What do you love about this job ?

[litlor]

Re: What do you love about this job ?

My last posting sounded well depressing could not believe it this morning (Monday) the phone started ringing again been out all day working it seems the heavens read the posts on UKW and have given me a break hope it keeps up thanks Martin, Penguin, Dave and r600 for there advise its reassuring that I have friends out there that I have never met, it lifts your heart

Thank you

John

[Penguin45]

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Hope it keeps going for you John.

Goatboy wrote:
For those that haven’t figured it out, ‘The Boss’ I mention now and then is my father.

That makes you the second Billygoat Gruff me thinks. 😀

Cheers,
Chris.

[iadom]

Re: What do you love about this job ?

Penguin45 wrote:Hope it keeps going for you John.

Goatboy wrote:

For those that haven’t figured it out, ‘The Boss’ I mention now and then is my father.

That makes you the second Billygoat Gruff me thinks. 😀

Cheers,
Chris.

Ah, but who is the Troll. 😉

[Penguin45]

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That’s just too tempting…………. 😆

Chris.

[Del]

Re: What do you love about this job ?

We can all become a little disillusioned at times when we have a bad day. The pluses in the job can sometimes get forgotten. I left school and went straight into an apprenticeship with the Midlands electricity board as an electrician. I stayed with them for fourteen years but always had a hankering to live somewhere a bit cleaner and greener. So moved to Anglesey N. Wales 1983 couldn’t get a sparking job at the time
So retrained with a local firm who had most of the main agencies boxed off . That was back in the days when manufacturers actually did quality training for their agents.
Then met my next boss on a neff training course. Eventually decided to paddle my own canoe sixteen years ago and set out on my own.

The people I have met since I moved up here from noble lords to little old dears struggling by on a pension. The stories I have been told and witnessed of lives, loves, tragedies, farces, hopes, dreams,
Endurance, inspiration, fortitude…….. the list is endless, have at times held me spellbound to the point where I have worked on a lot later than I should have done.

The scenery and localities I drive through from job to job of ever changing seascapes majestic mountains, small rugged villages complete with old boys who now everybody in the village (including the only gay !) like welsh versions of characters straight out of last of the summer wine.

So for me its not so much the job as the freedom, characters, landscapes, adventures, and challenges That I get to experience each new day. All of which I never experienced as an electrician back in the midlands.

As for UKW what can I say other than the fact that most problems are usually only a mouse click away from being solved and the camaraderie and support generated by the members of this community is quite simply phenomenal. 😉

Del

[washtec]

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I served my time as an industrial elecrician but ended up working in a ship yard as a leccy, it was a nightmare to go in the shipyard gates and be stuck in there all day, anyway after being offered a redundancy package, I answered a job advertisement for Hotpoint and started working as a service engineer and immediatly fell in love with the freedom and meeting all of the general public, it was almost like being a celebrity..”Oh my god he’s fixed my washing machine!!”..I had found my true vocation, but became very disillusioned after 8 years, when Creda became part of Hotpoint and I was covering from wirral in Merseyside to Crewe in Cheshire and doing 10 jobs a day…so I left and started my own business and have been happy ever since..I do six jobs a day and with the exception of the easter half term, they always seem to come in (the benefit of living in a built up area and mailshotting all of my old Hotpoints customers and still do, just to let them know that I’m still alive)…I love the people, the feeling of self worth and the money helps, I can honestly say that my working day goes so quickly, because I enjoy it so much…I reckon that I am going to work until I am at least 70 years old, although I already feel that age sometimes 😀

UKW has made me realise that there are other people out there who are treading the same path and when you are a one man band like me, it’s nice to know that other people are having the same experiences as you are, because as good as it is, it can still get a bit lonely, so it’s nice to read the threads here and feel a kinship.

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