Soon to be former farmer seeks interesting work.

[britishblue]

To tide you over you could get a mini bus to do school runs. I know a garage who had a bus and did a couple of years at it but the garage was so busy the boss told me he didn't want the school run anymore so doubled the price but you guessed it they still got the job!
Another taxi driver told a friend that all he did was a morning and afternoon school run and he made a decent living at it! Madness

 

[David.]

I'd regard OPs circumstances as an opportunity to work around the world for a few years, do the stuff that I should have done at 18, but with the benefit of a steady older head on my shoulders.
Imagine the liberation of not having to do all that drinking and chasing pretty Scandinavian backpackers stuff.

 

[Pieces_of_Eight]

Ant artic survey seems an interesting if cold gig , short term contracts tho.
What about expedition driver , mechanic

Plus one for this. Be very interesting experience. Martin Bell a local farmer's son was vehicles manager for the British antarctic survey, not sure if he still is. Used to get farmers to go and drive tractors/ machines down there.

Coincidentally there is an advert on pg 185 of the latest FW, looking for:

Agri Plant Mechanic
Agri Plant Operator
Diesel Generator Tech
Sparky Tech
Maintenance Mechanic
Steel erector
Carpenter/Builder

 

[ladycrofter]

As a farmer you've been your own boss and no bulls**t office politics. Somewhere eccentric would be a good idea I think, as others have suggested.

 

[Hill Ground]

For you to do it you would need to get to keep the vehicle you recover

Depends on the condition of the vehicle and the reason it finds its self needing recovery!!!

 

[glasshouse]

I'd regard OPs circumstances as an opportunity to work around the world for a few years, do the stuff that I should have done at 18, but with the benefit of a steady older head on my shoulders.
Imagine the liberation of not having to do all that drinking and chasing pretty Scandinavian backpackers stuff.

It was a terrible chore .
Coming back from the pub and finding two swedish birds in your car.
A bad job, but somebody had to do it.

 

[David.]

Thank you for your suffering, so that I didn't have to.

 

[PI Stsker]

It was a terrible chore .
Coming back from the pub and finding two swedish birds in your car.
A bad job, but somebody had to do it.

Sudden flash backs of my days in NZ. Go to queenstown for a few days on the lash and book in to a youth hostel. Was a regular occurrence to find several small framed blonde hair, blue eyed, back packers in your bunk.
Folks asked back home why I wanted to do back to back seasons when I could go and work at home steady away.

 

[crashbox]

@evolution

 

[kiwi pom]

@evolution

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The Kiwi lot are always advertising for down there too (bit closer from here) If I was a young fella.
Qualifications needed though.

 

[box]

I've never understood what exactly there is to research in the cold desolate wasteland that is the Antarctic/Arctic.

I've always imagined it's just a bunch of like-minded, fossil fuel burning scientists circlejerking, watching the ice melting and blaming it all on society and global warming. Or is there more to it than that? Watching penguins? Polar bears? Making sure the sun doesn't come up for 6 months? Who knows. No doubt someone will be able to enlighten me.

From what you hear on the news, the Antarctic is full of rapists and serial gropers.

If the world was really my oyster and I could pick any job, it would one of the following, in this order:
1: Pilot (big plane)
2: A job at the airport (anything would do, something airside would be nice, otherwise customer services or something like that)
3: Air crash investigator
4: Pathologist
5: Crime scene cleaner
6: General practitioner
7: Surgeon

 

[holywell farmer]

Evolution railway work can be very well paid but need to get a pts or senital card before even go near the trackside or a rail job, and most work takes place at night but from what I hear pay is good !

 

[cquick]

Antarctica 2018-19

So this winter I headed down with the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) to Rothera research station as a vehicle operator, for 6 months between October and March. The lesser known of the large BAS stations, it is situated on the western edge of the British Antarctic claim. It has capacity for up to...

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Worth doing.

 

[crashbox]

I've never understood what exactly there is to research in the cold desolate wasteland that is the Antarctic/Arctic.

I've always imagined it's just a bunch of like-minded, fossil fuel burning scientists circlejerking, watching the ice melting and blaming it all on society and global warming. Or is there more to it than that? Watching penguins? Polar bears? Making sure the sun doesn't come up for 6 months? Who knows. No doubt someone will be able to enlighten me.

From what you hear on the news, the Antarctic is full of rapists and serial gropers.

If the world was really my oyster and I could pick any job, it would one of the following, in this order:
1: Pilot (big plane)
2: A job at the airport (anything would do, something airside would be nice, otherwise customer services or something like that)
3: Air crash investigator
4: Pathologist
5: Crime scene cleaner
6: General practitioner
7: Surgeon

Ironic that you refer to those working on the Antarctic as fossil fuel burning, and you'd be a pilot!

How about a pilot to the Antarctic?

Some good ideas there, though.

 

[Princess Pooper]

Join the police in one of the civilian roles.

 

[Matt14]

Plus one for this. Be very interesting experience. Martin Bell a local farmer's son was vehicles manager for the British antarctic survey, not sure if he still is. Used to get farmers to go and drive tractors/ machines down there.

I think Martin still has something to do with the job. He has a motorbike shop in kirkby now/well has had for some years now

 

[kiwi pom]

I've never understood what exactly there is to research in the cold desolate wasteland that is the Antarctic/Arctic.

I've always imagined it's just a bunch of like-minded, fossil fuel burning scientists circlejerking, watching the ice melting and blaming it all on society and global warming. Or is there more to it than that? Watching penguins? Polar bears? Making sure the sun doesn't come up for 6 months? Who knows. No doubt someone will be able to enlighten me.

From what you hear on the news, the Antarctic is full of rapists and serial gropers.

If the world was really my oyster and I could pick any job, it would one of the following, in this order:
1: Pilot (big plane)
2: A job at the airport (anything would do, something airside would be nice, otherwise customer services or something like that)
3: Air crash investigator
4: Pathologist
5: Crime scene cleaner
6: General practitioner
7: Surgeon

I don't know what they do either, but they seem to need a lot of people to do it, would be nice to go down for a look.

Currently asking my 9- and 11-year-olds what they want to do in life.
Not getting far, 9-year-old says teacher, that's about it.

 

[FonterraFarmer]

Sudden flash backs of my days in NZ. Go to queenstown for a few days on the lash and book in to a youth hostel. Was a regular occurrence to find several small framed blonde hair, blue eyed, back packers in your bunk.
Folks asked back home why I wanted to do back to back seasons when I could go and work at home steady away.

Queenstown , the outer suburb of Auckland, and like most of Auckland best avoided!!!

 

[FonterraFarmer]

I've never understood what exactly there is to research in the cold desolate wasteland that is the Antarctic/Arctic.

I've always imagined it's just a bunch of like-minded, fossil fuel burning scientists circlejerking, watching the ice melting and blaming it all on society and global warming. Or is there more to it than that? Watching penguins? Polar bears? Making sure the sun doesn't come up for 6 months? Who knows. No doubt someone will be able to enlighten me.

From what you hear on the news, the Antarctic is full of rapists and serial gropers.

If the world was really my oyster and I could pick any job, it would one of the following, in this order:
1: Pilot (big plane)
2: A job at the airport (anything would do, something airside would be nice, otherwise customer services or something like that)
3: Air crash investigator
4: Pathologist
5: Crime scene cleaner
6: General practitioner
7: Surgeon

Rapists and gropers, I never realised that the British have a base on the Antarctic???

 

[Danllan]

Sudden flash backs of my days in NZ. Go to queenstown for a few days on the lash and book in to a youth hostel. Was a regular occurrence to find several small framed blonde hair, blue eyed, back packers in your bunk.
Folks asked back home why I wanted to do back to back seasons when I could go and work at home steady away.

I worked on the rafts at Vic Falls for a bit, the job was similarly burdened...