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(09-07-2015, 08:49 PM)bigcheez2k3 Wrote: (09-07-2015, 07:39 PM)chylledapps Wrote: During the week I have a street food business that trades out of a central London Market at lunchtimes with rotisserie chicken,
Evenings and weekends I do online ordering apps and web type stuff for caterers in the main but expanding the offer quite soon
Which market?
I'm currently a delivery driver for a luxury fashion retailer as part of their Premier team. Basically drive a van within the M25 all day taking very expensive stuff to very nice places for rich people. Today for example, despite the tube strike, I was sitting in a park eating donuts waiting for the time slot to open so I could do my first job, pretty happy with that.
Still working out what I want to do properly though.
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(09-07-2015, 11:16 PM)adam b Wrote: (09-07-2015, 10:32 PM)Ruan Wrote: (09-07-2015, 09:36 PM)adam b Wrote: When i'm not in the office doing admin, web and image work i'm out delivering and collecting cars using a DMax (hateful thing) and a Brian James Race Trans 6. Some are fairly expensive, most aren't (in the grand scheme of things). I only do it about 60% of the time but looking at about 45k miles this year. Yawn. Its for a fairly well-known local car tuning company.
Kind of miss being my own boss and doing the vinyl work though 
However my bucket list of driven cars (mostly about 100 yards lol) is getting there. LFA, F40, Z28 2014, Veyron, 458 speciale etc etc 
Do you know a guy called Ross Lathey who works for said company, if it's the one I'm thinking of?
The same. He gets about a bit..
Haha, thought so - small world!
(16-05-2016, 10:45 AM)Toms306 Wrote: Oh I don't care about the stripped threads lol, that's easily solved by hammering the bolt in.  Nanstone GTD5 GT17S - XUD9TE
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At the moment I'm a team manager in a customer service call centre, managing a team of 12 agents.
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(09-07-2015, 06:25 PM)RetroPug Wrote: I'm an automotive engineer testing various and all types of vehicles at high speed and for durability purposes until they break/explode/die/fall to bits/shed parts everywhere.
Before that I designed hydraulic test-rigs and used them to test various vehicle systems and components.
Basically I f*ck shit up for a living.
how did you get into this? I'm currently a student just finished lvl 1 in motor vehicle maintenance and repair abit slow next year doing lvl 3 engineering.
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I am the Architect.
I am a Technical Architect for Atos.
I do many things, mostly involves educating retards to follow documentation I wrote on how to do something.
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(14-07-2015, 05:04 PM)Nathan1305 Wrote: I'm a Specialist at Apple. Great job but I don't like customers too much
Are you a apple "genius"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT9VNdgKnI4
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(14-07-2015, 06:23 PM)Fooby Wrote: I am the Architect.
I am a Technical Architect for Atos.
I do many things, mostly involves educating retards to follow documentation I wrote on how to do something. I would be one of those retards, you guys just make it way to complicated for the simple minded !!
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(15-07-2015, 07:50 AM)306Dan Wrote: Kart mechanic for both race and corporate karts also general site monkey
That sounds pretty cool.
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Currently a engine calibration engineer at MG. Will be returning to the University of Birmingham to get my MEng in Mechanical Engineering (automotive) with industrial studies (longest degree title ever!) in September though.
Not bad for a poor kid from Cornwall! Glad I got in before the fees tripled and they took away the grants though!
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Im currently a Systems Engineer for a telecommunications company in Cyprus. The systems I mainly handle are Microsoft but I am always open to the idea for open source
Been doing this kinda work for 7 years already - wow, does time fly?!
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(16-07-2015, 12:22 PM)Poodle Wrote: Another mechanic here, hoping i can be running my own diesel tuning business in a few years.
Just sell overpriced & underperforming remaps that wreck mechanical components so you can sell loyal idiotic customers an 'upgrade' package
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(16-07-2015, 12:55 PM)Matt-Rallye Wrote: (16-07-2015, 12:22 PM)Poodle Wrote: Another mechanic here, hoping i can be running my own diesel tuning business in a few years.
Just sell overpriced & underperforming remaps that wreck mechanical components so you can sell loyal idiotic customers an 'upgrade' package
Saucer of milk, for one!
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Oooosh, burn, not touching that one with a bargepole. 
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Loving the diversity of occupations on here!! Anyway I've got 3 Jobs, mainly I work in a small bodyshop called Gull Custom doin mostly damage repair but do work with AC Schnitzer UK spraying and fitting bodykits so do get to work on some very special cars, I also work for Pains Fireworks doin huge shows all over the country, if anyone was at The Lord Mayors Parade in Norwich the other week I was the guy on top of the roof and finally I work for one of my friends helping him with his handy man business which I love doin as no 2 days are the same but unfortunately there just isn't enough work for me to do it full time
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