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    What do you do for a living?

    Wondering what people on here do for a living, Im guessing that most will be in a 'technical' type job?

    Im a generator service engineer, travelling and working in lovely places like this..
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    doing stuff like this:
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    Previously Ive also worked a little bit on wind turbines, not very glamerous but makes for better pics:
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    Ive recently taken a job in the office, so less travelling and more time to spend in the garage!

    Wondering what others on here do, probably best not to post pics if you're a mid-wife or work for MI5

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    Re: What do you do for a living?

    Well we both got made redundant yesterday........ so now looking!

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    Re: What do you do for a living?

    Blimey! Definitely more garage time for you then, Ian. Good luck with the job search. You should get paid for the good work you do here!
    Some great shots there, Nick.
    Love the vertigo inducing shot through the service hatch.
    I used to like Arthur's shots of the ships engine rooms he used to work in.
    I'm sure there is loads of interesting material for this thread among the members.

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    Re: What do you do for a living?

    Quote Originally Posted by The Slug View Post
    Well we both got made redundant yesterday........ so now looking!
    Sorry to to hear that Ian, hope you and Jayne are OK and good luck in finding something else..

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    Re: What do you do for a living?

    So sorry to hear the news Ian, especially with both of you being caught at the same time. All I can say is that there is a silver lining out there somewhere. I know that you'll both get through this together.

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    Re: What do you do for a living?

    I fix steam engines :-)

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    Re: What do you do for a living?

    So sorry to hear that news Ian, I hope that something comes along for both of you very soon.

    Guy & Andrea

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    Re: What do you do for a living?

    Interestingly I combine both of those industries. We build steam boilers for applications from running heating systems to powering turbines.

    Latest thing being burning wood to produce steam - been a long cycle in the return that one.....

    Redundancy - Route to a new opportunity - Hope your employer is in a position to be generous and not minimalist.

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    Re: What do you do for a living?

    Quote Originally Posted by Darkspeed View Post

    Latest thing being burning wood to produce steam - been a long cycle in the return that one.....
    Likewise using wind and water as a power source, not that we will ever come close to meeting our demand for power from wind energy..

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    Re: What do you do for a living?

    As Red5 has said I expect a lot of people on the forum to be doing Engineering/Construction or creative type work.
    I don't think I could work in a non engineering role, also how else would you get your car built.

    Spent many years building these before moving on to Hovercraft.



    Now I spend my time in the design and construction of these, this was a few months ago doing a survey in Pakistan.


    Current builds for overseas Coastguards


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