What's your profession?

[Penguina]

I was told by the nice man down the flying club that 90% or so of their clients are in IT somehow! Not that surprising, that one, but I'd be quite interested to see which other ones crop up regularly.

(One would think that money is a factor, but I was on a pittance when I started, so that's not universal. Probably if you're a hobby rather than potential career pilot, you are more likely to wait until you're in a position to do it reasonably comfortably.)

I wanna be cagey, because I like my anonymity, but I am currently in an admin role in the public sector.

[distaff_beancounter]

I am a Chartered Accountant, specialising in General Aviation. So the hobby fits in well with the day-job. :)

[Aussie Andy]

I have a background in electronic engineering (avionics) and IT, however for the last 3 years I have been working in Private Equity investing.

[Field In Sight]

I am an Oracle contractor i.e. IT it's a fair cop govner.

In my experience I have seen lots that are in IT or engineering, basically nerds with cash.

[Lowtimer]

I do various things of a corporate nature for the phone company.

[Ace Rimmer]

Aviation Journo

[Cahlibahn]

I manage relationships between my employer (in the pharma sector) and various IT suppliers.

[EI_Sparks]

I'm an engineer (electronics/computers) working on a PhD in robotics.

[Aussie Andy]

Definitely lots of IT types here then... so we might predict that as turndown in IT sector progresses, it may have an impact on GA!? Hopefully not in my case though... the kids will stop eating before I stop flying!!! :eek:

[Cahlibahn]

My club has noted a significant downturn in 'new recruits' and they blame IR35 specifically and downturn in the IT market generally.

[englishal]

Marine Acquisition Engineer.....yep...IT offshore...

;)

[skygazer]

Project Manager within the telecoms/consultancy division of a construction company.

[Miss Bigglesworth]

Aircraft trading

[AerBabe]

PhD student, in marine microbiology ecology genetics virology thing.

Viruses that infect algae really ;)

[Genghis the Engineer]

Aerospace Engineer. Airworthiness, certification and flight test mostly.

G

[Whirlybird]

Researcher and writer, mainly on the grocery industry - at least that's the bit that pays.

Don't know the first thing about IT; can just about manage to press the right buttons to get into PPRuNe. :eek:

[sennadog]

Sales Manager. I'm the one who has to make the company some profit after the IT department has blown all the cash.:p

[EI_Sparks]

It may be that IT is one of the few sectors where you have the ability to earn enough money to fly for recreation without having to give up things like morgage payments and without having to have senority.

[SkyCruiser]

Well ,I am an Airline pilot.

I feel a bit out of place here!

[Aussie Andy]

Maybe, but you're very welcome! ;)

[ATCbabe]

My name says it all!!!! Air traffic controller:p

[Rallye Driver]

Design Director (that's a posh name for an ageing graphic designer).

BTW in graphics I've noticed that an above average number of designers are left handed, me included. Also pilots. I can think of at least seven off the top of my head.

So come on, tell us what you do and whether you're a lefty! Maybe there are a lot of 'lefties' in IT as well.

RD :D

[sennadog]

Rallye Driver. I think the best place to discuss politics is in Jetblast.

[EI_Sparks]

Hmm. I wonder if the large percentage of IT people explains the fondness for GPS systems? :rolleyes:
And right-handed, btw, but not excessively so :)

[Romeo Romeo]

IT contractor : C++ and Windows

[Evo7]

I've just moved from academia to IT R&D. Write Java and work out how to make your fridge talk to your TV, amongst other things :) :)

[sennadog]

Well, I'll leave you lot to talk about RAMs and CPUs and go and talk about more interesting stuff with the girls at our Sywell Bash.:p

[stiknruda]

I work on a farm and drive full size Tonka toys.

RH Stik

[AerBabe]

Sennadog
talk about more interesting stuff with the girls
What... algae?! :confused:

[str12]

A right-handed IT person working and living in Amsterdam.

Cheers,

str12

[Evo7]

Better learn the different varieties of Phormidium jenkelianum sennadog.... :)

(Wow, you find some really wierd sites when you do a search for Algae on google. People eat that :eek: :eek: :rolleyes: :) )

[MLS-12D]

I'm a solicitor ... no lawyer jokes please!:D

[DB6]

Ha! Flying Instructor! (but I used to be in telecoms :p ).

[tacpot]

Ambidexterous IT Project Manager.

An Ex-contractor, who happend to get out of contracting just after IR35 killed the Goose, but for reasons unconnected with IR35 (which I avoided anyway). There is no doubt that many IT Contractors preferred to spend the money that other companies spend on NI, Pensions, Payroll Admin, Company Cars, Health Insurance, Medical Insurance etc. on either exceedingly flash company cars, or planes, yachts etc. So it is not surprising that the pool of punters with wads of cash has dried up somewhat.

The Chancellor taketh away with one hand (from IT contractors), and he taketh away with the other hand (from Accountants, Agencies, Flying Schools, Insurance Companies, Building Societies who these Contractors would have spent their filthy lucre with), and he taketh away (verily with his third hand), from the Treasury, because although we all pay a bit more Tax and NI, the UK economy has now got a lot less cash flowing around it.

And he robbed our pensions as well.

[Thumpango]

Transmission controller for an ITV company- whoops hit the wrong button!!

[Keef]

You'd never guess...

Retired Industrialist/Financial wallah. Spent 30 years of my life spending vast amounts of other people's money. Now retired from that, and spend my own money instead. Unpaid minister-type. Much more pastorally involved, and find that infinitely more fulfilling. Really! Not into algae and their viruses though. I have a retired professor friend who was into all that stuff - he gets this distant look in his eyes and starts mumbling about genomes and nucleoli and such. Tea and bikkies seem the only cure...

My left-handed artistic elder daughter tells me that left-handedness is an artistic tendency. She's always right, so there you go.

The internet attracts geeks, so it's not surprising that flying folks on PPRuNe are IT-oriented rather more than the average. Our group has six members, and I'm the main computer-driver in the group and the only PPRuNe member. A therefore B?

[suction]

I sell IT solutions to the pharma industry - Cahlibahn - do we know each other ?

-S

[skyraider]

I spend my days telling other people how to use the software they bought from us... but as it was pointed out earlier, it paid for my wings... :)

Sky

[djk]

ok I admit it, I'm involved in the IT business too :D

[Spiney Norman]

Air Traffic Controller..So I try and avoid 'ITing anything

Spiney

[BEagle]

What - no replies from self-employed Glenfiddich testers or wet tee-shirt quality assurance checkers?

[TheKentishFledgling]

Grammar school student taking GCSEs in 8 or 9 months! :mad: :(

tKF

But it's the Summer hols at the moment, which means forget about crap like school!

[slim_slag]

I would suggest several reasons why IT people are commonly found in the UK flying scene.

They make/made loadsamoney, and you definitely need that to fly in the UK.

For most people working in IT in the UK, although they made loadsamoney, their medium/long term career paths were not good. Airline pilots have a very very secure career in comparison, and well paid too (though the way they bitch and moan you would not believe them :)). Commercial flying would be a definite draw for long term career stability, to be exploited by the more sensible IT folk who could see the IT downturn ahead of time. IMO, it will be down for some time to come.

(I was hired by a PLC to manage a tech startup in the UK a couple of years ago. I could not believe how much I had to pay a web-developer, with no real education or skills. I ended up paying him more than I paid myself or other key employees (though we had equity :D :D ). I am sure the web-developer is now flipping hamburgers, which is a shame because he was a nice guy. He always had to have the latest £300 phone or PDA, I am sure lots of IT guys from the late 90's are regretting spending all their windfall money on fancy cars and flying lessons.)

Paradoxically, flying a plane will be one of the last jobs to be taken over by computers. Paradoxically because it would be one of the easiest jobs to replace! Airbus IT programmers will be replaced by their own software before you could persuade passengers to get on an Airbus flown by their software itself. A shame, as it will cost lives.

All IMO of course ;)

[2Donkeys]

Mergers and Acquisitions, and the administration of a Venture Capital fund. Not really IT, but I do buy and sell the odd IT company from time to time, does that count?

[Crossedcontrols]

Stunt man in Blue movies.................
Okay Okay I'm actually an Electrickery Engineer gone over to the dark side ... Sales, Marketing, Waffle and Twaddle.
Right handed.

CC

[AerBabe]

Keef, will you be bringing your professor friend to Sywell? (Along with a plentiful supply of emergency tea and biscuits of course, 'just in case' :D )

[goatgruff]

Atco, and part time lorry driver fro a 'blue chip' UK department store.
One earns more money than the other, but the other is a damn sight less stressful and gets me more cups of tea from infinately more civilised customers.:D

[formationfoto]

Don't think I have a profession but get paid for sitting on the boards of publishing and media businesses (including PILOT magazine) and work in strategy and corporate development. Also manage a web and photographic team for PILOT mag.

How many here are being entirely truthful with theor profession. I note one example where the individual is being a bit economical with the truth but I promise not to tell!

[Grafter]

Not a lot now, i was in I.T. but just got laid off at the end of last week (Not sacked :eek: )

Anyone know of any openings!!!

[Cusco]

You'll have to work it out from the name!

Right handed for most things (work included) but left handed on the golf course.

CYA at Sywell.

[stiknruda]

FF - you wouldn't mean me?

Err - I drive tractors and diggers and work very hard. Okay so I also make soap!!

" As these are anonymous forums the origins of the contributions may be opposite to what may be apparent. In fact the press may use it, or the unscrupulous, to elicit certain reactions"

Stik

[maxalpha]

aircraft ground handler,refuler,firefighter,ag radio oprator,grass cutter,flight planing officer , and i mend the clubs pc aswell :D
oh and not forgeting dogs body :p

[Keef]

Cusco - you never told me you play golf! I'd have stayed at a safe distance ;)

AerBabe - he was here all afternoon, while we did strange wondrous and musical things to his laptop. This was a 3 cuppa and six bikkie afternoon, but we succeeded! :)

But I don't know if I'd dare bring him to Sywell. He's great fun but extremely intense - he might find a rare orchid on the runway and get it closed.

[Code Blue]

Cusco:

Should we Speculate on your trade or do you paint hallways through the letterbox? :rolleyes:

I'm right handed and do lots of different things.

Rgds
CB

[anawanahuanana]

I though I was the only one until I saw Ghengis!

Aircraft engineer for a very large national airline!!

(Although I have built a few computers for friends.......)

[undertheweather]

Consultancy to the upstream oil & gas industry on the Geoscience side.

I help identify and produce the liquid stuff that keeps us all from falling out of the sky! (and gets us there in the first place)

[chrisN]

Qualified mechanical engineer but spent most of my working life as a financial analyst/controller in the automotive industry.

Now retired, work for Essex Gliding Club, BGA occasionally, Royal Aero Club a bit, GAAC rather more, FAI somewhat, unpaid.

Right-handed, used to prefer thermalling to the left but now little preference.

[maggioneato]

Seems I'm an odd one out, I'm a flying Granny, so I just go flying a lot.:D :D

[GroundBound]

Ex Air Traffic Controller. Got into software development for ATC systems many years ago (definitely not NERC!), then ATC Research and Development, investigation into Human Machine Interfaces, and now busy with ATC Safety regulation. Can't get IT out of my system though. :)

[helimutt]

Marine engineer with well known oil company working onboard tankers on a 4-month on, 4-month off rota. Plenty of time to fly when I'm home.

[JayCeeEll]

right_handed += 1;
ITer += 1;

:) JCL :)

[SuperGuppy]

Telecomms/Iter ...Doomed on both counts.

Currently working for peanuts and minimal hours flying.

[treadigraph]

Wow, five pages in half a day!

Left handed graphic designer for a Construction Design Company (ie Architects and Engineers) though I use the mouse right handed, use a knife and fork conventionally and play cricket right-handed as well (on the odd occasion I've had a go lest I get co-opted for a cricket team)!

When I tried gliding I preferred right hand thermals (isn't that a convention, everybody goes the same way?) and I prefer right hand fast bends on my bicycle!

Preferred holding the glider's "pole" in my left hand, my only powered experience to date has been right seat in Cessnas, where I am perfectly happy flying with my right hand. But I can also drive a left hand drive car quite happliy and change gear with the right... So why can't I fly a glider right-handed?

As to which side of the bed I sleep on...

Oh, and I too work for peanuts, but that lotto jackpot must be mine one day!

[Carlito]

Control Engineer, right handed.
I have to agree with previous poster that asking this question on an internet forum is going to be biased towards ITers. Gee, most people who ring me have phones, and all the people I meet at the petrol station have cars! :D
Most of the pilots I meet, students and PPLs, are not involved in computers or engineering.

Carlito

[Hairyplane]

Ex-cop who baled out in 1986 to earn some real money.

Struggled hard to achieve it - now run my own company selling - wait for it - human hair and other bits and pieces for the hair extension industry. UK market leader now. We have the worlds best special glue for sticking hair in(you can get it out easily unlke most of the other crappy industrial glue sold by our competitors).

I employ 19 staff - all women and mostly young (someone has to work with them..)

Whenever the weather is good I am off in my Robin - the reg. certainly gives my business away!- or one of my vintage types.

I am left handed, don't play tennis, do fondle women, definitely have weekends off and am my own boss (slightly corrupted quote from my favourite film Arthur).

I didn't realise how many nerds are out there. Unlike you, I struggled hard to get to grips with my new fangled Garmin 430's - left school with 4 crappy O Levels.

[Hersham Boy]

Strange - seems I'm the only one, so far...

Head of Marketing for a music broadcaster. You IT guys aren't the only ones making some dosh :D

Hersh

[Lawyerboy]

I'm a boy, and I'm a lawyer.

He he he.

[Grim Reaper 14]

Undertaker:eek: Left handed for writing, right handed at most other things, right footed too.

[ppl(a)]

Chartered Accountant (specialising in Tax).

I must say I prefer the sound of "specialising in GA" though, distaff_beancounter.

Yes, everyone I know of thinks IR35 is a pain in the proverbial, particualrly previously "Self-employed" IT contractors - but yes, Calibahn, I suppose judging from replies to this forum GA may be next on the list to suffer from IR35 - if only from the lack of 'impoverished' IT flyers. Mind you, have you ever even met an impoverished IT er yet?

[Ludwig]

Gosh, I didn't know people worked, doen't that interfere with flying?:)

[PFLsAgain]

Postdoctoral research fellow. Researching calcium channels in lymphocytes. I occassionally pretend that it has something to do with leukaemia research.

Oh, and I'm right handed.

[Whirlybird]

Carlito,

Good point. I'm always amazed when I mention PPRuNe to pilots and they haven't heard of it. Then it turn out they don't have PCs. :confused:

I suppose it's a bit like being surprised that so many people on here fly!

But this is a fascinating thread, and I'm intrigued to know what Stik really does, when he isn't flying. Er...let me re-phrase that...how he earns the dosh to fly is what I mean. :D Cos I don't believe it's just by being a farm labourer!

[QDMQDMQDM]

GP, right-handed.

[dublinpilot]

Chartered Certified Accountant..Partner in a firm in practice.

Oh and right handed :)


Distaff-I too like the sound of specialising in aviation!:D

[soloinoz]

Chiropodist while i was in good old Bognor Regis.
Now know as a Podiatrist in Australia, right handed with only 23 hours under my belt and loveing every second of it.

[eveepee]

Accountant - seems quite popular !. Self employed - client base mainly estate agents/property developers - well someone has to do it !:D
IT- only when I have to - bring back the abacus.

[Penguina]

OK, I'm now feeling sufficiently unimportant and unskilled! No more boardroom directors/successful academics/specialised engineers/etc please! My ego can't take it...

Some diverse findings among the techies, but Grim Reaper, I reckon you are the most interesting so far!

btw, yes I suppose being an internet forum does skew the findings a bit, but you know, IT Gods, strangely enough some people have computers who just USE them! Most reasonably affluent people have access to the internet these days and know the basics of using it. I don't have a PC, I either use my work computer or a cyber cafe.

[capt_sparky]

Chartered accountant.

Seem to be quite a few of us about!

[Valiant]

Aircraft leasing with a hint of IT thrown in.

[VP8]

Operations route planner for the worlds largest aircraft, the mighty Antonov AN124 and 225!!

Veeps :)

[RotorHorn]

I'm an IT Contractor - currently doing an OS/390 consultancy role for EDS.

Unfortunately with IR35 and all the cutbacks I'm about to be booted out of my current contract - and there's 74% un-employment in the IT-contracting market of the northwest....:eek: :eek: :eek:

How am I going to continue to live my playboy lifestyle?

:(

[Roundouthigh]

A right handed account director for an advertising agency. I spend my time making sure my clients are happy and dreaming about going flying!!!!

[Bouncy Landing]

Self employed commercial finance broker specialising in investment property finance... BUT used to be in IT! Wife still is an IT marketing type.

Right handed with no artistic ability whatsoever.

Interesting how people think flying is so expensive. My annual budget is about £1800 which pays for the monthly group contribution and about 20 hours flying, pretty typical for a qualified PPL I guess. Now, imagine you smoke 1 pack of fags a day....... I' told the average price is £4.20 - £1533 pa! I don' smoke and rarely drink. Maybe when people think we are "rolling in it" we should point out some comparisons.

[Legalapproach]

Barrister - but that doesn't make me a bad person.:)

[flying snapper]

I am a Medical Photographer working in a General Hospital for the NHS. Been doing it for over 20 years now and have finally got to a salary level where I can afford to pay for my flying lessons:p :p

I do spend a great deal of time in from of a Mac though! Does that qualify me as an IT person?

Right handed by the way.

[Maarten]

Dentist, right handed.

[big.al]

"Management Information Manager".

Which essentially means I have to make head or tail out of the gigabytes of data we produce every day and report on the company performance - everything from last week's sales to how much time one of our Customer Service Advisors spends on coffee breaks...

I work with lots of IT, but I'm not really in IT (not that techy!).

[Rote 8]

Like many here I work in IT - Software Engineering, quite possibly on the same project as RotorHorn?

Unlike many here I do not earn pots of cash (not a contractor). I am also not a geek - kind of fell into this job, rather than drawn into it through any particular interest, but hey it pays the bills and keeps me flying.

Plotting my escape to the airlines at the moment with the help of Bristol Groundschool. I wont hold my breath in the short term.

[Whipping Boy's SATCO]

Air traffiker who is about to sack his accountant for charging too much.

PS Before you go, can I put flying hours down as a business expense?

[FNG]

I'm a Barrister. I may be a bad person, but that's coincidental

[DodgyFlyer]

To be different, I work in a police control room answering 999 calls and talking on police radios.

Had my PPL (A) for two years now.

[Tiny]

Hypnotherapist. never had anything to do with IT, but a surprising number of clients have.

T.

[keendog]

Barrister, sometimes a bad person

[Wrong Stuff]

Blimey, next time you need a barrister, don't bother troubling your solicitor, just come here!!

As for me, never really considered myself IT, more of a financial research bod. Heard my boss calling me a programmer the other day though, so perhaps I'm trying to disillusion myself.

[I have control]

I work in aviation paradise: at an aeroplane Museum where we fly lots of interesting old planes and hold the world's biggest and best air show every year.

Thinking of taking up IT as a hobby...

[flyboy6876]

Business Systems consultant working with customers on setting their business practices/systems in place with new Enterprise Management Systems - so, in IT, sort of.

[Lost_luggage34]

Well I used to be in IT - for 14 years, large airline, many other large international corporations/many countries. No current employment in IT = no more flying, classic cars and even house. Very, very sad.

Still, CISCO just posted some good profits even if they were mainly made from cost-cutting exercises. There is light at the end of the tunnel if only I could find those course notes .... oh, and I did get invited for an interview for CS at LHR following a sheer desperation application back in March !!

[Mariner9]

Right-handed Consultant Marine Surveyor, specialising in oil & petrochemical shipments.

Currently on a 2 month assignment to Singapore, and will be flying Singapore Flying club's TB10 around southern Malaysia this weekend:) :)

[Aerobatic Flyer]

Right-handed project director for the french subsidiaries of a bit multinational.

[Lawyerboy]

Just to clarify, I am not a barrister, but I am sometimes a bad person.

[Chilli Monster]

Right Handed ATCO. Lucky I suppose that my job involves my interests :D

CM

[CBG]

Right handed, Public Affairs man working for a large French company based here in Paris.

I work with real bad persons - professional bull****ters (read "politicians")

[Whirlybird]

Jeez...7 pages, 100+ posts, over 2000 views, in a couple of days!!!!

And it's hardly even aviation related. :confused:

What does this thread say about us I wonder. :eek:

[WeatherJinx]

Jx helps manage a Graphics/Multimedia/Web/eCommerce operation within an investment bank. I do a bit of everything, really: IT, people and project management, client management, strategy, business development. Unlike the other graphics bods - I'm right handed ;)
What does this thread say about us I wonder?
Whirly - I think it tells us that people love talking about themselves :D

WxJx:cool:

[Evo7]

What does this thread say about us I wonder?


We're all having slow days at work....? :)

[bcfc]

ITzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[Danza]

PhD student, environmental microbiology.

[QDMQDMQDM]

What does this thread say about us I wonder

That we're mostly IT geeks / white collar professionals with daytime access to the Internet, which is one of the major demographic profiles of people who use Internet bulletin boards of all kinds. The other is kids.

QDM

[distaff_beancounter]

What does this thread say about us I wonder We really should get out more?
OR: The weather is too naff to go flying? :(

[AerBabe]

Danza... if you're not in your final year, get out now!!! :D
Whatya working on anyway?

:( *sob* I want my momma... Or a holiday.

[Flying Plumber]

Ummm, in my case a village plumber aspiring to become a flying one.:rolleyes:

[Spacer]

Just a lowly uni sutdent studying Comp Sci.

[RotorHorn]

Spacer - might be asking you for help with my homework - just started an MSc in IT at Liverpool.

AerBabe/Danza - stick at the PhD - my sister-in-law graduated last month from Nottingham after yeeeears doing hers. She was studying non-Burketts lymphoma or something - got the impression it was something to do with cancer-research.

Unfortunately I must have had the same look on my face as she does when I start telling her about dynamic roll-over or anything else helo-related...

:rolleyes:

[Penguina]

My God I've unleashed a monster! EIGHT pages!

[Cat.S]

Let's see if we can make it nine! - History teacher and writer.

[drum]

I'm a self-employed tiler. When I have been sitting on my knees all day and have seen too much tiles I need to get far away from them. The only solution was learn to fly.

Hope you don't mind I don't wear a tie :)

[rex]

I am in the biotech industry, working with enzymes for diverse requirements such as bad dog breath:eek: and gene therapy treatments for Gauchers and Pompes disease.

I am here at the moment playing with my 24" column...........!



.......that's chromatography....

It pays for the flying until I can get it to pay for itself.

Does this make it 9

REX

[AerBabe]

Hey... that sounds interesting. Only columns I get to play with are the 1" variety that Qiagen make :(
What's your background?

[BIG MISTER]

Right handed and I'm a very very very bad person and Barristers know IT !!!!

Give me a wave the next time you pass a white T5 on the M25. Sorry if its a bit filthy !!!



:D :D :D

[rex]

AerBabe



Millipore and Amicon are the cols I use, some with a capacity of 250 litres. With the expense of some of the gels I could by myself a plane.

I have spent 9 years with my present company otherwise a background in QC with a food company.

REX:)

BTW i am right handed, though cak handed at times is more appropriate:D

[Trinity 09L]

Retired of the Yard, scourge of barristers (some), now an uncivil servant, in deep cover.:rolleyes:

[Fergal20]

Computer programmming student:p

[Danza]

AerBabe, too late, I'm final year with not much time left :) , but lots of results still needed :(

[BLW Skylark 4]

Unchartered telecoms surveyor for mobile phone co.

Looks like telecoms is catching up on IT maybe.....???

[Avoiding Action]

Part of a highly skilled stained-glass-window repair team.

I specialise in the blue bits...;)

[Courtman]

Aircraft Controller for a major UK airline shortly to move to Germany (without me). Do all the flight planning and slot management stuff, and in the market for setting up on my own next year when Luton becomes Hanover....

:) :rolleyes: :mad: :rolleyes: :)

[sennadog]

rex. How are you getting on with the Dog Breath formula?

[A_Pommie]

Time served fitter machinist who has sold his soul and become a manager to finance my flying.

[charlie-india-mike]

I'm an IT manager for a large IT Services company. One of my main tasks at present is, unfortunatly, to relieve the IT contractors of their positions and place the work offshore in cheaper locations.

Sorrt Roterhead.....

[yawningdog]

Music Video and Commercials Director.

[Final 3 Greens]

I help change stuff (business, not IT) - prefer to conceptualise around left/right brain rather than hands, but if you must I am pretty good with both.

As for IR35, it is b@lls; but if you you vote Labour, do you really expect a government that understands or gives a **** about business????

Charlie India Mike, good luck with exporting your own job too, as offshore managers are surprisingly competent and are probably a lot more cost effective than you. You are an overhead, not a person.

[Evo7]

Chaps, this is Private Flying not Computer Weekly - lets avoid the IR35 debate and all the bitterness it brings with it...

[Final 3 Greens]

Evo7

I agree, especially as IR35 does not affect my business.

But on the other had there is obviously an impact on some flying clubs through the sucking away of disposable income, whihc just goes to show how we live in an interlinked society.

[Sensible]

Just a simple property developer/manager who doesn't really understand what I.T. is or what IR 35's are.

I'm both left and right handed which makes me a handy bloke to have around :D

[fireflybob]

I teach people how to retire early.

[Piper Warrior Pilot]

Im only 16 so im a student. But i work part time as a Healthcare Assistant for Northumbria NHS

[HelenD]

Im a software tester - Yes IT again

[rex]

sennadog

Well I believe you can get it in Wal mart (Asda?). Its really popular, but I don't know whether it will work for you:D

I think that there is a smiling Lassie dog on the packet:p

REX

[Gin Slinger]

I used to play with industrial lasers all day - a wonderfully over the top method of executing insects!

My claim to fame is that all the new BMW Minis have a piece of my handiwork on them - I wrote the program that works the machine that makes all the VIN labels etc.

Now working full time to pass my ATPLs.

Since I quit my job to train as pro-pilot I can't afford to go flying nearly as often :(

Right handed but can do it with either.

[strake]

I'm an MD of a chemical company BUT... I started in IT...God, I'm doing it all the wrong way round....!

[AfricanEagle]

Production planning & scheduling for a multinational pharma affiliate

[Eurocontroler]

Work in the CFMU/IFPS (Flight Planning) for the outfitt where I get my name from.

[Who has control?]

CAD Designer, (Computer Aided Design) in the automotive industry and left handed too. I don't really like cars, but it pays for me to go flying and watch birds.

[SpinSpinSugar]

Business Systems Analyst for a major US investment bank, with aspirations of an imminant career shift.

Erm, IT.

:D

[LowNSlow]

Project Controls Engineer, if you want an offshore platform built, I'm yer man ;)

[SteveR]

Left hander, IT through and through. Project and people management nowadays, as long as it involves the internet and databases.

Sadly, jobless atm, so finding it hard to justify all the flying I'm still doing...

Leaving aside the IT skewed demographic of a bulletin board, I gather that 50% of pilots are left handed.

Throwing anonymity to the wind, here's (http://www.e-logbooks.co.uk/spr_cv.doc) my CV - 'cos I'd like to get back into harness and I know people are nosy enough to read it. (Also, from what's revealed in this thread, there's a pretty good chance my next boss is reading this)

[SKYYACHT]

Flight Sim instructor for a major airline, and part time AOPA ground instructor/CAA Examiner......Whats IT and IR35??????

[Nigey]

Since starting flying...

Student
Pathologist
Senior Scientist in Pharmaceutical Industry
Teacher

...It's taken a while but should be solo real soon.

[Circuit Basher]

Left handed, chartered engineer (Electronic, computer and Systems). Was civil servant until recently, but now site manager for centre offering software advice to small companies (I employ IT professionals!!).

[FWA NATCA]

I'm an air traffic controller in the US, I work at a combined tower and approach control, so we are certified both up in the tower and downstairs in the Tracon.

Mike
FWA

[t'aint natural]

I publish magazines. Right-handed pi**-artist.

[Big G.]

Police Helicopter crewman.

It's official, pigs can fly !!

p.s. Been reading about the Special Branch at Newcastle airport, I suspect they may have too much time on their hands !!

[SimJock]

Suprisingly... Flight Simulator Engineer (software mostly)

Fly big ones at work, fly little ones on days off. Laugh at airline pilots when they crash simulators.

Does it matter if a Cirrus SR22 pilot is left or right handed for that yoke thingy ?

[Wycombe]

....Order Management Specialist, which means I support & train the end-users of a complex Business Administration application (highly-flavoured SAP) for a large IT :D :D multinational (which is at the moment "merging" with another large IT multinational).

Had a part-time Military Job (light blue) until recently aswell :cool:

So IT, but definately not a techie!

Right-handed.

[Sir George Cayley]

Inventor of flying apparatae (deceased)

Sir George Caley

The air is a navigable ocean that laps at everyones door

But in this life......

Manager Airside Safety - large international airport

[Hufty]

Corporate strategy consultant - whoopee....

Sound exciting but would rather be in an aeroplane

[ETOPS773]

Oooohh..I`m not an IT person.

Forest Ranger at a big national park :)

Best job anyone could want (without engines!!)


***edit:left handed***

[martinidoc]

Right handed head & neck surgeon, part time ambidextrous FI, left handed golfer (Bad)

Half our club seems to be medical surprised no more admit to it here !

[Dr Mac Hum]

IT Project Manager for a well known international air express freight company. We have lots of aircraft but they just don't let me play with any of them :(

One more for the right handed IT brigade I'm afraid.

[Penguina]

Ah ha! In that case, I know who you are. ;)

[GeneralElectric]

Only just spotted this one!

IT Manager / Linux sys admin / PHP developer for my sins......

..... and a whopping 2 hrs flying time on C152's.

Still, life's not all bad! :D

[What a Loop]

VP of Manufacturing for a radiation detector company. Right handed and looks like manufacturing being very rare on this site.

:D :D :D . Well supose I better go and make something if I can remember:rolleyes: :rolleyes:

[Cool_Hand]

Dynamic Engineer...sorry Dynamics Engineer :D Basically a trumpt up Aeronautical Engineer who designs and stresses anything to do with all sorts of aircraft, and control systems, and engines etc. sometimes even accident investigation.

Left handed.

[Number Cruncher]

I hate to admit it.....another accountant - hence the name!! Well, trainee actually so net yet officially dull!

Ps, a tip for accounant wannabes (if they exist), don't do it!!

[Fast Erect]

I'm a pole greaser in a lap dancing bar.:D



In my dreams.

[The Nr Fairy]

IT, left handed.

IT is so broad, I'd better narrow it down. Background in small computer systems for garages, moved into enterprise network management, now working for a consulting company in LANs, WANs and the like, and starting the move to the security side looking to end up as CISSP in 4 years.

[Cheshire cat EGHH]

Newly promoted Navigation officer (fancy seeing as I only look after jepps!)

I know a lot of Bournemouth flying clubs lot a IT consultants etc..!

Must be some kinda psychology behind that!

beckxy

[bjs]

Left handed Aftersales Manager for the MG-Rover, Land Rover and Volvo importers in Las Palmas.

[OnTheBug]

Cabin Crew for the Orange Order :D

[rustle]

I used to be right-handed and deliver IS/IT solutions.

I now consider myself ambidextrous, because unlike the PMs who delivered the new Notam website, my left hand knows what my right hand is doing ;)

[matspart3]

SATCO. Spend as much time as I can hiding in my office but spent the last three days 'upstairs', controlling. Frightened myself (and others) fartless, holding impromtu IT conferences at various points of the circuit

[Saab Dastard]

Studied Architecture, qualified as civil engineer...

... working now in IT, considering a career change!

Right handed for this and that, left handed for the other ;)

SD

[Skylark4]

12 years RAF Air Radio Fitter
15 years Computer Engineer
10 years self employed furniture restorer, French Polisher and woodturner.
Last few years Avionics Technician with V T Aerospace, operating the Grob115E for the University Air Squadrons and the Air Experience Flight.
Right handed, but I can fly with either.

Mike W

[WALKER999]

construction based tipper owner driver
Why not set up a pole ?

[QNH 1013]

Is there a prize for the longest list of professions / jobs? If so, I might have a go, and I'm still only 34 years old (in hexadecimal) !