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Offline Agreeable Slick

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Re: What does everyone do for a living ?
« Reply #110 on: 11 July 2009, 19:08 »
Erm and now there's no car industry in the uk!

Well that's wrong for a start.

Offline ALEXS1.8T

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Re: What does everyone do for a living ?
« Reply #111 on: 11 July 2009, 19:16 »
iam a qualified painter and decorater done me 3 years aprentaship then did a few years earning a good wedge... then had a bad football injury that resulted in 9 months off work... (snapped crusiate ligament and alot or cartliage damage)

then due to doc not agreing to let me go back to workin on ladders all day etc for another 6 months i  had to get sumink temp so ended up workin for a friends roofing and building matienance company driving around a roofer as he couldnt drive......

then this job picked up along with my knee geting back to full strength and i got offered a van with a bloke or two depending on jobs so thats where iam at now not a really good wage but its a good bunch of lads and the work is not to bad either......
now drivin a golf 1.9 tdi 90bhp ... time to rack up them miles!! as my daily

Offline golfvirgin

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Re: What does everyone do for a living ?
« Reply #112 on: 11 July 2009, 23:56 »
I'm a loser.

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Re: What does everyone do for a living ?
« Reply #113 on: 12 July 2009, 12:26 »
Weapon Engineer in the Royal Navy, bullets,bombs and plenty of missiles with a boatload of Radar thrown in.

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Re: What does everyone do for a living ?
« Reply #114 on: 12 July 2009, 12:51 »
Erm and now there's no car industry in the uk!

Well that's wrong for a start.

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I think all the F1 teams are based here and all within 25 miles of Silverstone iirc  :huh:
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Re: What does everyone do for a living ?
« Reply #115 on: 12 July 2009, 13:07 »
I work in the car industry (make nylon for airbags) and we cant produce enough of it at the moment
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Re: What does everyone do for a living ?
« Reply #116 on: 12 July 2009, 13:26 »
im an apprentice joiner and iv got 1 year to go before im a tradesman but im getting bored of building houses and want a change, im also going to college two nights a week doing my hnc in construction management so will hopefully get a better job with that  :cool:

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Re: What does everyone do for a living ?
« Reply #117 on: 12 July 2009, 14:22 »
Weapon Engineer in the Royal Navy, bullets,bombs and plenty of missiles with a boatload of Radar thrown in.

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Wem (o) or Wem (r) or om ?

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Re: What does everyone do for a living ?
« Reply #118 on: 13 July 2009, 10:26 »
I'm an electrical engineer. Work for ABB and install, maintain, repair high voltage switchgear and transformers. Also involved in HV and LV cable jointing  Get involved with power station generator circuit breakers too  :smiley:

ABB, we use your inverters sometimes for the fans we work on.

Rubbish ! :D jks

Yeh, big mistake buying ABB products lol  :wink:. Thats all I hear from people lol. How come they're sh!t?


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Re: What does everyone do for a living ?
« Reply #119 on: 13 July 2009, 11:16 »
lol I was just kidding. Use you now and again, mainly use Honeywell ones tbh.