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What do you do to finance your brewing?

  • Office worker...airconditioned, free internet access.

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  • IT..as above, with online games & betting.

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  • Self employed...OK to start work with a hangover.

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  • Factory/process worker...thirsty job.

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  • Other manufacturing...have own welder, built own coolroom.

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  • Farmer...thinking of planting top paddock to barley & hops.

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  • Unemployed...spend all day watching your airlock bubble.

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  • Other...something shady perhaps (HBS owner?)

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I am working two jobs at the moment :( . I own a lawnmowing franchise and working with a friend in Home Warranties. Working 6 days a week trying to keep up with both. I am trying to sell my franchise at the moment. Anyone want to buy it? :D
eric


Jim! Is that you?
 
Structural engineer, working in subsea oil and gas. So, if you guys can just keep using your burners, you should see me nicely through to retirement.
 
Maintenance Fitter , always fixing someone elses problems ...
 
Parts manager of a Case dealership. (4 yrs now )

Fitter and turner, Boiler maker & Woolclasser by trade. :huh:
 
Just your average builder, specialise in outdoor construction, love building as much as brewing, just cant seem to work out if quoting is more inportant than re-building my brewery and making beer :beerbang: .....hmmmm.....
 
Lab technician in microbiology and pathology. Unfortunately I can't really use the equipment at work without risking contamination...
 
Chemical Engineering/Chemistry student.

Work casually at a hardware shop, and also in a chem lab.

:D
 
Chem Eng for the win! What Uni?

Doing my final exams for my Applied Maths degree, then next year I finish off my Chemical Engineering degree; hopefully into the brewing industry.
 
Curtin, in Perth. It's exam break at the moment, then one year to go. yay!

5 year courses FTL. lol

In addition to home brew beer, I'm also interested in home brewed fuel (biodiesel).
 
I hear footsteps and move my mouse to exit the screen saver. Thats thats what its like working for a government owned corporation in QLD.

Anyone actualy got some projects on the go. Would be nice to do somthing again.

Oh.. Manager Strategic and Commercial Analysis. Just no projects or strategy where I am now <_<
 
IT Manager in a Govt Department. Would be fun if it wasn't so busy.
 
Currently Senior QC Microbiologist for a pharmaceutical company (work with yeast). Used to work in research for a Veterinary Pharmaceutical (worked with yeast), and prior to that 8 years in hospitality (sold beer - made from yeast ;)).

Did the degree Monash Gippy - did it because it was that or go on the dole thanks to how Jeff Kennet screwed over the power industry where I was destined to work - main local employer and all my relos worked there. Always thought - well I like beer, and I'm good at science, so if I do a degree in microbiology maybe someday I can become a brewer :D And with Grande Ridge Brewery nearby, there was some sort of inspiration. Said yes to my current employer the same day I had an interview with CUB at Yatala prior to them expanding. Wonder what might have happened if I said no and went to the interview ;)

Cheers,

GT
 
Spend my days (and nights and afternoons) making astonishingly large quantities of really high quality, super consistent beer .... most of which I don't like very much.

I'd love to say I'm a brewer - but in reality I basically do up the wheel nuts on the wort as its heading from the whirlpool to the fermentor. The brewers are the guys who interfere while the rest of us try to get on with making the beer.

Unlike the other guys on here who work for (large) breweries, I do get free beer. I usually give it away or swap it for beer I like better.

I mega-brew for a living; and I craft-brew for pleasure --- Life is good

Thirsty
 
Gday All

Maybe if by listing what we actually do for a job might be able to help us all to help each other for few cost savings on anything wether it be brewing or being able to supply music to a beer party...
I am currently a CNC Machinist working Monday to Friday 8hours and currently at the moment working saturdays and sundays 10 hour days.. In my job i currently make manifolds,oil pans and head cylnders for vechiles...

So what is everybodays elses job?

cheers and beers
ozdevil

Employed as a cellarhand working with all types of wierd and wonderfull wine. With what I have learnt in the wine industry it makes it a lot easier to understand and apply some of the principles in the brewing process. Filtering,additives, and all that other wierd stuff.

BYB
 
Hi all,
thought I would bump this thread as it is interesting to see the diverse jobs that home brewers do
I am sure that there have been many changes in occupations since 2007.
Hopefully less bloody IT people :D
Cheers
Chris
 
Love these IT guys, the ones who use obscure programming languages like Haskell to tweak their electronic controllers in their robotic-arm dunk sparge nuke-powered setups. On the other hand the unemployed ones are probably strictly kit n 2kilos <_<

Also, up the page, since he posted above, TB has now progressed to being a brewer ! onya.
 

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