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I am currently a system consultant in the oil business.
My father is a contractor/construction site manager (which is a great help when you are building a house).
My late mother was an accountant.
Can we put our next of kin into this? My wife is studying to become a pharmaceutical chemist.
Both my father and my grandfather were sailors when they were young, I stayed a landlubber even though being employed by His Majesty’s Royal Navy a couple of years.
Yeah, I did mean COBOL. ~D The spelling was kinda odd...Quote:
I sincerely wish it was a dead language, but it is most definitely not. A very large number of mission-critical applications (ALL of California's unemployment insurance benefit check generating systems, for example) in US state and federal government systems are written in MVS/COBOL. Originally coded back in the late 60s and early 70s, layer upon layer of functionality has been added over the decades, poorly documented, with the original programmers long gone. Now, the cost of deciphering these systems to simply understand the data and process flows is prohibitive, before even considering the migration path to up-to-date delivery platforms and programming languages. These severely antiquated systems cost a fortune to maintain, and keep a large number of COBOL programmers employed. As a tax payer I have been mortified about this for years now.
Anyway, my mum has been outof business for over 20 years so I don't think there is redemption for her......
But here in Europe, COBOL has been superceeded a VERY long time ago, except in old banks, and large companies but they have their own staff that has been there for ages....
I'm a military cop.
U.S. Marine Sergeant.
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Originally Posted by Beirut
What division/unit as tank commander? What football team? I'm very
interested ~:cool: if you don't mind telling.
@ichi- pleased to see/meet you ~;) .
Oh I forgot one of my father's professions for a time. For about 4 years he was a professional Game Cock fighter. Man the trouble and time it took for me to get my security clearance when I went into the military.
It might be because during this time period (1974-1978) he traveled to most if not all Centeral America nations - and several in South America.
It's the old story, he never really talked about it, except for being injured when he closed the tank lid on his finger and cut it clean off while fighting in Italy. I think it was the 1rst Canadian Division. Possibly the Grenadier Guards. I wish I knew more. I know more about my grandfather in WWI than about my old man in WWII.Quote:
Originally Posted by dgfred
He played for Montreal.
I am serving out my time at school, another three years left.
My mum manages her own property and my dad works for the Geneva Stock Exchange, but he is really a physicist and used to work on the particle accelerator at CERN.
Huzzah! A fello prospective applicant to Her Majesty's Armed Forces! Might I ask which service, corps, et cetera?Quote:
Originally Posted by Somebody Else
Thanks for the info ~:cheers: . I'm a huge sports fan and a military nut ~;) .Quote:
Originally Posted by Beirut
My dad is retired. He has worked as a docker, owned a betting shops with his brother and for Barclays Bank, I can't remember the name of the job something to with selling things.
The new Doctor dresses like he used to (only different colours):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/galle..._01/800/t1.jpg
He claims they copied him.~:cheers:
My mum works in an office for the local council as an admin officer.
I have never had a job (I am 20), I am at college and on the dole. I am looking for a part-time job.
My parents are pharmacists. They deal with legalities of drugs, and what needs to be in adverts. Stuff like that.
I'm a commercial banker, dad is an engineer working in Qatar, mom is a professional student.
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Originally Posted by Martinus
The blonde aint bad at all. :stunned:
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My dad has a big car parts company, with over 4000 clients...
My mum works as an accountant at the company.
And I am more like a secretary. I check my dad's email every day, and report him the important ones. ~:)
My mother teaches Biology. My father is retired.
My dad died in '03, but at various times he was a Marine Corps officer, a C.I.A. recruiter, a novelist and a columnist for a national mag. I think he was permanently scarred by his time as an altar boy. My mom is a business consultant, a job which makes her an ungodly sum of money, since she is supposed to be very good at it.
My wife is a pro chef, although she's taking a break to raise our brood. I'm a computer dude who has been forced into management. I also write articles and the occasional book when the money is right. If it sounds schitzophrenic, that's cause it is.
The entire family runs a growing construction enterprise, employing currently more than 60 people.
Dad – cappo di cappi.
Mom – holds all the accounting department and IRS off our back.
I – I do everything that needs being done; run constructions sites on different locations, up to 700 kilometers from each other, organize workforce, negotiate new business, material supply, coordination with the supervisors, obtaining new work, buying property, design building projects, sell apartments, doing vast array of paperwork, from simple correspondence to arranging so called construction books and architectural designs. And yes, I iron my shirts, cook and clean my own house, because I’m still single. :knight:
Aside to that, I write for two computer magazines and attempting to bring to an end my law faculty. Getting there soon, hopefully. ~:rolleyes:
Dad: runs a software company.
Mum: translates, and at the moment part-time secretary at dad's company.
Me: student, and I work at a local gym hall (setting things up for matches, cleaning up etc.) and give maths tuition to struggling younger students.
I agree.Quote:
The blonde aint bad at all.
Billie Piper is her name.
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Originally Posted by Martinus
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My grandma (whom I live with) is real estate manager for Ritas Water Ice.
Not sure yet - infantry of some sort - something interesting though. So, ghurkas or guards or something. Maybe the RM if I feel tough enough.Quote:
Originally Posted by King Malcolm
Particle accelerator at CERN? Why that sounds right out of Dan Brown's Angels and Demons.Quote:
Originally Posted by King Henry V
I am working for an Insurance Broking company in the UK ( One of the Big Uns but not the biggest yet.. ). So that makes me an Insurance Broker.
SO IF YOU NEED INSURANCE IN ENGLAND THEN PM ME ~;)
At the moment I am a Graduate Trainee which is a pilot scheme for my company ( they havent had an 'all locations' trainee programme before ) which involves me going through practically every different department and most locations throughout the firm.
I ve done my Special risks and Energy part ( Oildrills, Wind Generators and lots of Lloyd's stuff, loved it! ) and I am going to finish my Commercial Insurance part in December. Then I am leaving London for Leicester, Birmingham, Coventry, Nottingham and a bunch of other places till May, when my training programme end I get a post.
After that I do not know where I end up. I hope it ll be London and I hope I ll get me a Lloyd's pass but its gonna be tough...
Parents are both in Greece.
My mom is a businesswoman
My dad is an @#$^%$%