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[Pandy]

I am a validation engineer. Hubby is unemployed.
We live in Bristol

[scaredykat]

I am a nurse, specialising in elderly care and live in damp grey yorkshire, (well today it is !) xx

[Andy1964]

I specialise in flooring people(no I'm not a boxer)[:D]. Been there for the past 21 years and worked my way up from general clerk to depot manager. So whatever your flooring needs I've got it covered.....how corny is that[:D]

[plasticdaft]

I drive an ambulance in scotland. Wife is a mental health nurse,who keeps threatening to have me sectioned!!!

Paul

[carole2662]

Waltons is that east or west Sussex

[Julie]

I am a validation engineer.

What is a validation engineer Pandy? Apologies for my ignorance [:I]

[Pandy]

Julie,
I basically, blow up solenoid valves in a laboratory, to check that they work correctly and fail in a safe manner, before I get asked... solenoid valves are used in Air breaking systems, train doors, men's urinals, rice sorting machines ,ink jet printers in fact anything that need a controlled air / fluid.
The new off road valve system that Jeremy Clarkson on Top Gear for Land Rover (the new Discovery 2009 version) was raving about was our valves, we have a brilliant design engineer that designed a new type of balanced valve.
Sorry to go on a bit as you can tell I quite like my job [:D][:D]

[Julie]

[:0] Wow, I didn't know solenoid valves existed! You learn something new every day [:)]Sounds fun to blow something up..legally [:D]

[Pandy]

It is I have to sit and dream up different ways our customers could abuse our valves then recreate it to make sure it fails without starting a fire etc, there is quite a bit of report writing etc but it is great fun being a valve murderer [:D][:D].
My favorite test is a burn out test (putting lots more voltage in that they are supposed to have) they can be quite spectacular when a valve catches fire. That make me sound really sad,[:I] that I get excited by that [:D]... I must get a life I wonder is Sainsbury's sell them.
[:D][:D]

[Julie]

I must get a life I wonder is Sainsbury's sell them.

My hubby is a Sains Manager [:D]

How long have you been a valve murderer??

[Pandy]

just over 10 years, I started on the factory floor building them in early 1998, but then the job came up in the lab in 2000, so I applied got it, the company paid for me to go to college for a National Certificate in Mechatronic Engineering (a mixture of meachanical and electrical engineering) and I am now the 2nd in charge in the lab, I have to run it when my boss is away which is about 50% of the time.


I am the token female in the technical dept which is great apart from half the time they forget I am female [:D] and the language gets a little fruity to say the least.

[animaleyes76]

I'm a software test analyst/systems analyst for the german stock exchange

[kallis3]

I would quite happily give up my job tomorrow if I could:

a) retire

b) find another one which pays me as much as I get now.

Not much chance of either at the moment!

[Shining]

I want to get out of teaching, we're in the process of a new college being built so will hopefully pick up a non-teaching role within this. x

[flow13]

I am an IT administrator for a housing association in the Black Country (no - its not Black Country Housing - hehe!). We provide supported housing to vulnerable people (homeless/victims of domestic violence/teenage parents/exoffenders).