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View Poll Results: Which one of these two jobs would you take?
Sweets packing job. 19 51.35%
Vehicle refinishing job. 18 48.65%
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Old 27-12-2016, 20:11
TobiasBudzynski
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A job in a sweets packing factory? (And no, you don't get to eat any of the sweets there! )

Or a job in a workshop as a vehicle refinisher?

It's just that in the new year, if things go to plan, I'll be giving up my boring factory job for a vehicle refinishing job.
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Old 27-12-2016, 20:14
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What's a vehicle refinisher?
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Old 27-12-2016, 20:14
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Good luck.
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Old 27-12-2016, 20:14
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Neither of the above.
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Old 27-12-2016, 20:15
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What's a vehicle refinisher?
PaInting vehicles such as cars.
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Old 27-12-2016, 20:17
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PaInting vehicles such as cars.
Oh right. Neither then, both sound as boring as hell.
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Old 27-12-2016, 20:19
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Neither of the above.
Why not? Too boring?
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Old 27-12-2016, 20:23
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I'd go back to school.
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Old 27-12-2016, 20:27
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The sweets

I could get a job in Emmerdale and be on the tele
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Old 27-12-2016, 20:29
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I'd go back to school.
Not too long now...
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Old 27-12-2016, 20:31
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Neither, ideally
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Old 27-12-2016, 20:32
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Not too long now...
If only, though it's been so long since I've used a pen for more than signing my name (and even that's a rare thing now), that I'd probably have to insist on recording the lectures with my phone.
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Old 27-12-2016, 21:03
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Sweets packing. I hate sweets, but it sounds like a less demanding job.
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Old 27-12-2016, 21:20
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PaInting vehicles such as cars.
So you are going to learn this trade then and there is alot more to this than the painting side of things as you put it. Its a highly skilled job.
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Old 28-12-2016, 09:29
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can't believe no one has asked if you do fudge.
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Old 28-12-2016, 09:57
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Are you a qualified vehicle refinisher?



And have you got your own paint brushes?
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Old 28-12-2016, 10:17
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can't believe no one has asked if you do fudge.
A mate of mine took a holiday job packing fudge, I think he seriously underestimated the amount of pisstaking he would get.

Painting cars sounds quite interesting.
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Old 28-12-2016, 10:38
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A mate of mine took a holiday job packing fudge, I think he seriously underestimated the amount of pisstaking he would get.

Painting cars sounds quite interesting.
And lucrative when you are skilled. Though I imagine there must be some bucks to be made as a professional fudge packer too
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Old 28-12-2016, 10:50
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Very surprised by the results. I'm assuming the poll is based on the fact that both jobs are available? The vehicle finishing is a skilled job, with potentially far more earning potential, possible qualifications and future prospects if you are prepared to work at it. Could actually be the start of something, give your a trade to branch off from. I know people who have worked their way up through the trade and made a good career out of it as a body shop tech, managers or running their own business. They all started at the bottom and worked hard. Yet more people would rather put sweets in a packet?
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Old 28-12-2016, 11:05
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Very surprised by the results. I'm assuming the poll is based on the fact that both jobs are available? The vehicle finishing is a skilled job, with potentially far more earning potential, possible qualifications and future prospects if you are prepared to work at it. Could actually be the start of something, give your a trade to branch off from. I know people who have worked their way up through the trade and made a good career out of it as a body shop tech, managers or running their own business. They all started at the bottom and worked hard. Yet more people would rather put sweets in a packet?
Some of them maybe would enjoy the rather obvious double entendre
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Old 28-12-2016, 11:31
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Very surprised by the results.
One job involves being around the smell of paint all day every day, staring at metal to see if there's the slightest little blemish. While the sweet packing doesn't exactly sound wonderfully exciting I'm sure I'd find it less tedious. Not considering the prospects really.

Sweet packing = boring
Vehicle refinishing = boring + you have to concentrate more on that boring thing

If given the choice between 2 jobs I don't think I'd find massively interesting I'd rather take the one that I think I could switch off from more. That's the story of my working life and probably why I've never got anywhere but I am happier that way.
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Old 28-12-2016, 11:36
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Ignore the negativity - I hope you enjoy the new job, which sounds more interesting and seems to have some prospects for the future too, from what others have said.
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Old 28-12-2016, 11:44
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i expect you have to wear a hairnet when you're packing sweets. Not a good look
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Old 28-12-2016, 11:52
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Vehicle refinisher. Although I've never heard it called that before. I'd consider spray painting cars a pretty skilled job - one that's in short supply round here - good ones anyway.

It's a useful trade and if you're any good you might have an option of setting up on your own one day.

But packing sweets is a wage so no shame in keeping that on either.
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Old 28-12-2016, 12:09
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One job involves being around the smell of paint all day every day, staring at metal to see if there's the slightest little blemish. While the sweet packing doesn't exactly sound wonderfully exciting I'm sure I'd find it less tedious. Not considering the prospects really.

Sweet packing = boring
Vehicle refinishing = boring + you have to concentrate more on that boring thing

If given the choice between 2 jobs I don't think I'd find massively interesting I'd rather take the one that I think I could switch off from more. That's the story of my working life and probably why I've never got anywhere but I am happier that way.
How can some people have such a weak outlook.
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