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I Lv people asking for careers advice on Ukb

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I don't know, asking a group of specialists in maximising free time how to maximise your free time seems a good idea to me?

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Timely posting of a video on the topic.

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Did you read any of the replies Chris? Inc the one you wrote :-[

Why does everyone try to tell a fruit picker they can be an astronaut?

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I did.

I know several fruit pickers, never suggest to any of them a career in aeronautics.

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You only advise them against it in person  ;)

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Oh and I paid £11 for a pint at Bergen airport 3hrs ago! :furious:

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How about a career as a life coach? For Dense? ;)

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Well a fair few people need a rude awakening! Doylo could film it

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Did you read any of the replies Chris? Inc the one you wrote :-[

Why does everyone try to tell a fruit picker they can be an astronaut?

Love it. A Masters in Mechanical Engineering now qualifies you to be a fruit picker.
Are you Jeremy (C)Hunt's chief advisor?

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Oh and I paid £11 for a pint at Bergen airport 3hrs ago! :furious:

Only good things that came out of there were rucksacks.

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Telling me Chris!
No omm the question was asked about jobs that enabled him to bum around now for a few years to give him a bit of cash and loads of time climbing. Not to turn him into an indispensable nuclear physicist. You lot could be politicians not me.

This is how questions go on here;
"Can anyone recommend me a good compression problem on slippers in font around 7a-7b?"
Reply 1) "try rataplat, 7b vertical compression lovely slopers"
Reply 2) "get on Hubble, worlds first 9a now. Sean mccoll can't do it. Should be right up your street"
Reply 3) "no he was asking about problems in font, you should get yourself on the very big and the very small"
Reply 4) "that steak I had at the pizza restaurant in Whitby was the best steak I've ever tasted, apart from that fish pie in Texas"

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Telling me Chris!
No omm the question was asked about jobs that enabled him to bum around now for a few years to give him a bit of cash and loads of time climbing. Not to turn him into an indispensable nuclear physicist. You lot could be politicians not me.

This is how questions go on here;
"Can anyone recommend me a good compression problem on slippers in font around 7a-7b?"
Reply 1) "try rataplat, 7b vertical compression lovely slopers"
Reply 2) "get on Hubble, worlds first 9a now. Sean mccoll can't do it. Should be right up your street"
Reply 3) "no he was asking about problems in font, you should get yourself on the very big and the very small"
Reply 4) "that steak I had at the pizza restaurant in Whitby was the best steak I've ever tasted, apart from that fish pie in Texas"

Bollocks, how can a fish pie EVER be better than a STEAK!




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Because no one eats steak in Whitby or fish in Texas.

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Because no one eats steak in Whitby or fish in Texas.

Texas has 3359 miles of coastline (according to NOAA), the 6th longest of all US states. Opening onto the clear, abundant waters of the Gulf.
Whitby has 35 miles of coastline, opening onto the shallow, muddy waters of the North Sea.

If forced to consume the abomination known as "Sea Food", I'll take the Texan Shrimp over the Whitby floater...

Edit:

Fuck. Dense was right.


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Did you read any of the replies Chris? Inc the one you wrote :-[

Why does everyone try to tell a fruit picker they can be an astronaut?

Jobs suggested that an Meng Mechanical Engineer would be the PREFERRED choice:
Engineering and IT {less so the IT, but could probably get into it as a numerate graduate]
CAD Design Engineers
offshore work maybe
petrochem/coal/nuclear doing maintenance shutdowns/turnarounds
Second Engineer
measurements and control industry
Civil Engineering, mainly the water sector

Things that any old Masters directly qualifies you for:

PhD after the Masters
school lab tech [or science teacher?]

And since he said he'd consider less skilled "hard work" that gives lots of time off:

Working as crew on boats - I knew quite a few people who did that for a few years. Or, move to Chamonix and get a job as a transfer driver
low paid fruit picking/shop/cafe job
Ben, do you play any instruments well enough to teach
liftie or something

Well fuck me, isn't that an eclectic but highly valid list.     :thumbsup:


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No it's a load of bollocks which he'll do precisely none of so utterly a pointless list of people's musings.

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You need to stop holding back on your opinions, just let it rip.

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Water plant construction supervisor in Spain?

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Very topical!

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Junior doctor

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Not enough cash

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Trying to get a visa for Canada might be worth looking into. Summer bush jobs pay ok and you save a lot due to very low living costs.

Treeplanting would be the easiset job to get, payed per tree but if you're willing to flog yourself to death carting bags of seedlings around clear cuts in clouds of mosquitos and black fly, live in a tent for three months and only shower once a week, then you can come away from the season with CAD 5-15k banked.

There are other nicer jobs out there (first aid attendant, field assistant on min ex projects etc) but they might be a bit tricky to find/get.

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Expedition leader?

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