Jobs you were under qualified for?

[XRHYSX]

We moved flats about 10 years ago, and I hired a 7.5ton truck from a local van hire place, it was enormous, but I could drive it on my car driving license.
As the guy handed me the keys he said, "you know how to use the air brakes " I lied and said yes. Drove it out of the depot, but was miles out of my comfort zone. Luckily my father in law has a full articulated HGV license, so he came and picked me up and drove the lorry for me.
I still dont know why you can drive such big trucks on a basic car license.

you cant any more, a car test pass after 1997 means you can only drive up to 3.5t (a standard transit van)

 

[swee'pea99]

you cant any more, a car test pass after 1997 means you can only drive up to 3.5t (a standard transit van)

So it's true: old people with licenses are better drivers than young people with licenses. I've always said so. Well, since I got old that is.

 

[numbnuts]

Fork lift truck driver!

Me too when I was in Aussie I was employed as a Blacksmith, but we were all had to do our lifting and moving jobs around the workshop.

 

[XRHYSX]

So it's true: old people with licenses are better drivers than young people with licenses. I've always said so. Well, since I got old that is.

no, its cus the untrained older people were a danger on the road, so they took the privege away from the young people before they get old

 

[subaqua]

We moved flats about 10 years ago, and I hired a 7.5ton truck from a local van hire place, it was enormous, but I could drive it on my car driving license.
As the guy handed me the keys he said, "you know how to use the air brakes " I lied and said yes. Drove it out of the depot, but was miles out of my comfort zone. Luckily my father in law has a full articulated HGV license, so he came and picked me up and drove the lorry for me.
I still don't know why you can drive such big trucks on a basic car license.

depends on when you passed your test. pre jan 1997 yes, post Jan 1997 no you needed to have C1 test separately

https://www.gov.uk/vehicles-you-can-drive/y/medium-sized-vehicle/yes/from-jan-1997/18-or-over

 

[fossyant]

No I mean I didn't do anything wrong but it seemed a strange job for me to be in. And this is an open internet forum where people may become concerned.

Surgeon ?

 

[fossyant]

No I mean I didn't do anything wrong but it seemed a strange job for me to be in. And this is an open internet forum where people may become concerned.

I've got it. Road Sign Installer ! (heh heh I haven't forgotten)

 

[swee'pea99]

I once worked on a tomato farm in Australia - without a doubt the most back-breaking work I've ever done - but after a few days they offered me the chance to become the driver instead, which is to say, the guy who tractors a trailer out to where the pickers leave their filled bins, hoiks them onto the trailer, then hauls them back to the shed. I never quite got the hang of reversing the articulated arrangement (you have to turn the steering wheel 'the wrong way' at first, to get the trailer reversing in the right direction', then ease it back at the right time and pace), but I got away with it for a couple of days till one time I lost concentration as I reversed into the shed. There was an ominous thud, the roof sagged just slightly, and that was me back on the picking again.

 

[martint235]

I've got it. Road Sign Installer ! (heh heh I haven't forgotten)

I may get a new job as ant-stamper.........

 

[slowmotion]

When I was a teenager, I signed up with Manpower as an agency worker. I was sent out as a spray painter to paint the front axles of Lansing Bagnall fork trucks. I had never touched a spray gun in my life.

 

[Bollo]

I once had to help diagnose a fault on a particular type of radiation detector called multiwire proportional chamber. I'm no sort of electronics expert and, being spectacularly colour blind, aren't best suited to red-wire-green-wire work.

The guy from the Rutherford Appleton Lab in Oxford who built the detectors was on the other end of the phone talking me through it....

Him: "You see that thin wire on the left?"
Me, touching wire with cheapo, poorly insulated voltmeter: "Yep, see that"
Him "Don't touch that - it's 2000 Volts and it'll kill you"

 

[Wobblers]

We really need to go back to Dieppe. If only to keep their medical staff employed.

And this time someone needs to post a video of it on youtube.