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My various occupations in order:


Stage crew

RAF Search & Rescue

Stage manager/Stage safety

Health & Safety (mostly construction with a mix of consultancy and company/contractors as employers).

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Gordon Brown saying I got the country into it's current economic mess so I'll get us out of it is the same as Bomber Harris nipping over to Dresden and offering to repair a few windows.

Chaos, panic and disorder - my work here is done.

http://www.wildcrafts.co.uk

Get out - do some "field engineering " - dig a hole , then bury your most hated discs and fill it up .

Now retired, (but have a Consultancy up & running and also volunteer running a working Windmill). Formerly European Packaging Coordinator and Global Projects Leader for the Lubricants Division of the worlds largest oil company. Design/develope lube oil packaging etc from 10ml to 1000 litre. There really is more to it than meets the eye - well, it paid my mortgage anyway.

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"Experience isn't everything - but it's most of it".

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.

Sit back this may take a while,

Glass collector and washer in family owned snooker club,
Solicitors Clerk attending Crown Court daily ,
Managing family snooker club
Car sales Ladas and Protons (stop laughing)
Cocktail Barman (Hotel)
Uni Construction Management (P/t Dishwasher)
Building Hongkong Airport, Airport Railway Stations and other projects.
Construction Manager (10+ yrs), including 3 years Highways Works Management.

What should I do next?

Actually I really enjoy what I'm doing, and earn a decent living, so things ain't bad.

fatboytim

Small world isn't it. Our firm designed the PIDS for Chek Lap Cok and the MTRC - the big boards with dynamic logos and flight detail in white on blue.

GSM Network Management Engineer. I sit in front of a bank of monitors dealing with live faults on one of the big-4 mobile networks. That's the simple version, anyway

Become a member of SafeSpeed then!!

Get access to the clubhouse and much, much more!

http://www.safespeed.org.uk/join.html

Edited to add the URL to make it just that little bit easier!
Go on, you know you want to...

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I am seriously considering it,
But some of my posts have been little controversial and perhaps reactionary, and I wouldn't want them quoted/attributed in other fora as safespeed's position on the subject.

fatboytim

Believe me it won't happen

I have a personal opinion with regards road safety and and speed limits that I've aired a few times that is way beyond anything that safespeed would endorse.

It's not a problem, this is a very public forum where all views can be aired, both pro and anti speed cameras.

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It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it.

Upton Sinclair

Only trolls would seriously entertain such logic, and if/when they do one of us billy goats will soon be there to butt them into the river

Besides, other non-members have already suffered that fate.....

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Views expressed are personal opinions and are not necessarily shared by the Safe Speed campaign

I signed up and could well be deemed somewhat controversial. It's up to people how they take and interpret posts, most is best said in a thread and left there, if people want to hold a grudge then that's up to them. We are after all supposed to be adults.

Anyway:

Royal Marines
British Army
French Foreign Legion Paras
Satelite dish manufacturer
Computer network engineer
Director of my own Computer related business.

I air my own views on here, as does everyone else, controversial or not...

And you could always use a disclaimer in your signature stating that they are your own views and not necessarily those of SafeSpeed.

Right, where was that link again?
Oh yes, here it is - http://www.safespeed.org.uk/join.html

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Ooohh, alright then!
see you in the 'clubhouse'

fatboytim

Yeah, I heard about that too. Damned if I know how they did it tho'.

Still, my best claim to fame was testing a new automated greeting system whereby after the caller had queued, (if necessary), the agents workstation would answer the call using their voice prerecorded to whatever service was appropriate.

I was 'playing' with it when the PC I was using hung. I tried varous things to get it back into service without rebooting it, all the time with the headset on that I was using to record my voice.

Once it started playing ball, the PC then 'played out' all the keystrokes and mouse clicks I'd done whilst trying to sort the PC. The thing to bear in mind here is that even though the app's were in focus when I was trying to fix it, they weren't necessarily when the machine was working through it's buffer, so the the computer's screen was quite entertaining for a little while til it caught up.

The upshot was that all the expletives I'd uttered while trying to straighten the PC out were recorded and uploaded to a shared drive space and immediately updated to ALL the workstations on the estate, about 1000 agent's workstations.

I think I must've looked a bit like that painting by Edvard Munch when I realised what had happened.

So anyone that called in for about the 10 minutes or so it took me to find the backup of all the WAV files and propogate them out heard me cursing, swearing, furiously clicking and typing before the call was actually established at the agent.

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If I have to explain you won't understand.

Good lad!
And welcome aboard...

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