Audi A/S8 Owners & their Work!
 

Hi everyone,

The title has brought you this far probably out of curiosity more than anything and it's something that I did on a previous car forum that proved to be invaluable to it members. This thread was reminded to me after the "Flappy Paddles!" thread where it reminded me in times gone by when the Evo owners wanted a harness bar better than the existing manufactured ones, and the changes made to suit us the users, the only way to do it would be to make it ourselves and this of course was easy as we simply referred to the Traders thread and found all of the members who added themselves to the thread as Fabricators or welders, or metal merchants, and using a combination of it's members the club managed to supply a harness bar that not only was perfect in design, but cost wise it beat everything on the market and more over it created work for it's few members that got involved... :cool: This worked for everything from car electrics to some of the female members using decorators in the area, all of this from using a "What is you trade!" type thread. So knowing how good it was I thought that I would start one here, which is for the sake of listing purposes, your Username, the area of where you work (as apposed to live) and the type of work that you do with a brief explanation. :cool:

So I'll Start and allow others to follow.

LordHefner / Transporter / England and Wales.
I drive various enveloped contracts/Bunches of Keys for estate agents, A collection of serviced watches from high end jewelers, Solicitors often use me for envelopes, I also move about managing directors of three companies in Cornwall, as well as vulnerable Children from safe house, to social rehabilitation programs or crown courts. Airport collection and Today I drove to Bristol Airport and back.

So if anyone needs to move anything the size of my boot between two places that is too valuable or time specific to trust to the regular couriers then I'm your man.

Regards, Mark.

Steve Sargent, Independent Financial Adviser, with a particular specialism in insurance and mortgages, and been in the trade since 1990 so not much else I could do now!

I work from home, often remotely by phone and email (saves the mileage) but basically cover the whole of the UK, so happy to help out any forum members, or point them in the right direction.

Cheers

The Laird/Jim Greaves/formerly IceBlue8

I work in marketing for a small biotechnology company just about to enter clinical evaluations for a multiplex diagnostic system for Invasive Fungal Disease. I got a doctorate in microbiology & genetics a long time ago but went into marketing 'cos I found lab work dull and poorly paid.

Yes, that's usually a conversation stopper! :o

I have a theory that lab work is funded but things like Cancer are not really being pushed to be cured due t the enormous wealth created by filling people with nitrites in Bacon for example that causes the cancers that keeps this country going! My question to you as a lab worker that is trying to crack a solution for fungal issues... do you feel that you were being suppressed by authorities above you are did you have the free run to push the limits of what was achievable and felt like you were actually getting somewhere to beating the problem? :Confused:

Regards, Mark.

Hi Mark

We're an independent company, so there's no-one directing what we do. But we've not developed a cure, just a better way of diagnosing the disease. Invasive Fungal Disease affects those whose immune system is suppressed (patients being treated for AIDS, cancer, transplants and so on) and can carry a mortality rate of >60%. Our system provides a much quicker diagnosis (hours rather than days) so that treatment can begin sooner and increase the chances of survival.
As for my earlier work in a lab, I was in the Public Health Lab - no research, just routine
analysis of samples from ill patients (did you ever wonder where that blood sample that your GP took ended up?).
But I don't share your view of cancer research - most cancers these days are curable and there have been huge advances in treatment over the last couple of decades. The problem is, the more we learn how to cure early-onset disease, the longer we live and the more likely we are to suffer from late-onset disease. And most cancers are not really a 'disease' - they're a manifestation of our own bodies malfunctioning. Cells that would normally be regulated to stop growing and dividing when they should, just keep on multiplying, causing a 'cancer'.
Once you start me on this stuff, I'm hard to stop!

Oli18/ Oliver van Bilsen / London - Dutch but have been in the UK for 20 years and call it 'home' :)

Global Head of Digital @Royal Dutch Shell for its engine oil & industrial lubricants brands - so pretty much all oils going into cars, motorcycles, trucks, diggers, manufacturing machinery, compressors, hydraulics, axles & transmissions, .... Anything apart from aviation or marine applications (we cover this separately :))

I can help advise on the following where needed:
- digital strategy & transformation
- online brand campaigns & promotions
- websites
- apps
- paid and organic seach
- social media
- crm
- lead generation
- tracking & analytics
- digital media

I am not an expert on all any more (it changes very quickly) but people in my team are so happy to pass on any queries anyone might have.

Thanks,

Oliver

Umm I'm sure we could talk loads! I've currently beat Cancer three times, however I'm a heavy methotrexate user and my liver has gone way past the half way point of it's lifetime toxicity, and generally all of my outstanding problems left where my body has been damaged has come from the Treatment on every occasion and not once a single time by any of the Cancers. My immune system is next to zero so my awesome body would build some more lovely Cancers without a second thought, and I often sit here wondering when it'll become 4 vs Nil :rolleyes: I do have strong view on disease have spent 22 years seriously ill and sitting on many wards, having many tests and the likes of, I just find some of the medical findings very strange in the way they present their treatments without many upfront answers. :tuttut: Maybe it's different on this side of things as it's pretty much the negative side of these ghastly killers, where I suppose your side is working more on the positives and maybe in that fact alone are opinions are diverse to each other.

Back with the thread though, good to see more people are contributing, as in the past knowledge of the working habits of the people you tend to speak with day in day out on this forum often helps out with the things in our life which could other wise be difficult locating, or sourcing, So keep the posts coming and at some point I will create a list so that anyone wishing to have an over view can simply see all the answers with a like back to the original post included in the list. :cool:

Regards, Mark.

Mark, I think the point is that without the research, without the medicine, it would probably have been 1-0 game over, there would not have been any second chances

I like the idea of the thread so people can help each other out, so hats off to getting it started.

My day to day job involves spanner bashing, probing and prodding and operating Work class ROV's so not much use directly in the forum.

But its a multi skilled role and as such one has to be proficient at fault finding and repairing many different types of systems from basic electrical stuff to High Voltage systems alongside hydraulic and mechanical machinery.

Making that lot work in salt water at depths up to 4000 metres keeps us on our toes some days.

So apart from helping in some small way to ensure the supply of oil and gas reaches our cars and homes the skills transfer across to tinkering with cars quite well and if anyone is in need of help I'm more than happy to assist where I can.

Awesome, so we have a hydraulics man on-board? :cool: I take it with your industry you're aware of the story of the film Jaws, and how the sea water killed the rig Shark and how the film ended up being the way it was! Less shark that they first wrote and wanted but due to it always being faulty when ever it went in salt water! foolishly on their part they'd built in pool and did the testing there giving the OK for productions to start the 78 alleged days of filming... however the production went on a further 13 months to allow for the fixing of the underwater shark for the filming!

I assume the industry has come along way since then? You say 4,000 metres down. The Titanic is 2.2 miles down so the machines that you build would be OK for that but near to the edge of the ability depth wise. +++

Regards, Mark.