After reading QGL casually for about 5 years and seeing (some) intelligent posts i thought i'd ask the question that has been on many of the QGLers minds for a while now? Where do people work? I'm sure everyone isn't just an IT guy / web designer. I myself am an On-Site Construction supervisor / Junior foreman. I work for a big Shopfitting / Joinery company based Australia and NewZealand wide. So essentially in a days work I will do anything ranging from sitting in my office and doing site inductions, to supervising a specific job that requires precision, to organizing the daily deliveries and lasing with the crazy truckies that carry a few tonnes of timber ac across the country.

What does everyone else do? Anything super-crazy?

in a building with lots of computars

computar guy perl ninja

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Sorry Trog, no idea what happened somehow managed to post my origional post 3 posts down, fixing now!

IT guy / web designer

Sorry to burst your bubble.

Really I'm an engineer (or so the bits of paper I have from Uni tell me).

IT guy for an ex gov 'entertainment' corp

What sort of an engineer Pinky?

I'm an IT guy with an IT company doing IT stuff (mostly .Net programming).

I work for a professional services firm doing desktop support. I fix computers, AV s*** etc.

I work working for a joinery company called Woodworkers Company. I've been there since 1992 when I started my apprenticeship. I work with a lot of crazy f***ing people and not a day goes by that something stupid happens to someone. Its probably the most entertaining place I have ever heard of... Never a dull moment.

So that explains your sick house Snakeman.

cad monkey

*screetch!*

Game programmer, nothing really big to my name yet, I'm working for a small-ish company in Melbourne and mostly we've just made licensed shovelware to date (gotta pay the bills), but we're now working on an original IP for the Wii that is pretty exciting (as in, its a REAL game for the Wii that isn't a collection of Wii remote waggling mini games).

Bookkeeper

Hopefully my working life gets more exciting when I return to the workforce on the kids entry to school

Web developer
I'm qualified to do other s*** - but this is really easy and I'm lazy.

can you do my tax?

Ha, I'm a manager for a secure messaging company in the Health sector.
Started out in I.T years ago and worked sales/account management, field technician and various other roles.
Started my own IT business about 5 years ago which was successful but have put that on the back burner to pursue better income.

Words of advise to anyone; take every opportunity that presents itself to build a network of associates for which will open new avenues of employment for the rest of your life!

Public Service Exchange Admin

I'm in IT and work for a digital media company .. however what I do is not what I was employed to do, moved down to Melbourne to do or want to do. So now I'm faced with re-evaluating my situation and striking out to see what's in the market place which at the moment, isn't a very enjoyable task.

I'd probably put myself in the Infrastructure/Team Leader/Management space as it's what I've been focusing on in the past few years.

I'm a Financial Planner. Love the job flexible hours to fish when the weather is good.

I'd probably put myself in the Infrastructure/Team Leader/Management space

im finding myself doing more and more of this, but im pretty sure its not what i want to do:

i much prefer doing things, rather than telling others (or being repsonsible for others) to do things

Been working for a market research company for five years. But will be a veterinarian in nine months.

Cognitive Neuroscience research >.< f*** I love the way that sounds like I'm really smrt.

edit - at UQ

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What sort of an engineer Pinky?

Mechanical engineer more or less - computer-aided engineering analyst. I analyse structures for fun.

Telecommunications.

I'm an IT guy does sysadmins, coding, fixing pc, network etc lots of stuffs ...

Officeworks
Griffith university
Relief teaching

*juggles*

same as opec! without the coding though
at mammothmedia indooroopilly

Civil Drafting/Engineering

trying to get away from cad :p

finished an associate degree of civil engineering, mid way through bachelor of civil

www.jfp.com.au

Enviro Scientist, Clem 7

Working as a software dev in business systems at carsales.com.au
The stuff I work on none of you guys would probably ever see, unless you work for a marine or bikes dealership.

I'm "just an IT guy / web designer" at Telstra

sysadmin in the CBD

Networks/Server admin for a startup called Grassroots IT. It just makes sense and fits perfectly with my degree in ancient history :P

haha jakeG nice to find a fellow officeworks guy. Officeworks @ Morayfield / QUT student.

well since I left the Army 16 years ago I have been a machinery operator. Ranging from places smelters, foundries and die casting to the Wharf (yes I was a wharfie for near 10 yrs). I also worked for a time in manufacturing with places such as Tyco water and One Steel Reinforcing.

Bridge and gantry cranes (open class)
Forklift (open)
HR Truck
Skid Steer loader
Evelated work platform (11m)
Straddle carriers

Unfortunately I am for the first time in my life genuinly out of work and I am hating it. I have to say for the first time in my working life I am actually scared at the prospect of not being able to find work given the current state of things. So if anyone knows of anything in heavy industry give me a yell I am up for just about anything.

I'm a programmer/analyst. I'm involved in everything from requirements through to design and implementation for internal (business systems) and external systems (betting interfaces) at the TAB. Mixture of new school C# .net (ASP.NET, winforms, WPF) and old school C++ (linux),visual basic 6, classic ASP.

I hate the vb6 development, second comes the linux development. Not because its linux but because of the f***ing crazy convoluted in house build and deployment system that we have, and that as a programmer im also expected to be a linux admin (without any admin experience). At least my linux skills are getting honed.

But soon enough these legacy systems will be nothing but dust :)

software hack for a bug tracker

.net developer. mostly asp.net now. milton based.

Land Surveyor, probably 70% Engineering (Road/Drainage Construction or Detail Surveys) 25% Cadastral and 5% other mics jobs.

Logan City Council.

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hi from level 1 thundercracker

:O

*hides*

3D Artist at a game company, though my main duties are keeping oukruk and midda from sexually molesting the rest of the staff and plants.

Taipan where in Brisbane are you? I'm always on the look for reliable Heavy Mach guys, kinda get dicked around sometimes by the current guys I'm with. I never fully understood how good it is to have honest reliable people on your staff till them.

Company called Dealer Solutions in Albion, doing PHP/HTML/CSS/JS, SUPER FUN TIMES! All our clients are Car Dealers, wauu ecconomic crisis!

Trav I am currently living in Acacia Ridge. I have transport so getting anywhere isn't really a problem.... hell I used to drive from Caboolture to wacol every day to do my afternoon s*** at Tyco water. Yes I was kind of insane at the time :)

I am IT guy as Computer Technican at Computer store "ComputerMan" at Burleigh heads on the gold coast. They do sell your parts/Computers and Trade, 2nd hand things and New.



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every just put their job in the qgl wiki ffs.

wait there is still a wiki?

I'm a IT dude at a leading development consultancy firm focused on urban growth and infrastructure, in the Valley.

It's pretty sick. (in a good way)

yes you noob

http://qglwiki.mongie.com/wiki/Main_Page

My title is:

Senior Energy Market Analyst (lol anal)

Qualifications are a B Eng and a lot of specialised training. I work for a smallish consulting firm in Brisbane.

My job involves simulation, analysis and expert advice re. energy markets but particularly electricity and gas.

Fyi we've been heavily involved in the ETS (CPRS) all you bastards will shortly being paying for :P

every just put their job in the qgl wiki ffs.

what if your not cool enough to be on there?







:'(

Initially started an Electrical Engineering degree. Hated it so switched to IT half way through the 2nd year.

Finished IT, and ended up working for a power company in an electrical engineering role as an asset manager. go figure.

what if your not cool enough to be on there?

make yourself cool. anyone can write on the qgl wiki.

looks pretty borked to me

The list of well-known users on that site is very questionable.

how can a sub 1000 like yourself possibly matter?

make yourself cool. anyone can write on the qgl wiki.

Except me. Because admins who, well, evidently don't know how to admin stuff properly or talk to users, don't believe in 24 hour bans, or anything shorter than 2753 years ;)

software hack for a bug tracker

It pains me the way JIRA gets used here. Despite having it, the 'this is agile!' nooblets here insist on also replicating everything on a physical white board with cards (and having the white board take precedence over whatever's in JIRA).
And... oh f*** it. I'm in hell here, and I should have followed dRanged when I had the chance :(

;)

I'm not on there :(

I feel so unappreciated.

Senior Energy Market Analyst

Cool! There is a *heap* of clean tech stuff going on here in CA, so you sound like you're in a fun spot!

Senior Applicaions Developer.

Company called Q2 Solutions in Milton (top floor of Kings Row building overlooking Coro Drive and river and a tennis court).

Mostly work in ASP.NET but do a bit of everything when the need calls for it.

2 main products are ConnX (HR Intranet) and ESCAP (Hotel maintenance software, big contract with Intercontinental so distributed worldwide, also known as M1).

I also like long walks on the beach, hookers and blow.

I'm a Certified Ethical Hacker. I'm currently a Security Operations Analyst for IBM Internet Security Systems in Spring Hill. I basically manage firewalls and IDS/IPS devices for companies. I mostly interpret network based traffic and assess security events in realtime but we also do mundane stuff like adding rules into firewalls and creating VPN's between networks. I'm working on my SANS GCIA (intrusion analyst) cert.

we used to use connx, it was awesome:

I am currently cleaning rooms at a 5 star resort in the Canadian Rockies. After this I plan on returning to:

Cognitive Neuroscience research >.< f*** I love the way that sounds like I'm really smrt.

alcoholic but in my spare time i fondle your luggage at virgin blue. yes i am that guy who breaks your handles on your bags etc etc. good fun, only work ~24 hours a week. hahaha


thats right fondle

1. To handle, stroke, or caress lovingly.
2. Obsolete To treat with indulgence and solicitude; pamper.

To show fondness or affection by caressing.

and thats exactly what i do with your luggage.

Cool! There is a *heap* of clean tech stuff going on here in CA, so you sound like you're in a fun spot!

Yup, energy/electricity is going to be an area of massive change over the next few decades so will be very interesting.

Spook, it still is!

When was this because if it was within last year or 2 you would have been on version 4 and i designed the interface/look/feel for that.

yo orbitor i got a question about ets... where does the money, that industry pays to the government for extra carbon credits, go?

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planting trees in the upper atmosphere

I work for EMC Corporation as a Storage Operations Specialist, looking after hundreds and hundreds of terabytes of enterprise storage arrays. Currently contracted out to Telstra looking after the storage for their custom/dedicated/colo hosting platforms.

are you working on the SDF project red?

I am currently cleaning rooms at a 5 star resort in the Canadian Rockies.

is it kind of like an old castle? can't think of the name now but I've got a friend working at one too and shes basically living in a castle

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3D Artist at a game company, though my main duties are keeping oukruk and midda from sexually molesting the rest of the staff and plants.

That's your job? You're not doing very well.

Aside from molesting plants, I'm a character animator at Krome.

you'd know Adir then? games tester i think
my old flatmate in the valley

demon: The revenue from the carbon certificate auctions will be legislated to be returned to consumers in ways that offset the increased cost. Of course it will be disproportionate, low income earners will get near 100% assistance while Teq will get no help. The money saved by not helping high income earners will go into funding energy efficiency measures, renewables/CCS/nuclear research grants and so on.

you'd know Adir then? games tester i think
my old flatmate in the valley

Seen him around, don't know him though.

PhD student
UQ Lecturing/Tutoring
Run a web design business
ACID developer

bleh

heheh :) it will be pretty interesting to see how ets(cprs) pans out... i was pessimistic when i first read the draft because it seemed a little short-sighted to believe that any sort of penalty system would reduce overall power consumption, especially considering that there will probably be some industrial growth (maybe not so much now coz of the latest economic wobble). if they continue to reduce the overall cap... surely that's going to put a severe limit on industrial growth?

are you working on the SDF project red?

I don't know what the SDF project is, so probably not :)

not necessarily demon, we can do things so much better than we do right now. I mean even just planning buildings properly with high quality insulation, minimising heating, cooling and lighting needs makes a HUGE difference. Another simply massive area is retro-fitting or even just repairing refridgeration units around the country. Ridiculous quantities of power is wasted there.

Not to mention shutting down some of our old old coal plants which are some of the most polluting in the world and replacing them with something clean.

There's no doubt it's expensive, but you can clearly decrease australia's carbon output while increasing overall energy consumption. And this is just using tech available right now - anything fancy and new on the horizon can only help.

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Studying Secondary Education (ESL/English) at QUT. Working part time in the office of a kids gymnastics hall. Would love to pick up more tutoring work this year. I wish I worked at Officeworks.

chef at the prince charles hospital in the cafe..

not the hardest kitchen work.. but hey we get to write our own menu's to a certain degree each week and its a mon - fri 6 - 2 job..

keeps me involved in you know... life and stuff

Doctor at Gold Coast Hospital. Soon to quit to locum and get paid 3 times as much as I do now for the same job.

Third mate on a products tanker, mostly on the Queensland coast.

many staff working on those type of things ssm?

Aside from molesting plants, I'm a character animator at Krome.

you should be molesting leah. she's hawt. tell her zor says hi.

edit: fail @ topic. after being a bartender for nigh on six years, i got sick of getting paid and treated like s***, so now i'm a rigger. i build big things out of steel.
if any of you go over the gateway regularly, that big white tent-looking thing at the cement factories near the refinery, i built that.
good fun, keep fit, play with cranes and get 130ft in the air in a boom lift :D

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many staff working on those type of things ssm?

Around 20 crew on this ship, plus the odd cadet or shore contractor. Average for an Australian ship is about 18. So not many. Except passenger ships and stuff which have hundreds or even thousands of crew.

Programmer in a Direct Sales & Marketing company but also just recently moved into a part time technical marketing role in the same company, hoping to make the full switch after a few months of my masters study in Marketing.

I'm going to make my employer rely on me so much so that i'll demand top dollar otherwise i'll leave consquently driving them to the ground (which i'll prolly end up doing either way).

QUT

Student Load Management/Management Accountant

On the weekends I pimp.

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im an apprentice sparky, will be tradey this year

Full-time law student (Graduate June 2010). Just started some undergraduate work at a firm on Eagle St. Prior to that I was supporting my studies by working as a Management Systems Consultant for a publicly listed group of utility services companies.

Fade, which uni are you at? Do you know much about Maritime Law as a specialisation?

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Final year industry based project at Australian Aerospace.

Also data engineer for v8 supercar team.

Wholesale Plant Nursery Manager

Project Controller for Eos JV between KBR and Worley Parsons - Hydrocarbons (Oil & Gas).

I am working on the LNG Upstream Project in Papua New Guinea (Gas pipelines to LNG Plant).

Before this I was working for CLM - London 2012 Olympic Delivery Partner in the Design Management and Engineering Team.


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Started off by myself as a .net/WPF/Web 2.0 programmer for a real-estate tycoon (the one that's ripped allot of ppl off, not going to mention his name however lol).

Slowly worked way up to senior programmer and now project managing for educational\training based products, where some nutter (literally he is f***ing insane) has spent 25 years of his life making the English language 100% phonetic, none of this international phonetical alphabet s*** which the Chinese and many ESL people use, and we've purchased the rights to develop\deploy\market it; so we've developed allot of web plugin tools and an online English course. Soon we're launching in Hong Kong!!.

Very lucky I was, right place @ right time with little experience fresh out of Uni.

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Audio Systems Engineer / AV Tech / Production Manager are the main hats i am wearing at the moment. Work on just about every major festival that comes thru Brisbane in one way or another and do alot of other band work. Have my own company as well which is based more in corperate events, recording and event production.

it keeps me a very busy boy!

Squarky, sounds very interesting! Met a lot of famous bands/people I could imagine?

Trolleyboy.

defi are you southside based?

Offcial title is "IT Administrator"

Basically Sys Admin + All the rest of the stuff for a Waste collection company.
Previously at Mincom and I hear that's a nice hole now :P

.Net Development at a marketing business on the lovely Gold Coast here. Mostly Windows Forms, but occasionally a little ASP.NET.

defi are you southside based?

yup im based at our Capalaba nursery

Previously at Mincom and I hear that's a nice hole now :P

I've worked with a few guys from Mincom at current job and previous jobs. I haven't heard it described as anything other than a hole. It must be even worse now that the mining sector has crawled off and died.

Third mate on a products tanker, mostly on the Queensland coast.

What sort of shifts do you guys do ? and what the ehck do you do when your not on shift ??

I am a licensed operator of residential aged care and childcare for the Commonwealth Government.

I have a little website design and online marketing agency on the coast - http://www.ignician.net

I am a Purchasing officer for Queensland Health (Gold Coast Hospital)

I'm the chairperson of a federally sponsored bi-partisan sub-committee for Jim related materials.

apprentice grease monkey

teacher

hate my life

will go back to chile next year tho

so win i guess?

i am a spraypaint0r. i paint cars, mostly

where abouts do you do that Trin?

rocklea

What do you do? Restorations or repairs or something like that?

Senior Manager in a multi national finance mob.

I see lots of money come and go and sign off massive money movements... it's got me over to Europe on the company etc etc though I'm thinking it might be time to come home soonish.

Clearly there is a s***load more to my role, but no one understands what I do so I won't bore you with it :)

Aircraft Maintainence Engineer for QANTAS Defence Services in Richmond NSW, we have the contract for deep maintainence on the C-130H Hercules.

nah no restos, just normal insurance smash work

Fencer here, based in the redlands..

unemployed 3d artist, do the occasional free lance work when i can find it.. just finished my reel so going for a steady jobz again

code monkey

I work for M.S.I.T logan!!!

I didn't know that the QGL wiki existed.

Nice to know someone took the time to say that I was s*** at CS =\

I work at 3 Mobile in the upgrades department. Good money, great people, easy work. *shrug*

I sit on Jim's lap while he drives the servers for QGL

Fleet Controller at P&O Transport. Been there 2+ years and its great

i'm a fridgy, i fix fridges and aircon. hooray

Work as a sharepoint consultant for a rather large government company on a construction project up north.

First time working in construction and really enjoying it :)

I'm an Air-Traffic Controller at the Flying-Pig Airport.

Happily, I'm not in IT.

My title is "Customer Marketing Manager". I work at Selleys.

My job involves a lot of time talking to our customers (retailers), and working with them to improve overall category performance. Which can always be accomplished by taking them to a long lunch.

If you work at carsales raven then I suggest you help them implement a better system, it is the best site available in australia with cars, but many improvements could be made.

IT peon in the dept of education... So I fix PCs and user accounts remotely for all the schools in QLD

Where I'm at right now is mostly boring monkey work... however it pays better than what I was doing previously.

My title is pretty wanky at the moment:

Operations Manager - Special Proects

But basically I just work for a very large property developer, my day to day role generally would involve finding suitable sites, doing a feaso on what we can build there, if it stacks up then take to to a development manager who then takes the next steps. If it gets beyond that, I work with the development manager on the operation of the development and generally oversee the marketing aspect as that is my core skill.

However, given the economy has gone to s*** and no developer is buying anything. I pretty much ust run the operations of our 3 biggest projects that are all joint ventures (which make them much more complicated operations wise) and in my spare time, I am out there trying to get a joint venture partner in our biggest project so we can go ahead with it, as we can't afford to fund it ourselves. This involves making submissions to large fund managers and asking them for bucketloads of captial, which isn't easy at the moment!

demolitions :)

knocking down s*** with other s***. Good for anger release :D

What sort of shifts do you guys do ? and what the ehck do you do when your not on shift ??

Mates work two four hour watches every day. I am usually on the 8-12 watch, so I do 0800-1200 then 2000-2400. There are two other mates, they do the other watches (12-4 and 4-8). Between watches, there's always at least some deck work to do, watch a movie, read, s*** up forums if within mobile internet range of the coast.

It can get dull, but I get one day of paid leave for every day on the ship, so after my usual six week swing on board I get six weeks leave.

How did you get into that SSM?

jadzor cains

I help people who can't use their computers very well in the hair/beauty industry.


tell your wives/gfs they spend too much on their looks.. you can buy 2 *f*** yeah* new computers a year on what the average chicks spends on looking good

I'll take a good lookin chick over 2 computers

SSM,

I don't know anything about maritime law personally but I understand it to be a small, but lucrative market. Law doesn't have a major like other degrees, but you shape your practice area by your choice of electives. I'm heading down the commercial litigation path.

Sc00bs, got any vacancies?

I second that as doing demolition that would be fun any demolition work going where you are sc00by send me an email ( r a d o n i x at g m a i l . c o m )

General Manager / Senior Technician for an I.T. Support firm http://www.rgtech.com.au

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where do i wank?

eyes playing games ... im off to bed

I'll take a good lookin chick over 2 computers

Been there done that ;P
Just spewin the webcam broke
:(

was it frontcam or asscam that broke?

sLaps_Forehead, what quals, exams, etc. did you need to get into that? What sort of an aviation background would put you in good stead for air traffic control? Obviously a pilot background, yea, but any other facets helpful?

Yeah demo work would be pretty fun. I used to do a heap of oxy cutting ages back to dismantle crap and recycle the steal and when I wasn't setting myself on fire it was pretty good fun :)

Auto Electrician.

was it frontcam or asscam that broke?

Actually, it was more 3rd person view.

Hrmm...
Now that I think about it finally, a valid reason for 3rd person view!

As long as it's not you that being viewed Hermi it's all good :P

Im a Financial Prophet.

I work same place as Snakeman...and he's the craziest f***er there :P

I'm an IT guy for a non profit in Amsterdam (equivalent to apnic in Brissy) that manages IP's AS numbers and is trying to convince everyone to go ipv6. Think I'm starting to miss Australia though, no idea how the job market could be lets say in Sydney around Q3 / Q4

How did you get into that SSM?

Was doing Politics at Griffith Uni, was very interesting but had no likely career prospects that interested me. At the same time I was working as a casual on the CityCats (Brisbane ferrys), some of the guys there used to go to sea, I got ideas, saved up and put myself through the required course at Australian Maritime College in Tassie. That was 2004, now I am back at college for more study (so I can be First Mate).

On the bright side this time around the company pays me full seagoing wages plus rent allowance to be here, so no more poor student living conditions.

fade, thanks for that. I am sort of lining up what I would like to do ashore when the sea life no longer suits me. Was thinking about doing distance ed law at Macquarie Uni for a few years then going full time at UQ or something, if they will give me credit for previous subjects. Will have to more research, ta again.

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A+ repair monkey in queenstown
Also sell stock photography in my spare time

No worries, SSM. UQ Law are notorious for not recognising other university's subjects. You might like to try QUT if that's your plan. QUT will even let you credit up to 4 non-law subjects at QUT or other universitys as electives. Maritime law is an elective offered every second year at QUT, but as you can probably understand when it's competing with common practice area subjects like Family, Tax and Intellectual Property it isn't the most popular.

On the upside, I have read somewhere that Maritime/Admiralty barristers are among the top earners.

Sounds like an interesting job SSM ...

However it sounds to me like your ships need fishing decks.

demolitions :)

knocking down s*** with other s***. Good for anger release :D

Nice sc00bs. My office window looks out over a demolition site for the last 6 months. It's amazing to watch, I just sit there and watch for sometimes an hour. They just pulled down a six storey office complex with basically one big CAT bulldozer type thing with a couple of different attachments - I had no idea how it was done before but now I feel like I could go and demolish a building myself! I have an unobstructed view, front-row seats.

The recycling also amazed me. The effort they go to crush all the concrete to get the reo out of it, I had no idea they did that. Anything that is remotely metal they recycle (presumably goes to the scrappers). I was talking to a business manager from OneSteel at a recent conference who was explaining shredding and steel recycling to me, it's all very interesting. Australia has a long way to go with recycling compared to Europe for example (it is more difficult for us because of the lower volume) - particularly with automotive vehicles and so on.

They just pulled down a six storey office complex with basically one big CAT bulldozer type thing with a couple of different attachments

You talking about the one down on Dorcas St?

nah there isnt any jobs at my work atm :( (pretty much every1 i tell wants me to get them work there :P)

its a f***in sick job, the boss is 27 and there is a crew of about 10of us, all aged between 21-27 and 1x 36yr old. we get to scrap all the alluminium/copper/brass etc, make a bit of extra doosh on the side :) Fun job when something doesnt come down.. just hit it harder :P

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They just pulled down a six storey office complex with basically one big CAT bulldozer type thing with a couple of different attachments

You talking about the one down on Dorcas St?

Nah, old building in Clayton on Blackburn Rd.

I'll take a good lookin chick over 2 computers

Jim are you implying koopz is gay ? ... not that there is anything wrong with that

whatever I was perceived to be implying, it apparently warranted not one, but two completely fruit loop pm's from koopz

koopz loves teh pms :)

heh
pms

IT Professional Services - ITSM Consultancy with software provisions, implementation and training.

Also at uni.

A PM is almost as good as touching Jim.

I work at Nova radio station- promotions, night show assistant- awesome company, all young ppl

By day a mild mannered researcher. By night, a fast moving consultant! Yeehaw!

When I first saw this thread it reminded me of my no job, no money, crap situation. But as of today I can officially say I am employed. Woo for me! I am now a teacher at Langports teaching English to international students.

props!

Grats :)

No where! And I even got rejected from Dick Smith today. You'd think 5 years retail experience and an IT qualification would be enough to sell GPS systems to dumbarses.

Thanks, fade, all noted. Much as I expected from UQ, the snobs.

Obes, you could try to fish, but even a slow merchant ship is probably moving too quickly for trolling lines. At anchor it's another story.

Emdaddy nice going.


SSM and Scoobs jobs seem to of drawn a fair bit of interest and not suprisingly. Just a question for you both how did you get into what you do now and how long have you been at it.

side note: SSM given how things have been for aussie shiping over the past 10-15 years I am almost suprised we have any aussie doing the job anymore. Whats your take on that.

Thanks everyone for the congrats. My days of endlessly trolling the net for jobs is finally over. Scoobs, you should mention the ever important 'shotgun' rule at your work. If there is a s***ty job to done... 'shotgun not' always saves your arse.

Well done Emdaddy

SSM and Scoobs jobs seem to of drawn a fair bit of interest and not suprisingly. Just a question for you both how did you get into what you do now and how long have you been at it.

side note: SSM given how things have been for aussie shiping over the past 10-15 years I am almost suprised we have any aussie doing the job anymore. Whats your take on that.

There's a post back on page seven on how I got into the industry, but basically it was a bit of a random thing, even more peculiar was the fact that I picked the first year they started picking up cadets for the Australian maritime industry in ages. That was 2004, away on my first ship September of 2004. Being a cadet is pretty average, as the title suggests, only got 4 weeks paid leave a year, paid around $27000, needing to complete 18 months time at sea. Back to college in Tasmania after accruing my 18 months of seatime for about six months study and an oral exam, after which I had my Second Mate's ticket (correctly it is now Diploma in Applied Science (Deck Watchkeeper)).

That ticket saw my pay go straight to $103000 (as juniormost officer on a tanker) with six months of the year paid leave. Have moved up a little in pay since then because there's a phenomenal shortage of deck officers in the global industry leading to very favorable EBAs here in Australia.

As for your questions on the future of the industry, Taipan, we don't know. I seem to recall you worked for Patricks in the nineties, and it's still all doom and gloom according to some (MUA and otherwise), but a lot of the older hands reckon it's actually looking better now that it was then (not because of Labor's election, just because of demand, especially for crew for offshore ships in WA and Bass Straight).



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what!

six months leave?

f*** being a teacher.

How long can you work doing that?

Until some lifestyle change makes me not want to spend half the year (in six week or so blocks) at sea. Like kids, or a wife or something. For a single young guy it's hilarious. While you don't really see the exotic ports of the world on the ship these days (most ships spend maybe a day or two in port, commercial demands, blah blah...) you can throw all your money earned on board in the bank and then travel or whatever and be paid to do so the rest of the year.

I was asking fade for advice because I have to assume I'll want to stop the job somewhere down the line and would like to have the next career lined up. I think Maritime Law might be more my thing than say, being a harbour pilot (pilots are also on good to excellent money mostly, but it's basically valet parking for ships).

Become a pirate negotiator!
..
or just a pirate

Have considered both :) The negotiators apparently tend to be ex special forces types (not me), while pirates are underpaid and have poor life expectancies. Did you know that after the guys who seized the Sirius Star got their USD $3M, a bunch of them drowned just after getting off the ship? Being a pirate is crap.

The lawyers behind the scenes, however, get good money and not shot at...

SSM how old r u? Pics please ;) nah, your job sounds awesome, very jealous!

:lolwat:

Nice response SSM thanks. Yeah I was a wharfie for almost 10 years starting right after the Patricks lock out in 98. I have spent so much time working on container ships, bulkies and Ro ro's I have often wondered if it would be something I could do for a living. I honestly would at some point in time love to give it a go, however at my age I am guessing I have little chance of heading down the road you took.

Coastly runs would be pretty nice not so sure about being way the hell out in the middle of f*** f*** I can't see land though lol. Of course with any major job change there is an adjustment period thats to be expected. But as it stands right now I have nothing tieing me to the land or to any given town anyway. As a matter of fact with the leave you get it'd be damn near perfect given I would want to be visting my missus in the US as much as I possibly could until such time as I can live there permanently.

lol, he mentioned being single and young ;) but seriously, cool job, you must admit!

Taipan, have you considered being an I.R.? (Not sure if they were still being called A.Bs when you worked as a wharfy). You'd probably know most of the tasks, the training is faster than the cadet route, being an Australian ship the leave and on board conditions are the same as the officers or engineers get and the pay is good (70-80K or so, ranging up to ~100K if you land a good job in the offshore sector, depending on the nature of the ship etc). Just a thought.

The future may not be as rosy for the boyos as it may be for the mates and engineers (the temptation for the shipowner to try replacing them with underpaid Filipino dudes is ever present) but, like I said earlier, people have been saying the end is nigh for a couple of decades now, but so far the work is ongoing.

Sent you a PM SSM.

Lil miss you really couldn't of come of as more of a parasitic gold digger even if you wanted to. Not saying you are but sure read like it.

hahaha ^
"> He has money - check
> He must be physically fit to work on boat - check
> He is away more than he is home so i can get an italian fabio to sex me up while ur away working, paying for things" - check

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/PF_New\282008/3736963~Gold-Digger-Posters.jpg

c'mon guys ... we could have got SSM to PM her and get naked pics then we could have had 2 forum members with a .zip !

I drive a 16 tonne tilt tray for Skyreach delivering scissorlifts, booms, manitou's, etc.

i drive your mum

EVERY NIGHT

i drive your mum

EVERY NIGHT

I thought this was a thread about your job, not about things you pay for ?

I work as a sys admin for a media shop in Milton. Have been working with a large British media house recently on the technical backend for a web project consisting of a bunch of www servers and a couple db (mysql) servers.

This job was supposed to make me rich so I could buy some large and in charge hardware to install opennebula on and build out a cloud host, but so far I have no time to work on my own projects unfortch.

I also work around the barista at getting devs motivated and generally being the brunt of a fair share of jokes so that things get settled down and back on focus quicker than if I were to give it back. It could be said that it's the enviable position of not having to use your brain too much while also having the luxury of being able to spy on peoples home directorys when they least expect their huge files to be pwnt. I actually move them to another storage chassis because I'm not some BOFH, it's a thankless job.

When I'm not doing either of those things I'm on the train commuting or sleeping.

I'm a project manager / consultant for Arup, an engineering consultancy firm. I run a dept of analysts and developers doing projects for Arup & their clients. I also do business development consulting and project management for clients as well.

I'm one of the those people that your company gets in to write a big document that no one reads :)

I am the bat man.

I work at QT during the day doing IT and a bit of GIS (Geographical Information Systems - basically mapping). I work in the bit where they design busways, roadways and cycleways. I want to ditch the IT part and do GIS though. Mapping is way interesting and pays better.

By night I'm an indie game designer/code monkey. I did the story for this game while I was at uni. Now I'm working with the guy who made it on a pretty big 3D project.

Edit: Hi Mantra! I'm the guy who gets told to read those big documents by people who paid to get them made but haven't read them.

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Squarky, sounds very interesting! Met a lot of famous bands/people I could imagine?

Yeah its an interesting job, sometimes a complete reaming but everyday is different, which i like. As for famous people yes and no, alot of the really famous people have their own crews and security etc so they arent bothered. I have worked with alot of aussie acts when they are on the way up, The Presets & Sneaky Sound System for example. Also a few internationals like mixing Tom Morello from RATM's side project 'the nightwatchman' at bigdayout, and tech'd for My Chemical Romance back in 06.

Race Engineer at Double R Racing (British F3 team)

Moved to the UK at the start of this year after leaving DJR.

bikeseat pretty much wins the thread :]

Nice Bikeseat, my goal is to end up doing the same one day, but your advice in a pm a looong time ago has helped me at least get into a data engineering role.

Good luck with this season, I watch F3 (all series) quite closely.

My 12yo would follow you around like a puppy bikeseat... he's V8 Supercar nuts

3rd I think you mean obes! I still use mantra.zip in the mornings/coffee breaks

i do computer stuff for military choppers at gallipoli barracks. its awesome with heaps of travel and perks. can be a bit full on giving presentations to rooms full of high ranking officers though.

plus i do some web stuff with nitro and want to land some nice contracts once i get back from my all expenses paid trip to florida in a few weeks :D

oh and i also DJ w00t!

can be a bit full on giving presentations to rooms full of high ranking officers though.

I'm guessing imagining them naked would just make you more nervous.

yeah if i wanted to see naked old men i would do the same job as infi

^ that's cause old men can't run.

BiKESEAT wins the thread.

lil miss pics up or shut up

So strex how often do you GET TO THE CHOPPPPPAAHHHHH ... ?

nitro likes boys

3rd I think you mean obes! I still use mantra.zip in the mornings/coffee breaks

how many gay bars is Denver ?

Head of Technical Consultancy and IT Project Management for the Asia Pacific/Southern Africa region for a US based software firm producing Asset Performance Management software applications targeting Mechanical and Relibaility Engineering in the Global Oil, Gas, Mining and Heavy Industries marketplace.

I work predominately in China and India with Thailand, South Africa and Australia coming in close behind with the odd trip to the USA. In Australia I manage Configuration, Implementation and SAP Integration projects for both BHPB and Rio Tinto destined for rollout to each Global Business Unit i.e. Coal, Gas, Oil, Iron Ore, Diamonds in Australia, Africa, South America, Asia, Europe, North America.

We are a SAP Partner and integrate with SAP's Plant Management and Maintenance Systems. Application base is built upon a Microsoft .NET/ASP.NET, SQL Server or Oracle technlogy platform.

And never call SAP sap to someone who works with SAP.
Its ess-ay-pee. not sap.
Isnt that right SFB.

^ exactly.

Sounds like we need you over at our gas project SFB. We have just finished FEED and are going into Phase Two - Detailed Design. Going from 2 running projects to 23! Transferring is fun fun.

Haha strex, didn't know you and tayfun were in league - nice to see the "old rivals" getting on =P

this is me, www.elih.com.au

On the weekends I am a security guard at melbas.

During the week I run Certificate II security courses around queensland (and soon NZ) for the company I work for.

well i applied to work at the Euro Space agency.. its not too far from where i live.. not sure if i'll get it.. cause a Australia isnt a member state for the agency and b i'm a dumb c***.. but.. there was a job on the website that made me think of this thread...

SpaceCraft Engineer

I WANT THAT JOB

i'm in london contracting for a media company in waterloo. unfortunately, my contract is probably going to be over in a couple of months and i've heard the IT market is basically dead. :(

i'm in london contracting for a media company in waterloo. unfortunately, my contract is probably going to be over in a couple of months and i've heard the IT market is basically dead. :(

you'll be right, i still get about 10emails a week for jobs in london.

^^ Me too (not in advertising though)

Underground coal miner for BHP Billiton

mick, what mine are you at? I've worked on a few BHP ships carrying various stuff.

.NET Developer for a small (but cosy) digital agency on the outskirts of the Brisbane CBD.