what do you do for a living?

[wbute]

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.

[adam perth]

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 time

[Rico]

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.

[Valencia]

Ceramic tiler by trade but do nearly everything involved with house renovations
no i cant tile your bathroom to busy sorry

[1BadVan]

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

[mckackie]

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.

[Vombil]

Sworn/Licensed Property Valuer

when i was a wee grommet i did things like

Surfboard repairs
Gardening
Plasters' labourer
Small business operator
Retail sales



Tinker with the odd Commodore Ute on the side too :shifty:

[hainzy]

Paramedic. I get to drive a van really fast for a living!

ha

Before that i mostly worked backstage and up in the flys in the big musical theatre shows in melb, worked on films and was a band booker/promoter/manager etc in the music industry.

[ozbox]

great thread...im going to expand on the dodgey wrecker job to explain how i got there..15 years old 1973 i dragged my first 9 inch diff out of the bush behind my dirt bike from what was probably a stolen ford..sold it for $450..this was the start of parts hustling..had left school at 14 was a bad boy with all sorts of fun illegal things..worked as storeman in marrickville with lotsa new ozzies that trained me well in the art of young white ozzie dealin with wogs..went on to panel shops doin detailing,around 5 car yards doing pre delivery/detailing..worked as a night dirt carter..tough job but good pay..worked for a providores driving a truck doin food supplies for ships..then spent 6 years driving government buses in sydney..while i was driving buses i was buying and selling cars and also did a panel course at night tech,from there had a panel shop then came wife n kids and the fun became serious..at the lowest point in my life my son who is now 23 was very sick and i would go to wrecking yards to pull interiors out for free for them if i could keep the coin i found to pay for his medicines..from this i started working in a wrecking yard in sydney which was just an extension of the parts hustling..started the wrecking yard im still in with a partner 20 years ago but his plan to get rid of me backfired and i ended up buying him out..see www.classicozwreck.com.au for the rest of the story...

[adam perth]

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

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.