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Post by peterba on Sept 9, 2023 17:55:17 GMT
That's the main thing, Andy. Who cares about anything else? The prospect of being 'not happy' for 40+ years of work, just isn't worth contemplating.
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Post by daves on Sept 9, 2023 17:57:40 GMT
Jobs I would not do include, but not limited to, teaching.
Surely you were a teacher, Dave? Or am I mis-remembering?  No, I was just a humble lab tech, though I did have some teaching input. I was also the go-to guy when the teachers didn't know something. |
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Post by mick on Sept 9, 2023 18:04:27 GMT
Assume that you had the training and/or expertise to do any job you chose. There must be some that you would never contemplate and others that you would jump at. That's not a well framed question really. A certain aptitude is needed. Training can be given, expertise gained through experience, but the range of potential jobs that could be done if the opportunity offered is different for everyone. You can make a list of what one might regard as "bad" jobs and similarly of "good" jobs but whether bad or good someone has to do them and that person has to be capable. An annual exercise at work (back in the day) was choosing, if you had something to give them, a summer placement student, work experience for the purpose of. I guess we got upwards of 500 to 1000 applications each year. Everyone straight As and A*s, Ss etc. Glowing recommendations. Bright futures up-coming with acceptances at Oxbridge or other top uni. I picked one guy because his previous summer he had worked a line at a fish preparation factory. I reckoned he was made of stern stuff if he (academically in the top 5%) could stand 2 months of 12 hour shifts gutting fish. I remember talking to his, most apologetic, mother on the phone the day before he was due to start. Someone had glassed him in the face at his birthday party, held in his local pub. Instead of a challenging summer with us he was in hospital while they tried to save his sight and what was left of his face. I hope he made out eventually. He deserved a good chance. It's a perfectly well framed question. It's a bit of fantasy and your attempt to bring the 'real world' into it spoils the whole idea.
Mick
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Post by kate on Sept 9, 2023 18:14:08 GMT
I'd like anything that requires solving a puzzle or problem. I have a really low threshold of boredom, so require things to go wrong and need solving or fixing, to excite my brain.
Other than that, I would have loved to have been a pilot.
What wouldn't I like? Anything repetitive!
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Post by zou on Sept 9, 2023 18:50:04 GMT
I'd like anything that requires solving a puzzle or problem. I have a really low threshold of boredom, so require things to go wrong and need solving or fixing, to excite my brain. Other than that, I would have loved to have been a pilot. What wouldn't I like? Anything repetitive! Repetitive like doing pilot's checks, standard take offs and landings, strict procedure etc.?  |
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Post by kate on Sept 9, 2023 18:55:41 GMT
I'd like anything that requires solving a puzzle or problem. I have a really low threshold of boredom, so require things to go wrong and need solving or fixing, to excite my brain. Other than that, I would have loved to have been a pilot. What wouldn't I like? Anything repetitive! Repetitive like doing pilot's checks, standard take offs and landings, strict procedure etc.? Nah! That's second nature routine work before the exciting bit. |
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Post by willien on Sept 9, 2023 19:01:11 GMT
Repetitive like doing pilot's checks, standard take offs and landings, strict procedure etc.? Nah! That's second nature routine work before the exciting bit. "If at first the key is missing look for it in the ignition" - the two Ronnies, The Driving Test |
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Post by JohnY on Sept 9, 2023 19:10:48 GMT
I'm hoping one day that I will be a photographer To late for me to be one of them 😂 I've been wondering how to respond to that. I am not the most empathetic person but realise my own lack of ability to climb mountains and cliffs like I used to. You clearly can use a computer or you would not be on the forum. How about becoming an expert in digitally reconstructing valuable analogue images. I'm thinking along those lines for myself, not as a money making enterprise, but as a worthwhile hobby that makes a few people happy.
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Post by peterba on Sept 9, 2023 19:22:32 GMT
Surely you were a teacher, Dave? Or am I mis-remembering? No, I was just a humble lab tech, though I did have some teaching input. I was also the go-to guy when the teachers didn't know something.
Nowt "humble" about that job, Dave.
I've thought that I might have enjoyed that line of work. However, I doubt I'd have been anyone's go-to guy, for any additional knowledge.  |
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Post by mick on Sept 9, 2023 20:08:29 GMT
I'd like anything that requires solving a puzzle or problem. I have a really low threshold of boredom, so require things to go wrong and need solving or fixing, to excite my brain. Other than that, I would have loved to have been a pilot. What wouldn't I like? Anything repetitive! Coincidence. Coming up to A levels I didn't want to go on to university. I wanted to join the RAF with a view to flying. Overwhelming pressure from parents and teachers caused me to cave in. I (sort of) regret it even now.
Mick
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Post by daves on Sept 9, 2023 20:14:07 GMT
Something non science that could easily have captured my imagination is theatre lighting designer. I did quite a lot of it for school and my am-dram club.
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Post by geoffr on Sept 9, 2023 20:24:40 GMT
I'd like anything that requires solving a puzzle or problem. I have a really low threshold of boredom, so require things to go wrong and need solving or fixing, to excite my brain. Other than that, I would have loved to have been a pilot. What wouldn't I like? Anything repetitive! Once I finished my apprenticeship I was fortunate to find myself working in Terminal 1 as a maintenance engineer. In those analog days you really learned how things worked and no two days were the same. By the time I retired 45 years later almost everything was digital and, as far as I could see, repetitive. By then I had spent 20 years working projects of various sizes, finding and solving problems, deciding on spares provisioning, maintaining documentation and any number of other things, still no repetition. I wouldn’t last long doing the same thing multiple times a day, especially without the defects that kept the job interesting. I’d probably have left rather rapidly had I ended up in a hangar environment. |
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Post by John Farrell on Sept 9, 2023 21:01:21 GMT
This would seem to fit here...  |
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Post by spinno on Sept 9, 2023 21:10:40 GMT
Does he work for Audi and Mercedes as well? |
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Post by willien on Sept 9, 2023 22:01:59 GMT
Does he work for Audi and Mercedes as well? And the entire Kindom of Fife. |
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