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How Do You Earn A Crust?

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I did 24 years in electrical wholesaling ,started as storeman and worked my way up to branch manager for 5 years and for the last 8 years I've been working for an electrical exporter
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 Posted 09/02/2012  6:19 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Squire Wilson to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Here is a pic of the 1806 Cartwheel penny that my dad found in the Sydney Botanical Gardens back in the 1970's. Shows the effect of 150 + years of Australian summers and winters. About as "true blue" a coin as you can get, hence the blue background .

Squire

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Its not a cartwheel penny but none the less very old with a lot of history behind it no doubt. Was it found in a hole or just on top of the ground in the gardens?
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Hi enworb.
Thanks for correcting me on that one . Of course, the Cartwheel Penny has a thick rim.
There is a groove along the rim of the above 1806 penny. This is what made me think if it as a "Cartwheel Penny" in the first place.

I will ask my dad where he found it when next we meet.

Squire
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09/02/2012 6:41 pm
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very nice mate :)
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There is a picture of a very nice 1806 Copper Penny here:http://www.coins-of-the-uk.co.uk/pi.../1d/1d06.jpg
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work in a bakery, will get out before I become an angry person. Wages are bad, hours are bad and no one I met likes the job. Going to Uni next year to do any sciency thingy.
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work in a bakery, will get out before I become an angry person. Wages are bad, hours are bad and no one I met likes the job. Going to Uni next year to do any sciency thingy.

One good thing tho, The smell from a bakery in the early hours of the morning are one of the wonders of the world in my opinion
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I'm a mechanical engineer but no longer work as one. Taught myself computer programming in the early 2000's, wrote some software which I started to sell online and in 2006 I quit working for an employer and now just work for myself. I still do a bit of contracting helping out various companies with (mostly) computer software development and support.
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I write computer programs.
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Usually when I tell people what I do for a living, they either freak out or start telling me some story they think relates to it.

So I'll just say I work for the Government.....

(LOL)
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Qualified as an Environmental Scientist/Chemist. Completed my PhD in Soil Science. Working as a Chemistry Technical Officer but always happy to do something else if there are an offers
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bery nice guys :)
mr t - any chancei can have your e-mail address so I can send you a message about a programme?
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I worked in a bakery for 3 years after school and put on 30kg in that time hard not to. I'm glad I dont have such early morning anymore.
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I am a traindriver and a trainer of new traindrivers, hence the name. Thirty three years of shiftwork and still enjoying the security and pay that goes with it.
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