Formerly researching in protein crystallography, but been in IT for 30 years now. Have worked for a bank as a senior techie, but currently "resting" between jobs. Setting up my own software business, as fed up with shit employers.
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I work in international satellite telecommunications for a well-known telecomms company. Before that I was an air conditioning engineer for said company and before that I swept up at a farrier's forge at weekends (ah the halcyon days of youth and black sooty snot).
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Son of Barnabas
offlineMemberJeni
Just returning to "Chauffeuse" for a moment... according to this
LINK you are in fact a fireside easy chair, which of course I think we all knew...Someone mentioned 70's cookbooks - surely they were all full of Fanny and Johnnies?
I can count among my many employments: security guard; perfume bottler; hospital orderly; warehouse assistant in Sainsburys; marketing and advertising numerous products from wooden doors to butter; from make-up to projectors; selling insurance; advising on investments; fundraising for charity.... and writing silly things on websites!
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The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberOh well, I've noticed lately that I'm becoming increasingly well-upholstered.
In chronological order: Saturday Girl in a veterinary surgery, progressing to some training in veterinary nursing; part-timer in McDonalds (the pay for a 17yr old schoolkid was excellent); Trainee Insurance Clerkess - Insurance Clerkess; (Whisper it) Media Studies student and Communications student; part-time bar maid while studying; Canvasser for Local Authority voters' roll while student; bar maid and waitress while studying; occasional freelance mag contributor; Front of House supervisor in a wine bar/bistro; Financial Services Adviser with Debenhams (which effectively meant I worked in the back office and answered the switchboard); Chemical company sales rep; full-time mother; clerical officer with DWP; full-time mother; lunchtime playground supervisor with two local primary schools; law student; and finally, part-time bakery counter assistant while studying.
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simonjmr
offlineMemberI write Terms and Conditions, review marketing material and set up savings products.
Years ago when interviewed for a Research Scholarship at Southampton Poly I was asked by a group of hooray Hanry's what I was currently doing - they were well impressed with Freelance Government Administrator - flexible hours and only a couple of minutes paperwork every fortnight. It took them a while to work out I was on the Rock'n'roll.
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thisisall1word
offlineMemberFrom 13 onwards... Paperboy for a local free newspaper, making £3.80 a week for a good 2 and a half hours work... Cardboard box maker... Washer upper at a number of restaurants and pubs... tomato picker and packer... deliverer of Liberal Democrat leaflets... New Forest show hand stamper... more horticultural stuff at a scientific research place; strawberry picking; deer catching; weeding; sunbathing; driving a milkfloat full of freshly cut flowers... very brief stint behind the bar when I was 18... unemployed ne'er-do-well... British Gas data entry monkey and payroll(ish) monkey... Few jobs in Parliament ending up working for the department for turning things off, back on again, and scratching head... WWE scriptwriter and plot development consultant... CEO of Dyson Corp... assistant CEO of Dyson Corp... helpdesk admin junior assistant for Dyson Corp... etc etc etc
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Brenda SugarTits69
offlineMember...barely legal high-school bi-curious teen slut, firm-breasted college nympho lesbian, glistening lesbian back-packer, hot lesbian EFL teacher in Japan, horny lesbian nurse, bored horny bisexual housewife, heart-of-gold stripper, lesbian scientist in lab-coat, horn-rim glasses and hair all tied up, masseuse, rope-watcher, office worker who often had to work late and/or deal with malfunctioning photocopier, farm-hand, BabeStation telephonist, pizza delivery girl, hot-lesbian news blogger.
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Brenda SugarTits69
offlineMemberJust out of interest, Qoxiivi, what was the possibly one thing you found to chuckle at?
Because I can do that thing again and again.
@Son of Barnabas: Definitely not rape-watcher. What kind of sicko are you?
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The All New Jeni B
offlineMemberIt's not me, there's been no mention of celebs.
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Quaz
offlineMemberCan I suggest a new category of "Best relevant Job Ad that you never applied for, or maybe you did but never got the job"?
Web site designer for Anne Summers was the best ad I saw.
Didn't apply, the competion was too stiff and I wasn't up for it. Right that's enough schoolboy double entendres.
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AdrianJ
offlineMemberDuring the week I'm an Architect. Not of anything interesting, like buildings, bridges, or Olympic stadia, for example, but of boring old IT type stuff instead. I currently perform my particular form of architecting for a rather large law firm in London.
At weekends I don a cape and fight crime, play scrum half for Gloucester Rugby Football Club and drive for Williams F1 too.
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In my spare time I've ben stalking minor celebrities in the hope of getting unimpressive stories to post on the celebrity thread on here. It hasn't really worked so far but Timmy Mallet has just taken out a restraining order against me.
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