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What do you do ?

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Just wondering what you guys work as ?

Im work over in Brighton for a Media company

Im one of the IT department and manage their network and servers.
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I'm a Mechanical Engineer. I work for a consultancy in Nottingham who design gearboxes.
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i work for an Italian company selling speed reduction gearmotors, training in electronic variable frequency drives as well.
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im a programer, and yes by 2.30 most days im considering cutting my wrists
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deviant wrote:I'm a Mechanical Engineer. I work for a consultancy in Nottingham who design gearboxes.
what sort of gearboxes?
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i design travelodge hotels mostly but i also do houses, factorys etc. sometimes its daftly borin othertimes its cool. still training thoe.
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masterofinsanity wrote:
deviant wrote:I'm a Mechanical Engineer. I work for a consultancy in Nottingham who design gearboxes.
what sort of gearboxes?
Ones with gears in!

Mainly either automotive (car or truck) or wind turbine (think planetary gearbox about 2m diameter).
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I work in HR for a large healthcare provider in Ireland. My typical day :smt014 :smt018 :smt064 :smt079
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Another Mechanical Engineer - large V diesel engines.
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part time pawn in sainsburys :smt005
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CNC Programming Apprentice for Rolls-Royce.

Program Mulit axis griding machines that cut turbine blades.

Hard to explain a job like that without sounding a loser :P
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tattoo artist, airbrush and refinisher.
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Bozzie wrote:Hard to explain a job like that without sounding a loser :P
How about "When you go on holiday, you'd drop out of the sky and die horribly if it wasn't for me, so don't call me a loser"?
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quality manager for manufacturing company who make offshore containers and the like :smt015 .....exciting lol
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think my Mrs has quite a good job..she types up the county court orders some of the storys she's entered are rather funny !
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