What do you do? What have you done? What advice do you have?

Just a general home for talking/bitching about work or discussing ambitions.

Edited by eastern glory: 3/10/2014 10:16:53 AM

I am a sparky by trade but now work in Electrical Wholesales.

I'm a GP but also work one day a week in emergency.

As a University student I worked at two separate car washes, then at Hornsby Subway before taking two years off between degrees pulling beers at a leagues club.

Best job ever, but not sustainable as a career.

Still a uni student but had my fair share of jobs so far, mostly in retail and sales.

After school I worked for the Cobra group doing door to door sales for Unite Marketing. Then joined Jeans West and Connor clothing before moving overseas and working for a promotions company, before working in sales, customer service and complaint resolution for 1800-GOT-JUNK. When I moved back to Australia, I went back to Connor and have been there for nearly 2 years.

Just yesterday I was offered a job at Roger David which is about to open at Macquarie. Not sure if I want the job or not though... My current job is perfect.

Worked 2.5 years at Target Highpoint between yr 9 and yr 12, didn't get a shift following yr 12 exams which still grinds my gears
Currently working at a newsagency/tattslotto between uni, no one would've thought that would be a good job but I really like it :cool:

I worked at KFC for 4.5 years, moved to Tasmania and worked at Subway for 6 months, will move back home in January and scrounge off student benefits studying philosophy or psychology

I just finished my mechanical engineering degree and would kill for a job :(

I tour with MLG.

Work in a Fish and Chip shop, started out just on chips with the odd occasional scoop of chips/calamari rings, now fully working my way up to works burgers and potato scallops.

One promotion after another.

Living the dream m8.

-PB

What's mlg?

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Wut?

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You got me man.

I literally have no idea what's happening.

I play video games all day, or so everyone tells me....

Have dabbled in various fields - since arriving in Australia it's been intellectual property law, writing and real estate... With a wee bit of scouting for professional footballers... And brokering the occasional transfer. ;)



Nope... This is what YOU tell everyone... Jealous. As. F*ck.

In December it will be 6 years for me training&working as a mechanical design engineer.

I've done a few non-related short courses and certs just for interest, and I have no idea if I'll ever use them or be keen to. But I like the idea of being able to at least attempt to go to a different field if I feel the need.

Been working in manufacturing for the past 10 years . Started of as a dispatch clerk , then became store man , then a production assistant then cleaner then delivery driver . Now I'm a store man once again . Also studying building and construction for the second time .

I worked 12 years in demolition, now I am studying accounting.

We call those potato fritters in SA, your training is complete :lol:

Do you work at Trinity Beach?

They're called potato cakes, you heathens.

I don't really tour with MLG btw.

I've done a bunch of boring things with change management, mediation, outsourcing and call centre metrics, do a lot of sales consulting with struggling teams and have started and run a gym from scratch. I'm currently working from home managing a few import businesses and consult here and there.

I'm pretty much a contact centre rain man.

SMSF Auditor here.

Have to say working in an eBusiness where no face to face meetings occur means I can work fairly mobile and choose my own hours on top.

And no I don't do peoples tax

Have been working as a software development lead for a Queensland organisation for the last couple of years. They rent me a desk in the SA equivalent organisation here in Adelaide and I work remotely. Has it's challenges when the entire team is in Brisbane but I meet with them regularly via Google Hangouts and have built up pretty good relationships so it's been working pretty well.

Have started doing some project management recently and feel like a graduate again. Has been good to get a different perspective on projects but I'm hoping to do some more formal training at some stage to get the big picture as my on the job training has been a bit too much "at the coalface" so far. Not sure it's really for me but I'm not sure I can code (for pay) for another 40 years so giving it a shot :)

Love the flexibility I have though, especially with a young daughter and another on the way.

good to know someone in the same brethren.

I've been working as a freelance English language trainer in Germany since 2009. It's quite enjoyable and generally pays the bills. Low demand times worry me a bit but I take the work when it's there and travel when times are down. I get to meet people from many professional and cultural backgrounds and it's very rewarding when someone tells me how easier it is to phone a customer in Asia or give demonstrations at a trade fair after the training.

I don't know if I'll ever end up doing something else. Many business people I give lessons to have put me off anything in finance or insurance. I'm creative with language training but little else. I guess things will work out how they intend.

Sounds like a great job. I wish I could be good with languages since travel is one thing I want to do more of. Did you get TESOL?

Yeah, I got CELTA in 2008 and used it in Australia for 18 months before heading over to Germany in order to learn a new language and enjoy everything on offer. Living here has given me that language so I might end up using it professionally one day. CELTA alone in Australia is only accepted at a few language institutions so it's tough in OZ without a degree. Many English expats over here give English training. Some are really good and others are terrible at it. I like to see myself in the middle and setting goals in my training normally sees improvement in my sessions.

Been working at Woolworths for six years and currently doing an internship at a stadium doing social media while studying at uni.

Getting my math PhD, looking at a 300k starting job.