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Kurfin
Kippers and Jam Developments
#141 - 2013-01-05 11:37:03 UTC
Jonah Gravenstein wrote:
Currently unemployed :(

By trade an auto electrician, used to do a lot of work on stupidly expensive cars, retrofit multimedia, vehicle trackers and the like. Now it's all done at the factory so I turn my hands to whatever comes along and pays the bills.


Did you just do installations? Or diagnostics and repair? A lot of garages are hopeless at electrical diagnostics, and just start replacing random parts if they're not sure, and give up after you've blown a load of money. With a lot of complex cars approaching and passing their 10th birthday you could keep yourself busy for a long time.

I'm an accounts assistant, which translates as data entry monkey. I really need to dust off my CV...
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Mad Hermit
Wayward Alliance
#142 - 2013-01-05 12:17:14 UTC
Kurfin wrote:
A lot of garages are hopeless at electrical diagnostics, and just start replacing random parts if they're not sure, and give up after you've blown a load of money.
Heh, no kidding. My previous car died two days after I bought it, turns out the electrical system was a complete mess with re-soldered and crossed wires everywhere (shouldn't have worked when I bought it). After a good while the guys at the garage gave up and said "look, we got it to run now, but we have no idea if we actually fixed it. It worked when it couldn't have, didn't work when it should have, and now we don't know what state it's in. Are you sure it's a good idea to keep this car?"

Made me laugh, right until they told me they'd still have to charge full price for the diagnostics and repairs. (to their credit, it never acted up like that again)

Truly, you have a dizzying intellect.
fukier
Gallente Federation
#143 - 2013-01-05 18:19:11 UTC
I am central teller at a major Canadian bank branch.
At the end of the game both the pawn and the Queen go in the same box.
Bardorr Kretschmer
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#144 - 2013-01-06 06:47:31 UTC
Jago Kain wrote:
In before all the 12 yr old (and sadly some older) walts pretending to be Marines and the usual "semper fi" bollocks that these threads always descend into.

As an ex member of the SAS, Paras, Royal Marines, Mossad, Spetsnatz, French Foreign Legion, 2nd man on the balcony at the Iranian embassy seige, part time security advisor to the Al Fayed family and close personal friend and business partner of Mark "Damn; I got caught again" Thatcher, kids pretending to be members of the elite forces annoys me so much I want to slot them.

You didn't see me right? I wasn't here.

Oh, I forgot; I'm also a highly trained Ginja Warrior.... sort of like Ninjas but less well camouflaged and much, much angrier.



Lol.

(U.S.) Marine checking in.
Etherial Skyshot Deathstalker
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#145 - 2013-01-06 06:51:17 UTC
Ex-Nuke (12 years surface fleet).

Now a Corrections Officer at a County Jail (12 years).

The first one was safer Shocked
Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#146 - 2013-01-06 07:15:47 UTC
Etherial Skyshot Deathstalker wrote:
Ex-Nuke (12 years surface fleet).

Now a Corrections Officer at a County Jail (12 years).

The first one was safer Shocked


A guy in my platoon got called to be the driver for the Commandant on a trip to the USMC recruiting office in Berkeley, Ca.

That was a dangerous job P

"Little ginger moron" ~David Hasselhoff 

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Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#147 - 2013-01-06 08:36:40 UTC
Kurfin wrote:
Jonah Gravenstein wrote:
Currently unemployed :(

By trade an auto electrician, used to do a lot of work on stupidly expensive cars, retrofit multimedia, vehicle trackers and the like. Now it's all done at the factory so I turn my hands to whatever comes along and pays the bills.


Did you just do installations? Or diagnostics and repair? A lot of garages are hopeless at electrical diagnostics, and just start replacing random parts if they're not sure, and give up after you've blown a load of money. With a lot of complex cars approaching and passing their 10th birthday you could keep yourself busy for a long time.

I'm an accounts assistant, which translates as data entry monkey. I really need to dust off my CV...


Mainly installation work, but quite capable of diagnostics work, 10 year old cars are still relatively simple compared to the modern stuff, thanks for the idea, I'll look into it.

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Xinivrae
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#148 - 2013-01-06 11:35:27 UTC
I'm a graphic designer for a publishing company. I also freelance on the side.
Amada Almodovar
Verstand Corporation
#149 - 2013-01-06 23:07:17 UTC
I trade NYMEX Henry Hub futures.
Harley Marsten
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#150 - 2013-01-07 08:05:02 UTC  |  Edited by: Harley Marsten
Auditor for Intercontinental Hotels Group, Holiday Inn Schenectady. I'm a number cruncher. Currently looking to supplant my woefully inadequate boss (seriously, when she brings a thousand-dollar lawsuit to the hotel because she can't change one number on a man's tax form despite being told six times, thereby forcing him to pay the Federal government the equivalent of two months pay, she needs to go)
Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#151 - 2013-01-07 08:06:48 UTC
Harley Marsten wrote:
Auditor for Intercontinental Hotels Group, Holiday Inn Schenectady. I'm a number cruncher. Currently looking to supplant my woefully inadequate boss (seriously, when she brings a thousand-dollar lawsuit to the hotel because she can't change one number on a man's tax form despite being told six times, thereby forcing him to pay the Federal government the equivalent of two months pay, she needs to go)


She needs to get back in the kitchen Straight

"Little ginger moron" ~David Hasselhoff 

Want to see what Surf is training or how little isk Surf has?  http://eveboard.com/pilot/Surfin%27s_PlunderBunny
Harley Marsten
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#152 - 2013-01-07 08:10:08 UTC
Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote:
Harley Marsten wrote:
Auditor for Intercontinental Hotels Group, Holiday Inn Schenectady. I'm a number cruncher. Currently looking to supplant my woefully inadequate boss (seriously, when she brings a thousand-dollar lawsuit to the hotel because she can't change one number on a man's tax form despite being told six times, thereby forcing him to pay the Federal government the equivalent of two months pay, she needs to go)


She needs to get back in the kitchen Straight


More accuratlely, the housekeeping department. She was a housekeeper for 10 years, when someone had the stroke of brilliance to make her the Financial Manager... with no experience, no education, and a bare-bones grasp of English.
Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#153 - 2013-01-07 08:14:04 UTC
Harley Marsten wrote:
Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote:
Harley Marsten wrote:
Auditor for Intercontinental Hotels Group, Holiday Inn Schenectady. I'm a number cruncher. Currently looking to supplant my woefully inadequate boss (seriously, when she brings a thousand-dollar lawsuit to the hotel because she can't change one number on a man's tax form despite being told six times, thereby forcing him to pay the Federal government the equivalent of two months pay, she needs to go)


She needs to get back in the kitchen Straight


More accuratlely, the housekeeping department. She was a housekeeper for 10 years, when someone had the stroke of brilliance to make her the Financial Manager... with no experience, no education, and a bare-bones grasp of English.


http://youtu.be/kVr4bY8NsH8 Big smile

"Little ginger moron" ~David Hasselhoff 

Want to see what Surf is training or how little isk Surf has?  http://eveboard.com/pilot/Surfin%27s_PlunderBunny
Harley Marsten
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#154 - 2013-01-07 08:20:38 UTC
Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote:
Harley Marsten wrote:
Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote:
Harley Marsten wrote:
Auditor for Intercontinental Hotels Group, Holiday Inn Schenectady. I'm a number cruncher. Currently looking to supplant my woefully inadequate boss (seriously, when she brings a thousand-dollar lawsuit to the hotel because she can't change one number on a man's tax form despite being told six times, thereby forcing him to pay the Federal government the equivalent of two months pay, she needs to go)


She needs to get back in the kitchen Straight


More accuratlely, the housekeeping department. She was a housekeeper for 10 years, when someone had the stroke of brilliance to make her the Financial Manager... with no experience, no education, and a bare-bones grasp of English.


http://youtu.be/kVr4bY8NsH8 Big smile


Yup... first two hours of every night at work, right there. Only difference is that she's Guyanese instead of Hispanic (think Creole, like that fortune teller I forget her name)
Rain6639
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#155 - 2013-01-07 08:30:35 UTC
miss cleo
silens vesica
Corsair Cartel
#156 - 2013-01-07 18:41:07 UTC
Etherial Skyshot Deathstalker wrote:
Ex-Nuke (12 years surface fleet).

Now a Corrections Officer at a County Jail (12 years).

The first one was safer Shocked

No surprise there.

I almost went the opposite route, but the Recruiter was persistent, and the Sherriff's office was slow on the uptake. Count that one as a near-miss.

Tell someone you love them today, because life is short. But scream it at them in Esperanto, because life is also terrifying and confusing.

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Eli Green
The Arrow Project
#157 - 2013-01-07 22:33:51 UTC
Comp-sci student looking to go into AI down the line (lol dreams) also barrista (fancy way of saying: works at Tim Hortons)

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Katherie Hobbes
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#158 - 2013-01-07 22:44:25 UTC
Senior middle-level manager at a large video-game publisher.
Kitty Bear
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#159 - 2013-01-08 00:55:39 UTC  |  Edited by: Kitty Bear
Zimmy Zeta wrote:
I am a little confused by this thread.. ingame almost every single person I met claimed to work for the army in one way or the other...and right here everybody has civilian jobs...


I applied to join the Navy when i was 16, and then decided not to finalise it.
Then the Falklands happened a year later, and i was kinda relieved.

It's taken most of my extremely varied working life to discover a vocation i both enjoy and am good at, so I'm currently retraining & atending part-time college to become a Basic Skills tutor (Thats Numeracy, Literacy & basic ITC skills Smile).

Although I did 3 years support work with a charity for adults with learning disabilities, all the paid jobs involve care work & i aint wiping bums for a living.
Alexis Machine
#160 - 2013-01-08 01:05:01 UTC
I'm a Subcontractor for Mediacom. I also work for a company that prewires new homes, does wall mounts for TV's, installs home theater systems, Directv, Dish Network, and Brinks. Basically, if you watch it, listen to it, or it protects the things you watch and listen to, I install it. Lol

Currently working on my Masters in Criminal Justice.. I'd like to work in Juvenile Probation. Straight