Just thought it may be useful to build up ties ... wonder what people on here did for a living etc...?

I work for a Packaging Company near Meadowhall - kinda interesting in a sad box-nerd kinda way, but I like it.

I was also at The Star for 8 years as a designer, so a big change for me.

Paul.

I design computer games.

I'm a machinist at a Machine Knife manufacturing company.

I work in a bank

Originally posted by "Michael_W"

I'm a machinist at a Machine Knife....

It's not Wolstenholmes is it?

(deleted), same type of work as Wolstenholmes.

Nothing

Apart from studying TV and Film at Lincoln/Hull Uni

Fairly wealthy and living outside the country............. 8)

I am a retired "Doodlebugger (Injured)

I am a Full Time Student at Donny College doing Music Technology! I work as a barman at Doncaster Racecourse & Hawthorne Club in Cantley nr Donny!!

To monkey.- Get any good tips?

DJ.
Not mobile.
I do residencies in Nottingham, Birmingham and Stafford.
The venues will remain secret so I don't get stalked. 8)

Photographer. Actually i need a web site, anybody interested in creating one?

Yes Malaika, but I,m only an amateur. I have all the software for site building.

I would have a go if you like, I'm unemployed at the moment after being made redundant from a web design company, I did the back end stuff for http://arcos.kusala.com (I'm especially proud of the never even been used forum- look at "wishlist" topic to see it properly) and I integrated it with Worldpay servers. I was almost going to set up a web design company but after further reflection I decided to try and get a normal job instead. Anyway have a look at the mockup at http://www.zinkweb.co.uk/Example1.html where there is a an example page. It demonstrates some of my abilities, all graphics by me all words by me all html crafted by me.

I also did http://www.corraal.org/ although Im not happy with the front page it was produced in that manner under orders from the boss.

"Turn this poster into a web page and put it on the front page!"
"It looks awful!"
"Do it!"

So there you go.

The old women look half dead on that page.
Anyone who sticks corpses on their front page is asking for trouble. :lol:

Hi. I kind of like the Zink one. i would be looking at a home page with maybe six different photo style catagory pages if you see what i mean. I have it all doen on paper and all the pictures sorted out, only i've only got a small amount to spend on getting the site done. How much would you charge do you think, for something of this size containing maybe twenty photos.
Nancy

Our pub could do with one, but we don't have time to make it.

I'm a student.

Originally posted by "Classic Rock"

Our pub could do with one, but we don't have time to make it.

Have a look @

http://www.sheffieldpub.co.uk/

...that might help.

Nomme

work in Rotherham looking after doleys :D

What are "Doleys?

people on the dole

Thanks

How do you look after the doleys ?
Being unemployed sucks !, I was out of work briefly last year after being made redundant and remember asking about training courses at the Job Centre, I was told there was none for the likes of me (Good "Taxpaying" Person...apparently) but if I was a junkie, ex con etc... I could take my pick of 'free' courses. What is wrong with this country ?
I assume the latter are the 'doleys' that get looked after !

yeah my lot have been unemployed for 6months to year although i have had some blokes 25 years unemployed
but its a good laugh at times

I am a mum to four, webmaster and a newly self employed shop owner.

:roll:

Moon Maiden

To moon Maiden - Married??

I'm disabled now and had to give up my job four years ago - I used to manage an office:D

I got a job today at HSBC. hooray!

To Sheffco - Yes married :D

Congratulations Richard - Give me a loan mate :D

Moon Maiden

Ive got a fiver in my pocket you can borrow for a week. But next week you'llowe me £500 or I'll send round the boys to break your legs! :)

I'm an ex Health Service employee now working in the voluntary sector

I've some architectural training (degree - I've worked as an architectural assistant and am looking for a job in the same field at the moment) and am trying to make a living at the moment designing websites. I'd be quite happy to design anyone's website *and* their HQ :D I suspect Richard has more time on his hands than me, though, working for a bank :) I like the look of the first site he listed too...

Insurance Broker - in city centre

i make crankshafts!!!!!!!!!! boring i know and i wish our italian owners would sell us and put us out of our misery!! also, sack "general" jacko! :wink:

As little as possible, if not less!. :D

Think you've got this wrong. 'Junkies' 'Ex-cons' are subjected to the same rules as everyone else. Six months on job seekers allowance before training courses on offer. An offer is made, however inappropriate it is to you if you decline your benefit can be stopped, depends on the compassion of your advisor!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

catmiss wrote:
Think you've got this wrong. 'Junkies' 'Ex-cons' are subjected to the same rules as everyone else
I was quoting what I was told by two seperate female employees, one of whom was my interviewer, at the Job Centre !!
I don't know much about benefits, courses, JSA etc.... as I have worked for 26 years since leaving school. I enquired if there were any 'free' courses, I had been made redundant (again) and fancied a change of career. I think the exact words were "Sorry, there's nothing for you, your one of the good people, if you were a drug addict or ex convict you could go on one". Maybe she was just venting her frustration, her fellow employee had overheard and backed her opinion up.

I run a lifestyle management/concierge services company arranging everything from peoples holidays to plumbers visits.

IT services and Network manager in the city centre.

Originally posted by "Jonathan"

I run a lifestyle management/concierge services company arranging everything from peoples holidays to plumbers visits.

really? i always thought i'd be pretty good at working for a company like that - am a PA right now which basically amounts to the same thing but for just one person... :)

It's certainly got similarities except our Personal Life Managers deal with a broad range of people with differing interests and it's getting to know the clients and understand their lifestyles. :D

I may have missed the point, but what is funny about unemployment? I am assuming that you work for The Employment Service when you write about looking after "doleys"? Should a civil servant with a career and a well sorted pension really be referring to the unemployed as "doleys".

They will always be wasters who do not want to work, but the majority of the people you claim to be looking after have already lost their jobs and their dignity, so providing you and your colleagues with a daily laugh is hardly likely to be the job they are after.

postmodern artist

And militant feminist crusader

Dear Moon Maiden

Good luck with your new career in retail.

Regards

Richard Doy

I`m a bus driver in Sheffield (First) anyone got any complaints Hang on!!! don`t rush

Originally posted by "JR"

I`m a bus driver in Sheffield (First) anyone got any complaints Hang on!!! don`t rush

Yeah - one of your mates gave me a french franc instead of a 10p in my change :evil:

i've noticed that sheffield seems to have a disproportionate number of grumpy bus drivers - though some of you are lovely :)

i assumed that the grumpiness is due to bad working conditions/pay/customers. am i right, or is it just that the bus companies attract miseries? :wink:

I think the bus drivers are great! They do such an important job and I'm sure they have to put up with lots of grumpy and annoying passengers.

Sorry it was the only way I could get rid of it (whoops) anyway if you hang on to it it will be worth a lot more than 10p.

You get "grumpies" in every joband I admit we have quite a few. Not making excuses for bad manners but I think a bit more running time on the busy routes would be a help, however that would mean cost money and "First" only Made 10 million pounds last year.

Originally posted by "JR"

Sorry it was the only way I could get rid of it (whoops) anyway if you hang on to it it will be worth a lot more than 10p.

I put it in a parking meter....

Firefighter so i expect a load of ****e about the 'strike situation'. But apart from that, its nice to meet you all.

Originally posted by "joe"

Firefighter so i expect a load of ****e about the 'strike situation'. But apart from that, its nice to meet you all.

No ****e from me Joe. I wouldn't do what you do, for any amount of money.

There has already been some debate about the strike, and yeah, it was kind of supporting at first to almost universally condenming at the end. But what I have noticed that there tends to be a quite surprising amount of honest debate here. You have your view, here's mine...

the respect show for different opinions is more than I have experienced on any comparable web site / news group / mailing list.

First visit to this website. I recently resigned as a Bank Clerk and am now a full time mum to two girls (8mths and 4yrs). :roll:

Originally posted by "mishapp"

I think the bus drivers are great! They do such an important job and I'm sure they have to put up with lots of grumpy and annoying passengers.

That's right. Salt of the earth.

Originally posted by "Anonymous"

First visit to this website. I recently resigned as a Bank Clerk and am now a full time mum to two girls (8mths and 4yrs). :roll:

You mean you quit to become a mother or quit before that for another reason like you hated if for example?

Originally posted by "disillusioned"

IT services and Network manager in the city centre.

Any vacancy for a IT Techie at your place?

Me, big list.

http://d-wolf.net/t8avatar-swf.jpg

yet another web designer (Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, Potatoshop)
writer, online publisher (inDesign), roleplayer, database administrator (Oracle, Access, business objects, crystal reports) and general all around layabout.

AJ

websites :

http://d-wolf.net/ - homepage
http://slaindustries.net/ - rpg page
http://viable.co.uk/ - rock band page
http://the444.org.uk/ - just and excuse to do a coll index interface
http://damagecontrol.org.uk/ - rpg fanzine site
http://twistedhalo.net/ - very old portfolio site

and about 4-5 others on the go which will be ready "at some point"

wish i had time for a life....

I'm a receptionist /secretary for a local signage company and I love my job, if anyone needs any signage gimme a shout! :lol:

I'm a full time mum of three boys and a girl in south sheffield

Jill

I'm a mummy to a 2 1/2 yr old angel :? , at college doing A levels, cleaner at someone's house a few hours a week, and now I'm getting into glamour modelling to try get rid of some of my debt :)

Microsoft Computer Systems Engineer and Administrator ( MCSE and MCSA) at a Data Processing corporation. My duties include engineering LAN/WANs as well as design and support of Exchange, ISA, Oracle, SQL, Perl, ASP and Network+ & A+ training of fellow associates. I build extreme PCs and web sites in my spare time. I have 2 wonderful kids, ages 3 1/2 and 1, that provide my motivation for my busy schedule...

I'm a full time pimp

Psychenaut (and technical author)
[ & flash noodler
photoshop pixelpuncher
part-part time web site constructor (why do clients always know what they don't want?)]
Father of boy.

student...
:D

I'm a cop

Project Manager - Telecomms

Cat Flap adjuster

what boring sad dull jobs do you lot try to hold down then??

Originally posted by fittdiva
what boring sad dull jobs do you lot try to hold down then??

Merged this with a less offensively phrased thread.

I'm a PA to a CEO.

I'm a computer game designer.

Originally posted by fittdiva
what boring sad dull jobs do you lot try to hold down then??
You know, you come across as a mentally unstable person!

Only of course in the context of your written words don't you know?

i work p/t for a fabrication company in attercliffe (tues/wed/thur) and on mon/fri/sat i work for a friend as a qualified piercer & i'm training to be a tattooist..as i've been fasinated by tats since i was 7. i only do the admin for the fab co for the money.

I'm a student studying/training to be an Occupational therapist. So that's the job I'll have when I grow up :)

i'm a java developer.

Graphic Designer.

saxophone and clarinet teacher and a consultant for virgin vie cosmetics.

I am yet another goverment drone...but i,ve never refered to my clients as doleys.... I allways do my best to help anyone who comes to me to look for work, whatever circumstances surround them. so please dont shout at me :)

Im Jacks dad, and girls boy.

Database administrator. At least in theory.

I'm in Marketing but would prefer to race motorbikes

City Ambassador

(Sorry, I ate all the forrero Rocher):thumbsup: :P

Im a Musician and Singer.:thumbsup:

I have been a secondhand dealer for a very long time , in fact that long I'm now an antique dealer .

I have been a bookbinder, an engineer, a dining hall porter, a retail manager, a salesman, an industrial radiographer and then a research technician until the ugly claws of redundancy came and grabbed me on the 31st of March this year.

Now? Well, since this Tuesday, I iron bed sheets for hospitals and the occasional pillow-cases. And it's OK actually.

I work for a tenancy support scheme. And I absolutely love it. :D

I have 2 jobs:

1) I drive in the middle lane (when the left one's empty) of the motorway for a living.
2) I paint the green and red bits on the Pilau Rice down the local Indian

I'm at College redoing my GCSE's to get better grades. If any of you guys are tutors there you probably know me ...

Also for some extra cash I work at Co-op as a shelf stacker. Feel free to giggle all ya want ;)

I'm the one who gets shouted at all the time ... :(

Originally posted by hj dary
Im Jacks dad

Not my dad, you understand :)

I recently quit my job to grow mushrooms. Lots of fun but money is a bit tight.

Bar Manager in city centre bar on west street, mum to 3 1/2 year old little boy, general crazey lady, ladette, good drinker!

I try to be a Test Analyst - but mostly succeed in surfing!

Work in insurance and yes it is as boring as it sounds, which is why i am reading this site and not doing any work!

Not working atm but looking for something. Last job was Community Worker and I loved it. Looking for similar if anyone knows of anything?

I work for an insurance company - and yes, it is extremely dull.

Originally posted by RustyBucket
I may have missed the point, but what is funny about unemployment? I am assuming that you work for The Employment Service when you write about looking after "doleys"? Should a civil servant with a career and a well sorted pension really be referring to the unemployed as "doleys".

They will always be wasters who do not want to work, but the majority of the people you claim to be looking after have already lost their jobs and their dignity, so providing you and your colleagues with a daily laugh is hardly likely to be the job they are after. Couldn't agree more!

I worked as an assistant manager in a bar for 8 years, now working for directory enqiures but fed up of all the grief i get so looking for other things ..

Originally posted by ian123
I have 2 jobs:

1) I drive in the middle lane (when the left one's empty) of the motorway for a living.
2) I paint the green and red bits on the Pilau Rice down the local Indian

You sound busy, but I did hear there's a vacancy for someone to push pedestrian crossing buttons, then carry on walking down the street without crossing.

Interested?

:lol:

Originally posted by Ravenger
I'm a computer game designer.

Me 2 ... and I also do programming.

Self employed builder, bricklayer by trade. :thumbsup:

i work at the club aqua under pondsforge anyone heard of it

Design and implement large scale data solutions using MPLS / UTMS / GSM / IP / GPRS / xDSL / LL / BWA access methods to produce the solutions.

:rolleyes: :D

I am ward manager of one of the acute injury wards of the spinal injury unit at the northern

I'm a student Midwife :) And I love it :D

I work as a technician in a school with all the lovely big children. (Yeah)

Newly appointed constable, based Sheffield North. :)

I'm a Product Development Engineer for the largest cutting tool manufacturer in the world (Sandvik) (http://www.dormertools.com) ).

Im a joiner, if you need me take a look at my post in miscellaneous.

Cheers

IT developer, web hosting and development and wannabe film maker!

The cunning plan is to make the money in IT then blow it making movies!

A legal adviser/n.q.solicitor-cum- sudent as I'm doing my Masters at the moment

I'm a hospital caretaker at a psychiatric unit ,used to work in a brewery for too many years .Unfortunately it shut down and moved production to Birmingham !

Originally posted by fuzzy
I work as a technician in a school with all the lovely big children. (Yeah)

Big Children Fuzzy ?

I build high voltage load centers and switchgear for the mining and power distribution industry. or, to put it simpler, I fiddle with big steel boxes full of wire that get sent underground to turn stuff on and off.

Originally posted by Lindseyw
Big Children Fuzzy ?
Secondary school.

Hotel Sales Manager and Meeting Planner.

You have a conference or a party and I book it and organize it.

In sales - ready mix concrete and block. Sell residential and commercial projects. Sold more color concrete at Universal Studios, Disney World theme parks and resorts, and Sea World than I care to remember. Lots of D.O.T. concrete - roads and bridges, waste water treatment plants, electric and nuclear power houses.

I'm a student :D

Chartered Town Planner although you'd never have thought it by looking at me! (apparently) :D

Graphic designer who really should pull his finger out and become the furniture designer he always wanted to be.

Educational researcher and developer

Student Building Surveyor.

1Man&HisBMW

Nursery Nurse with 2 and 3 year olds.

forgot i replied to this - see above!

Similar threads merged.

I am a student and I work as a barmaid in Carbrook.

im a receptionist doing an nvq in buisness and admin an ECDL and a web design course.

Computer Broker... buy your old kit and sell you new.. all at below manufacturers list pricing.. specialise in big corporate servers and networks

Marketing video games.

OK seeing as I started this thread ages ago I better update.

I am now the Marketing Director for Look Local Newspapers, a weekly free paper that covers North Sheffield, from Hillsborough up to Penistone, about 78,000 readers or so. I enjoy it.

Geoff I will be in touch shortly. ;)

Don't you mean 78,000 recipients. Into the blue bin

New Media developer / Search engine optimiser.

Originally posted by dragonsoup
Don't you mean 78,000 recipients. Into the blue bin

Thank you for your valued contribution which will be filed in the appropriate place :P

Originally posted by Paul Cocker
Thank you for your valued contribution which will be filed in the appropriate place :P
What??? the blue bin??? lolol

Well, at the moment doing GCSE's at Cleeve Park School (http://www.cleevepark.bexley.sch.uk) and after, i plan to start working at currys in the summer/whilst at college. In September, i will be starting Bexley College (www.bexley.ac.uk) doing an IT course (iPro it's called) Used to be known as BTEC National Diploma in ICT Systems Support-worth 3 A Levels. then i plan to move onto HND Nat. Dip, then Bsc in Computing at the end of it all (3 or 4 yrs down the line)
:)

I retired three years ago, but forgot to tell my boss.

Iv been working for the past 4 months as a web designer / graphic designer but before that I play tested computer games :)

ry

Cartoonist/illustrator

Driving Instructor

run own business on Ebay....been doing it for 12 months and its great.

Work in computer networking. Cisco/Nortel - if that means anything to anybody.

Staff Nurse at St Elsewhere.....i mean.. the hallamshire...!!!

Originally posted by lily
i've noticed that sheffield seems to have a disproportionate number of grumpy bus drivers - though some of you are lovely :)

i assumed that the grumpiness is due to bad working conditions/pay/customers. am i right, or is it just that the bus companies attract miseries? :wink:

hehe.......I have a bit of a flirt with one of your colleagues......hes a very sweet guy with a dazzling smile...!! we seem to know each other from somewhere...............(well that was my chat up line)!!!!

sue:D :D :D

I am an out of work gooseberry shaver....wonder if sams mum came across me somewhere before ....lol.

I'm a full time A level student :D

i run a new property advertising company that is internet based and helps people buy or sell without the costs usually involved with estate agents, i am also involved in a business that will sellin car entertainment systems.

run a window cleaning buisness by day and a bar at night/w/e

Work on offshore oil rig

I work in a materials testing company. Also doin a part time degree in marerials engineering. We test steel and other materials to see how good (or bad) they are. Its great breaking things for a living!!!

During the week software development, LAN manager and host master.

Weekends, volunteering in the restoration of first generation DMUs (1950s/60s diesel trains). One of which I'm in the process of purchasing, to be hired to various heritage railways.

Used to be a DJ, twice-weekly residency, not done so professionally since moving to Sheffield but only as a hobby.

Originally posted by joe
Firefighter so i expect a load of ****e about the 'strike situation'. But apart from that, its nice to meet you all.

I would back you all the way. Its not an easy job and I dont imagine it to be. I dont consider 30k being greedy. Stand up for what you deserve! :thumbsup:

Also, there are a lot of networking ppl within the forums. I was told by a woman who worked at the Bt Tower that Sheffield had no IT base, apart from BT and HSBC. Where are all you network engineers/administrators working then?

Originally posted by rybo
Iv been working for the past 4 months as a web designer / graphic designer but before that I play tested computer games :)

ry

You have my absolute DREAM job mate! I am MEGA jealous! :lol:

"Where are all you network engineers/administrators working then?"

Work for Omnetica (formally known as Siemens Networks). Office in Manchester but based at home in Sheffield. Field engineer so could be working anywhere in the North, wherever I'm sent really.

I'm a stock handler in a warehouse now but until last year I was Security supervisor at Castle College.

Originally posted by costessey
Work on offshore oil rig

really? What's it like?

I work for a local authority by day and run the Classic Rock Bar on Ecclesall Road by night and weekend.

Originally posted by spook
really? What's it like?


if you don't mind being away from home for two weeks at a time, not bad at all

I always thought it was longer than 2 weeks that you were away for.

Originally posted by rickmiles85
I would back you all the way. Its not an easy job and I dont imagine it to be. I dont consider 30k being greedy. Stand up for what you deserve! :thumbsup:

Also, there are a lot of networking ppl within the forums. I was told by a woman who worked at the Bt Tower that Sheffield had no IT base, apart from BT and HSBC. Where are all you network engineers/administrators working then?

Did anyone ever mention Fretwell Downing to her?

Musician (night), Ferry pilot s.e.p.. aeroplane (day....but not everyday)....days inbetween......a complete waster

Not to mention NTL/Teleworst, the universities, council and hospitals, EDS, PlusNet - we have an ever increasing tech base here - just a pity no-one notices!

As to what I do, I'm a bio/computer geek working on bio-informatics and trying to teach some hardcore computer geeks a bit about biology - eeek!!!

Hey I start my new job tomorrow as .................

wait for it .................

No sniggering EvilDrNeil ..................

A lunch time supervisor (dinner lady to you and me) at my sons school!!

Wish me luck!!!!!

Originally posted by FetishFairy
Hey I start my new job tomorrow as .................

wait for it .................

No sniggering EvilDrNeil ..................

A lunch time supervisor (dinner lady to you and me) at my sons school!!

Wish me luck!!!!!

Good luck :thumbsup:

Present job is a BRAND Q officer (benefits realisation and data quality for caseworking on the database used by the Immigration and Nationality Directorate - IND - of the Home Office in Sheffield [except Sheffield Airport]). Shortly I will be trained to be an internal consultant for the IND...

Previous jobs : MPs correspondence, caseworking, various jobs at PlusNet and before that I was at Portsmouth uni doing my postdoc research... www.sci.port.ac.uk/ec

Presently an Application Support and Maintenance officer for the Government, I can break Rtappers PC on request.. no fee required :D

Originally posted by FetishFairy
No sniggering EvilDrNeil ..................

Snigger? moi?? I'm more of an evil cackler :twisted:

Originally posted by Deejay
Presently an Application Support and Maintenance officer for the Government, I can break Rtappers PC on request.. no fee required :D

How much not to break it again ? :P Or was that not deliberate ? :D

asking way to much there mate, you know I have to bring the network down at least once a week hehe.. good ole stable network that it is :|

i work for hmv and ann summers


lovely combination....

Just an idea but why don't the forum members get it together and help each other out. A good example was last week I was looking for an auto electrician (as had engine problems with my car) in the yellow pages. So why don't we all list what job we do and then if anyone needs any advise or help, or an auto electrician for instance, then we know where to turn

I work in sales for a distribution company in town, so if anyone wants a good price on till rolls/credit card rolls, price gun labels, portable applience testing labels, payslips and stacks more things that a business has to buy in, then get in touch and I'll see what I can do for ya!

Thanks

Tony

Materials research engineer.

If you need qualitative or quantitative chemical analysis information using energy dispersive x-ray analysis, or would like an image forming using electron microscopy, I'm your man.

I'm not going to be of too much use in the real world am I? Oh well I can make nice milkshakes if it's more helpful. I could also play guitar for you.

Anybody need any Digital Telephone exchanges installing or Optical Fibre splicing.... never mind, i'll get mi coat.

I'm a 6th form student. Not a lot of use. Unless you want me to talk about sociological/theological theories, or about Tsarist Russia, Nazi Germany, 19th C English poverty Law, WUthering Heights, Streetcar Named Desire, WW1 Poetry.Plays/Novels, or Othello. No? Thought not. :D

painting and decorating

cleaning

Tech support for Wanadoo. I can make your pc / mac go fizzzzz

Threads merged.

I'm a bluebottle sexer at a maggot farm. I have to keep the ratio of male to female bluebottles at the correct level. Too many females and the males are knackered. Too many males and they start to fight over the females. Without me the whole maggot producing industry would collapse, causing serious financial problems in the stock market. Pretty important job as I'm sure you'd all agree. Well, it's a living........

Hey Pitsmoor - sounds great!

well it keeps the wolf from the door. The main problem is watching out for two male bluebottles taking a shine to each other. Things like that can severely disrupt the male to female ratio, which at the moment is 3 : 1 in favour of the females. Any bluebottles not coming up to scratch are sent into the spiders web room. Fascinating aint it ?

I'm a ringer out for a one-armed window cleaner.

i own a company selling corsets and latex clothing

I work in a unit for adults with Autism spectrum disorder.
I'm currently doing my NVQ 4 and have a 11 year old daughter (so I'm pretty busy lady).

Originally posted by pitsmoorlad
I'm a bluebottle sexer at a maggot farm.

Just curious here but how do you tell the sex of a bluebottle :confused:

BTW my sig says what I do.

student, tax dodger.,....woteva you want to call it!!! hehe :P

"how do you tell the sex of a bluebottle"

upholder,
Takes years of practice. You have a pair of tweezers with which you hold the bluebottle, you then look closely at them through a very powerful magnifying glass. It used to be easier, in that you looked for tattoos and whiskers on the males, lipstick and a clutch bag on the females, but stereotyping has become a thing of the past in the bluebottle world, as with humans, so you have to look more closely and intimately. Once the sex has been determined they are put into the correct room for their particular gender, then released into the mating room in the correct ratio. Seasoned veterans at sexing can tell the difference in houseflies, which are much smaller.

Mental health nurse

I earn money doing nothing - set up a few internet sites which generate it! Sounds great but it makes you very lazy indeed.

Also toying with new business ideas to try and occupy my days.

I'm an Instructional Designer. This is someone who writes open learning courses for computer based training. I'm currently doing one on Plumbing! I just love it when those survey people ask what I do for a living, and I say 'Instructional Designer' and they have no idea what it is, so can't code it into their SOC codes!

Originally posted by pitsmoorlad
"how do you tell the sex of a bluebottle"

upholder,
Takes years of practice. You have a pair of tweezers with which you hold the bluebottle, you then look closely at them through a very powerful magnifying glass. It used to be easier, in that you looked for tattoos and whiskers on the males, lipstick and a clutch bag on the females, but stereotyping has become a thing of the past in the bluebottle world, as with humans, so you have to look more closely and intimately. Once the sex has been determined they are put into the correct room for their particular gender, then released into the mating room in the correct ratio. Seasoned veterans at sexing can tell the difference in houseflies, which are much smaller.

Thanks pitsmoorlad, I knew there would be a logical explanation :rolleyes:

I suppose even bluebottles have to change with the times :thumbsup:

Originally posted by Tony1
Just an idea but why don't the forum members get it together and help each other out. A good example was last week I was looking for an auto electrician (as had engine problems with my car) in the yellow pages. So why don't we all list what job we do and then if anyone needs any advise or help, or an auto electrician for instance, then we know where to turn

I work in sales for a distribution company in town, so if anyone wants a good price on till rolls/credit card rolls, price gun labels, portable applience testing labels, payslips and stacks more things that a business has to buy in, then get in touch and I'll see what I can do for ya!

Thanks

Tony


that can only be young middleton tryna bump his commision up LOL

i................ am a bar supervisor in mingdom, and also work as a CSA at dixons contact centre *sigh*

Prosthetist.

(Thats artificial limbs btw). Working at Northern General and new to Sheffield and this forum.

I'm a recidivist! Part time now!!!!:rolleyes:

Originally posted by miniminch
I'm a recidivist! Part time now!!!!:rolleyes:
guess that you can get us anything we require then!

CAN ANYONE UPDATE ME ABOUT WARDSON MACHINE KNIFES

NOTHING!!!!! :D

I was a CAD operator until 6pm today. Couldn't hack the working in Corby though. Brude is fed up with being a nomad too.

We're having some time off - well deserved at that!!

I'll be looking for a job drawing house plans/interiors soon, so If anybody can point me in the right direction.......

Originally posted by ANDYHARRIS
CAN ANYONE UPDATE ME ABOUT WARDSON MACHINE KNIFES

Sorry, see my post in the other forum - more relevant there.

Alex

I help husband with his business (buys ex company cars and sells to trade and retail) and work part time in florist and garden centre.Best job I ever had was working at Rainbow Hill kennels when Polly Xanthos had them, loved it.

Ask me......... :D

IT Technician at a well-funded Sheffield secondary school and sixth form.

Shame none of that funding finds its way into my pay packet! :(

I'm a playscheme co-ordinator and a teacher at a questionable secondary school. Fun fun fun!

Self emplyed joiner/builder

Michael_W. Just a rumour going around would be very intrested in any news

In the week I'm an analyst programmer, at the weekend I'm the queen of Denmark.

I work for a mobile phone SP and am also a Doorman at the weekends.

On a Sunday i'm Michael Knight and i go driving my car KITT around the manor. You may see me doing jums over cars etc!

:D

I'm a 3D visualiser for my troubles.

lollipop man on the M62

I supply the emergency services with comms gear and work on radio networks.

Proper good fun......... but then I am a saddo when it comes to gadgets.

i work at nothen general hospital as a ward ordley

work as a materials controller for a steel stockholder.

Originally posted by Michael_W
Wardsons Machine Knives, same type of work as Wolstenholmes.

No longer trading.............

I work in marketing for a rail engineering company

vehicle dismantler
used car/van spares sales person

I am currently a Recruitment & Training manager for a Security company, prior to that i was a Police Officer and prior to that i was a Prison Officer.

I have had a variety of jobs and gained lots of job skills, that i can put to good use. I'm a Very versatile lady.

Originally posted by crystaline
i own a company selling corsets and latex clothing


The mind boggles, what latex gear do you sell?????

Originally posted by simjns
i work at the club aqua under pondsforge anyone heard of it


Yeah went there alst week for the Sheffield Awards do, and got very drunk. whats it like on a Saturday Night?

Originally posted by andywatton
Newly appointed constable, based Sheffield North. :)

Good Luck i resigned from Sheffield South last June.

Originally posted by spook
I'm a cop


so was i 18 months ago, wish i still was.

Assistant to Board at a large national company..and im not saying who as I would be ripped to pieces!!! Also a MMA/k1 teacher two evenings a week...bit of a comparison there eh!!?

O.H. Nurse (as opposed to ooh nurse!). Looking forward to Christmas - Merry Christmas everybody in Sheffield - From Me ;)

I think I'vre probably said this before: but at the moment I am an industrial radiographer.

But I really have no 'proper' trade, not because I am completely unskilled, but because I never wanted to be typecast into a role and so decided around sixteen years after leaving the womb, that this would be the unsteady path that I would tread.

My CV is so heavy (because of the past employment section) it cost £93 in postage costs to send it with my last job application.

So I bum around and write rubbish.

Oh well.

I work at the Northern General Hospital,i'll not say which department but lets just say the other departments take us for granted! They wouldn't know what to do if we weren't there ha!

I am a play worker at an after school club thursday and fridays and i am a full time AS level student at loxley colleg.e

Harriet - I'm a full time student at sheffield uni, studying urban studies + planning, in my third year

Malcolm - I have just got a new job as a packaging designer at George (Asda)

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sam Miguel
[B]I think I'vre probably said this before: but at the moment I am an industrial radiographer.

Where do you work? I was an industrial radiographer before I switched to do it in the hopsitals.

I am a CNC milling machine operator working at EWEN Engineering, making mainly bits for tractors.

Mind my own business ;)

I'm an administrator in a call...err, sorry that should be contact centre for one of the big banks. I have given up trying to make friends by now;-)

Im a musician if that's any use to anyone ;)

PhD student at Sheffield University.

I thought people would have put their occupation in their profile info bit ... anyway .. I am a MI Adminstrator or basically do reports.

I am an It Consultant type thing for a company involved with the NHS's National program for IT.

Its really quite booring at the moment, but they promise when we go to Liverpool they will give us flick knives......:hihi:

Originally posted by peter41
I thought people would have put their occupation in their profile info bit ... anyway .. I am a MI Adminstrator or basically do reports.

I do a lot with our MI reporting systems too and often forget not everyone uses the term around 10 times a day...oh and a friend who works in market research thinks it stands for 'marketing information'...actually it stands for 'management information' if anyone was wondering.

Malaika- Magic Creations is the place for web sites. Have a s**t hot designer and are very reasonable. I was well impressed when they did some work for me. The number's: sheff2727777

Currently a civil servant working in public transport

Also a city centre dj

used to be a polymer chemist for ten years (testing rubbers what a job!)

work for the home office, work permit applications.

I do a lot with our MI reporting systems too and often forget not everyone uses the term around 10 times a day...oh and a friend who works in market research thinks it stands for 'marketing information'...actually it stands for 'management information' if anyone was wondering

Yeah I didnt know what it stood for until after I got the job, I knew it was regarding reports... thick or wot :(

I think I posted on this before when I did a different job. I have gone back to an old trade: I do a lot of admin, but am a I am an industrial radiographer for a company who make medical implants such as hip and knee joints.

How absorbing for me.

i work for the police (civvy though)

p.s dj adam, go on tell us, where in stafford- thats my home town!

I work for Ann Summers as a Party Organiser!

Professional assasin.

I have 2 roles.
I work for a charity called Bridge Employment.
I am an employment worker and I support people to find work who have mental health issues, learning disabilities,autism..
It is a very rewarding job when you make a diiference to someones life and break down the barriers that they face.We provide ongoing support when we have got someone a job so that the job does not break down

As you may have seen in a previous thread, I have also recently started up my home based business, as an independant travel agent.

Novelist and tortured genius:(

Hi
i be setting up my own entertainment agency.we specialise in providing first class entertainment for weddings,corporate events,private parties,hen and stag parties etc our test website is located at
:http://aientertainment.westwindmoves.com
but our final one will be done by middle february
thanks
belarion

Teaching Assistant

Coronation flag seller I'm resting at the moment.

I own and run a late night alcohol delivery service.

I know web design has been mentioned a few times, (i have to admit to not having read all 17 pages,just last and first few), has anyone set up their own website or had it done proffessionaly?

A quick click down there \/ will show that my freebee attempt so far is pretty lame, thinking it might be time to bring in the experts, or just someone with a bit of experience.

But back to my job, i trained as a PE teacher, was very nearly a policeman, have been a barman for about 7 years, and recently set up my own late night alcohol delivery company.

That's me. :)

-PK-

Not my job now, but won Iv alwais wantid to do is bee a teechur an teech spelin an english grammur to kids so dat dey can talk proper like wen they leev skool So praps this fred shood be not just wot you do now but wot youd like to do, or be.