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Thread ID: 125049	2012-06-03 06:06:00	What Do you do for a living?	pctek (84)	PC World Chat

Post ID	Timestamp	Content	User
1279456	2012-06-05 01:14:00	Industrial Electrical Maintenance & Installation. Haywards Substation, Benmore Power Station & DC Valve house. Wellington Airport, MOW. Now retired. PJ	Poppa John (284)
1279457	2012-06-05 01:21:00	And how many are in the career they thought they would be in when they were 13-15?? My specialty didn't even exist when I was that age - or if it did, there were probably only a handful of people in the world who did it, and probably only as a small part of their programming role (debugging))...	johcar (6283)
1279458	2012-06-05 01:30:00	Well, I certainly entertained thoughts of being a potter, though it took another 20 years to get there.	Tony (4941)
1279459	2012-06-05 01:41:00	Left school and worked for bank for about 4 yrs, then went to work with folks in family confectionery business, then back to banking as Credit controller, then overseas to a few office temp jobs, barman, then Credit controller for property management group in London and learnt my IT there, back home after 10 yrs, bit of painting\decorating with Dad to 8 yrs as IT manager\consultant.	SolMiester (139)
1279460	2012-06-05 01:42:00	Left school and worked for bank for about 4 yrs, then went to work with folks in family confectionery business, then back to banking as Credit controller, then overseas to a few office temp jobs, barman, then Credit controller for property management group in London and learnt my IT there, back home after 10 yrs, bit of painting\decorating with Dad to 8 yrs as IT manager\consultant. Another confectioner!! Woohoo!!	johcar (6283)
1279461	2012-06-05 01:47:00	Another confectioner!! Woohoo!! You have done confectionery John?.....Its was in our family for about....Ummm, since my Great Grandfather started out with Ice Creams.....I have 100 yr old recipes in my head!....we were Dominion Confectionery down in Welly, then sold it to Maceys in Auckland, then we started a hand made confectionery up here in the bay for a few years.... Confectionery in like one of the longer apprenticeships in the world...8 yrs in England!	SolMiester (139)
1279462	2012-06-05 01:49:00	Load"*",8,1 anyone? Aaah those were the days :D My specialty didn't even exist when I was that age - or if it did, there were probably only a handful of people in the world who did it, and probably only as a small part of their programming role (debugging))... Yeah likewise. ADSL was only just coming out in NZ when I was that age, and most were still on dial-up. In fact I think we were still on 33.6k around that time... Kinda prevents VoIP from working, especially considering dial-up is half-duplex ;-) Always knew I wanted to work in IT though since I was about 6 or 7. My dad had a few PC's sprawled out in a million bits in my parents room, and took the parts from several broken PCs and made one single working one. I knew then, I wanted to work in IT :D	Chilling_Silence (9)
1279463	2012-06-05 01:49:00	I've been a banker (a couple of times, actually - in the days when selling wasn't the main part of the job!), a confectioner, a motorcycle courier (London and Auckland), then worked in IT (primarily as Test Analyst/Manager): at a power company (or two), short-term IT contract at Fonterra, The Warehouse (HO), a credit card division of a major bank, SX Hospitals (HO), a consumer finance company Currently working for a consultancy who have clients in government agencies, power companies and telecommunications and who specialise in billing systems, revenue protection systems and data migrations. And on the side (in my spare time - HA!), I advise friends and family on their IT choices and build websites, and pretend I can ride a bike and play golf (not at the same time). Truth be told, the golf is better than the cycling at the moment.... Jesus.......yours almost reads like mine, down to the golf!	SolMiester (139)
1279464	2012-06-05 01:57:00	Jesus.......yours almost reads like mine, down to the golf! Maybe you're my doppel-ganger? :D My old man started a confectionery business in Auckland ("Carter's Candies") - had a shop in the CML Mall in Queen Street and ran the lolly shop (with live demonstrations on live weekends) at MOTAT. We shipped all kinds of goodies all around the country to specialty shops. I even got to go to a trade show in Frankfurt (when I was living in London - 1984, I think) to check out a replacement enrobing machine. But apart from the enrobing all the product was hand made.	johcar (6283)
1279465	2012-06-05 01:59:00	Aaah those were the days :D Yeah likewise. ADSL was only just coming out in NZ when I was that age, and most were still on dial-up. In fact I think we were still on 33.6k around that time... Kinda prevents VoIP from working, especially considering dial-up is half-duplex ;-) Always knew I wanted to work in IT though since I was about 6 or 7. My dad had a few PC's sprawled out in a million bits in my parents room, and took the parts from several broken PCs and made one single working one. I knew then, I wanted to work in IT :DYou downy-cheeked youngsters! My first Compuserve account was on a 2400 modem. I'd have killed for 33.6. And when I saw my first computer c1967 (IBM 1130) any sort of connectivity was for the high-powered and very well-heeled specialists.	Tony (4941)
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