have to work weekends because that's when Joe Public most want to be entertained, so have to use annual leave EVERY time I want to go to a rally, which means I can't get to as many as I'd like, and can't just be spontaneous and go on a whim, have to plan well in advance. Could try changing venues, but that means moving somewhere else (and I enjoy living where I do), and , frankly, at 54 it's not easy to get another job, so I guess i'll stick it out 'til retirement. There's many worse off then me! :D