What do you all do for a living?

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Kip wrote:I think you guys know what I do. :D


kip - i've just read on another thread that you have a 'time room'......... WOW! :irre2:

so - this makes you a Time Lord, no?? :D
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Currently a carer. I have some property that I rent out as well.

I spent 27 years in the garage trade, ending up with my own business. I didn't quite see the end of boom and bust in the same rosy light as Brown, and then when the recession bit good and proper he introduced a car scrappage scheme which killed my business dead. I closed it to care for my Dad who had become ill, and I did that for 4 years until he passed away last year.

Just as I thought that I would be able to resume a career of some sort my Mum's got some problems and I'm having to care for her. Hopefully she will recover though.........
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Spent 30years working for the family business small garage/shop/petrol station and post office I was mainly a MOT tester now filling time working as a sales assistant (chatting to plumbers and sparkies all day) for a national retailer
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Re: What do you all do for a living?

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craigski wrote:
rcherryuk wrote:EU Civil Servant (thank you all UK taxpayers :-) )


Rob
I never quite understand the inner workings of income tax paid by public sector / civil servants. A proportion of the income tax they pay on their own salaries, is contributing to their salaries that they are being taxed on.

Makes my head giddy thinking about it :)
Ahh,
For us Eurocrats our salary is exempt from UK taxes(I do pay a special tax directly in Brussels though, even though I'm based in London:-) ).


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I'm a supermarket duty manager.

Was at uni until I was 25, but lack of jobs means I do that now. I'm 28. Recently just picked up a 6k payrise to move stores, which is pretty unusual in our business! My motivation was purely to buy watches.
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rcherryuk wrote: Ahh,
For us Eurocrats our salary is exempt from UK taxes(I do pay a special tax directly in Brussels though, even though I'm based in London:-) ).

Rob
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Pensions Technical Adviser analysing new pensions legislation for a large UK life and pensions company. I only took it as a temporary job but still there 23 years later!
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GINGER1974 wrote:Pensions Technical Adviser analysing new pensions legislation for a large UK life and pensions company. I only took it as a temporary job but still there 23 years later!
You're just up the road from me too ;)


Funny how you just find yourself in a job sometimes. I ended up working in the Parking industry (software development and services for local authorities) for 5 years.
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theaaronp wrote:The general trend I'm getting from things is that you're all mostly retired. Collecting watches and being retired go hand in hand maybe?
Nah :)
I'd been collecting watches for a decade or so before I retired, and seriously interested in them for a couple of decades before then. It was just that my collection was small (usually just two or three watches) and relatively inexpensive.
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Surgical Spinal Implant Sales which means I get to spend most of my days in the operating room wearing pajamas.
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Army Scout and Attack pilot. OH-58D Kiowa Warrior and AH-64D Apache Longbows to be exact. Recently I've been flying the heck out of a desk, hence the reason I have any reason to reply to this post... Cheers
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AH-64D Apache Longbow ! Very cool 8)
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WesWood151 wrote:Army Scout and Attack pilot. OH-58D Kiowa Warrior and AH-64D Apache Longbows to be exact. Recently I've been flying the heck out of a desk, hence the reason I have any reason to reply to this post... Cheers
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