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As a new member I don't know what most of you do, and I like to feel I know people!
So to start the ball rolling I am Site Supervisor / Assistant Manager on what will soon be britains largest Trout production site, Basicly a Fish Farmer.
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one even includes my Nissan 4X4!
as little as possible lol
Thanks Mav!
(No problem Nnman).
Mav.
they for eating or stocking game fisheries?
Hi NNMan,
Well I have a really dull office job. Your photos brought memories flooding back - I had a holiday in a cottage overlooking Strontian and Loch Sunart many years ago and you've just reminded me what a stunning area it is.
I'm off to check if that cottage is still available for rent...
All the best,
Ian.
Community Plod, I cover a 150sq mile rural beat.
I was a building surveyor but gave it all up do do something I enjoy.
I have a 150 sqmile rural beat and deal with all issues in that area from Hare coursing, Speeding, anti social behavior to the pint of milk that was nicked off the old ladys door step.
It can be very rewarding at times.
im a welder by trade, i have just recently set up my own company, Midland automated security, we automate gates and install barriers, manufacture gates, we also install alarms and cctv/ dvr sytems.
thankfuly our business is taking off quiet nicely. its horrible to say but others misfortune is our gain. but we offer great security and quality.
Terranosaurus
17-11-2007, 10:37
I'm self employed and sell Motor Trade Workshop Consumables and Tools. Basically anything and everything you can think of to use in a workshop except the actual car parts like filters, bushes, and bigger parts etc.
Used to be partner in a business producing and selling Motorsport Video/DVD and before that I was full time rally mechanic/technician, and even further back in the mists of time I was in printing.
I'm self employed..........before that I was full time rally mechanic/technician, and even further back in the mists of time I was in printing.
watching WRC this weekend Ireland proving to have some great stages.
what sort of tools you sell? im currently looking for a pillar drill and band saw for good price!!!!
Terranosaurus
17-11-2007, 12:08
what sort of tools you sell? im currently looking for a pillar drill and band saw for good price!!!!
Teng, Facom, Sealey etc, can get most brands except Mac and Snap on. Best vlue range is Signet and Trident (lifetime guarantee, excellent quality but without mega price of Snap on etc). For stuff like you're after I'd be stuck with Sealey really and TBH there stuffs only good value when its on offer and when it is theres nothing left in it for me as they reduce the margin massively and you'll find the stuff cheaper on ebay etc. Try me by ll means but can't promise, on hand tools and consumables its a different matter though.
Not sure if you'll be able to see THIS (http://www.humber-yorks4x4response.org.uk/attachment.php?attachmentid=6&d=1190924162), it's the offer sheet from the last 2 months, I haven't scanned the new one, will try to do that today. If anyones interested I'll honour those prices for members, postage will be at cost.
I'm retired/knackered.........spend my time in and around woods and fields doing my field archery :smile:
Rick1956
17-11-2007, 12:52
Prison Officer, well someone has to do it. Like to think I make a difference, who knows.
Hello Rick1956, You and Boggert could start your own business, :smile:
Hope to see you later if you can pop down for a jar and a lite bite.
(i Can delete this bit later)
Regards, Mav.
Hi NNMAN
I have been a plumber & heating enginear for many years. Self employed,but now happily working for small family buisness. I did all the plumbing and heating at Kilninver House it is no the road to seil Iland.
I travelled with another guy for 3 months, up and down every day. The main contractor Joe black.The guys in his firm were nice kind people and i have fond memories
P.S I now collect my oban times every sat morning
Regards
Openreach apprentice, thats BT engineer to the public as knowone knows Openreach
Myself and wife both work for Royal Mail ,on nights sorting mail.The person who got the idea for the film GROUND HOG DAY had a job like ours.Dinky
For my sins I drive a Bus.. :oops:
This is great, I like to know what you all do and helps when looking for/getting advice or good deals :wink:
Jace, the fish I grow (Rainbow trout to an average of 3.3Kg) are all for the table, Any fillets, stakes or smoaked trout in the super markets, smaller distributers and mail order (smoked) are likly to have come from my farm and prety much certainly from my company. At the mo we produce nearly a 1000 tones a year on my site and soon this will be more than doubeled with permisson for more cages.
XR6X, Strontian and Loch Sunart are beautiful I was up there last summer with my Dad. Good fishing too, we used to go when I was a boy.
NEDDY, I know Kilninver House, I used to live at Kilmelford, before i moved up to Taynuilt.
Keep it coming!
I had a holiday in a cottage overlooking Strontian and Loch Sunart many years ago and you've just reminded me what a stunning area it is.
Indeed it is, we stayed at Resipole Farm caravan park on Loch Sunnart for a couple of weeks in August last year. It's about half way between Strontian and Acharacle. It poured down nearly all the time we were there - and there was a power cut that took nearly 24 hours to fix.
Cheers
Andrew
Retired electricial engineer
Cheers
Andrew
run a stud farm with me dad. (breeding racehorses)
I love horses, I keep meaning to get back into somthing equine, I also rather like some of the ladys that ride them!
waterman
17-11-2007, 19:25
I look after sewage treatment works and septic tanks in the North coast from Scourie right around the coast to Brora before that I used to own a coach company then got wise and worked out it was better to get paid by someone else for half the hours of being self employed !!In the summer I am often referred to as being Scotlands best paid tourist by my workmates as we cover 1000s of square miles in remote areas
hi
i'm a trucker (420 scanny topline),
thanks
frosty
(RIP) rustygates
17-11-2007, 20:24
Hi, I did work in the steel industry for British steel then it was Corus and now it's Tata steel, retired at 52 and never looked back.
rustygates.
At present I drive a 32 tonne Scania 4 axle roll on roll off taking peoples rubbish to land fills so I off road everyday. Only a temporary job tho.
Before that I had a transport company for 5 years. Before that transport/warehouse manager. Before that a driver. before that a mechanic for ford and vauxhall for some years.
Actually had about 15 jobs all to do with cars and trucks. Still cant decide what to do!! :roll: :roll: :roll:
Deleted Member
17-11-2007, 20:32
White Van Man for the local hospital delivering food stores round the Borders!!! 8)
i drive an hgv daf 95 super space cab artic
cut down trees hopefully not hitting anything if all goes well!
Deleted Member S
17-11-2007, 21:59
I'm a house husband :lol: As i've been unable to work because of a list of health problems I have :evil: I am also a carer for my Mam, Dad & 89 year old Grandad :smile: I used to be a mechanic & enginier before I suffered memory lost & some brain damage because of meningitis :( I was also a free lance DJ here in the uk & worked for awhile in spain. Worked as backing DJ for QFX :smile: & had my own disco company before having to give it up
bit like dave outve royale famly lol
iandouglas
17-11-2007, 22:03
I DRIVE A RUBBER DUCK.
I DIG HOLES FILL THEM AGAIN ,DEMOLITION, SITE CLEARANCE ECT.
I WORK FOR TOTON PLANT HIRE BEEN WITH THEM 4.5 YEARS BEFORE THAT 15 YRS IN HEAVY PLANT OPEN CAST AND DEEP MINES ,SAND AND GRAVEL QUARRYS .BEFORE THAT GENERAL FARM WORKER.
rgds.iandouglas
jagdpanther
18-11-2007, 13:42
Most of my working life has been to do with repairs and mainenance for the steel industry and others, early on i was a merchant navy engineer.
Nowadays most of my time is spent on centre lathes and similar machinery. only 2 yrs to go :P
Thomas-the-Terrano2
18-11-2007, 18:07
Coming upto 4 years a customer service advisor at PC World call centre in Sheffield handling anything from opening times query to web sale and complaint logging.
prior was truck driver and warehouse assistant for 18 months at footwear retailer chain Jonathan James.
before that a bus driver (10 years) for various 'under dog' bus companies ie not First/Worst though many have since become part of the stagecoach empire.
everybody slates pc world u must be pretty busy i myself found them so slow about hree diferent processes to go go through just to buy a new computer lol!
Thomas-the-Terrano2
18-11-2007, 18:18
everybody slates pc world u must be pretty busy i myself found them so slow about hree diferent processes to go go through just to buy a new computer lol!
like any company no customer ever contacts to say thanks for great service though there are plenty out there :roll:
pays the mortgage, just lol.
gues so you guys got the thankless job lol
JonathanM
18-11-2007, 19:30
Started nursing in 1988 (October 24th). Did general nursing training, then specialised in childrens nursing. Worked on general kids medical & surgery for about 6 years before specilaising part time in childrens diabetes. been working full time as a clinical nurse specilaist in paediatric & adolescent diabetes for about 5 years.
Also heavily involved in the Royal College of Nursing Paediatric & Adolescent Diabetes Group as a member of the committe, and also sit on the Diabetes UK Professional Advisory Council as a paediatric specilaist (but do both these jobs in my own time and gratis :!: )
fair play mate i have to admit working with sick kids is job thatd reduce me to jibbering wreck in mins itd just be why why why
JonathanM
18-11-2007, 20:41
fair play mate i have to admit working with sick kids is job thatd reduce me to jibbering wreck in mins itd just be why why why
Lots of people say that but 99% of the time it is well worth returning a kid home after sometimes quite serious or life threatening problems. I don't linger on the other 1% of the time.
ill stick to cutting down tres cant hear them scream lol i cant even dig splinter out kids finger lol
iansjones
18-11-2007, 22:11
Computer Consultant. Designing and selling computer systems also repairing them.
Hi Jonathanm, wonder if we have ever crossed paths, our youngest was diagnosed type one approx 7yrs ago then the following year coeliac. Mainly Southport hospital but was in Alder hey for biopsy for coeliacs. Friend of ours runs the local Southport & Ormskirk children's club 'The Lancelots'
I am what is called a Plater/Welder that is someone who can make or build most things that are made of metal, i work for a company called Wordsworth Holdings, what i am doing at the moment is making gates,grilles and all the matal work for prisons. The company used to be called Aveling Barford which made heavy earth moving plant that is where i served my time.
Big G.
thought all that was done at hmp featherstone along with jcb parts?
iandouglas
19-11-2007, 00:50
hi big g .
i used to drive aveling barford grader and sometimes dump truck for NCB
hope you left a few nuts and bolts out of prison gates you making :P
rgdsiandouglas
I sit in front of a pc all day on the phone selling car parts to the motor trade. Been doing it for about 9 years but at 2 different companies and as rbrt said about customers they never show gratitude or appreciation the 99% of the time things go right but moan like mad over the odd slow delivery etc.
The one major perk of the job though is the excellent staff discount scheme -groovy- that makes it worth the aggro.
jims-terrano
19-11-2007, 13:50
"Aveling Barford" road rollers!!!!
Jim T
JonathanM
19-11-2007, 20:16
Hi Jonathanm, wonder if we have ever crossed paths, our youngest was diagnosed type one approx 7yrs ago then the following year coeliac. Mainly Southport hospital but was in Alder hey for biopsy for coeliacs. Friend of ours runs the local Southport & Ormskirk children's club 'The Lancelots'
Maybe. I work from Whiston Hosp covering all of St Helens area, a major part of Halton/widnes, and some of Knowsley - mostly the Whiston/Prescot area. I know the paed diabetes nurses up at Ormskirk (June & Leanne), can't recall if they cover your area as well, or if you have your own team? I know that the parent colleague who runs the st helens & halton childrens group (Lynne) has had some contact with the group in your area - she is a volunteer at the Diabetes UK office in Warrington and helps assist voluntary group set up. I also know the nurses down at Alder hey as well.
How old is your youngest now?
We stopped making graders, rollers, shovels and the LAST RD40 dumper last year. Wordsworth holdings make Frauhauf ally tippers,site dumpers aswell Ian. BigG
Hi Jonathon, she is 12, will be 13 in May, if the June you know is June Dunne she's officially retired as a nurse but we stay in touch 'cos she is heavily involved in the childrens club, absolutely fantastic woman! Lorraine & Sharon run our 'Lancelot' club covers S'port & Ormskirk. Cheers
terranokid
19-11-2007, 23:56
Im a workshop supervisor and run a specalist workshop working on anything from hgv's to meals on wheels vans for a large vehicle leasing firm
jims-terrano
20-11-2007, 00:57
I work for a local authority visiting primary schools maintaining and installing PC's, Servers and Networks and I love it. I wish that I had gone to teacher training college but that's another story all together.
Jim T
JonathanM
20-11-2007, 10:23
Hi Jonathon, she is 12, will be 13 in May, if the June you know is June Dunne she's officially retired as a nurse but we stay in touch 'cos she is heavily involved in the childrens club, absolutely fantastic woman! Lorraine & Sharon run our 'Lancelot' club covers S'port & Ormskirk. Cheers
Yep, the very same June. I find her an extremely likeable lady - knowledgeable too. I'd heard she was retiring, wasn't sure if it had occured yet.
im in the polis but i dont admit it very often!!!
at least your far enough away that most of us aint gotta worry about your lazer gun lol
Hi Jonathon. Small world hey? Was telling hubby about this and apparently the wife of a bloke he works with is the diabetic nurse at Ormskirk??? He's going to find out her name, going back to June she really was/is a godsend. Cheers Angie
at least your far enough away that most of us aint gotta worry about your lazer gun lol
dont worry... i hate the speeding side of it, dont tend to do that side very often... far too busy and dont like persecuting motorists unless they are boy/girl racers or if they annoy me!!!
fair play so long as not mental or dangerous let it slip but ol nail battered wreck needs getting off road
im in the polis but i dont admit it very often!!!
8O you werent do ing checks on vehicles this morning at clyde bank were you?
JonathanM
20-11-2007, 20:53
Hi Jonathon. Small world hey? Was telling hubby about this and apparently the wife of a bloke he works with is the diabetic nurse at Ormskirk??? He's going to find out her name, going back to June she really was/is a godsend. Cheers Angie
Current nurse is Leanne, only been in post a few months, before that someone called Karen did some diabetes at ormskirk. One of these?
Kev_Hughes
20-11-2007, 21:33
Commissioning Engineer for a Water company.
Kev
Hi Jonathon, the plot thickens...her name is Anne Norris? I have met her at a social gathering, very tall lady??? Last time we spoke was christmas may see her again this christmas.
JonathanM
20-11-2007, 21:43
Hmm, OK, wonder if Anne works on the adult side.Not a name I'm familiar with and us paed diabetes nurses are a friendly bunch and tend to know each other.
I'm at a meeting on friday so I'll check the delegate list and see if she is on it - I'll introduce myself then!
Cheers, you might want to explain it's Mike wife Angie? We only see one another at the annual staff do. Take care, will tell June about us "speaking" on here.
This another reason for starting this post, Another way for people to find out things and links with each other. I hope people are PMing aswell!
Keep it up!
As long as your happy the way this is thread is going Nnman,
Mav.
Yep :D
and you do.................?
I think you mean me too?,
Yes, i dont mind but as long as we keep this sort of thing together then it dont drop into the middle of a body lift or dashboard light problem!, If it works then fine if it dont then we can look at why.
Hope i am thinking along the right lines and like you.
Mav.
8O you werent do ing checks on vehicles this morning at clyde bank were you?[/quote]
Thankfully not!!!!
I think you mean me too?,
Yes, i dont mind but as long as we keep this sort of thing together then it dont drop into the middle of a body lift or dashboard light problem!, If it works then fine if it dont then we can look at why.
Hope i am thinking along the right lines and like you.
Mav.
Yep, what do you do mav?
Yes I agree, I dont want it to be a strick what your job is and just that but would like it to stay along the lines of members and their jobs.
I like when people alaberate a bit like why and where and what the used to do.
8O you werent do ing checks on vehicles this morning at clyde bank were you?
Thankfully not!!!![/quote]
Good because I hada load that was apparently overhanging to much! and there were a couple of coppers doing checks.
Good to have a mate on the right side of the law though! :wink:
This thread is interesting, although not 4x4 related, nice to know what some of you do.
I work for SIG Trading or Sheffield Insulations as its commonly known or any of its 100+ subsidiary companies, Iv been Fleet Administrator for the last five years, working alongside engineers and garages doing Inspection sheets, Job sheets, invoices etc for the entire Fleet of Commercial Vehicles, before that Distribution Administrator for a courier firm (APC) and several other tedious office jobs since leaving school / college including a stint with the local TA.
I also run a very small business from home selling handmade cards and gifts, I also teach Arts & Crafts at the local youth/oap clubs one a week.
Lucy
I started life as an apprentice pipefitter/fabricator, qualified at that, and then moved into my passion that was anything with an engine, but focused on the auto electrical side, got my certs for that and then started my own buisness fitting car alarms, handsfree kits, audio, with a progression into remapping and tunning of japanese and performance cars. i then fell out with my long time friend (buisness partner) and we closed the company.
and after careful thought i left the automotive trade.
I am now a semi national sales and accounts director for a very large retail financial company. (bit different i know) 8)
Any chance we could make this a sticky Mav, so new commers can have input? otherwise it will get forgotten.
No problem consider it done,
Mav.
(Do you mind if i just tidy up now and again?).
I worked for 50 years before retiring 7 years ago, last fourteen years was hands on service manager for a small office equipment co. mainly photocopiers, printers, but anything in the office covering north lancs and the whole of cumbria. Now lifes a full time holiday, fortunatly we are both fit and well. I have a small workshop where i " play" but most of the time we are Planning trips or taking them. Away 22 weeks in the last year! including 6 weeks camper van around newzealand, ( wifes birthday treat for me :lol: )
Each year we hitch up the terrano and caravan in the spring and take off to europe for three months coming back to spend the school holidays in the garden, then off around Britain has soon as the schools go back. Just had a very nice fly holiday, week in apartment to the algarve including flight for £98 pounds each www.jet2holidays.com you only live once,
regards.....bri
:wink:
jims-terrano
08-12-2007, 11:19
"Now lifes a full time holiday" 8O Stop mekin us younguns jealous Wildbri :wink:
Jim T
PS Keep making the most of life :!: :smile:
at the moment i'm a powder coating plant foreman,for a precision sheet metal company.been in industrial coatings since i left school(18 years ago)can get a bit boring at times but it comes as second nature so i stick with it.did a stint in horticulture about 11 years ago (greens maintanance)which is when i drove my first nissan patrol 4.2 lwb and iv'e been into 4x4 ever since :smile:
Well I am head over the sales for the HTH in the norther part of Iceland
HTH is kitchen, bathroom, bedroom closets interior.
If you are planing trip to Iceland I can help arrange that
:lol:
I'm a Project Manager in the world of software. Been doing it for the last year or so having spent the previous 6 years working in Africa. Lived in Joburg and travelled to various gold mines in Mali, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Zambia, Senegal etc. Great fun, and if it wasnt for the family I'd still be doing it. That said, I was missing watching my daughter grow up!
Best thing about South Africa? Bundy Bashing!!! Take your Nissan twin cab into the bush and go wherever you want, stop and make camp next to a water hole and watch and listen to the genuine wild life - only - make sure you sleep on the roof top tent - those leopards are just to inquisitive for my liking - and no, I'm not joking!!! 8O
BT Openreach apprentice, started in september, got 2yrs left now :smile:
I like it people keep it coming!
Deleted Member D
08-06-2008, 22:26
I deliver steel and reload anything around the UK.
I am an L G V 1 driver (non PC type). It all began in 1981. And now Im stuck with it. Young mans ego has a lot to ansa for. :lol:
Im a lift enginner working in london , residing in kent.
Hi im a materials controller for a plastic pipe and fittings manufacturer, based in Staffordshire. Reside in Cannock.
Wayne
I run my own plastic welding workshop tanks troughs kayaks pipework etc
Tony:thumb2
never done bumpers but they can't be that hard just need the right rod.
stevecrm
28-06-2010, 11:23
Im a lift enginner working in london , residing in kent.
that sounds like a job with lots of ups and downs to it :doh
Financial Services accounts and IT maintenance during the week, hgv driver at weekend (just to be different) ;)
Timbo_1975
28-06-2010, 13:04
I'm a farm manager most of the time, but i have a mobile bar company and a small diagnositics workshop.
I'm a farm manager most of the time, but i have a mobile bar company and a small diagnositics workshop.
Farm Manager , you might have dealings with my company :lol
makeitfit
28-06-2010, 14:09
mobile bar company and a small diagnositics workshop.
I do a mobile bar in the summer too :D
Diagnostics workshop sounds good:sly can you make my truck go better and faster than ever then? :naughty
Mechanical Engineer with this lot.
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Still want to fly this year.:lol:lol:lol
blimey, i dont do anything anywhere near as fancy as you guys! Im tech support for several business's in the area plus for the company I work for which is a successful laptop/tv sales company...
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