How many?

[Viney]

Originally Posted by fizzwheel

Started off on a helpdesk. Now I'm the Technical Design Authority for our Intel Server Infras....................

sorry fell asleep reading you title

Training ...erm oh yeah. Er, im a qualified sparks 14th ed!! I have a C&G in technical drawing, erm, Pt1 of a C&G electronics servicing, and i work for Xerox as a Print room manager. However id rather be a mechanic.

[fizzwheel]

Originally Posted by Viney

sorry fell asleep reading you title

I realised that I had a problem with authority in the 5th year at school.

Left school to become an engineer, hated it and my boss, and got into the restaurant trade where I again hated my boss. Got bored after 4 years and did my bike test in May '95 and became a courier in June '95. Have done it since with a few years as a pub manager in between!

Originally Posted by Dicky Ticker

How many of people on here are actually employed in the trade or profession they trained for? I had to give mine up due to industrial dermatitis,a diesel fitter allergic to oil products has its problems. It just seems that todays youngsters spend a lot of time and effort getting degrees in subjects that they have no intention of continuing with or that will be of no benefit in their working life. Other people seem to have gained degrees but unable to find jobs in their chosen profession

I'm a para planner, (i like the sound better than the job lol) which is close to a financial advisor. £18,000 a year 8.30 to 5 or 5.30 if i have 1.5 hour lunch break. Get this bit, this is the best, no training jus picked bits up. Left school with 7 c's n a B.

Did a degree in early 90's in "Business Information Management". Or learning how to water the plants as all the other lecturers referred to it.

Now doing programming & dba stuff so slightly different.

Yep. Left school and did a BTEC in science, then got a job in a lab after a year at Uni which I hated. Been working in labs ever since and got a BSc in biological science (studied part time). Am now a research assistant at Manchester Uni.

Left school at 16 and joined the Air Force as an airframe mechanic, 15 weeks into a 16 week course I got booted off due to an obvious lack of engineering talent, became a driver and been doing it ever since. 30 feckin years this year.

Trained as a chef, gave it up 3 weeks before my final exams to do plastering, now work in the rubber/automotive industry have done for the last 19 years not all bad as ive had steady promotion through out my career, can't grumble as they're sending me out to turkey tomorrow for a week, 5 star hotel all expenses paid, company credit card to abuse

[Rich]

Left school in 2005 with 12 GCSE's , got myself an apprenticeship in plumbing and heating engineering about a week after leaving school and in July this year i will be fully qualified! Not bad for two years work and one mahoosive pay rise wuhoooo!!!

I'm about to start my second job as a Software Engineer and my degree was in Software Engineering.