What job do you commute to?

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  • Eat My Dust
    Eat My Dust Posts: 3,965
    I work in TV. I manage a TV studio, some edit suits and a group of work shy monkeys. I hate my job and I have no idea what I'm still doing here or how I ended up here in the first place. My clients are a bunch w*nkers who I have to be nice to ALL of the time, even when they are being the rudest, vilest, disgusting pigs I've ever came across. Only this morning I had a client shout and swear at me because he went to pick someone up at the wrong tube station, even though I had told him where to go, WTF is that all about? People who make TV programmes, even corporate sh*t ones (like the majority of my clients) think that they are doing the world a favour, there not, in fact the world probably wouldn't miss half of them. The most depressing thing about it all is that I've managed to end up stuck in the middle of it all....................

    Rant over.
    SNAPS
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    Always Tyred wrote:
    Is it just me or are most of these job titles almost entirely uninformative?

    I'm a Financial management techician analyst for an insurance assessment consultancy IT subcontractor, and my name is Bruce.

    G'day, Bruce.
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    biondino wrote:
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    Me I'm a professional pontificator

    You're the Pope? Nice!

    Ah I hate when my quips are lost...

    I meant I'm a professional preacher (pontificator as in to pontificate/preach and not the position held which is a pontiff) I like to preach... so yes, in a way like the pope.... :shock:
    Food Chain number = 4

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  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    My name isn't really Bruce, its Always. I just happened across a transcript of the Bruces... you know....

    Bruce here is a professor of logical positivism and he's also in charge of the sheep dip.
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    Always Tyred wrote:
    My name isn't really Bruce, its Always. I just happened across a transcript of the Bruces... you know....

    Bruce here is a professor of logical positivism and he's also in charge of the sheep dip.

    I looked that up in the dictionary and still have no idea what it means. Does it mean that he only believes in stuff he can see, the corporeal stuff, not ghosts and what not or The Force (which clearly does it exist)?
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    I never understood either. It was enough for me to know that Immanuel Kant was a real p!ss ant.
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    UnworthyPapaLazaru wrote:
    I work in a lab deep underground spraying perfume into the eyes of monkeys. They arent too keen on J-Lo and Victoria Beckham, but they found Jade Goody to be surprisingly gentle.

    :lol:
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    Always Tyred wrote:
    I never understood either. It was enough for me to know that Immanuel Kant was a real p!ss ant.

    :shock: I'm out of my depth here. Gotta go!
    FCN 2-4.

    "What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • The Greg
    The Greg Posts: 98
    biondino wrote:
    Can our lawyers give a bit more detail?

    Corporate Insurance lawyer.... hey, why has everyone fallen asleep? Have been commuting into the City for about 5 yrs now since I moved here from Oz. It's been great to see the increase of riders doing the commute over that time and, despite its problems for cyclists (of which there are legion), at least on London streets there are enough of us that I feel I am amongst fellow 'friends of the road'.

    FYI - "The Greg" comes from the name I was given by my cycling mates in Sydney - the first road bike I had when I caught the cycling bug was a Lemond (I should have started with a Bianchi - "Eduardo" sounds much cooler) 8)
    The Greg

    "No, no, he didn't slam you, he didn't bump you, he didn't nudge you... he 'rubbed' you. And rubbin', son, is racin'!"

    FCN 4
  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    Eat My Dust wrote:
    I work in TV. I manage a TV studio, some edit suits and a group of work shy monkeys. I hate my job and I have no idea what I'm still doing here or how I ended up here in the first place. My clients are a bunch w*nkers who I have to be nice to ALL of the time, even when they are being the rudest, vilest, disgusting pigs I've ever came across. Only this morning I had a client shout and swear at me because he went to pick someone up at the wrong tube station, even though I had told him where to go, WTF is that all about? People who make TV programmes, even corporate sh*t ones (like the majority of my clients) think that they are doing the world a favour, there not, in fact the world probably wouldn't miss half of them. The most depressing thing about it all is that I've managed to end up stuck in the middle of it all....................

    Rant over.

    Heh - I am probably directly responsible for some of your misery :wink: But if you think TV's bad, try working in film...
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  • marchant
    marchant Posts: 362
    Always Tyred wrote:
    I never understood either. It was enough for me to know that Immanuel Kant was a real p!ss ant.
    Who was very rarely stable,
    Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
    Who could drink you under the table

    I'm a staff nurse on a Cardiac Care Unit
  • dafruk
    dafruk Posts: 125
    Quintiles or Inveresk, or some independent?

    I used to work at Inveresk, but hated it. I am now an accountant in project finance, by the way the government has no spare money!
    FCN 7- Tourer, panniers, Lycra and clipless

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  • feaseyrider
    feaseyrider Posts: 32
    i drive a h.g.v delivering premium german kitchens in and around north london :D
  • Mwnci
    Mwnci Posts: 18
    Management Information Systems Officer for the Education Service in a Local Authority.

    Doesn't really explain what I do though! Technical Support for School Information Database and any other applications in schools. Training on these and the Government's latest request for stats. Also advising Headteachers and school staff on stuff.....
  • Jen J
    Jen J Posts: 1,054
    Finance analyst for a fragrance company.

    The abundance of free perfume goes a little way towards compensating for no showers at work after biking in...
    Commuting: Giant Bowery 08
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  • HarryX
    HarryX Posts: 36
    _Brun_ wrote:
    I do 3D modelling and associated graphically orientated nonsense for Passion Pictures. Had a hand in a lot of that stuff on the website, particularly the Rock Band and Guitar Hero ads.

    Consider meself rather fortunate in the grand scheme of things.

    That Rockband Harmonix II video is immense. I would love to do 3D for a living. Working in IT I can't even afford the software to learn it .. :?
  • sc999cs
    sc999cs Posts: 596
    marchant wrote:
    Always Tyred wrote:
    I never understood either. It was enough for me to know that Immanuel Kant was a real p!ss ant.
    Who was very rarely stable,
    Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
    Who could drink you under the table

    I'm a staff nurse on a Cardiac Care Unit

    You weren't expecting the Spanish Inquisition when you infringed this copyright were you? :?
    Steve C
  • andrewc3142
    andrewc3142 Posts: 906
    Accountant/finance stuff, advising corporates in trouble but still solvent.
  • mchammer
    mchammer Posts: 12
    welder
  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    But you must still get some pretty decent royalties, right?
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  • cyclenutter
    cyclenutter Posts: 15
    Im a Welfare Rights Officer

    I need to cycle to and from work it keeps me sane
    dRiNk hArD....... rIDe eAzY
  • Surf-Matt
    Surf-Matt Posts: 5,952
    Many of you feeling the crunch at work?

    We are busier than we've been for ages! Plenty of work in and none of it at annoying "introductory" rates either.

    First "fake" commute for a while (since the boy was born a fortnight ago) - very cold but utterly lovely in the sun/lack of wind. Done a few daytime cycles but glad to be back into proper mile munching again (albeit only 10m a day).
  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Feeling the crunch, yes.

    Being crunched... maybe more accurate!
    FCN 7/1
    Viner Maxima, Tifosi CK7, Giant Bowery, Old commuter.
  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    No, swamped.

    Irrelevant statement, given that my work is so top secret its a secret.
  • Big Red S
    Big Red S Posts: 26,890
    As above, swamped. Which is bizarre, since the bulk of our work is for advertising.
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  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    I'm pretty busy, because the changes in TV over the last few years specifically and 30 years in general have meant there are a lot more lower-paid agreements to be made, rather than a few prestige deals. Which equals more work for less £££.
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  • Surf-Matt
    Surf-Matt Posts: 5,952
    biondino - do you work for/as a TV engineer or similar?
    One of our clients is a rather well known satellite TV company a bit up the A4 from you.
  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    I used to cycle to a full time job (I used to do high pressure/temperature research at the recently closed synchrotron in the North West), but I'm a student again now - I seem to be the only student who "commutes" at a proper pace, using SPDs, wearing a decent helmet, not going through red lights, and gets up before 9am every day.
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  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    No, I'm a TV agent, Matt, and I work in Soho. (and I don't ride a filthy hipster fixie either ;) )
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  • Surf-Matt
    Surf-Matt Posts: 5,952
    biondino wrote:
    No, I'm a TV agent, Matt, and I work in Soho. (and I don't ride a filthy hipster fixie either ;) )

    Oops - I got that very wrong then. Sister used to work in TV - but as a location manager thingy. She's now a teacher - the TV hours were a killer.

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