So, what do E30 owners do when they aren't Zoning?

[madaboutthe30]

Im fresh from Uni, just graduated in Computer Science and looking for a job in Computer Consultancy -NayC maybe you could give me some advise

When Im not on the zone, im either working at my local department store - supervisor on the womens wear floor

or working on my cars

[Nay]

Cheers lads, there is a huge diversity on the go, but I definately think there is a trend your all not spotting.

Most people here are more hands on jobs. Mechanics, Chefs, Lab dummies, Funiture Makers and Male escorts!

Theres seems to be a good lack of office lackies and supposedly "cushy" jobs, etc.

The only proper office people here are developers so far by the seems like me and konfuzion. But we do jobs that are like computer related challenges. Keep the mind active!

@madaboutthe3 - Good luck in the industry. You'll find that you'll be off to work in the consultancy world and know next to nothing! But thats a good thing as our jobs are consistently learning. For a good, well-spoken young lad entering the Business world (for example, software development, such as myself or Ian (konfuzion)) is to either get as much experience as possible. Offer to work for free if you can't get a job. Accept any job that will train you in that field. Training, training, training... learning, learning, learning! Most important thing by far in an interview is show a serious interest, ask them what they do, their technologies blah blah... AND express a strong willingness to learn and improve. Dont be a know-it-all as very few senior developers will claim they actually know a lot. They'll be specialised in a few places most.

The consultancy side of things should offer you some nice money, and quite often a relaxed environment, or a stressy one, but can swing either way. Massive sense of achievement when you finally deploy software for offshore banks or government software and get good feedback!
Anyway, PM me if you want some advice on interviews etc. I'm sure even Konfuzion will give you an insight into being a fully fledged senior developer...

I'm looking forward to working within different branches of my company around the globe! Guernsey , Isle of man (you all know what that means!), Cayman Islands and Barmuda! Offshore tax haven trip around the globe.




Anyways. Looks like we all lead very different lives! 'Variety is the spice of life' they say!
Keep it up as this is getting interesting

[Felix79]

Well I'm going to return to Uni in the new term to start a years course in IT. I was doing systems administration for a hospital for 5 years. Also in the middel of sueing same employers for wrecking my back.

Other than the zone I play World of Warcraft with a few mates of mine and to keep an eye on my nefue who adores the game. I'm also involed with saving the Avero Vulcan and also been helping with raising money for Concorde at the airbus factory in Bristol ( before my back injury in early 2007 ).

[Nay]

Please dont play WoW... I'm a huge gamer, love all sorts of games and MMO's are appealing to me. Not saying WoW is a rubbish game, I've played it for a few months, but it eats away at your life! I've had that experience with Counter-Strike and Source and its not good. I'm now just playing a game with a difinitive ending to ensure that there is a good sense of satisfication for playing the game, and completing it! To many of my mates have got lost somewhere in StormWind castle and their phones dont get answered....



Anyway, i'll get back on topic

[ProperOldschool]

Student for :
Aerospace and space-rocket engineering in university

Starting my own business though hopefully in 3 months I will be up and running.
If it all goes according to my plans, then I could potentially NEVER EVER have to work for the rest of my life and have 100 E30 M3s.

But right now, I'm a lazy C*UNT who can't even get out of bed at 2PM for a piss.

[pac1982]

This time of year my life is mostly taken up by my own business
importing and selling motorbikes and scooters

www.PSUK.BTtradespace.com

Due the seasonal nature of selling motorbikes i also work 8hrs a day 5 days a week as part of the security team at the National Space Centre

By the way if any one happens to be a web designer and want to make me a better website than the piss poor example above drop me a PM!

[poolnoodle]

Wastewater Services Engineer - for utility company Southern Water

[E30Mark]

Im an electrical engineering apprentice. Starting my HNC in september and doing my apprenticship with a company which builds generator sets using turbine engines (the bit i do) and oth other half of the company which makes turbine blades for turbines.

Which company? I worked for Bowman Power for a while heading up there electrical packaging dept, our primary business was gas turbine CHP's. Left there and re-trained as an electrician, have now run my own business for the last 6 years. Apart from the sparky work I also fit kitchens / bathrooms etc.

Started my working career as a mechanical designer in mainly defence & communication systems, best part time job i have had was working in a hospital, clearing up the burns & operating theatres. Don't know why i enjoyed that job so much, might of been all the young ladies

[powelly]

Until July 30th i'm a Technical Editor, I write the ICME repair time and service schedule data for cars and vans, my job has been outsorced to India and I will then be un employed. In a former life I was an HGV mechanic and later went on to work on cars, I am now sick to the back teeth of working in the motor industry and would advise anyone who is thinking of getting in to it to think again, it's sh1t.

[Steve]

I work full time for a plastic fabrication company, Managing the Laser department and drawing in many packages including AutoCad.

I spend a lot of time with my wife and two kids who always come first.

I never really get away from the Zone I'm always upgrading, fixing, writing code, the zone is like having a third child lol !

If I'm really lucky I might get a chance to work on the car ! but not very often, maybe that's why it's been off the road for 6 years

[clarko74]

I'm an architect.

[R4N_S_S]

I work as a Web Deverloper for very successful media company and this includes some very interesting Sports clients.

Im also in the process of starting my own companies designing, developing and hosting sites.

I have to say quite of few of the sites posted in this thread do need updating.

[Jhonno]

I am a BEng (Mech), working as a Design Engineer, dealing with large excavators, demolition and long reach machines

[Nay]

I agree with you, but then again, we work in the industry. Quite often a web page is just there to help smaller companies give out some of their information for already interested clients.

Maybe just a graphic touch up and sort the layouts and designs to a more modern standard, but they aren't too bad... apart from pac1982 who would benefit a bit from his own site, pulled away from that god damn aweful looking BT Traders site... Well there you go pac! 3 Web Developers linguring around....

[scottidog]

Workshop controller at sunwin mazda in guiseley. Im also a compulsive masturbator.

[bramley]

Full time: work for an advertising agency
Self employed: photographer - mainly weddings

[Falkster]

I was a commercial manager working for Asda but decided to end my life by becoming a night store manager.....initially to enhance my chances of further progression!!!

No matter how much money they give nights isnt worth it!!!

[magpie]

So, what do E30 owners do when they aren't Zoning?

breed!

[steve_k]

up until september last year i was working as a stock controller/wharehouse man/flt (counter balance & high reach) driver/order picker/dogs body for possibly one of the biggest haulage firms in the uk & eu till i fecked up my shoulder & now like felix i'm suing them for the damage it's done & also suing them for sacking me for having time off for a problem they caused.

looking at going back to college in the new term to finish off a mechanical engineering corse (spelling?) i started when i was 17 & i really hope i can get back into doing it.

so all in all i'm a goverment artist at the moment.

[steve_k]

So, what do E30 owners do when they aren't Zoning?

breed!

fecking hell mick!

from what i've seen in your people carrier thread i reckon the last thing you need to be doing is going for a footie team lol.

mind you there's nowt on the tv worth watching at night.

















don't worry fella i'm only messing about

[magpie]

i have a 42" telly that has around
47 channels of crap to choose from,

a box of spanners and an e30,
or/and Louise if i get the time.


love the e30!

[gooner1]

I'm a train driver for a well known bearded chap

....... and i help to keep the tracks safe and in good condition
for the passage of said trains. Have recently moved back to
hands on work, as opposed to office based and stress.
6oo sovs a month down, but so much happier.

[Ziggy]

Engineer - defence industry.

However, I am currently reading a book that is aligned with my belief that increasingly in this day and age, we are never happier than when doing/fixing/making things with our hands - Amazon it - 'Shop Work as Soul Craft'

You're not wrong. Amazing how coming home from work & going straight into the garage to fix something can be so satisfying! Or I could sit in front of the TV.

My first love will always remain football - more even than M42's and Orange Indicators.

Don't spout that ****. You used to love your clear indicators and you know it.

[aidanr]

I'm a project engineer for a Subsea installation company.

Install oil & gas pipelines, structures etc on the seabed using ships, robots and divers ... all so that we can get oil back to land and make it into go go juice for the jammer

[oakey]

I do whatever I can to make money. Mainly youth work and Art and a bit of plumbing, decorating. I'm thinking of going into mural painting. Anyone got any work??

[George]

I'm a doctor. Also enjoy photography on the side.

[Felix79]

Please dont play WoW... I'm a huge gamer, love all sorts of games and MMO's are appealing to me. Not saying WoW is a rubbish game, I've played it for a few months, but it eats away at your life! I've had that experience with Counter-Strike and Source and its not good. I'm now just playing a game with a difinitive ending to ensure that there is a good sense of satisfication for playing the game, and completing it! To many of my mates have got lost somewhere in StormWind castle and their phones dont get answered....



Anyway, i'll get back on topic

I use to play lots of FPS when I was younger and I've won a fair bit of cash from tourniments over the years. One MMORPG I use to play ended up with me getting 1300 people on my msn and making me enough cash to buy my 325i cab!

[appletree]

I drive round the UK servicing dairy and brewery equipment, thers four other service engineers and we do the whole of the UK wiseman, arla and dairy crest sites aswell as alot of little farm dairys.

I'm always driving up and down the A1, M1, M42, M5, M74 and M25 so if you see one of these vans give them a wave as i'll more than lightly be in it.

Mines the lower one with the ring and M25 ring sticker on it

[daimlerman]

I am a HGV class 1 driver for a frozen/chilled food distributor.I work evenings/nights,one week I trunk to Farnbough(hi Simon13!)the other I go to Aylesford.Very boring work,all I do is point the thing at a motorway and engage cruise control....
I keep a sailing cruiser at Hickling Broad in Norfolk,well,I am trying to...the pub I moor at has had a change of tenant and the new guy wants all 50 odd privately owned boats off 'his' land!
This thread just demonstrates the diversity of the zone,our common interest is E30's and their preservation and continued use.

[ImysE30]

I work as a Housing Surveyor for the Council as a full-time job

Have another job part-time to help by

[Dreamracer1]

Blimey Imy, I thought you worked for the Zone!

[Nay]

Imy,
1. Took you a while to post... out of all people!
2. Housing Surveyor? wtf do you do? Seems your at your desk 24/7?

[Alex]

Imy,
1. Took you a while to post... out of all people!
2. Housing Surveyor? wtf do you do? Seems your at your desk 24/7?

Forum Surveyor ?

[Sawyer_E30]

You can get the zone on your Blackberry these days!

[Alex]

You can get the zone on your Blackberry these days!

i can get it on my n95 but its crap as you have to do loads of scrolling, i vote for a mobile version of the zone