What job do you do now and what job did you do beforehand

[Ravishing Rick Rude]

For the last 24 years I've been in the music industry. Nowt flash, nowt flash at all.

Before that I was a kitchen fitter.

[RiversideRifle]

I was in school before my current role.

[Hound]

I was in prison before my current role.
I'm rehabilitated now though 😉

[Ravishing Rick Rude]

I was in prison before my current role.
I'm rehabilitated now though 😉

A hound dog eh

[Norman_Conquest]

I was a welder until I was 39 and had an accident on my lower spine.  I was told I couldn't return to that job and went back to college/University and also volunteered as a Youth Worker.  I studied to become a counsellor and worked for the Connexions Mentoring Service before moving to work with Connexions Positive Activities for Young People. 

I was going in and out of schools in East Cleveland and was asked to run a behaviour unit.  I was very successful in this role and the unit was copied by many other schools.

An academy took over the running of the school and changed the boundaries.  The academy wanted to get behaviour students out of the school because it impacted on the schools exam results and this didn't sit right with me. 

I decided to take early retirement and now work much harder for less money for the wife.

[Ural Quntz]

I was the Boss before I retired

Now she is....

 

[Ravishing Rick Rude]

I was the Boss before I retired

Now she is....

 

That's bewers for ya

[Ural Quntz]

[tunstall]

 

[tonyangelino]

Bsc/Corus/Tata steel, from leaving school til the works closed. 32 years. Didn't go back when SSI opened it back up.

[Poolielad]

Process Operator for 30 years until redundo last year.........Still sort of looking for employment now.

[tunstall]

Electrical Equipment Supervisor (Offshore)

Before going offshore I worked at the old Kvaerner place on Richardson Road in Stockton, which is now a housing estate

[BoroRedKen]

Part time jockey and now i tickle Dwarves for coffee.
👍

[Norman_Conquest]

Part time jockey and now i tickle Dwarves for coffee.
👍

When I first left school we had to go to the careers office next to the old Eston Library every week to tell them we had been looking for jobs and then go to Eston Job Centre to sign on and receive a cheque for £11.

I knew I had my apprenticeship down Smith's Dock and took these visits light-heartedly but was grateful for the £11 - it was more than the pocket money I was getting from my mum.

One day I turned up on my mate's pony and tied the pony to the fence outside the careers office and went inside with the saddle.  The guy asked me what I would like to do for a living and I told him I wanted to be a jockey and proceeded to tell him I had my own saddle.

The guy looks at me and trying to be respectful says aren't you a little large to be a jockey.  Being only 5ft 6 (even smaller then), I knew he wasn't on about my height.  I say to the guy, are you saying I am fat?  No, no he stutters and signs my form for another week.

I'm not sure why they used to avoid me when I went in.

[BoroRedKen]

The fact that you turned up with a horse and saddle to a careers office was not the issue that "alarmed" the officer but your body shape shows how lucky we were to grow up in the looney bin that was our area!

    

[Kippers]

Aircraft design engineer for 40 years.
2/3 years to go.

[Ravishing Rick Rude]

Aircraft design engineer for 40 years.
2/3 years to go.

So you played with artic models in your bedroom.


      

[Kippers]

Aircraft design engineer for 40 years.
2/3 years to go.

So you played with artic models in your bedroom.


      

Wasn't that cold .

[Clem Fandango]

Aircraft design engineer for 40 years.
2/3 years to go.

Try the wings on the sides mate.

I hope this helps.

 

[Francks left peg]

Used to be a stripper. Ten years later with a slower metabolism and a love of beer, I'm now a Roly poly stripper😉

[erimus74]

I was a welder until I was 39 and had an accident on my lower spine.  I was told I couldn't return to that job and went back to college/University and also volunteered as a Youth Worker.  I studied to become a counsellor and worked for the Connexions Mentoring Service before moving to work with Connexions Positive Activities for Young People. 

I was going in and out of schools in East Cleveland and was asked to run a behaviour unit.  I was very successful in this role and the unit was copied by many other schools.

An academy took over the running of the school and changed the boundaries.  The academy wanted to get behaviour students out of the school because it impacted on the schools exam results and this didn't sit right with me. 

I decided to take early retirement and now work much harder for less money for the wife.

That is fantastic Norman

I have been away from posting on this board for 24 hours for whatever reason & have read & replied to Kens post & likewise with you Norman

What I read on your post is nothing short of been brilliant, so selfless & a great way of wanting to help others in a less fortunate predicament, truly remarkable
I would have to loved to have been in that framedmind to have wanted to do something like that but sadly I wasnt

It takes a special kind of person to do what you did

So glad you post on here Norman, well done 👌

[borope]

Process operator for over 30 years now bits and bobs before that.

[erimus74]

As I have posted on another thread I retire on the 1st July ater just short of 38 years, service but before that I worked at Shipmans bakery as a van driver, really enjoyed that too

But my life goal was to get into ICI & I did that, lucky, lucky 👍

[Bigredshirt]

I started as an apprentice electrician at tees dock 4 yrs
Then joined navy and ended up sonar maintainer on submarines 22 yrs
Nissan service engineer 8 months
Rig electrician off shore 1 yr 11 months and 29 days ( so they didn't have to pay me redundancy...wankers...)
Various field service jobs over 7 yrs
Now I'm servicing waste water systems on cruise ships, seen more of the world in 7 months than I ever did in the Navy.. done Caribbean, Japan, Australia, new zealand Italy and greenock...
Off to do a round trip of the UK next week, should be fun...

[Norman_Conquest]

I was a welder until I was 39 and had an accident on my lower spine.  I was told I couldn't return to that job and went back to college/University and also volunteered as a Youth Worker.  I studied to become a counsellor and worked for the Connexions Mentoring Service before moving to work with Connexions Positive Activities for Young People. 

I was going in and out of schools in East Cleveland and was asked to run a behaviour unit.  I was very successful in this role and the unit was copied by many other schools.

An academy took over the running of the school and changed the boundaries.  The academy wanted to get behaviour students out of the school because it impacted on the schools exam results and this didn't sit right with me. 

I decided to take early retirement and now work much harder for less money for the wife.

That is fantastic Norman

I have been away from posting on this board for 24 hours for whatever reason & have read & replied to Kens post & likewise with you Norman

What I read on your post is nothing short of been brilliant, so selfless & a great way of wanting to help others in a less fortunate predicament, truly remarkable
I would have to loved to have been in that framed mind to have wanted to do something like that but sadly I wasnt

It takes a special kind of person to do what you did

So glad you post on here Norman, well done 👌

Thanks for the kind words erimus.

The one thing I missed off was volunteering for the 'For Get Me Not' children's bereavement programme which is part of Teesside Hospice.  I worked for these for a little over a year whilst training as a counsellor and delivered bereavement group work to young people aged from seven years to sixteen years of age.

I got so much out of volunteering for this service and have been able to use the skills I learnt with my own loved ones and the students I worked with in the school.

It always seems strange to say that I enjoyed working with young people struggling with bereavement but watching them first come in struggling and then leaving at the end of the six weeks with the skills to cope was so rewarding, it is very hard to explain.

Edit:  The funny thing is, to one or two looking over the garden wall, I am just a racist knuckle dragging thug.