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Old 26-11-2008, 07:53 PM
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I see caffeine has an important status in your life Lee....!
Nice spotting.....
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Old 26-11-2008, 08:00 PM
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What an interesting bunch of people we all are!

You guys dont really know me but I, like Jen, have unpaid work as a mum, wife, cook, cleaner upper of all, fixer of stuff , and add to this domestic plumbing fixer (oh, thats another story), lawn mower, carer of pets (we have 18 at current count), and driver of children to weekend and after school activities.

My paid job... I am a radiographer at our local hospital, running the CT scan department. I have just finished Masters in Applied Science (Medical Radiation Science) (YAY I've finished!!) and am meant to graduate on Friday but cannot get the time off work (growl I'm no bitter oh no not me).

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Old 26-11-2008, 08:05 PM
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BTW .
Been an analytical chemist (BHP Steel) for several years, then when retrenched returned to studies to retrain as a chemical engineer and worked as laboratory manager and then as plant supervisor, then as coal washery engineering assistant, then back to BHP Steel when I completed the BE , which became Onesteel , worked for them for 10 years as a pyrometallurgical process engineer, then rug pullout from under me AGAIN !! , spent some time in Port Hedland working as a development engineer for BHPIO at the now defunct HBI plant. Been Mr.Mum and a uni student since.

Have never stopped learning - chemistry and then chemical engineering, computer engineering and physics, and now engineering management as a post grad. Gone last trimester with no study - got bored and noticed how much crud there is on TV ...!!!

More experience and credentials than you can shake a stick at ....

Chocaholic, coke (acola) - caffine / sugar junky from way back, fishaholic, BaT.

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Old 26-11-2008, 08:05 PM
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Some impressive jobs held by folks here at IIS

I work in the Transport Industry.
Have worked my way through the ranks from a storeperson and was until recently a National Credit Manager with a top 10 Transport Co-.

As is the way of the world, situations became untenable and now I am back in the cut and thrust of Interstate Operations with another top 10 Co-
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Old 26-11-2008, 08:21 PM
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I'm a "senior technical consultant" for one of au/nz's larger ISPs
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Old 26-11-2008, 08:22 PM
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Hello fellow jobbers. I run a charity for people living with an intellectual disability. It's called "LeapFrog ability". We also have a donor - driven program called "Fair Go For Kids" where we pay sometimes ludicrously small amounts of money to get children off waiting lists for surgery or assessment or equipment. For any child in a wealthy nation like Australia to have to wait up to 2 years for treatment for their disability is a disgrace that has no excuses. Our governments find tens of millions for football stadiums but cry poormouth when it comes to health. Training - registered psychologist and a PhD in immunology.

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Old 26-11-2008, 08:27 PM
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Although officially retired from the horticulture and nursery work in the cut flower business, I have had many jobs of different nature from grounds person of a large resort, to building service officer, to yardman at a timer outlet, to service station attendant, and so on it goes.

Now I do some part time in the Ballarat Fire Protection services, which entails servicing all kinds of fire extingusiers, it keeps me out of trouble and helps with the Astronomy bills.

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Old 26-11-2008, 08:27 PM
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I started out as a refrigeration tech. with Coca-cola 20 years ago, then 7 years ago after moving through the ranks with their equipment service department got bored so started up an Air-conditioning company. We now are a small operation with 5 employees. Best move I did as it gives me flexibility to do other things. The name of our company is Coldspace Air, so I thought it would suit my on-line name here as it is Cold out in space .

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Old 26-11-2008, 08:29 PM
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I work in the building industry as a painter and decorator and have been running my own business for about 16 years. I have finished a builders registration course and hope to sit for my builders licence exam sometime in the new year. Here's hoping.

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Old 26-11-2008, 09:03 PM
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I worked on a fishing trawler on the mid north coast for a few months after I left school. Mum said, "I didn't spend all that money on your education so you could go fishing all day, every day "

I listened to Mum and came back to Sydney and started working for a Chartered Accountant. Did a Commerce/Law Degree part time. Spent almost 10 years with that firm specialising in business reconstruction in the hospitality industry. Left there and spent 8 years as the Finance Manager for the Sydney Turf Club, which controls Rosehill and Canterbury Racecourses. Spent 12 years at Gordon Rugby Club as Finance Manager and CEO. Now CEO of a medium sized Club right near home on the Central Coast. I have about 40 staff and 6000 members, which is a lot less than I had at Gordon, but I like the idea of a 3 minute drive to work and home every day.

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Old 26-11-2008, 09:27 PM
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Currently I'm the Yardie/storeman for a local engineering firm which largely involves lots of fork lift driving, truck driving and arguments with the sales staff at Onesteel. (Hope there's none of you here.)
Previously I've worked in the printing, plastics, horticultural and transport industries.
Oddly enough, the best job I ever had was cleaning rest areas in Central Australia from the SA/NT border up to Tennant Creek and out west to the Rock and Hermansberg, a weekly run of about 2500 k's. Camping out in the swag 4 nights a week under the darkest skies imaginable and meeting and talking to tourists from all over the world. Loved it! I'd still be doing it if the boss hadn't been a total anus!
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Old 26-11-2008, 09:30 PM
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I work in IT integrating servers & storage. Some rackmounted stuff, but mostly just blade stuff now, which while easier than building racks is also alot more dull. Been doing this job for almost 10 years now. Before that I was with the same company on the phones to customers diagnosing their problems, which was work I really didn't like, so I changed (lucky - they outsourced to India soon after!) and before that I worked in a flour mill for 3 years as a miller/supervisor.
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Old 26-11-2008, 09:39 PM
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Cytotechnologist.

I screen PAP smears for pre-cancerous changes and also examine body fluids and fine needle aspiration specimens microscopically for malignancies.

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Old 26-11-2008, 09:53 PM
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Cytotechnologist.

I screen PAP smears for pre-cancerous changes and also examine body fluids and fine needle aspiration specimens microscopically for malignancies.

Doug
Do your mates call you Squinty ?
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Old 26-11-2008, 10:13 PM
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Old 26-11-2008, 10:15 PM
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Hi,

Left school

(1) Uni for 3 months, deferred
(2) 5 years picking fruit, apples, grapes, carrots, asparagus, peaches, pears all around Oz.
(3) A few years on the railways welding the line in outback SA. In the mines around Agnew in WA building the town.
(4) Factories for a few years, canneries, plastic factories. Made Ford trucks in NZ.
(5) Back to Uni. While at uni worked in more factories, cleaning, shop assistant, research assistant. Got a computing/maths degree at Monash. Started a Masters but had had enough.
(6) Off to Darwin, worked for N.T Health, IT
(7) Off to Indonesia, worked on road engineering projects, IT
(8) Off to Eungella in QLD, IT contracting based in a small farm there
(9) Down to Sydney, IT contracting
(10) Currently work for Westpac as a Technical Lead on internet banking projects.


Heaps of stuff I have probably forgotten, not least is that I am a single dad and these days spend my time outside of work looking after my two daughters, so cooking, cleaning and not much else.

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Old 27-11-2008, 01:28 AM
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Well lets see,

Other part time jobs were ... driving a friend around for singing telegrams (cleaned up for forum)
You crack me up Houghy!

First became an Electrical Fitter on the Broken Hill mines, then moved
to Adelaide.
Worked for a mob here in Adelaide for 18 years as a Sparkie/ Comms Tech
(did another trade), got my diploma in Electronics.
Moved into Fibre optic installation, terminating, testing/commissioning to carrier level specs.
Do I.T. installs from the ground up.
Great job, some places I have been sent to do Electrical/Comms/Electronic/Fibre work are places like Nurrungar tracking station, Woomera, FIFO mine sites....love my job, I'm in a minority.

Steve

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Old 27-11-2008, 01:45 AM
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Started work with Valve Radio gear in the early 70's.
Moved to Offshore Oil Survey Navigation in the late 70's.
Onto Mobile Phone Towers in the late 80's.
Programming computers in the 90's.
Self employed IT today.
Still have a $15K HECS debt
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Old 27-11-2008, 02:37 AM
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Worked in a steel Rolling Mill for a while, then a Lab tech, IT. I now Manage a Application support team for a Multinational IT outsourcer.
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Old 27-11-2008, 02:44 AM
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Finished school in 2000 (HSC)
Joined up with Green Corps to learn about the bush, got paid for it and even got a few certificates when I finished.
Was a doing paving for about 18 months with a guitarist that I was in a band with. Loved that job, outdoors all day, great exercise and the money wasn't to bad. He moved to WA and I had to find another job.
Then I went out and got my security licence about 4 years ago and have been a "rent-a-cop" ever since. I hate security work and wish I never got my licence.
Now I am applying for as many apprenticeships as I can, not having much luck though.
I almost forgot, I'm a musician also. Play bass in a local band, when we aren't fighting and breaking up all the time.
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