What job do you commute to?

Pip13

cjcp wrote:

Pip13 wrote:

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

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

Sure am, the beauty off it is its 4 on 4 off!

cjcp

Pip13 wrote:

cjcp wrote:

Pip13 wrote:

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

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

Sure am, the beauty off it is its 4 on 4 off!

Phew!

Clever Pun

I deliver excellence in Listed Derivatives processing

C++ Programmer

secretsam

Healthcare Planning Consultant

Wrath Rob

biondino wrote:

Wrath Rob wrote:

I doubt there will be many big city bonuses this year

OH WHAT A TERRIBLE SHAME

You're just jealous

soy_sauce

Test Analyst - Oil & Gas related software company.

pretty much just get paid for breaking things & p**s people off. :twisted:

markybhoy67

Very dull job working for the Civil Service but I can't tell you which department....LOL :shock:

giltkid

antiques dealer + written a couple of books about old stuff

the_hundredth_idiot

Breathless Commuter Man wrote:

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.

Actually, I did a bit of stalking :shock: after I posted before and realised you were based up in Brum. I thought you might be one of my colleagues as the date you registered on bikeradar was about the same date I pointed out the SCR thread to my of my cycling colleagues who had just told me about some SCR antics on his ride home the night before.

the_hundredth_idiot

Feltup wrote:

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".

Anyone else got an odd feeling that Feltup might actually be telling the truth about his true identity?

sdg_77

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.

Electrical Engineer working on broadcast networks which means I'm also ok at maths & poor at the sartorial elegance - but I can fix the bike when it needs it

chronyx

Apprentice electrician. Think its about 8 miles round trip.

itboffin

Kieran_Burns wrote:

IT Security - if anyone works for a company that filters internet browsing, restricts mail and all that stuff - that's me.

I am Big Brother. (and you'd be scared just how easy it is to show every site you've been to when you browse at work)

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Well no one :twisted:

That's me too at the moment, I REALLY am the Internet HUGE brother, I can't even say the company name because it's so high profile and controversial - Oooh! bet you're interested now.

Needless to say I'm looking for a new job ASAP

redvee

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

Next time I can't find a taxi I'll give you a call Shouldn't laugh at this abuse of the 999 service but some of the calls I've heard about are downright stupid.

always_tyred

markybhoy67 wrote:

Very dull job working for the Civil Service but I can't tell you which department....LOL :shock:

MI5?

Now that you are exposed, can you please stop hanging around outside my house?

markybhoy67

Always Tyred wrote:

markybhoy67 wrote:

Very dull job working for the Civil Service but I can't tell you which department....LOL :shock:

MI5?

Now that you are exposed, can you please stop hanging around outside my house?

That's my cover blown, damn I am crap at this spying game, wasn't even good at I spy as a kid

snooks

Pangur Ban wrote:

snooks wrote:

I'm a yachting photographer

But I only commute into the office by bike. Cycling round the world with lots of cameras and waterproof clothing really isn't an option

My dream job! Thought you'd be at the Voiles de St Tropez this week - I was racing there last year and in between hairy racing moments against Wallys and Js managed to get some good shots (nowhere near your standard of course).

I've been a subscriber to YM and YW for years so am very familiar with your work and it's nice to have an opportunity to say how much I've enjoyed your work, whilst a) wishing I had your job and b) wishing I had your technical ability and c) wishing I had your artistic ability.

As I don't, I'm an IT contractor in the City....

PB

Thanx...unfortunately we don't follow the classics, the shot I posted a few pages back was for Yachting World, unfortunately those types of jobs are few and far between...today I was testing outboard motors on the river Hamble...And yes it was as cold down there as it was up here

whyamihere

Nasty smelly student.

The Chingford Skinhead

Board Secretary in a non-ministerial government department - pronounced QUANGO!

NGale

redvee 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

Next time I can't find a taxi I'll give you a call Shouldn't laugh at this abuse of the 999 service but some of the calls I've heard about are downright stupid.

meh, you'll get through to Great Western up there in Bristol anyway.....although we have been getting alot of their calls recently because they can't get their arses into gear :roll:

FCE2007

Reach truck driver in a cold storage warehouse (-28c).

Winter? Pfff, I laugh at winter

Mr_Cellophane

IT stuff

Bugly

Mining consultant in the coal industry - doing out best to reduce dependence on fossil fuels by creating a nice tropical planet :twisted:

always_tyred

Bugly wrote:

Mining consultant in the coal industry - doing out best to reduce dependence on fossil fuels by creating a nice tropical planet :twisted:

Don't feel too bad. Sooner or later your expertise will be invaluable in determining where we can safely put all of the nuclear waste. :shock:

sc999cs

I still think most of you are unemployed due to the timings of your posts. But then I work in IT and I'm not even allowed internet access so maybe other jobs are more flexible? Read most posts on my mobile phone BTW and it gets very confusing with multiple quotes within quotes....

always_tyred

I think its particularly bad in IT because so many of you are able to see what each other are doing!

I briefly worked for a company that was going down the "corporate windows wallpaper" and big-brother route. Given that this was applied to highly paid (not me ) professionals who all worked vastly in excess of their contracted hours, this seemed a bit churlish.

Now I work somewhere with a "we'll only make a rule if you make it necessary to make a rule" policy. If I'm in the middle of something that is causing my brain to bleed, its understood that there is a benefit to stepping back for a couple of minutes.

I can go an entire day without speaking to anyone other than direcly on points relating to my work. Indeed, sometimes without contact with another human. I think everyone needs some non-technical interaction to function. Don't you?

Interestingly in the aforementioned Nasty and Company, from what I observed, the result of tightening the grip was that people simply spent a lot more time doing that office merry go round thing (you know - A spends 5 mins in B's office, 5 mins later B visits C and after an hour A, B and C have a conflab).

Now, if there was a healthy dose of office chit chat AND 6 1/2 hours a day on a forum, there's a problem. :? :?

sc999cs

I used to be a secondary school teacher and compared to that my current job is so relaxed and fun. I genuinely enjoy going into work! The building is open plan and although we have phones on our desks work practice is that you can , you go and speak to your colleagues face to face instead of emailing or telephoning. This does give some much needed social contact. I have some excellent colleagues as well! If the social aspect was taken away I doubt we'd be as effective an organisation as we are.

There are very good reasons why we don't have internet access, to do with data security, and after working where I do for 7 years I just take it for granted that all companies would have the same data security restrictions in place and I'm just surprised that other companies are so liberal in their attitudes.

biondino

I need to use the internet a lot for work, finding out about TV and film productions, production companies, agents, books and book rights, all information that's readily and conveniently available for me online. I also maintain the news section of the company website (about 5 minutes a week, admittedly!). So I certainly couldn't do without it. Obviously I *could* post less to Bikeradar. I think maybe I'm a bit cocky cos the IT guy here is literally my oldest friend and I hope he'd tip me off if we were being audited!

trisomy21

Hospice nurse,work nights hence daytime surfing and posting.

chuckcork

Until Tuesday I was a Senior Architect/Design Team Leader for a firm of architects, though of course I wasn't allowed to design, there was no team really and any attempt at leadership was cut short by the office micro-manager telling me I was doing it all wrong (according to him anyway)

Now its daddy-day care with my 14 month old daughter, who as I type is holding onto her bike helmet and saying daddaaaah.

Hopefully soon I'll be back architecting, when and where though is not exactly clear to me, but its likely to involve moving countries, probably back to England.

Just as well I like warm beer.