How Did You Get to Where You Are?

[XmisterIS]

I'm an international porn star; I worked my way up from rent-boy.

 

[subaqua]

I'm an international porn star; I worked my way up from rent-boy.

we can see you didn't enjoy the 1st bit from your avatar

 

[Wigsie]

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Ooh! Can you get me a finger pulse oxometer?
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I can give you the name of a salesperson to contact and open an account to buy one from! the first time I touched one of our products was in hospital last week when I was being connected to it!!

 

[Adasta]

[T]he first time I touched one of our products was in hospital last week when I was being connected to it!!

Now that's Quality Control!

 

[iZaP]

I'm 18 now, work as a electronics technician. While also studying full-time at Open University.

 

[Codboy]

It goes a little like this -



Started off as a lifeguard and swimming teacher
Moved into health and fitness as an instructor / trainer with swimming pool operations as a specialist interest
Turned out to be long hours and little pay, so switched to management
Managed some big health and fitness clubs, then decided to give it all up and go to university
Spent a couple of years catching up on my drinking whilst studying Leisure, Recreation and Tourism
Became an entertainments manager for a tour operator and continued to coach some sports
Decided to travel around Europe then came back and ran a pub went out again and applied for teaching jobs in FE Colleges and got one teaching tourism
Took loads more qualifications and moved up the food chain to manage a sports and tourism dept in an FE College

Phew............. hoping to retire early!

Cheers
Codboy

 

[steve30]

I'm 18 now, work as a electronics technician. While also studying full-time at Open University.

What kind of electronics stuff do you do?


I was hoping I might get a job as an electronics technician when I finished studying electronics at college when I was 18, but the best I could manage was a christmas temporary customer assistant at Marks and Spencer.

 

[Silver Fox]

Post of the year for me.

IMO people like Dayvo are the ones who need to be looked up to, not some career clone doing the 9-5 for 50 years then popping their clogs in their sleep - never having tasted adventure.

You have a 1/2 mill suburban mansion - so what?

When was the last time you sat at dawn watching the sun come up over a mountain lake?

Or skinny-dipped as a totally spontaneous act?

Everyone who lives dies, but not everyone who dies has lived.

Amen to that, life really is too short.

Grab life by the scruff of the neck and enjoy 'cos you never know when it'll be snatched away from you.

 

[snorri]

When was the last time you sat at dawn watching the sun come up over a mountain lake?

Or skinny-dipped as a totally spontaneous act?

I was able to do both of these things in my lunchbreaks/ teabreaks while in full time employment, but managed to get voluntary redundancy/ early retirement, so am following a more orthodox lifestyle now.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Controller - Finance, IT, Procurement and Services

(I've not idea what I do either, basically I manage people, money and stuff)

The "I didn't get where I am today without......"

Left school after A levels
Drove a forklift - some gap year
Went to Portsmouth Poly to study surveying
Left after month
Drove a forklift again for another year
Got bored
Got a clerical job in the civil service
Got promoted
Got trained as a COBOL programmer
Got very bored
Got administrative job with Local Authority using new fangled personal computer
Got promoted twice
Got married
Got very very bored and hit glass ceiling as I had no degree
Went to Lampeter University
Wife had baby #1
Wife had baby #2
Had breakdown
Left after two years without finishing my degree
Got a job with a local computer company/software house in Wales
Got a job teching in a local recording/video production company
Got promoted
Became partner
Got headhunted into a job with a local computer reseller/software house (back) in Sussex
Got made redundant when company went bust
Went contracting
Got a job with a city insurance company doing desktop support
Got promoted, over and over, over nine years
Became operations (IT & Facilities) director
Had (another) breakdown
Got bored with the hype over the millenium bug and the dumb amounts of money being spent to fix a no9n-existent problem
Quit.
Got a job fundraising for an international development charity
Got a job running the supporter care unit for the same charity
Got headed-hunted by old boss back into the City
He got fired
Got promoted
Company merged and I was on redundancy list
Felt another breakdown looming so
Quit
Went contracting
Got offered permanent role with city insurance company I was contracting with - turned it down as it meant working for a muppet
Was asked to leave as a result (I think they were offended)
Got contracting job as Head of IT with charity I work for now
Got permanent job as Head of IT with charity I work for now
Got promoted several times.
Got job I've got now in January

 

[skudupnorth]

Left school at 15 to become a zookeeper. I had been helping out for 2 years previously and it was all I wanted to do so I became full time and began working 4 days and going to college inbetween to study for my zoology exams. 8 years passed and whilst I loved my work with a passion I began having a niggling feeling it was not for me as the emphasis at the time was more focused on money than the animals in a lot of ways, and after an incident which ill not go into on here I realised couldnt do it anymore and I left.

I spent a few years as the general manager in a hotel, which had its moments but was long and unsociable hours,although could often be great fun, and then out of the blue was offered the job I am in now and have been in for the past 11 years

So somehow, from spending my days with elephants and lions I have progressed through to working for a 99 year old retired Colonel in a huge private manor house, looking after the house, dogs, and dealing with the private functions, shoots and hunt meets.

Given my time over again I would never have left zookeeping-Had I been older and wiser I would possibly have handled their ways better than I did at the time although I still do not agree with some behind-the scenes goings on that inevitably happen

Im not career-driven, as long as im (fairly) happy and have enough money to pay the bills and a bit spare then free time to do things i love is more important to me than climbing ladders.

I work in some sort of zoo full of knuckle dragging monkey chimps who fix posh cars ! Don't worry,i greet them every morning with "morning chimps"....or words to that effect ! They love it !!!

 

[Andy in Sig]

School, university (Biology), then worked as a security man in a timber yard and then I did 22 yrs in the Army in a fairly cerebral job. I decided that when it was time to leave I wanted to be an underground driver in Düsseldorf thus combining living in a city I love with a switched-off brain. During my last year I retook the UK govt German interpreter exams to get my grades up as a qualification as well as doing a German civvy lang. qual. I also did the teaching English to foreigners course in case I couldn't get a real job.

Anyway, the bloke who conducted the oral exam for the interpreter exam was an ex-Brit officer working for the German Federal Language Agency. He asked me what I was going to do when I got out and I told him the above. He said his people were screaming out for people with military English and when they offered me the job I have now, I took it because I knew that I would be able to live bang on the Danube Bike Path (25 yds from my window as I type) and so I now teach English to German squaddies, which is actually quite a laugh.

 

[Herbie]

I often find people's stories about their career history to be quite interesting. A lot of the time it seems that people started out doing something completely different to what they end up doing.

So, to satisfy my curiosity:

1. What job do you have at the moment?
2. How did you end up there?

 

[magnatom]

Mmmmm. Ask me the same question in a years time. I'm hoping that I will have moved into a completely different career!

 

[ColinJ]

Alan - I think you forgot something there, mate!