What's your job/ Way you spend your days?

[MissInformed]

Just wondered where everyone works...

I work in the civil service...yawn!

Thanks to Jona for the suggestion of thread!

[SteH]

I work in local government, which is as specific as I'll be in case 1) anyone I've upset reads this and 2) I get a load of PMs asking me for advice.

[Ged]

I work in Shipping, Transport and Freight forwarding. It enables me now and again to get down the docks and board vessels when delivering hand carry ships spares. It's great dockside and you see things from a different view. The diesel engine smells down in the chief engineers room are very atmospheric too and the noise. The wobbly gangplanks with the dock below - scary, as is driving alongside the vessel with hazard lights on (by special permission of course)

We once had a tour of the Atlantic Cartier, courtesy of ACL. Fantastic how the ballast levels are all computerised as the containers are uplifted by the straddle carriers from one side of the ship yet you'd never know that 20 odd tons has just disappeared.

Am I rambling? Sorry..........

[shytalk]

I retired last year. :037:

[PhilipG]

I retired last year. :037:


So did I! :037:

Among my jobs have been shop work, bus conductoring (if that's a word!), Fords, office jobs and call centres.

[shytalk]

Hey PhilipG,
If the yanks can use words such as 'winningest'(commonly used by sports broadcasters) you can use conductoring.:037:
Another in common use is 'funest'.

[theninesisters]

I've worked for Sony Computer Entertainment for the last 13 years (my first job since leaving school!!) as a Lead Development Assistant for the Playstation 3 and PSP handheld. Although most of my day is working on the technical side, I really do get paid for playing games for a living :celb (23):

[Motorhemp]

Like SeeH also local government...

[john]

Like SeeH also local government...

Do you mean you work for the DWP (DHSS)

[Motorhemp]

Do you mean you work for the DWP (DHSS)

Nah - local like a Council.

[john]

:shock:
A council only joking mate;)

[Motorhemp]

:shock:
A council only joking mate;)
:037: Council - as people see it
:PDT_Xtremez_12: As the council sees itself
:celb (6): as it really is

:rolleyes:

[Emmanuel Goldstein]

Im a freelance Chef now, I have worked all over the uk and in europe and America. Im curently on the rock n roll circut personal chef for bands on tour - finished my last tour xmas eve and im currently enjoying january off before i hit the road again

[ChrisGeorge]

Although I live in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, I work as an editor for the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in Washington DC. If anyone knows DC, I work near the Washington and Jefferson Memorials, the Tidal Basin, the Bureau of Engraving and the National Holocaust Museum, and just down the road from the Smithsonian. Just up the road from me, within walking distance, is the Freer Gallery, home of the Whistler's Peacock Room painted for Liverpool shipping magnate Leyland's London mansion, and also within a comfortable walk is the National Air and Space Museum, always a neat place to visit. I get a real charge from being in the center of everything that is happening in terms of world and national U.S. events. :celb (6):

Chris

[Gnomie]

Postman.. and im very cold this time of year:rolleyes:

Also manage staff at the football grounds

I get to see all the players and celebs...gets boring but great for taking photos in the grounds.

[Kev]

Postman.. and im very cold this time of year:rolleyes:

Also manage staff at the football grounds

I get to see all the players and celebs...gets boring but great for taking photos in the grounds.

Bet u get loads asking for tickets yer? :PDT_Piratz_26:

[Gnomie]

Yep

But ive only ever been given 4 tickets in 3 years. tight buggers

[Sloyne]

I finished working for an airline on 1, November 1996 but my actual retirement date was 1, March 1997. I had two years vacation (60 days) and I had "time banked" 240 hours of overtime and had 29 days owed by fellow workers for "shift changes". Received my first company pension check on 1, March 2007 and my first Canada Pension check on 1, January 2001, my Canadian Old Age Security and UK Old Age Pension on 1, January 2006.

I have had quite a number of jobs in various parts of the world but the one I enjoyed the most was, when I was a young, that of a merchant seaman on the Liverpool Pool.

[shytalk]

I applied for a UK pension 4 yrs ago, a year before I was due. I got the application package over a year later with a Geneva postmark, figure that one out. They wanted job history with dates from when I left school in 1954, I didn't even bother to return it. Seems like they just want to make it hard for people, they have all that information anyway. Dealing with the U.S.A. social security was much easier, they sent a representative to my address and asked a few questions, said sign here and my first direct deposit was 2 months later.

[john]

Im a freelance Chef now, I have worked all over the uk and in europe and America. Im curently on the rock n roll circut personal chef for bands on tour - finished my last tour xmas eve and im currently enjoying january off before i hit the road again

So who have you been working with?

[Sloyne]

I applied for a UK pension 4 yrs ago, a year before I was due. I got the application package over a year later with a Geneva postmark, figure that one out.The rules of the EU dictate that all government services must be open to a bid process and any member of the EU can bid on the service. However, Switzerland is not a member of the EU and should, according to the rules, be prohibited from bidding on EU member government services. Strange indeed.



They wanted job history with dates from when I left school in 1954, I didn't even bother to return it. Seems like they just want to make it hard for people, they have all that information anyway.I had quite the opposite experience with the UK DSS. Longbenton returned all my calls and even offered advice on reporting my pension for tax purposes, saving on my taxes in Canada. They advised me to buy all the credits that I was entitled to claim to maximize my pension and even gave me advise on how my wife should claim on my account rather than her own, because, she would receive a bigger share of my pension without any dimunition of the amount I am receiving.

Sorry to hear about your experience Chris, but listen, you have paid into the fund and are entitled to a pension. The dates they ask for are just approximate, i.e. year and if possible, month of employment and of course the name and address of the companies, city and street (if possible). The name, of course, is crucial but address not as critical in tracing your work record.

Go for it.

[FKoE]

I'm a professional escort :D .... nah! hehehe

I'm self-employed. I'm a house painter,like Hitler :D

[MissInformed]

that sounds interesting!! fkoe

[ChrisGeorge]

Im a freelance Chef now, I have worked all over the uk and in europe and America. Im curently on the rock n roll circut personal chef for bands on tour - finished my last tour xmas eve and im currently enjoying january off before i hit the road again

Hi Emmanuel

Sounds like an exciting life. I bet you have some interesting tales to tell. :PDT_Aliboronz_24:

Chris

[shytalk]

Sloyne, Maybe I should try, I was self employed most of my adult life and the U.K. Tax authorities treat small self employed people like lepers. I just have a bad feeling about dealing with the U.K. government. :celb (23):

I have a small private pension from the U.K. and this is taxed at source, it is my only income from the U.K. and it is not enough to make me tax liable, yet there is no easy way to reclaim it. I really just do not want to deal with them based on past experience, I am sure I am not the only person who emmigrated to live in a fairer tax system. :037:

[victorialush]

No job at the moment. I am staying in Atlanta with my partner for the next 3 months... During the day when he is working I will be mainly trying not to make a mess, pretending to be a clean freak whilst brushing things under the cooker, fridge etc... Surfing the net, pretending to be Delia by slow cooking a lot of things.... Laundry and ironing.... Reading... watching cable... when it is a bit warmer and I am more confident of going out alone I shall be photographing wild boar and bears... just kidding, photographing American citizens and trees... :handclap:

[Kev]

^^So you got there in one piece then^^ :handclap:

[lindylou]

Sloyne, Maybe I should try, I was self employed most of my adult life and the U.K. Tax authorities treat small self employed people like lepers. I just have a bad feeling about dealing with the U.K. government. :celb (23):

I have a small private pension from the U.K. and this is taxed at source, it is my only income from the U.K. and it is not enough to make me tax liable, yet there is no easy way to reclaim it. I really just do not want to deal with them based on past experience, I am sure I am not the only person who emmigrated to live in a fairer tax system. :037:

This is true. My husband is self employed and it's not easy. Tax. No paid holidays. Can't afford to be off sick. No work - no income.

[lindylou]

Vickie you are there as we speak ! :shock: I thought you were still in the planning stages. :) I didn't know you'd left UK already.

Good luck :handclap:

[lindylou]

that sounds interesting!! fkoe

hmmm yeah .. and he won't tell us what the enigmatic initials FKoE stands for. :ninja:

why don't we all have a guess .. Fab Kind of Escort maybe .. ??
F K o E


:celb (23):

[shytalk]

Effing King of England. :Colorz_Grey_PDT_16:

[victorialush]

^^So you got there in one piece then^^ :handclap:

Yeh, I got here 2 days ago and am still suffering jetlag. Flew into Minneapolis, stayed there for 3 hours then onto Atlanta. I was travelling nearly 24 hours, it knackers me the thought of it :)

Lindy, I am flighty when it comes to, well just about anything, lol... I decided at the end of November that I was gonna come here, gave my notice in on the flat and in work, visited the fam for Chrimbo, got back, sorted my finances out, booked a flight and got here 2 days ago.
:snf (41):

[john]

Yeh, I got here 2 days ago and am still suffering jetlag. Flew into Minneapolis, stayed there for 3 hours then onto Atlanta. I was travelling nearly 24 hours, it knackers me the thought of it :)

Lindy, I am flighty when it comes to, well just about anything, lol... I decided at the end of November that I was gonna come here, gave my notice in on the flat and in work, visited the fam for Chrimbo, got back, sorted my finances out, booked a flight and got here 2 days ago.
:snf (41):

And managed to change my residence to Location: Atlanta, orig from Litherland (pose)
Have a good time, hope it all works out

[lindylou]

Hey Vickie, you won't have much time to come and visit us on the forum ... you'll have a busy time ahead finding your feet and exploring Atlanta. :celb (6):

don't forget to tell us all about your findings and impressions of life in USA. :PDT_Piratz_26:

[SteH]

Vickie just make sure you adhere the local rules (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6251431.stm) when crossing the road or you'll end up getting deported!

[Kev]

Vickie just make sure you adhere the local rules (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6251431.stm) when crossing the road or you'll end up getting deported!

Its only a matter of time until we get it over hear too

[MissInformed]

:shock: you haven't put your job in here yet kev!

[Gnomie]

Kev is a lap dancer:Colorz_Grey_PDT_16:

[Kev]

Kev is a lap dancer:Colorz_Grey_PDT_16:

That's the one :Colorz_Grey_PDT_16:

[MissInformed]

:) nah...it's not the one!

[victorialush]

Kev is a lap dancer:Colorz_Grey_PDT_16:


Alan Partidge style :)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/partridge/wallpaper/alan_lap_640.jpg

[Max]

No job at the moment. I am staying in Atlanta with my partner for the next 3 months... During the day when he is working I will be mainly trying not to make a mess, pretending to be a clean freak whilst brushing things under the cooker, fridge etc... Surfing the net, pretending to be Delia by slow cooking a lot of things.... Laundry and ironing.... Reading... watching cable... when it is a bit warmer and I am more confident of going out alone I shall be photographing wild boar and bears... just kidding, photographing American citizens and trees... :handclap:

I used to talk to someone on Msn who moved to America to stay with her Partner, apparently wasn't allowed to work until she got a permit or something since shes a foreigner In America.

[victorialush]

I used to talk to someone on Msn who moved to America to stay with her Partner, apparently wasn't allowed to work until she got a permit or something since shes a foreigner In America.

Yeh, I have to marry to get a work visa.

[Max]

Marry.:eek: :Colorz_Grey_PDT_16: