So who does what for a living

[ASC1951]

I wont argue with that if you dont argue with the idea we need less big business/corporations running the world and more localised small businesses.

Deal. You may have to remind me, of course ...

Anyway, I'm off to the Black Forest tomorrow with my bicycle, so you lot can neddy.

 

[MarkF]

Wish I'd followed up ideas for fire stopping and intumescent collars for wiring and openings in fire doors, ducts and between compartment walls and floors in flats in the early 80s.... would have been very comfortably off now.

Oh God, I thought of take apart displays and lighting for trade shows in the early '80's, thought of a proximity switch to to be worn and alert parents if their kid wandered away, years before "bogeymen" were news. Designed a one side bracket for electrical cable trays, so that getting pipes and cables in and out was far easier, couldn't be arsed doing anything and a decade or so later a French firm did.

Accy, thanks but I was lucky, once my company was ahead of the game, by miles, instead of consolidating, I fannied about cycling until everybody else had caught up, then taken over. I'm just not motivated by money, I am scatterbrained, I lose total interest once I've got a business up and running that's why I've lost 2 of them, wish I'd had a really straight, sensible and dreary partner to deal with details. Too late now.

 

[400bhp]

Mercer. You in the industry?

I do. I suspect you and I know quite a few of the same peeps.

 

[ASC1951]

ASC worships at the high altar of Darwinian capitalism..

Hey, I do like that phrase. And the Usual Suspects would be the followers of Intelligent Design?

 

[Cyprus]

Carbon Fibre Laminator . (The grand title is 'technician' I guess!!).

We mainly manufacture stuff for motorsport customers (e.g. F1, Le Mans, high-end road car customers, etc) and, for the want of a better phrase, customer-specific 'one-offs' and low volume production runs.

 

[Squid lips]

House hubby it's great plenty of time to tinker and potter about
Just tidy up 2 hrs before mrs gets home (aka financial controller ) oh and let the kids out of the cupboard under the stairs
In another life built nuclear subs for a living

 

[alans]

Considerably less than I used to do