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Endless, Nameless · Fireman Joined: 29 Sep 2008 Posts: 319 Location: Plymouth

Set of bucket seats in the front and have 'em up against the back seats- loads of room in the front then.

That looks like a very cool place to work Pete. Proper engineering apprentiships around "home" i.e. Gloucestershire are very thin on the ground- most are just sort of grease monkey jobs that I don't want to spend the rest of my life doing. Few big firms in Brizzle but they usually want degrees.

Anyway, uni is great fun and I'm really glad I went, sod the debt!
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Mr. Bond of the DVLR · Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 6:44 pm Post subject:

I would like to be a chemicle engineer!
I was going to be a neurologicle engineer but discovered I was squeemish!
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Hancockshire · Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 7:33 pm Post subject:

Don't dis the Cortina. At least it's better than an Austin princess. I looked at pictures & the first few were nice but then we moved on to British Leyland, Oh dear what happened there! Just continuous shades of brown & beige then the interior is very brown. I love the Cortina because it was Britain's best selling car & it was the predecessor of the Sierra which was very common when it was released. I don't want the Capri though

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MDLR · Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 11:01 pm Post subject:

made-in-england · Fireman Joined: 13 May 2008 Posts: 435

Anything that pays

MoelygestLR · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 4:50 pm Post subject:

Currently at Liverpool John Moores studying Architecture.

enjoying it so far. making loads of new m8s is the best bit.

I'm suprised there havent been too many train related jobs here. Mind you i suppose you dont want your hobby and your work to both be the same!
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ACLR · Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 3:09 am Post subject:

Im looking forward to the long holiday

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MuzTrem · Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 9:56 am Post subject:

I've just started a degree in history at Southampton University. My main thoughts in terms of career paths have been either something in journalism (railway journalism if at all possible), or something in museums (railway museums, if at all possible). This is based mainly on the fact that I've done work experience placements at Steam Railway magazine and the NRM, and thoroughly enjoyed them both!

grumpfuttock · Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 10:53 pm Post subject:

I always wanted to be a steam engine driver on the Western Region, then as I got closer to leaving school, all the steam loco's disappeared. So I trained as an automechanic but really wanted to be a pirate radio DJ. I applied to two stations for a job, but was turned down due to my young age. After 4 years at a Ford dealer, most of the pirate stations had been closed down. I worked nights as a DJ for a mobile discotheque and days as a mechanic and then later, full time as a DJ with a mobile disco based in Bristol and a couple of discotheques in the SW. At some point I offered international DJ work, and eventually ended up where I now reside. Ironically 2 days before I permanently moved to Denmark (1975) I was offered a job on Radio Caroline, which I had to very reluctantly, turn down

And the point of all this.....I missed both jobs of my dreams...but I still want to be a steam loco driver !
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Crackingjob · Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 8:49 pm Post subject: the job I always wanted

The job I wanted was to be a Log Fettler and Polisher with the Cornish Submerged Log and Crate Company but I had a fear of trees, so I became a Lumberjack..killl the trees!!!!!!!

Eventualy I became a Wooden Coat Hanger maker spending hours finding the right branches to make the hangers....the angle is critical, but some idiot gave out development grants and the wire hanger company moved in and that was it..redundant...until I became a resitance fighter with the Wooden Hanger Organisation.

My dream car I have...its a 1986 Suzuki Alto 3 cylinder and 54bhp
small enough to nick any tight space at Tescos on a Saturday from the Chelsea Tractors

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made-in-england · Fireman Joined: 13 May 2008 Posts: 435

Mr. Bond of the DVLR · Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 9:01 pm Post subject:

hmmm, I didn't really want to own a pet shop, I wanted to be a lumber joack
oooooooooooh I'm a lumbe...

Oppps sorry I've done it again
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laalratty · Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 9:30 pm Post subject:

Mr. Bond of the DVLR · Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 9:34 pm Post subject:

there was one flying circus episode where it went form the parat scetch to the lumber jack scretch actually!

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