What Do You Do For A Crust?

[argon]

im the guy that paints the m on the m&ms.

and i'm the other guy that paints the &

 

[komodo]

I run a structural steel fabrication workshop. I'm a pen pusher.
Basically I'm in charge of stock procurement (we order all structural members in cut to size and drilled from the merchants), work flow in the workshop, site rectification/alteration, transport, OH&S and I run 2 full time rigging crews and usually between 1 and 4 'auxillary' rigging crews.
We specialise in the structural elements of more architectural buildings such as schools, universities, hotels etc as well as doing a lot of work in theatre overhauls (though thats slowed down massively in recent years) and interfacing mild steel with wrought steel in 'historic' buildings.

Production management in a sheet metal shop. Laser cutting, cnc press brake, manufacturing tradesman service bodies, and now also building camper trailers.

Not working for Cooks are you?

Audio Engineer/mixer/editor, basically a desk job with lots of knobs,

Can be a great job and can be a suck arse job. I used to do large format work. Great fun but bumping rigs in and out killed my back eventually - helped conciderably by a top box from an X-array being dropped on me.

if you're any good on an oxy, you shouldn't need a 9"

anyway, tell the bastards to get you a plasma.

9" grinders are being banned on more and more sites 7" grinders are the current flavour 1" smaller radius and yet nearly 25% greater disc speed and thats supposedly safer... Oh and none are available with a brake.

3D Modeller/Draftie for a Massive Engineering Firm, we do alot of major works projects round Australia and abroad..

I used to be a structural steel detail draftsman and 3D modeller. Did a bit of high profile work around Australia and some OS as well as some mining work and smaller projects (mining work sucks). Good fun I kind of miss the lack of stress. Biggest stress was usually caused by the consulting engineers and architects.
Funnily what I now do I employ my old bosses, and I build the types of projects I used (maybe not quite as large as some of the projects I worked on as a drafty like Southern Cross railway station or Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre)
Even more ironically I preffer hand drawn drawings to CAD drawings - they are MUCH easier to read...

Last year we 'bought out' a competitor company and moved into their purpose built facility and that has helped. We expanded by 30% and we picked up some brains which is enabling us to tackle the big portal type structures (which unless they were ******* massive we were never competitive in previously) which has helped.
I work for my old man which has its pros and its cons (lets just say I'm glad I'd worked for several years in the industry before I came to work for him) and I'm trying to get us to move forward with technology but its hard in this economic market.

 

[kdaust]

Professional or amateur?

Oh I get paid.

 

[argon]

Oh I get paid.

or do you?

 

[manticle]

Liar

Bullshit.

 

[Fat Bastard]

I'm a toolmaker turned Engineer. Never finished my degree due to being too old and unmotivated after going through 2 trades and an Advanced Diploma at TAFE. Now I work in process improvement and reliability for a major evil pharma company. It's a living.

I do thoroughly enjoy my volunteer services to misanthropy, Heavy Metal and beer though.

 

[Josh]

Customs Officer

 

[pk.sax]

I'm a toolmaker turned Engineer. Never finished my degree due to being too old and unmotivated after going through 2 trades and an Advanced Diploma at TAFE. Now I work in process improvement and reliability for a major evil pharma company. It's a living.

I do thoroughly enjoy my volunteer services to misanthropy, Heavy Metal and beer though.

I do the same for a small evil airline. My process is a bit similar - I started off studying toolmaking, got bored enrolled in engineering, ended up with lotsa CAD skills out of my internship etc and ended up doing reliability.

 

[Cocko]

I stare at goats.

Outer work, porkspin.

:icon_cheers:

 

[pk.sax]

I stare at goats.

Outer work, porkspin.

:icon_cheers:

:icon_offtopic: as long as you don't try to do it upside down....

Well, you could strap yourself to the fan and see if it works, not looking forward to the video, but do post it

 

[Phoney]

So who's got the longest title?


me: "Media recording and delivery systems administrator"

 

[goomboogo]

I'm a toolmaker turned Engineer. Never finished my degree due to being too old and unmotivated after going through 2 trades and an Advanced Diploma at TAFE. Now I work in process improvement and reliability for a major evil pharma company. It's a living.

I do thoroughly enjoy my volunteer services to misanthropy, Heavy Metal and beer though.

I used to be misanthropic. Now, I'm more selective.

 

[1975sandman]

Work for council after 13 years Army

 

[BDD]

Apprentice baker. The longer i do it the more i pick up on the similarities between baking and brewing and not just the obvious use of yeast. ^_^

Really enjoy it as a profession don't even mind the early hours

 

[Clutch]

Work for council after 13 years Army

Thanks for your service.


I have an interview for a Govt dept next week! Less hours and more dollars and no fuckin' deadbeats.

 

[Amber Fluid]

and no fuckin' deadbeats.

Hrrrmmmm I'd have to dispute that.... too many dead beats imo.

 

[Liam_snorkel]

Dentist.
Got crook and sold my surgery. Now a boatbuilder .
When finished building plan to circumnavigate until the kids have to go to highschool (@7 years)
Looking into possibility of starting micro with a mate when we come back

Awesome man, definitely do it.
My olds built a yacht when I was a kid, and eventually did the circumnavigation over the space of 2 years. they waited until my sister & I had left home & did it on their own though.
Once they got back I met a whole bunch of other yachties who they had crossed paths with, some with young kids who were the most well adjusted, confident, well spoken little turds I've ever met. I sometimes wonder how different I'd be if the folks had decided to do the trip while we were kids.
My old girl kept a blog going throughout the trip you can read it here: http://valiam.com.au/

 

[elec]

Lecky by trade. Tried growing tropical fruits for a few years, Mother Nature put the kybosh on that caper. Now work in Asset Management for a global miner. Try for the most part to avoid all accountability.............

Regards

 

[user 23356]

Other - for me = Jill of all trades B)

I am a self employed web designer, web host, programmer (registered business) .... I've also owned an online store for 5 years selling lingerie, apparel, handbags ect (soon to be a registered business) ... I also sell health and beauty products... body wraps, body gel, supplements ect (Independent Distributor) ...

Beer O'clock on Friday is my most favourite part of the working week! :icon_chickcheers:

 

[seravitae]

Neat, what do you program?

I've been learning programming for product development and also sorta for fun, and getting a few small odd programming jobs here and there. I find programming quite fun.

What languages are you into ?