What can I do in historic aviation?

Are all hangers as cold as No 7 at Coventry though, or are there actually warm ones somewhere?

JC[/QUOTE]
You should tell Dave to put a pound in the meter next time John! 😉

Well, the Classic flight (or not actually, for reasons far to complicated to go into here)is all I know, and I love the work I’m doing on the Dak.

Are all hangers as cold as No 7 at Coventry though, or are there actually warm ones somewhere?

JC

Don’t get me wrong Adrian, I have never wanted to work in a “traditional” 9-5 office job, but when you’re busy returning a toilet bowl to it’s original pristine state 😉 such a job does (fleetingly) offer salvation 😀

The vacancies for the MA’s positions always attract large numbers of applicants for only a handful of positions…

No surprise there then!

Next time the bogs get on top of you fancy a week in a lab? You get a better class of clearing up after people bright enough to clear up after themselves… 😀 And I can get busy round the rim with the old Vickers-Supermarine F.24 bogscrubber….

Adrian

A bit harsh. As I say, I know a little bit of French and German, but I just can’t get the hang of Dutch. Don’t know why. Can’t even swear in it, much as I’d like to. 🙁

I hope it didn’t hurt too much. I was referring to my own experience. You’d be surprised how easy it is to learn languages once you get truly motivated.

Suechi -> Suche -> search
Flo

Thanks. I was afraid it was something to do with sushi…

Thanks for all the offers so far. Time for a short summary.
Until now, the options are:

Too many options, help me choose 😀

Florian

An airfield with toilets…… What luxury…..

Don’t get me wrong Adrian, I have never wanted to work in a “traditional” 9-5 office job, but when you’re busy returning a toilet bowl to it’s original pristine state 😉 such a job does (fleetingly) offer salvation 😀

The vacancies for the MA’s positions always attract large numbers of applicants for only a handful of positions…

Yes, there were days when I was on my hands and knees scrubbing toilet bowls wondering what the hell I was doing when I could have been making use of my degree in a nice warm skank free office somewhere, but those feelings soon passed. 😉

Good lord, how odd!

I was looking to get a job with my degree when I saw a Museum Assistant (bog cleaning etc) job advertised at Duxford. Now that was the one job I would happily have binned my degree for! As it was it was May-October, so I could carry on jobhunting.

They didn’t offer me it! Even more annoying, it took til October to get a job so it would have fitted perfectly…

So we are opposites! (cue “Twilight Zone” music). And here I am in a skank-free lab using my degree and reading about Duxford…

Adrian

I guess you are perfectly able to, just too lazy to start.

A bit harsh. As I say, I know a little bit of French and German, but I just can’t get the hang of Dutch. Don’t know why. Can’t even swear in it, much as I’d like to. 🙁

Martin, what is “Suechi”?

Suechi -> Suche -> search

But don’t worry if you have problems with “Zueriduetsch”, alot of Swiss people have too :diablo:

up to you, Martin 😉

Flo

Some body has to clean the Duxford toilets, after all they are a monument to the PHEWWWWW!!! :rolleyes:

I feel rather guilty for not being able to speak their language.

I guess you are perfectly able to, just too lazy to start.

Martin, what is “Suechi”?

The smell of sweaty armpits (pasties) haunts me daily 🙁

Frankly, I’d love to give up my job (in Plymouth’s Pannier Market – selling computer networks) to do something (anything except cleaning loos) on an active airfield – especially where there are historic planes around – too.

The only problem is, I would need to be paid 🙁 in order to finance my terribly destitute lifestyle, but enormous debts.

Well someone has got to clean the toilets…and I’m not too proud to admit that the first job I had with the IWM included cleaning the public toilets. I was so desperate to get my foot in the door with the IWM that I was prepared to start at the bottom. Yes, there were days when I was on my hands and knees scrubbing toilet bowls wondering what the hell I was doing when I could have been making use of my degree in a nice warm skank free office somewhere, but those feelings soon passed. Money was tight, and still has to be watched carefully sometimes but it was worth it 🙂

You could always share a house with someone if you couldn’t afford to rent a place of your own (obviously if you own your own place, it’s harder to up and move someplace else) If you were to get a job at Duxford you would have no problem finding a house to share in Cambridge.

Just a thought 🙂

Florian, I will get back to you asap re your accomodation query 😉

translate mode on:

Or do you want to learn a bit Dutch as well?

As I am, at this very moment, sitting in the Brussels office, a bit of Dutch profanity would be HUGELY amusing! 🙂

I do keep trying to pick up a few Dutch words, but for some wierd reason I really can’t grasp it. A great shame because my Dutch and Belgian colleagues are bloody good guys, and I feel rather guilty for not being able to speak their language. Still, it means they can carry on insulting me without me realising it. 😀

hear hear 🙂

or is that

here here 🙂

or maybe

ear ear!

I agree our international friends put us English speakers to shame-and at least they bother to make the effort.
Some of the posts from those who use English as their first language are so difficult to read, because of dreadful spelling and punctuation, that I give up on them.

And a craving for Cornish Pasties…;)

Flood

The smell of sweaty armpits (pasties) haunts me daily 🙁

Frankly, I’d love to give up my job (in Plymouth’s Pannier Market – selling computer networks) to do something (anything except cleaning loos) on an active airfield – especially where there are historic planes around – too.

The only problem is, I would need to be paid 🙁 in order to finance my terribly destitute lifestyle, but enormous debts.

Hear hear! That’s also something I find in the job, many of my European colleagues have a fantastic grasp of English. As I have only a smattering of French and German, my colleagues at work and the Europeans (and others) on here put me (and I would imagine most Brits) to shame on a regular basis.

Steve,

Of wil je soms ook een beetje Nederlands leren?

translate mode on:

Or do you want to learn a bit Dutch as well?

I can always start by teaching you the foul language, that seems to be remembered better, at least that’s what Ian Foster told me and he swears beautifully in Dutch. I only had to tell him to keep it down a bit while in a Pub in Amsterdam last year 😮 .

Cheers

Cees

As an aside, I’d like to compliment the many international users of this forum. We have many for whom English is not their first language and, in my opinion, their written English is exceptional.

Hear hear! That’s also something I find in the job, many of my European colleagues have a fantastic grasp of English. As I have only a smattering of French and German, my colleagues at work and the Europeans (and others) on here put me (and I would imagine most Brits) to shame on a regular basis.

[EXPLANATION MODE ON] now that was Swiss-German…wishing him good luck in his search [/EXPLANATION MODE OFF]
Martin, I’d rather say this is “Züri Düütsch” than real swiss german 😀 😀

Flo