whats your job ?

No1newts · 27 Jun 2012 at 23:25

Field Service Manager. Basically I have to run the lives of a load of techs/engineers and scream at people who come to me with ridiculous demands. Only being doing it a short while but really wanted this sort of role and loving it thus far

Scam · 27 Jun 2012 at 23:28

Telecine/Dailies Assistant. Work on the rushes for feature films, TV drama, commercials etc. It's 11pm and I'm on my way to work. Lovely.

Vtec9k · 27 Jun 2012 at 23:32

Head of Infrastructure Architecture in the oil and gas industry (hard to avoid in Aberdeen!)

Also running my own company on the side, never really took off but I'm keen to put more time/money into it and give it another go soon.

stulid · 27 Jun 2012 at 23:32

I'm now a technician for a large company that provides exhaust management machines for the likes of TSMC/Intel/Global Foundries and other semi-conductor manufacturers.

Horse Pop · 28 Jun 2012 at 12:38

InKursion said:
What was it in? I wouldn't say that mate. Graduate employment is tough at the moment. Your degree may well benefit you in 5-10 years time. And if you ever wish to leave the country, it'll also be a massive help.

Socilology.

InKursion · 28 Jun 2012 at 12:44

Horse Pop said:
Socilology.

My commiserations.

Jez · 28 Jun 2012 at 13:14

Blinkz said:
Airliners. I fly them.

I am jealous.

I fly for fun in my spare time in light aircraft, to fly as an occupation would take too much time out and expense to make it worth it for me now. I have missed the boat

ivrytwr3 · 28 Jun 2012 at 14:04

pattojones said:
Err, yep!

Have you heard of the pension reshuffle scheduled for 2015? It looks more than likely we are going from an Immediate Pension to a CARRE pension - those who have only done a few years are going to lose thousands.

jaket · 28 Jun 2012 at 14:15

Senior Server and Storage Engineer in gov.

neodude · 28 Jun 2012 at 14:29

Blinkz said:
Airliners. I fly them.

Airliners. I stop them from getting too close.

maxilive · 28 Jun 2012 at 15:07

syke said:
Design Co-Ordinator for a company that designs licensed clothing (Nintendo, Sega, DC etc). I design a little but I'm more on the licensing side of things.

Free Sega Clothing plox!

Sawell · 28 Jun 2012 at 15:22

I work with SAP, 23 years old and earning more than my Dad did as a director.

Shameful really, but the demand is there. Some of the project managers here get rates of 900-1k p/day (taking home 16k a month).

To be fair though, it is hard work and it's a huge learning curve. It's complex in both a business and technical sense and it's hugely over-engineered and priced. I think it was actually attributed to the bankruptcy of a jeweler business in the US, they spent something like $40m on integration (peanuts to some business' integration costs) and couldn't keep up.

FutileBreadMachine · 28 Jun 2012 at 15:26

Some interesting jobs in here. I thought you were all just uni students or programmers.

I'm a SQL Server BI Consultant (1 man band contractor) working in London.

Sawell · 28 Jun 2012 at 15:31

RationalGaze said:
Some interesting jobs in here. I thought you were all just uni students or programmers.

I'm a SQL Server BI Consultant (1 man band contractor) working in London.

Ooh! Always wanted to go into BI contracting, I did it perm in my last job (Business Objects/Cognos), but work with HR. Are you finance BI? If so did you work in a finance capacity beforehand?

J.B · 28 Jun 2012 at 15:31

mysticsniper said:
Information Security Analyst - Working in Cyber Security and Encryption.

*high five*

There's a few security bods on here

FutileBreadMachine · 28 Jun 2012 at 15:44

Sawell said:
Ooh! Always wanted to go into BI contracting, I did it perm in my last job (Business Objects/Cognos), but work with HR. Are you finance BI? If so did you work in a finance capacity beforehand?

I worked in a financial intelligence company before, but not a full on investment bank or anything like that. Apparently they are hard to get into and can be closed shops i.e. you have to have worked there before to work there again, and they really like off-shoring IT (as you may have read regarding RBS's screwup by Indian staff). Right now I am contracted to a certain public service. Going to ride it out here as long as possible, the market is terrible at the moment due to the economy and banks outsourcing everything.

Sawell · 28 Jun 2012 at 15:50

RationalGaze said:
I worked in a financial intelligence company before, but not a full on investment bank or anything like that. Apparently they are hard to get into and can be closed shops i.e. you have to have worked there before to work there again, and they really like off-shoring IT (as you may have read regarding RBS's screwup by Indian staff). Right now I am contracted to a certain public service. Going to ride it out here as long as possible, the market is terrible at the moment due to the economy and banks outsourcing everything.

Same in the SAP industry really, if they can off-shore it they will. The businesses are suffering for it and wasting the money they're investing but until the economy settles they're being very cautious with how the money is spent and represented. I do worry about off-shoring BI though, Indian consultancy firms are notorious for guessing before asking for advice.

FutileBreadMachine · 28 Jun 2012 at 16:03

Sawell said:
Same in the SAP industry really, if they can off-shore it they will. The businesses are suffering for it and wasting the money they're investing but until the economy settles they're being very cautious with how the money is spent and represented. I do worry about off-shoring BI though, Indian consultancy firms are notorious for guessing before asking for advice.

My bro used to work at a massive TV company as a tester up until about 2 years ago when they decided to offshore to India and make his department redundant. He had to train his own replacement, and it was clear the Indian staff were nowhere near qualified to do it. He heard from his manager a few months ago that the whole thing was a disaster and none of their work was usable, so now they have to hire brits again.

Blinkz · 28 Jun 2012 at 16:38

Jez said:
I am jealous.

I fly for fun in my spare time in light aircraft, to fly as an occupation would take too much time out and expense to make it worth it for me now. I have missed the boat

Ah excellent, in many ways flying privately is a lot more rewarding! You can go where you want, when you want! Do you have a PPL? Not sure how old you are, but generally its never too late to do something you want. I'm a firm believer that if you want something badly enough you can make it happen.

I've said it before but we really should try and have a Ocuk fly-in! There are a fair few of us involved in aviation

neodude said:
Airliners. I stop them from getting too close.

Correction, you tell us to keep away from each other haha. Still up to us to actually not get too close. Still up in Edinburgh? I miss the city

Blue160 · 28 Jun 2012 at 16:39

I'm a musician and teacher. I play bass trombone, trombone and tuba professionally. I also teach kids to play brass instruments in a couple of local schools.