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So what does everyone on here do for a living on 13:47 - Jul 5 by timcocking
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.
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That's good to hear............ these days you'd probably be able to get appellation controlée on those pasties of yours.
And from memory there were veggie and cheesy pasties, both of which were pretty good.
‘morbid curiosity about where this is all going’
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So what does everyone on here do for a living on 14:59 - Jul 5 with 2886 views
So what does everyone on here do for a living on 16:40 - Jul 3 by Jamie
Until very recently, Junior Partner in a firm of accountants & auditors.
My wife (English dad but Hungarian born and raised) is desperate to return home to Budapest though and I've finally conceded defeat, so we are planning to open a salon for her and I have accepted a role in operations for an airline.
Love Budapest. Going there for a few days with the lads from work in September.
As for work, well Im a water projection engineer!
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So what does everyone on here do for a living on 16:28 - Jul 5 with 2852 views
So what does everyone on here do for a living on 00:39 - Jul 5 by loftboy
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.
I was fortunate enough to get a lot of help with the financial side of the course via the RBL and took the exams at a college that specialises in ex-forces.
So what does everyone on here do for a living on 16:28 - Jul 5 by hoopstilidie
I was fortunate enough to get a lot of help with the financial side of the course via the RBL and took the exams at a college that specialises in ex-forces.
Cheers Tony, will have a visit to my local college and see what the do
favourite cheese mature Cheddar. FFS there is no such thing as the EPL
Spent far too many years working in banking, getting more and more depressed and disenchanted with every daily Watford to London commute. Packed it in eventually without a clue what I wanted to do.
Went through financial ruin, marriage breakdown and some very very dark days, but now a market trader, selling foodstuffs - meat, cheese, olives. eggs etc. Work about 80 hours a week, but I have never ever been happier workwise. Almost never look back on what I've done in life, but I wish I'd been brave enough to do what I do now many years ago.
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.
Good luck to you. Accountancy is a useful skill to have. You can work from home with minimal investment, as you rightly say, if that is what you want to do and your reasons for doing so are, of course, entirely commendable.
I am (was) an accountant. Spent many years in various parts of the world, some more civilised than others, with a couple of multinationals and ended up working for an internet service provider back in London. Recently retired and enjoying doing nothing very much.
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So what does everyone on here do for a living on 19:35 - Jul 5 with 2751 views
So what does everyone on here do for a living on 18:31 - Jul 5 by WatfordR
Spent far too many years working in banking, getting more and more depressed and disenchanted with every daily Watford to London commute. Packed it in eventually without a clue what I wanted to do.
Went through financial ruin, marriage breakdown and some very very dark days, but now a market trader, selling foodstuffs - meat, cheese, olives. eggs etc. Work about 80 hours a week, but I have never ever been happier workwise. Almost never look back on what I've done in life, but I wish I'd been brave enough to do what I do now many years ago.
good on yer mate!!
funny how life turns out innit!
" I guess in four or five years, the new generation's music will be .. electronics, tapes. I can kind of envision .. maybe one person .. with a lot of machines, tapes, and electronics setups, singin or speaking .. and using machines " James Douglas Morrison | 1969
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So what does everyone on here do for a living on 21:10 - Jul 5 with 2709 views
So what does everyone on here do for a living on 11:59 - Jul 3 by Toast_R
Yep Local Gov for me, where else can you get 31 days leave, flexi time, work life balance, working from home and a reasonable pension not to mention taking a career break for a year.
16 years service, once in no one ever leaves.
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Local govt here too. Not sure about the no-one leaving shtick though; my team was 8 people 5 years ago and cuts mean it's now only me.
What do you want to study loftboy?
*edit Just saw - accountancy. You might want to try a free online course first. The link below is to an Introduction to Financial Accounting course that starts in September this year. It's 6-8 hours a week for 10 weeks, is free, and you get a certificate at the end of it. It might help you decide f it's something you want to do. https://www.coursera.org/course/accounting
Work for a large European distributor of mechanical spares, tools and PPE. I'm a account development manager, responsible for the profitability of national accounts, used to be in food and FMCG, now recently transferred into the aggregates and construction materials vertical. Love it, I manage my diary, am away all over the country most if the week, no two days are the same. Live on my own, so when I get home, nothing has changed, just the way I left it :-)
That said, I'm 46 and I still want to do what I always wanted to do and thats be a 747 pilot.
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So what does everyone on here do for a living on 22:50 - Jul 5 with 2619 views
So what does everyone on here do for a living on 21:32 - Jul 5 by E17hoop
Local govt here too. Not sure about the no-one leaving shtick though; my team was 8 people 5 years ago and cuts mean it's now only me.
What do you want to study loftboy?
*edit Just saw - accountancy. You might want to try a free online course first. The link below is to an Introduction to Financial Accounting course that starts in September this year. It's 6-8 hours a week for 10 weeks, is free, and you get a certificate at the end of it. It might help you decide f it's something you want to do. https://www.coursera.org/course/accounting
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Thanks E17 I will have a good read Monday when the kids are at school
favourite cheese mature Cheddar. FFS there is no such thing as the EPL
So what does everyone on here do for a living on 18:31 - Jul 5 by WatfordR
Spent far too many years working in banking, getting more and more depressed and disenchanted with every daily Watford to London commute. Packed it in eventually without a clue what I wanted to do.
Went through financial ruin, marriage breakdown and some very very dark days, but now a market trader, selling foodstuffs - meat, cheese, olives. eggs etc. Work about 80 hours a week, but I have never ever been happier workwise. Almost never look back on what I've done in life, but I wish I'd been brave enough to do what I do now many years ago.
Interesting turnaround,WatfordR, from loadsamoney soul-destroying stressfull City Boy global capitalism to less renumerative but more rewarding, busy but happier local market trading - good for you.
Here's a tune applicable possibly to some LFW punters - if the cap fits,wear it - on this fascinating simply triffic,top,top thread ( 'I got one Art O Level, what did it do for me?') :
'I'm 18 with a bullet.Got my finger on the trigger,I'm gonna pull it.."
Love,Peace and Fook Chelski!
More like 20StoneOfHoop now.
Let's face it I'm not getting any thinner.
Pass the cake and pies please.
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So what does everyone on here do for a living on 12:08 - Jul 6 with 2528 views
So what does everyone on here do for a living on 23:29 - Jul 4 by 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.
Is it more this year as mostly blackbirds have taken all my cherries, blackcurrants and gooseberries? I don't remember them going so early and well before they are ripe before. I suppose after the deluge, its been quite dry for the past couple of months and that has meant less worms,slugs and snails about. We've held on to most of our raspberries though and our greengage tree (in its 1/3 good cropping year) hasn't yet been attacked. I hope its in order to discuss gardening issues in close season - I also appreciate the breadth of subjects covered on Clive's wonderful board.
Who's Next?
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So what does everyone on here do for a living on 15:40 - Jul 6 with 2483 views
So what does everyone on here do for a living on 15:40 - Jul 6 by SussexCityR
Regular reader rather than poster, I insure commercial aircraft for a living.
One of my clients recently lost one, literally, so if you do happen to find it, can you please let me know.
PS favourite cheese: Stilton.
Welcome,SCR. Stop lurking,start posting. Anything's gotta be better than senseless musings of the non-reading barbarian Holloway.
For your first task complete this sentence in a SwissToni fashion: "Supporting QPR is very much like insuring commercial aircraft in that.."
'I'm 18 with a bullet.Got my finger on the trigger,I'm gonna pull it.."
Love,Peace and Fook Chelski!
More like 20StoneOfHoop now.
Let's face it I'm not getting any thinner.
Pass the cake and pies please.
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So what does everyone on here do for a living on 19:00 - Jul 6 with 2400 views
So what does everyone on here do for a living on 23:29 - Jul 4 by 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.
Whereabouts, DistortR? I saw a small piece in "The Garden" for May saying some S African was trying to create a world class garden near Santon - that's not you is it? Or am I right in remembering that you're up Ramsey way?
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So what does everyone on here do for a living on 19:45 - Jul 6 with 2372 views
So what does everyone on here do for a living on 22:00 - Jul 5 by Drewster
Work for a large European distributor of mechanical spares, tools and PPE. I'm a account development manager, responsible for the profitability of national accounts, used to be in food and FMCG, now recently transferred into the aggregates and construction materials vertical. Love it, I manage my diary, am away all over the country most if the week, no two days are the same. Live on my own, so when I get home, nothing has changed, just the way I left it :-)
That said, I'm 46 and I still want to do what I always wanted to do and thats be a 747 pilot.
'I'm 46 and I still want to do what I always wanted to do and thats be a 747 pilot.'
We have a lot of blackbirds where I work, they're voracious. And were last year. One got through a gap in the polytunnel the other day, when I opened it up the following day I swear the little b waddled past, covered in strawberry juice, couldn't get back through the gap! Slugs everywhere in the tunnel, but a robin takes her fledglings in there every day at the mo, and I won't use pellets. Part of the joy of my job is the wildlife.
Cider, that's Mark Shuttleworth, internet billionaire, did the space trip. No, I work on a hillside above Ballabeg, in the south of the island. Interesting project they've got going there, and a very good gardener. Same building company that built the place I work at though, so they'll probably carefully destroy any topsoil on the site and compact the clay subsoil so that no plant can ever spread it's roots out of the planting hole, which will consequently become a bowl in the rain and suffocate the roots and....
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So what does everyone on here do for a living on 22:53 - Jul 6 with 2296 views
So what does everyone on here do for a living on 22:39 - Jul 6 by distortR
We have a lot of blackbirds where I work, they're voracious. And were last year. One got through a gap in the polytunnel the other day, when I opened it up the following day I swear the little b waddled past, covered in strawberry juice, couldn't get back through the gap! Slugs everywhere in the tunnel, but a robin takes her fledglings in there every day at the mo, and I won't use pellets. Part of the joy of my job is the wildlife.
Cider, that's Mark Shuttleworth, internet billionaire, did the space trip. No, I work on a hillside above Ballabeg, in the south of the island. Interesting project they've got going there, and a very good gardener. Same building company that built the place I work at though, so they'll probably carefully destroy any topsoil on the site and compact the clay subsoil so that no plant can ever spread it's roots out of the planting hole, which will consequently become a bowl in the rain and suffocate the roots and....
Is that Ballabeg between Castletown and Port St Mary? As I recall there are a lot of Ballabegs and Ballamoars... My aunts used to live at Scarlett.
I think all builders do that to the topsoil. I was strongly tempted to cite "builders" as a garden pest when doing my RHS exams, and recommend a shotgun as a control method. [Apologies to TedHendrix and others]
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So what does everyone on here do for a living on 23:05 - Jul 6 with 3052 views
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