Isn't it strange how so many Zed owners (all performance cars in fact) are either IT or forces. Guess its fortunate I'm both! Got another microsoft exam tuesday so as you can see I'm studying hard and not spending all weekend on the forum.

Dave :dance: :dance:

Is there plenty of work possibilities for you in Canada?

 

As an engineer yes. There are loads of related jobs in my field. Canada has a shortage of skilled people. You just have to find an employer that can be ass'd to sort out your visa. The economy is booming over here and the population is fairly low!! 30 million and I think its the biggest country in the world now. I have 4 employers that want to take me on but i'm gunning for the sales job at the moment.

 

Andy

You can go out and spend it on beer and dodgey women or you can stay in and spend it on a car. Thus I have a very fast shiny car , an intact kidney , and no life!

 

Liver. Not kidney. :rolleyes:

 

 

Thats IT people for ya. ;)

 

Sorry bored with nothing better to do.

I wasin Canada 2 years ago working in a diamond mine 500 miles north of Edmonton bloody hell is was cold.

I drive foundation machinery mostly crane mounted my job takes me all over the world.

Ive been at home a while now driving a crawler crane for a local company but i finished on Friday and go to Madrid tomorrow for 3 months(the misus is not a happy bunny) but i hope to be home every 3 weeks. :hyper:

Liver. Not kidney. :rolleyes:

 

 

Thats IT people for ya. ;)

 

Sorry bored with nothing better to do.

 

My Liver's ok to!

I wasin Canada 2 years ago working in a diamond mine 500 miles north of Edmonton bloody hell is was cold.

I drive foundation machinery mostly crane mounted my job takes me all over the world.

Ive been at home a while now driving a crawler crane for a local company but i finished on Friday and go to Madrid tomorrow for 3 months(the misus is not a happy bunny) but i hope to be home every 3 weeks. :hyper:

 

Maybe not so good for the missus but sounds like a very interesting lifestyle. Maybe she can come out for the weekend? £60 BA.

Dave

It's quite handy so many Zedders being in IT.

 

If I have a PC problem there's always someone here who can advise - another reason to love the forum.

 

You notice when members sell their Zs they still come back and post here - I bet the Supra or Scooby forums don't have that draw.

 

Richard :D

 

PS I'm not in forces or IT......... ;)

I'm an instrumentation engineer by trade, managed to get off the tools and out of the cold to a cushy office job as an analyst, i'm also a failed porn baron.

I used to be a video game developer, but now I'm just a lowly database engineer.

I used to be a video game developer, but now I'm just a lowly database engineer.

Now there's a good job!! Was it anything like it sounds?

All these hi tech jobs and I just work for Network Rail, wander up the track for a few hours have lunch then grease some points :)

Is it you who's dropping your sandwiches on the tracks and derailing the trains?!!

I'm a Maintenance Engineer on the Apache WAH-64D Field Deployable Flight Simulator. :hyper:

 

Great job really as it's just like working on a £40 million video game :D

 

Have also worked on the Harrier GR7, Tornado F3 and various civil airline flight simulators.

I'm a Maintenance Engineer on the Apache WAH-64D Field Deployable Flight Simulator. :hyper:

 

Great job really as it's just like working on a £40 million video game :D

 

Have also worked on the Harrier GR7, Tornado F3 and various civil airline flight simulators.

Field deployable? Why would they want a simulator that can deploy? I went on the simulators at RNAS Culdrose a while back. Great fun. Must be an interesting job. We had an Apache down here in Plymouth taking part in an exercise or something. Impressive bit of kit.

Dave

Don't need my sarnies to derail trains, loads of other stuff to do that

I work as technical compliance for a major games company. Its kind of like being a fancy games tester only with a bit more paperwork. The best thing is we f**k about in the office so much that people have ended up in the A&E (an incident involving what we call 'the fan of death').

Have to ask: please elaborate!

i work offshore as an apprentice instrument tech. plenty of time off to fix the Z and play with my other toys at least.

Have to ask: please elaborate!

 

Basically we have an electric fan in the office, we have removed the guard so that we can throw different things into the fan to see what happens, it also allows us to attach various things to the blades. During the incident the fan had been tipped backwards so the blades span horizontally and things were being thrown into it to see if we could bounce them off the spinning blades and into the hands of the person on the other side. Unfortunately the office manager threw something that was too heavy and ended up knocking the fan off the desk onto the head of someone who was doing 'ammunition recovery' just below it. The gash it made in his scalp refused to stop bleeding so he had to be driven to the A&E

Field deployable? Why would they want a simulator that can deploy? I went on the simulators at RNAS Culdrose a while back. Great fun. Must be an interesting job. We had an Apache down here in Plymouth taking part in an exercise or something. Impressive bit of kit.

Dave

As part of the contract with Boeing the Army stipulated that along with the aircraft there would be 4 simulators : 1 FMS (Full Mission Simulator ie Fixed Base, Motion Platform etc. this is at Middle Wallop) and 3 FDS's (Field Deployable Simulators) . Of these 3, 2 have been de-containerised and reside in a purpose built facility at Wattisham and ours here at Dishforth remains in 4 ISO containers ready to deploy wherever the Army requires. :confused:

 

And yes you're right - the Apache is an awesome weapons platform and a very capable attack helicopter. You're also right saying that it's an interesting job, great fun flying and using the weapon systems and defense aids :D

I weld stuff... :smw:

Kit in ISO containers - the bane of my life. A lot of our deployable computer systems live in ISO's. As we havnt got room to keep them out they have to be lugged out (servers, clients, network infrastructure, satelite connectivity of whatever kind) set up, worked on, then packed away again. Ridiculous state of affairs.

I weld stuff... :smw:

Glad most Zeds (imports at least) dont need welding much. Custom shiny pipes maybe.

I weld stuff... :smw:

 

I was looking at the skill shortages in Canada and welders are amongst them!

This site may be of interest to you

 

http://www.immigration.ca/jobs-welders.asp

Isn't it strange how so many Zed owners (all performance cars in fact) are either IT or forces. Guess its fortunate I'm both! Got another microsoft exam tuesday so as you can see I'm studying hard and not spending all weekend on the forum.

Dave :dance: :dance:

 

It makes no difference what you do, or how much money you earn. The more money you had the more you throw at the boody things and the more frustrating they become.

 

Once you,ve been bitten by the Z bug it becomes like a marriage. It starts out as pure lust. You think she looks stunning and you carn't wait to get into her. You get a feel for her and the ride becomes rewarding while the curves of her body become more admired. Soon lust becomes love and before long a love hate relationship, I'm at the point that if my relationship to my z don't improve soon (ie I get some rewarding driving for all the money I've spent on her) then I'll be going for a divorce.

I am an IT Manager. Spent 10 years in the ROyal Signals and enjoyed most of it. I started doing IT about 2 years before I left and headed down the MCSE route. At that time it was NT4 and I got 4 exams but MS decided that they were gonna retire most of them so I said *****x.

 

I instead headed down the ITIL route and got the top qualifications so I do more Service Management now. I still get the chance to get my hands dirty but I am in the fortunate position of being able to talk on both sides of the fence, i.e. Managerial and Technical.

 

The problem with things like the MCSE and CCNA is that they keep changing the rules and because there are so many of them, they dont really mean a lot. I would rather take someone on with experience, rather than a piece of paper. Met a lot of both and to be honest, most MCSE's I have met do not have the commercial experience. I had an MCSE come in for an interview and he did appallingly bad at my very basic technical test...