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Doug Holloway

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Re: Occupation before turning to cc
« Reply #20 on: April 05, 2005, 04:41:03 pm »
Chris,

I only joned the Church Choir because we got paid and only got in 'cos I could read.

We were a proper bunch of oicks in cassocks!

Cheers,

Doug

neil 47

  • Posts: 1345
Re: Occupation before turning to cc
« Reply #21 on: April 05, 2005, 05:06:55 pm »
Builders Merchants Storeman ,Holiday camp ,Civil engineering, ,Security guard,
Contract Miner 10years,
special needs worker, ,Residential Social Worker, Carpark Attendant,
Storeman x2,Social Work Assistant. a bit of gardening work
 + carpet cleaning
I get bored easy

        Neil              ;D ;D ;D ;D
IICRC

Ian Rochester

  • Posts: 2588
Re: Occupation before turning to cc
« Reply #22 on: April 05, 2005, 05:24:50 pm »
Lets see:

Army - REME (Avionics)
Engineer - Food (Tea Packing)
Shift Production Manager - Food (Potato)
Production Manager - Food (Chickens)
Factory Manager - Food (Butters & Sauces)

Got made redundant from last one and used some of the money to buy a cc machine as a stop gap till I found a "proper" job again!!  Never looked back, though I still do a little bit of consultancy work within the food industry if asked, and I still don't see this is a "proper" job, surely it's not possible to enjoy your work, meet interesting people, take time off when you want and get paid for it as well!!

Dave_Lee

  • Posts: 1728
Re: Occupation before turning to cc
« Reply #23 on: April 05, 2005, 05:25:13 pm »
Apprentice fitter, then time served fitter, bus conductor, wharehouseman, storeman, aircraft fitter, plant fitter, door to door salesman, army (royal engineers) CC & carpet fitter.
Dave
Dave Lee, Owner of Deepclean Services
Chorley Lancs. Est 1980.
"Pay Cheap -You get Cheap - Pay a little more and get something Better."

jcbdfa

  • Posts: 58
Re: Occupation before turning to cc
« Reply #24 on: April 05, 2005, 07:10:02 pm »
engineering apprentice-4 years
window cleaner-1 year
museum conservator(fancy cleaner?)-10 years
fire and flood tech
cc

stevegunn

Re: Occupation before turning to cc
« Reply #25 on: April 05, 2005, 07:16:31 pm »
All these ex army chaps must have got used to cleaning whilst serving HM  ;D ;D

Re: Occupation before turning to cc
« Reply #26 on: April 05, 2005, 07:26:36 pm »
Shiny boots = clean carpets

Glynn

  • Posts: 1129
Re: Occupation before turning to cc
« Reply #27 on: April 05, 2005, 07:30:53 pm »
Freelance brain surgeon
Regards
Glynn

Singrey

  • Posts: 23
Re: Occupation before turning to cc
« Reply #28 on: April 05, 2005, 07:33:31 pm »
There does seem to be a small military theme running through this topic! I thought it was just me.
If you can think of anywhere in the world where it pes down with rain 24 hours a day I’ve been there and I’ve cleaned it! My whole military career is just one big memory of being wet and cleaning stuff!!
Stuart - Cheshire & Cambridgshire

Matt Read

  • Posts: 235
Re: Occupation before turning to cc
« Reply #29 on: April 05, 2005, 07:42:36 pm »
Banker.....no its not a spelling mistake !
Matt

Len Gribble

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Re: Occupation before turning to cc
« Reply #30 on: April 05, 2005, 08:20:48 pm »
Mechanic, trainee accountant, plumbers mate, top man demolition/heavy plant diver, cutter meat market, back too heavy plant got licence back, asphalt roads, banking, commercial cleaner now a rug sucker and loving it.

Matt

BBA exam a bit harder than any cc exam, who did you work for? Me Grindlays/brants/ANZ wife used to call me man in a suitcase! Bank staff, the banks Gestapo!

Len
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other. (Sidcup Kent)

Matt Read

  • Posts: 235
Re: Occupation before turning to cc
« Reply #31 on: April 05, 2005, 08:25:05 pm »
Just a bit len...i think i managed a couple of passes then they just started hard selling in branches and i couldn't see the point. I was just a bog standard clerk at the grand old trustee savings bank...now lloydstsb.
Matt

adl

Re: Occupation before turning to cc
« Reply #32 on: April 05, 2005, 08:49:34 pm »
Show Jumping Trainer in switzerland and germay till 97 then Truck driver till 2003

regards Dave ADL

Len Gribble

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Re: Occupation before turning to cc
« Reply #33 on: April 05, 2005, 08:51:17 pm »
Matt

Never demean yourself as bog standard without you they would be missing a cog.

You’re lucky you did not work the Yankee banks they hand out titles like rvp and do they get bighead about that = supervisor or unit head at the end of the day a cog within a wheel

Len
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other. (Sidcup Kent)

paulchambers

  • Posts: 530
Re: Occupation before turning to cc
« Reply #34 on: April 05, 2005, 09:10:27 pm »
I cleaned cookers and repaired domestic appliances and before that i was a postman for 11 years  after being a in the Royal Navy for 9 years

clive

  • Posts: 140
Re: Occupation before turning to cc
« Reply #35 on: April 05, 2005, 09:50:20 pm »
Butcher.

Don Atkinson

Re: Occupation before turning to cc
« Reply #36 on: April 05, 2005, 10:00:58 pm »
In order - Used to boil up and make different assortments of toffee at home and sell at the local market, moved on to Fudge, then had a 'Dinky Donut' catering van, then held Tupperware parties, then was paid to scare people in London's dungeons dressed as an ape, than had to sit down then stand up 30000 times a day as a Shakletons highchair tester, Then worked for Chem-Dry, Then made different varieties of Pork Pies at home and sold at market, then tried and failed to set up a 'wash a dog' business, sold papers on a street corner, started back at Chem Dry, tried making different varieties of Cornish Pasties and selling them at market, Naughty underwear and panty salesman, then sex toy distributor, then Horse Chestnuts from a stand in Leeds, Than back to Chem Dry but got sacked for having a bath at a customers house, then finally self employed.

don          

Ian Gourlay

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Re: Occupation before turning to cc
« Reply #37 on: April 05, 2005, 10:02:39 pm »
I am amazed no cleaners.

Retail Manager 23 years ,Direct Selling 15 years god that makes me old.

Shaun_Ashmore

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Re: Occupation before turning to cc
« Reply #38 on: April 05, 2005, 10:24:42 pm »
Did the usual bits like college and a couple of jobs but fell into carpet cleaning at 17 only last year ::)

Shaun

Len Gribble

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Re: Occupation before turning to cc
« Reply #39 on: April 05, 2005, 10:33:37 pm »
Ian

I was only referring to full time work parents had a catering and cleaning co stated at the age of 11 don’t ask me to make a pot of tea or do the washing up as you would not like my reply!

Len 
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other. (Sidcup Kent)