Stumbling across the revelation that our very own Admin is a tree surgeon, I found myself wondering what everybody does for a living. I know, for example, that Fred works on the bins for the council, and Owen is striving for accountancy qualifications - but what about the rest of us?
I'll start. Nothing exciting - I've spent many years as a database designer and developer and am now the assistant IT manager for a legal firm in the City. 085.gif
I teach grads and undergrads at uni ("teaching assistant) and write (in this case finish) a PhD. From September 1st onwards, I'll be unemployed though (contract ends, non-renewable).
Consultant for a hydrology firm. Bloody lucky to have this job, so grafting hard to fly through my probation.
Sipwell, good luck with the post-PhD job hunting mate. I was there only a few months ago and it can be a long, hard and (at times) soul-destroying process
3 things,
1. im a full time Uni student studying Psychology.
2. I work part time in a liquor store for extra cash.
3. I am a freelance musician, writing 'score' music for short films, commercials, plays, specific parts of feature films etc. This is starting to take off big time (got a job working on a new cartoon for Nickelodeon) so I think the above two will be put on hold for a while!
I also play in a band that gets quite a few shows in my city/sydney, but all the money we get on the night usually goes straight back into 'fun' and then whatever is left is spent on more music gear. I guess that makes it a hobby.
Letting Agent - Basically a qualified estate agent who does all of their own conveyancing.
Have my own business, sell football kit and equipment (goals, nets, balls, coaching stuff, field liners etc etc.). Also, coach a high school girls footie team (for pocket money) and volunteer ski instructor to disabled (for free ski passes which are really bloody expensive these days).
Work part time at Sandown Park but I'm in my 2nd year of College at the moment. Being under 18 means I get £4.75 per hour which quite frankly sucks but I can't be bothered to look for another job at the moment.
...I work at a Refrigeration & Air Conditioning company that services and maintains and supplies spares for most makes of 'chillers', I started here in 1972!!!
Perhaps, seeing as it's Christmas, this thread could be turned into a parlour game , much in the style of "What's My Line?" ..?
Now, who's going to be Eamonn Andrews, and who's first with a mime of their job (could be a bit tricky on here !)... ?
gas engineer. I repair boilers well sometimes. for british gas social housing in hammersmith and fulham.
Post clues and see who gets it first. If it catches on, could take over the whole forum though!! Maybe not such a good idea. :011:
I'm an IT financial functional support analsyst
Quote from: LBNo11 on December 20, 2011, 06:13:37 PM
...I work at a Refrigeration & Air Conditioning company that services and maintains and supplies spares for most makes of 'chillers', I started here in 1972!!!
Sounds like a cool job.... Get Coat gif
If you're buying or selling a house, expecting to die or have a dear one who just has
visit
http://www.gilroysteel.com/ (http://www.gilroysteel.com/)
for expert conveyancing Wills and probate.
Instruct the boss and you also get free but interminable Fulham chat.
Quote from: FLETCHINO on December 20, 2011, 06:19:14 PM
Quote from: LBNo11 on December 20, 2011, 06:13:37 PM
...I work at a Refrigeration & Air Conditioning company that services and maintains and supplies spares for most makes of 'chillers', I started here in 1972!!!
Sounds like a cool job.... Get Coat gif
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I work for the Kilkenny Group as Logistics Manager, we only sell Irish Designed goods, 80% of our shippings go to America.
God bless America.
International Recruitment Consultant love it.. money is ok and get to travel but be back on weekends to watch the mighty whites...
I am now retired but my last job was headteacher of a large comprehensive school in Doncaster. Kevin Keegan was a former pupil.
I work for a company based in Waltham Cross that supplies restaurants, hotels and B&I with fruit and vegetables (and other short shelf life products)
I run an international freight forwarding company based in NZ and Aussie
studying for a masters in maths at leeds
Quote from: Lork on December 20, 2011, 07:42:09 PM
studying for a masters in maths at leeds
...now I know what the gloves are for, you have a small calculator hidden in the palm of you hand..!
:58:
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Quote from: Lork on December 20, 2011, 07:42:09 PM
studying for a masters in maths at leeds
...now I know what the gloves are for, you have a small calculator hidden in the palm of you hand..!
:58:
haven't touched a calculator all term. numbers are for novices, it's all about letters. :048:
Group HR Director for Monitise, a global technology company based here in good ol' blighty that leads the way in the mobile money, banking and commerce markets.
If there are any iPhone, BlackBerry or Android developers or software project managers out there who are looking for a new challenge and a good ol' chinwag about the Whites then drop me a PM!
I'm a traffic warden on Monday's to Fridays and a ticket inspector on the trains at weekend, I love giving out tickets 075.gif
Investment Banking recruitment/head hunting.
Specialise in risk management.
Times are tough. 2012 could be a difficult year.
Quote from: SouthfieldWhite on December 20, 2011, 08:22:19 PM
I'm a traffic warden on Monday's to Fridays and a ticket inspector on the trains at weekend, I love giving out tickets 075.gif
Have you Given up the belly dancing then
I'm in my last year of a finance degree with an investment concentration,and will commence my search for a job in the field shortly.
I work part time in at a large deli/fruit market when I am home on holiday
currently work as a Security Officer for the BBC, but yesterday I recieved a conditional offer of employment for a train depatchers job on the railways,so just waiting for a date for a medical and for my references to be checked and then I'll be on the railway and doing a bit of door secuity on the side for beer and football money :yay: :yay:
I'm a student studying Civil Engineering in Nottingham. Looking for a sandwich year placement currently so I can earn some dough and get to the cottage more often.
Sales manager at a big software company
I operate a full service (snacks, beverages, sandwiches, coffee) vending company. The company services factories, hotels, call centers, hospitals, etc.
Parks and Playing Fields Manager. Used to be the best job but lately all the human resources stuff seems to have landed on my desk as well as the risk assessments and finance. Difficult times in local government so I'm turning into a juggler taking the role of Gene Hunt as my personnel management mentor.
Quote from: Burt on December 20, 2011, 08:10:56 PM
Group HR Director for Monitise, a global technology company based here in good ol' blighty that leads the way in the mobile money, banking and commerce markets.
If there are any iPhone, BlackBerry or Android developers or software project managers out there who are looking for a new challenge and a good ol' chinwag about the Whites then drop me a PM!
You switched!
I am not and have never been a policeman...
Quote from: RidgeRider on December 20, 2011, 10:38:13 PM
Quote from: Burt on December 20, 2011, 08:10:56 PM
Group HR Director for Monitise, a global technology company based here in good ol' blighty that leads the way in the mobile money, banking and commerce markets.
If there are any iPhone, BlackBerry or Android developers or software project managers out there who are looking for a new challenge and a good ol' chinwag about the Whites then drop me a PM!
You switched!
I did! Polycom decided to go functional so my last project there was to reorganize the HR function so people were dedicated to business divisions. I ended up doing myself out of a job as a result, as there was no longer a need for a regional leader for EMEA.
All very amicable, and I managed to get myself sorted pretty quickly.
And after 7 years, I think it was time for a change anyway.
I am certainly not missing the commute to Slough! I do miss having video conference as a norm to communicate with everyone though... Need to turn Monitise on to that...
Your fav Jol supporter happens to run a small consultancy in the US (although it all got originally started in Finsgate in the City but Gordon Brown managed to chase me abroad)
We keep making sure Wall Street continues to feck people over but actually have an idea of what that actually costs in the process. Please visit www.riskinsider.com (http://www.riskinsider.com) for a glimpse. Hard work especially in this climate. Consultants are the first to go as you may know. Anyway, I digress, but that is what I do for a living...
I'm in my second career, working on a third. Started in consultancy and software, mostly in sales, now I help arrange financing for people like Tony Gilroy's clients.
I am an insurance and payments analyst for a global logistics firm in Jacksonville Florida who will shotly be certified in transportation and logistics through the ASTL. cant wait to have some initials at the end of my name... trying to get into the international logistics and brokerage side of the business.
so you're a bail bondsman....?
Quote from: Legate21 on December 20, 2011, 10:19:38 PM
I'm a student studying Civil Engineering in Nottingham. Looking for a sandwich year placement currently so I can earn some dough and get to the cottage more often.
Studying? From what I've seen of your FB account, it looks like you're a full time piss head!!
I, on the otherhand, am a hard working maintenance electrician / engineer / jack of all trades master of none type character.
Quote from: leonffc on December 20, 2011, 11:21:07 PM
Quote from: Legate21 on December 20, 2011, 10:19:38 PM
I'm a student studying Civil Engineering in Nottingham. Looking for a sandwich year placement currently so I can earn some dough and get to the cottage more often.
Studying? From what I've seen of your FB account, it looks like you're a full time piss head!!
I, on the otherhand, am a hard working maintenance electrician / engineer / jack of all trades master of none type character.
Is that not what the whole student/studying thing is? Maybe I'm confused by the whole concept.
I do work fairly hard sometimes.
Two jobs:
1. Set up a goose control business around New York with my wife that she now now runs using trained Border collies (sheepdogs) to chase geese off schools, corporate campuses, cemeteries and gated communities. I still train the dogs a bit and do some light duties here and there. If you don't believe it (and I sometimes pinch myself at the thought that we started this business ten years ago and it's still thriving), check out the videos on the website: http://www.geeseoff.com/new-york/westchester/geese-videos.php (http://www.geeseoff.com/new-york/westchester/geese-videos.php)
2. My latest mission is setting up a grass-fed (no corn, grain, hormones, antibiotics) sheep-farming and pasture-fed poultry operation where we're reclaiming land that's going back to wilderness. Again, that's probably hard to believe from Blightey, but there are hundreds of thousands of acres of former farm land that have returned or are returning to wilderness here in the northeast US. In the last few months we've found 240 acres on three properties within 8 miles where the owners are happy for us to graze our sheep for nothing.
Nogood "sitting on laurels and oak and ashes - even if it gives Admin a good job, isit" Boyo
How do you set up one of those poll things on here.
We need to vote on whether 'nogoodboyo's' jobs are real.
It's 'no good getting a conventional job now' is it?
Leon - very good idea.
Nogood "incredible jobs I have, isit" Boyo
Where there is happiness I bring sadness and where there is goodness I bring evil. I wear a cloak and stand on top of tall buildings. For I am the Shadow Monster. I eat the souls of the lost and the weary. For I am the Shadow Monster. I haunt the living and the desperate who are ...um....desperate and living. For I am the Shadow Monster. Where hope still ....Oh look out Nurse is coming, pretend to be asleep. :55:
MEDIC!!!
Nogood "Lofty's slipped his trolley again, isit" Boyo
I run Macquarie Educational Tours, a small company that specialises in planning and organising school tours throughout Australia.
Just recently finished my CPA quals and starting my MBA in January.
After 15 years as a copper (yep Malone I WAS one), I emigrated to the US and started programming professionally. Now, after 13 years slogging it, I'm a senior applications developer for one of the largest independent Financial Brokerage firms, specializing in .NET, BI and SQL applications, and a certified MS DBA. Hey, it was my hobby for 14 years, I just make money out of what I love to do, that's all.
bang head bang head bang head :beer: :beer: :beer:
I am a salesman take a bow for a specialty infusion company that specializes in servicing patients with hemophilia.
I am retired from the third of my careers. I do volunteer work for four non-profits, plus my church, and perform in a rock n' roll band, so I'm busy enough.
Nogood boyo where in the north east?
beserker? what??? can you explain in english please?
I'm working as a Marketing Manager for an airline as well as having my own consultancy firm (in the fields of Revenue Management, Channel- & Distribution Management).
My background is mainly in hotel & restaurant management for the past 20 years.
Nick,
That's easy. All you have to do is advertise that yiu can actually straiten your legs during the flight (without standing up) and the food won't make you ill. That is of course if you actually get any food. Job done! :drums:
Quote from: jarv on December 21, 2011, 05:55:49 AM
Nick,
That's easy. All you have to do is advertise that yiu can actually straiten your legs during the flight (without standing up) and the food won't make you ill. That is of course if you actually get any food. Job done! :drums:
Heh, well as we're a no-frills airline (nope, not even close to Ruin Air) we don't include catering, but of course availble. Whit regards to leg room, I'd say it's average at best as we only operate Turbo-prop planes. The job is however great as I get to pick on the 'bad guys' in the industry on a daily basis (i.e. SAS, Ryan Air et al) :011:
Quote from: Nick the Swede on December 21, 2011, 06:02:34 AM
Quote from: jarv on December 21, 2011, 05:55:49 AM
Nick,
That's easy. All you have to do is advertise that yiu can actually straiten your legs during the flight (without standing up) and the food won't make you ill. That is of course if you actually get any food. Job done! :drums:
Heh, well as we're a no-frills airline (nope, not even close to Ruin Air) we don't include catering, but of course availble. Whit regards to leg room, I'd say it's average at best as we only operate Turbo-prop planes. The job is however great as I get to pick on the 'bad guys' in the industry on a daily basis (i.e. SAS, Ryan Air et al) :011:
We have our first Fulham Aeroflot member!! :58:
Fantastic!!
COYW
I work in a hospital pharmacy as a patients medication councillor and high cost medication administrator
(previously at a well known London football club)
Quote from: finnster01 on December 21, 2011, 07:14:04 AM
We have our first Fulham Aeroflot member!! :58:
Fantastic!!
COYW
Don't think the russkies have many propeller planes these days :005:
Come to think of it, maybe I should grab a waterproof marker and sneak outside to name one of the planes "the Fulham Flyer" 098.gif
I am also retired but did my apprenticeship (thats when it meant apprenticeship) as a letterpress printer. I was eventually emploed by a large high street bank in their printing works in North Acton. I worked for them for 34 years and reached the giddying hieghts of Assistant Manager Quality Systems and Health & Safety. Took early retirement in 1998 did some temping in the Home Office in Croydon (very interesting) and then fully retired in 2004. Now a full time Grandchild Minder. By the way, what job am I applying for?
Quote from: alfie on December 21, 2011, 08:11:45 AM
I work in a hospital pharmacy as a patients medication councillor and high cost medication administrator
(previously at a well known London football club)
You were a medication councillor at a well known London football club?
I smell a tabloid story here... :011:
Work as a Sales Manager for a trade association. I get new companies to join and sell training/events. Been doing that for over three years.
Before that was an estate agent for 4 years in the Surbiton/Thames Ditton area.
And before that spent 20 years working for the Post Office.
Quote from: NogoodBoyo on December 20, 2011, 11:43:00 PM
Two jobs:
1. Set up a goose control business around New York with my wife that she now now runs using trained Border collies (sheepdogs) to chase geese off schools, corporate campuses, cemeteries and gated communities. I still train the dogs a bit and do some light duties here and there. If you don't believe it (and I sometimes pinch myself at the thought that we started this business ten years ago and it's still thriving), check out the videos on the website: http://www.geeseoff.com/new-york/westchester/geese-videos.php (http://www.geeseoff.com/new-york/westchester/geese-videos.php)
That's amazing - never occurred to me that sheepdogs could be used like that but really so obvious, it's in their genes isn't it? Except sheep don't usually fly.
I am a market research manager for a global accountancy body. It's mind numbing stuff but the hours are good so I can spend as much time as possible with the young'un.
I don't know that there's much future in the industry (market research, not accountancy) so having a bit of a ponder. I've made some headway in writing but don't know that I could earn enough to support the family. Thinking of taking carpentry courses or something like that in the hope that 'useful' skills come back into fashion.
Permanent existential crisis really.
I run my own business consultancy focused on HR and change projects mainly for SMEs in the technology sector.
High school during the week, referee on Sunday's
I work in the music business as a freelance consultant on repertoire and marketing, writer and record re-issue producer. I am also a director of a highly-successful download company specialising in recordings from the 'fifties and 'sixties.
I am a CSE for the Branding department for a medium sized company that specialises in flags, banners and major high street branding (Harrods, Harvey Nicks etc), I have been here for 8 months, but in a previous thread I explain how I was being shafted. So I've been on the job hunt.
I have an interview on the 6th of January at an expanding media company in Chelmsford, where I live, where I would be a junior in the traditional media team (magazines etc) something I've always wanted to be involved in. The opportunities at the company look good, and at 20 its something that is appealing to me. 065.gif
Formally 26 years with London buses on engineering side, 1992 took redundancy and have run and owned a tropical fish shop near Epsom since then, lease up March 2012 , cannot wait to get out.
IT contractor, at the moment doing Desktop Support for RBS, simple as that. They do pay my train travel though which means I only have to pay for my matchday tickets for Fulham :yay:
Quote from: epsomraver on December 21, 2011, 09:48:01 AM
Formally 26 years with London buses on engineering side, 1992 took redundancy and have run and owned a tropical fish shop near Epsom since then, lease up March 2012 , cannot wait to get out.
is that because people aren't buying fish or because you don't enjoy it? Serious question - I'd always assumed that running your own shop would be brilliant.
Insurance agent
Quote from: richie17 on December 21, 2011, 09:50:15 AM
Quote from: epsomraver on December 21, 2011, 09:48:01 AM
Formally 26 years with London buses on engineering side, 1992 took redundancy and have run and owned a tropical fish shop near Epsom since then, lease up March 2012 , cannot wait to get out.
is that because people aren't buying fish or because you don't enjoy it? Serious question - I'd always assumed that running your own shop would be brilliant.
And I actually thought dave stole that quote from Bobby Zamora... :58:
Quote from: richie17 on December 21, 2011, 09:50:15 AM
Quote from: epsomraver on December 21, 2011, 09:48:01 AM
Formally 26 years with London buses on engineering side, 1992 took redundancy and have run and owned a tropical fish shop near Epsom since then, lease up March 2012 , cannot wait to get out.
is that because people aren't buying fish or because you don't enjoy it? Serious question - I'd always assumed that running your own shop would be brilliant.
Both really, Ebay and internet are killing the small shops off in all retail, also having livestock is a 24/7 commitment, I have not had more than 5 days away from this shop since 2000 ,when I had a manager who I could trust.You have to be here 6 days a week no matter how you feel , I can assure you being self employed is not what it is cracked up to be as others on here will probably tell you or " is it me" ?
Quote from: finnster01 on December 21, 2011, 10:00:26 AM
Quote from: richie17 on December 21, 2011, 09:50:15 AM
Quote from: epsomraver on December 21, 2011, 09:48:01 AM
Formally 26 years with London buses on engineering side, 1992 took redundancy and have run and owned a tropical fish shop near Epsom since then, lease up March 2012 , cannot wait to get out.
is that because people aren't buying fish or because you don't enjoy it? Serious question - I'd always assumed that running your own shop would be brilliant.
And I actually thought dave stole that quote from Bobby Zamora... :58:
:011: bad losers eh Finnhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16280613 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16280613)
Quote from: epsomraver on December 21, 2011, 10:03:53 AM
Quote from: richie17 on December 21, 2011, 09:50:15 AM
Quote from: epsomraver on December 21, 2011, 09:48:01 AM
Formally 26 years with London buses on engineering side, 1992 took redundancy and have run and owned a tropical fish shop near Epsom since then, lease up March 2012 , cannot wait to get out.
is that because people aren't buying fish or because you don't enjoy it? Serious question - I'd always assumed that running your own shop would be brilliant.
Both really, Ebay and internet are killing the small shops off in all retail, also having livestock is a 24/7 commitment, I have not had more than 5 days away from this shop since 2000 ,when I had a manager who I could trust.You have to be here 6 days a week no matter how you feel , I can assure you being self employed is not what it is cracked up to be as others on here will probably tell you or " is it me" ?
You are dead on when you say it isn't all it's cracked up to be, to be self employed in this economy when you have to pay all your overhead and bills.
Quote from: Tom on December 21, 2011, 10:24:53 AM
Quote from: epsomraver on December 21, 2011, 10:03:53 AM
Quote from: richie17 on December 21, 2011, 09:50:15 AM
Quote from: epsomraver on December 21, 2011, 09:48:01 AM
Formally 26 years with London buses on engineering side, 1992 took redundancy and have run and owned a tropical fish shop near Epsom since then, lease up March 2012 , cannot wait to get out.
is that because people aren't buying fish or because you don't enjoy it? Serious question - I'd always assumed that running your own shop would be brilliant.
Both really, Ebay and internet are killing the small shops off in all retail, also having livestock is a 24/7 commitment, I have not had more than 5 days away from this shop since 2000 ,when I had a manager who I could trust.You have to be here 6 days a week no matter how you feel , I can assure you being self employed is not what it is cracked up to be as others on here will probably tell you or " is it me" ?
You are dead on when you say it isn't all it's cracked up to be, to be self employed in this economy when you have to pay all your overhead and bills.
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We agree Tom, must be Xmas :005:
Thre are only two things worse than being self employed -
Working for someone else and being unemployed.
Quote from: TonyGilroy on December 21, 2011, 10:31:07 AM
Thre are only two things worse than being self employed -
Working for someone else and being unemployed.
Seriously don't agree with that, unemployed get benefits so money coming in, employed means a wage each week and sick pay if ill.
Dialler Manager in a Telecan unit for a home improvement company in Hertfordshire, mundane job but it pays the bills. Doing this for 6 years now though and need to move on, but the job market is not exactly great at the moment. Want to do more with my SQL knowledge.
Before that I was a bank manager for LloydsTSB in North London.
Quote from: sunburywhite on December 20, 2011, 07:02:46 PM
I work for a company based in Waltham Cross that supplies restaurants, hotels and B&I with fruit and vegetables (and other short shelf life products)
that be just round the corner from me!!
Interesting thread.
I work in the city for a financial clearing house. I'm in the bonds and repos operations team. My current role is a bit shite but I should be moving back to my old team soon, which will be good, and I like the company. And not everyone in the city is earning big money and getting bonuses, the majority are plebs like me.
I refuse to say on the grounds it might incriminate me :033:
Quote from: jarv on December 21, 2011, 05:39:22 AM
Nogood boyo where in the north east?
beserker? what??? can you explain in english please?
Not sure if this is in English or not as generally IT people don't speak in English as Logicalman will confirm being a DBA!!!
Well I provide functional application (APPS) and development support for a accounting system called Oracle Financials EBS, so if this system isn't working in someway I analyse what is wrong with it and put if right with the help of people like Mr Logicalman who is a DBA (looks after the background tables, where as I look after the front end, thus the functional side).
Also if somebody wants the system to do something different to what it is doing at the moment, I work out how this can be achieved and configure the system to do that.
My background its actually in Finance and Accountancy but I enjoyed doing the IT side as well so moved more fully into that a few years ago
Quote from: Berserker on December 21, 2011, 10:55:06 AM
Quote from: jarv on December 21, 2011, 05:39:22 AM
Nogood boyo where in the north east?
beserker? what??? can you explain in english please?
Not sure if this is in English or not as generally IT people don't speak in English as Logicalman will confirm being a DBA!!!
Well I provide functional application (APPS) and development support for a accounting system called Oracle Financials EBS, so if this system isn't working in someway I analyse what is wrong with it and put if right with the help of people like Mr Logicalman who is a DBA (looks after the background tables, where as I look after the front end, thus the functional side).
Also if somebody wants the system to do something different to what it is doing at the moment, I work out how this can be achieved and configure the system to do that.
My background its actually in Finance and Accountancy but I enjoyed doing the IT side as well so moved more fully into that a few years ago
Very well put there beserker, unfortunately never could fully integrate myself in Oracles OBIEE, it just seemed too intense, so I stuck to SSIS/SSRS/SSAS solutions, using .NET. I do now provide both presentation and back-end design and support as is the nature of my job. At least Oracle and SQL are a lot closer than they were 10 years ago, though for the uninitiated, they can easily be compared to Citeh and ManUre as far as rivalry.
Quote from: ffctom_b on December 21, 2011, 10:44:38 AM
Dialler Manager in a Telecan unit for a home improvement company in Hertfordshire, mundane job but it pays the bills. Doing this for 6 years now though and need to move on, but the job market is not exactly great at the moment. Want to do more with my SQL knowledge.
Before that I was a bank manager for LloydsTSB in North London.
What sort of experience do you have, and what are your interests in SQL? e.g. Admin, development, etc.
I simply collect peoples rubbish and recycle it.
Quote from: ffctom_b on December 21, 2011, 10:44:38 AM
Dialler Manager in a Telecan unit for a home improvement company in Hertfordshire, mundane job but it pays the bills. Doing this for 6 years now though and need to move on, but the job market is not exactly great at the moment. Want to do more with my SQL knowledge.
Before that I was a bank manager for LloydsTSB in North London.
What sort of experience do you have, and what are your interests in SQL? e.g. Admin, development, etc.
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I use it from both a front end and back end persepctive. All the data on the dialler software is loaded into SQL using the diallers software that links into the SQL Database. I am responsible for ensuring that this data and the call results generated from it is fed back to our data supplier for regulatory purpose. I also am responsible for any changes to the tables, adding any new database table and writing the queries to extract any info the board of directors or managers need from the databases on our server as no one else in our IT dept is qualified to do it. So in a wway i'm a bit of a jack of all trades and master of none when it comes to SQL, although I did manage to get the company where I work to send in some training course for it this year as everything else I knew and had learned was self taught from Google!!
I work for a very small firm in exec remuneration consultancy.
Good hours, decent pay and good team.
I think working for a small company is the way forward!
Quote from: ffctom_b on December 21, 2011, 11:29:32 AM
I use it from both a front end and back end persepctive. All the data on the dialler software is loaded into SQL using the diallers software that links into the SQL Database. I am responsible for ensuring that this data and the call results generated from it is fed back to our data supplier for regulatory purpose. I also am responsible for any changes to the tables, adding any new database table and writing the queries to extract any info the board of directors or managers need from the databases on our server as no one else in our IT dept is qualified to do it. So in a wway i'm a bit of a jack of all trades and master of none when it comes to SQL, although I did manage to get the company where I work to send in some training course for it this year as everything else I knew and had learned was self taught from Google!!
You could invest in SSRS to make your job a little easier on the directors info side and SSIS for the ETL solution, both use BIDS (VS2008) for design. Sounds like you have a good take on TSQL so it wouldn't be difficult to get up and running, and if you have anything problematic, just PM or email me.
Quote from: Logicalman on December 21, 2011, 11:42:55 AM
Quote from: ffctom_b on December 21, 2011, 11:29:32 AM
I use it from both a front end and back end persepctive. All the data on the dialler software is loaded into SQL using the diallers software that links into the SQL Database. I am responsible for ensuring that this data and the call results generated from it is fed back to our data supplier for regulatory purpose. I also am responsible for any changes to the tables, adding any new database table and writing the queries to extract any info the board of directors or managers need from the databases on our server as no one else in our IT dept is qualified to do it. So in a wway i'm a bit of a jack of all trades and master of none when it comes to SQL, although I did manage to get the company where I work to send in some training course for it this year as everything else I knew and had learned was self taught from Google!!
You could invest in SSRS to make your job a little easier on the directors info side and SSIS for the ETL solution, both use BIDS (VS2008) for design. Sounds like you have a good take on TSQL so it wouldn't be difficult to get up and running, and if you have anything problematic, just PM or email me.
see, I thought that was an IT satire. But perhaps it wasn't?
Quote from: Logicalman on December 21, 2011, 11:42:55 AM
Quote from: ffctom_b on December 21, 2011, 11:29:32 AM
I use it from both a front end and back end persepctive. All the data on the dialler software is loaded into SQL using the diallers software that links into the SQL Database. I am responsible for ensuring that this data and the call results generated from it is fed back to our data supplier for regulatory purpose. I also am responsible for any changes to the tables, adding any new database table and writing the queries to extract any info the board of directors or managers need from the databases on our server as no one else in our IT dept is qualified to do it. So in a wway i'm a bit of a jack of all trades and master of none when it comes to SQL, although I did manage to get the company where I work to send in some training course for it this year as everything else I knew and had learned was self taught from Google!!
You could invest in SSRS to make your job a little easier on the directors info side and SSIS for the ETL solution, both use BIDS (VS2008) for design. Sounds like you have a good take on TSQL so it wouldn't be difficult to get up and running, and if you have anything problematic, just PM or email me.
will take a look into it, cheers
Auditor specific experience and training in the Public Sector work.
In a past life I was a biochemist at Oxford, Warwick and Bristol unis
I am a professional footballer playing for chelsea - my real name's frank lampard...
Quote from: fulham1234 on December 21, 2011, 12:09:17 PM
I am a professional footballer playing for chelsea - my real name's frank lampard...
...whilst you moonlight as a student at Bristol Uni, great disguise.. :005:
Quote from: Ron Sheepskin on December 21, 2011, 09:15:35 AM
Quote from: alfie on December 21, 2011, 08:11:45 AM
I work in a hospital pharmacy as a patients medication councillor and high cost medication administrator
(previously at a well known London football club)
You were a medication councillor at a well known London football club?
I smell a tabloid story here... :011:
NO NO NO i work in pharmacy now, i did not do anything clinically at a well known london football club, i was coaching there and administrator
Quote from: alfie on December 21, 2011, 12:51:17 PM
Quote from: Ron Sheepskin on December 21, 2011, 09:15:35 AM
Quote from: alfie on December 21, 2011, 08:11:45 AM
I work in a hospital pharmacy as a patients medication councillor and high cost medication administrator
(previously at a well known London football club)
You were a medication councillor at a well known London football club?
I smell a tabloid story here... :011:
NO NO NO i work in pharmacy now, i did not do anything clinically at a well known london football club, i was coaching there and administrator
i am currently a pharmacy student myself
I was a pharmacy student when I was younger, I specialised in Rizlas
I was also into the pharmacy business but more on the Moroccan Black side
