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Originally posted by DiscoStu View PostI've also managed to set up a limited company. Well, the accountant has, I've signed the forms wherever they stuck post-itsComment
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Originally posted by NickFitz View Post
I just realised that when I spent eight months working in Bristol three years ago, I spent four nights a week in a bedroom smaller than the bathroom here
It's nice when one can look back on several years' work and see immediately where it's brought one... especially if one can do so whilst urinating
It was followed by a most miserable 3 weeks working in Newport for a money weighing company... I really disliked that place, especially since it was in the fallout zone from the coking ovens at Llanwern...Comment
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They were ever so please when I gave my notice in... not...
Then I was off to Pontypridd to work on those lifeline type telephone thingies for a year... until the factory closed....
I have that effect on factories.Comment
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Then it was off to Cheltenham for a year, working on a variety of stuff, mostly security alarms... <yawn>...Comment
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Then it was off to Rugby for 7 months, doing some electronic & software design... that one was reasonably fun... which spoiled things a bit coz if you enjoy something, going back to the mundane crap is more difficult.
As it proved... had to walk on a contract for a medical devices company coz it made me feel faint every time I thought about what it was supposed to do...Comment
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Considering the industry, they seemed to lack something in the safety critical approach to software development... that assisted me in my departure too...Comment
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Then it was back to Cheltenham for a singularly unsuccessful little contract...
Followed by 3 months in sunny Southampton working for a semiconductor manufacturer.... I couldn't understand why they wanted me... the count was enormous... I felt entirely inadequate by comparison & turned down an extension.Comment
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Then it was 7 months with AB A***M****e, at the lowest rate of my contracting career... working on air con controllers for cars...
Boring as hell, I was really glad to get out of there.Comment
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