Does anybody not work in an office?

bigjim
bigjim Posts: 780
edited July 2009 in The bottom bracket
or should I say supposed to work in an office. Most posters seem to be able to access the tinternet all day. Anybody work in a 'proper job'? Like dustman, traffic warden,copper, truck driver, pilot etc, etc. Be nice to know. Or even like me, not working. Oh I want to, but nobody wants me. :)
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  • drewfromrisca
    drewfromrisca Posts: 1,165
    I'm a copper...but unfortunately my life revolves around the damn computer :evil:
    There is never redemption, any fool can regret yesterday...

    Be Pure! Be Vigilant! Behave!
  • redddraggon
    redddraggon Posts: 10,862
    I do nothing at the moment, just graduated, waiting for PhD funding or a job.
    I like bikes...

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  • nipon
    nipon Posts: 68
    I have a 'proper job' as you say,I am a farmer. but i think you are about to open a can of worms.
  • Frank the tank
    Frank the tank Posts: 6,553
    edited July 2009
    Aero engine detail and assembley fitter extraordinare "A frames" a speciality.

    I just happen to be on holiday at the moment.
    Tail end Charlie

    The above post may contain traces of sarcasm or/and bullsh*t.
  • Ghengis
    Ghengis Posts: 90
    I work in a laboratory but recently the powers that be have put a stop to non essential t'internet usage. No more Bikeradar - boo hoo! :cry:
    Nearly there, just over this hill and round the next corner...

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  • Fastlad
    Fastlad Posts: 908
    I have the hardest (ball achingly hard) job as a plasterer! :cry:
  • brigez
    brigez Posts: 31
    work in a manufacturing control room, lots of screens for monitoring processes, not too much for the web.
    gimee time, i'll think of something.........
  • Chaz.Harding
    Chaz.Harding Posts: 3,144
    I'm in the Army, and I work lots of outdoors places.

    Sometimes, I don't even work!!!

    (Just make go-karts, like today! Yay!!)

    :lol:
    Boo-yah mofo
    Sick to the power of rad
    Fix it 'till it's broke
  • I packed in my office job to drive full time again, but having an iPhone means i can access the net during breaks etc.
  • BeanPole
    BeanPole Posts: 47
    Army for me too but I've been flying a desk for years now - shiny arrse!
  • Chaz.Harding
    Chaz.Harding Posts: 3,144
    BeanPole - no desks for me :D

    But, I'm still hunting that first stripe. It's been a tricky bugger! Lol.
    Boo-yah mofo
    Sick to the power of rad
    Fix it 'till it's broke
  • BeanPole
    BeanPole Posts: 47
    BeanPole - no desks for me :D

    But, I'm still hunting that first stripe. It's been a tricky bugger! Lol.

    Enjoy it while it lasts.

    It's a soul destroying moment when you have to exchange your CS95 because the elbows and arrse have worn out...
  • Chaz.Harding
    Chaz.Harding Posts: 3,144
    BeanPole wrote:
    Enjoy it while it lasts.

    It's a soul destroying moment when you have to exchange your CS95 because the elbows and arrse have worn out...
    I intend to :D

    However, I wear out CS95 trousers like you wouldn't believe. Always the groin... And I'm being serious!! :shock:

    :lol:
    Boo-yah mofo
    Sick to the power of rad
    Fix it 'till it's broke
  • bigjim
    bigjim Posts: 780
    I've been a truck driver, painter, M/C courier, Extra, Photographer, taxi driver, consultant, council officer etc. Lots of office work in the last one. Best paid, but boring AArrgggh. Giving 8 hours of your life away so you can enjoy the other 16 less commutes. Not worth it if you can avoid it.
  • White Line
    White Line Posts: 887
    I'm a pizzaiolo. :D

    No internet for me. No desk. No air con (at the moment). Hours are all over the place.
  • nolf
    nolf Posts: 1,287
    I'm a student, which is like unemployment but a lot more money and parties.

    Aaah life is sweeeeeet.

    I have worked in an office, I actually enjoyed it... But then I was only there for 6 months.
    "I hold it true, what'er befall;
    I feel it, when I sorrow most;
    'Tis better to have loved and lost;
    Than never to have loved at all."

    Alfred Tennyson
  • MeddlE
    MeddlE Posts: 322
    No job here, not a lot around at the moment.

    Will miss the mid-week rides when I do get one though.
  • nick hanson
    nick hanson Posts: 1,655
    Maintenance Engineer,12 hour shifts,days & nights :(
    Can be hard work,but the time off after night shifts makes up for it (almost)
    so many cols,so little time!
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Copper.

    I post using the power of suggestion and the medium of mime.

    I get some strange looks on the shopping precinct when I post on duty.
  • Gavin Gilbert
    Gavin Gilbert Posts: 4,019
    bigjim wrote:
    or should I say supposed to work in an office. Most posters seem to be able to access the tinternet all day. Anybody work in a 'proper job'? Like dustman, traffic warden,copper, truck driver, pilot etc, etc. Be nice to know. Or even like me, not working. Oh I want to, but nobody wants me. :)

    I work in an office. And it's a proper job.

    fucking inverted snobs :twisted:
  • bompington
    bompington Posts: 7,674
    Fortunately, the person in charge of internet access at work is ...me.
    But it'll get even better now I've got the handlebar mount for my new Nokia 5800, I'll be able to post on my way home from work...
  • millymoose
    millymoose Posts: 117
    I am unfortunately a.................banker. It is easier these days to say Tax Collector - more people talk to you!
  • Firecrakka
    Firecrakka Posts: 81
    Work for a bicycle importer, so it goes in the books as "research" :wink:
  • DavidBelcher
    DavidBelcher Posts: 2,684
    I'm in the Army, and I work lots of outdoors places.

    Sometimes, I don't even work!!!

    (Just make go-karts, like today! Yay!!)

    :lol:

    Go-karts??? Maybe they ought to mention more stuff like that in the TV ads for careers in the armed forces - recruitment levels would go through the roof! :wink:

    David
    "It is not enough merely to win; others must lose." - Gore Vidal
  • structural engineer - only logon at lunchtime.
  • Soreknees
    Soreknees Posts: 68
    Self employed + mobile internet = 24 hour access.

    Not necessarily a good thing...
  • passout
    passout Posts: 4,425
    Office or more often working from home. I do get some fairly good business trips & conferences five or six times a year though. Kenya last year, Corfu this year, NZ next year, Blackpool last week :lol: I'm an academic and no I wouldn't dare claim that it is a proper job but just for the record I don't have the summer 'off' either.
    'Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible' Marcel Proust.
  • CHRISNOIR
    CHRISNOIR Posts: 1,400
    One more for the pen-pushing, desk-sucking, blotter-jotter boys here...
  • mac111051
    mac111051 Posts: 92
    Cycling instructor, mostly year 5 school kids, worked in a factory for 40 years standing in front of a machine, self employed for 30 of those years but still standing in front of a machine, and only ever working for money , money is not so good now but we manage and now I wake up in a morning looking foward to the day instead of looking forward to 5 o clock when I would finish work