What do/did you do for a living?
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For money, I am an engineer. I do very geeky network design/install/support stuff for research & education institutions around the world. Basic idea, we build extremely fast networks that for large data-set transfers. Think SSC (Superconducting Super Collider), Teragrid, super computing type stuff.
One day, the technology we use will be used to get you your porn faster. You're welcome.
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i am an engineer too . . . different type, i (did) design buildings (services)
it's a little while since i've been involved in design in it's truest sense, but my general remit is to manage approx £300M turnover pa covering a wide range of engineering/technical/architectural services and represent our geographic location at main board level in a company dealing at approx £5bn
i have written a number of standards that are now used globally and my workplace has long since moved from where i'd prefer it to be . . .
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Isn't the SSC tunnel now being used to grow mushrooms?
I was a particle physicist but am now writing software in the financial industry.
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alright back on the computer so time to contribute.
not that exciting compare to most of you guys. i am a tailor by trade. i have my own menswear label that i wholesale as well as retail out my own store. The label is mainly high end suit shirt and tie.
these days i don't actually get to do a lot of the sewing anymore but i am planning to change that with the opening of another store dedicated to made to measure and the highest quality menswear which of course will stock IH as well
what i did. Before owing my own business i went though half a dozen other jobs in the jag trade. But the most memorable will be the ones i did while going though college including teaching screen printing in our highest security prison and gate control in Rugby test matches…..
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Sell denim.
I spent over 20 years in the IT industry doing all sorts of stuff. For 10 of those years I was based in the forrmer USSR. I had a drinking competition in Moscow with a KGB Colonel (I lost), I took the Czech Government to court for breach of contract (I lost).
A few years ago circumstances forced me reapraise what I did for a living. I decided to make what I do now a success. Mme B, bless her soul, was the main bread winner for a few years and financially supported me to get to where we are now. The business is going well enough now, for her to pull out of her other stuff and help me (well she does love packin n stackin).
I do a few othere odds n sods, I consult for the local brewery and I also make Titanium fishing reels (through my old contacts in The Ukraine).
But Iron Heart is what I love, thanks for helping us get to where we are…...................
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An interesting career path to say the least G! I've done a fair few jobs(though not quite as glamorous): Printer (NME and other such exciting tutt..) Stock controller at Tescos, Surveyors assistant (chainey) working all over London (Bank of England, Imperial college), fannied around at uni for 3 years in Brighton and then ended up here in France. Am now an Educateur specialisé…otherwise known as a Social Worker working with Handicapped adults.
