work/trades...what do you do for a crust?
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Miguel75
Likes Dirt
Firefighting is an amazing job. Every day is different; jobs are varied and interesting and internally there are lots of different areas to move into if you need a change from the operational side.
I’d love to study Astro-physics. Something about space and black holes seems kinda cool.
Cardy George
Piercing rural members since 1981
I agree. It's a very blurry line between the two.
Photography is one of my distractions. Managed some prizes at exhibitions and had a few shots bought with real money but very much just a hobby. Just about got the gear I want. But the list grows. That is though a tough gig. Good luck.
hifiandmtb
Sphincter beanie
For those budding photogs, there is now a market where people pay you to stalk them:
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/...hotographer-hire-trend?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Get to it!
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/...hotographer-hire-trend?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Get to it!
I did that for a while with a bus load of Swedish girls, 18-35s. All they wanted was nude pics of them cuddling together. Nothing artistic. Oh hang. That was a dream. Forget this post.
steve jobs' pancreas
Eats Squid
Can't be unthunk !!!
scblack
Leucocholic
Why would you want to unthunk that??
Ultra Lord
Hurts. Requires Money. And is nerdy.
The great secret of bike shops...... nice bikes don’t pay the bills
Haakon
has an accommodating arse
How did it feel being one of the most hated people in Melbourne...?
link1896
Mr Greenfield
Hate the designers, not the poor sods left to try and bandaid fix fundamentally fucked designs.
You havent made it until your name is on the shithouse walls. On a construction site the best I saw was the lid of the bog with a supervisors name written and underneath the words "Christmas fund, please give generously".
Plankosaurus
Spongeplank Dalepantski
For sure, I've got some experience with it having been a vol for 10 years now. Would be amazing to do it for work but the stars just haven't aligned for me yet to have a go at getting in again. Tried years back and made it through to the final interview stage.
Is that your profession? What service you with?
Nah, patrons usually had a very similar opinion on the system.
Patron "Myki is fucked"
Me "yes"
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slowmick
38-39"
Have a mate who was a professional photographer. Amazing eye, did it for 20 years, worked hard and saved hard through the 5 - 10K wedding album years. Paid for his house and gave him the opportunity to become an civil engineer in his late 30s. Looks after water assets in Tassies now but still takes the most amazing pictures of his "office"for the day.
Cardy George
Piercing rural members since 1981
I was working my way towards being a pro as a means to get out of the retail job I was in, but then a mate of mine was looking for a printer-bindery hand-future production manager so I came back to printing. It's hasn't been written off yet..
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yuley95
soft-arse Yuley is on the lifts again
I always wanted to be a film director (and still do though the dream is fading and I'm doing nothing about it). I've written a novel that's not been published, did breakfast radio and then drive radio on a community station for 7 years, worked as a freelance music journo for a while, made a few short films that were not very good and entered and won a few amateur stand up comedy gigs (don't ask me to say something funny - the fact that I never followed that path should be proof enough I'm not funny).
All of that has been on the side while I work in the very serious field of government advocacy every day...
I suspect that like a lot of people on here, doing practical things with my hands, like working on my bike, building furniture or framing up a new shed is a sort of meditation for me and a 'happy place' where challenges have a logical answer (the bonus is when the 'answer' involves using a hammer with maximum velocity!).
All of that has been on the side while I work in the very serious field of government advocacy every day...
I suspect that like a lot of people on here, doing practical things with my hands, like working on my bike, building furniture or framing up a new shed is a sort of meditation for me and a 'happy place' where challenges have a logical answer (the bonus is when the 'answer' involves using a hammer with maximum velocity!).
Knuckles
Lives under a bridge
Ultra Lord
Hurts. Requires Money. And is nerdy.
Like putting in headset cups. Hammers are awesome, everyone owes it to themselves to get a nice like copperface thor hammer
Chriso_29er
Likes Bikes and Dirt
Studied Mech/Eng manufacturing, but ended up an Auto exec with one of the big Germans.
Don't know what else I'd like to do, but have had silly thoughts of going back to school to become an accountant or work in law. I must be boring! lol.
Long term goal is to open my own business of some description. However as I dont know what that is yet, I'm still living the corporate life.
Don't know what else I'd like to do, but have had silly thoughts of going back to school to become an accountant or work in law. I must be boring! lol.
Long term goal is to open my own business of some description. However as I dont know what that is yet, I'm still living the corporate life.