What jobs do you commute to?

DonDaddyD
DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
edited October 2009 in Commuting chat
OK last question*

What do you do for a living?

Other than cycling what other hobbies do you have?


*forgive me, this is my penultimate day at work, I've handed everything over and am sitting here bored out of my 'kin brain with nothing to do.
Food Chain number = 4

A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights. As you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game
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  • simple_salmon
    simple_salmon Posts: 457
    Sustainable Transport Co-ordinator

    Reading, computer games, running, playing with my kids

    :D
  • Wallace1492
    Wallace1492 Posts: 3,707
    Bank Person, responsible for world recession.

    Shadow chasing, squash and now badmington.
    "Encyclopaedia is a fetish for very small bicycles"
  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    edited October 2009
    Membership (marketing) Officer (Soon to be Membership Manager)

    Comics, computer games, food, films, technology, HiFi, music, reading'n'learning.
    Food Chain number = 4

    A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights. As you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game
  • MonkeyMonster
    MonkeyMonster Posts: 4,629
    Database Breaker

    Comics, games, food, ales, bit o' gardening
    Le Cannon [98 Cannondale M400] [FCN: 8]
    The Mad Monkey [2013 Hoy 003] [FCN: 4]
  • prawny
    prawny Posts: 5,440
    Insurance Underwriter

    Drums, music, motorsport, photography, my little boy. (not in that order obviously)
    Saracen Tenet 3 - 2015 - Dead - Replaced with a Hack Frame
    Voodoo Bizango - 2014 - Dead - Hit by a car
    Vitus Sentier VRS - 2017
  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    Film/TV agent.
    My Focus / My Bob Jackson
    Blog (incl. bikes)
  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    MonkeyMonster wrote:
    Comics

    What's on your pull list?
    Food Chain number = 4

    A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights. As you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game
  • biondino
    biondino Posts: 5,990
    Wallace1492 wrote:
    badmington.

    I hope the typo's intentional :)
    My Focus / My Bob Jackson
    Blog (incl. bikes)
  • roger_merriman
    roger_merriman Posts: 6,165
    support worker - i.e. I support some folk with profound physical and Learning disabilities.

    computers - think more nmap than quake though, photography and a host of other intrests.
  • essexian
    essexian Posts: 187
    Legal auditor for a large national charity

    Hobbies... travel; ballet; gigs (although since turning 45 I have gone to fewer and fewer each year) and cat food shopping (not really a hobby but something I seem to do most days)
  • Jamey
    Jamey Posts: 2,152
    Digital Content Producer (digital video guy, basically)

    Photography, drumming (in a band), collecting sneakers (60 pairs atm, used to have 120), DJing, part time IT support for friends and family, just getting back into PC gaming after a lull since Half-Life 2. And of course bike fettling.
    My photography // My helmet cam videos // My bike
  • stuarthop
    stuarthop Posts: 23
    Sailmaker.

    Yep you guesed it hobbies are sailing also mountain biking and snowboarding
    *2007 Stumpjumper Comp* - The weekend toy
    *2009 Btwin Sport 1* - The cheap commuter roadie
  • Wooliferkins
    Wooliferkins Posts: 2,060
    Company Director.

    Reading, cooking, domestic slave for feline interloper.
    Neil
    Help I'm Being Oppressed
  • always_tyred
    always_tyred Posts: 4,965
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    OK last question*

    What do you do for a living?

    Other than cycling what other hobbies do you have?
    That's two questions.
  • patchy
    patchy Posts: 779
    editor, journalist.

    music, gym, film, medieval re-enactment.
    point your handlebars towards the heavens and sweat like you're in hell
  • Bikequin
    Bikequin Posts: 402
    I'm an accountant - I suppose thats akin to admitting I'm a devil worshipper.

    Hobbies beside cycling are Rugby, games, sailing and poker.
    You'll not see nothing like the mighty Quin.
  • ride_whenever
    ride_whenever Posts: 13,279
    research in a lab, part time in a bike shop as well

    other hobbies is rowing.
    Neeermad
    Carbon 456
    456 lefty
    Pompino
    White Inbred
  • Mr Sworld
    Mr Sworld Posts: 703
    edited October 2009
    Electrician / roadie / sound engineer

    Walking up pointy things (and down the other side!) for days at a time, cooking, women.... :twisted:
  • Rich158
    Rich158 Posts: 2,348
    Architect

    Hobbies - Mountain biking, fell walking, playing the guitar very badly, eating good food and drinking fine wine
    pain is temporary, the glory of beating your mates to the top of the hill lasts forever.....................

    Revised FCN - 2
  • BigSpecs
    BigSpecs Posts: 309
    Optometrist - that's Optician to you and me

    My kids, hockey, gym, running, cooking.

    Do bike fettling and buying cycling gear count as cycling?
  • soy_sauce
    soy_sauce Posts: 987
    Test Analyst

    hobbies: rock climbing, football, MTBing, gym, football gambling, technology.
    "It is not impossible, its just improbable"

    Specialized Rockhopper Pro Disc 08
  • Greg T
    Greg T Posts: 3,266
    Speedo model

    Hobbies - press ups
    Fixed gear for wet weather / hairy roadie for posing in the sun.

    What would Thora Hurd do?
  • GamingAddict
    GamingAddict Posts: 26
    Customer Service Advisor for Bike Company

    Computer games, reading, watching films, chilling with Mrs GA
    New to the Game

    FCN 8
    SP Tricross, Mudguards, Rack, SPD's and Baggies, Panniers.
    May have to grow a beard to make up for my lack of fitness.
  • d21dga
    d21dga Posts: 113
    Civil Engineer

    Music, films, socialising, cycling.
  • MonkeyMonster
    MonkeyMonster Posts: 4,629
    Greg T wrote:
    Speedo model

    Hobbies - press ups

    :lol:
    Le Cannon [98 Cannondale M400] [FCN: 8]
    The Mad Monkey [2013 Hoy 003] [FCN: 4]
  • Matt.K
    Matt.K Posts: 105
    Design Engineer (product designer)

    Photography, outdoorsness, DIY - is that a hobby or is it just cos I've moved in to a new house?
  • jetsstar1
    jetsstar1 Posts: 53
    Technical Director of the International Sailing Federation (ISAF)
    (sailing's equivalent to the UCI, well maybe that's not a good analogy :wink: )

    yeah you guessed it... Other hobbie: Sailing.
    Marin Highway One
    Trek 7.5FX
  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    Porn star + astronaut.

    Strangling animals, golf and anything else that comes to hand*.


    *Yes - it's a Python reference. :)
  • skellator3
    skellator3 Posts: 200
    i commute 12 miles each way to my own little cycle shop, so if its wet i take a tourer with full guards or if its nice the full cabon 15.8 lb race bike, or whatever takes my fancy what a bitch eh

    keep smiling
    lol
    dont only ride a bike
  • wgwarburton
    wgwarburton Posts: 1,863
    jetsstar1 wrote:
    Technical Director of the International Sailing Federation (ISAF)
    (sailing's equivalent to the UCI, well maybe that's not a good analogy :wink: )

    yeah you guessed it... Other hobbie: Sailing.

    Cool! So, why no Tornados at London 2012, huh? Huh? ...and what's with the women's keelboat match racing thing?

    :-)

    Cheers,
    W.

    PS: Job: IT Infrastructure Architect, other hobbies: sailing(!), hillwalking, skiing, other outdoorsy stuff, DIY (I suppose)

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