Currently self employed in property maintenance which was supposed to be filling in between jobs but seems to be ongoing. Can be fun, depends on the customer you get. Get the odd freelance modelmaking job as well, last job was building scale models of vans for an exhibition.
Previous job I was mechanical engineer in charge of R&D and building animated and animatronic figures for shopping centre Christmas displays and built and installed the figures for the Meadowhall and Metro shopping centres. Very interesting work, great fun just playing with ideas every spring, building figures and displays in the summer, then October to January travelling UK and Ireland installing, maintaining and dismantling the displays.
Before that I was a modelmaker building engineering prototypes (even an r/c prototype for Tyco!), display models and interactive museum displays.
All great fun, interesting work but none of them pay much.
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