Jobs wot I done since skool...

[MrPie]

While studenting:
Supermarket shelf stacker
Bookmaker
Post graduation:
Research chemist
Lab supervisor for a well known chemical company - disagreed with their work ethics: nobbers
Engineering firm 1:learned a bunch - thanks John
Engineering firm 2
Engineering firm 3: entry into management, yay, but wot a bunch of underhand, greedy shysters: nobbers. Coined the phrase 'i pretend to work, they pretend to pay me'
Company director - left co #3 to set up own engineering firm - now that was a whole bunch of stress! Not for me thanks. Was simply too inexperienced to own and run a consultancy firm
Oil & gas major 1: loved it
Oil & gas major 2: loving it

 

[burndust]

Started out as an apprentice builder....not for me.....then various warehouse work.....before retraining in IT.....being doing IT for the last 16 years....The last 10 with the MOD I could tell you but then I would have to kill you

 

[Davos87]

Left school at 15 hated it!
Apprentice painter & Decorator
Painter & Decorator,
Wall & floor tiler,
Left building trade after sick of being made redundant when winter came,
British Steel Corporation as process worker, made redundant,
Van driver, made redundant,
Nursing Auxiliary in Mental Health Unit, left to go to Uni as a mature student,
House husband looking after kids for a few years,
Volunteer in schools/ colleges,
Teacher training,
Teacher and eventually Assistant Head of Year,
Retired.

 

[marzjennings]

12...repotting seedlings at garden centre
13-15... kitchen hand at hotel
15-16... paper round, part time bike shop mechanic
18...chief cook and second mate on Cornish dive boat (first after school full time job)
19... uni studying math, didn't need to work as grant covered all living costs
21...quit uni and go back to surfing
21-24... kitchen hand, bike builder with ICE, double glazing fitter, DJ
24...data loader (UK)
26...data manager (Netherlands)
28...software engineer (UK)
34...data manager (Ireland)
35...data manager (Texas)
37...data manager (Trinidad)
37.5..software consultant (China)
38...data manager (Trinidad)
39...data manager (Texas)
45-today...master data manager (Texas)

Same job for about 20 years, though in different countries and companies.

We fancy moving again and this time I think the south of France could be cool.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Paper Boy
Contract Cleaner
Supermarket Saturday Boy
Food Superstore General Manager
Retail Area Manager
Retail Business Development Manager
Regional Director Retail and Leisure
Managing Director Legal Services
Joint Owner/Director Sales Company
Retired early at 48 and got bored after a year or so...
...now semi-retired and owner of a small lifestyle business - happiest I have ever been as well!

 

[Gravity Aided]

I had paper routes, some fast food, then went as railroad maintenance of way worker in summers during college my first 2 years. After that, I had internships on newspapers in college. I graduated with a journalism degree just as that line of work imploded over here. Worked on a couple of newspapers and went into sales.The I went back to graduate school,but quit when I got married. I then went into photographic retail for 15 years and ran labs and stores. That line of work expired over here in about 2004 for almost everyone. I then went into bus driving after a couple of years as a security guard, and I've been a bus driver for about 10 years. Probably need to get back into business, but bus driving is a very nice job.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

[QUOTE 3674853, member: 9609"]

beat you by a year and not even remotely bored [/QUOTE]

Bit OT but I looked forward to retirement and was fortunate enough to be able to do it whilst relatively young. I was 48 and my wife 41 (she quit too - lazy girl!).

We're by no means massively wealthy but our financial position is none too shabby so whilst we live well we can't do a non-stop merry-go-round of 'stuff' - not that we particularly want to.

After a year we both had had enough and decided we rather liked the social contact of work and, to an extent, the sense of purpose that work had given us in the past. In effect we had gotten a bit bored of being busy doing nothing. Once you have stuffed yourself silly doing lots of all the things you like doing it wears a little thin - at least it did for us.

What we have found is that because work is 'optional' for us there is no longer any sense that we are shackled to it. We both work on our terms and there is no longer any pressure on us to earn to simply live and service debt.

'Work' is a fairly limited term for me now - I billed around 8oo hours last year and have 12 weeks a year when I don't work at all.

I also know (quick count in old bonce) 9 people who have retired fairly young and have gone back to the workplace inc' one very high earning Solicitor in his previous life; who is now a painter and decorator - brilliant!

In a similar vein one who had a well into 6 figure salary is now a Postie on the South Coast and is as happy as the proverbial dog with two dicks.

A couple more have gone down the voluntary work route but all the others have opted for complete changes of direction.

Horses for courses I guess.

 

[ANT 666]

At school had a job in the market, left school joined the British army (Royal Engineers), left army joined fire brigade, retired, WooHoo.

One guy in the fire brigade had a part time job gardening at a convent, came to work one day and said he spent all day trimming the nuns bushes!
Nice work if you can get it.