So what does everyone do for a living?

[iancellis]

There are some really interesting sounding jobs on here I've been lucky in my job 21 years service fallen into a nice easy desk job since 2017, 57 this years riddled with arthritis one knee and a wrist joint swapped out waiting for the other knee to be done then Hips / Wrist to sort out. All the plasters and builders out there that have been doing it for years may not be the most glamours job title but you got to have great respect for them and worth every penny they charge, I've done some plastering / bricking in my last house at my pace and know how hard and physical it can be but to do it for a living for 10's of years you got to love what you doing.

 

[T6ChrisO]

Mrs Sasquatch is a decade younger than me and still works, and as she earns four times that which I ever did she's keen to keep going a while yet.

I guess that makes me a house husband. Perhaps I should get a pinny?

Yep, thats the image I now have

 

[Marc R]

Mrs Sasquatch is a decade younger than me and still works, and as she earns four times that which I ever did she's keen to keep going a while yet.

I guess that makes me a house husband. Perhaps I should get a pinny?

Well done Sir!

 

[Sasquatch]

Thank you. I didn't think I stood a chance when I chatted her up, but here we are!

 

[Dieseldonkey]

Still doing this

 

[T6VanLife]

Well my story is pretty straight forward, from a very early age I had pretty much no other desire than to go to work ! (tragic I know but I was born into that mindset)
I was on the cusp of dropping out of school at 15 to go either work for my father or the local butcher with the army a third possibility.

Then one day in a school woodworking class, by a chance of fate I was offered a traditional apprenticeship as a Cabinetmaker & Furniture Restorer with one of the most respected company's at the time, I was smart/dumb enough to know that there were precious few opportunities like that left even back in 1994.
I already had a healthy interest in woodworking and was the only class at school I attended So I jumped at the offer and bailed out of school with not a qualification to my name and threw myself into it, the wages were terrible (£41 a week, the butcher offered me £11 per day !) but it was and still is an interesting job with no 2 jobs the same.

I have been doing it now 6 days a week, 51 weeks of the year for over 31 years now (I rarely took any kind of holidays until I met my wife and was forced to )
I parted ways from my boss in 2001 and set up my own company I will probably never retire and will provide a service until my body ceases to function or the wife beats me to death for not taking enough holidays !

 

[d8smt]

Retired consultant (tech industry, used to be telecoms engineer, then progressed to managing technical business units for telecoms, data centres and then photonics around the world). Used to set up tech startups and reorganise technology businesses to make them viable.
Now I'm retired and an archaeologist, doing a PhD on early Neolithic settlements in Jordan & the Levant, still doing regular fieldwork in UK and Middle East.

 

[MorkC68]

Well my story is pretty straight forward, from a very early age I had pretty much no other desire than to go to work ! (tragic I know but I was born into that mindset)
I was on the cusp of dropping out of school at 15 to go either work for my father or the local butcher with the army a third possibility.

Then one day in a school woodworking class, by a chance of fate I was offered a traditional apprenticeship as a Cabinetmaker & Furniture Restorer with one of the most respected company's at the time, I was smart/dumb enough to know that there were precious few opportunities like that left even back in 1994.
I already had a healthy interest in woodworking and was the only class at school I attended So I jumped at the offer and bailed out of school with not a qualification to my name and threw myself into it, the wages were terrible (£41 a week, the butcher offered me £11 per day !) but it was and still is an interesting job with no 2 jobs the same.

I have been doing it now 6 days a week, 51 weeks of the year for over 31 years now (I rarely took any kind of holidays until I met my wife and was forced to )
I parted ways from my boss in 2001 and set up my own company I will probably never retire and will provide a service until my body ceases to function or the wife beats me to death for not taking enough holidays !

Just had a look on your website, some lovely pieces of furniture & I do like some of the aerospace themed ones!

 

[Cliffwah]

30 years working in a local paint factory, just pushing 60 this year and decided enough is enough, gave a months notice, took some pension, bought my van and now living life.

 

[msav]

I used to be a scaffolder, which was great in the summer but crap in the dead of winter. I fancied a change, and I've spent the first half of my forties retraining to be a furniture/cabinetmaker. It's never too late find something you actually want to get up and go do every morning! It was bloody hard work making it happen. But so worth it:

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[msav]

Dunno if that link works, but this is some of the stuff I've been making

 

[Bav]

Dunno if that link works

It does.

 

[Velosaurus]

I used to be a scaffolder, which was great in the summer but crap in the dead of winter. I fancied a change, and I've spent the first half of my forties retraining to be a furniture/cabinetmaker. It's never too late find something you actually want to get up and go do every morning! It was bloody hard work making it happen. But so worth it:

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Just had a look through. Thats some seriously nice work there!

 

[Sasquatch]

Fantastic! Muet be really satisfying to make something beautiful thst folk can admire for generations.

 

[koolpc]

I left my job as a test pilot for Airfix. I got sick of hanging around waiting for the planes to be built....

I am a train driver now for Hornby!

 

[Bav]

I am a train driver now...

No wonder you can afford to run a Transporter!

 

[Velosaurus]

I am a train driver now for Hornby!

Koolpc's T6...

 

[koolpc]

Koolpc's T6...

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Thats about the only one i can afford!!!!

 

[Velosaurus]

Thats about the only one i can afford!!!!

Aye, came on here to research replacing my T5.1. Will wait another couple of years I think....

 

[maverick177uk]

Joined the RAF at 18 left at 30, council job for 18 months joined the fire service did just over 20 years retired 3 years ago at the age of 53, doing sod all now just enjoying life and got my t6.1 in July to start going out with my dogs further afield than Manchester.