Posters choice of career?

[lacollier883]

Soldier

[el_grande_mauro_mina]

English teacher at a Chinese university. Looking to move back to England to complete a MA TESOL in a couple of years but might have to spend a year in Saudi Arabia to fund the MA TESOL. I will then probably go back to Asia - More than likely Malaysia.

[Deserter]

English teacher at a Chinese university. Looking to move back to England to complete a MA TESOL in a couple of years but might have to spend a year in Saudi Arabia to fund the MA TESOL. I will then probably go back to Asia - More than likely Malaysia.

Fella, make sure you give me a shout if you end up in Saudi - you'll need to take refuge in Dubai on a regular basis to escape the Kingdom of boredom

[el_grande_mauro_mina]

English teacher at a Chinese university. Looking to move back to England to complete a MA TESOL in a couple of years but might have to spend a year in Saudi Arabia to fund the MA TESOL. I will then probably go back to Asia - More than likely Malaysia.

Fella, make sure you give me a shout if you end up in Saudi - you'll need to take refuge in Dubai on a regular basis to escape the Kingdom of boredom

Jason, you can be sure as eggs I will gladly take up your kind offer! Saudi is going to be tough even if it is only for a year, the day they want English teachers in Dubai, I will be there like a shot Cheers in advance!

[Lenny]

Freelance graphic designer

[Jeff Thomas]

Personal trainer and student

[DavidPayne]

Product Manager. I essentially run a company within a larger group who provide Multi-Sensory equipment and environments to a range of establishments catering for those with special needs, from early years to palliative care, and as enriching resources for those in mainstream education.

Would still prefer to be a boxing columnist for the Guardian but hey-ho, if you're not careful as a teenager you can end up miles from where you wanted to be as a 30-something.

[forcefraser]

Shipbroker in sunny Norway

Jeg lærer norsk. D

Been learning to speak it for about 3 weeks when I feel like taking an hour away from learning Japanese! D Just learn them as a hobby.

I`m fluent now, so if you need any help, give me a shout.

[Adamj1987]

Making drips and chemotherapy?Thats done in the pharmacy?Lol.So are you a trained pharmacist or?

new job title is assistant technical officer, i did a degree in forensics but that covered pharmacuticals, pathology, chemistry etc its done in the pharmacy department of the hospital

So does that mean you're qualified to investige murder scenes,etc?If that was what you wanted to do i mean!Lol

i'd still have to undergo the polices 12 week training course to prove it but essentially yes i am

[Chambers2]

if you're not careful as a teenager you can end up miles from where you wanted to be as a 30-something.

ain't that the truth

[Autobarn]

postal worker, writer (websites and magazines), order picker, wanker.

saving up for a social work degree. SW's round where i live are so bad, they are bound to take me on.

[Srebmun]

postal worker, writer (websites and magazines), order picker, wanker.

Charles Bukowski is alive and well and posts on BoxRec.

[dondada]

saving up for a social work degree. SW's round where i live are so bad, they are bound to take me on.

Many a true word...

[tsunami]

bailiff

[TerribleTerry]

bailiff

Spud, is that you?

[Old bones Ian]

I did an agency labourer job at Canary Wharf when it was being built, and i had to cover the holiday for one of the store jobs , which meant i sat in the large shed with bits of metal around me. I was there for 2 weeks and in that time no-one came in, but i did find a huge pile of porn mags. As i was 19 at the time this was heaven.

I also worked on the African Queen boat for a couple of weeks when it did a tour thing here, during that time i had to fight off the desparate attempt of a buggering by the fat american owner.

[J]

Ian id keep both those stories quiet if i were you

[dondada]

was a vocational tutor for children with Autism

Sadly had an accident and am awaiting back surgery so now looking at new career

How come the surgery prevents you from being a tutor? Or is it a bit 'hands on'?

[Autobarn]

saving up for a social work degree. SW's round where i live are so bad, they are bound to take me on.

Many a true word...

i know from personal experience. had to get a family member sectioned. when it was all done, i read the SW's report. found out that i live in a cramped semi detached house, was assaulted by the subject with a frying pan, and that i'm called "mr lawrence."

none of which is true.

[lefty]

English teacher at a Chinese university. Looking to move back to England to complete a MA TESOL in a couple of years but might have to spend a year in Saudi Arabia to fund the MA TESOL. I will then probably go back to Asia - More than likely Malaysia.

Whats a MA TESOL?

[lefty]

saving up for a social work degree. SW's round where i live are so bad, they are bound to take me on.

Many a true word...

i know from personal experience. had to get a family member sectioned. when it was all done, i read the SW's report. found out that i live in a cramped semi detached house, was assaulted by the subject with a frying pan, and that i'm called "mr lawrence."

none of which is true.

....in all seriousness i have family members with mental health problems so have some insight but the part about apparantly assaulted by a frying pan did make me giggle abit!

[greenyox3]

I play up front for Oxford Utd. But when I'm awake I'm an accountant for a medical company

[Spud]

bailiff

Spud, is that you?

No!!!

I work in the sub prime financial sector!!!

Thats a nice way of saying what I do.

[Asterix]

English teacher at a Chinese university. Looking to move back to England to complete a MA TESOL in a couple of years but might have to spend a year in Saudi Arabia to fund the MA TESOL. I will then probably go back to Asia - More than likely Malaysia.

Whats a MA TESOL?

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TESOL - Teaching English to speakers of other languages, or Teaching English as a second or other language.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_as ... d_language

[IRLangmaid25]

Great work you're doing there mate!

It is actually when you look at it Lefty mate. With the Mentoring it was something that I had looked at for a while but I talked myself out, but then I decided to take the plunge with it as we only live once as I was on the dole. I had mentors when I was at University and when I was school I use help younger students with their reading so I had plenty of experience to draw on that front which I am using and the two lads I am mentoring at the moment at a High School in Ipswich are feeling positive and upbeat. With Mencap I feel that I will get far more fufilment even though it was something that I actually stumbled across by pure accident by seeing an advert in the Jobs Section of the East Anglian Daily Times newspaper which is one of the local newspapers here in Suffolk, so I put an application and personal statement online explaining what would make me suitable for it, I then got an invitation for the the interview.

When I had the interview my stomach was like a washing machin on a full wash cycle before I went but I had a evru god interview and I got the position subject to my CRB check which I have to resubmit as my signature went over the box!! how the pathetic is that.

Good on you fella, as that sounds like really rewarding work

It shall be Deserter once I get my Criminal Records Bureau form redone and sent for counter signing by Mencap etc mate, but they had no problems with it just my signature, and I do not have to submit any documentation as they have photocopies of my passport entitling me to work, my driving licence with additional photograph, bank statement and Premium Bond Certificates which have my address. Then once it goes through to the CRB I go through, that a Carers Register (which won't be a problem) and Education Register before I can start (I have already accepted the offer). It will be quite rewarding than most... For example I have got a mate who works as an Estate Agent for William H Brown here in Woodbridge and he was bragging on his FB status that he brought in £100,000 in fees, yes that is good, but it snot that enriching in the long run, and plus I am not going to be always stuck in an office listening to irrate customers dealing with their insurance claims at RBS in Ipswich like another mate of mine.

One plus side during the wait it got me back in the kitchen to sharpen up my culinary skills though. Plus with the job I could be doing anything, if someone goes shopping I go shopping, if they want to go and watch Ipswich Town play I go and do it, it is just being there and supporting the most vulnerable members of our society and making them feel part of the community.