So how would you recommend we deal with chicks, if gassing them is not good enough?
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So how would you recommend we deal with chicks, if gassing them is not good enough?
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Male Escort
Pros:
Get to meet various types of people.
Covid having no effect - regular clients have needs.
Lots of expensive presents.
High income.
Receive a lot of free financial advice and investment strategies that others pay a fortune for.
Cons:
Covid has reduced the amount of free trips abroad, however still getting time to spend on luxury yachts.
No chnace of ever settling down
Can destroy a marriage
Pros:
Get to meet various types of people.
Covid having no effect - regular clients have needs.
Lots of expensive presents.
High income.
Receive a lot of free financial advice and investment strategies that others pay a fortune for.
Cons:
Covid has reduced the amount of free trips abroad, however still getting time to spend on luxury yachts.
No chnace of ever settling down
Can destroy a marriage
Soldato
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Not eating chicken would be a start
What is your issue with chicks and chicken?Not eating chicken would be a start
Man of Honour
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Job: Class 1 (C+E) Heavy Goods Vehicle Driver aka Trucker.
Pros: Paid to drive something I’d happily pay to drive, get to intimidate Range Rover drivers, listening to lots and lots of podcasts and great for following Test match special at the moment
Cons: Very long hours, early (4am) starts, late (often 7pm) finishes, dealing with moronic fellow car, van & truck drivers, ignorant warehouse staff, crap pay.
Basically a great job if you don’t want to take work home with you, you give the keys back at the end of the shift and forget about it, not so much a job, more a way of life, very socially restrictive...
Pros: Paid to drive something I’d happily pay to drive, get to intimidate Range Rover drivers, listening to lots and lots of podcasts and great for following Test match special at the moment
Cons: Very long hours, early (4am) starts, late (often 7pm) finishes, dealing with moronic fellow car, van & truck drivers, ignorant warehouse staff, crap pay.
Basically a great job if you don’t want to take work home with you, you give the keys back at the end of the shift and forget about it, not so much a job, more a way of life, very socially restrictive...
CNC machinist
Programming CNC machines to make funky things out of exotic metals.
Pros - very interesting and can be very rewarding
Cons - not much career progression and the pay in the machining industry has become average for a skilled job.
Seriously looking at IT as a career change.
Programming CNC machines to make funky things out of exotic metals.
Pros - very interesting and can be very rewarding
Cons - not much career progression and the pay in the machining industry has become average for a skilled job.
Seriously looking at IT as a career change.
Soldato
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Management accountant - a year or so away from becoming chartered.
Pros: Mentally stimulating on a daily basis, and rewarding in a problem solving sense.
Cons: As you can imagine, very repetitive and often have to deal with tedious problems.
Pros: Mentally stimulating on a daily basis, and rewarding in a problem solving sense.
Cons: As you can imagine, very repetitive and often have to deal with tedious problems.
IT Project Manager for Central Bank.
Pros:
- very interesting work with a purpose
- outstanding package (30% pension contribution) and up to 25% bonus
- excellent working flexibility
- non-micro managed and have a good team
- lots of opportunities for growth and good challenges
Cons:
- certain restrictions such as stocks and shares
- pay rises a little slow and odd pay scales
- slow decision making and lots of red tape (every day feels like a Friday)
Pros:
- very interesting work with a purpose
- outstanding package (30% pension contribution) and up to 25% bonus
- excellent working flexibility
- non-micro managed and have a good team
- lots of opportunities for growth and good challenges
Cons:
- certain restrictions such as stocks and shares
- pay rises a little slow and odd pay scales
- slow decision making and lots of red tape (every day feels like a Friday)
Education sector: organiser for a company that is the standard for exams and qualifications across it's industry.
Sector pros:
+ Secure sector with little prospect of decline. There will always be a market and necessity for qualifications and exams. Although my current role is niche, I could transfer to other awarding organisations if needed and be relatable. Possibilities exist.
Role pros:
+ Responsible top-to-bottom for the admin and oversight of National quals.
+ Although similar positions exist in other companies, I'm possibly the only person with my particular combo of roles.
+ Can be innovative, e.g. development of online exams and currently seconded to a major internal project.
+ No direct reports. Although I report to, essentially I can manage my own role with no real level of oversight.
+ Quiet office, small-team environment, not directly customer-facing, and a good employer open to flexible working
Role cons:
- Processes and methods can be old-fashioned, culture can be slow to change.
- The admin side and dealing with education providers/candidates can be a grind.
- Small team, so coverage of role during holidays is minimal. Can be hard to switch off.
- Moving further up would not necessarily be suitable for me re: interests and lifestyle.
- Reasonable pay but not necessarily a lucrative sector in itself.
Sector pros:
+ Secure sector with little prospect of decline. There will always be a market and necessity for qualifications and exams. Although my current role is niche, I could transfer to other awarding organisations if needed and be relatable. Possibilities exist.
Role pros:
+ Responsible top-to-bottom for the admin and oversight of National quals.
+ Although similar positions exist in other companies, I'm possibly the only person with my particular combo of roles.
+ Can be innovative, e.g. development of online exams and currently seconded to a major internal project.
+ No direct reports. Although I report to, essentially I can manage my own role with no real level of oversight.
+ Quiet office, small-team environment, not directly customer-facing, and a good employer open to flexible working
Role cons:
- Processes and methods can be old-fashioned, culture can be slow to change.
- The admin side and dealing with education providers/candidates can be a grind.
- Small team, so coverage of role during holidays is minimal. Can be hard to switch off.
- Moving further up would not necessarily be suitable for me re: interests and lifestyle.
- Reasonable pay but not necessarily a lucrative sector in itself.
BI Developer
I have spent the last few months building EDI (electronic data interchange) capabilities for a number of different purchasing partners we receive business from. I also build upon our data warehouse and manage our database systems.
Pros:
1. I'm left to create my own work schedule with no micro-management
2. Flexible working hours + work from home
3. Decent salary and benefits
4. I work with many technologies from old through new
Cons:
1. It's not as captivating as previous roles at other companies (product owner, development team lead, technical support lead)
2. No room for corporate progression
3. A role for experience, not for life
I have spent the last few months building EDI (electronic data interchange) capabilities for a number of different purchasing partners we receive business from. I also build upon our data warehouse and manage our database systems.
Pros:
1. I'm left to create my own work schedule with no micro-management
2. Flexible working hours + work from home
3. Decent salary and benefits
4. I work with many technologies from old through new
Cons:
1. It's not as captivating as previous roles at other companies (product owner, development team lead, technical support lead)
2. No room for corporate progression
3. A role for experience, not for life
Caporegime
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Corrugated packaging consultant.
Been in the industry nearly 20 years, started my own business up in 2017 and have 5 employees now (inc me)
Not the most exciting job in the World (peoples eyes glaze over as soon as you mention it!) but it pays the bills. I'm glad I didn't get in to plastic packaging though
I read through the whole thread, Some people have really surprising jobs and it's always fascinating to get a tiny insight in to peoples backgrounds.
Though the people I 'interact' (argue) with most on GD, haven't posted what they do
Been in the industry nearly 20 years, started my own business up in 2017 and have 5 employees now (inc me)
Not the most exciting job in the World (peoples eyes glaze over as soon as you mention it!) but it pays the bills. I'm glad I didn't get in to plastic packaging though
I read through the whole thread, Some people have really surprising jobs and it's always fascinating to get a tiny insight in to peoples backgrounds.
Though the people I 'interact' (argue) with most on GD, haven't posted what they do
Soldato
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- France, Alsace
This is what I like. We know people from on here for what they post really... so it's really interesting to learn more what they do for a living!
Soldato
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Customer advisor working for a very large car leasing company.
Pros: Tons of money is invested in training and continuous improvement.
Pay is excellent compared with similar roles elsewhere.
It's a 10 minute commute.
We have many vulnerable customers but have tons of options to help them when they need us, empowerment is encouraged and I get genuine job satisfaction helping customers. I can have a customer crying down the phone at the beginning of a call and at the end of the conversation we have planned a solution, they're aware of what to do and they're thanking me from the bottom of their heart.
Excellent career prospects (not that I want to forge a career) and sideways moves available.
Cons: It's mainly a contact centre role so on the phone most of the day.
0.01% of our customers are very challenging indeed.
It's politically correct to the point of insanity.
Pros: Tons of money is invested in training and continuous improvement.
Pay is excellent compared with similar roles elsewhere.
It's a 10 minute commute.
We have many vulnerable customers but have tons of options to help them when they need us, empowerment is encouraged and I get genuine job satisfaction helping customers. I can have a customer crying down the phone at the beginning of a call and at the end of the conversation we have planned a solution, they're aware of what to do and they're thanking me from the bottom of their heart.
Excellent career prospects (not that I want to forge a career) and sideways moves available.
Cons: It's mainly a contact centre role so on the phone most of the day.
0.01% of our customers are very challenging indeed.
It's politically correct to the point of insanity.
Soldato
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Just gained the title "Software Developer" but previously had the title "Systems Engineer", both not entirely informative/accurate. At a broadcast platform/regulator.
I look after testing of smart TV software and apps, including the broadcast TV elements like when you tune to a channel and it launches an app (think BBC Red Button). I started out testing various TVs for conformance of our platform, then moved towards testing our own in-house apps, and now started developing them.
Pros:
- Quite a broad, interesting subject area intersecting TV, web apps, streaming video and tech specs/standards.
- We make cool stuff and play with the newest toys! I broadcast Channel Benski in my house and tune several smart TVs into it (LG OLED from work on my wall!)
- Pays very well compared to the various jobs I had before going to uni aged 26
- Company offers lots of nice to haves like pension contributions, training, support schemes, free drinks/food on certain weekdays (in the before times)
- Company seems to genuinely want to look after its staff with mental health initiatives, very caring management, etc etc.
- Entire company of ~70 people switched from central London office to home working seamlessly almost overnight. This was a career goal for me so... Thanks COVID for bringing that forward I guess?
Cons:
- We take on more and more work in different areas as we grow. The technology team is growing, but the product team are growing faster and their ambition stretches us quite thin.
- The above lack of resource means projects can either stall or take far far too long to release. I have an app release planned for October that we were release-testing last December, but it's taken until now to reprioritise after the fixes
- Lack of structure because we are a small company that grew a bit, rather than a medium company. This means everyone wears a lot of different hats, and as a software developer it's not always clear what I should prioritise or who is going to help me develop skillset.
- Company and my role are pretty niche so I'm worried about long term prospects if I move on. I went to uni because I was tired of being stuck in a job with no options to move around, don't want that to happen again!
All in all its the best place I've worked and I've had some very cool jobs before - making guitars, building bicycle powered electric gear, market research... But I guess I don't know if I'm cut out to stay in one place very long without getting bored.
I look after testing of smart TV software and apps, including the broadcast TV elements like when you tune to a channel and it launches an app (think BBC Red Button). I started out testing various TVs for conformance of our platform, then moved towards testing our own in-house apps, and now started developing them.
Pros:
- Quite a broad, interesting subject area intersecting TV, web apps, streaming video and tech specs/standards.
- We make cool stuff and play with the newest toys! I broadcast Channel Benski in my house and tune several smart TVs into it (LG OLED from work on my wall!)
- Pays very well compared to the various jobs I had before going to uni aged 26
- Company offers lots of nice to haves like pension contributions, training, support schemes, free drinks/food on certain weekdays (in the before times)
- Company seems to genuinely want to look after its staff with mental health initiatives, very caring management, etc etc.
- Entire company of ~70 people switched from central London office to home working seamlessly almost overnight. This was a career goal for me so... Thanks COVID for bringing that forward I guess?
Cons:
- We take on more and more work in different areas as we grow. The technology team is growing, but the product team are growing faster and their ambition stretches us quite thin.
- The above lack of resource means projects can either stall or take far far too long to release. I have an app release planned for October that we were release-testing last December, but it's taken until now to reprioritise after the fixes
- Lack of structure because we are a small company that grew a bit, rather than a medium company. This means everyone wears a lot of different hats, and as a software developer it's not always clear what I should prioritise or who is going to help me develop skillset.
- Company and my role are pretty niche so I'm worried about long term prospects if I move on. I went to uni because I was tired of being stuck in a job with no options to move around, don't want that to happen again!
All in all its the best place I've worked and I've had some very cool jobs before - making guitars, building bicycle powered electric gear, market research... But I guess I don't know if I'm cut out to stay in one place very long without getting bored.
Soldato
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After six years with the company I work for, I have now reached the lofty height of being one of two UK representatives for the CEO of a large multinational domain services provider.
It sounds a lot better than it is, basically my day is spent finding ways to make angry customers less angry because they didnt get the answer they wanted to get.
It sounds a lot better than it is, basically my day is spent finding ways to make angry customers less angry because they didnt get the answer they wanted to get.
Soldato
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Disappointed by the lack of top earners in this thread. I was hoping to see more Gucci belts.
Thought there might be a few boxing stance trainers/coaches too.
Thought there might be a few boxing stance trainers/coaches too.
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IT Company owner
Pros: to many to list but..
- I like the boss.
- Motivates me to work hard and achieve goals.
- Mentoring staff in all things IT.
- The personal learning and development I see on a daily basis.
Cons.
- Corporation tax
Pros: to many to list but..
- I like the boss.
- Motivates me to work hard and achieve goals.
- Mentoring staff in all things IT.
- The personal learning and development I see on a daily basis.
Cons.
- Corporation tax