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[MacGyver]

Trained as a mechanical (robotics) engineer, got bored and gave up, then barman. Bar manager then was Co/manager of a night-club and also was a driver for the cinema industry on my spare time and after the building got demolished had a job as a delivery man for 6months and ended up n2 of the hole thing and stayed 7 years... Now I'm going to train to be a coach builder (panel beater...) for the next 4 years... Starting in August 2016. What we won't do for a mini... :-P

[MacGyver]

Sorry about the English, just had my 7th Christmas dinner... Yay...

[leaky]

Drainage Engineer for Thames Water best job iv ever had which I guess you wouldn't expect someone of works with foul water all day to say but its pretty good. I keep my van at home so just start work from my house and just go round doing jobs as and where i am needed, They provide me with all kinds of training.

[inim_repooc]

While not even out of college yet, I always seem to be needing money for one thing or another - mostly related to a small car made by rover that lives in our garage..

So I have already tried a number of different things - anything I can do that could make me a bit of money... I started building and maintaining computers for friends and family when I was 14, didn't make much money but I got good at it.. I then pushed this more and had a pretty steady stream of work - and for my age plenty of money for what really is easy and often quick work once you know what to do! I then went to work evenings and the odd weekend for a mobile phone retailer that used to sponsor Derby County oddly enough Haha - I worked In IT support and I actually got paid a set wage per hour! I did this for a year or so and then the company had a bit of a crash and resulted in me being 'unnecessary'. So I carried on working my own little pc business that was still going well - I mean I always had a couple of things in the pipeline it seems, mostly just through word of mouth.

I did this alongside a pretty simple job I picked up at college till a few months ago (now 17) and i decided it was a good time to go get another proper part time job and I ended up at Iceland of all places! But they pay well and I get plenty of extra hours with weekly pay - helps a lot when my money goes as quickly as it comes!

Not really any career yet and after trying all sorts of other little things I have no idea what I want to do!

[slowy]

Fabrication welder mostly on railway parts job comes in handy if you own a mini

[screech]

Any structural engineers?? 😇

[peterh2]

Took early retirement from stress full management job in engineering (too much desk work - not enough dirty fingers)

Now run my own clock repair business. Not many clock repairers about, so lots of work.

[Patriot]

I work for Northern Powergrid in the major projects division, building High Voltage substations.

But currently bailing water out of them at the moment....... Need the rain to stop.

[Richie83]

Website stuff for a well known PLC. Basically I drive a desk in the day and my Minis on the weekend. I'm like a less impressive batman.

Edited by Richie83, 01 January 2016 - 07:39 PM.

[dyshipfakta]

I'm a specialist biomedical scientist in clinical biochemistry. Much much more boring then it sounds pays the bills though. Been doing that straight from uni. Before that was a lifeguard on an outdoor pool on a holiday park. Best job ever especially when it's raining.

[Mini 360]

Day job - Engineering Draughtsman for an American oil services company.  Work in the R&D Department on downhole tools of the future (the tools that help get the oil out of the ground once the hole is drilled).  Not that interesting but it pays the mortgage I suppose!  Studying for HNC (and beyond afterwards!) to further the career though.  Every little helps when oil is a rapidly declining industry.  1000s have lost their job in 2015 and it has dramatically affected the local economy too...

 

Which leads me onto Coated360º which i fit in in my spare time.  This would take a bigger role if I lost my job through the ever present risk of redundancy.

[mr3speed]

I install home intruder security systems. If your local enough and in need send me a message!! ; )

[Will16]

Drainage Engineer for Thames Water best job iv ever had which I guess you wouldn't expect someone of works with foul water all day to say but its pretty good. I keep my van at home so just start work from my house and just go round doing jobs as and where i am needed, They provide me with all kinds of training.

 

ooo Thames Water friend 

[leaky]

 

Drainage Engineer for Thames Water best job iv ever had which I guess you wouldn't expect someone of works with foul water all day to say but its pretty good. I keep my van at home so just start work from my house and just go round doing jobs as and where i am needed, They provide me with all kinds of training.

 

ooo Thames Water friend 

 

 

haha I see you live in abingdon where abouts do you work then? The yard I run out of is in Kiddlington although I don't go there much as I keep the van at home,

[HarrysMini]

I work in a School as an IT Technician. 

 

It is hopefully a good starting point for a career in a more specialised sector of the industry.