What is (or was) your profession or occupation?

[flexomike]

5 hours ago, Expat68 said:

I worked in the printing business for 34 years. Started as a hot metal compositor (placing single metal characters in what was known as a stick) you will see these in museums now, not many of us left now I think????Then moved on to was called a paste up artist, (producing magazines and books) this was placing film on another slightly thicker piece of film (the end product was a positive or negative piece of film) My next step was Desk Top Publishing (mostly magazines) the ladies on this site may have heard of them, Living, She, Options, Women's Realm etc. Planner/Platemaker was my final step (similar to Paste up Artist) producing 32/64 pages in Black, Cyan, Magenta and Yellow of thin aluminium which wraps around the rollers of the Printing Press

Sounds just like my career, except 45 years in the printing business, still have my old line gauge, pica stick in my desk here which I use for smashing bugs, spent my last fifteen years making flexographic printing plates retired in 2013

[flexomike]

3 hours ago, ratcatcher said:

Railroader. My life was on track until I came to Thailand.

So you came here to lay Thais - 555

[Hanuman2547]

3 hours ago, ratcatcher said:

Railroader. My life was on track until I came to Thailand.

Be careful as you can still get railroaded in Thailand!  555

[SAFETY FIRST]

17 hours ago, simon43 said:

Rocket Scientist

I reckon we've got a few AN members here with a previous job title 

 

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[Stocky]

Worked for over forty years as a geologist, exploration and mining, gold, diamonds and base metals. Work has taken me through Africa, South America, Europe, and Asia.

 

I've worked two miles down in a South African gold mine, spent months under canvas in the African bush, hacked my way through rain forests and survived winter in a wooden cabin in central Siberia. 

 

Now largely retired, I still take on a couple of months consultancy work each year for projects that interest me. Mostly desk studies involving data analysis and 3D modelling; so far less travelling required.

 

I consider myself lucky to have been paid to do something I enjoy.

[yankyoakum]

OK high school education, 4 yrs USAF, worked on AC130's WCS..Electrical weeny. 43 yrs Oilfield, NOV 20 and consultant/employee Transocean, retired as Director Mechanical Technical Expert 2014. 

Expertise convențional drilling gear, marine gear and cranes.  Bearing failures...Now wifes gardener Sattahip since 2019. Wrote many documents on inspection and repair, my sheave groove doc was #1 if you googled sheave groove inspection. Been sent to federal court over Global Marine vs Amclyde double drum anchor winch failures... I wrote an email when accessing the first failures and after 5 million dollar engineering FEA study I was proven 100% correct in my observations... Lawyers interviewed me for 20 minutes and let me go...The PhD behind me spent 5 days with them...He was a good dude and is still a friend.. My forte is taking $hit apart without destroying it.. At my apex I was 2500 a day plus expenses...homey don't fly economy either... Big chuckle if you calling me you in deep doo doo...I would love to teach for free what I learned from the school of extremely hard knocks.. In my world nothing was on paper.. Sad because there are few mentors today that have a clue what they are talking about...Or to put it another way, I rattled big iron..

 

[rickudon]

Trained in Geology, Biology and water management.

Worked in oil for a year but didn't like climbing oil rigs, we never found any oil.

Then research in electrochemistry trying to evaluate a pollution monitoring device (which had to many issues with salts, so was pretty useless).

Next was as an environmental scientist in Northern Australia, investigating potential mining pollution for a mining company; the mine never opened.

After this thought my experience would get me a job back in the UK, one and half years unemployed instead.

Feeling useless, became a civil servant working on IT until i was made redundant at age 55.

Worked part time for a couple of years in a menial job, then moved to Thailand.

An illustrious career!

Now i spend my time trying to grow fish in a series of ponds, with, as you can guess, limited success......

[Antiparovian]

Physician for 30 years. No use these days as Facebookers and Aseannow readers claim to have far more medical knowledge than me..........

[JetsetBkk]

3 hours ago, Bangkok Barry said:

Cut back quite a bit after marrying someone who worked in a Bangkok department store two weeks after we met and 31 years ago this month.

Brilliant!  ???? 

[simon43]

1 hour ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

I reckon we've got a few AN members here with a previous job title 

 

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LoL - here is  the microwave antenna of the Envisat scientific satellite that I helped to design and build.  Guess which one of these ice-cream salesmen is me?  (Clue - I'm the handsome one...!).

 

[Bangkok Barry]

11 minutes ago, JetsetBkk said:

3 hours ago, Bangkok Barry said:

Cut back quite a bit after marrying someone who worked in a Bangkok department store two weeks after we met and 31 years ago this month.

Brilliant!  ???? 

We even met on her birthday! ????

 

[JetsetBkk]

 

7 minutes ago, Bangkok Barry said:

19 minutes ago, JetsetBkk said:

3 hours ago, Bangkok Barry said:

Cut back quite a bit after marrying someone who worked in a Bangkok department store two weeks after we met and 31 years ago this month.

Brilliant!  ???? 

We even met on her birthday! ????

 

I'm an old romantic and that story just made my day!  ????

[JWRC]

19 hours ago, Neeranam said:

I won't get a pension for 10 years so I'd like to write a book about my life in Thailand or a travel book.

Don't talk about it, get started, It might be easier to start with e books.

[SAFETY FIRST]

30 minutes ago, simon43 said:

LoL - here is  the microwave antenna of the Envisat scientific satellite that I helped to design and build.  Guess which one of these ice-cream salesmen is me?  (Clue - I'm the handsome one...!).

 

Wow, very impressive. 

Looks like one of Iran's nuclear facilities. ????

 

[Harveyboy]

6 hours ago, Harveyboy said:

varied life .. worked as an international tour guide ..then onto working on movies .. Hollywood..spent a lot of time in LA ..did script writing with some of the biggest names in the industry worked with many top A list actors... producer's director's..did location scouting in Europe..had a lot of fun lived the dream now im a House husband here in a small village in the north of Thailand cash gone but im happy as a pig in Shooot

why the ha ha funny face .. don't you believe this upstanding gentleman when he tells you ..Guide to the Stars...lets just say this !! Mission was not Impossibe !!!

[Jen65]

Master Mariner Class 1 (unlimited - as Master 20 years ) ,  Marine Surveyor , Pilot.  Petrochemical / LPG / LNG inspection and quantification surveyor , Yacht Surveyor ,  Yacht Delivery skipper .  

[Siamic]

I wanted to be Jacques Cousteau. Did a degree in marine zoology, got a job, bought an old yacht for 11000 quid and sailed to the South Pacific. My GF ran off with someone taller, better looking, richer and with a bigger boat in Antigua. Sailed alone to French Polynesia. Spent 20 years sailing all over Polynesia, writing and shooting underwater photos. Was accepted by Getty Images and made a decent living. Got a Distinguished Talent Visa for Australia, sailed to Cairns, tried to settle down. Received an email from someone in Sydney claiming that their dive instructor had told them that I could teach them underwater photography. Turned out she was Thai,  cute, half my age and interested in photography. I proposed to her at the end of the week, having never met. That was 16 years ago. When she got an Oz passport we moved to Thailand. I can't imagine where we could have a better quality of life.

[xeniv23]

Helicopter logging and firefighting pilot with short stints flying offshore oil support, moving seismic drills and construction.  45 years of saving my life, sometimes several times in a day.  If a young friend or relative expresses the desire to become a helicopter pilot quietly drown them to save them from their disillusionment, the failed marriages and financial disaster.  However, despite my best (or worst) efforts I find myself retired with a higher net income and benefits than I ever earned as a working pilot.  ?.  Beats me.  

[heybuz]

17 hours ago, heybuz said:

An artist in burnt clay. Bricklayer for the uninformed.

 

[Danderman123]

Itinerant lead guitarist. 

 

Space systems architect. 

[Danderman123]

On 2/7/2022 at 10:46 AM, simon43 said:

Rocket Scientist (well, parts of it anyway). I designed various ground and space hardware for military, commercial and scientific space projects.  Then when I moved to live in south-east Asia, there were no jobs for rocket scientists, so I built small hotels for a while, then became a science teacher in Laos and Myanmar.

 

Nowadays (well this week at least), you'll find me living on the island of Mauritius, where I still work as a science teacher, but online.  My spare times are filled with various science projects involving satellites and radio transmitters, which often seem to create hostility and suspicion from the police/military etc in whatever country I'm living in at the time ????

That makes two of us. 

 

I designed stuff now flying on ISS. 

 

I am one of the founders of a company flying satellites that act as cell towers in space for standard cell phones. 

[Danderman123]

15 hours ago, possum1931 said:

A professional musician, Bass guitar, 

I am so sorry to hear that. 

[sirineou]

I was a physicist, neurosurgeon, test pilot, and rock star, before I retired to Thailand .

Oh wait that was Buckaroo Banzai ????

[seedy]

17 hours ago, yankyoakum said:

 Big chuckle if you calling me you in deep doo doo...

555 - that brought back memories !

I shared a house in Ft Nelson BC with a guy who fished stuff that fell into drill holes. We were on Scotch bottle #2 early one morning when he got a call that some Yoyo kicked a crescent wrench down the hole in a drilling rig offshore from Newfoundland.

Charter plane preparing for a flight to Ft. St. John, Lear standing by for flight to St. Johns, chopper for flight to the rig.

He got it out too !

[sipi]

On 2/7/2022 at 10:22 PM, JAS21 said:

I know how to operate a modern Power Station … guess not much call for that on this forum though…

As we speak. Not a modern power station anymore, but a steam boiler and plant.

[VocalNeal]

Broddy hell who tuned those loops? ID fan is going up and down like a yoyo.

[sipi]

20 hours ago, Dazinoz said:

I did an apprentice as an electrical fitter /mechanic. At the same time I completed my Cert IV in Electrical engineering. I worked in heavy industry where I did my apprenticeship for a total 6 years. 

 

I worked as the maintenance electrician in a 305 room hotel in a capital city in Oz for about a year.

 

I worked in a power station as an operator on the plant and in the control room running 2 x 500MW generators and then as training officer (2 years) for a total 10 years.

 

I then worked in an oil refinery from outside on the plant to control room then as head operator for a total 23 years.

 

I also did many and varied sideline activities such as TV servicing, locksmithing, massage and split air conditioning installation.

3 power station operators here. Who would have thought.

[sipi]

9 minutes ago, VocalNeal said:

Broddy hell who tuned those loops? ID fan is going up and down like a yoyo.

Not my problem. I don't get paid enough to care.

[VocalNeal]

^ Shoot the DCS guy or the instrument maintenance guy.

Or the operator is bored so runs them in manual and can't resist pressing buttons.

Edited February 9, 2022 by VocalNeal

[sipi]

10 minutes ago, VocalNeal said:

^ Shoot the DCS guy or the instrument maintenance guy.

My monitors usually look like this.

I best not complain.

I run it in auto so I can watch YouTube on the other monitor.

If an alarm guess off I think about actually doing my job.

 

Edited February 9, 2022 by sipi