So what does everyone on here do for a living 08:43 - Jul 3 with 41343 views | rrrspricey | ...or pretend to do when the're actually spending their days trawling through the sh1t posted on here I work as a Project Manager for a private medical insurer in sunny Tunbridge Wells | | | | |
So what does everyone on here do for a living on 15:09 - Jul 4 with 2781 views | bosh67 |
So what does everyone on here do for a living on 15:03 - Jul 4 by kropotkin41 | Damn straight! I'd rather have a fans forum on which the members can write, think and show a bit of interest in things other than just footie. If people on certain other boards think of us as frustrated literary types then I'd take that as a compliment to us all! |
Well said Wilde, well said | |
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So what does everyone on here do for a living on 15:58 - Jul 4 with 2736 views | A40Bosh |
So what does everyone on here do for a living on 15:09 - Jul 4 by bosh67 | Well said Wilde, well said |
But you still haven't told us what a CPO is yet? | |
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So what does everyone on here do for a living on 16:08 - Jul 4 with 2723 views | bosh67 |
So what does everyone on here do for a living on 15:58 - Jul 4 by A40Bosh | But you still haven't told us what a CPO is yet? |
Close protection Officer. 1990-1999 - writing and directing didn't always pay the bills. It was my between jobs job. | |
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So what does everyone on here do for a living on 16:18 - Jul 4 with 2710 views | Sudbury_Hill_R | Me and my brother, originally from Spain are both firemen. My name is Jose. His name is hose B | | | |
So what does everyone on here do for a living on 16:35 - Jul 4 with 2685 views | A40Bosh |
So what does everyone on here do for a living on 16:18 - Jul 4 by Sudbury_Hill_R | Me and my brother, originally from Spain are both firemen. My name is Jose. His name is hose B |
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So what does everyone on here do for a living on 16:37 - Jul 4 with 2676 views | izlingtonhoop |
So what does everyone on here do for a living on 15:03 - Jul 4 by kropotkin41 | Damn straight! I'd rather have a fans forum on which the members can write, think and show a bit of interest in things other than just footie. If people on certain other boards think of us as frustrated literary types then I'd take that as a compliment to us all! |
I have to agree, I saw it as a compliment when I read it. | | | |
So what does everyone on here do for a living on 16:45 - Jul 4 with 2652 views | danehoop |
So what does everyone on here do for a living on 16:37 - Jul 4 by izlingtonhoop | I have to agree, I saw it as a compliment when I read it. |
The fact that you can read and not write (and I don't mean text speak) probably makes you considerably more literate than most on WATRB. | |
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So what does everyone on here do for a living on 21:04 - Jul 4 with 2540 views | paul63 | Hi everyone just joined site have been on Watrb for a bit but decided to join up here now, york based now due work, work for klm as a pilot | | | | Login to get fewer ads
So what does everyone on here do for a living on 21:13 - Jul 4 with 2535 views | bosh67 |
So what does everyone on here do for a living on 21:04 - Jul 4 by paul63 | Hi everyone just joined site have been on Watrb for a bit but decided to join up here now, york based now due work, work for klm as a pilot |
Welcome onboard. Forgive the pun! | |
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So what does everyone on here do for a living on 21:20 - Jul 4 with 2530 views | paul63 | Was waiting for that one | | | |
So what does everyone on here do for a living on 21:35 - Jul 4 with 2520 views | derbyhoop | I'm a Business Intelligence consultant. Business and Intelligence is often an anachronism. Basically, it's IT in a specialised area of reporting and analysis. | |
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So what does everyone on here do for a living on 21:44 - Jul 4 with 2512 views | hoopstilidie | Ex Army, Ex Private Security, Ex Pub Landlord, Ex Mental Health worker, now full time carer for my Alzheimer suffering Mother in Law (one of the greatest ladies to walk this Earth) and my recently illness struck other half. Decided to take the time to retrain my brain and have completed 2/3rds of an accountancy course that will eventually leave me able to work from home alongside the care duties. Can't say I've ever been poorer, busier or happier. | |
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So what does everyone on here do for a living on 23:29 - Jul 4 with 2472 views | distortR | Head gardener on a new build mansion on the isle of man, the new monaco apparently. Garden designed by an architect whose catchphrase was 'I don't do practical'. Try telling that to living tissue, dick. Currently ripping out thousands of pounds worth of dead/dieing plants. blackbirds are stripping my fruit bushes. slugs have taken my flowers. ground nesting wasps persecute me. but sometimes the job is wonderful. | | | |
So what does everyone on here do for a living on 00:39 - Jul 5 with 2443 views | loftboy |
So what does everyone on here do for a living on 21:44 - Jul 4 by hoopstilidie | Ex Army, Ex Private Security, Ex Pub Landlord, Ex Mental Health worker, now full time carer for my Alzheimer suffering Mother in Law (one of the greatest ladies to walk this Earth) and my recently illness struck other half. Decided to take the time to retrain my brain and have completed 2/3rds of an accountancy course that will eventually leave me able to work from home alongside the care duties. Can't say I've ever been poorer, busier or happier. |
Was the course expensive? Desperate to learn some new skills that means I won't be doing unskilled Manuel labour into my 50's. Maths was always my strongpoint, my only decent exam grade and have always regretted not putting it to better use when I was younger, currently doing the caring role myself for two of my sons with Autism. | |
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So what does everyone on here do for a living on 04:11 - Jul 5 with 2411 views | timcocking | I'm Cornish and me and my brothers wondered why you couldn't buy a pasty outide Cornwall, so we set up West Cornwall Pasty Co, selling up for many millions when we reached 55 shops. Lovely jubbly :-) Sadly, after we sold (luckily for me), our wonderful, corrupt, greedy government brought in the Pasty tax, claiming 20% on all pasty sales. We never made more than 20% in any of our shops, so that basically fcuked West Cornwall Pasty Co up the arse overnight and they recently went into administration, shutting most of their units overnight and costing hundreds of jobs. They've subsequently been bought out for a fraction of what we got by a conglomerate headed by Danny Mills. I have found this hread interesting. [Post edited 5 Jul 2014 4:46]
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So what does everyone on here do for a living on 07:17 - Jul 5 with 2384 views | distortR |
So what does everyone on here do for a living on 04:11 - Jul 5 by timcocking | I'm Cornish and me and my brothers wondered why you couldn't buy a pasty outide Cornwall, so we set up West Cornwall Pasty Co, selling up for many millions when we reached 55 shops. Lovely jubbly :-) Sadly, after we sold (luckily for me), our wonderful, corrupt, greedy government brought in the Pasty tax, claiming 20% on all pasty sales. We never made more than 20% in any of our shops, so that basically fcuked West Cornwall Pasty Co up the arse overnight and they recently went into administration, shutting most of their units overnight and costing hundreds of jobs. They've subsequently been bought out for a fraction of what we got by a conglomerate headed by Danny Mills. I have found this hread interesting. [Post edited 5 Jul 2014 4:46]
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And you now spend your days giving money to needy and deserving QPR fans?! | | | |
So what does everyone on here do for a living on 08:11 - Jul 5 with 2356 views | kropotkin41 |
So what does everyone on here do for a living on 04:11 - Jul 5 by timcocking | I'm Cornish and me and my brothers wondered why you couldn't buy a pasty outide Cornwall, so we set up West Cornwall Pasty Co, selling up for many millions when we reached 55 shops. Lovely jubbly :-) Sadly, after we sold (luckily for me), our wonderful, corrupt, greedy government brought in the Pasty tax, claiming 20% on all pasty sales. We never made more than 20% in any of our shops, so that basically fcuked West Cornwall Pasty Co up the arse overnight and they recently went into administration, shutting most of their units overnight and costing hundreds of jobs. They've subsequently been bought out for a fraction of what we got by a conglomerate headed by Danny Mills. I have found this hread interesting. [Post edited 5 Jul 2014 4:46]
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I used to love the veggie pasties, but always had this entirely mischievous and unnecessary urge to ask the eastern European girl serving which part of Cornwall she was from because I didn't recognise her accent. (Absolutely no anti-immigrant sentiment intended......... just some part of me always expected/wanted a real Cornish pirate accent when I bought my pasty..... no matter where I was in the country.) | |
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So what does everyone on here do for a living on 10:52 - Jul 5 with 2304 views | bosh67 |
So what does everyone on here do for a living on 04:11 - Jul 5 by timcocking | I'm Cornish and me and my brothers wondered why you couldn't buy a pasty outide Cornwall, so we set up West Cornwall Pasty Co, selling up for many millions when we reached 55 shops. Lovely jubbly :-) Sadly, after we sold (luckily for me), our wonderful, corrupt, greedy government brought in the Pasty tax, claiming 20% on all pasty sales. We never made more than 20% in any of our shops, so that basically fcuked West Cornwall Pasty Co up the arse overnight and they recently went into administration, shutting most of their units overnight and costing hundreds of jobs. They've subsequently been bought out for a fraction of what we got by a conglomerate headed by Danny Mills. I have found this hread interesting. [Post edited 5 Jul 2014 4:46]
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Amazing story Tim. Any plans to repeat the model with something else? | |
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So what does everyone on here do for a living on 11:24 - Jul 5 with 2296 views | TheBlob |
So what does everyone on here do for a living on 04:11 - Jul 5 by timcocking | I'm Cornish and me and my brothers wondered why you couldn't buy a pasty outide Cornwall, so we set up West Cornwall Pasty Co, selling up for many millions when we reached 55 shops. Lovely jubbly :-) Sadly, after we sold (luckily for me), our wonderful, corrupt, greedy government brought in the Pasty tax, claiming 20% on all pasty sales. We never made more than 20% in any of our shops, so that basically fcuked West Cornwall Pasty Co up the arse overnight and they recently went into administration, shutting most of their units overnight and costing hundreds of jobs. They've subsequently been bought out for a fraction of what we got by a conglomerate headed by Danny Mills. I have found this hread interesting. [Post edited 5 Jul 2014 4:46]
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Isn't it pronounced paaaaaaaaaaaaasty? | |
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So what does everyone on here do for a living on 11:59 - Jul 5 with 2269 views | Metallica_Hoop | I'm happiest when wielding a sledgehammer. I guess that's why I like metal. | |
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So what does everyone on here do for a living on 12:50 - Jul 5 with 2233 views | TheBlob |
So what does everyone on here do for a living on 11:59 - Jul 5 by Metallica_Hoop | I'm happiest when wielding a sledgehammer. I guess that's why I like metal. |
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So what does everyone on here do for a living on 13:42 - Jul 5 with 2201 views | timcocking |
So what does everyone on here do for a living on 10:52 - Jul 5 by bosh67 | Amazing story Tim. Any plans to repeat the model with something else? |
Yes, trying to do it again now in fact. We had to sign forms saying we wouldn't open any more shops for several years, but that has now passed, so we have opened two shops in Clapham junction, one opening in Reading station in a fortnight. Not as easy as it was though, Pasty tax scuppered it completely. It was bloody cool; we were, quite literally, bankrupt and homeless, borrowed money for the first shop, squatted illegally in the basement, no tv, no bathroom etc. Never expected it to go as well as it did. By the end, had all of our mates from school in the top jobs and stuff. Prince Charles (as the Duke of Cornwall) actually came to our party! He was a really, really nice man, spoke with interest to everybody. Camilla was, predictably, a bit stuffy, but Charlie boy a proper gentleman. It was an amazing journey. | | | |
So what does everyone on here do for a living on 13:47 - Jul 5 with 2197 views | timcocking |
So what does everyone on here do for a living on 08:11 - Jul 5 by kropotkin41 | I used to love the veggie pasties, but always had this entirely mischievous and unnecessary urge to ask the eastern European girl serving which part of Cornwall she was from because I didn't recognise her accent. (Absolutely no anti-immigrant sentiment intended......... just some part of me always expected/wanted a real Cornish pirate accent when I bought my pasty..... no matter where I was in the country.) |
Veggie Pasty? Dear God why? To be fair, although our workforce was indeed overwhelmingly eastern European or south American, we used only Cornish materials to build the shops, only Cornish workmen, sourced all ingredients in Cornwall, gave tonnes of money to Cornish charities and sponsored a Cornwall day each year in Covent Garden, whereby we'd actually bring up our Helston town band for the day and do the flora dance around Covent Garden piazza. So it was as Cornish a company as you'll find anywhere. And all the head office and stuff went to my school. And we sponsored London Cornish RUFC (in fact i played for them (well, the second team) a few times). You just can't get the lazy Cornish buggers to work in a shop. [Post edited 5 Jul 2014 13:53]
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So what does everyone on here do for a living on 13:48 - Jul 5 with 2196 views | timcocking |
So what does everyone on here do for a living on 11:24 - Jul 5 by TheBlob | Isn't it pronounced paaaaaaaaaaaaasty? |
yes, it is. | | | |
So what does everyone on here do for a living on 13:50 - Jul 5 with 2928 views | BrianMcCarthy |
So what does everyone on here do for a living on 21:04 - Jul 4 by paul63 | Hi everyone just joined site have been on Watrb for a bit but decided to join up here now, york based now due work, work for klm as a pilot |
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