tee1

If you are I would love to chat to you pretty please.
I'm about to apply to a training program and need to do some job research before hand.
Just what your job is like, the hours, conditions, what you like and dislike about your job etc etc.
If you have a few mins to spare over the forum or email it would be most appreciated.

Thanks

Piff Poff

My nexto door neighbour is, he likes to use heavy equipment to lay his new gravel drive at 10pm, he was still at it at 11:30pm when we went downstairs to sleep in the basement as we were fed up with scrap scrape scrape bleep bleep bleep grrrr. Sorry no help there at all.

haggis88

I'm a millwright, but work on some pretty heavy duty equipment

Most of the operators i've met seem to enjoy their jobs, but they've all been older guys with little to no family to speak of who just travel around with their equipment to wherever they are needed

The happiest guy i've ever met was a 75t Crane operator named Dave. He was 55, smoked like a chimney and drank like a fish...divorced his wife 10 years ago, had a grown up son who lived in the states.

Loved sitting on his arse for a 12hr nightshift and playing sudoku or whatever on his phone and telling stories on the coffee breaks haha - said he'd made enough to retire already but the lakehouse he's building won't be ready til the end of next summer for whatever reason, so he's just keeping himself occupied