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    Wink Jobs?

    Right probley been asked before but how many of you have the perfect job?

    I don't mean a job your just happy with but ? ? is there any of you that deal with stars or royalty?

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    So a dream job to you is one that deals with royalty/famous people? I cant think of a worse one tbh lol.
    Im happy with what i do, its not quite dream but it lets me do what i wnat and pays well enough for a permy position.

    everyone is different. some would class a dream job as one where you do naff all and get paid a int for it... imo that would bore me to death as ive done a lot of jobs that essentially require 30mins of "work" every 24 hours and it drove me mad.
    Others might deem a publicly spirited job as a dream one.

    personally I'd be happy for the rest of my days to test/rebuild Merlin engines even for free lmao.
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    Quote Originally Posted by cambridge
    personally I'd be happy for the rest of my days to test/rebuild Merlin engines even for free lmao.
    and if u ever needed a hand pm me i wouldt mind fidderling with a griffon aswell
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    I`ve got a job where the money is great, the hours are great, free canteen, about £25 per hour overtime, I usually do f*ck all all day and I hate it. The bosses are morons and the work is mostly mind numbing. It proves money isn`t everything, it really does. If I can get about ten large together I`m off to work for myself.

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    my job is pretty cool, got access to a garage workshop, all the tools i need, money is good, hours are good, get car stuff at cost price, bosses are easy going and never give me any hasstle.

    downside is i have a fleet of 40 frech cars to look after, 70% of the cars are driven by complete idiots and have no idea about cars.

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    I have 12 staff under my direct supervision. 3 are older (1 is 40, 1 is 47 and one is 59 - I am 28) and the rest are younger. Our second youngest is a lot more mature than the older ones.

    Three grown men cant get on and its always up to me to make the peace.

    I do like my job at times nd is rewarding (chef) but the stress of working with some pathetic monkies is getting to me.

    Good shifts - I either start at 7am and finish at 2 or start at 2 and finish about 9.

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    mine aint by no means the perfect job, but i work from say 6am till 2pm and 2pm till 10pm, 5 days a week. I fix the machinery when it breaks and have to set it up for new products. Pay i about £10 an hour now so not too bad for a 22 year old in this area. I have some a-levels but they didnt get me the job i am in now. I worked my way up from the bottom.

    Every year i got a promotion and then left for Toyota but after 6 months of that they wanted me back at my old place on the same amount of money i was on at Toyota. I was too obliged to leave the Toyota dump to be honest with ya.

    Toyota is the worst job i have ever had, aches and pain all day everyday, doing the same thing all day everyday. And when i say doing the same thing i mean it, you build a part on one car, the next car is behind 70 seconds. So you have 70 seconds to do each car, normally it takes you 65 seconds, so you get 5 seconds to spare on each one.

    It normally takes about 2 months to get upto speed there as it is that demanding.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Oakey22
    mine aint by no means the perfect job, but i work from say 6am till 2pm and 2pm till 10pm, 5 days a week. I fix the machinery when it breaks and have to set it up for new products. Pay i about £10 an hour now so not too bad for a 22 year old in this area. I have some a-levels but they didnt get me the job i am in now. I worked my way up from the bottom.

    Every year i got a promotion and then left for Toyota but after 6 months of that they wanted me back at my old place on the same amount of money i was on at Toyota. I was too obliged to leave the Toyota dump to be honest with ya.

    Toyota is the worst job i have ever had, aches and pain all day everyday, doing the same thing all day everyday. And when i say doing the same thing i mean it, you build a part on one car, the next car is behind 70 seconds. So you have 70 seconds to do each car, normally it takes you 65 seconds, so you get 5 seconds to spare on each one.

    It normally takes about 2 months to get upto speed there as it is that demanding.

    I thought we were currently running the lines at 51 seconds for an avensis and 61 seconds for a corrolla?
    If its dropped to 70 seconds there is going to be one hell of a shortfall this year!





    Anyway, going back to the original question, dealing with celebs and royalty doesnt sound very perfect to me, sod that!


    No such thing as a dream job to me really, anything gets boring eventually, i reckon even a career in porn would get tedious after enough time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by chip
    I thought we were currently running the lines at 51 seconds for an avensis and 61 seconds for a corrolla?
    If its dropped to 70 seconds there is going to be one hell of a shortfall this year!
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    No mate its 70 seconds in avensis, maybe even more. Wasnt selling enough avensis cars so slowed the tak time down to that. make about 280 a day i think, when i first started it was 330 a day. Then about december time we kept having breaks in production due to doing too many cars. Now the avensis facelift is being made i am sure they have the same tak time.

    Your lucky chip, you got it easy at Toyota. LOL

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