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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 |
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| 1279466 | 2012-06-05 02:11:00 | Nope I left school wanting to join the Royal Engineers regiment as an electricians apprentice, ended failing the aptitude test so got an apprenticeship as a Carpenter Joiner and managed to earn about 5x as much as would have done in the Army | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1279467 | 2012-06-05 02:31:00 | ...But apart from the enrobing all the product was hand made.Enrobing - always a magic word when I was a kid. My father worked for Pascalls (back when it really was Pascalls and not just an offshoot of Cadbury's) in Mitcham, South England. He was an accountant, but occasionally us kids got to go round the factory. The two most exciting things were the enrobing machines and the machines that reduced a huge log of material down to 25mm mint lumps. Funnily enough that was also my first exposure to very primitive IT, as he had various bits of Hollerith gear in his office - card punches, sorters and some sort of computing device. He was also a member of the British Computer Society in the early 50's, and got me huge kudos at secondary school by getting all my maths class some booklets (by Olivetti I think) about binary arithmetic. |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 1279468 | 2012-06-05 02:33:00 | I work in Telecommunications (qualified as a technician in the 80's), for a long time I installed exchange euipment including the exchange and cabinet mounted ADSL gear and various other telco equipment, Really? Husband started in 1964. Worked in ZCX in Airedale St, Wellesley St, various of the suburbs, Hsn, Mt Roskill, Red Beach all over. He alternated between maintenace at them for a while, then back on installs. He put the first NEAX stuff in with the Americans. It's how I got into computers - not him, and the exchanges but various guys he worked at. Took me round to meet one who had a C64....and it went from there....It was funny, I'd go see Peter, husband would retreat into the kitchen with Peters wife, leaving us to talk computers...after a while he got a bit worried cause Peter would ring me every now and then and say come round and see what I bought, and 5 minutes after that we'd have one too. Until Peter rang one day and said come round and see my Mac. Husband said, so you'll be buying a MAC then. Nope, I got my first PC (as in DOS) instead. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1279469 | 2012-06-05 03:06:00 | I got my first PC (as in DOS) instead. What is DOS? |
QW. (15883) | ||
| 1279470 | 2012-06-05 03:10:00 | Enrobing - always a magic word when I was a kid. My father worked for Pascalls (back when it really was Pascalls and not just an offshoot of Cadbury's) in Mitcham, South England. He was an accountant, but occasionally us kids got to go round the factory. The two most exciting things were the enrobing machines and the machines that reduced a huge log of material down to 25mm mint lumps. . Ah yes, hard boiled sweets, I knew I was with the big boys when I could load a hot batch into the rollers and feed it into the die!....We did the original smokers in the dry press stamping machine, but the biggest thrill was Dad and I built a depositor for jelly and gums, to go in our oven that we also build...Quite a learning curve moving away from machine crafted to hand crafted sweets! |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1279471 | 2012-06-05 03:12:00 | What is DOS? disk operating system.....the precursor for windows |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1279472 | 2012-06-05 03:45:00 | Ah yes, hard boiled sweets, I knew I was with the big boys when I could load a hot batch into the rollers and feed it into the die!....We did the original smokers in the dry press stamping machine, but the biggest thrill was Dad and I built a depositor for jelly and gums, to go in our oven that we also build...Quite a learning curve moving away from machine crafted to hand crafted sweets! Yeah - you haven't lived until you've played with 3kg of molten sugar/glucose with your bare hands on a polished steel table and strecthed and pulled it over a hook mounted on the wall... |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 1279473 | 2012-06-05 03:59:00 | 1949 junior clerk Southern Hawkes Bay 1955 senior clerk Southern Hawkes Bay 1962 share registrar Dunedin 1963 assistant accountant Christchurch 1964 senior clerk Christchurch 1970 assistant accountant Christchurch 1972 branch accountant/pc comptroller Christchurch 1992 retired Christchurch Self taught bookkeeper/accountant . I believe today one would be fined for doing qualified accountant's work . Lurking . |
Lurking (218) | ||
| 1279474 | 2012-06-05 04:10:00 | 1949 junior clerk Southern Hawkes Bay 1955 senior clerk Southern Hawkes Bay 1962 share registrar Dunedin 1963 assistant accountant Christchurch 1964 senior clerk Christchurch 1970 assistant accountant Christchurch 1972 branch accountant/pc comptroller Christchurch 1992 retired Christchurch Self taught bookkeeper/accountant . I believe today one would be fined for doing qualified accountant's work . Lurking . |
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| 1279475 | 2012-06-05 04:12:00 | Sorry about double entry (lol) had to answer phone and thought 1st post would not have held up. Lurking. |
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