Occupation

[jaylach]

My grandpa owns a computer supply and repair company

LOL! My condolences to your grandpa. My biggest gripe with doing computer work was clients lying about the cause of a system problem

 

[Deleted member 149562]

I am retired.

My dream job was to be up to my armpits in aircraft engines...passed all exams and tests to enter the RAF straight from school but required parents signatures. Dad was all for it. Mother "Working on engines is NOT a proper job for a woman" and she refused to sign the papers.

Dream shattered.

I did however get my revenge. I started working at a large retirement apartment building firm in their towercrane department. Towercrane placement, maintenance scheduling and drop chain tests. Up to the knees in mud on building sites, called out all hours day and night to deal with towercrane emergencies (including one at Witney, Oxfordshire where the driver hired by the site manager was not type qualified and the brand new towercrane snapped its main towner section bolts in high winds)

After a few years there I got the driving trucks bug and finished my working career driving raw petfood ingredients from slaughterhouses to processing factories (got a few funnies about that too, should anyone be interested). So spent 15 or so years driving 44 ton articulated trucks across the UK and mainland Europe.

My weekend fun was driving alongside Allan "Bootsie" Herridge at Santa Pod NHRA dragway. I was present when he was killed at Pod whilst driving his newly built jet car Midnight Cowboy on November 6th, 1983.

I was forced to retire due to the body not wanting to work as hard as I wanted it to.

 

[itiwhetu]

I am a Bread Baker by Trade, and after almost 20 years away from the industry I love, I have just started to work again in a Local Bakery.

 

[Essjay]

I am retired, if you can call being a housewife and stay at home mother for 35 years working. My working career was two jobs, first as a research assistant in the biochemistry department at a university, then I got married and moved across country and worked in the clinical biochemistry department of a teaching hospital.
Back in the 1980s, background checks hadn't really been invented so I spent many hours helping at the primary school in the classes my children attended, both in the classroom and on school trips. Any trip outside the school needed 1 adult for every 10 children, so a class of 30 needed the teacher and two parents. As there were only a few stay at home mothers, I got to go on just about all of the trips. But that ended when they changed to secondary school at 11.

So how do I spend my time as a retired person? Well, housewives never retire as there's still housework to be done. Besides fish and being a mod on here, my other main interest is family history research. I have also just bought a cross stitch kit several years since doing the last. It is big and will take me years to finish.

B604 Nature’s Wonderland - Cross Stitch Kit Luca-S | Luca-S SRL

Colors: 66Size: 26.1 x 17.8 inches or 66x45 cmThreads: Anchor 100% cotonFabric: Aida (100) 18 ct. "Zweigart"Cross Stitch Kit Luca-S

www.luca-s.com

 

[AmyKieran]

I’m taking time away to care for my I’ll wife, but I was a sport and exercise science student at university

 

[Beastije]

OOh, love this idea, many people have such interesting lives, good to know where to aim!
I work as an IT system admin but in a large corporate, so not sure if it is even IT anymore. I also co-own a foodtruck/gastro company, we do food events, weddings and company events for the past three years, corona made this so much harder.

 

[AmyKieran]

OOh, love this idea, many people have such interesting lives, good to know where to aim!
I work as an IT system admin but in a large corporate, so not sure if it is even IT anymore. I also co-own a foodtruck/gastro company, we do food events, weddings and company events for the past three years, corona made this so much harder.

Well I’ll take the time to ask you this :

Has the coronavirus / other world events caused an increase in food prices for your food truck company?

I see your from Czech Republic, in the UK the food prices have risen massively as a result of covid and other stuff, is it the same for you?

 

[Beastije]

Well I’ll take the time to ask you this :

Has the coronavirus / other world events caused an increase in food prices for your food truck company?

I see your from Czech Republic, in the UK the food prices have risen massively as a result of covid and other stuff, is it the same for you?

Surprisingly, coronavirus didnt affect prices of the food at all in my opinion, but it caused us to split efforts, be in two zones, people didnt eat out much, so it cost us a lot of money that we simply lost by people being cautious. It made people ravenous once all the restrictions ended, we have three times as many food requests as pre-corona.

However, the Ukraine war skyrocketed the prices, gas to get to the event, oil, basics, flours, pasta, anything stored in glass containers, meat,... everything is about half or more expensive, we had to increase our prices too and people are super surprised, like if they didnt notice it themselves when paying for groceries and somehow expected us to keep our pre-war prices.

 

[AmyKieran]

Surprisingly, coronavirus didnt affect prices of the food at all in my opinion, but it caused us to split efforts, be in two zones, people didnt eat out much, so it cost us a lot of money that we simply lost by people being cautious. It made people ravenous once all the restrictions ended, we have three times as many food requests as pre-corona.

However, the Ukraine war skyrocketed the prices, gas to get to the event, oil, basics, flours, pasta, anything stored in glass containers, meat,... everything is about half or more expensive, we had to increase our prices too and people are super surprised, like if they didnt notice it themselves when paying for groceries and somehow expected us to keep our pre-war prices.

Yeah that sounds tough, I know people may seem ignorant to the price rises but I can also sympathise with it.

I’m UK petrol prices have risen from around 130p a litre to now 200p a litre average aswell as all food going up by about 20%, gas and electric prices doubling. It’s all just a bit much for the citizens and too much to deal with. I think people may just be sick of prices rising everywhere else that your food truck was part of the gripe. If only the prices on your food truck rose, I don’t think anyone would mind. But because everything else has risen, then they take it out on your business

 

[Beastije]

Yeah that sounds tough, I know people may seem ignorant to the price rises but I can also sympathise with it.

I’m UK petrol prices have risen from around 130p a litre to now 200p a litre average aswell as all food going up by about 20%, gas and electric prices doubling. It’s all just a bit much for the citizens and too much to deal with. I think people may just be sick of prices rising everywhere else that your food truck was part of the gripe. If only the prices on your food truck rose, I don’t think anyone would mind. But because everything else has risen, then they take it out on your business

Basically good thing for me is, my livelihood doesnt depend on the earnings from the foodtruck, so I can tell them to go and purchase it elsewhere, if they dont want to pay for it. I am not truly a people person so not the best to work in a foodtruck, but hey, what can you do

 

[AmyKieran]

Basically good thing for me is, my livelihood doesnt depend on the earnings from the foodtruck, so I can tell them to go and purchase it elsewhere, if they dont want to pay for it. I am not truly a people person so not the best to work in a foodtruck, but hey, what can you do

Well your taking a positive approach to it in my opinion so your doing everything you can do

Keep on food trucking @Beastije, hopefully I’ll be in Czech Republic one day to buy some food

 

[Colin_T]

Food, power, gas and fuel prices have all gone up in Australia too. Meat went up a few months after covid started and that is weird because we grow all our own meat here, same with fruit n veges. And it didn't go up by a little bit, everything has gone up 40-50% or more. The only things that haven't gone up are the pension, unemployment benefits and wages. They have been stagnant for the last 8-9 years.

 

[Lemon]

Well… I should be in school however due to medical this and that I’m taking online courses. I like to consider myself a fish trainer lol i’ve also trained my dogs and various tricks as well as my toads because I have nothing better to do

 

[GaryE]

I'm recently retired - one year next week. I was a steelworker, but the industry here shut, so I became a printer, and was replaced by technology. I went to University in the evenings for a few years while doing all sorts of jobs and came out as an adult ed teacher, then a University lecturer, then a college teacher, then a high school teacher for the last 16 years. I actually really enjoyed working with teenagers, much more than the University world. Life is short so I believe you should seek enjoyment in your job if you can.
I am also a writer, early on in fiction and later on more commercially, including a lot of aquarium stuff. That's how I ended up with a large fishroom. Research, you know... But the aquarium writing world has narrowed and doesn't pay, since the Internet wiped out all the magazines people used to pay for. Since it was fun, I still sort of do it, here and when I get around to it out there. I edit fishbooks on the rare occasions people still write them, and copy edit scientific and technical papers in the climate science field. I'm just the grammar guy.

 

[Slaphppy7]

26 years in the supermarket biz, about 20 of those in management

Now I'm a Procurement Specialist, Sr. at a state university, last 14+ years....I still have nightmares about retail, though