The Framers Forum

I was sure I'd asked this once but if I did, can't find it. I know I asked it on The Grumble and it was a fun thread.

Anyway - what jobs have you had in the past?

Mine are pretty boring I'm afraid - well, regards amount of - here they are.

Paper boy
Soldier
Barman (moonlighting soldier)
Warehouse Operative
Framer

And here's Pat's

Part time:
1. cafe counter worker
2. pet shop / garden supplies
3. estate agent
4. paper/sweet shop
5. coffee bar in bingo hall
6. paper round for Salvation army

Full time:
1. merchant banking
2. computer officer for sign company
3. haulage company - transport manager
4. international removal company - transport manager
5. horticultural - trade grower, mainly fuchsias
6. warden of animal sanctuary
7. veterinary nurse
8. jewellery maker
9. road manager for jeweller maker
10. Current

(3,4 & 5 were her own businesses - 3&4 with first husband)

Lathe setter operator
Building labourer
Barman
Thread grinder
PC support, going up to Novell network engineer
Subpostmaster/shopkeeper
Framer

Spit wrote: Thread grinder

Which forum?

I used to make thread plug & ring gauges to 0.0001mm tolerances or better, Jordan racing team was one of the higher profile customers - so if their wheels fall off you know whose fault it was.

Delivery boy for a chemist in Walsall (had an open-all-hours bike)
Petrol pump attendant (no self service in those days)
Army (REME)
Engineer for weighing machine company (chocolate, crisps, tea etc.)
Cheese delivery driver (no change there then)
Chauffeur (Aston Martin Vantage)
Gardener
Trainee manager - Maplin Electronics - Birmingham
Manager - Maplin - Manchester (terrible)
Engineer - British Antarctic Survey (3 times)
Tower assistant - Cape Wrath bombing range
Framer, Photographer in fact anything that walks through the door. That doesn't sound right.

Officer in army (conscripted and then part time - jumped off that wagon after becoming Major (ballsup))
Art teacher primary, secondary then Art Center
Alternatively employed - framer/artist

The Crofter wrote: Chauffeur (Aston Martin Vantage)

Pat,
All I can say about that is 'envy, envy, envy'!!

Me:
High school teacher - Woodwork, metalwork, technical drawing (Those all have politically correct titles now, that no-one would recognise what the they relate to.)
Aquarium and pet shop proprietor and volume manufacturer of wood aquarium stands,
Kitchen cupboard manufacturer,
Custom period style furniture manufacturer,
Framer

Pretty boring compared to you Pat!

Unpaid pub chucker outer (at the ripe old age of 3!!! )
Unpaid potman
Unpaid pub caterer
(working for family sucks! )

Sweet shop assistant
Pub catering assistant (paid this time, and 'Down at The Olde Bull and Bush, no less! )
Part-time supermarket shelf-filler and checkout assistant
Test Engineer (Industrial placements while at college)
Trainee Support Analyst
Tech Support Analyst
Tech Support Engineer
Pre/Post-sales Tech Support Analyst (PC stuff, primarily accounting and payroll systems)
PC Trainer
Freelance WP/DTP Consultant
PC Network Support Manager/Buyer/Trainer/Support dogsbody (all for one firm that I hated working at, but dem were the recession years.... )
Comms Analyst
Voice Systems Consultant
Comms Manager (Contract)
Value Added Services (VAS) Design Engineer
Voice Systems Project Manager
CRM Project Manager (Call Centre stuff)
3G VAS Service Design Engineer
3G VAS Bid Architect
3G VAS Project Manager
Framer and Celtic Artist

Some of the better-known names I've done work for (either as a permanent or as filthy contractor scum! ):

- GEC Marconi, Wang (Ireland), Compaq, BT Syntegra, BT Syncordia, Orange, DEC, Hewlett Packard, BT Cellnet, and Lucent Technologies.

Is anybody out there still awake?

good grief madam! if you introduced yourself on Weakest Link you would take up the whole show and steal Robinson's limelight

Driving the Aston Martin was an experience. I had only passed my test a year earlier and I was petrified driving this beast around. It was worth more than my parents house and cost the owner a fortune to insure me.

Seems we have a colection of ex-forces people on here, funny how we ended up picture framing. I guess that if I ever got called up (ha ha) then I would have to go into battle armed with my trusty Morso. Useful for sharpening stakes and would look great moundted on a gun carriage.

I have a very short list

1 Farmer
2 Framer

Just a typing error away from each other

Trainee chemist in Cosmetics company- 3years

Two years National Service (+ 6 months for being in at the end1)

The Man from the Prudential - 3 years

Self employed Grocer - 3 years

Painter of commissioned Pet Portraits - 8 years

Picture framer - too long

The Jolly Good Framer #1 wrote:I have a very short list

1 Farmer
2 Framer

Just a typing error away from each other

Bet you were a Jolly Good Farmer!