What is your job????

[P20]

Paramedic

 

[JeRkY]

think i'm supposed to be a development engineer ,but i have too much fun
"making chips"

love my job ,long may it last

Ahh, Development, gotta love it. So much more freedom than the poor production engineers.

 

[cornholio's RC200]

Consultant Safety Engineer - Looking at very large chemical plants and writing safety reports.

Quality Manager for the company - running the ISO 9001 quality system

Unlike other jobs this isn't very interesting but pays the bills which is why I still do it.

 

[pete_mcc]

International biscuit designer. I was responsible for the failed triple layer biscuit, bottom layer bourbon, top layer custard cream but I was widely praised and won many awards for my addition of deeper perforations on the relaunched Fox's Garibaldi.

I work freelance, occasionally dabbling in cracker and water-biscuit design (much to the disdain of the union) but am really looking for a move into crisp-bread - that's where the moneys at these days. The design opportunities are endless: porosity, interaction with cottage cheese, ability to soak up moisture in the kitchen cupboard.....

The damn economy has put this dream on hold though as people reject luxury and return to 'value'. I am currently having to work on a design for a Waitrose 'Essentials' cream crunch and an Aldi rich tea.

 

[pete_mcc]

.....well, it sounds more interesting than saying I head up the Business Analytics department for a rather large global pharmaceutical company (but on the plus side I can get cheap baby lotion, statins and contact lenses)

 

[JeRkY]

.....well, it sounds more interesting than saying I head up the Business Analytics department for a rather large global pharmaceutical company (but on the plus side I can get cheap baby lotion, statins and contact lenses)

Part of Johnson & Johnson then?

We used to get the cost price lotion deals when I worked at one of their companies

 

[pete_mcc]

.....well, it sounds more interesting than saying I head up the Business Analytics department for a rather large global pharmaceutical company (but on the plus side I can get cheap baby lotion, statins and contact lenses)

Part of Johnson & Johnson then?

We used to get the cost price lotion deals when I worked at one of their companies

Yup, J&J, I work out of Beerse in Belgium and High Wycombe! I've spent the last 13 years of my life working in Pharma -it's a lot more regulated and dull now than the good old days of huge product launches, ski trips, £50,000 expense accounts and 'educational meetings at the golf club. Apparently it's all been deemed 'unethical', with suggestions of bribery.
Used to be in sales but I found my home in intelligence where I've spent the past 10 years, focusing in CRM, ETMS, Warehousing and discrete Competitive Intelligence.

 

[legrandefromage]

I am also an International man of mystery.

BTW - Driving a taxi only pays well if you do 60+ hours aweek. I try to have a life, so I dont.

 

[JeRkY]

Yup, J&J, I work out of Beerse in Belgium and High Wycombe! I've spent the last 13 years of my life working in Pharma -it's a lot more regulated and dull now than the good old days of huge product launches, ski trips, £50,000 expense accounts and 'educational meetings at the golf club. Apparently it's all been deemed 'unethical', with suggestions of bribery.
Used to be in sales but I found my home in intelligence where I've spent the past 10 years, focusing in CRM, ETMS, Warehousing and discrete Competitive Intelligence.

Ahh same global parent company, very different sectors. I was part of the New Product Development team at Depuy in Leeds. Specialising in Knee implants and associated instruments.

I seem to remember being jealous of the sales expense accounts, they were fairly generous, then again it seems to be a general truism across the medical device/pharma industries. I am not sure if it was a Depuy only or a wider J&J perk, but the sell off of company cars to staff at the end of their service at extremely generous prices was always a nice perk.

 

[andrewl]

Me I'm and electrical engineer in the power industry.

Currently I'm working on renewable energy projects which either deal with large scale integration of wind energy into power grids and at the opposie end of the scale small remote community power systems.

Here is a photo taken on Monday afternoon of one of my current projects on Cape Barren Island where I did the designs and project management etc for the addition of 2 20kW wind turbines, 3kW of solar, a battery inverter system and a a new diesel generator.