period jobs?

[robgil]

so what do we all do for jobs? i need some inspiration , i need to find some week end or evening work or both and i just keep pulling up blanks.
well , unless i want to do bar work or something which i dont really.

 

[JoceAndChris]

We are all retired Rob. Apart from Gareth, who as you know just has jolly days out in old buildings keeping everyone on their toes, and Robin, who does something very bossy for the NHS.

Oh, and Juju sifts through old documents on old gardens, and Matt Green identifies insects.

How any of us pay our bills is utterly beyond me.

 

[Feltwell]

We are all retired Rob.

I wish!

 

[JoceAndChris]

Ooops sorry Feltwell.

Feltwell runs an internationally important chain of DIY enterprises.

 

[LadyArowana]

I guess it depends what you are good at or like doing. I have some friends that work part time, but usually in jobs that they previously did full time. One does a few hours a week as a pharmacist at her local Sainsbugs superstore and another is a web designer with a few clients that she does graphics etc work for, that sort of thing. I don't have time for "work" :lol:

 

[Matt Green]

and Matt Green identifies insects.

Heh. Not as much as you'd think. 'Entomologist' brings to mind an upstanding Victorian chap with a beard, stout tweed and a butterfly net prowling the English Countryside looking for specimens to pin. The truth is that I'm not much of an insect taxonomist beyond the field of urban pests, it's not the prevailing reason why I do what I do. I am interested in the evolution of insect interactions with humans and urban environments, particularly timber insects. The beauty of working will insects is that it's quite gratifying to get rapid results from experiments. One can breed them quickly and get big data sets, which is different from the woolly results seen in vertebrate biology.

I kill insects for a living. 38,000 house flies in the last 2 years and a great many bed bugs, biscuit beetles and cockroaches.

How any of us pay our bills is utterly beyond me.

Doing the right thing is never usually the cheap option.


M.

 

[LadyArowana]

I kill insects for a living. 38,000 house flies in the last 2 years and a great many bed bugs, biscuit beetles and cockroaches.


M.

You are a brave soul, roaches are horrible!!!! I had a huge one drop on me once at a beachside bar and I had to leap about screaming like a girlie, which despite being a girlie I am not prone to do. Even now I won't sit at that table.

 

[Lime]

I kill insects for a living. 38,000 house flies in the last 2 years and a great many bed bugs, biscuit beetles and cockroaches.

May I ask, are bedbugs widespread?
Confined to certain parts of the country?
Particular to a certain age or type of home?
Particular to a class or type of person?

 

[Pford75]

JoceAndChris wrote:
We are all retired Rob.

I wish. :evil:

 

[Flyfisher]

May I ask, are bedbugs widespread?

They are in New York: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11379319

 

[Nigel Watts]

Until last week I was the Finance Director of a government agency. I am now aspiring to become a kept man - what does one have to do other than earn a packet to be considered a Trophy Husband? - but fear I will have to return to earning a living in the New Year.

'Entomologist' brings to mind an upstanding Victorian chap with a beard, stout tweed and a butterfly net prowling the English Countryside looking for specimens to pin.

My sister is an entomologist. Actually that's not far off, except she doesn't wear tweeds, at least not to work. She keeps insects as pets. Her giant Madagascan hissing cockroaches were particularly striking but even she started going off them when they bred and all their babies escaped by flying out of the ventilation holes in their parents' vivarium.

 

[JoceAndChris]

I think I'd love your sister Nigel. I spend hours looking for insects for my chickens. ( and Matt, I could give you my spare lemon millefleur sabelpoot, Zeus, the tamest thing you ever saw - he'd ride on your shoulder and help, significantly, with the destruction of insects. )

Being a trophy spouse is very tiring. You have to run the household, paying particular attention to the valeting required by the bread winning spouse. You have to listen to all the details of their work, and learn how to manage their accounts, and push them, and tell them what to do to earn more money. Then you have to be interested in their hobbies and, to an extent, forsake your own. Then there are all the other things I leave to your vivid imaginations.

As LadyA says, it leaves no time for"work"

 

[Moo]

My sister is an entomologist. Actually that's not far off, except she doesn't wear tweeds,

She has a beard, then?

 

[christianb]

And I'm not retired either. I am occupied thusly:

(A) I teach broadcast journalism (part time) at a university.
(B) Look after two kiddywinkies (Girl 1 year, Boy 2 yrs 7 months) while my wife works to keep us solvent.
(C) Work on the houses of people I know (for "mate's rates") doing things like slating and lime plastering.
(D) Run my little website

Of all of these, (B) is the hardest work. In fact, the hardest work I've ever done. A couple of months ago I was repointing a chimney in sweltering heat and nearly came down with sunstroke... but it was still a day off in comparison to looking after children.

 

[robgil]

yup i too have become a sit in dad thingy and just do work for mates on week ends , evenings i work on the cottage. before we had our little girl i thought id be back at work sooner as we moved around the same time and i was full time on the house but ms robgil had a great opportunity to take her career a step forward so here i am. i used to be a self employed plumber who did a bit of everything but now need to be on the cards to make a mortgage more realistic.
looking after one child is hard enough , i dont envy you looking after two.

 

[Penners]

I'm not retired either. Oh, granted I'm not in gainful employment, but I still have to report to a Chairman and Managing Director*, and obey their every whim and command. I construct, modify, improve, rebuild, repaint, plumb, tile, grout, dig, mow, dig out, plant.... and all with zero remuneration.

But do I complain?






*Thus are Mrs P and Mrs M (nee Miss P) designated.

 

[Matt Green]

I think I'd love your sister Nigel. I spend hours looking for insects for my chickens. ( and Matt, I could give you my spare lemon millefleur sabelpoot, Zeus, the tamest thing you ever saw - he'd ride on your shoulder and help, significantly, with the destruction of insects. )

Mrs Green has an enthusiasm for such fowl. They form part of the plan for when The Great Work is completed and the garden in habitable by humans again.

We keep six species of cockroach in the lab*, including Madagascan Hissers. Although I side with LadyA when it come to American roaches- I wear gloves handling them. When it comes to cockroaches small and fast is tollerable, large and slow is perfect, but large and fast is perterbing. As well as a potential source of salmonella, along with inhaling houseflies but I digress.

Bed bugs are cresting the wave of a sustained resurgence in the temperate western world, which is where most of the world's media does its trade. They can be found anywhere regardless of demographic, business travellers may find themselves at equal risk as those frequenting hostels and dormitaries. They are thoroughly interesting creatures. They are viewed as social pest bringing shame on the victim who will do anything to avoid getting professional help to save face resulting in the increase and spread of the population making the situation many times worse. Bed bugs are zero tollerence pest too: you might put up with a few furniture beetles, several flies maybe but no bed bugs. As such customers' 'green' credentials take a bit of a back seat; a hotel might be proud of using less detergent in washing towels but will happily douse it's rooms in synthetic pyrethroids to be rid of bed bugs.

Bed bugs are widespread and their control is getting harder for a number of reasons. Check the corners of hotel beds and head boards before you sleep for black blood spots.

M.

*Ladies. Please form a queue.

 

[biffvernon]

Er....I make stuff.

 

[HeatherJ]

Bed bugs - large and growing problem in Toronto atm. A proportion of the city's apparently homeless do have public housing apartments, but the bed bugs are so bad that they choose to sleep on the streets instead. (You have to be pretty desperate to sleep out of doors in the winter, and to a lesser extent summer, in Canada.) There was a high-profile summit on the subject of bed bugs here last week...

http://www.thestar.com/news/bedbugs...to-curious-dispatches-from-the-bed-bug-summit

I am a Neuroscientist (who is working part time atm) and a mum to a 5 yr old. (Kindergarden is part time here.)

 

[MdB]

I sit in front of a computer and pretend to do work...

A year ago I fell out with the boss and decided to go self employed which has fortunately turned out very well. I'm currently working on the design of a rather loud audio amp so you can blame me the next time you are woken up by the neighbours.