Best job you nearly had
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Chuffy
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- On the banks of the Exe
What does a revolutionary cashpoint machine do anyway? Take your money and redistribute it?Abitrary said:
Chuffy said:
Well it wasn't a cashpoint in the way you know it. It was a machine you put money in, like for paying council tax, and it counted it.
It's not like spitting out ironed 50 quid notes - it's about trying to work out what people had actually put in.
Very, very challenging stuff. The office looked like dr who's tardis as well.
Chuffy
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- On the banks of the Exe
So basically, doing exactly what cashpoints do, only in reverse. And if you have OCR scanning technology, not exactly hard. When was this, the early 80s or something?Abitrary said:
Chuffy said:
It was about 2 years ago. OCR yes would work for photocopied notes.
This was about detecting texture etc. Whatever, I turned the job down so I'm probably inventing half of this.
What do you do anyway chuffy? I'm not normally curious but you are questioning my skillz now, scruffy man.
Chuffy
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Abitrary said:
Not your skillz (which I'm sure are silky) just your memory.
gbb
Legendary Member
- Location
- Peterborough
At 17 i already had probaby the best job i've ever had with a Canadian seismic surveying company...double the wages of all my mates at that time, all the fun and messing about you could deal with, crosscountry driving in a landrover, using explosives...awesome job.
But some of the older guys i knew were working on drilling rigs, working the Vale of belvoir looking for coal deposits...a stage further on from where we were.
At that time, i was on £50 a week (1976)...a rea lot of money for a 17 year old.
But they were on £250 a week
extraordinary money for a near 18 year old. They were driving Lotus Cortinas and Triumph Stags...the cars you dreamed of then
I was in line for a job with them....but for some reason ( gone in the mists of time now), it didnt quite come off
Gutted...
But some of the older guys i knew were working on drilling rigs, working the Vale of belvoir looking for coal deposits...a stage further on from where we were.
At that time, i was on £50 a week (1976)...a rea lot of money for a 17 year old.
But they were on £250 a week
extraordinary money for a near 18 year old. They were driving Lotus Cortinas and Triumph Stags...the cars you dreamed of then I was in line for a job with them....but for some reason ( gone in the mists of time now), it didnt quite come off
Gutted...
Chuffy
Veteran
- Location
- On the banks of the Exe
I'll settle for that!Abitrary said:
Chuffy
Veteran
- Location
- On the banks of the Exe
Didn't you end up exploding sheep or am I confusing you with someone else? That always sounded like a very cool job...gbb said:At 17 i already had probaby the best job i've ever had with a Canadian seismic surveying company...double the wages of all my mates at that time, all the fun and messing about you could deal with, crosscountry driving in a landrover, using explosives...awesome job.
But some of the older guys i knew were working on drilling rigs, working the Vale of belvoir looking for coal deposits...a stage further on from where we were.
At that time, i was on £50 a week (1976)...a rea lot of money for a 17 year old.
But they were on £250 a week
I was in line for a job with them....but for some reason ( gone in the mists of time now), it didnt quite come off
Gutted...
gbb
Legendary Member
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- Peterborough
Sheep, cats, weasels, haybales, stoats, crows and rabbits...oh, and i got blowed up tooChuffy said:Didn't you end up exploding sheep or am I confusing you with someone else? That always sounded like a very cool job...
And we blew up a farmers coal bunker once, fractured many a water main, got thrown off farmers land for throwing stones at his pheasants, wrote off a Landrover on the A1, blew the exhausts of two or three of them ar$ing about. At the end of some days, you could hardly stand for laughing
The coolest job you could ever imagine. Working with a bunch of psychos, pedal to the metal in a 3.5 litre Landrover, very little supervision and well paid to boot.
Did i honesty think it could get better ?
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
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- South Manchester
gbb said:Sheep, cats, weasels, haybales, stoats, crows and rabbits...oh, and i got blowed up too
And we blew up a farmers coal bunker once, fractured many a water main, got thrown off farmers land for throwing stones at his pheasants, wrote off a Landrover on the A1, blew the exhausts of two or three of them ar$ing about. At the end of some days, you could hardly stand for laughing
The coolest job you could ever imagine. Working with a bunch of psychos, pedal to the metal in a 3.5 litre Landrover, very little supervision and well paid to boot.
Did i honesty think it could get better ?
Thank Fuc! you don't ride a bike......
asterix
Comrade Member
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- Limoges or York
Agent for a Chinese entrepreneur.
When I was in shipping a guy used to import fruit and veg. It was high end stuff and he flew over when it was due to enure it got off the dock asap. One of our pleasanter customers to deal with and I gave his stuff the priority it required.
One day as he was paying us (in cash) he asked if I wanted to go to a party they were having in London. Unfortunately I couldn't and always wonder where that door would have led.
Soon after we found out he was a relative of C.Y. Tung!
Later still, OOCL offered me a sponsorship to go to university so maybe some good came out of it..
When I was in shipping a guy used to import fruit and veg. It was high end stuff and he flew over when it was due to enure it got off the dock asap. One of our pleasanter customers to deal with and I gave his stuff the priority it required.
One day as he was paying us (in cash) he asked if I wanted to go to a party they were having in London. Unfortunately I couldn't and always wonder where that door would have led.
Soon after we found out he was a relative of C.Y. Tung!
Later still, OOCL offered me a sponsorship to go to university so maybe some good came out of it..
Aint Skeered
New Member
There are men in Guam whose full-time job is to travel the
countryside and deflower young virgins, who pay them for the privilege of
having sex for the first time.
Reason: under Guam law, it is expressly forbidden for virgins
to marry.
Now that's one job I wished I'd applied for
countryside and deflower young virgins, who pay them for the privilege of
having sex for the first time.
Reason: under Guam law, it is expressly forbidden for virgins
to marry.
Now that's one job I wished I'd applied for
