Wheel Nut:
Lorry driver man and boy, so my first careeer must have been Boy!
+1 
Whirlwind:
Stonemason, if the pay was better I’d leave the truck tomorrow
daughter works admin for stonemasons, her lads on good money.
Hmm…
Y.T.S! (lets see how many here remember them 
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Laborer on a building site (hated this job with a vengeance)
Forklift driver (was taken on as a machine operator but they needed a forkie, so right place right time)
Van driver (the dreaded white van man on parcels)
7.5t driver (same as above but now delivered pallets too)
Class 2 Tramping
Taxi driver (2 & 1/2 yr stint whilst son was a baby, didn’t want to be away from home)
Back on the Class 2’s
Class 1 Tramping
Carer for my Wife (aka - cleaner, shopping technician & school run driver)
Class 1 nights (in the next few weeks if all goes well)
Think there might be a driving theme going on here 
Electrician,
Field service engineer (Electronics) for garage equipment co.,
C, then C+E lorry driver UK,
Lorry driver EU,
Agent du Quai (lorry loader/unloader specialist furniture transport co),
Property maintenance and swimming pools
now Tipper driver and excavator in quarry/clay pit,
next job? Retirement probably but still got a few years to go
Welder for 8 years it gets very boring looking through a glass screen all day staring at a green light! Then euro van driver (great job ■■■■ money) now I’m a class 2 tipper driver, start at 6 finish at 4! Happy days!
Left school at 15,did 6 years on farm work ,got class 1,driver for 36 years and counting. By the way am I the only one on here that’s done farm work ,I thought every one worked on a farm at sometime
Reef:
Hmm…Y.T.S! (lets see how many here remember them
yes I was a Y T S mechanic (Young Thick and Stupid!)
full time mechanic
Taxi driver (night time after being a fitter)
Class 1 driver
Shot blasting/painting
mechanic again
Owner Driver
jackslad:
Left school at 15,did 6 years on farm work ,got class 1,driver for 36 years and counting. By the way am I the only one on here that’s done farm work ,I thought every one worked on a farm at sometime
I worked on the farms, sort of, mid 70s, all the farmers were changing from churns to bulk tanks, (apprentice electrician at the time), hated it! smelly, pulling cables into conduits covered in cow ■■■, I worked on a lot of farms kind of!!
smokinbarrels:
cracker-bar:
Firefighter, and did this on the side, until I realised I enjoyed this more. Now on a career break from the fire service, and trundling around Europe.Your best of staying driving mate, the fire service is well a truly shafted![THUMBS DOWN SIGN]
SB
The state of the modern fire service is one of the main reasons I preferred driving. I highly doubt I’ll go back once my leave of absence ends, the fact that I’m on more money now helps too
Auto work shop, ware house forklift " looking back that was happiest time ", wholesale shop, farm work, warehouse again, Royal Mail, van driving, landscaping, furniture sales, catering whole sale supplying. Tame race car driver for some t.v show… 
jackslad:
Left school at 15,did 6 years on farm work ,got class 1,driver for 36 years and counting. By the way am I the only one on here that’s done farm work ,I thought every one worked on a farm at sometime
Farmworker,Dry stone waller,class 1 driver,back to dry stone for a while,driving ever since,still do a bit of dry stone in my spare time,good exercise
I used to be a lorry driver
Infantry soldier, 1 Royal Anglian “The Vikings” enjoyed my time but never regret leaving. Love being on the road and wouldn’t want to do anything else.
NCB Blacksmith (coal mining)
NCB Shaftsman (coal mining) maintaining the mine shaft & lifts
Plater/welder
Warehouseman
Stock controller
Fleet admin
Dispatch clerk
Driver
Transport shift manager
Transport manager
Driver
Driver etc
Locksmith,
HGV 40 years,
Retired. 
graphic designer
self employed kitchen and furniture painter
soon to be driver 
Ncb blacksmith
Building site labourer
Council decorator
Self employed decorator in the 80’s London
London Transport bus driver
Ne bus driver for Northern and Stagebus
Technician at TRW
Quality engineer
HGV driver now relaxing after a stint at Nissan!
Mainly changed course after the places I was at closed or moved.
Sumsmeister:
Mushroom farm-worker quote]Kept in the dark and fed loads of ■■■■ ?
butcher from leaving school till JH Dewhurst put me thro my car/van driving test i then delivered meat in J4/sherpa /beford van and 7.5tonner then they closed Cardiff depot 
and i took my class 1 hgv and with a bit of luck became a lorry driver
one year on YTS as trainee car mechanic
one year sales at carpet warehouse
Three and a half years as hgv mechanic
Seven years as tipper driver out of quarry
Four years as tradeplater delivering trucks
Over fourteen years wasted class 1 driving.
Next year running my own holiday cottages and selling car spares on line for myself…GOOD BY truckdriving