What do you do for a living ?

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  • Gilbo
    Gilbo
    14 years ago

    I'm a fitter/machinist by trade, I've also been a tyre fitter and wheel aligner, pig farmer, bouncer, pizza cook and
    delivery driver and for the last eight years I've made cardboard boxes for Visy. Over the last eight years I worked my way up to shift manager until I decided the management snobbery and crap tactics was not for me, requested to be put back on the shop floor with the
    boys and been happier than a pig in shit since!

  • Deadwood
    Deadwood
    14 years ago
    State operations manager for an earthworks company. We are a large Melbourne company and I was sent to QLD to open the office up here and attempt to make sense of the basketcase that is SEQ's housing industry. Started off as a laborer, machine operator then into the office. Been with them 10 1/2 years now and enjoy my work.
  • groover
    groover
    14 years ago
    Started as an Apprentice Fitter, Machinist, Welder. Worked in a machine / jobbing shop after that and fucken hated it. Worked for Sydney Water as a construction installation fitter for 23 years working my way up to Project Manager / Supervisor. Now work as a maintenance fitter in the water with alot less stress.

    Also do fitting work on the side on plant shutdowns and construction.
  • Fangio
    Fangio
    14 years ago

    ASIO Agent.

  • DaveP
    DaveP
    14 years ago

    I have been in IT for 13 years and manage Service Delivery for a large Mining Company, studeid my butt off to get where I am now. Before that Motorcycle mechanic for 15 years witha heap of study in between to get my diploma in Automotive engineering. Still love to tinker and have a motor of some type pulled down every second weekend 
     

  • Deadwood
    Deadwood
    14 years ago
    Part time Fluffer
  • Cruisin
    Cruisin
    14 years ago
    Interstate truck driver 15years now local driver for 10 years
    Greenkeeper by trade
  • fastapastor
    fastapastor
    14 years ago
    Started out as a soil technician (dirt doctor) in 87 worked for a few companies had a go at a few crap jobs refinery worker builders laborer, did an Advanced Diploma for a few years in 98. started a yard business sold that back to soils laboratory finished as a manager in Townsville in 06 been church pastoring since but have just started in a coal mine Qld in as a dumpy driver. So far so good.
  • V2Evo96
    V2Evo96
    14 years ago

    Commercial oil field diver (air and mixed gas saturation) for 19 years-- set platforms, removed platforms, performed NDT inspections, hyperbaric (underwater dry) pipeline welding, pipeline flange ups, cut stuff up, blew stuff up etc. Have been in and on the bottom of nearly every ocean around the globe between 1973 and 1992. Spent a bit of time in regionally diverse seaport bars from Rotterdam to Thailand and in-between obtaining a keen knowledge of local cultural exchange....

    All those years of pressure exposure took its toll-- joints ache sometimes and now partially deaf.  Too beat up to dive in the industry at 42 and got into diving company management from 1992 to 2001 then started an underwater construction consultancy in Singapore. Struck it lucky from 2002 through 2006 working for Nippon Steel in Tokyo and Russia. Project finished in 06 and shut the business down in 2006, came back to Oz, and now have a boring job doing contract advisory work for a boring power company in a boring power stations boring mine-- BUT -- home every night, no phone calls, no weekend work, kids love me again and wife hates me again. Potter in the workshop at home taking off and adding stuff to the bikes and shoot clay target competitions some weekends.
     

  • jocky
    jocky
    14 years ago

    i have been a ceiling fixer for 35yrsbody is stuffed, but absolutly love it and the building trade in general

  • moonracker
    moonracker
    14 years ago
    am an electrical contractor in central vic you name it ...i do it lol
  • SJ
    SJ
    14 years ago

    Better watch these blokes round here when you say "you name it, I do it" 

    I would hate you to lose the ck in place of a p!

    Im clearly bored.... I'll let myself out....

  • Biker Boy
    Biker Boy
    14 years ago

    Hi Guys, been in the financial services game since about 2001 - Currently a Mortgage/Finance Broker.

  • Dave81
    Dave81
    14 years ago

    I am a simple Postman Mon-Fri early start early finish plenty of time for young family and riding

  • Fatman
    Fatman
    14 years ago
    I extract, freeze & store semen, & send it around Oz & around the world. (Anyone want to leave a piece of themselves behind?) Hey guys only joking...its Animal semen. I work a lot with Liquid Nitrogen & Dry Ice, & some very understanding animals. Only doing it part time these days...the bodys rooted & I enjoy riding the bike too much.
  • softyJ
    softyJ
    14 years ago

    Hi guy's, I have been a in the motor trade for the past 25 years. (Grease Monkey!)

    Last 7 years I have been in a Managment due to my back pain and feel that I need a change in career. (been saying that for the last 20 years).

  • smeemn
    smeemn
    14 years ago
    Yea between us all we should be able to build HD Forums australia custom bike lol
  • vulcan2509
    vulcan2509
    14 years ago
    Hey all,
    I'm a Second Engineering on a rig tender running out of Dampier. Fly in fly out 5 weeks on 5 weeks off. Only been doing this for a short time, before that spent 20 years as an engineer in the RAN.
  • Robbo_Townsville
    Robbo_Townsville
    14 years ago

    Dodged work for a couple of years after leaving school, time well spent surfing and expanding the mind.

    Joined the army and spent nearly 12yrs in there. Good for the first 6yrs and shit for the remainder.

    Warehouse purchasing officer for rapidly growing company for 2.

    Flogged cars for a brief stint.

    Got into the recruitment / labour hire game for 3yrs

    Recruited myself to a mining company and still there. Chemical Plant Operator. Turn acid into fertiliser.

    Cheers

    Robbo

  • scotti
    scotti
    14 years ago
    G`day All , anyone wanna swap for a fuggin borin occupation i have , workin as a machine operator in a Paper Mill , sorta like workin in a salt mine with the heater on hi ! Anyone , lol ? Cheers , Skin
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