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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Whizz on March 21, 2012, 06:52:18 PM
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Well guys, I asked this question of some of the assembled motley crew on Saturday and got such a wide range of answers from such a small number that it piqued my interest, so I'll put the question out to the assembled members;
"What do you, or did you, do to make a living?"
I'll start the ball rolling. I work for Boeing Defence Australia as a Senior Systems Design Engineer. I manage a small team of guys whose job it is to test aircraft for Electromagnetic Environmental Effects (commonly known as E3). In other words we are looking for the effects of electrical or electronic interference between systems in the aircraft, or for interference from the outside world on the systems in the aircraft. This type of interference can be as minor as noises in headsets, like the noises you hear on the radio when you turn on your electric razor, right up to complete disruption of flight control or navigation systems with the obvious accompanying catastrophic results.
If we find any such problems we then have to make design changes to remove the cause or the effect of the interference, or mitigate it by shielding of cables or systems, or specifying when things can or cannot be used in the aircraft.
I have worked on aircraft since I joined the British RAF in 1968, and have done so in the UK, in the Middle East, in the USA and now here in Australia (for the last 25 years or so). Currently I work on the RAAF Wedgetail AEW&C aircraft, but before that I worked on the F-111 which was truly an awesome piece of machinery! I have no doubt that I will continue to work on aircraft until I either die or retire, which ever comes first!
So what do you guys do, or did you, do to earn a crust? I'm fascinated to find out what sort of diversity we have in the membership of this august group of like-minded individuals.
Cheers
Whizz
:13Candy
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I guess most of my various working positions were automotive. Worked in the press shop at Chrysler in Adelaide when I was 18 and the first company to pay me adult rates at that age. Not to forget GM_H at Elizabeth as well. Also Mitsubishi (was Chrysler plant) where after a week I went from press operator to die setter)
I put in 17 years for a component supplier to mainly Holdens but also non-automotive firms as well. Mainly as a press opertor/die setter and added forklift, overhead crane, leading hand, supervisor (reluctantly) quality control, warehouse duties.
After the production of the coupe (our Monaro) to the states ceased I took long service leave and found other work and more money in Port Hedland, WA. Actually my bro in law said he had work for me if I got up there. March 2007 saw me go to Pt. Hedland via Kwinana. Not the shortest route but my sis lives there.
Work with bro in law fell through as contract got cancelled so went to One Steel and worked in warehouse. Took on Coles Express as a second evening job a couple nights a week and weekends. Left One Steel Christmas 2007 and stayed with Coles Express working 6 afternoons (8 hour days on casual rates) a week. Also worked in Coles supermarket two or three mornings a week.
Transferred to Karratha June 2008 and promoted to Assistant Manager in August 2008. Stayed there until end of October 2010 and moved back to SA.
Was a bad move as far as work is concerned but with parents in mid 70's we came back to be a little closer (300kms away as opposed to 4000kms).
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I did 22 Yrs as an RAAF Elecfitter/ Avionics tech, and was made redundant in 93, so moved to the West. I work as an Avtech for a contractor maintaining PC9 Training aircraft for the RAAF, been here for 19 years.
I dont work on the aircraft so much these days, but more on the support side. I look after electrical support equipment (Gen sets, Hydraulic rigs etc), do testing tagging of 240V 1 and 3 phase equipment, calibration of test equipment, computer repairs. Also maintained a $2000000 Hawk simulator (Jet training aircraft) , and computerised training for PC9 (sort of a simulator).
At home, I tinker with computers, electronics, and making stuff (like a trailer to tow behind the bike)
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I'm a Secret Service agent working for MI5 and my work is top secret :o..............far too secret in fact to post on this site :-(((.
I might not have a licence to kill >:(), but I do have a licence to ride :grin......so that's what I do whenever I get the time! :runyay
:wht13
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Grew up on a farm 20 miles from Tamworth, my dad pushed me into an apprenticeship as an Aircraft Sheetmetal Worker (sheety) and I stayed there for 14.9 years until marrage broke up and I left to look after my kids then aged 5 and 2. Started a business contracting with a small Kubota tractor for 8 years, then went back to help my dad on our farm, my dad died in 2000 and farm was sold, worked for the next door neighbours until arthritis forced early retirement in 2011. :bl11
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And smiting those who misbehave! :thumb
At home, I tinker with computers, electronics, and making stuff (like a trailer to tow behind the bike)
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I run our family Business Hip Pocket Workwear & Safety Toowoomba, we have owned it for nearly 2 years, i have been working there about about 18 months now. we supply Workwear, corporate wear, uniforms, signage, boots, embroidery to Toowoomba & the Darling Downs 7 days a week.
before that I Managed a Retravision, was an operational manager for QLD Health, 8 years before that I helped run another family business call the North Gregory Hotel/Motel in Winton Outback Queensland (bike friendly of course) we had articles published in road rider, courier mail, and we where pub of the month in Live to Ride.
I spent a year in England playing cricket at a senior club level as a wicketkeeper/batsmen in South Devon for a team called Stoke Gabriel.
and for the 20 odd years before that i worked on sheep and Cattle Stations throughout QLD, TAS, & NSW
a little diverse, but loved it all just the same
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My first shot at earning a living was as an English and History teacher in Barraba NSW and then as Subject Master in Bourke. During that time I acquired a Private Pilot's Licence and flew fairly extensively. After 9 years as a Chalkie I did my Commercial Pilot's Licence and joined Mission Aviation Fellowship. I was posted to Elcho Island for 10 months to build hours, then to Wewak in PNG where I flew for the Church and Missions for 8 years from four different bases. I then went Mercenary and flew with three different companies moving up through the types and spending the last 5 years on Dash 8s. After 22 years in PNG I shed the wings and bought a Management Rights in Brisbane where I now look after rental properties in a Complex of 41 townhouses with a pool, tennis court and gardens to keep me off the streets.
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I spent 20 years working for Shell in the North Sea then stopped working in 2000. After a while I went back to oil & gas travelling the world checking on emergency preparedness for the industry. Got fed up of travelling (spent a little time in Perth WA) and stopped working again when my heart needed a major service in 2004. Got better from that, got bored fishing, walking, riding etc full time and so started working again in civil aviation (first love from when I got my pilot licence in 1969) to sort out emergency preparedness and some other stuff that in this new age needed to be beefed up a bit. Cut that down now to just 3 days a week so that I and my wife who is a primary school teacher and who is also down to 3 days work a week have started putting some bigger mileage on the bike, plus changing grand kid nappies etc.
I feel tired now!
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Hmmm working for Boeing Defence Australia eh. Just love jobs with a security clearance atached :rofl Got a phone call from them last week offering me a job in the West, or up North or in bloody Canberra. That is if I can get a security clearance??? Hmmmm wonder which one it wil be this time?? Could it be Baseline or maybe positive, seem to think that many years ago I worked with a few that had "Positive"but back then it had more of a James Bond name to it :rofl
But back to the quetion asked?
Currently I don't work, but previously have done the Military, production, security, Human services, OH&S, and more recently the mines, but then again why would anyone want to know what I did for crust :think1
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Negative Vetting Level 2
TOP SECRET (PV)
Positive Vetting
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Terry, just 'cause I'm nosy.
I've got negative Vet 2 and have had for the last 15 years, and the first time round was a monstrous pain, having to remember everyone I'd ever worked with for the previous 10 years!, Considering that I worked in the Middle East on a military contract, the question about "have you ever had any contact with military officers of a foreign government" was a bit hard to answer in the space provided!!
Clearances at the moment are taking about 9-12 months to obtain!
Cheers
Whizz
:13Candy
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:wht11 py
Shiite this could be a bit long winded
Brought on farms in NZ and my work life began as an apprentice Joiner, then and then and then
Labourer Construction sites
stores
House painting
Cook
Baker (sweets condiments)
Carpenter
panel beating and spray painting
Furniture Polisher
Fireman
Mechanical assistant and grease monkey
Raced speedway on weekends
Steel Fixer
Apple Cannery
Barmen
Chippie in Sand mining on Straddie
Domino Delivery driver at 50
Cert 2 in business management (Myob accounting)
Self taught Small engine mechanic
Then Cert 2 in engineering CNC programming
CNC work for transformers + night school for Autocad
Then the final and best Job ever as a Draughtsman.
Unfortunately Severe Cerviical Spondyilosis and post traumatic stress syndrome put an end to my working life, Thank goodness for income protection Insurance.
Ie Jack of all trades and now master of my own destiny
whew thats that, But there might have been an odd one or 3 that i missed due to a senior moment. :crazy :think1 :think1 :beer
Tipsy
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Well, there's been some very interesting responses posted by members so in all seriousness I'll give an honest response to my past working life. :)
I began in work aged 14 in the printing industry in Melbourne and was apprenticed as a letterpress machinest. After completing a 5 year apprenticeship I continued working in the industry as a colour printer, at the same time completing advanced courses in Photo Lithography, Camera Operation, Plate Making etc. In 1968 I made a move to Queensland and spent the next forty years in the industry in Brisbane, the only difference being that I moved in to sales. I was a Sales Representative for Simpson Halligan & co, who was Brisbane's largest colour printer at the time, and stayed with them for 11 years, until I was offered a position as Sales Manager for Screen Offset Printing, an up and coming opposition company, which fortunately for me I accepted. After working with them for 18 months I was invited to buy shares in the company, which I did, and was made Sales Director. We built the company up to be the largest privately owned, and most successful colour printing co in Queensland, and I held that position for 19 years before a marriage breakup forced me in to a position of having to sell my shareholding to cash up. Although I was asked to stay on as Sales Manager I chose not to, and joined another colour printer who was up and coming at the time. After being with them for a few months I was made General Manager and brought a few shares in the company. I held that position for almost 6 years until a few disagreements about cash flow with management made me realise I was wasting my time staying on, so I resigned.
I joined yet another large company as Sales Manager and stayed with them for 5 years until I retired when we moved to Tasmania for my wife's health. I decision I've never regretted. All in all I spent 54 years in the printing industry........no where near as exciting as flying around in planes or working in some of the many interesting occupations some other members have worked in. Although my years in sales brought me in to contact with many interesting people, particularly those in the advertising industry, graphic designers, artists, writers, etc. The years I spent in sales was very stressful, as our large colour machinery ran 24 hours a day, 6-7 days a week and my job was to keep them running...................I am just sooooooooo pleased to be out of it now!! :grin
O' I almost forgot..........I built 4 houses over the years as an owner builder, first of all designing them and doing much of the physical work myself. Working with timber, bricks, tiles, paint........I've done it all, and enjoyed what I've done in that respect. I never had a problem selling any of the houses I've built, which were all very different in design.
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I did 22 Yrs as an RAAF Elecfitter/ Avionics tech, and was made redundant in 93, so moved to the West. I work as an Avtech for a contractor maintaining PC9 Training aircraft for the RAAF, been here for 19 years.
I dont work on the aircraft so much these days, but more on the support side. I look after electrical support equipment (Gen sets, Hydraulic rigs etc), do testing tagging of 240V 1 and 3 phase equipment, calibration of test equipment, computer repairs. Also maintained a $2000000 Hawk simulator (Jet training aircraft) , and computerised training for PC9 (sort of a simulator).
At home, I tinker with computers, electronics, and making stuff (like a trailer to tow behind the bike)
Brock,
Do you ever go on holidays and if so where do you go?
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Brock,
Do you ever go on holidays and if so where do you go?
Throw some more coal on the fire there, Dave :rofl :rofl :crackup
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All the places and all the excitingly interesting jobs I've just read makes my time seem a little tame by comparison, but for what it's worth, here goes:
Worked as a Postman (on a push bike);
worked in the family business fitting, selling and retreading tyres;
joined the Army for 6 years and would have stayed in if it didnt involve being away from the family 9 months a year;
Went back into the family business, and took over when Dad died, but the business died with him so I became a coal miner for the next 25 years.
I formally retired, spent a short while in retirement, then became a wheel engineer (bus driver :grin) where I've been since. Being a people person, it suits me perfectly, and I get a kick out it every time I drive.
The small home based business I own and run, came about by accident - I found a need to help me enjoy riding and thought if I can use it others may too, and this has become more of a hobby business, but have met some wonderful and interesting people through it.
Looking back, I now don't think I would change things, as things happen for a reason, but if I had, would I have (met) you guys? Maybe. Maybe not, but I believe I'm the richer for having done so.
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Dave,
Brock,
Do you ever go on holidays and if so where do you go?
I have been know to take a holiday occasionally. During my time in Malaysia I went to Phuket, Phuket, Phuket, Singapore, Phuket, Phuket, Bangkok, Phuket, Australia, Phuket.
Recently I have been to Thailand, Thailand (Phuket) Thailand, and in a week Thailand for three weeks...
Here is the location on GooGoo Erf 13°34'00.34" N 99°58'17.41" E
:grin :grin :grin :grin
Well he did ask..
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Dave,
Here is the location on GooGoo Erf 13°34'00.34" N 99°58'17.41" E
:grin :grin :grin :grin
Well he did ask..
I asked Google, and got this (now I know) :grin:
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Try clicking the map thing on the left column peter... :|||| :|||| :||||
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13°34'00.34" N 99°58'17.41" E shows me you're going to camp on a track :well
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My Turn,
Lets see if I can remember them all
Butchers helper / delivery driver
steel yard worker / welder / dogs body
seasonal work (too many years to count)
Car detailer
store person (ACT Health dept)
store person / furniture deliverer
Adminstration Officer, for the last 9 years have been running the office of a heavy vehicle driver training centre, taking bookings, running the office.
Grandparent, yard cleaner/ mower/dishwasher/housecleaner/taxi driver :rofl
I think that is all
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Paperboy
Rental car cleaner
Rental car wrecker (got my licence)
Plane cleaner (but they wouldn't let me drive those things) >:()
Wanted to serve my country but politics f#$^^# it all up and Australia ended up helping Mugabe (http://www.defence.gov.au/News/armynews/editions/1117/history/story01.htm)get elected :cuss
Apprentice
Fleet mechanic
Full time student - to support the family I had a few casual jobs as; chicken head remover, sheep fleece cleaner & slaughterhouse boner
Fleet mechanic
Teacher - VET, automotive, metalwork, furniture etc.
Now when I get sick of kids I go back on the tools & when I get sick of night shift I go back to school. :fp
For the future I look forward to becoming a professional stock market jockey :thumbs
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Woops.....almost forgot.................sold newspapers on the corner, delivered newspapers on my bike, delivered chemist prescriptions on my bike, sold ice cream, drinks & sweets at the local movie theatre at interval, cut lawns and weeded gardens, all while still at school. :)
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Most of ya sort of know anyway BUT
helped the milko
apprentice electrician
tradesman 'leco for another 9yrs
Electronics engineer
Electronics Sales (compenents and shit not TV"S :rofl)
Injured and on compo with rehab therapy for 18months
Turned a "hobby" into a business to work from home :runyay (see above)
So for the last 10years supplying people with a common interest toys for thier bikes :thumbs (and loving it )
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Whoops again.............I almost forgot this one! :crazy...........while working in my day job as a printing machinist in Melbourne in 1966 to 1968, I also worked 2 nights a week for a guy who rented out TVs (black & white)........my job was to convert them from renting, into buying them. I was paid $30.00 for each sale I made, which wasn't bad money back then. The best part of the job was that the company office was next to the Ritz Hotel in Fitzroy Street, St Kilda, and we would spend a little time in there each week enjoying the company of many of the "ladies of the night" who would frequent the Hotel. I should add.....we weren't paying customers :-(((..........just had lots of laughs at some of their stories :crackup...................I met the mother of my beautiful daughter, Samantha, while working for this guy, I must add, not at the Ritz, and she was not one of the "ladies of the night"..........lots of past memories there!!...........looking back, I've had such an interesting life, and wouldn't change any of it!! :)
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working in my day job as a printing machinist in Melbourne in 1966
I was born then
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That was a year before I joined the RAF!, and I thought I was old!!!
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i think you could be
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You're right... I am!!
:thumbs :thumbsup
:crackup :rofl
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Good on ya Gavo.............I started work in 1954 at 14 years of age........I guess that makes me a really old bugger, hey!!
working in my day job as a printing machinist in Melbourne in 1966
I was born then
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first one was a paperboy still in primery school
next chemist medisine delivery plus panphlets
left school and dad said no to profesional dole bludger, damit
telegram boy (most of us would remember what they where)
1st appentaceship letterpress opperater (pay less than $30 a week and young and silly )quit! huge and 1st big mistake! :||||
uncle said work for me as an appentace floor mechanice ??? you ask???, well aVIC apprentaecship, to the NSW apprentaceship board, managed by the ACT board. oh yeh !!! hard vinyl layer to us simpletonns
next was a term as a trainee carpetlayer :beer
33years in floors saw domestic carpets and vinyls to floors, walls and sometimes ceilings and commercial clients. inbetween turned to timber flooring as well. parquetry- mossaic and block, solid timber, clip flooring and floating floors. ive done parquetry floors in parlement house qld, brisbane and goldcoast casinos, RSL clubs allover, basket ball courts. dance floors in numerus schools and clubs.
last 14 years mainly comical ehhh i mean commercial doing uplifts floor repairs grinding filling and new and replacement coverings for small shops, buisneses, offices, high rises, hospitals, supermarkets, usually big hours (what does an 8 hour day mean), 7 days a week and or night work
very heavy and demanding on ones now broken body and the inabilaty to put up with some socalled profesional "people" :CB-- :cuss (that was hard to not say what i would liked to have said and then get smitted ) so about 4 years ago i quit and i now wonder around a chicken futher procesing plant trying to keep the outside areas clean. will be there till retirement or is it am retired :think1 hmmm ahh thats right till retirement
so thats me very boreing ,no life till the discovery of our :dred11 ,ullysses and now ozstoc
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I started working at 14 at a fruit store then:
KFC - cooking chicken :eat
Wormaway Worm Farm – sales
Adapt Fitness (Gym) – odd jobs
Kmart – Trolley boy
Dominos Pizza - delivery driver
Cloes – stocking shelves
Then I got into Security – :thumb
static guard,
mobile patrols,
gatehouse,
bouncer
Corporate Security
And now I do surveillance for the Council and Police throughout the Brisbane CBD and Fortitude Valley areas :whistle
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I have led a most boring life it seems :wink1
Grew up on a dairy farm in western Victoria, stayed in the same house until I left for university in Canberra. Usual farm work to do, 7 days a week, early until late out in all weather. Farm life is not that romantic for me :p
Four years in uni, then joined Commonwealth Treasury department in 1981. Still, but maybe not for much longer (like in the next few months) as early early retirement becons :runyay. I have worked on lot of different things over the years, currently in international taxation. I have worked too close to governments over the years :|||| so politics is something that does not surprise me in any way. Would I prefer to cart bales of hay for weeks on end in 30c plus heat or have to deal with the politics of trying to think up and implement policy :think1
Much better to :wht11 which solves the problem :beer
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Hey Saaz, which part of Western Victoria.
Spent years learning how to drink and drive at Terang.
Job wise - spent a few years after high school doing odd jobs as we hitched up and down east coast.
Began as journalist in Camperdown, Vic then just went to other papers cause it was the only way to get promoted. Did Warrnambool, Melb, Albury, Cairns.
Somewhere in there swapped to being press photographer and did that as a commercial job for a few years after leaving papers.
Worked as land saleman in Cairns, came to Bris to work for Lendlease as an admin person and after getting bored with the paperwork left to retire for a while. Bored stupid so become a traffic controller.
Now sit in my ute and annoy motorists by putting up signs in the middle of the road in the middle of the night.
Awesome standing there with the little stop sign and a night wand hoping that fully loaded B double sees you.
Don't do daytime there's to many motorists abt
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Beatup, come from a place called Carpendeit. Near Camperdown and Colac, went through Terang a lot as my parents originally came from around Penshurst and Coleraine. The Great Ocean road and all the hinterland roads were my home learning to ride, but moved away before using them a lot :'( Most of my family is around Colac, Gellibrand, Swan Marsh, Geelong and Bendigo
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Starting from the earliest money earning job:
Paperboy, milko, butchers boy, apprentice Radio Mechanic with Comalco in Weipa (4 years), Telecommunications Technician with Telecom/Telstra in the NT (12 1/2 years), Communications Technician/Communications Inspector with the ACA/ACMA in Cairns (11 3/4 years) and currently Regional Communications Technician with Emergency Management Queensland in Cairns.
Not a huge number of jobs but a couple were quite long term. I have been made redundant twice, once from Telecom/Telstra and once from the ACA/ACMA.
I am really enjoying my present job as the work I do is directly related to groups who serve the public in times of emergency - SES and Rural Fires. I'm also an SES member so I get to do all the fun things sometimes, like driving floodboats, being an observer in airsearches, chopping things up with chainsaws and oh joy, oh joy.. filling sandbags.. ::) :grin :grin .
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I began in work aged 14 in the printing industry in Melbourne and was apprenticed as a letterpress machinest. After completing a 5 year apprenticeship I continued working in the industry as a colour printer, at the same time completing advanced courses in Photo Lithography, Camera Operation, Plate Making etc.....I am just sooooooooo pleased to be out of it now!! :grin
I started My working life as an Apprentice Graphic Reproducer at one of the largest book printers in Australia, doing all aspects, Plate Making, Camera Operator (running the largest box brownie you've ever seen). compositing and combining etc. 4 years later I moved up to night shift manager looking after the transition from Bench work to digital pre press.
The closest I could find to show what sort of camera it was... the one I work on you could stand up inside the bellows
(http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e276/marcusstringer/process_camera_zps38242b2b.jpg)
8 Years later, I get a phone call to come work for, what I thought was a small typesetting business in town. Turns out it's the largest typesetting company in Australia, whose clients range from people self-publishing memoirs. To the biggest Publishers in the world. Fastforward 5 years and now part owner in the business. fastforward another 6-7 years and here we are.
(state of the industry is not looking good, which mean I'm at a crossroads, Do I stick it out and go down with the ship possibly in around 2-5 years? But will that make me too old, for another job? all big life decisions)
Anyway....that's me
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Sell while the biz is worth something and buy a Bikers' Coffee Shoppe.
And give discounts to STOwners and freebies to Pensioner STOwners. :grin
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Sell while the biz is worth something and buy a Bikers' Coffee Shoppe.
And give discounts to STOwners and freebies to Pensioner STOwners. :grin
I see like where you're going with that
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Wow so many people with lots of different jobs, makes me look small. I work for a communications company as a software programmer in .NET, pretty much help out writing the software for all the little stores they look after, everything from sending an sms via your pc to remote assistance to a satellite. Keeps me sane, then I come home and get on the computer again then get into my gaming and hopefully soon release my first Steam game.
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Currently its a WIP (Work in Progress) and the steam view will probably be submitted within about 4 months after I move to Hervey Bay. With Steam there is no guarantee you get into steam, its all based on whether or not people think its interesting and vote on it, if most of the votes are a no then you dont get it, its the way of life. Right now its a simple shoot em up, single player, across a harsh landscape, not much happening at the moment as I am trying to add multiplayer and many other facets to the game as well. But its a hobby and I love tinkering with code. You can see my process here
https://trello.com/b/leVeljwc/bl2
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I have had a variety of occupations but the one I absolutely loved was being an Equine dentist.
I trained a worked a few years built up a nice practice then Equine Influena hit NSW and wiped out my business overnight. They locked every horse down for nearly twelve months and I had to get other work. Got a good job doing what I did before dentistry and family imperatives meant I never went back.
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Started off at 16 driving Semi's for a produce company. I had been driving since I was 12 as I grew up on a farm in Tamworth (UK) and then (NSW)
Joined the NSW Ambulance after leaving high school (because I wanted to drive fast and not have to stop at red lights) I became one of the first paramedics in Australia. Posted to Illawarra HQ. I was 21, the highest paid Officer in the station, had the best vehicle, highest clinical rank, supervised other officers twice my age and only did Cas calls (accidents, etc) Moved to Sydney undertook qualifications in Psychiatry, became a Midwife, delivered a heap of babies, undertook further qualifications in Emergency Management, opened the Westmaed Hospital as the ED Manager. Moved to the Northern Territory to take up the position of Director of Nursing for the Katherine region. This position also put me in charge of AeroMedical service (fixed wing and rescue helicopters). Not the RFDS, which at that time was only in Alice Springs yet received the credit for everything we did.
Moved back to Tamworth NSW - took up the managers position of the Emergency Department. In my spare time ran a small but profitable computer business, had three children, bought a farm - Got divorced!
Moved to Sydney took up state-wide manager of IT applications for Emergency Departments. Moved to QLD into the same position in as in NSW. Got married, adopted another two children. Took on Intensive Care Units as well ED, and that is where I am today.
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So look, I have this pain in my brain, what should I do about it.. o:) o:) o:) (Ive done work place first aid, and applied a bandaid once...)
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So look, I have this pain in my brain, what should I do about it.. o:) o:) o:) (Ive done work place first aid, and applied a bandaid once...)
Loosen the bandaid......should fix your your brain pain, don't worry about the service fee......will bulk bill you :p
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Brain? You are not supposed to have one of them, causes too many problems. I think it is more a matter of Brock..SMASH (attribution to the Avengers movie) :spank
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So look, I have this pain in my brain, what should I do about it.. o:) o:) o:) (Ive done work place first aid, and applied a bandaid once...)
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Some interesting stuff indeed. We each have our role to play.
I grew up on several Dairy Farms in Northern NSW. Dad and Mum were a share farmers raising 6 kids.
Learnt to drive the tractor at age 8 because Dad had an accident with two buckets of boiling hot Caustic Soda which filled both his gum boots. I drove the Tractor while Mum loaded and unloaded irrigation pipes. I slashed and ploughed paddocks. One farm had an Ag Bike and that's when I got the bug.
Rode a push bike 20 km into town to play soccer on Saturdays and mow my Grandmothers Lawn for 20 cents. that grew a little into weeding and lawn mowing for several elderly ladies in town. One school holidays a the age of 16 I milked cows and ran the farm while a family went on holidays for a couple of weeks.
In the last 2 years at High School we moved into town and on Saturdays I went to the local Sports goods store and helped the Swiss owner (who did his Cheese making apprenticeship in France). I helped repair push bikes, assembled wheels from hubs spokes and rims.
At the end of year 11 in 1980 I was Corp enlisted to do Electronics (Radio Mechanic). I had postings to Bandianna Vic (Radio Mechanic), Enoggera Qld (Radio Mechanic with only 6 radios to look after, so I learnt a lot from the mechanics and fitters and Recovery Mechanics), Coopers Plains Qld (including 5.5 Months Base Centre Calibration Technician course with the RAAF at Richmond), Moorebank NSW (Calibration Centre including Mobile), A 22 month Secondment to RAAF Base Richmond Calibration Centre, then the last posting was Sydney Workshops Company at Banksmeadow setting up a new Calibration Laboratory.
In 1994 I left the Army because my son had started school and I didn't want to drag him from school to school.
I joined what was then the Civil Aviation Authority which later changed its name to Airservices Australia to work in the Electronics Calibration Laboratory. After 6 years there I was offered a Voluntary redundancy and took it and paid off the mortgage.
After a whole frustrating 5 weeks of unemployment, I was offered a job with Australian Calibrating Services (A'sia) Pty Ltd (ACS) calibrating and repairing Concrete Testing Machines, Tensile and Compression force measuring machines, Torque testers, Metal Hardness Testers (Vickers, Rockwell, Brinell, Charpy, Izod) Dial Indicators and dial Gauges, Surface blocks, pressure Gauges, Ovens, furnaces and fridges for spatial temperature variations, Mechanical and electronic balances, steel rules and measuring microscopes.. I serviced all of Qld and had a couple of work trips to Darwin and a one to each of Fiji, New Zealand and Solomon Islands.
After 5 years with ACS, I was approached by Airservices to come back and continue automating the procedures I had started when I was last there. A pay rise of 50% was too hard to knock back.
When I'm not calibrating power meters and sensors or signal generators, I write automation programs in VEE (with a bit of .Net thrown in) I also use some IVI drivers and some ActiveX, Fluke Met/CAL and VBA in Excel and Word.
I learnt the basics of HP Basic on the Calibration course and from there I self taught in fluke Basic, Quick Basic, Turbo Basic, VEE and Met/CAL.
I'd love to know more about .Net but work keeps getting in the way.
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Well I've had a fairly mundane existence started work in '69 and had a career as
Banker
Soldier (infantry Signals)
Systems Analyst/Call Centre Systems Manager (was instrumental in putting the first phone answering system in front of the Call centre operators, something I now regret.. "press 1 for an operator") and for the last 14 years working in Local Government as a .NET developer writing Software applications for the Local Shire Council and DBA (SQL server).
oh and I also write apps for Android devices and Web services.
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I am a Finance Broker and Sandra is a Registerted Nurse.
Regards
Gerard Beard
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Well I've had a fairly mundane existence started work in '69 and had a career as
Banker
Soldier (infantry Signals)
Systems Analyst/Call Centre Systems Manager (was instrumental in putting the first phone answering system in front of the Call centre operators, something I now regret.. "press 1 for an operator") and for the last 14 years working in Local Government as a .NET developer writing Software applications for the Local Shire Council and DBA (SQL server).
oh and I also write apps for Android devices and Web services.
So many clever techie people in here.
No wonder they all ride STs!
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Seems to be a lot of military people as well. ;-*
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well here goes my little story...
My intrest in bikes started young....I had 50cc - 500cc motorbikes from the age of 12-21 and always performed my own servicing and repairs myself.
After graduating high school in Israel, I was drafted into IDF (israel Defence Forces)
Armored Corps, Tank commander, war room seargant, rank on discharge Lt.
After discharge, left for NY USA, bought a used CB750SC Nighthawk in Coloarado, and rode to L.A. in Feb (winter!) then relocated to L.A. Ca. USA
Employed at "Culver City Honda Motorcycles" L.A. Ca. worked as mechanic.
USA optical lab technician
USA optical dispensser
USA Contact lens practitioner
returned to Israel, completed Optometry degree, Optometrist self employed, 13 years in Israel.
drafted to IDF reservist 13 years, 45 days per year, serving in medical corp mostly as optometrist and last year of service as bereavment officer.
Relocated to Australia with family 13 years ago, working in Vic. Melbourne as an optometrist since.
Well, thats my very boring CV in 9 sentences...
great to read what other St Owners have done or doing at present.
regards
Zev
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Haven't read a boring one yet, yours included, zevk. :thumbs
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At the moment I am an out of work civil and building project manager.
When I am in work, that means that I build things. Some of the notable things I have built have been:
A 50km long sealed road on Groote Eylandt NT (you might want to Google that) - and yes, there was one road bike on the island - a HD that the owner rode 15km down a straight road to work and 15km back the same straight road home every day.
A float glass plant in Ingleburn, NSW (float glass is high quality architectural glass - what your windows are made from)
Different sorts of factories and warehouses
A brace of schools here in Adelaide, including two of the new Super Schools
Some nursing homes (hopefully I don't wind up in one any time soon)
Civil works (concrete and such) for a gas compressor plant expansion at Ballera Qld (you might want to Google that too) - gas compressors compress the gas (duh) extracted from the oil and gas wells so they can shove more gas down the pipeline to Moomba and then eventually to your house
Student accommodation for a university college
Curtain walls on high rise buildings (the curtain wall is the glass and aluminium windows on the outside of the building)
Retaining walls on some of the big highway upgrades in NSW and even around the Olympic stadium
All sorts of railway things, like new tracks, electrification (the wires that provide power to the trains), tunnel upgrades, stations, bridges and even a freight terminal that never operated
Upgraded a rail line for hauling coal out from Ohai to Invercargill NZ - famous for the world's fastest Indian (you might need to Google Ohain and Invercargill as well) - you might be surprised to know that there at least 3 "World's Fastest Indian"s in Invercargill and asking about the credentials for any of them can be dangerous to your health
As the project manager it is my job to plan the project, make sure that all the procurement gets done at the right price, deal with the client day-to-day, monitor the costs and program (timetable), prepare monthly reports for management, manage the design team, administer the head contract and the subcontracts with the suppliers, have fortnightly meetings with the client, prepare and submit claims requesting payment to the client, assess and approve invoices from the suppliers, make sure the work complies with the specification and then hand the completed project over to the client. And I have to make sure all this happens within the safety guidelines and to the required quality. On remote projects I also have to oversee the camp accommodation and meals and flights for everyone to get home and to work.
To help me with this, I might have administrators, project engineers, site supervisors, safety officers and foremen - depending on the project I could have as few a 2 or 3 staff up to 20 or more working directly for me.
Along the way I have had a bucket load of fun, seen some things that you wouldn't believe and met all sorts of politicians. From my experiences, politicians are overpaid, unless you think that vain bimbos are worth a lot of money. ;-*
Chatty
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All posts not relating to the topic, and political comments have been removed. Keep on topic please people.
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Well, having been out of work for a while now, I'm taking control of my life once again. :thumbs
Trish and I are starting a new business - Adelaide Hospitality & Catering which, as you might guess, will provide catering services in the greater Adelaide area. A big move for us at our age, but one we felt we needed to do.
The downside is that most of our work will be at night and on weekends, so group rides, RTEs and get-togethers are going to be next to impossible for a while... :cuss
Have a look at our website at www.ahcatering.com.au (http://www.ahcatering.com.au).
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Have a look at our website at [url=http://www.ahcatering.com.au]www.ahcatering.com.au[/url] ([url]http://www.ahcatering.com.au[/url]).
Oh Yum spit roast
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Have a look at our website at [url=http://www.ahcatering.com.au]www.ahcatering.com.au[/url] ([url]http://www.ahcatering.com.au[/url]).
Oh Yum spit roast
Wait till you try our spuds!
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Did nearly 25 years working for an international oil company. Sales Engineer, Technical Engineer then Technical Manager in NZ, then worked ten years in the company's International Technical Centre in Sydney doing product development, technical writing and lubrication training throughout Africa, Middle East and Asia. The job took me to South Africa, Zimbabwe, Tansania, Kenya, Egypt, UAE, Bahrain, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Viet Nam, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, China, Phillipines, Taiwan and Japan.
In all, including our Overseas Experience trip when younger, I've been to over 40 different countries - not counting those airports just passed through to get somewhere else.
I was on this oil company's mining support team (got to go 2.7 km underground in a gold mine in South Africa) and was their go to person for filtration and recycling. When I was retrenched I did some years work for myself then saw my current job advertised, thought "that's written just for me". I now work out of Mackay as a Sales Engineer selling industrial filtration equipment. I have just started delivering twenty something filtration units to be fitted to three draglines on one of the coal mines up in the Bowen Basin. These draglines weigh 3500 tonnes each, and have a bucket load of well over a hundred tonnes. Boys love big toys!
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These draglines weigh 3500 tonnes each, and have a bucket load of well over a hundred tonnes. Boys love big toys!
Had the pleasure of getting inside one of these at Dysart.
They're like the inside of a house. The switching room is full of microwave oven sized relays that clatter and bang like an ancient typewriter on steroids. One man sits at the controls swinging that dragline bucket around like a tin on a string.
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Hi All,
Currently on Vet Affairs pension semi retired. Completed just over 35 years in the Army, joined at 17. After recruit training I went to Infantry (Singleton) where I live now, ex wife from here plus eldest son still lives here. Spent 7 years in the 1st Battalion based in Townsville and was employed as a section commander and a sniper. After completing the cadre course I was posted over to the west with the SASR. After 10 years I was posted to the Infantry Centre here in Singleton as a Sniper Supervisor at Small Arms Wing. Completed 2 years in Singleton then back over to the west. Had exchange duties with several of our allies including the UK, Germany, NZ, PNG, Singapore, Canada and the good old USA. After another 7 years with the Regiment I was posted to 2 Commando as ARA cadre staff. Then back over to the west again and finally took retirement in 2009 and moved back to Singleton.
I have served in several peace keeping campaigns and completed 16 operational deployments to various parts of the world. I currently work for a Private Military Contractor for three months of every year in Afghanistan and command a PSD (Personal Security Detail) for the company, I have been doing this since my retirement. Getting to old for it, as it's a much younger man's game now, so I completed my last deployment in March of this year, bought the ST and here I am.
Cheers
:wht11
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Hi All,
Currently on Vet Affairs pension semi retired. Completed just over 35 years in the Army, joined at 17. After recruit training I went to Infantry (Singleton) where I live now, ex wife from here plus eldest son still lives here. Spent 7 years in the 1st Battalion based in Townsville and was employed as a section commander and a sniper. After completing the cadre course I was posted over to the west with the SASR. After 10 years I was posted to the Infantry Centre here in Singleton as a Sniper Supervisor at Small Arms Wing. Completed 2 years in Singleton then back over to the west. Had exchange duties with several of our allies including the UK, Germany, NZ, PNG, Singapore, Canada and the good old USA. After another 7 years with the Regiment I was posted to 2 Commando as ARA cadre staff. Then back over to the west again and finally took retirement in 2009 and moved back to Singleton.
I have served in several peace keeping campaigns and completed 16 operational deployments to various parts of the world. I currently work for a Private Military Contractor for three months of every year in Afghanistan and command a PSD (Personal Security Detail) for the company, I have been doing this since my retirement. Getting to old for it, as it's a much younger man's game now, so I completed my last deployment in March of this year, bought the ST and here I am.
Cheers
:wht11
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Well... I'll just shut up about my awesome 616.07 yard sniper shot on Battlefield 4 on my playstation then... :clap
http://s41.photobucket.com/user/marcusstringer/media/snipe_zps53085425.mp4.html (http://s41.photobucket.com/user/marcusstringer/media/snipe_zps53085425.mp4.html)
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Well my story is far more mundane that many here,
- 10 years in the Aust Army straight out of high school;
- Tried everything from Public Service through to door-to-door insurance sales :fp;
- Owned and operated a commercial cleaning business cleaning everything from a rum distillery to child care centres and local shopping centres;
- Worked FIFO in the Pilbara with the security industry for many years;
- Hung around long enough to end up as a Project Manager in the same field before growing weary of the FIFO lifestyle;
- Now working as a Safety and Incident Manager in the Healthcare industry.
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Free Loader :law
Ciao the can :-)