Do you fly a desk or have a real job?

roger_merriman

Work as a support worker, so no desk but plenty of wiping and cleaning, and taking folks out, got paid to take a lad out on a date last week!

TommyEss

gbsahne wrote:

Mechanical Engineer; spend a lot of the time at a PC designing but also get to run Construction Sites and install equipment

Process Engineer; spend a lot of the time at a PC designing but also get to run Construction Sites and install equipment

KulaBen

Psychiatrist, so sometimes at desk, sometimes pottering about the hospital, sometimes in car seeing folks at home. Not on bike enough!

MRadd

I have 3 jobs!!! All completely varied... So technically, you can call me self-employed.

1) Gardener/Groundsman for posh people who can't be arsed to weed, but WILL ride their sit on mower...

2) Climbing instructor (self explanitory!)

3) Bike shop as a mechanic/dogs body/tea maker/annoying git...

pianoleo

Classically trained pianist. Probably spend near enough as much time behind a desk as behind a piano, arranging, transcribing, typesetting and (very occasionally!) writing music.

Drfabulous0

You guys have actual jobs? I just work at a bike shop instead.

cyclingpast

Gap Yah for me.

Mostly building sets for theatre productions amongst other things like sound and lighting engineer stuff. Though an increasing amount of desk stuff now i work in two departments.

After that it's off to be a skint student for 3 years, but the upside is there's some decent hills and country roads where i'll be going, even if i can't afford a tin of baked beans because i've spent all my money on bike stuff.

EKE_38BPM

roger merriman wrote:

Work as a support worker, so no desk but plenty of wiping and cleaning, and taking folks out, got paid to take a lad out on a date last week!

Was the date a success? Will you see him again? How far did you let him get? If you got paid, is this the slippery slope to sex work?

Oh, you were taking him to meet his date!
Only kidding. I've said it before and I'll say it again, I have much respect for people who do your job. I know I couldn't do it.

How did the date go? Did you feel like a spare part/goosebury?

Sharkyssurfers

well im about 50/50 being an it geek, have to sit at desk and spend half my time walking up and down stairs to different floors, carrying equipment etc..

Drysuitdiver

Construction Manager so i haver a desk but i am rarely at it for long. current project is 1/4 mile from end to end and walking that daily means we average 10 miles a day. It has been known for me to go back on the tools to show peoplemhow to do the job.

NGale

desk job and engineering student (i.e more desk work!)

Even as detachment commander with my cadet section I am finding myself desk bound :shock:

Mr Plum

I work 12 hour days sat on my arse at a desk, but I only do 3 1/2 days a week Compressed working = loads more riding time :twisted:

roger_merriman

EKE_38BPM wrote:

roger merriman wrote:

Work as a support worker, so no desk but plenty of wiping and cleaning, and taking folks out, got paid to take a lad out on a date last week!

Was the date a success? Will you see him again? How far did you let him get? If you got paid, is this the slippery slope to sex work?

Oh, you were taking him to meet his date!
Only kidding. I've said it before and I'll say it again, I have much respect for people who do your job. I know I couldn't do it.

How did the date go? Did you feel like a spare part/goosebury?

did feel somewhat spare, and we did need to sit so we couldn't see buses as even attractive young ladies don't compare to buses, But yes fun was had by all and hopefully will happen again soon.

optimisticbiker

IT consultant and sometime management consultant, currently the Technical Design Authority for a major UK travel website, so I spend most of my day wandering around other peoples desks, standing in front of a white wall (thats like a white board but goes round the whole office) scribbling furiously or fending our sales and finance people off so I can look like I'm actually doing some work!

When not at work or on the bike or eating/sleeping I am doing what my wife calls 'messing around' e.g. either working on the bike, or in my study designing/writing/testing embedded software for prototype mechatronics (thats the fusion of mechanical and electronic systems) or in my workshop with my lathe and milling machine making parts for same or working on the car...

Hmmmm.. I need to get a life LOL

jimmypippa

Agent57 wrote:

I'm a desk pilot, but recently, I've become aware of the idea of "standing desks"; i.e. standing up to work, rather than sitting down. I'm quite interested in the idea - might experiment with it at home, rather than trying to introduce it at work though.

I know standing meetings are quite popular in some circles, but I'd not considered the idea of standing to do my work.

Some links about the subject:

Is Sitting a Lethal Activity?
Stand Up While You Read This!
Stand while you work
Why and How I Switched to a Standing Desk
Expedit standing desk (IKEA hack)

There are some downsides to standing constantly:

Working in a standing position on a regular basis can cause sore feet, swelling of the legs, varicose veins, general muscular fatigue, low back pain, stiffness in the neck and shoulders, and other health problems. These are common complaints among sales people, machine operators, assembly-line workers and others whose jobs require prolonged standing.

But perhaps they can be offset by taking occasional breaks to sit down; as opposed to now, where I sit down and take occasional breaks to stand up.

I certainly notice that when I have to go down to the shop floor; I'm now sure that for me, standing is more tiring than (even brisk) walking for the same length of time

Too old for this

I used to be a desk jockey but since being made redundant I've gone back to toolsetting on night shifts up to me elbows in oil and brass swarf,(it's great really) :?

Make full use of spare afternoons to get out on the mountain bike. 8) 8)

getjim

Royal Mail postie with 8 - 9 mile postal walk. No fear of me putting weight on. Find it hard to get out on my bike after a day slogging around with heavy post bags.

Duffer

Armed Forces here.

Depending on what i'm working on at the time, i'll spend my time at a desk (pretending to work) or out and about (pretending to work)

For the most part, i get left to my own devices - if the weather is bad, for example, i'll stay inside!

jejv

When we're not building exotic 1990's Lego Technic or talking about bikes, we design chips for fancy consumer gadgets.

Ocasionally have to lug FPGA chip simulators arround the office.

tailwindhome

getjim wrote:

Royal Mail postie with 8 - 9 mile postal walk. No fear of me putting weight on. Find it hard to get out on my bike after a day slogging around with heavy post bags.

There is an obvious question here.

il_principe

Desk jockey. Plan to escape back to the country in a few years. No idea what I will do then, but it will emphatically not involve commuting into London, or spending quite as much time behind a desk.

DonDaddyD

I like having a desk job.

Next I want my own office.

In the first instance I'm just glad to have a job.

cee

Desk Jockey....

Software Engineer for a small consultancy....mostly in financial institutions.....

Occasionally they give me a screw driver and send me under a floor to plug cables...

I probably spend a third of my time typing things into computers to make software work, and about 2 thirds of my time as a business analyst...

roger_merriman

TailWindHome wrote:

getjim wrote:

Royal Mail postie with 8 - 9 mile postal walk. No fear of me putting weight on. Find it hard to get out on my bike after a day slogging around with heavy post bags.

There is an obvious question here.

cornwall has hills and steep ones at that, and a fully laden post bike would have 30KG give or take.

the area I worked as a posty didn't have bike for that same reason, a bike is limited once the grades start to mount up, and welsh "valley" towns are where the coal was, so clinging to the sides of the valleys, with some truly silly steep streets and very few even vaguely flat ones.

snooks

Yachting Photographer,

Here sorting out photos, and doing expenses before heading off to Mallorca tomorrow for the rest of the week to photograph a motor boat.

It's a tough life, but someone has to do it :twisted: