A Picture To Describe Your Job!

gf225 said:

I service Harrier Jump Jet ejection seats.

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You don't get to test them too do you ?

this describes my current situation

I service Harrier Jump Jet ejection seats.

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I would have thought after they have been used once they'd be pretty much f*cked.....then again, I dont know a great deal about ejection seats, infact my knowledge of them starts and ends with Bond films...

....maybe thats why you service them and I dont.

big mick said:

I service Harrier Jump Jet ejection seats.

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I would have thought after they have been used once they'd be pretty much f*cked.....then again, I dont know a great deal about ejection seats, infact my knowledge of them starts and ends with Bond films...

....maybe thats why you service them and I dont.

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Obviously we hope they're never used. We're talking £20,000,000 for the jet not to mention the pilot's health (approx 20G in a split second - not good for the spine!), and that's assuming they make it out ok.

They are single use.

Each seat has a two year life before it comes in for a complete strip, maintenance, test (no Antonet, we don't sit in them and get blown into the sky 300 feet!) and re-build.

We have the latest seat to have been used sitting in our workshop, rusting away in the corner. The pilot ejected over the English coast during an air display whilst hovering, hit literally pulled the wrong lever and shut off the engine power instead of moving the nozzles. Needless to say the jet fell out of the sky like a lead balloon and he had to bang-out. He got out fine but broke his ankle landing on the crashed aircraft directly below him. How embarrassing!

On an interesting technical note they're called zero-zero seats because they can fire the pilot out from the ground at standstill, up far enough (300 ft.) so the parachute can open and get him down safely.

Oh, and the guy who serviced the seat gets a crate of beer from the pilot if their seat is used. I've only worked in there since December so no beer for me yet.

Anyway that's enough of me boring you about my work. Aquarium plants, now there's interesting .

what are you doing here then go and kick the planes in a bit get your crate of beer
I have the worlds best job a STUDENT and i also sweep leaves fo £10 an hour on saturday mornings.

gf225 said:

(no Antonet, we don't sit in them and get blown into the sky 300 feet!) and re-build.

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I was pulling your leg the thought amused me

My title is "Spatial Analyst/Scientific Illustrator". Other companies might call me a GIS Technician/Scientific Illustrator. I work for a small archaeology company. The illustration part is pretty obvious, I draw things, namely anything that cannot be photographed but needs to be illustrated for publication purposes (mostly anything that was in a burial, or the human remains themselves). The GIS part (Geographic Information Systems) involves managing field crews, spending plenty of time myself in the field collecting data, processing that data and then creating maps and corresponding databases. Sounds boring, but it has its moments.

Here's an actual shot of me in the field. As you can see, its a very glamorous and exciting job (and also, you can tell I hate to have my picture taken).

gf225 said:

Obviously we hope they're never used. We're talking £20,000,000 for the jet not to mention the pilot's health (approx 20G in a split second - not good for the spine!), and that's assuming they make it out ok.

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Is it true that the (successful!) use of an ejector seat makes the pilot an inch or two shorter due to the spinal compression?

I work for an insurance company. Along with auto insurance, we also provide workers compensation insurance which covers things like:

*whiplash from being rocketed 300 feet into the air from a ejection seat
*breaking your leg because you slipped on chicken "doo" while collecting eggs
*carpal tunnel syndrome from writing out too many mortgage notes
*breaking your toe because you missed the fence post you were pounding with a sledge hammer
*a bad infection caused by the Iguana you were treating

...just to name a few.

Lol, nah I wish...



I'm a year 10 student. That's not me, by the way.

Everyone has such cool jobs!

These are a few of the kind of "things" I get to work with everyday:









Can anyone guess what I do??

Some sort of lung doctor!?

*whiplash from being rocketed 300 feet into the air from a ejection seat
*breaking your leg because you slipped on chicken "doo" while collecting eggs
*carpal tunnel syndrome from writing out too many mortgage notes
*breaking your toe because you missed the fence post you were pounding with a sledge hammer
*a bad infection caused by the Iguana you were treating

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...only in USA huh!!!


Heres me:

Angry Platy, you are deffo one of those dudes that does autopsies and stuff.

Those look like smokers lungs to me too.

Not that I'm medically minded in the slightest.

Swart Skaap said:

Heres me:

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Network administrator..?


Nope to the helping old people pot plants, make gardening gloves, making old people or anything else!

(How do you make old people exactly? Over stress someone?!)

I work in the corporate pensions industry, hence the old people!

Told you it was a crap choice of picture - not to mention job.

Almost time to call it quits, but very reluctant to do so.......

v/r, N-A