What job do you commute to?

RSV_Ecosse

Firefighter.

19 years service.

RTC + USAR specialist.

Sewinman

I do carbon footprints for companies.

Littigator

Always Tyred wrote:

chrissharp48 wrote:

undertaker...

Chris..

Are you getting a lot of work from the financial sector just now?

(I'm sorry - think of it as a kind of tourets)

jrduquemin

I help manage the NOC and local datacentre operations for a large US power company. Our ECA region head office is in Richmond, Surrey and my bike commute in isn't too bad I suppose :-)

Breathless Commuter Man

I am a pensions actuary, which basically means I'm pretty good at Maths and not much else, including dressing myself and fixing bikes.

Pip13

Airline operations controller = stressing out on 12 hour shifts.
Love it though.

always_tyred

Breathless Commuter Man wrote:

I am a pensions actuary, which basically means I'm pretty good at Maths and not much else, including dressing myself and fixing bikes.

At least the wage is astronomical!

- So, does your life expectancy increase or decrease if you confess to being a cyclist? Does the mileage you do make any difference? What about the city you live in, or even the part of the city?

fairweatherbiker

I work at a car manufacturing plant. - Making 4X4 Chelsea Tractors.

ChrisLS

...a print on demand printer...files downloaded from the web or scanned hard copies, short run books, reports and studies, educational material, all run on digital printing machines...

...oh, and a silly commuting racer...

the_hundredth_idiot

Breathless Commuter Man wrote:

I am a pensions actuary, which basically means I'm pretty good at Maths and not much else, including dressing myself and fixing bikes.

Snap (well, except for the dressing myself and bike fixing)! And I have a sneaky suspicion you might even sit near me.

<gets coat, leaves before people start with the usual question>

symo

Project Manager for a manufacturer providing power solutions to the industrial and Oil & Gas sectors. Used to be a mechanical engineer before I upgraded my pay packet.

cjcp

Pip13 wrote:

Airline operations controller = stressing out on 12 hour shifts.
Love it though.

You had better be off shift at the moment!!!!

Jay dubbleU

My job is indoor work with no heavy lifting and I get to snub paleontologists - sorry its a geologist thing 8)

NGale

Ambulance Service EMD...in other words Call Taker for the 999 service. so if you fall off your bike in the South West and have to call an ambulance you'll likely get me on the other end of the line

Looking to get out on the road though once I can get my maths to standard can look to train as a paramedic

Gussio

Stanley222 wrote:

I am a Dungeon Master!!!

Honest!

Member of Police Staff that works in the cells at the Police Station. Once you get used to the violence and abuse it can be quite interesting!!!
Plus if you get a bit stressed I can take it out on my pedals on the way home!

Have your pedals been known to accidentally fall down the stairs on the way home....?

drumon

Orchestra Musician.
Luckily my instruments all stay at work, so I can cycle if I choose.

heathy_76

Trimmer at Bentley Motors. The finest cars in the world. IMO

Breathless Commuter Man

The Hundredth Idiot wrote:

Breathless Commuter Man wrote:

I am a pensions actuary, which basically means I'm pretty good at Maths and not much else, including dressing myself and fixing bikes.

Snap (well, except for the dressing myself and bike fixing)! And I have a sneaky suspicion you might even sit near me.

<gets coat, leaves before people start with the usual question>

I am based in Birmingham so I don't think that we sit that near each other. I may have over stated the dressing myself thing, my wife only helps me a little bit these days.

lost_in_thought

NGale wrote:

Ambulance Service EMD...in other words Call Taker for the 999 service. so if you fall off your bike in the South West and have to call an ambulance you'll likely get me on the other end of the line

Looking to get out on the road though once I can get my maths to standard can look to train as a paramedic

Thanks for sending me that ambulance in Feb when the WVM knocked me off! the ambulance people were so nice... one of them gave the policeman a right telling-off when he said it was 'the cyclists fault she's hurt, should have been wearing a helmet'.

Go ambulance lady!

Breathless Commuter Man

Always Tyred wrote:

Breathless Commuter Man wrote:

I am a pensions actuary, which basically means I'm pretty good at Maths and not much else, including dressing myself and fixing bikes.

At least the wage is astronomical!

- So, does your life expectancy increase or decrease if you confess to being a cyclist? Does the mileage you do make any difference? What about the city you live in, or even the part of the city?

The sad thing is in idle moments I have considered whether commuting buy bike increases or decereases my life expectancy particularly on the very car friendly roads of Birmingham. Please believe me I don't spend long thinking about this, I do still want people to talk to me.

Wrath Rob

lost_in_thought wrote:

NGale wrote:

Ambulance Service EMD...in other words Call Taker for the 999 service. so if you fall off your bike in the South West and have to call an ambulance you'll likely get me on the other end of the line

Looking to get out on the road though once I can get my maths to standard can look to train as a paramedic

Thanks for sending me that ambulance in Feb when the WVM knocked me off! the ambulance people were so nice... one of them gave the policeman a right telling-off when he said it was 'the cyclists fault she's hurt, should have been wearing a helmet'.

Go ambulance lady!

I had a very helpful lady answer my 999 call when my son decided to make a earlier than expected appearance in the back of our car on the way to hospital. Its a long story but it all ended well, although it took me me the full 2 weeks of paternity leave to calm down after delivery my own child :shock:

I'm a Project Manager it a large investment bank, working on measuring the banks exposure to risk in the market. So its pretty interesting at the moment!

cjcp

Wrath Rob wrote:

I'm a Project Manager it a large investment bank, working on measuring the banks exposure to risk in the market. So its pretty interesting at the moment!

So, just how screwed are we?

Feltup

I am the Mayor of London but you can call me Bozz, I understand your concerns about the traffic but frankly I am too busy going "wiffle piffle".

Wrath Rob

cjcp wrote:

So, just how screwed are we?

Define "we"

I'm glad that the bank I work for has a strong commercial arm as its the ones that have no other revenue sources that are struggling. Its going to be a crap year in finance, I doubt there will be many big city bonuses this year but like every bust, its cyclical and in a year or two all will be forgotten. Some banks won't exist, some will be bigger and the game will move on.

Remember the dotcom bubble? We did all right after that, and every other crisis before it. Things will be tough but they will get better. Don't forget, it could be worse, we could be French!

biondino

Jay dubbleU wrote:

I get to snub paleontologists

Now that's MY ideal job - palaeontology, I mean, not snubbing them. Sod the glamour of showbiz - I want to be scraping dirt off mountainsides in Montana.

biondino

Wrath Rob wrote:

I doubt there will be many big city bonuses this year

OH WHAT A TERRIBLE SHAME

woodford2barbican

IT manager - look after developers and generally get shouted at by my boss. At least when he is shouting at me he is not shouting at them. Some of them are very sensitive!

ris

i am an architect; i work for a company where i have worked on a wide variety of projects including swimming pools, big private houses, residential blocks and schools.

cycling to work is a great release from the working day.

passout

I'm a pig's trotter impressionist and comedy balloonist; isn't this credit crunch just awful?

cjcp

Solicitor.