And what do you do? including linkedin if you like.. - The Bear and Badger

Kow

I translate. So if you need somebody who speaks decent English, here am I.

Rev

LarryDavid wrote:

I'm a care worker working in care homes and day centre's for people with learning disabilities. Technically I'm an assistant manager at a day centre, although in actuality that merely involves telling staff which one is driving the bus that day and answering the phone. Also, being dumped with the responsibility of telling staff why they won't be getting a pay rise in the next bazillion years ("council ain't got no money, innit" basically).Â I've also worked on acute mental health wards in hospitals, although I didn't like it much. I'm not sure what help that'll be in this networking thread although if any posters do have any mental health issues or learning disabilities then I can offer my limited advice to you. Currently studying psychology as well so hopefully I can a proper job and get paid more handsomely than I do now, mainly via conducting survey's and making obvious comparisons like 'people whose mother's didn't kill themselves tend to be significantly happier than those whose mother's did'. There's more to it than that obviously. My job basically involves being nice to people all the time, which can be a strain. Also, being nice all the time generally tends to lead to other people shitting on you, often literally in my job. On the plus side last month we got a job lot of electric wheelchairs delivered and got to race them around the carpark in what turned into an elaborate betting game.

I have painted a few mural in homes for people with learning disabilities, from miner autism through to severe physical. I was appalled at how drab the places were. Â Unless the families are able to chip in, the places look like prisons more than anything else.Â
I decorated a bathroom with an underwater theme for them. It completely changed the look of the room Â and I've been told the residents love it.Â
It was very rewarding work.

Petey

Dan_Dare wrote:

I work in The University of Sheffield Faculty of Engineering as an internal comms person. Basically boils down to writing newsletters and managing image storage atm, but it pays well, it's more interesting than journalism and I get to read a lot about absolutely shit-your-pants- awesome scientific research and interview a lot of fascinating people.Â oh, and there's a lot of cookies involved.

I thought your job description was "Whine to Peter on Facebook about not playing Dark Souls".

Rev

LesterUnlimited wrote:

Has anyone here had experience of their own start-up retail? I'd genuinely be very interested to hear about your experiences and what you've learned.

Get yourself Online first if you can. might as well market yourself everywhere as opposed to one certain place. get yourself on facebook asap and get the word out there.

Other serious question to ask is whether you need a physical premises to sell what you are selling.Â

Barter like a mofo over prices for things and look at the local auctions for display cabinet and shop fitting stuff. get it cheap and look at upgrading it later.

Rev

Petey wrote:

Dan_Dare wrote:

I work in The University of Sheffield Faculty of Engineering as an internal comms person. Basically boils down to writing newsletters and managing image storage atm, but it pays well, it's more interesting than journalism and I get to read a lot about absolutely shit-your-pants- awesome scientific research and interview a lot of fascinating people.Â oh, and there's a lot of cookies involved.

I thought your job description was "Whine to Peter on Facebook about not playing Dark Souls".

lol / slash

Ian

I guess you all know what I do.

Rev

Ian wrote:

I guess you all know what I do.

Games not assumptions

Kow

Fuck all.

Ian

Kow wrote:

Fuck all.

Shhh!

Rev

Kow wrote:

Fuck all.

now now brown Kow...

Rev

Ian wrote:

I guess you all know what I do.

you are the only one on the Forum that doesn't hide behind a username.Â

and you have always been here,

in the background.

Kow

Games not sycophancy!

EvilRedEye

I worked as a plain language editor. I made things easier to understand. Now I'm unemployed.

LarryDavid

revelthedog wrote:

and you have always been here, in the background.

BobbyDanger

I work at a magazine publishers, based in the deepest darkest west country. I work across a wide range of magazines doing photo retouching and image manipulation.

I also like cake.

Dan_Dare

Is that at Imagine?

BobbyDanger

Nope not Imagine, more in the Bath area.

Unlikely

SPY

Tempy

Delete forum, plot an emergency jump to backupspace, On my mark.

dynamiteReady

LarryDavid wrote:

I'm a care worker working... My job basically involves being nice to people all the time, which can be a strain.

I once worked as a S.E.N assistant... Wildly varied work, that's for sure. Kids withÂ CerebralÂ Palsy, Autism, Pyromaniacs...Â All sorts...
Bless them all.

Dan_Dare

BobbyDanger wrote:

Nope not Imagine, more in the Bath area.

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BobbyDanger

Ha ha not a spy just enjoy a chinwag about videogames and such now and again. I'm not even in the same building as Edge.

Kow

EVERYBODY LOOK BUSY

Brooks

So once again, proximity to human tragedies -> comic gift.

Skerret

I make games, draw pictures, design things, teach belligerent teens about game design and IT in general (mainly the soft stuff), develop new units for the school of IT, do research in the form of a Ph.D and other projects and get paid to do all of them at one point or another.Â I also get some sleep in occasionally.

google

I've had about four jobs in two different countries in the last couple of years but I'm happy I've found something suited to me now.

I'm a business consultant working at a software company that specialises in building software for recruitment firms all around the world.

I work with the firm from the very first curious stages of finding out who they are and what they do through to building workflows and mapping requirements.

It's nice. I like it.

Skerret

What happened to your podcast?

Dan_Dare

google wrote:

I've had about four jobs in two different countries in the last couple of years but I'm happy I've found something suited to me now. I'm a business consultant working at a software company that specialises in building software for recruitment firms all around the world. I work with the firm from the very first curious stages of finding out who they are and what they do through to building workflows and mapping requirements. It's nice. I like it.

Bolded the terrifying private sector talk that makes me happy to work in a university. Not that HE / public sectors are without their own jargon, I just find a lot of private sector stuff really vague and weird to read.

google

You're right. Good question. @skerret

Skerret

Dan_Dare wrote:

google wrote:

I've had about four jobs in two different countries in the last couple of years but I'm happy I've found something suited to me now. I'm a business consultant working at a software company that specialises in building software for recruitment firms all around the world. I work with the firm from the very first curious stages of finding out who they are and what they do through to building workflows and mapping requirements. It's nice. I like it.

Bolded the terrifying private sector talk that makes me happy to work in a university. Not that HE / public sectors are without their own jargon, I just find a lot of private sector stuff really vague and weird to read.

I like working in a uni, though not for the same reason.Â I dismiss jargon as a rule and insist that the speaker use proper language; if they fail to do this immediately I sit on their chest until security arrive to escort me back to my office.

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