Skills database - What are yours?

[msaban]

Worked in the tele/data communications field for 15 years, from bench tester to field engineer.
Current role is as network designer and troubleshooter for a major international bank, seem to be the expert on aquisitions and integrations at the moment, as tend to pick all these up.
Trade qualifications include several Cisco certificatons upto CCNP, ITIL Managers and project management.

[kevsul]

General Builder. for near on 25yrs. Packed up for this job here at the University.


Can read drawings for building Regs.

Main skill, Slab laying and Turfing. sounds easy, but the slab laying when doing a patio would need to have a fall away from the house of no more than 2inches so it remains of a level field so to speak, or have the fall going into a drain.


Also good at buliding Extension's . Drives (not Tarmac) Fenceing, Plumbing


most of this is now all on the net, I would give advice to anyone that needed it, and where to buy at the right price,still have discount cards for some builders merchants.

Also tell you what you need and how to do it .

[MaKDaddYSportsBET]

I am a 19year old student... shit WTF else would I be good at but chasin girls, getting on the piss, playin poker and picking the winners....

[daftpegasus]

Originally Posted by aliando

dp - just to clarify, I'm paying into the pension fund now, and have done since i qualified 5 years ago. Once my debts are paid off, I plan to increase my pension contributions within the nhs pensions fund to the max and if i can afford it, I'll look into private pensions on top. At the moment, the nhs are re-evaluating their pension scheme and its all a bit up in the air, so by the time my debts are sorted, i should have a better idea on how much damage they have done to the 'improvements'

what i need to look into is how much I'd have to pay to secure a similar equivalent wage to what i'm on now, how early i can achieve this return and how much i can be on before taxation makes it not worth any further increases. I know that there are many years for the arse to fall out of things, but knowing when i can retire will be a massive boost for me

Glad to hear - sorry if I sounded like a dad going on about pensions. It just worries me when people can't be bothered with a pension - but that's a whole new thread I guess.

I plan to retire aged 55 (only 20 years to go), not because I'll have loads of money by then but purely because I want to be young enough to enjoy retirement. Therefore all my pensions (3) mature then in the hope that I'll have enough. If not, I'll have to work part time. The big thing however is the mortgage, hence why 6 months ago we put in place a plan to pay it off inside 10 years. So far it's going better than expected. If we can do that then we have another 10 years mortgage free in which to save extra for the retirement fund.

I think you're doing right to focus on paying off your personal debts first - they're usually the most expensive form of debt.

Anyway I'm going way off the purpose of this thread. time for another

[bartonbank]

Professional bullshitter

[jeffers]

Website programming - PHP, MySQL, HTML, bits of JavaScript. Been doing this stuff for a few years now and know my way round it very well.

[Matthew]

Bsc Hons in Applied Statistics - hence my systems taking on a very data-orientated facade.

Due to start a new job at GalaCoral, although not in the bookmaking side........I'll be getting down to Barking asap to see how they do things down there!!!!

[Big Gaz]

distribution shift manager... transport compliance and all legal aspects

[aliando]

Originally Posted by daftpegasus

Glad to hear - sorry if I sounded like a dad going on about pensions. It just worries me when people can't be bothered with a pension - but that's a whole new thread I guess.

I plan to retire aged 55 (only 20 years to go), not because I'll have loads of money by then but purely because I want to be young enough to enjoy retirement. Therefore all my pensions (3) mature then in the hope that I'll have enough. If not, I'll have to work part time. The big thing however is the mortgage, hence why 6 months ago we put in place a plan to pay it off inside 10 years. So far it's going better than expected. If we can do that then we have another 10 years mortgage free in which to save extra for the retirement fund.

I think you're doing right to focus on paying off your personal debts first - they're usually the most expensive form of debt.

Anyway I'm going way off the purpose of this thread. time for another

no probs mate - i try to never throw advice back where it came from

my thoughts towards retirement are the same

[MetallicIan]

Been in telecoms for 23 years, maintaining and fixing faults on digital exchanges and transmission equipment.

[bowles10]

Member of the Chartered Institute of Building but ply my trade as a Project Manager with a Property Company. Mainly deal with Construction schemes or complex relocation project involving people (setting up offices, cabling, lighting etc etc)

A whiz at stats which goes back to inventing my own roll - a - dice game whilst on holiday (about 1978!)for Football, golf & cricket. used to compile league tables - sad innit. A sort of Championship Manager without a PC!

Just getting into websites now & hope to design my new website at some point in the future.

Was offered a job at 19 on a daily paper working on the sports pages but didnt fancy being the tea boy - regret it now as it would have led to a journalist career in racing / football.

[Cassius Marcellus]

I inventid thee speelchequer progeram, but got sakt.

Then I dah a tib of troubel wiht dyslexcxx...dslslyx...daxyls... I coudln't ese teh letters in the rite roder.

In 1497 I beacme a fghit promtoer, and put on the Mhuammd Ali v Goereg Formby fight in Zaire.

[Jaded]

I can tutor people in Maths, not that I'm expecting huge demands...

[Appy Ammer]

... I Worked with Paul Ross in a property company.....So like him, I know nothing about Property

[Matt]

Just sat exams to gain entry to the chartered institute of management accountants....

Work with VAT and Tax measures for a well known high street brand so if any of you have lost your calculator send me a PM

[morlspin]

10 years experience in my short existence of NHS medical exemption, benefits and owt to do with healthcare, dental, optical, travel to hospital, prescriptions, maternity, medical, european health insurance cards and now social work bursaries........

anyone needs any help, just pm me and ill sort ya right out!

[Valiant23]

I am a professional driver working currently as a courier and am able to drive very long distances (I do take breaks). Doesn't seem like much of a skill until you need to drive 600 miles in one day.

I like to think I'm quite literate and can use fancy words when I want to which can be quite useful when writing offical-ish letters.

God I'm crap really but I'm content in my crappiness.

[nastro 1888]

maintenance engineer in mechanical/pneumatical engineering in whisky bottling. In the largest scotch whisky bottling plant in the world.


Turner/Miller to trade but switched to electronics for 10 years ( IBM, Motorola ) before returning to Engineering.

[Penelopeys]

I am an English teacher ... you lot just ask anytime you need to know anything

... anyway... I am a bit of a grammar nerd

I am also a Math teacher

Other than that I am a great cook ... and modest too

[Carl]

I worked as an eviction technician for 3 years and became a domestic technician with specailist skils in Hairdressing taxi driving Diy and erotic masturbation plus being a website technician and expert tipster with gonads the size of basket balls.