Whos your daddy and what does he do.

Not quite the above :)

But I'd be interested in knowing what Hexus members do for a living? As the majority of members seem to have a good grasp of the English language and appear to be well educated individuals.

If you are out of work, then what was your last job?

If you are in education, what are you studying?

Also I like to know how old everyone is :)

This is to get more of a feel for what kind of people are posting on this forum, i'm sure others have wondered this aswell, I can't be the only one. :mrgreen:

Im a student, sixth form studying economics/ict/business. If you really want to know what my dad does hes a technical engineer working for X-FAB, or was till they sold the site to the original company which is Plessy electronics or something like that


And youself?

I am the daddy! :)

Working as an IT Technician at present

I could tell you, but....

I'd have to kill you! (that or you'd just fall asleep)

I'm ~30 years old and I'm a high-energy physicist.

My dad's a pimp with a sideline in gun-running and child slavery. Amazing I turned out so well.

I grind one of the innumerable organs of bureaucracy which serve to make up this country's fine institutions of local government (I am not a civil servant, I am not unionised, I have no plans to strike about anything).

ooh its like a census...

im out

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Ooh in that case I'm a Jedi! :)

My Dad was a shop fitter and designer.. and then a lorry driver for Bowyers and then a Caretaker at Amersham and Wycombe College.. and now it happily retired.. as he deserves :)

I'm just me.....

My dad is my dad and he used to be a welder, but not just any old welder as he's done deep-sea welding and got the bends a few times from doing this. He's also done work where he was suspended at great heights welding big metal structures.

I'm me and you can guess what I do for a living :mrgreen:

I do deliveries in a van for a certain business. It's normally to places in the area between Bristol, Birmingham and Northampton, but every now and then I go to Exeter, Manchester, Glasgow, Southampton, or London. I normally do 300-500 miles per day, Monday to Friday, apart from the odd day when there's nothing going on. I've done 30,000 miles since November. I think it costs about £60 to courier a pallet, whereas for a bit more in fuel and wages, I can do 4-5 pallets in a day.

I'm a 25, a Civil Engineer, and a Pilot.

I thought from the title that this was to be a thread mocking SammEl.

I have a boring job :(

Nah - it's too embarrassing.
I only met my father a couple of times, but I think he was a Mech Eng.

I'm hovering between 20 and 21, I'm a student at the moment (Computer Networking) but I've got a job for when I graduate where I'll be responsible for the IT infrastructure for a local Medium-Sized company...it'll be fun!

My Dad...he's a mechanical engineer-type chap, no fancy degrees or anything, but plenty of experience and an uncanny ability to make things work!

me, im 23 and a web developer (i wont say designer because i cant design for excrement) - but i can code all day (and sometimes do :p )

I'm 20. A student at the moment finishing off my degree and starting a PhD in October.

Fun times!

Edit: So long as I get funding :D

I'm a commercial airline pilot.

http://www.animal-ed.co.uk

In answer to both what I do, and what my dad does :D

I'm older than I was when I joined hexus many moons ago - although I'm told I look younger than I am.

I am a professional web developer (E-commerce Agency - you'll have used the sites) UX Designer/UI Developer and Usability expert-in-training.
Next on my list is a Masters and Chartered Engineer status.


My dad is THE man to know if you need to know about contactless smart cards in transport ticketing. Anything he doesn't know about Oyster cards and the like isn't worth knowing.

24

Working as a Service Desk agent with aspirations to move on and up!

I'm an environmental scientist. :shaun:

I would be all mysterious about my age, but there *may* have been a Birthday celebration that happened a couple of lans ago. :D

According to my job title, I'm a 'Network Service Engineer'. combine that with general dog's body and your a bit closer to the mark.

Student @ College and hoping to be off to uni to study Philosophy & politics combined honours - with the aim of following it up with an MA. Job wise, Christ knows, seems working for the civil service after i eventually leave the incubator of education will be pretty hard, teaching maybe ?

Teacher of Mathematics.. oh the joy..

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In answer to both what I do, and what my dad does :D

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So, I know who to turn to if I ever need to borrow a snake to scare someone :D
Why does Omar (the desert scorpion) look so bloated?

I'm an intergalactic time traveller, although i have was diagnosed with amnesia (i think that's what it was) in April 2007 and can't remember how to use my time machine. so i am stuck here!!

In all honesty i am embarrassed of my job and won't speak of it.. i hate it and the company i work for.

I am a daddy! I also one or all of the following.... of Unix Systems Administrator/Developer/Stock market investor. Depending if someone is playing for my time or it is my own.

I play with my nuts all day.

I'm currently the;

Storeman
Delivery driver
Picker
Packer
Customer liason
Goods in
Goods out
Plus whatever else is going on throughout the day, pretty much everything except ordering, accounts and pricing.

For a fastener and fixing supplier, sending stuff all over the UK, europe and the world, including Ghana, Burkina Faso, Barbados, Reichlin and cover from ~Louth, ~Manchester, ~Birmingham and ~North Yorkshire moors regularly. That is by no means the be all and end all as we travel beyond and have delivered to all sorts of places including the London Olympic site and Sellafield etc.

Holding the world together wherever we go :D

At the end of the year i will be at uni studying computer hardware and software engineering.

i volunteer at shopmobility and could run the place on my own if i wanted (which i have done in the past), the office side of it is a bit mundane at times, the workshop side is better because i get to hit things with a hammer.

i like hitting things with hammers :D

uses for a hammer on repairing a mobility scooter:

1. straightening bent bodywork
2. loosening nuts and bolts
3. removing wheels with the aid of a 4 foot length 2x4
4. adjusting things

i also occasionally drive around town on a scooter/power chair/wheelchair because it saves walking and im a lazy so and so.
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can't mention what my dad does, because we cant advertise stuff and i dont want to get into the inevitable discussion about that particular subject which seems popular on here at times. (its not religion)

I'm 35 and work in a pre-school as a leader, I also run the after school club there, hoping to start a foundation degree in playwork in September....

As for my Daddy, He used to drive a wagon delivering beer all over the country, then as a mechanic, before becoming a manager at Dairy Crest, After his plant closed he went back to being a mechanic :) He passed away in 1995 of a heart attack.... RIP Daddy!

i am David and I'm an alcho... wait wrong group.

I am a strategic publisher of technical authored or filmed content to the wide spread masses using electrical means.

I work for HEXUS :mrgreen: :hexlub:

i'm 40, and am part of an IT & telephony support team for 2 call centres. unfortunaltely the rest of the team are based at the other centre, so i do just about everything at the one i work at.

usual sort of stuff, even tho i have a specific job description detailing what i'm meant to do, just about any issues with anything that has a plug gets referred to me

my dad, he died 20 years ago. he was (a) a shift supervisor at a metalising plant (in layman's terms, where the raw materials for tin foil and xmas decorations are made) and (b) an alcoholic, hence being dead

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i am David and I'm an alcho... wait wrong group.

I am a strategic publisher of technical authored or filmed content to the wide spread masses using electrical means.

I work for HEXUS :mrgreen: :hexlub:

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I thought you were HEXUS? :O_o1:

I'm 34 and work as an IT consultant in the telco sector for a big IT company. My dad worked as a delivery boy / runner for one of his relatives as a lad, was in the Army for a short while (signals if I remember correctly) as a young man and was a spark (electrician) for most of the rest of his life. As you can probably tell from the past tense he's brown bread - died a few years ago unfortunately. Gone but not forgotten... RIP

In 3 months Graduate software developer with Bsc (honours) (hopefully with a high level which is looking like that atm) with a respectable amount of experience already under my belt working for the name in software development working on a high profile project among other things.

Old man's a civil engineer in water treatment, specialising in the international law, spend most of the past few years in the Middle East, Jordan, UAE etc.

34 year old father of one, IT Manager for UK's largest brushware manufacturer, likes Mk3 Cavaliers, PC's, KFM.

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I'm older than I was when I joined hexus many moons ago - although I'm told I look younger than I am.

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If I didn't know that you are (a little bit) older than me (having graduated already etc) I'd say you are around the same age as me and Guy tbh :)

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If I didn't know that you are (a little bit) older than me (having graduated already etc) I'd say you are around the same age as me and Guy tbh :)

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Fin, have I told you recently that I love you ??? - next Lan... :D

Dad: Physicist, 48, bumming around at the moment, but used to be a research director for the OECD

Me: Physicist-in-training, 20, uni

Any questions?

This comes up from time to time

This explains all: http://forums.hexus.net/general-disc...-funkstar.html

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I don't know what his title is these days, but my dad works for Baker Hughes (an oil and drilling services company) and is currently overseeing the merger of the seperate devisions into a single monolithic company in Europe and Africa regins.

I am the head of platform support for the UK arm of a global online advertising agency.

My father was a university lecturer up until retirement. Now he just lectures.

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Fin, have I told you recently that I love you ??? - next Lan... :D

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Oh noes I iz gonna be surprise sexhed hexus style :)

I think Guy's age surprised me more tbh as he is pretty mature :)

Apparently I look about 5 years younger than I am, thats when I shave tho which, being lazy isnt very often atm..

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Originally Posted by PetrolHead

Not quite the above :)

But I'd be interested in knowing what Hexus members do for a living? As the majority of members seem to have a good grasp of the English language and appear to be well educated individuals.

If you are out of work, then what was your last job?

If you are in education, what are you studying?

Also I like to know how old everyone is :)

This is to get more of a feel for what kind of people are posting on this forum, i'm sure others have wondered this aswell, I can't be the only one. :mrgreen:

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18, 19 in July working as a full time support engineer (with a bit of programming on the side), and not just first line phone support either which is what I love about the job :D.

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If I didn't know that you are (a little bit) older than me (having graduated already etc) I'd say you are around the same age as me and Guy tbh :)

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Fin, have I told you recently that I love you ??? - next Lan... :D

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i better not be the old one http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/j...s/icon_mad.gif

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i better not be the old one http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/j...s/icon_mad.gif

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Don't worry that's Betty Swallocks and Az ;)

24, and a .NET Application Developer, in the eSourcing world. Only recently started this job (6 weeks in now) and loving it! Working for a great company, nice environment to work and and although i'm technically in a web app developer role, I get to play with plenty of back end processing stuff too and barely have to touch front end stuff :D

Previously I was a company director, enjoyed that too but happy to be in a much less stressy role now (ironically on more money).

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Oh noes I iz gonna be surprise sexhed hexus style :)

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Hide the sausage TBH.

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I think Guy's age surprised me more tbh as he is pretty mature :)

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yeah he's got a very mature outlook... occasionally. :D

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Originally Posted by TooNice

So, I know who to turn to if I ever need to borrow a snake to scare someone :D

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I should probably have been more precise - I did the website (which is both my full time (for Manchester Uni) and part time (for my own company) job), my dad runs the business. I don't think he'd appreciate people borrowing snakes just to scare people though - you'd better come up with a decent cover story! Also, his best snake for scaring people with - a 15 foot, 12 stone burmese python called Shrek - had to be given to a colleague of his after it decided for no apparent reason to clamp its jaws round my step-mum's leg! Apparently it took three big burly men to get it off her... :o

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Why does Omar (the desert scorpion) look so bloated?

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I don't know for sure, but I'd guess he's close to a moult in that picture. I can ask the boss for you, if you want :D

I'm Nick and I get electrocuted.

I talk to too fast to cover up the fact I really have no idea what I'm talking about.

Im 17, Currently studying IT in college. Was hoping to move onto Forensic computing at uni, but if that doesnt work out i guess ill settle for IT technician.

Oh.. and I might work at Mcdonalds part time..

19, Curently in uni of york studying avionics. I dont think i need to explain avionics here

What's avionics?

Bionic audio visual studies?

I'm on the wrong end of my 30s, work mainly in I.T. and have a Ph.D. in History. My father was an engineer by training, did all sorts of interesting things (including making armour.)

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I'm Nick and I get electrocuted.

I talk to too fast to cover up the fact I really have no idea what I'm talking about.

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There are upsides to what you do though...

http://tv.hexus.net/?p=series&series=28

I'm a project manager for a Chocolate manufacturer, mostly involving launching new products but can also be anything from production plant design to process improvement.

As for age... well Zak has a slight lead on me :p

24, work for Currys :P Currently about to embark on their stepping into management training to be guaranteed a management position. Hopefully this will lead to bigger and brighter things...!

Solicitor, 34 years old.

You know those adverts you see on telly saying "Have you been really stupid and hurt yourself and want to blame someone else and get some free money?"

yeah? Right, well, I act AGAINST them, defending companies and local councils. Which makes me the goody.

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Hide the sausage TBH

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Unless you are a Lady Gaga or a very enthusiastic pegger I'm not quite sure what to make of that! :O_o1:

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What's avionics?

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i think you will find the answer here

basicaly same thing as electronic engeneering but we also learn controll theory, alot off fun, 30 hour weeks :(

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Solicitor, 34 years old.

You know those adverts you see on telly saying "Have you been really stupid and hurt yourself and want to blame someone else and get some free money?"

yeah? Right, well, I act AGAINST them, defending companies and local councils. Which makes me the goody.

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I can just imagine the ad now:

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Hi, I'm Shooty.

Have you been accused of causing an accident that wasn't your fault?

*Clip of woman carefully reading a wet floor sign and then sprinting across it in heels*

Stupid cow.

Don't want to pay compensation?

*Clip of man sprinting towards stationary car and then hurling himself at the windscreen*

Idiot. Pity he didn't injure himself more severely.

Anyway, call us now - we guarantee a no loss no fee service, and offer a free countersuing service where you keep 100% of the compensation. That's right. 100%. Really. We don't make any profit at all, it's a humanitarian thing.

Call now, and you'll receive this free Parker pen - just for enquiring!

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Hide the sausage TBH.

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http://i40.tinypic.com/21ot4lh.jpg

Cats are so awesome. :)

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I'm.... not quite sure what to make of that.

First bits: fine.

Countersuing? Nah, mate. Doesn't work like that. The insurers instruct us. Just doing my bit to keep your premiums down.

And, yes, there are a lot of fraudulent claims out there. We have video footage of people in factories sabotaging gear to cause themselves small injuries, a man prising up paving slabs in Coventry town centre so he can trip over them, etc.

If it's deserving, they get compensated.

If it's not, we get medieval. And, occassionally, they get jailed.

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And, yes, there are a lot of fraudulent claims out there. We have video footage of people in factories sabotaging gear to cause themselves small injuries, a man prising up paving slabs in Coventry town centre so he can trip over them, etc.

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Oh yes. I read a good story in our company paper recently- one of our buses had a minor accident a few yards from its garage on a busy road with plenty of witnesses about. The company subsequently received two or three claims from passengers who'd apparently suffered whiplash in the accident.

Thing was, the bus was empty at the time, having finished for the day and run back out of service from wherever its terminus. CCTV from the bus backed that up. The claimants didn't get what they'd hoped for:lol:.

Anyway, I'm a bit concerned about the way that- despite the OP making clear that he wasn't in fact interested in your dads, but only in you, so many people have posted about their fathers but as far as I can see no-one at all has posted about their mothers?

My parents met at Oxford. Dad got a 2nd in Classics (I think) and subsequently worked 30+ years in the Civil Service. He ended up as the Clark of the Privy Council, meeting the Queen every month for the thick end of 10 years. A few years ago they wanted rid of him for no good reason that I could see, and gave him his civil service pension about 10 years early. So now he works a few days a week for a city livery company, plays his cello and sings, and does a lot of skiing. He divorced my mum in 2003 and has subsequently remarried- to a very nice woman who I like a lot.

My mum OTOH left Oxford with a 2nd in Physics, then went to Imperial College to do research on Hypersonics. She suggested a fuselage shape for a re-entry vehicle to NASA which would have (apparently) collected all the heat of re-entry into a cutout behind the nose. They decided to cover the bottom of the Space Shuttle in carbon tiles. Before she could write her PhD Thesis, she gave birth to me, and then did her PGCE. She worked part time as a physics teacher at a sink school for about 8 years before getting a full time job at an excellent private school in 1989. As a result, my brothers and I got a private education, thanks to her staff discount, and all three of us are hugely grateful. She still teaches there 21 years later, although she went 4/5ths time (and took a 20% paycut) about 10 years ago so she could free up time for running lunchtime and afterschool clubs- like Bridge Club and the Astronomical Society- I.E. for geeky kids who otherwise would have to sit around playing Dungeons and Dragons.

Can you tell who I'm more proud of?:p

As for me- flunked out of a Mech Eng degree, sold cameras for a couple of years while I was trying to get back in. When that didn't work I got promoted to Assistant Manager of another camera store, then a year and a half later got demoted again for being a crap manager (always an ace salesman though:)). Then I went into the Civil Service at the most junior grade short of post boy- nearly got disciplined for laziness as the job was so boring that I'd find any way of avoiding doing it. Took voluntary redundancy after 2 1/2 years, on the dole for 6 months, then got a job as a bus driver, as people told me it was a lot better than driving a minicab, which was my other plan.

After 20 months of bus driving, in which time I only got disciplined once (for crashing a bus), I got promoted to be a Controller, which is what I'm doing 2 years later, now aged a bit shy of 31. I tell bus drivers what to do for a living- when to leave, when to slow down, where to stop their bus short and turn around if they're late etc. I have to work shifts, and I have to do a couple of days overtime a month to earn the median wage for London, but I'm only 30 and it'll do for the time being:).

I'm 28, I have a degree in biology, had a play at being a proteomics researcher, ran out of funding, went to find a proper job, tried retail, bookmaking etc and have since spent another 2 years at uni doing a fast track nursing course and I am due to start work as a staff nurse on a (very) busy intensive care unit shortly.

My Dad is an engineer, he has done copper mine tool design, automotive design and project management and currently works as a comissioning engineer for a multinational company mainly to do with aluminium smelting.

My mum was a housewife, did a bit of health care work but has since retired on grounds of ill health.

Im on a gap year (not backpacking but working and travelling to to different places in between) then im off to study environmental science at the university of Leeds - i like trees. :mrgreen:

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Solicitor, 34 years old.
You know those adverts you see on telly saying "Have you been really stupid and hurt yourself and want to blame someone else and get some free money?" yeah?

Right, well, I act AGAINST them, defending companies and local councils. Which makes me the goody.

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I laughed so hard when I read your post that I spat my coffee all over my keyboard, which then seeped into the 80mm top fan, and fell onto my cpu, causing an electrical fire, which spread with such voracity, that the whole of Bournemouth burnt to the ground, killing millions in the process and depriving future generations of a "home by the sea". Goody eh!!?.....You will be hearing from my "Blood sucking, bottom f*****g" representatives shortly.

Obviously the "Companies" you work for provided you with the right ladder, and you won't be breaking your shoulder, sidling up to the Accountants who are squirriling your "ill gotten gains" into tax exempt annuities so you have a stress free and happy retirement!!.

Please, please, tell me you are on mind inhibiting drugs, or at the very least, you know you are Crazy, because anyone who openly admits to being a pariah (ie) paid for assassin, cannot surely believe that defending companies and local councils from their ineptitude, lack of compliance and general disregard for the laws of the land, could excuse them from "poor and inadequate behaviour".

Personally, I spent six years pursuing a claim against another motorist who pulled out without lights on and, to this day, 23 years later, am still in pain due to that accident. After six years, the Insurance company decided to enlist the help of a "Harley Street Doctor" whose testimony (yes, he had doctorates bigger than my balls) stated that there was nothing wrong with me despite three Independent doctor's stating that I would suffer long term effects.

I agreed a settlement based upon his testimony, and insisted that, if I had a problem within ten years he would rectify it without cost.....guess what.....he declined the settlement, and within 7 years I had to personally pay for a hip operation, yeah, Solicitor's are always the good guys!!




Anyway, back on topic.......my Father used to rob Banks and Post Offices using firearms (yes, seriously!) but thankfully, I take after my Mother, and am currently selling orphaned babies on Ebay to fund my 3 completely inappropriate "accident at work" claims a day:)


PS You really should see a Psychiatrist (um, fellow professional like yourself) and work out the fees accordingly, I'm sure he will be able to convince you to sue yourself for millions, provided of course you aren't "faking it"?