the job i do now : Making sure the needed nursing capacity is being built, starting them up, hiring and running staff and taking care of people that depend on us for their wellbeing... it has it all.. finding land, getting permits, drawing plans, financing them, building them and being involved with a lot of people... seeing that everyone is content... it' s hard work but it's also hard to beat...
Being voted in as the only female litho printer in a total male closed shop. You get a lot of female print finishers but printers no .. Mans world well used to be !!! They excepted me !!! Great guys Where I am now working with children with learning difficulties and Autism and ASD and Aspergers . They make my day !!!! Never a dull moment.. Everything's a challenge but I love it. I have full artistic license. Sadly need more pay now More hours. Applied for another job same stuff but organising an office. Admin and calls. Still designing and making but less then now. But admin loads more More travelling. Not much contact with pupils. I need to negotiate maybe see if I can get an extra day at work which would mean more in situ working with pupils. But now HR rule the hours not the school My worst job lasted weeks age 17 Working at a laundry in Swindon ! Tagging up dirty items before they got laundered . We had to wear some gear like gloves . Press the item in a machine that printed its label . You had ordinary people's stuff You would not believe !!!!! But the worst was sorting surgeons greens from airbases. Blood and all sorts. Had a few incidences with dirty syringes in with the greens Never got stuck. And local Indian restaurant napkins and table cloths . They would leave them for ages so by the time they reached us full of maggots ! You got a very good Bonus if you where up to speed . All the overtime you wanted. Lovely Christmas hamper each. I stuck it for a few weeks til I got back into printing. Not a job if your squeamish. Never again!!!
peacekeeping ...................yeah right ................destroying everything in site in the name of progress ............
Best job (1) Motorcycle courier in the late Seventies/early Eighties...ragging the *rse of Suzuki GS425s for Pony Express,and then wearing out my own bikes for Delta Despatch and lastly Arrow Express....NW10 to Newcastle in the snow at 18.00 on a Friday night? Piece of cake! It'sWAIT AND RETURN???? I'm in heaven with the gate shut... Best job (2) Managing a sound and lighting warehouse for a quite famous Comedian.Upside was the fantastic buzz of that goes with setting up a new company,downside was working for the quite-famous Comedian,who had a face I would never have tired of punching....
The army boys will get this ......COP platoon , alongside the sas , 14int, and special branch Belfast ......
Job within a job...while serving in Kenya, I had to fly from Nairobi to Mombasa to see a Volvo BM bucket loader would fit on a low loader trailer... Total time at the port 30 secs and a day n half on the lash before flying back to Nairobi... Great job
Was that Alpha Audio owned by the quite famous comedian who the police wanted to have a word with very recently, did a couple of trade shows years ago when he was there, one minute he'd be laughing and joking the next minute flying into a rage over god knows what Can't say whether it's the best job I've had but in recent years I have probably worked in every lap dancing bar in Leeds & surrounding areas, servicing the sound & light equipment. Audition time is always entertaining
Trade mission for the EU in Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines. Thanks to my mate Rob for blagging me on that one :biggrin:
hot cans,piss bottles,toucan lense, video camera the size of a continent ......constantly wet sat on divis, then compromised and the OP set alight ...........lol ...tab back to the kp to reinsert later .......repeat....the first fag after a lift....and moonshine with the BELFAST SB ......
The job l am doing now working for myself at long last-never had the balls to do it before l am fabricating motorcycle parts -bespoke current projects are 888 seat subframes in alloy 888 headlight/fairing subframes in alloy exhaust rivet straps in stainless stainless exhaust hangers for carby SS's wheel spacers to pattern/drawing from alloy stainless all one offs considered/quoted replica 851/888 clip-ons in T45 coming soon blatant self promotion alert!!!
Getting paid to 'mouch' around the Middle East was nice! As was larking around in green ;-) View attachment 9713 View attachment 9715 View attachment 9716
