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Name: Nathan

Age: 28 (which is older that i belive that i am).

Occupation: Herd and Shed Manager (dairy).

Workplace: A Dairy that none of you guys have heard of.

What I like most about the job: Going home.

What I hate most about the job: Cow Shey-it.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!NEVER NEVER BECOME A DAIRYFARMER IT IS CRAP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Name: Tom

Age: 20

Work: 2nd year apprentice plumber

Workplace: The city of perth, it's houses, military bases, water corp waste treatment plants and drinking water plants.

Best part: $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Worst part: customers who use there toilets when they have been blocked for a month and expect me to be polite about unblocking it for them... No, just no... you filthy animals... oh and women who whinge when I leave the seat up after fixing there toilet... just be grateful I fixed it...

Qualifications: Cert III in I.T. general, Cert I in industrial skills, Cert 1 in vehicle servicing.

Why am I a plumber with these certs? I have no idea...

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Name: michael

Age: 18

Work: 2nd year fitter/machinist at sandvik

Workplace: Roxby downs s.a work in the mines here.

best part: big money when i finish, and the work is good.

worst part: none really except want the big money qiucker.

and thats me...............

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Name: Michael

Age: 21

Work: 4th year aircraft maintenance engineer

Workplace:rudy's aero engines

Best part:get to work on a lot of amazing machines such as world war 2 fighter aircraft, also get to know some great ppl

Worst part: alot of long hours at times and it is a very hard industry to be in (cant stuff up lol)

Qualifications: atm cert 7 tig welding, at the end of this year i will have my trade cert (aircraft), and i am doing an aircraft welding cert (tig), then in another year from now i will become a licensed aircraft maintenace engineer after a fair bit of study and experience... cheers

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Name : Michael

Age - 21

Occupation - 3rd year Apprentice mechanic

Workplace : Rusden motors Canberra

Good part : free servicing on my own cars and use of my own hoist at work

Worst part : Crappy old shitbox Datsun 180B's and mazda 626's that should have been in the crusher about 10 years ago that come in wanting everything repaired you fix one thing and about 20 other things are broken ... then when it comes to pay for the repairs they turn around and say they have no money after you have just done $2500 worth of work on there shitboxes when ya tell them to buy something better in the first place....

Also winging taxi drivers *edited

Also Bad point : - shitty pay rate and no overtime pay ...

NAME: Adam

AGE: 21

WORK: in a few weeks... a Qualified Electrical Fitter/Mechanic...

lots of experience tig welding, machining (milling/lathe), fitting and turning. also tinker with computers, electronics + anything else electrical

Best Part: lots of OT and the $$$$$$ you get from ppl for cashys!

Worst Part: working for a company that is so tight that we LITERALLY stopped using good high quality electrical enclodures so we could save EXACTLY $1 on each enclosure... NO SHIT! (some ppl mite think this is an exaggeration - IT ISNT)

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Hi Guys,

Name: Dalibor

Occupation: Work for one of the Councils in Melbourne - Monitoring performance. I think from what i have read so far, i am the only person that doesnt do a trade and doesnt know all that much about cars!! :( but willing to learn.

I have been working in a political field for about 4 years +

i am 22 years old.

If you need help with anything to do with writing letters, support letters for jobs/court... whatever email me on [email protected]

Also if you are in and around the Dandenong area and would like to get together sometime talk about cars (skylines) let me know. !! :)

Cheers,

ps: hope everyone had a good Christmas break !! :)

hey guys,

thought I'd back you up Dalibor lol, I'm an ICT Team Leader for Desktops and Mobility infrastructure with the department of emergency services. My best mate is a mechanic and everything i have to do my current and previous cars has been to his help.

I believe anything can be DIY with enough research and time spent cafeully getting things right, my cars are a testiment to that.

Name: Matthew Hodder

Age: 22

Fabrication status : DIY ftw

How long have you been in the trade? The home trade that is...lol

Qualifications: Bachelor in Interactive Entertainment, specialising the Games and majoring in Animation

Where Do You WOrk: Department of Emergency Services

NAME-ALAN

AGE-41

QUALIF- WELDER , 3E , 4 ,TIG , MIG, ARC, OXY

FABRICATION , SHEETMETAL.

WORKED - WORMALD FIRE SYSTEMS , ROSS ENGINEERING RACE CAR COMPONENTS, AERO MANUF, BOEING, TIEMANS TANKERS. :down:

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Ben

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apprentice boiler maker

just work for a small fabrication shop (5 full time ppl working there). mainly structual but build all kinds of random shit, walkways, strairs, houses, little covers and crap like that. did some work on eastlink, and more recently on the train lines at clifton hill where they're duplicating the lines. shit like that

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