Audi A/S8 Owners & their Work!

[LordHefner]

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... 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.

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.

[sarg]

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]

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!

[LordHefner]

Originally Posted by The_Laird

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!

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?

Regards, Mark.

[The_Laird]

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]

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