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Then you're definitely not a slacker. Unless you're out the back every five minutes for a smoke

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Good luck. (Inset whine about 'A levels were much harder when I were a lad circa 1991).



I was a student for 7 years. Now THAT's being a proper waster. And I was an undergraduate when we still had things like student grants and no tuition fees.



Try and avoid work.. 100% of people who have jobs die at some point, it's not worth the risk.

Quantity surveyor for a large national contractor.

But.

Getting more disillusioned with it all on a daily basis; grasping subbies, devious PQS's, overbearing commercial directors etc etc. So I'm going into the wedding car hire business (first booking for 21st April ) with a view to go freelance later this year......

Simon

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Simon

I'm a Professor and University Senior Manager. My field combines IT with Education.

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I won't slave for beggar's pay,
likewise gold and jewels,
but I would slave to learn the way
to sink your ship of fools

I'm a Computer Operator (shift lead actually) for a well known financial institution in the City of London.

I work for Siemens Enterprise communications as an, (wait for it!!), Applications Support Specialist, (great accronym huh!?!?)

Basically, (and embarrasing though it is!), I deploy and support call/contact centre technologies for our clients. That means that I instal and support all the computers, servers, switches, telephones, cabling and by use of custom code I ensure that your call gets to the right agent whether that be through caller recognition, self service or menu/DTMF selection.

It sounds like an abomination, but it's actually quite interesting as it employs many disciplines in my day to day duties.

I originally started out repairing cash registers twenty years ago.

BUT! I'd much rather be fixing old cars for a living, but I doubt it'd pay the mortgage as well.

(Hell has it been that long? )

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Big Rod---could be worse - they could have added - Home Outside Line Engineer , to your title

Never thought on that!!

Wait till the boys in the shop hear that one!!

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If I have to explain you won't understand.

ahh, you mean those cursed "press 1 for blah meh blah" thingys that go on and on and never have the option that seems appropiate or (especially with BT) it's buried in the 17th sub-menu?

I've taken to key mashing, often the case the computer thinks you're a bit special and puts you straight through to an english speaking operator.

sorry

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yeah mines the billy basic polarity tester, was hoping there was something in between that and the £3-400 oh la la testers.

oh well, cheers anyway

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Sorry - not that i know of -

studying the only subject to show clearly that work is mad could never be wasteful

myself - bespoke solutions for production line problems......well, until I opted out of the rat race......now just - well - drive the cab

Yeah Ben, that's it. No need to be sorry. I'm probably second in line to the SCPOs with regards to embarrassing vocations!!

I'm going to go all defensive here and say that although call centres are infuriating, they are by and large, the most cost effective and efficient method of managing customer relations. As long as they are deployed correctly of course.

Still it pays the bills.

(I'd still much rather be under an old motor with oil under my fingernails!!)

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I'm reminded of the bit in the Simpsons, when Bart loses patience with a the automated system when he dials 911 after it asks him to press a number to denote what crime is being committed. He just presses random keys, then a voice says: "You have selected regicide. If you know the name of the king or queen being murdered, press one"

[quote="hairyben.

ahh, you mean those cursed "press 1 for blah meh blah" thingys that go on and on and never have the option that seems appropiate or (especially with BT) it's buried in the 17th sub-menu?



sorry [/quote]

Got a bit of voice processer experiance - find most systems respond well to the ********* or multiple pressings of the hash key - or giving the "please say your name -a rasberry------you are the master -not them - do nything but what they suggest----make rude noises/ press wrong keys/ blat/phart ----all this stuffs the system up, and nothing worse than doing nothig.(in case you do not have a touch tone phone )

most annying of all is when it makes you type in your 16 digit card no, then various security blah meh blah "type in the 3rd and 6th letters of you password" then when you finally get to a human bean you go through the same procedure again

and all you want is to know if a transactions gone through, not like you're ringing up to say "I want all my funds tranfered to this account in nigeria please"

and don't worry big rod, there's a long list of people ahead of you up against the wall when my revolution happens

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Currently Postgrad IT, also got degree in Electronics but hated working in it!

Andrew

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Homer Simpson

Big Rod

I still think the best call center system was the one used by NTL. It was reprogrammed by a customer after waiting in a queue for 40 minutes. Apparently the the options were quite rude.

I am a "systems development engineer". I do computing stuff. Support, programming, writing web sites, attacking old hard disks to get data back.... All sorts.
Sometimes it's fun. I'd prefer to get out more though.

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