I havent worked for over a year due to a nervous breakdown due to stress and complications with diabetes.

I joined the Royal Australian Air Force at 16 and did an apprenticeship on Aircraft Engines and have a ticket as an Aircraft Maintenance Engineer. After my military service I jioned BOC Gases and worked installing mediccal gas systems completing schooling as a gasfitter at the same time.

I then did a course as a Medical Equipment service Technician and serviced anaesthetic machines, ventialators, humidicribs, medical gas and vacuum systems, flowmeters, electro surgical equipment and all sorts of related medical devices. I took courses in medical engineering and was promoted to Medical Engineering manager.

I designed medical gas systems and tendered for contracts, supervised the installations and tested and commissioned projects. I also worked with the Australian standard for Design and installation of Medical Gas systems for human use.

Due to down sizing I was retrenched and started my own company. The financial side of it was not to my liking and with quite a few bad or non payers I ended up in the stress situation.

On doctors advice I closed the company and have not worked since.

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Sounds like more aussie lingo is there a job description that an ugly American could understand?
After my aspirations to be a Rock Star didn't seem to be paying enough to support a growing family, I found myself backing into the printing industry, starting with delivery, paste-up, camera, film work (known as stripping in the trade.) Eventually I found what seemed to be an interesting & rewarding segment in 4 color stripping, which involved composing the film that produces the full color printing you see everywhere...then computers started doing what I do...so now I'm hanging on by my fingernails in one of the few places that still does things the old way...so now being a musician doesn't seem like such a long shot anymore, with not much to lose I'm playing my bass again on the weekends for spare change & tips...stay tuned, we'll see if this pays off in the long run...

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If the theory does not conform to the facts, then the facts must be discarded.

No good deed ever goes unpunished

Never argue with an idiot. He'll drag you down to his level, & beat you with experience.

Garbo = Garbage collector or trash collecter

fancy not understanding that LOL

Retired just over one year now from a large company. Was a supervisor in Information Technology.

Dull Office Manager,
Jack of All Trades

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Enjoy me!

Behind me is a Woman rolling her eye's!

The only opinion about me that matters is the one I have of myself

Moderator and professional bum.

will go back to being a university student again next year.

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"I am so smart! S-M-R-T!" - Homer Simpson

The sun is gone, but I have a light - Kurt Cobain

~I love Nikki~

University student...........graduating at the end of 2003......hopefully..

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~ Nikki ~

"In love there are no rules".......Bono

Sharni,

a very respectable position.....alot better than a lawyer <ducking the flying briefcases>

Garbo=garbage collector? I thought you vanted to be alone and hide behind a babushka and dark shades <giggles>

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roxy

military...fly helos, defending freedom wherever the boats take me!!!! Not much money, but lots of job satisfaction if you're in the right place at the right time.

BORU

Wife, mother, and delivering newspapers in the wee small hours of the morning.....

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OMG scotz!!!! My ex hubby was an offset stripper! Don't know if he ever got into 4 color though. I was gone before that. He used to tell everyone, if asked what he did for a living, that he was a stripper! But he would say, "I do it the hard way, without music!" He just got a kick out of himself for that. I never saw the humor though but, being in love, I would giggle from time to time. I heard that saying so much I would mimic him behind his back after a while. He never caught me doing it either! Then I would laugh out loud. I think he thought he was getting funnier through the years. LMAO! So, this makes me wonder, now that you have mentioned its downfall since the computer, what he is doing now? That was the only thing he knew as far as I know. Poor old sot!

Never give up your dream!!! Stranger things have happened ya know. Do you need a lead singer? *sorta Janis, with a little Melissa on the side, type voice*

P.S......Your real name isn't Harold, is it? Oh no......it couldn't be! He didn't play the bass.......Never mind! LOL!

*wink*
Mrs. Lix

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VENI, VEDI, VELCRO (I came, I saw, I stuck around)!

I told that already in a different place, but here we go again: I am polytechnic engineer (mainly mechanical design - automotive industry). This month still unemployed but will start from September at a producer for car locking systems.

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If every material thing is gone, my smile and my tears stay left.

I have been working every Friday night for an Auction House off and on for years. I am the clerk, the one who writes all the info down of what sold to who for how much.
This summer I have been mainly a stay-at-home mother of two, until school starts in a couple weeks. Then it is back to the Art Studio where I will be listing things online to sale that have been painted, etc. I will also start back teaching dance classes again.
Sometime soon my husband is starting his own business and I will work for him too.
-Summer

((Also did the preschool teacher thing with Lilith awhile back for a few years.))

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