What Do You Do 4 A Living?

[GTRgeoff]

Left school after yr 10

Became a Jackaroo + working in pub cooking, cleaning and pulling beers

Joined Army and chose the Infantry and did some specialities

Changed to RAEME (Elec Mech Engineers) and specialised in rapid combat repair and recovery (had a really huge towtruck/mobile workshop then a 42ton Leopard tank recovery vehicle with 20ton crane), underwater salvage and did some recruit training

Selected for Uni to study Mech Eng full time while also training officer cadets and leading adventurous training in abseiling/rock climbing/watercraft

Fleet Engineer for Army Light Armoured Vehicles

Project manager/program engineer artillery systems + Master of Engineering studies

Assistant Chief Engineer ADF Land Weapons Systems

Manager ADF Land Technical Integrity

20 years Army - Retiring hurt, need daily heavy drugs and can't really use my qualifications so eventually may do some home renovations, subbing out the heavy work. Also want to do vehicle engineering inspections and certification in Brisbane.

Talk to me before deciding to join the military!! It's not the lifestyle it used to be.

Justin, I can put you in contact with a mate who is a Mechatronics nerdy too and may have some opportunities. Let me know mate.

[Snowman]

I design Motokhana's.

[Ronin 09]

mech engineer in an accounting firm ??

[Bec]

I do Sports Administration at the Melbourne Sports & Aquatic Centre.

Although I do have a Bachelor of Applied Science, majoring in Animal, Biological and Environmental.

[GTRgeoff]

So Bec, wanna give some insights into the newly discovered species Sauvicosaurus and their nocturnal activities???

[Bec]

I know nothing - seriously!

[ebola]

Developer / Production Support for a life insurance company.

Working on St. Kilda road... just out of reach of the city centre... its killing me.

Did uni in Adelaide. I'm not old enough to fill 2 pages with lmy life story... well, not as bullet points, anyway...

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Edited May 30, 2006 by ebola

[EKSMUD]

lol damn you, what does your old man do if you dont mind me asking...?

he runs some clothing factory and he's an architect as well ;p

[Justin O]

Joined Army and chose the Infantry and did some specialities

Fleet Engineer for Army Light Armoured Vehicles

Talk to me before deciding to join the military!! It's not the lifestyle it used to be.

Justin, I can put you in contact with a mate who is a Mechatronics nerdy too and may have some opportunities. Let me know mate.

Yeah thanks alot.

At the time I was going to join, a good friend of mine joined the infantry, atm he is based in Dawin driving APC's.

My dad told me to talk to people with recent experiance before joining.

I have a little military background, my dad and his brothers served in Veitnam. Times have changed I guess its a hole different ballgame now. So any info would be great.

Cheers

[GTRgeoff]

Come along to the next club meet. Get there early and we can have a chat.

Oh and the Mechatronics stuff was for Crispyfries.

[NickR33]

Well for the last week at least I have been a professional Xbox 360 player... (home sick from work)... was going to spend money on new rims/tyres but strayed into EB games by accident... my flatmates were pleased tho!

anyhoo I am a graphic designer, which effectively means I surf the net like everone else here... except I do it on a 23inch Mac LCD...

[foznice]

Lol yeah I do get a tad busy.. Para: It's probably not me you see as I'm usually in class that time on mondays... and nowadays i tend to take the train.. theres not much point wearing the car out in peak hour traffic...

also, Kim: You probably know a guy called Tony (at least I think that's his name).. he has a really thick Irish accent.. well he's Irish I believe... he's our local Wurth rep at work.... hehe we have this year and last years wurth calanders... it's not good some of the pictures are the same

[kingy_06]

ok question, im also studying at uni, though how do all the uni guys afford to buy skylines and pup money into them for mods? Good paying jobs? Loans - im struggling to find time to work to get enough money as well as uni

[eMsta]

ok question, im also studying at uni, though how do all the uni guys afford to buy skylines and pup money into them for mods? Good paying jobs? Loans - im struggling to find time to work to get enough money as well as uni

Worked for 6 years (while at uni) saving up for a NA JZ80 Supra - saved up about 15000 - borrowed about 4 grand from parents, now paying them off. The mods - whatever i save up at the moment is going into mods. Worked in Ericsson during the summer of 99/00 and 00/01 - then david jones for the xmas in 2002, then myer since may 2003.

[VSPEC-33]

I'm a parts guy at a car dealership in SE Melb, not sure if i should say what manufacturer because sadly it aint Nissan (Ducks for cover)

Been 5 years now, its not too bad as im dealing with car stuff all day and have time to cruise SAU during the quiet parts of the day!

[beefy]

I am a Software Developer for an IT company. Been doing it for 8+ years.

Started the Melbourne, GT Car Club (http://www.gtcarclub.com) about 4 years ago as a hobby.

Business Partner/Wed Developer for AutoSpeedBits (http://www.autospeedbits.com.au)

[Paradizzle]

ok question, im also studying at uni, though how do all the uni guys afford to buy skylines and pup money into them for mods? Good paying jobs? Loans - im struggling to find time to work to get enough money as well as uni

drugs lol nah.. just worked hard and saved like a mother f**k. + I won a business competition at Swinburne, me and a mate got to split 10g's.

[FEMFTL]

anyhoo I am a graphic designer, which effectively means I surf the net like everone else here... except I do it on a 23inch Mac LCD...

haha as do I. Boss just got it for me last week.. pretty sweet.

[NickR33]

yeah we just got new G5's but I'm not happy... have had to reinstall the system software already and one of the other new machines won't startup now... they are too damn exxy to have serious problems out of the box!

[FEMFTL]

yeah we just got new G5's but I'm not happy... have had to reinstall the system software already and one of the other new machines won't startup now... they are too damn exxy to have serious problems out of the box!

That's what ive got the new G5. So far so good... my old mac crashed all the time on me.. I've lost many hours of work cause of it... now i've learnt to save work every 5 mins just in case.