What do you people do for a living?
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+1hbrashaw wrote:go to peoples houses early in the morning and leave newspapers there0 -
all i'm allowed to say is that i work within the security industry now
15 years in the motor trade before hand, fixing selling and in the background0 -
I'm a high altitude fire fighter.0
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I build websites so that we can all be lazy.0
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Tank crewman turned call centre monkey.
I got injured & am paying the price for serving my country, someone employ me for real money!
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FLT drivere in an office suppkies warehouse by day and semi por photographer by night / weekends0
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Does anybody in this Country actually make anything any more?
What troubles me is that we all seem to be in customer service or support 'industries'. The money to buy our services comes from wages paid to people who use them. But if they're all in service industries as well, is it just the same money going round and round in circles?
Surely money has to be generated in the first instance by creating and sellling something - like a car or a washing machine or computer - but they're all made overseas now and we have to pay to have them imported. I just don't see where the money comes from in the first place :?Canyon XC 8.0 '11
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yes.Happy Harry wrote:Does anybody in this Country actually make anything any more?0 -
yeehaamcgee wrote:
yes.Happy Harry wrote:Does anybody in this Country actually make anything any more?
I make sweet lurrve to sheepteeths mum.The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns
momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.0 -
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and dam good at it toohates dog walkers0 -
I'm a human relocation operative
also known as a train driver ( I may have mentioned this on occasion
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Noise and mess.Happy Harry wrote:Does anybody in this Country actually make anything any more :?
but your right manufacturing has all but disappeard from these lands.0 -
VWsurfbum wrote:
Noise and mess.Happy Harry wrote:Does anybody in this Country actually make anything any more :?
but your right manufacturing has all but disappeard from these lands.
I know people around here make quite a bit of money from making babies0 -
ah ha yes, that seems all they teach in schools nowadays too.gazderry wrote:VWsurfbum wrote:
Noise and mess.Happy Harry wrote:Does anybody in this Country actually make anything any more :?
but your right manufacturing has all but disappeard from these lands.
I know people around here make quite a bit of money from making babies0 -
Mechanical engineer. Hey I still get (some) prototypes and one off parts made in Britain. And I don't even work in Britain. Most of our manufacturing is now done in Poland. The way I see it, conditions and pay are rising over there, eventually things will equalize. Then of course we will move all our production to India and mess things up for both east and western Europe.0
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VWsurfbum wrote:
ah ha yes, that seems all they teach in schools nowadays too.gazderry wrote:VWsurfbum wrote:
Noise and mess.Happy Harry wrote:Does anybody in this Country actually make anything any more :?
but your right manufacturing has all but disappeard from these lands.
I know people around here make quite a bit of money from making babies
You sound like such an old man
And FYI, Britain has the sixth largest manufacturing industry on the planet.0 -
bails87 wrote:VWsurfbum wrote:
ah ha yes, that seems all they teach in schools nowadays too.gazderry wrote:VWsurfbum wrote:
Noise and mess.Happy Harry wrote:Does anybody in this Country actually make anything any more :?
but your right manufacturing has all but disappeard from these lands.
I know people around here make quite a bit of money from making babies
You sound like such an old man
And FYI, Britain has the sixth largest manufacturing industry on the planet.
But we used to have an empire, and we gave it all away. I blame Prince Phillip, bloody greeks, they come over here, running our chip shops :shock: :shock:
legal disclaimer this is joke racism, I do not have any prejudice against the Greeks oranyone coming into our country who is legally entitled to be here
the Welsh on the other hand!!!
legal disclaimer 2, I'm joking about the welsh too0 -
I am, well my body isbails87 wrote:VWsurfbum wrote:
ah ha yes, that seems all they teach in schools nowadays too.gazderry wrote:VWsurfbum wrote:
Noise and mess.Happy Harry wrote:Does anybody in this Country actually make anything any more :?
but your right manufacturing has all but disappeard from these lands.
I know people around here make quite a bit of money from making babies
You sound like such an old man
And FYI, Britain has the sixth largest manufacturing industry on the planet.0 -
student and on again off again halfords employee depending on where i am based in the country
however once i leave uni i have plans to set up a large and lucrative porn business with a northerner whom ive never met.0 -
im a driver.0
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bails87 wrote:And FYI, Britain has the sixth largest manufacturing industry on the planet.
sixth largest economy and just slipped to seventh. manufacturing wise we're not far from dropping out of the top 10 vying with the likes of russia, south korea, brazil. last year we accounted for 2.6% of world manufacturing output. in 1980 it was 6%.0 -
I work in a Chipboard factory. The Laminating part, you have kitchens, wordrobes, flooring ect? Then you have a 62% chance that I helped make it.
Mainly I bumble about on a chuffing big red FLT and on occasion crash.
The 205 days I don't work, I check quality control, observing the quality of movies and pictures on the interweb. mainly them ones with the letters nopr in them them.fly like a mouse, run like a cushion be the small bookcase!0 -
Oh right. i'm sure I'd seen a number of sources that said we were the 6th biggest manufacturing country.blister pus wrote:bails87 wrote:And FYI, Britain has the sixth largest manufacturing industry on the planet.
sixth largest economy and just slipped to seventh. manufacturing wise we're not far from dropping out of the top 10 vying with the likes of russia, south korea, brazil. last year we accounted for 2.6% of world manufacturing output. in 1980 it was 6%.
In any case, the assertion "we don't make anything anymore" is a pile of mouldy goats cheese. We make 2 and half times more stuffthan we did in 1950. We're efficient so we produce more with less people. Manufacturing hasn't shrunk, it's grown, but admittedly other areas have grown quicker.0 -
yeh, right. only if you're on crack cocaine and take the register seriously, and a comment piece at that.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c4598ffe-7c82 ... abdc0.html0 -
Happy Harry wrote:Does anybody in this Country actually make anything any more?
What troubles me is that we all seem to be in customer service or support 'industries'. The money to buy our services comes from wages paid to people who use them. But if they're all in service industries as well, is it just the same money going round and round in circles?
Surely money has to be generated in the first instance by creating and sellling something - like a car or a washing machine or computer - but they're all made overseas now and we have to pay to have them imported. I just don't see where the money comes from in the first place :?
Why is this a problem?0 -
yeehaamcgee wrote:
Because an economy based on administration, and not actually exporting anything is guaranteed to fail.360 wrote:Why is this a problem?
To grow, it has to draw in other people's money by selling goods or exchanging services.
Something the previous government failed to comprehend by expanding the public faster than the private sectors. When the private sector reduced there wasn't enough taxes raised hence why the public services now need to shrink to the level of taxes available to fund it otherwise we have to borrow it and even governments have credit limits.0
