What does everybody do here?

MooMoo444 said:
is anyone here a shop?
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shop
ʃɒp/Submit
noun
1.
a building or part of a building where goods or services are sold.
"a video shop"
synonyms: store, retail store, outlet, retail outlet, reseller, cash and carry; More
2.
a place where things are manufactured or repaired; a workshop.
"an auto repair shop"
synonyms: workshop, workroom, plant, factory, works, manufacturing complex, industrial unit, business unit, mill, foundry, yard, garage, atelier, studio; More
verb
1.
visit one or more shops or websites to buy goods.
"she shopped for groceries twice a week"
synonyms: go shopping, do the shopping, buy what one needs/wants, buy things, go to the shops; More
2.
BRITISHinformal
inform on (someone).
"she shopped her husband to bosses for taking tools home"
synonyms: inform on/against, betray, sell out, tell tales on, be disloyal to, be unfaithful to, break one's promise to, break faith with, stab in the back;


Are you sure mate?
 
I'm a chef, have been since i was 16, so 22 years. I love my job, i get paid relatively well for it. I'm still learning every day so it doesn't get boring. I get to experiment with whatever cuisine i like. I don't have a favourite, however, i've recently taken an interest in Far eastern cuisine. I love cooking curries, tagines and casseroles.

I'd love to bring my own brand of cook your own dishes out, a bit like what Gousto do - which i had the idea for many years ago but stupidly never took it any further.
 
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Technical supervisor for an M&E team looking after a £400m building a stone's throw away from Moorgate. No two days are the same so it never gets boring. I am responsible for five engineers and the work they produce (or don't, as it often happens :p). We're responsible for everything in the building that's mechanical or electrical, so one day we're replacing light bulbs, the next day we're changing a pump bigger than a small car or fixing a leak which would've flooded any house in 20 seconds. It's very rewarding at the moment but I only got promoted in September (7 weeks after I joined the company as a mechanical engineer :eek:).

I'm already looking for the next step up though. I don't want to fall in a rut again like when I was an engineer.


Also, money. I earn a very decent salary and having spent years hovering around the £30k mark, I now have an appetite for more. I want the next step already.
 
4th line Unix/Linux support for a large international outsourcing company. About 20% of my time is taken dealing with escalations from 3rd line support but mostly we are putting together and documenting new standard implementation elements, auditing solution and high-level designs for technical correctness and liaising with our global equivalents to agree what the company should be doing in our technology area on a global basis.

tl:dr: I get to play with Linux/Unix boxes all day and occasionally shout at technical architects ...ok, often shout at technical architects ...
 
wez130 said:
I'm a chef, have been since i was 16, so 22 years. I love my job, i get paid relatively well for it. I'm still learning every day so it doesn't get boring. I get to experiment with whatever cuisine i like. I don't have a favourite, however, i've recently taken an interest in Far eastern cuisine. I love cooking curries, tagines and casseroles.
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My colleague (1st line support) left his old life as a head chef of some average restaurant - a seriously angry person, plagued with stress. He's always telling us how he used to break up the fights in the kitchen between the polish lot waving knives around everywhere, screaming at each other..

I take it that doesn't quite tie in with your work place?
 
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My colleague (1st line support) left his old life as a head chef of some average restaurant - a seriously angry person, plagued with stress. He's always telling us how he used to break up the fights in the kitchen between the polish lot waving knives around everywhere, screaming at each other..

I take it that doesn't quite tie in with your work place?
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My workplace is a lot more relaxed, there's only three of us, it's nothing like the scenes you see on Hells kitchen lol, i have worked in that kind of setting though. I love it, a good service is such a great rush. You feel great after service when you get your first pint (which i get free after each shift where i am).

It's all down to being prepared. If you're well prepared for a busy service, it will run smooth.

I have sometimes considered a different career to follow but i wouldn't know what to do, and to be honest, i'd miss the craic in the kitchen.
 
tom_e said:
Business intelligence developer, so I work with reporting and shifting data around our various databases. Not a bad job, racking up some good experience though which is the important thing.

I do the odd bit of door work/security but no where near as much as I used to.
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Gornall said:
I help run a Business Intelligence consultancy firm based in Ilkley.

Do work across a great variety of sectors so myself and the team get some great experience and generally our clients are remarkably good to work with.
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What BI technologies?

I suppose I'd be a BI Implementation Constant, but I'm generally just labelled as a Consultant in the technology stack we specialist in, and get deployed into various roles depending on the client/project. Currently I'm a Lead Developer, but I've also been an Infrastructure Consultant, Solution Architect, Infrastructure Architect, Tester, Analyst, Developer, and Trainer.

A guy I work with terms it being a "Solutioneer", which is pretty apt.
 
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