That's funny because my grandfather worked for Bendix which the company is now owned by Honeywell. They make breaks and other parts for airplanes. He worked there for about 40+ years. Pay was pretty good, he made about 23 bucks an hour. And now he makes around 4k a month from his retirement pay. Wish I had that much luck.shootthebandit said:I fix aircraft. Not really much I can say about that. The pay is reasonable and my work load is reasonable
It sounds pretty cool but its a tedium of paperwork and office people who get paid more than you to make graphs and tell you how to do your job despite never touching an aircraft in their life, its like: them: "why havent you done x job yet?" Me: "do you know how long it takes to do X job? And thats if I had the parts I told you I needed last week and I need to do Y first to get access to X" them:"why havent you done job X yet?". Then theres the healthy and safety people who make you wear stupid hats and ensure everything is 100 times harder and uncomfortable for you
There also the problem that aircraft are poorly designed for maintenance and some jobs you can only get one finger on the component while hanging upside down
Edit: if you want to know anything about aircraft (except helicopters, they are the devils work) ill probably be able to tell you
Has anybody made the obvious joke yet or will I be the first to hint at it?Longing said:I am a glorious baker (or pâtissière when I want to get fancy). Been baking desserts my whole life, but it certainly wasn't my professional goal when I was younger. An apprenticeship kind of fell into my lap, I took it and I ran with it.
I enjoy it and it's steady work, with a polite clientele and enjoyable colleagues.
Yeah but you work in a call centre for the people who run the phones.anthony87 said:Just started a job this week at Eircom. The biggest national communications network in Ireland!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I work in a call centre.
You can at least rest easy with the knowledge that what you're doing is a godsend for anyone who wants to access the documents that you're digitising, and that you're preserving (and making accessible) human knowledge for future (and current) generations. I die a little inside every time I find out I have to wade through a physical archive located half a country away to find the information I need. Heck, I die a little inside every time I find out I have to wade through a physical archive located in the same building as my workspace, because that means my elegant solution to whatever problem is at hand suddenly became too much of a timesink to be feasible. Physical archives are cozy, but they're not terribly practical when you need information en masse.Colour Scientist said:I'm an archivist and records manager.
I'm currently working on a large digitisation project which is grand but it's not the most engaging thing I've ever been involved in.
Looking forward to sinking my teeth into more interesting projects once this one ends in the new year.