What's your profession?

[TjamesX]

What do you do? (9 to 5)

I'm interested to know what people do for a living and, how long you've been doing it?

I'll get it started;

Engineer - three years, in the software/simualtion side of things. Currently studying at the Securities Institute for a Grad Dip in Applied Finance and Investment outside of work.

Now over to everyone who wants to reply....

Cheers,
TJ

 

[DTM]

Re: what do you do? (9 to 5)

Trading full time since October last year. Worked as an accountant in a Liquidator's office for eight years prior to that.

Enjoyed what I did then and enjoy what I do now, although trading full time gets a bit boring sometimes.

 

[tech/a]

Re: what do you do? (9 to 5)

(1) Most of my day is taken up with delegation and negotiation as I run a company.
The nuts and bolts are taken care of by my long suffering employees---or so they will tell you!

(2) From time to time it will (My day) involve evaluation and implementation of Developement Projects which I and my wife run seperate to the principal company.

Ever heard of the 80/20 rule?

Well let me tell you that 80% of time is spent on (1).
But guess where 80% of the Nett Profit comes from?

 

[GreatPig]

Re: what do you do? (9 to 5)

Electronic engineering and computer programming - mostly the latter these days. I'm engineering manager in an electronic-security company.

Been doing embedded systems design and programming every since I left university back in the early '80s.

And 9-5 is extremely over-optimistic.

GP

 

[Stan 101]

Re: what do you do? (9 to 5)

Been in the construction industry for close to 15 years in many capacities.
Estimator / quantity surveyor, Managed a timber technology business, and until tomorrow in technical services for a timber engineering company. After tomorrow I am a professional travelling bum, at least for the next few years..
Somewhere in there I was a scuba instructor, too.

 

[keebab]

Re: what do you do? (9 to 5)

Run a company providing stunts and fight choreography to film and theatres. Violence with exceptional OH&S standards.

Been doing that for 5 years now. Before that worked in sales and travel industry.

 

[KaneX]

Re: what do you do? (9 to 5)

Hmmm, why do I get the feeling im a little out of my league here....

I teach music and have been for a few years now. For investment am interested in shares rather than buying property (as have been told to do).

Still learning the ropes but not broke...yet.

 

[ghotib]

Re: what do you do? (9 to 5)

Hmmm, why do I get the feeling im a little out of my league here....

I teach music and have been for a few years now. For investment am interested in shares rather than buying property (as have been told to do).

Still learning the ropes but not broke...yet.

Same league here KaneX, only worse; I'm on the edge of almost covering some of my costs as a singer. A much slower career change than I expected, which started rather earlier than I expected, and took some completely unexpected but equally unremunerative detours into choir conducting and choir-related teaching.

So what do you teach and if you don't mind telling us, do you also perform professionally?

Previous careers in IT (programming, tech writing, information architecture), and life insurance back when people still bought endowment policies - I know because I had one.

Oh yeah: 9 to 5? wasn't that the name of some movie once.

Cheers,

Ghoti

 

[It's Snake Pliskin]

Re: what do you do? (9 to 5)

9 to 5 is a memory.

I teach English conversation 1 to 9. I trade part-time and am still learning. The last few weeks have been entertaining and in one case, painful.

Previously I have been a Real Estate agent and butcher.

I don't rely on property and belive the stock market is where you can realise capital appreciation quickly. Property takes too long and is fraught with problems beyond your imagination.

 

[Fleeta]

Re: what do you do? (9 to 5)

Very interesting and diverse lot you are....my 9-5 job is boring, an accountant at a big 4 firm, which really makes it more like an 8-7 job and gives me little time for trading, which means i'm more of an investor than a trader.

 

[KaneX]

Re: what do you do? (9 to 5)

Same league here KaneX, only worse; I'm on the edge of almost covering some of my costs as a singer. A much slower career change than I expected, which started rather earlier than I expected, and took some completely unexpected but equally unremunerative detours into choir conducting and choir-related teaching.

So what do you teach and if you don't mind telling us, do you also perform professionally?

Previous careers in IT (programming, tech writing, information architecture), and life insurance back when people still bought endowment policies - I know because I had one.

Oh yeah: 9 to 5? wasn't that the name of some movie once.

Cheers,

Ghoti

I must say, its good to see im not the only muso here. It sounds like you're happier in your new profession Ghoti.
I teach the piano but opposite to yourself, sometimes think of changing to a career away from music, although not exactly sure in what.
At this stage do not perform professionally but never know what will happen in future.

Cheers

KaneX

 

[mime]

Re: what do you do? (9 to 5)

Student studying RE.

 

[malachii]

Re: what do you do? (9 to 5)

I teach people to fly Airbus aircraft. Definitely not 9-5.

Malachii

 

[ghotib]

Re: what do you do? (9 to 5)

I teach people to fly Airbus aircraft. Definitely not 9-5.

Malachii

Where do you teach? I wanna learn.

Any time.

Ghoti (For I have slipped the surly bonds of earth... oh wait....oooops...)

 

[ghotib]

Re: what do you do? (9 to 5)

I must say, its good to see im not the only muso here. It sounds like you're happier in your new profession Ghoti.
I teach the piano but opposite to yourself, sometimes think of changing to a career away from music, although not exactly sure in what.
At this stage do not perform professionally but never know what will happen in future.

There's at least one other money-earning muso here apart from you (I'm close, I hope, but not a professional yet). I do find this pretty tough, but nowhere near as tough as it is for people who don't have some capital accrued from mumble mumble years of earnings in other fields. And yes, I'm very happy.

Are you interested in business - I mean as a general thing, like how businesses work and how to run them?

Ghoti

 

[Investor]

Re: what do you do? (9 to 5)

.... Currently studying at the Securities Institute for a Grad Dip in Applied Finance and Investment outside of work.

TJ

A good course. During my time, I found the following subjects useful:

1. Financial Statement Analysis;
2. Applied Corporate Finance;
3. Securities Industry Economics;
4. Property Investment and Analysis;
5. Mining Investment Analysis.

If you study Financial Statement Analysis, pay special attention to creative accounting risks (aka accounting risks).

 

[Investor]

Re: what do you do? (9 to 5)

I teach people to fly Airbus aircraft.

Will that include the new Airbus 380 eventually???

That is a huge aircraft, double decker and can sit 800 passengers. Imagine the queue getting on and off.

Qantas has ordered 12 for next year (?).

SIA will be first to take delivery later this year. Emirates has ordered 30 (?).

Total global orders around 150. Airbus needs to sell 250 to break even, on the Euro 12 billion capex.

A lot of mining resources (aluminium, titanium, copper, etc) will be required to build the air crafts.

Boeing will be building a lot of new long range 777's as well.

Other things being equal, these new crafts will add to demand for mining resources.

 

[Smurf1976]

Re: what do you do? (9 to 5)

Other things being equal, these new crafts will add to demand for mining resources.

Does anyone know what the total mass of one of these aircraft (or any other large aircraft for that matter) is. That is, the total mass (weight) of it excluding fuel and with nothing on board. Just wondering.

 

[malachii]

Re: what do you do? (9 to 5)

The basic empty weight of an A330 is approx 120 tonnes. The A330 will be approx twice this. Basic empty weight is defined as the weight of the arcraft excluding passengers and fuel but including galleys, seating, fire extinguishers, life rafts etc.

Unfortunately it will probably include the A380 which means I'll have to spend more time in Sydney. Oh well!!

SIA has just been advised that their A380's will be delayed by a number of months. Can't say it was unexpected but Boeing seems to be trying to make a big deal of it.

 

[Investor]

Re: what do you do? (9 to 5)

Found this in a newspaper about the new 380:

"The first flight took off with a weight of 421 tonnes but Airbus is expected to move within weeks to test the plane at its maximum take-off weight of more than 560 tonnes.

The flight took the aircraft around southwest France as the crew explored the aircraft's flight envelope by testing it in different flaps and slats configurations and with the landing gear up and down.

This included normal flight control mode - the way the aircraft is flown in commercial service - in all configurations.

On-board equipment recorded measurements for 150,000 separate parameters and beamed real-time data to the ground."


From the ground, it could be like watching a building take off.