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sv-wolf wrote:I'm fifty-bloody-nine (someone will pay for this!) I'm a social housing manager working in local government. I also work occasionally as a shiatsu practioner (all jokes on a postcard please, addressed to the waste-paper bin).

I've previously been: an adminstrator in a nursing home for schizophrenic clients; a community worker; a youth worker; a night shelter worker; a homelessness worker; a learning difficulty support worker; a home tutor; a cook; a kitchen assistant; a self-employed painter and decorator; a carpenter; a labourer; a building site bonus clerk; a toy-maker; a street market researcher; a call-centre worker; a receptionist; a nutritionist; a homoeopathic pharmacist; a marketing manager; a condom and pessary production worker; a mushroom farm worker; a horse products production worker; an ethical investment administrator; a housing officer; a housing advice officer; a typing teacher; a home tutor; a policy officer; an 'alternative' renting agency manager; a plastic-bottles warehouseman (most fun job I ever had); various other kinds of warehouseman; a fork-lift truck driver; a factory production worker (manufacturing grooves in typewriter keys to high tolerances - mine!); a shop assistant; a filing clerk; a collating clerk!; a hospital porter; a hospital store worker; a transport co-ordinator; an editor; a writer; a bookshop owner; a student counsellor; a student (various times) and a bum.

Oh and once in desperation, I tried being a travelling salesman. I lasted five days.

They could use my career trajectory to design an off-roading m/c training circuit somewhere in the Sierra Nevada.

I don't kinda settle easily.

High_Side wrote:Holy bringing a thread back from the grave Batman!

sunshine229 wrote:Hahahaha so many laughs on this page!

High_Side said it best in another post:

High_Side wrote:Holy bringing a thread back from the grave Batman!

I never did reply to this post ever so I guess it's my turn...

I'm a lovely 3-0 or 7 1/2 years old (try to figure that one out) and I'm a GIS professional, which I've been doing since graduating university in 2002.

In my younger years my coolest job was when I worked as a DJ at a local radio station. Wicked!

Gummiente wrote:I last posted in this thread when I was 44, now I'm about to hit 49. I started off in the military at the tender age of 18, retired at age 34 and bounced around the job market for a couple years as a security guard, life insurance & mutual funds salesman, frozen foods salesman, before settling on the Millwright trade. Was also a Canada Safety Council qualified Motorcycle Safety Course Instructor (part-time), for about five years. That was one of the most fun and rewarding jobs I've ever had, but there just wasn't enough demand to turn it into a full time career. Two years ago I got tired of being laid off and, after taking the summer off, turned my back on Millwrighting and took a training course to become a Professional Transport Operator (a fancy way of saying "trucker"). Got hired on by a trucking company in Mississauga last January and have been roaming the highways of Ontario, Quebec and most of the eastern US ever since in my big jeezus truck...

sv-wolf wrote:Wow Gummi, and I seriously had you down as a backwoods man (with sidecar), not a roamer. Shows how wrong you can be.

joolz wrote: I'm 42, drive a delivery van and can't get the Rocket to wheelie