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SeanyBoy
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I went from being a carpet fitter... to working in accounts!!!
Beat that people!!
Beat that people!!
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bein a lecturer on £25 per hour to working in a charity shop for £5 an hour!!! change in work and money!!!
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I went from trained beautician to working in accounts, I'm still not sure really how or why!!0
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Scheduling production in a rubber factory to accountancy0
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all pretty good :laugh:0
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John Major (remember him?) famously ran away from the circus to become an accountant.0
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I used to run a pub for 12 years.0
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I was a sociologist.0
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Liverpool Hackney taxi driver to partner in own accounts firm!0
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full time mother and carer for 14 years to accounts assitant am sure the pay was better lol0
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Teacher of german in France...to accounts in UK !:001_rolleyes:0
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I was a pharmacy technician, now full AAT member.Regards,
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Yeah, I always enjoyed the intellectual side of things, I just got disillusioned with the rest of the bullsh*t that goes along with being an academic: the hours, the pay, the politics of climbing the greasy pole. I came to a point where I just needed to do something else.Was that a step up?! Sociologist sounds like an interesting job.0 -
beat it ? ha easy
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house husband !:tongue_smilie:0 -
My very first job from leaving school was factory worker - spend all day 6 - 7 days a week wrapping papaer in paper (now that was a satifying job lol)0
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Barmaid, to Croupier to Purchase Ledger Clerk to Assistant Accountant0
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I can beat most of you
S*** shoveler/milker to double glazing canvasser to bar maid to counter assistant in indian takeaway to accounts/wages/buyer in construction company.0 -
Between GCSEs and A-levels I worked in the Drug Metabolism and Pharmaco-Kinetics labs of a major pharmaceutical company. Have you ever taken drugs (we're talking strictly medicinal here) and wondered what your body does to get rid of the drugs after they have their effects? Well, it's important to know, which is why companies have DMPK departments, to find this stuff out. This involves radio-labelling compounds and keeping track of where they end up- there are a few possible exits. Of course being a sixteen-year-old grunt at the time, I had the glamorous task of collecting and analysing the samples. Which is how I spent the summer of 1999 in radioactive dog poo.0
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Bookworm55 wrote: »Between GCSEs and A-levels I worked in the Drug Metabolism and Pharmaco-Kinetics labs of a major pharmaceutical company. Have you ever taken drugs (we're talking strictly medicinal here) and wondered what your body does to get rid of the drugs after they have their effects? Well, it's important to know, which is why companies have DMPK departments, to find this stuff out. This involves radio-labelling compounds and keeping track of where they end up- there are a few possible exits. Of course being a sixteen-year-old grunt at the time, I had the glamorous task of collecting and analysing the samples. Which is how I spent the summer of 1999 in radioactive dog poo.
Ladies and gentalmen i think weve found our winner!0 -
I used to be a self-employed dog handler, working on the olympic village in London, that will host the 2012 olympics. So much can change in a year! :thumbup:0
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Susieandspooky wrote: »I used to be a self-employed dog handler, working on the olympic village in London, that will host the 2012 olympics. So much can change in a year! :thumbup:
so does that mean your gettting a free pass into the games then?0 -
Slightly off topic, that reminds me of getting interviewed for a job as a database consultant at the Sydney Olympics. Possibly the best job I never got.0
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did anyone apply for that job as caretaker of that remote island for like 120k a year?
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No such luck of getting a free pass into the olympics. I would if i'd had stuck it out to the end.0
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Working in Ford motor company on the production Line for 5 years and am now studying accounts.
Yes i do study while working on the line...Thank god for passcards...lol.0 -
Working in Ford motor company on the production Line for 5 years and am now studying accounts.
Yes i do study while working on the line...Thank god for passcards...lol.
No wonder the gearbox oil out of our Mondeo's all over the drive! :mad2::laugh:
I went from burger flipping at McDonald's to working at Toyota (where I didn't have time to study...) to being a house-husband-cum-AAT-student.0 -
Gymnastics Coach, via retail supervisor to accounting.
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Similar to Lessci....almost.....as when i left school i got a job grading onions.....then was promoted to grading corrots and bagging them, i then got a job in a shop, i now work in accounts......and i have an interview next Thursday for Payments Manager! Although i left school with 9 O'levels (most of you are too young to remember what they are) i didn't have the confidence to sell myself :001_unsure:0
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