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JayCeeEll 7th August 2002 07:40

right_handed += 1;
ITer += 1;

:) JCL :)

SuperGuppy 7th August 2002 07:59

Telecomms/Iter ...Doomed on both counts.

Currently working for peanuts and minimal hours flying.

treadigraph 7th August 2002 08:08

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 7th August 2002 08:23

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 7th August 2002 08:30

It pays the rent...
 
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 7th August 2002 08:45

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 7th August 2002 08:48

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

He he he.

Grim Reaper 14 7th August 2002 08:52

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

ppl(a) 7th August 2002 08:58

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 7th August 2002 09:21

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

PFLsAgain 7th August 2002 09:24

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 7th August 2002 09:43

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 7th August 2002 10:11

GP, right-handed.

dublinpilot 7th August 2002 10:15

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 7th August 2002 10:27

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 7th August 2002 10:42

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 7th August 2002 12:13

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 7th August 2002 12:13

Chartered accountant.

Seem to be quite a few of us about!

Valiant 7th August 2002 12:26

Aircraft leasing with a hint of IT thrown in.

VP8 7th August 2002 12:50

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

Veeps :)


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