A job not in an office - any ideas urban?

[kyser_soze]

Cab driver. Not entirely out in the open, but I reckon you'd make a wikkid black cabbie...

 

[Belushi]

How about the Police Force? great career if your suited to it, trying to persuade one of my younger brothers to join up at the moment.

 

[Brainaddict]

God, not only is he fussier than a 5 year old vegetarian, he's also getting prissy at people's ideas.

I'm not getting prissy, I just don't like french people

 

[Orang Utan]

Why would you do that? Why would you ever, ever ever inflict that on a ceiling?

*childhood scarred by artexed ceilings*

I have arms scarred from artexed walls

 

[Brainaddict]

My old man was, must be where I get it from

I trained to be a joiner when I left school, sometimes wish I'd kept it up - probably earn more than I do now and you can travel the world with a good trade.

I quite like the idea of having a Useful Skill. I have been so thoroughly free of them up till now

 

[_angel_]

fireman
ambulance driver
paramedic
nurse
dry stone waller

 

[Belushi]

fireman

Really, really difficult to get into.

 

[Brainaddict]

Dry stone waller sounds good. Not much demand in London though.

 

[bluestreak]

I quite like the idea of having a Useful Skill. I have been so thoroughly free of them up till now

I know that feeling. Mind you, my writer's block has become slightly unblocked so I don't feel as pointless today as I normally do.

Do you want to set up some sort of corporate training thing whereby we're paid extortionate amounts of money to give motivation training to people and make them do ridiculous things in the name of teambuilding and undamming their consciousness streams?

 

[Belushi]

I quite like the idea of having a Useful Skill. I have been so thoroughly free of them up till now

Yeah, I have skills but nothing practical like that. My old man can do anything with his hands - wish I'd paid more attention when he tried to teach me things when I was a kid.

 

[kyser_soze]

I'm not getting prissy, I just don't like french people

So I suppose a term of service in the Foreign Legion is out of the question?

 

[sleaterkinney]

What do you like doing BA?

Farmer?

 

[sojourner]

I have arms scarred from artexed walls

You wouldn't have been damaged by mine. It was so shit you only had to cough in the general direction and it fell off the wall in chunks

 

[kyser_soze]

MI6 agent. Altho you'd not be able to tell any of us if you applied.

 

[Brainaddict]

I know that feeling. Mind you, my writer's block has become slightly unblocked so I don't feel as pointless today as I normally do.

Do you want to set up some sort of corporate training thing whereby we're paid extortionate amounts of money to give motivation training to people and make them do ridiculous things in the name of teambuilding and undamming their consciousness streams?

Believe me I've thought about it. I've seen how much my dept pays for training

I have morals though. Very inconvenient.

 

[Kanda]

Games Tester, Sega are always looking out for them

 

[sojourner]

MI6 agent. Altho you'd not be able to tell any of us if you applied.

He could PM us, surely?

 

[Brainaddict]

Why the hell has no-one said chef?

Cos they've tasted my cooking perhaps?

 

[Brainaddict]

MI6 agent. Altho you'd not be able to tell any of us if you applied.

I applied but they said they don't employ commies

 

[perplexis]

Cos they've tasted my cooking perhaps?

Ok, well I haven't....It seemed viable for a while!
Own a restaurant then, much easier

 

[kyser_soze]

Believe me I've thought about it. I've seen how much my dept pays for training

I have morals though. Very inconvenient.

Damn the morals, I'd be up for that.

 

[Crispy]

Retail. Pub. Cafe. McDonalds

 

[bouncer_the_dog]

I always wanted to run my own dump...

 

[Brainaddict]

Damn the morals, I'd be up for that.

The economics seems sound. £1000 per person for two days of NLP training or 'boosting your confidence' or some such nonsense. Ten people on the course, pay your trainer £1000, keep the £9000 for yourself. Really, I've thought about it, but really, I've got morals

 

[dodgepot]

get a job in a warehouse, doing warehouse type of things.

 

[sojourner]

Harder than it looks, is warehousing


*scratches chin*

 

[Maurice Picarda]

You either need a very well defined niche, superb sales skills or a top-notch database of potential purchasers to make any money as a new-entrant intermediary in training.

Anyway, you'd need to work from an office.

Welder?

 

[Brainaddict]

get a job in a warehouse, doing warehouse type of things.

I did once drive a fork-lift tractor for a job. It was rubbish though and my knee never quite recovered from the bastard of a clutch.

 

[Hollis]

Thanks for the idea Hollis. But I tried and couldn't get funding

Christ! Talk about falling at the first hurdle.. Bring on the spirit of Lord Halifax.

 

[Brainaddict]

Welder?

Hmm, an interesting idea. I'll look into that.