Past lives

[Malcolm Buggeridge]

Thought I'd conduct a quick straw poll to see how many of us are genuine geeks and how many (such as myself) came into IT from another walk of life.

For the record, I trained to be a taxidermist but ended up spending 6 years in th army before returning to university where I studied Classics followed by an M.Sc conversion course after having had a year of not doing very much.

[SimonMac]

I was a cereal killer in a past life, I used to beat people to death with a bag of corn flakes.

[Platypus]

In one past life I was a Roman Centurion, in another I was Cleopatra. I preferred being Cleopatra, never could stop admiring my own naked body in the bath

[SupremeSpod]

In one past life I was a Roman Centurion, in another I was Cleopatra. I preferred being Cleopatra, never could stop admiring my own naked body in the bath

Amanda Barrie - a raving rug muncher. Such a waste.

[Malcolm Buggeridge]

To the ex military types - what branch of the services were you in?

22 Locating Battery, Royal Artillery here.

[MarillionFan]

Retail for me. Funny dat.

[EternalOptimist]

To the ex military types - what branch of the services were you in?

22 Locating Battery, Royal Artillery here.

radar tech, saving planks from themselves

[oracleslave]

Never done anything else other than oracle stuff

[NotAllThere]

I was, in fact, Robin to AndyW's batman. But it's not something I'm proud of.

[Cliphead]

I was a rocket scientist.