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 
whats your job ?
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Socilology.
My commiserations.
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
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.
Airliners. I stop them from getting too close.
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.
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.
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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.
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?
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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.
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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.
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
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