With me being a nosey old git, i just wondered what jobs people on here do?
I am a house husband..at home with the kids doing the domestics!
I've done this full time for the last 6.5 years although recently i started a part time casual job in the local newsagency, which helps keep my sanity!
How about you guys?
colonel mustard ·
Student (studying youthwork.). always at home doing assignments and procrastinating on facebook and AVD, or at work at Target.
Jay_1965vw ·
Degree in fashion design, post graduate diploma in Primary teaching... what do I do? Business Analyst in IT 😀
axlepressbutton ·
I'm an Art Director for television.
I mainly work on Reality television- sorry!
Bizarre ·
estimator in construction
DU88EN ·
doing HSC at the moment and working as a skateboarding coach, but next year studying screen and media! can't wait!
megalania ·
Fully qualified palaeontologist.
Currently work in environmental consultancy firm, doing contaminated land rehabilitation (the geology and groundwater aspects of it)
Dirtbag ·
I'm a super model : )
Seriously, I own and run a little fabrication and resto business on the sunshine coast. So PM me if you need something made, fixed or modified. Or if you need a super model........
Anthiron ·
Im food and beverage manager / Approved manager, Omalleys Irish Pub in Mooloolaba QLD
greedy53 ·
i'm a dirty old man and a ute hater
HappyDaze ·
colonel mustard wrote:Student (studying youthwork.). always at home doing assignments and procrastinating on facebook and AVD, or at work at Target.
I,m going to procrastinate.............one day!
Cheers, Greg
rose ·
First job a signwriter than driveway attendant pumping fuel. I can detail cars, use to be a qualified security guard, iv'e been a promotional hostess and alos qualified in admin. I've allso worked in a kids cloths shop.
And now I am a grease monkey at my husbands mechanical workshop 😂 where I also do the admin. And get to play with my bug. best job ever do what I like when I like play on avd when ever as well.😂
matt ·
was a panel beater for ten years then went sand blasting and spray painting, been there for 4 years. I also work weekends as a TA for an engineering firm.
keeps me busy
matt
helbus ·
I make automotive panels
trickysimon ·
I do embroidery and screen printing for the local buisnesses and clubs.
It is run out of a newsagency so I get to read VWMA all day long 😂
colonel mustard ·
rose wrote:First job a signwriter than driveway attendant pumping fuel.
I thought it said SONGwriter for a second and got excited.....
Your job is still cool though.... but... yeah. 🙂
pod ·
greedy53 wrote:i'm a dirty old man and a ute hater
😂😂😂😂😂😂 i can hear your missus telling you to get out in the shed if she read that🤪
i`m a fitter machinist/welder/sheetmetal/write cnc programs for my lathe/solataire/freecell player come general dogsbody it pays the bills and passes the time away😂
cnfabo ·
im a seasonal bushfirefighter and in winter i do whatever work i can get aslong as i dont have to drive too far and drive with peak hour ha ha, i dont like driving that much,its more fun getting driven around.....people in west oz areannoyind drivers..ramble ramble....
grumble ·
I'm one of those people who do what people tell them,I thought about taking an apprenticeship with greedy53 but my missus says No.
1916baja ·
I'm a qualified upholsterer (furniture) But i do automotive trimming from home. I much prefer to work on car interiors especially VW'S 😀. So if anyone needs thier interiors done in south east QLD give me a yell! I do very special rates for Vee dubs 👍
Mick
penguin ·
Fulltime penguin (Don't fly, but am in the Air Force)
polak ·
during the day i unfortunately work for a ford dealership but thats proly gonna change soon as i hate it, might go drive trucks.... at night im working on rust repairs, restos and race cars..... see how it goes 🤓
LUFTMEISTER ·
I have had a few jobs... crack whore,spin doctor for the parking meter officers club,throwing chickens into jet engines,autopsies on live people,making noses for famous black celeb (recently deceased), time keeper for GumBall Rally,proctologists assistant,dream analystis,dyslectic crossword editor,making braille centrefolds,chicken sexer,blacksmiths anvil,supermodel brazilian waxer and storeman.
barls ·
full time causer of chaos and mayhem
grumble ·
Your mother says !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
silver ·
I work for a greeting card company 🥷
roundtoit ·
Jack of all, master of none.
Gone back to uni to study teaching,(primary). bit of a change from mowing lawns. shouuld be fun although might have left it a bit late, turn 50 next month🤓
Joel ·
i get asked alot if im a mechanic for some reason
used to be but i cant throw tools and kick the shit out of cars when they're not mine...... that and i go nuts being stuck in the one workshop all day
which was why i went back to managing the farm
Rural Baja ·
Im a full time college student, and part time job is buying and selling ford falcons 😂
squizy ·
AsiaPac IT Helpdesk Manager for IBM on the Cisco Account.
VG-265 ·
Service advisor at the local Ford/Ssangyong/BMW/Citroen dealership.
Full time gearhead with a passion for Fords, Mopars, and soon to be VW owner.
Boozer ·
4th year Apprentice Auto Sparky. 7 months to go!!!.
So I work on cars all day, go home and work on cars and motorbikes. All my work mate think I'm nuts. 🤪
I've been designated the workshop "Veedub Expert/Freak" and get all the ones that come in the door. So if anyone needs some wiring work done in Brissie I'm at Holland Park Auto Electrics on Logan rd next to the BP. 🤪
alien8 ·
pot smoking wino
h ·
movie star - i get paid for appearances..
beetleboyjeff ·
Builder. I have the HOTONDO HOMES franchise in Port Macquarie.
HappyDaze ·
Started - in1956 - as a Panelbeater, and later in the sheet- metal business. Now retired? Spend most of my time 'mucking about' with old VWs and Porsches. Current projects include ;- 356B, '56 VW Cab., '59 Beetle racer, '75 Beetle racer. If any time left, drive my sons' truck.
Cheers, Greg
1303Steve ·
Hi
I used to work in a VW workshop, I now work for the NRMA doing road service, mostly in the southern parts of Sydney, been doing it for 23 years now, best job Ive ever had.
When I get a job on a VW I get really exited and just about do a full service at the side of the road.
If you break down you may get me.
Steve
megalania ·
alien8 wrote:pot smoking wino
When I retire I want your job.😂
ancientbugger ·
Front desk at a resort in Hastings Street, Noosa👎
T-34 ·
Industrial software engineer - Stuff like programming the robots that put cars (and other stuff) together. Basically anything computer related within an industrial environment.
I also work as a consultant for process, automation and electrical projects.
Currently developing some software for automating and managing Safety Risk Assessments. (HazCalc)
Run a few websites in my spare time - the VW ones include - the one in my sig, my personal site www.t-34.co.uk and the Type 34 Registry - www.type34.org
And when I'm not doing this - I'm usually getting on someones nerves 🙂
donn ·
Part owner of a business building the best steel sheds, workshops and garages known to man but shortly to go part time retired and return to my first choice love building damned fine homes on a part time basis. 😁
bajachris88 ·
casual pool shop assistant... aren't i the pimp! pimp of chlorine and acid mind you!
brings in the quid to fund my studies of my bachelor degree of mechanical engineering at QUT. neah... its alright... i luv it... but the women in engineering aren't as kool as the ones in architecture... if there are even any women present occasionally. (it gets a little like that....). a mass majority of fellow geeks, urkels and intellegent yet unshaven, badly smelling arrogant hippies are probably what keeps em' away.
amazeer ·
Senior Cynic and HR hater in a team of analyst programmers but do very little analysing, and not much more programming. At the moment my job is going through our 2013 outstanding jobs, trying to do a cost benefit analysis, while trying to sort though the bullshit that every users spins saying that their job is absolutely crucial to world harmony. One of which is the CIO asking for a 32GB USB stick. You'd think someone on maybe 400 thou would call into Officeworks on their way home and get one.
But I actually like my job. So long as I attend 5 days, total 35 hours per week and get work done I'm pretty much a free agent.
aintgotitmusthaveit ·
Wish I could say something clever but 15 yes in the same place has sapped the life out of me
Aeronauticle engineer for boeing.
Worked the GAF nomad early on in aerodynamics/fatigue/structures before getting into composite R&D developing missile fins. Most recently led a team designing the flaperon and flap on the delayed 787 dreamliner... Don't ask
Now workin on boostin the dub (at lunchtimes)-heaps of car nuts at work.
bajachris88 ·
whats Boeing like to work at Nick? i been wondering what industries to proceed my further study towards, and in my ventures Boeing has come up a few times...
its not always war stuff the majority of the time is it?
aintgotitmusthaveit ·
in Australia it's now commercial airlner stuff.
We have one last military project left but it's small.
We are now called Boeing aerostructures Australia. Design jobs tend to be 10 years apart and we are now on derivatives (stretch versions of exiting planes)
place has changed heaps over last few years.
Australian injenuity is shrinking as we become more and more aligned with mother Boeing.
Great springboard though. Most of the junior guys I trained up are now overseas on big bucks. Heaps of work available world wide at the moment
mactaylor ·
I build concrete water tanks!!!! its a no brainer but very physical I also make moulds for a major contracting company. we have just finnished some headstocks that weigh 96.5 T that are being transported from albury to the hunter for a coal train bridge. my days start and end with concrete cant get enough of it! man my back is sore.
Bizarre ·
bajachris88 wrote:casual pool shop assistant... aren't i the pimp! .
I've come to clean zee pool 😘
😂🤪
buzzbug ·
ancientbugger wrote:Front desk at a resort in Hastings Street, Noosa👎
Don't tell me your back at the French Quarter?
As for me,
I do a little bit of this,
And a little bit of that,
Lee.
ancientbugger ·
STILL!!!! Not back🤓So that looks a little more exciting but that's not everything🙁
Matt Ryan ·
Bizarre wrote:
bajachris88 wrote:casual pool shop assistant... aren't i the pimp! .
I've come to clean zee pool 😘
😂🤪
Chris,
Have you grown the "porno moustache" to go with the job?😂
Regards,
Matt.
OZ Towdster ·
Am a sheetmetal worker by trade , but am currrently working as a contract glazier ( yea i know bit of a difference but as i say there both sharp )
Plus am part owner in CVD so give the boys there a hand when i can
dangerous ·
I am an unemployed bum,
who walks the earth and gets into adventures.
I think about VWs and pussy all the time....thats it ...nothing else.
eraser ·
IT engineer down here in Adelaide 😉
Webdesigner on the side.
GeorgeL ·
I worked for 15 years as a mechanical engineer in aerospace.
For the last 15 years I've been a Physics and AP Physics teacher in secondary schools.
I'm still debating what career #3 will be...
grogy ·
i read post here, get a laff from some , get frustrated tryin to work on my vw, pour concrete driveways retaining walls pool surrounds anything concrete........greg
_me_ ·
i make tv commercials...
rose ·
what ones have you worked on lately?
did you work on the new solo drink commercial as I have a bug in it.
They had four days of shooting for one add it's amazing what goes into one add.
_me_ wrote:i make tv commercials...
Old Hutcho ·
Well, lots of people bring me papers. I sort them into chronological order. And then into alphabetical order. Every day I give these papers to a man who takes them away and later in the day brings them back to me, totally out of order. Then I do it again. Its really challenging. And frustrating. Cause you have to remember the same numbers and letters in the same order every day.
Once upon a time when I was a policeman, I used to be the man who took the papers away and brought them back totally out of order. Now that was a satisfying job!
As an aside, Ive got a little spider in my office who is also a web designer. But the trouble is, he makes the same design every time. Never misses. We are both models of consistency really.🤪
Old Hutcho
silver ·
_me_ wrote:i make tv commercials...
So do I
what dept do you work in?
Jay-Jay ·
I scrub dunnies, for 60 hrs a week. Hey not the same shit everyday but close....😂
penguin ·
aintgotitmusthaveit wrote:.................................
We have one last military project left but it's small.....
He he,
If they ever go!
We see them parked outside the shed up here, haven't really moved in a looooooong time!
Sorry Stan and aintgotitmusthaveit, had to be said from my POV.
derraux ·
Run a camping store selling camping equipment.
Not enough time to work on my vw but not enough customers to keep me away from here so i spend my days drooling at everybody elses projects.
Derek
Spook ·
I drive trains
oneproudaussie ·
Im a WHIP CRACKER, yep you read it right I crack whips for a living, at shows and i do demonstrations and teach people how to crack whips.
stilson ·
Refrigeration mech, I work at R.P.H. I dream of being a house huspand one day.
greasykitchen ·
I sit in front of a computer 8 hours a day 5 days a week for the uni, then several hours each weekend as a student. In my down time I sit in front of the computer looking at VW forums.
I actually work as a research assistant type person at UniSA (Student Equity in Higher Ed); PhD student on the side 😵💫
cesiumfrog ·
radiographer....work in an angiography suite taking pictures of blood vessels
Goitsy ·
Was a signwriter and now a QA officer for a horticultural media supplier. Been doing it for nearly 10yrs.
vwsteve ·
started as a builders labourer(got sick of it), then ceramic tiler got sick of it), a panel beater/painter for 12 years(got sick of it),i worked for myself restoring vws now im an insurance motor vehicle assessor, i write off cars and assess quotes(heaps better)
amazeer ·
maybe my sister is an inurance assessor. She's written off 3 cars.
STIDUB ·
Spook wrote:I drive trains
I pray nobody ever jumps infront of you
on that note, i build them
_me_ ·
i'm in VFX / 3D... yeah some of our commercials take upto 12weeks to create with around 20ppl working on them!
rose wrote:what ones have you worked on lately?
did you work on the new solo drink commercial as I have a bug in it.
They had four days of shooting for one add it's amazing what goes into one add.
_me_ wrote:rni make tv commercials...
rnrnSo do Irnwhat dept do you work in?
_me_ wrote:i make tv commercials...
whatnow ·
damn most of you people have far more interesting jobs than i do.
i currently work in sales. it is the cruisest full time job i have ever had but far from the most satisfying. in fact it is the second least satisfying job i have ever had (the other one was sales as well and i lasted a week).
the most satisfying was making architectural models.
i really should have finished one of my degrees then i would have had a chance at a cool job (if i could have gotten one in the fields, industrial design / archaeology).
Craig Torrens ·
Hey Henry, didn't realise you have actually had more than two jobs in your life ! I thought you worked for the govt ???😁
LIFE IN THE LOW LANE ·
Am currently a car detailing manager/supervisor/trainer for a big car wash in Brisbane run by Ian Healy(ex Aussie wicketkeeper) and Chris Johns(ex Strom, Bronco & St george player). I book most of the customers in so that means dealing with a lot of people(like anywhere between 150 -300 cars a day). I get to drive them all too!!(Lambo's, Ferrarri's, Maserati's and a truckload of Porsche's) Also do a bit of 4wd tour guide work for my cousin on Fraser Island, Great Barrier Reef etc etc.
pete wood ·
used to be in building maintenance (ok but crap pay), then was a muso/music teacher in a special school/church music director (good but long hours), now I work for an anglican church at Seven Hills looking after kids and youth groups, a night time congregation and helping people think about who Jesus really is. Just in the throws of building a house in a new suburb called Ropes Crossing and working on starting a new church there... really looking forward to it. I have to say, there's not much downtime in what I do though. Working on my car involves planning the time 2 weeks ahead or something.