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Old 23-09-2011, 12:10 PM   #61
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Old 23-09-2011, 12:25 PM   #62
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Old 24-09-2011, 03:44 PM   #63
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I'm a 2nd year apprentice auto electrician, but I specialise in emergency vehicles, so basically, all we do is deal with canbus systems and all sorts of lighting/sirens. We turn new Mercedes Sprinters into ambulances, comes in our workshop as a new white sprinter, comes out as a fully decked out ambulance.

I'm not very good at my job, I seem to break everything I touch, lol.
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Old 24-09-2011, 04:52 PM   #64
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Ooh Damo, that cool. Do you chuck all the medical equipment in there too, or is that done after you've siren'ised it.

Im a student at ACU, fulltime studying physiotherapy (with aspirations to study medicine). Currently working 31hrs over weekend period at woolworths, in the Deli.... lol, which is pretty average. I suppose when you work at a part time place long enough that you're not longer the bottom of the food chain (and the new little dumplings are), you get comfortable and just go with the flow.

Some of the jobs people do here are spastically cool!
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Old 24-09-2011, 05:41 PM   #65
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Old 24-09-2011, 06:01 PM   #66
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Ooh Damo, that cool. Do you chuck all the medical equipment in there too, or is that done after you've siren'ised it.

Im a student at ACU, fulltime studying physiotherapy (with aspirations to study medicine). Currently working 31hrs over weekend period at woolworths, in the Deli.... lol, which is pretty average. I suppose when you work at a part time place long enough that you're not longer the bottom of the food chain (and the new little dumplings are), you get comfortable and just go with the flow.

Some of the jobs people do here are spastically cool!
We fit some medical stuff in there like blood pressure monitors, oxygen lines, oxygen bottles, a few things here and there like stretcher bases, I think the rest of the stuff is all mobile as in isn't built in with the ambulance.

We pretty much do the whole thing in house except for radio gear, as thats done by radio techs outside of our company, theres sticker guys who put all the decals on for us in our workshop etc.

We have fitters who put in all the walls and furniture in the van.

We don't just do ambulances, we've done support vehicles for melbourne fire brigade, which is a big Mercedes Sprinter with work benches, cupboards, tools, generator to give 240V power and air compressors for compressed air supply, its a mobile workshop to look after their vehicles.

Patient transporters for the big companies, which is like an ambulance but without all the goodies.

Prison vans, we've got 7 more coming in the next few weeks, done two already.

At the moment we're doing Ambulances, Patient transporters, and a mobile control tower for Melbourne Airport which is a truck but it has a room on hydraullics which can be lifted 6.5M up into the air which has air conditioning, and everything a control tower would have.
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Old 24-09-2011, 09:40 PM   #67
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That sounds way more fun than pulling kilometers of cable and crawling in roofs...
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Old 26-09-2011, 01:01 PM   #68
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I work for a company called AudioXtra.

We wholesale our Axis brand of car audio, Blaupunkt and Spal products for your car entertainment. We supply reversing camera kits, rear sensors, wiring and installation components. We are also the registered distributor of Dynamat in Australia, and stock their full range of Xtreme car audio solutions, and also architectural sound deadening products.

I am currently required to be the company's Bible of car audio info on all our products, and also what a customer would need to suit their needs if the retailer is some punk who can't sell a product properly.

www.audioxtra.com.au <<< Thats our webpage, and if you're in SA, hit me up and I can arrage to find your nearest outlet (Autobarn/Autopro/Sprint) and get you all sorted

I am the sales coordinator a tour office on Tapleys Hill Rd, so when you ring, I'm the one you speak to
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Old 26-09-2011, 05:05 PM   #69
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I work as a Traffic Planner.

Basically, I plan out temporary road works and the speeds that traffic has to go through them. I don't make you all go 40km/h for the hell of it... There's a lot of QLD law and legislation and safety requirements behind that simple 40 speed limit. So keep at 40, you make the Traffic Controllers happy (and you don't want to piss them off. They will stop you for up to 15mins if you do), and you're making all the workers perform in a safer working environment

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Old 01-10-2011, 09:27 PM   #70
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That sounds way more fun than pulling kilometers of cable and crawling in roofs...
It can suck though when you're the guy on the concrete floor running the battery cables underneath the car, or an older car has come in which needs a new step, hello 300,000km of dirt, mud and diesel build up in your face haha.
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Old 04-10-2011, 06:36 PM   #71
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I'm another Auto Electrician. Haha. I do almost everything auto electrical, and custom audio install as well.

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Old 04-10-2011, 06:49 PM   #72
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Old 01-12-2011, 11:48 PM   #73
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I used to service and maintain polystyrene molding machines before one tried to eat me, for now im waiting for my next surgery, missing out on the big money!
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Old 02-12-2011, 04:59 AM   #74
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I am a fitter and machinist by trade and branched off to work underground as a fitter fixing all the coal cutting machinery
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Old 02-12-2011, 06:08 PM   #75
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(y) for you! My brother is disabled, you people are life savers!

I think i've already posted in this.. but ill say again... But i work at Typo (Arts/stationary store) and i'm currently doing santa photos.

I'm at uni as well doing graphic design.

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Old 02-12-2011, 07:31 PM   #76
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I thought we had this thread a few years back. I used to be a research Scientist working on a vaccine for a nasty animal disease at Monash, so was doing all kind of DNA, protein and at times animal work. For the last nearly 6 yrs I have worked for a company I used in that job so go visit everyone else pretty much on the East coast bar NSW who works on that and either fix something, sell something, or design experiments for them. BTW Dan, if you see me since last week the Skoda is now my wifes car, and I'm in something big and black now......
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Old 02-12-2011, 07:38 PM   #77
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BTW Dan, if you see me since last week the Skoda is now my wifes car, and I'm in something big and black now......
Yeah i saw mention somewhere that your plates weren't on it anymore - i assumed you'd sold it.
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