Hello!
Oct 27th 2007, 11:48 pm
#31
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Re: Hello!
Hi Ghost Rider,
As I mentioned earlier 16 years in design and print has left me wanting to experience something different. I was 31 last week so I can hardly be branded a diverer wouldn't you agree? The past 5 years have been spent self employed and if it were not for my wife being offered a position too good to turn down i'd be staying with my company.
We aim to stay a min of 2 years in dubai. Long enough to pay the mortgage off and then who knows?
I see the move as an opportunity to try something new. Something exciting and what i'm interested in.
I'm not desperate to get a job before i get out to Dubai although it would nice to have something to look forward too. I've got other irons in the fire though so who knows.
What field are you in?
Regards
Craig
As I mentioned earlier 16 years in design and print has left me wanting to experience something different. I was 31 last week so I can hardly be branded a diverer wouldn't you agree? The past 5 years have been spent self employed and if it were not for my wife being offered a position too good to turn down i'd be staying with my company.
We aim to stay a min of 2 years in dubai. Long enough to pay the mortgage off and then who knows?
I see the move as an opportunity to try something new. Something exciting and what i'm interested in.
I'm not desperate to get a job before i get out to Dubai although it would nice to have something to look forward too. I've got other irons in the fire though so who knows.
What field are you in?
Regards
Craig
it is always nice to have something to look forward too,
i hope you find what you are looking for.
Oct 28th 2007, 5:24 am
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Oct 28th 2007, 5:30 am
#34
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Re: Hello!
Since you're in no hurry to secure a job before you get here then just come over and have a look for yourself. You might be lucky and find a 'cool' job that does what you want, and get paid at western rates for the cachet of having a westerner in the job... There are some jobs here where your pay packet depends on your race/nationality after all.
Oct 28th 2007, 7:52 am
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Re: Hello!
Hi Ghost Rider,
As I mentioned earlier 16 years in design and print has left me wanting to experience something different. I was 31 last week so I can hardly be branded a diverer wouldn't you agree? The past 5 years have been spent self employed and if it were not for my wife being offered a position too good to turn down i'd be staying with my company.
We aim to stay a min of 2 years in dubai. Long enough to pay the mortgage off and then who knows?
I see the move as an opportunity to try something new. Something exciting and what i'm interested in.
I'm not desperate to get a job before i get out to Dubai although it would nice to have something to look forward too. I've got other irons in the fire though so who knows.
What field are you in?
Regards
Craig
As I mentioned earlier 16 years in design and print has left me wanting to experience something different. I was 31 last week so I can hardly be branded a diverer wouldn't you agree? The past 5 years have been spent self employed and if it were not for my wife being offered a position too good to turn down i'd be staying with my company.
We aim to stay a min of 2 years in dubai. Long enough to pay the mortgage off and then who knows?
I see the move as an opportunity to try something new. Something exciting and what i'm interested in.
I'm not desperate to get a job before i get out to Dubai although it would nice to have something to look forward too. I've got other irons in the fire though so who knows.
What field are you in?
Regards
Craig
If I were you I'd forget trying to be a guide. I mean, how can you be a guide when you have never been to the desert & don't know how to drive out there?
There are quite a few design agancies so you could try contacting them for work. Your pay will depend on the level of your role, experience etc. Those at the top end earn good salaries, at the bottom however - well, you said you don't need the money..
And I'm still laughing at the suggestion that anyone from Hull could sound posh!
Good luck.
Oct 28th 2007, 9:39 am
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Nov 1st 2007, 10:44 am
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Re: Hello!
If I were you I'd forget trying to be a guide. I mean, how can you be a guide when you have never been to the desert & don't know how to drive out there?
There are quite a few design agancies so you could try contacting them for work. Your pay will depend on the level of your role, experience etc. Those at the top end earn good salaries, at the bottom however - well, you said you don't need the money..
And I'm still laughing at the suggestion that anyone from Hull could sound posh!
Good luck.
There are quite a few design agancies so you could try contacting them for work. Your pay will depend on the level of your role, experience etc. Those at the top end earn good salaries, at the bottom however - well, you said you don't need the money..
And I'm still laughing at the suggestion that anyone from Hull could sound posh!
Good luck.
Huh?
I can guarantee it wouldn't be a bottom end position, Meow!
Actually I'm from Walkington, East Yorkshire (near Hull). It has a duck pond and everything. C'mon, how can that not be posh! Tra-laa.
Bugger it! I'll look for a job when I get out there!
Nov 1st 2007, 1:10 pm
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Re: Hello!
Just a thought - can a wife sponsor her husband??
I know certain professions you can, ie teacher but did think there were certain restrictions?
I know certain professions you can, ie teacher but did think there were certain restrictions?
Nov 1st 2007, 1:24 pm
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if said woman is a Doctor, a Teacher, a Nurse, or a Lawyer - the list is probably bigger now but that was the criteria before
Nov 1st 2007, 6:07 pm
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Re: Hello!
Hi Ghost Rider,
As I mentioned earlier 16 years in design and print has left me wanting to experience something different. I was 31 last week so I can hardly be branded a diverer wouldn't you agree? The past 5 years have been spent self employed and if it were not for my wife being offered a position too good to turn down i'd be staying with my company.
We aim to stay a min of 2 years in dubai. Long enough to pay the mortgage off and then who knows?
I see the move as an opportunity to try something new. Something exciting and what i'm interested in.
I'm not desperate to get a job before i get out to Dubai although it would nice to have something to look forward too. I've got other irons in the fire though so who knows.
What field are you in?
Regards
Craig
As I mentioned earlier 16 years in design and print has left me wanting to experience something different. I was 31 last week so I can hardly be branded a diverer wouldn't you agree? The past 5 years have been spent self employed and if it were not for my wife being offered a position too good to turn down i'd be staying with my company.
We aim to stay a min of 2 years in dubai. Long enough to pay the mortgage off and then who knows?
I see the move as an opportunity to try something new. Something exciting and what i'm interested in.
I'm not desperate to get a job before i get out to Dubai although it would nice to have something to look forward too. I've got other irons in the fire though so who knows.
What field are you in?
Regards
Craig
So what sort of work did you start off doing as a 15-year-old design and print trainee in Hull?
Colouring in pictures with crayons doesn't count, I'm afraid.......
Nov 1st 2007, 6:29 pm
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Re: Hello!
...earth with a bang...
OK that was a short lived dream!
Anyone got a WELL PAID job in design & print they need filling.
Seasoned pro. Man & boy! Go on, ask me a design & print related question!
Mac wizard, Adobe Illustrator genius, Photoshop PRO, Quark.. blah de fricken blah!
OK that was a short lived dream!
Anyone got a WELL PAID job in design & print they need filling.
Seasoned pro. Man & boy! Go on, ask me a design & print related question!
Mac wizard, Adobe Illustrator genius, Photoshop PRO, Quark.. blah de fricken blah!
who do you work for in HUll????
Nov 1st 2007, 7:48 pm
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Started a few days after my 16th birthday at Oriel Printing company - Hull
Film work, plate making, 4 colour planning on the print side and was taught to use Apple Macs (on a IIci!) - QuarkXpress, Photoshop, Freehand, Pagemaker (popular at the time) on the design side. (Luckily just missed paste up artwork - although they did still do it on my work experience). 3 years later offered a job in a design agency (Innovative Graphics) again in Hull. 2 years later moved to Creativ in Driffield, this time using Adobe Illustrator. 1 year of commuting made me decide to move to Lee & Isle (now Lee Creative) as artworker before being promoted to Studio Manager. A 1 month contract with the BBC lured me away 3 years later. Managed to get a job the same week it finished at another printing company - this time Screen Printing.
A year of working for 2 bosses that didn't have a clue saw the birth of my own Company which I set up with the Production manager of the last firm.
Not a fricken' crayon in sight!
I have never been unemployed in all that time...
That's the thing now. Young kids don't seem to want to work or have any direction. Obviously not all kids are the same but the 2 we had working for us were a right waste of space.
In my day....
Last edited by Hull Lad; Nov 1st 2007 at 7:54 pm.
Nov 1st 2007, 7:54 pm
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Oriel Printing the bain of my life...
I used to work for Heidelberg, Leeds office.
Works Controller for Prepress and Ele's eng's etc.. have you heard of heidelberg? Now, we live in Dallas and my husband works for Heidelberg USA he is a press demonstrator..small world.
Oriel have presses and prepress....
Nov 1st 2007, 7:59 pm
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Oh yes...indeed l do,
Oriel Printing the bain of my life...
I used to work for Heidelberg, Leeds office.
Works Controller for Prepress and Ele's eng's etc.. have you heard of heidelberg? Now, we live in Dallas and my husband works for Heidelberg USA he is a press demonstrator..small world.
Oriel have presses and prepress....
Oriel Printing the bain of my life...
I used to work for Heidelberg, Leeds office.
Works Controller for Prepress and Ele's eng's etc.. have you heard of heidelberg? Now, we live in Dallas and my husband works for Heidelberg USA he is a press demonstrator..small world.
Oriel have presses and prepress....
I worked for Oriel when they were on Sutton Fields Industrial Estate. Good times.
Who did you liase with there? John Simms? Bob, Richard? Or was it Stu the works manager?
