For a living ... I get to play with Harleys all day, I've been selling bits 'n' pieces for them for 30+ years now and still lovin it.
For pocket money (Sandman/Monaro funding) ... I go tiling with my son doing cashies on weekends.
For no money ... hmmm strange how I always seem to end up working on mates cars for very little or no reward. :Chin:
SNDMN
79 HZ Sandman XX7 Van Flamenco Red - out 'n' about cruzin'
I'm part time stay-at-home dad, part time jack-of-all-trades and fulltime collector of stuff.
The missus pays most of the bills with a highly paid government management job.
In the past have been a Service Manager at a motorcycle dealership, trades assistant in a panel shop and a Rental Car detailer/ supervisor.
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worked as Agronomist (agricultural scientist) for over a decade recommending fertilisers , chemicals and varieties to farmers for Elders / Wesfarmers etc). Was a great job for finding old holdens.
But Agriculture can't compete with mining for $$
now work as a FIFO Mining environmental scientist North of Kalgoorlie.
enjoy being an unlicenced dodgy backyard wrecker on the side
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I went to Orange Ag after I left school. Nearly finished and then went home to the farm. I did heaps of rousabouting and wool classing as well. Then went overseas and worked as drill helper in the oil fields in Canada. As a picker for Warner Bros in London for 3 days, then back to farm hand in the UK for 18 months.
Back to the farm, then took over managing it for the last 7 years.
I am currently chasing a mining job as well. Any leads would be greatly appreciated.
Love this thread, its very interesting to see what everyone does for a living.
PM Me. you have drilling experience. walk up start. Agriculture is finished unfortunately. Alot of farmers are miners now, and take annual leave to put crop in and at harvest timeOriginally Posted by wbute
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property manager for last two years. Former stationhand, truck driver, traffic controller, factoryhand, ski technician, chain fitter,labourer, groundsman, janitor,caravan park manager, stockman at saleyards, trades assistant and car detailer.
Ceramic tiler by trade but do nearly everything involved with house renovations
no i cant tile your bathroom to busy sorry
Talk about varied and interesting work histories. I got the idea after going to a Rotary Club meeting all of the members were wearing name badges and underneath it had what they are doing are had done as a job. It made it really easy to strike up a conversation. I enjoy my job most days (students can be a bit challenging at times but for the most of it they are pretty good). The best thing about my job is I am still in the workshop sometimes classroom with the kids. I have also learnt so much by becoming a techa eg wood, metal lathe work, all types of welding plumbing tig etc, carpentry, some days I even teach ceramic tiling (I hope I am getting it right Gene). I also get to teach tek drawing, freehand sketching and CAD/CAM packages. I have often thought about trying to cash in on the current mining boom. But I left my family a few years ago to start my teaching career in Southern Cross (4hrs drive from home) I missed my family too much and and they missed me too much so I ended up driving home each weekend.The ongoing joke in town was that I had left wheel ruts in the road back to Perth. My family ended shifting up there and we were a lot happier. The silly thing was I became a teacher to spend more time with my family. That was ten years ago I am pretty lucky now as I only work 20 mins from home.
Cheers Dave
my first career choice was as an apprentice mechanic in a busy inner city workshop. stayed there for ten years gaining lots of good experience. worked here n there in dealerships as a battery mechanic(like a battery chook) and in a brain dead tyres and rego servo as well . after 23 years, and sort of over it with service managers, I hung up the tools and the wife and I tried our hand with a leading edge CD&DVD shop in the town we live in. then along came BIGW(evil empire) and that was the end of it. Now I help the missus with her photography (www.pixelphotography.com.au) and the latest venture has been an online magazine (www.thehighlandsway.com) to see where that takes us. otherwise, I like to fiddle with old cars n bikes in my spare time, if I'm not driving or riding them.
southern Cross?, r u still there? have you seen all the old holdens at Bullfinch 40 km north?, that place is littered with them everywhere, FJ's upwards.
looks like only 20- 30 people live there and they all have 5 holdens each.
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