Jobs

[kags]

It's been a while since we had a weekend question (and my weekend starts today), so...... what job do you do/did you do/are you hoping to do?

[Today's]

tOvch Twipest

[andy hughes]

I'll be writing up some of the interviews with drummers i did lat last week's Download Festival, as well as trying to catch up with my existing backlog of features I still haven't done yet, and chasing as many Editors as I can find to pester them to give me some more assignments. Oh, and convincing my wife that it is really worth the money at the end of it all - a continual and ongoing task in itself.

[darth vader]

software developer/have done many: accountant, warehouse person, delivery driver, security guard, bin man, "putting tops on bottles of medicine" person (didn't like that one), demolition worker/Janitor of Leeds Girls High School

[IndieSinger]

darth! You mean that situation is vacant now?! *Runs off to get CV*.

[jenstar]

Used to work in educational supplies; currently at a loose end; no particular plan for what to do next.

[andy hughes]

Sorry, I read the Question too quickly, I thought you were asking what job we were doing this weekend - apologies. I have only ever had two day jobs - solicitor's clerk for about two months, and BT Clerical Officer, 30 and a bit years! In addition, I am a music writer, I have been a disco DJ, a radio show freelance (with Bruno Brookes in his pre-Radio 1 days!) and a writer for this very wonderful website.

[honkytonkman]

Am presently a graphic designer at a University. I've been a Civil Servant in the MoD and an insurance claims clerk. I'd like to be on stage playing my piano, rockin' the roof, but have to settle for pubs...

[Greedyfly]

I work as a glorified sales assistant for a well known high street record store/company and I love my job through and through @ the moment. I would like to stay within the music 'biz' as it were, as its probably my only passion. But would like to move onwards and upwards.

[ouch!]

TV production assistant, barmaid, lingerie sales assistant, office cleaner, reader for the blind, new media developer, usherette, pa to journalist, guest services rep, chambermaid, web designer, call centre rep, hotel general assistant, technical support... Can't remember the others and these aren't including the part time/student jobs.

[woofgang]

NHS jobs, occupational therapist, now manager of OTs, physiotherapists and rehabilitation nurses, also project manager for the Single Assessment Process and what I really really want to do is retire

[derbyram]

Job I actually do : Software developer. Job I wanted to do: International playboy or spy or footballer. I was fairly contented with my job until this question came up and made me realise just how far short of my targets I fell. PANTS!

[kags]

sorry derbyram I didn't mean to depress you. I was just being nosey, you kind of get to think you know contributors a bit, so i wanted to know a bit more. Maybe it's not too late to be an international playboy???

[gazzawazza]

After leaving school I served an apprenticeship then worked as a brickie on various sites for ten years.

I'm now a *greedy/idle/overrated/overstaffed firefighter and have been for the last 16 years. (*Delete any which you think do not apply).

[kags]

gazzawazza -if you are a firefighter, then surely you have several other jobs as well for all your days off. That's what it said in the Daily Mail, so it MUST be true.

[coggles]

Hello kags. After 4 years at college and apprenticeship I became a journeyman - final film planner, working on magazines. Made redundant in early 90's so retrained and was a Quality System manager for 5 years (boring). After having first child, retrained again and was a swimming teacher - adults and children, for a couple of years before becoming a full-time mummy and housewife.

[derbyram]

it's ok you've brought me to my senses. Can't be an International playboy - no cash. Can't be a footballer - no talent (may qualify for Scotland after having worked there for a year tho'). So spy it is - although I probably have disqualified myself by noting my intent on a public website.

[gazzawazza]

He-he-he, thanks kags, I'd completely forgotten about all of my other jobs. Here goes then.

On my first day off I drive a taxi for 16 hours then work in a bar for the other 14. On my second day off I'm a DJ on a local hospital radio station throughout the early hours and I then fill in as a nurse in the operating theatre if they're short, (or even as a surgeon if they're desperate).

Day three (adopting Big Brother narrative voice) I work as a fisherman on a trawler and put in an 18 hour shift before setting up my ice-cream van on the seafront for the next 12 hours.

Day four I like to take it easy doing 6 or 7 hours in a charity shop before donning my uniform and pounding the beat as a special constable and rounding up local villains and toerags for the rest of the day (I like to put something back into the community).

Day five I sit on the bench as a High Court Judge then spend the evening spinning teenage girls around whilst working the waltzers on a travelling fair (coming your way soon).

Day six and seven' lets just say I do some "undercover" work for the government' Day eight I'm a rocket scientist (don't worry, it's hardly rocket science), day nine I'm an internationally famous magician sitting in a see-through box (I have to fill in my spare time somehow), and day twelvety I'm the Pope.

Hope I didn't miss anything.

[nona suomy]

Gazza waaza - you are one idle get! now put on yer pinny and make the tea.. your shift starts in twenty.