What do you do?

After serving 22 years in the Royal Air Farce, (I left in 2000), I ended up as a civvie on a military contract which took me back to all the good places like Afghanistan and Iraq which were always interesting :S I did that for the next 15 years before switching to a contract nearer home, but this was also another military contract.
So I'm now working on converted Airbus A330s used for air-to-air refuelling.
The A330 is the biggest and most complex aircraft I've worked on to date.

Anything heavier than air that can fly has fascinated me since I was a kid.

Max Headroom wrote: After serving 22 years in the Royal Air Farce, (I left in 2000), I ended up as a civvie on a military contract which took me back to all the good places like Afghanistan and Iraq which were always interesting :S I did that for the next 15 years before switching to a contract nearer home, but this was also another military contract.
So I'm now working on converted Airbus A330s used for air-to-air refuelling.
The A330 is the biggest and most complex aircraft I've worked on to date.

Anything heavier than air that can fly has fascinated me since I was a kid.

You get paid for this? :woohoo:

Cool Job award to you, Sir.



Steve.

Kinda makes being a sheep breeder feel a bit lame! Keep on keeping us safe. And the same goes for the rest involved with the military.

Been floating around different professions in recent years. Have been a class 2 driver, went back to college to study engineering, in the process of failing that whilst working part time as a contractor servicing gensets, and as a self employed courier for the NHS (which I use the Jimny for, it gets all over NW Scotland). I'm probably one of the few folks firing 30k/year on to a Jimny, but it is the perfect vehicle for my needs.

Here’s a view from my office. 70km west of shetland on the Clair Ridge project as a production tech. Weather hardly looks like this up here though!!!



Ash


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Wow, looks like something out of a Mad Max film

Do? Do?

Pretty much, whatever I feel like doing.


Retirement is a wonderful thing. :laugh:




Steve.

Ash97x wrote: Here’s a view from my office. 70km west of shetland on the Clair Ridge project as a production tech. Weather hardly looks like this up here though!!!

Ash


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Not for all the tea in China! I hope they are paying you well!

I used to work for an automobile factory in England that shall remain nameless, now am retired and living in the Philippines with my wife

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Well I have spent 35 years of my life working as an Electrical Engineer for a large power generation company unitl 2014 when I started my midlife crisis....:laugh:
No seriously, I left and went to build bicycles at Halfords until 2 months ago when I realised I hate customers more, so just gone back to engineering.
Picture of me on top of 3.6MW wind turbine, saving the planet and all that, before Halfords.




HOWEVER if I am being honest I wish I had a job like Max. I also have the same fascination with anything heavier than air that can fly, from a small child to this day I stand in awe at any aircraft, even love to watch the birds.

Here is a picture of my first model aircraft taking to the sky when I was 13, a Keil Kraft Kamco Kadet with Futba M 27mhz (before CB - boo!) 4 channel radio. I need to thank my parents for spending what was a lot of money in those days to start a life long hobby.



That's what I do !

stiffsteve204me wrote:

You get paid for this? :woohoo:

Cool Job award to you, Sir.



Steve.

Thank you Steve and Lambert.

It's just a job - but I've been lucky enough to travel to some amazing places that Westerners dont normally get to see and I'm still in awe that these huge things can generate so much power and lift so much weight.
It has its downsides though - I've been to some really grim places, stayed in some hell-holes you would never want to go see, and seen a lot of bad/upsetting stuff, been shot at more times than I care to think about too.
The best part of the job - travelling to unusual places, staying in some nice hotels all over the world for weeks at a time sometimes,
The worst part of the job - fixing/servicing the toilet tanks :sick: unbelievably long hours; night shifts. regularly doing 20+ hour flights to the Falklands

Scimike, I did the radio models on 27mhz too - a Dave Boddington Tyro was my first flyer.
Jeez you have a head for heights - that wind-turbine would freak me out!

Well, at the risk of no one talking to me again...... I have 33 years in the police force. Done everything from firearms to CID. For the past 5 years have been working in the child sex exploitation department. I have 18 months left before retirement..... then who knows what i will do? Although i think SWMBO might have some ideas.