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Hi everybody.

As a disorientated, disillusioned, hypersensitive 16 year old cynical asshole who's thoughts are so sporadic and confusing that they send him to need a radical explaination for absolutely everything that comes within punching distance, I find that one of the things that consumes me is occupation - what I will be doing for over half my waking life.

Here comes the question for the thread / discussion point.

What did you want to do before you got into your current occupation?

What do you do now?

What do you ultimately want to do? (Before retirement)

When I was a younger kid, I wanted to be at one stage or another - a bus driver, an airline pilot, a footballer,a racehorse commentator, a jockey, a boxer, and predominantly a bookie. However, the exchanges have quenched that idea since I think most of the bookies will be out of business within the next 20 years.

These days I'm a complete utter asshole

Eventually, I would like to be a hyporactive therapist
 
By the way jejquade, sales must be down, judging by the time you are spending giving us your fine opinions. I always wanted to do as little as possible, and here I am.
 
I've wanted to be a jockey, a stable lad, a bloodstock agent, trainer, rugby player, paramedic, town planner, geographical analyst, business analyst and not sure what i want to be at the minute but currently am at university and working part time in a betting shop and as a football steward.

Martin
 
I originally wanted to be a lumberjack in a mushroom factory, but unfortunately had to settle for a career as Kylie Minogue's nipple tweaker.
 
I coulda been a judge, but I never 'ad the Latin...
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Started out working on a Dairy farm, currently the production manager at an anodising plant, for which the threat of redundancy by next Wednesday is very real, which led to me filling in an application form for An Capall's job.
 
I always wanted to be a trainer when I was little. I did my A-levels and still didn't really know what to do. Then my daughter Daisy arrived rather unexpectedly. I quite liked being a mum, I was good at that, so I went on to have two more daughters :lol: My partner would prefer me to stay at home doing the ironing and baking fairy cakes but I can't be arsed with housewifely stuff so I work in a bookies instead :P He calls it my 'hobby'. Admittedly it doesn't pay well but I get to chat to my friends, read the papers, drink tea, do a spot of shopping and watch the racing between taking bets :lol: Sure beats staying at home.
 
Started out in the Civil Service where after five years of terminal boredom i was sacked for cutting corners.I then had various dead end jobs before finding my current employment as a train dispatcher for Branson`s mob.No further ambitions as the pay is great for what i do....and i love seeing ponces in suits running for trains and then missing their trains :P
 
Does that mean that the pregnant, the disabled, the elderly, and those with serious engagements to keep are miraculously exempt from your glee?
 
Someone's got to be proud to be incompetent, Shadow, though Euro would've had some explaining to do to Mr Hitler...
 
At 16 didn't have a clue what I wanted to.

Now, at 60, I know exactly what I should have done.

Started as a "scientist" :lol: :lol: :lol: with the Coal Board, accepted a very generous redundancy package in 1987, bought a sub post-office (biggest mistake of my life :cry: :cry: :cry: ), managed to get rid in 1996, worked as a betting-shop manager (what a shit job that is) and then found out that what I really wanted to do, was, work with racehorses. So at 54 I went off to Newmarket to seek my fortune :lol: :lol: :lol: . Really enoyed it, yard-man, first with Sarah Kelleway (Arabs), then Stuart Williams, found that I couldn't manage to keep two homes running and had to come back home. One final try, went to Alan King's, again as a yard-man but after four months of seeing my wife for about 20 hours every fortnight, settled for keeping my marriage going rather than forking sh*t and taking horses to the races.

Now I am doing one shift a week as a bookmakers' cashier and contributing absolute drivel to various racing forums.

AHHHHHHHH! ........the beauty of hindsight!

Colin
 
Originally posted by Shadow Leader@Mar 12 2005, 01:12 AM
Does that mean you're partly to blame for the fact that Virgin Trains are never on time, Euronymous?! :lol:
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Top 10 reasons for unpunctual trains:

1. The condition and age of the track which includes the quality of rails
2. Poor rolling stock
3. Inadequate storage for luggage (although the toc`s should charge more for excess baggage anyway)trains get two minutes station time not ten,which can be common in the summer as people go OTT with the Blackpool souvenirs
4. OLE...should be brought down and all stock should be diesel hauled
5. Drivers and guards not leaving enough time for connections
6. Fast trains getting stuck behind slow trains (common esp at Crewe where the signal box harm Virgin by giving priority to slower,crappier Cenral trains)
7. Not enough carriages
8. Magic door syndrome (up to half a dozen doors and passengers queueing at just the one)
9. Time taken to help disabled passengers (esp if the wheelchair space is crammed with luggage)
10. Trespassers
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i went through the usual academic route,GCSE...A Level...Univ..yr out..
During all that time, i never really thought about a job, i just 'follow the herd' and enjoying Univ life, a bit too much one might say.

Now im in my first job working for a automatic door company -its ok, pay isnt great but some of the people are ok, cant see myself working there for long, indeed handing my notice in on Monday! What really annoys me i suppose, well not annoy but irrate, is that all my friends/graduates are earning this that and another. Although, they dont make a meal out of it or anything, there is a feeling that im letting the side down a bit-payback time for all the partying at univ.

Anyhow, i know what i wanna know do now, which is getting into the betting industry such as trader or something similar since i thought i might as well get a job which interests me and given how much i follow sport generally, i think i can do a good job in that area. Fingers cross, i will find something in the next 4 wks, otherwise i would be another addition on the unemployed list...


I have nothing against Virgin traines btw, i think generally all trains are poor and i have had no problems with Virgin whenever i used them.
 
Colin, were you at Kingys at the same time as Paddy and Shane? Pair of jokers those two!

I always knew i'd work with horses, when i was 10 i decided it would be racehorses, although I fancied the mounted police for a while. Somehow I managed to pass my GCSEs despite spending more time working at Denys Smiths than school! My luck ran out for A-Levels, as I got wheels and moved onto Michael Dods and failed all my exams. In the meantime I've worked in a few racing yards, been an eventing groom, a waitress and worked in the local council offices (dont ask...never again!!)

Dont want to be a stable lass all my life, i'd like to be a yard secretary or if i can learn to drive a horsebox wouldnt mind being a THL. If I had to leave racing i'd like to run a pub.
 
I work for Dorma, Brian, 1 of the biggest auto door companies in the UK. If u own a shop, building, just dont use them. They r the biggest bunch of rip off merchants ever, having said that, our competitors are pretty expensive as well. I work for estimating and some of the prices we give out are stupidly high, we charge sometimes like £20 for a screw. Once, i quoted to purchase an extra £200 for a job, just because an engineer says he needs a vacuum to clean the mess up aftrewards. I put the cost of a new v cleaner on the customer....

The other day, my morales got in my way when i was talking to a customer, i told the customer to ring another company who can and will do the job cheaper than us and more efficiently. That day was the beginning of my decision to leave since my heart wasnt in it anymore.
 
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