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Work - what's the best piece of 'work' you've ever done? 09:09 - Jan 13 with 5342 viewsunbelievablue

Chance to show off here, folks.

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Work - what's the best piece of 'work' you've ever done? on 09:11 - Jan 13 with 2271 viewsfooters

Custom quarter pounder, no pickles, no mustard.

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Work - what's the best piece of 'work' you've ever done? on 09:15 - Jan 13 with 2254 viewsitfcjoe

Building 10 houses and converting the former Amberfield School into 12 luxury apartments is the most showy job - I prefer some of the pubs we have refurbed though

At a previous job I took total ownership over the pension illustrations from back end calculations working with the actuaries to all the wording and design of them and of the 10,000 or so a year took them from everyone having to be manually amended to less than 0.5% needing to be

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Work - what's the best piece of 'work' you've ever done? on 09:16 - Jan 13 with 2240 viewsNthQldITFC

I wrote a rather cheeky yet non-offensive ode about a colleague and his tribulations in the lab once. My boss saw it in the tea room and said he thought I had found my calling.

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Work - what's the best piece of 'work' you've ever done? on 09:17 - Jan 13 with 2232 viewsSwansea_Blue

Work - what's the best piece of 'work' you've ever done? on 09:11 - Jan 13 by footers

Custom quarter pounder, no pickles, no mustard.


Hmm, nearly an uppie but then the no pickles is a bit of a black mark. It can be done of course, but needs a special talent to pull it off (if you'll excuse the phrase).

One of the best burgers I've ever had was a homemade, but with home picked blueberries. Sounds odd, but it worked remarkably well.

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Work - what's the best piece of 'work' you've ever done? on 09:23 - Jan 13 with 2201 viewsElderGrizzly

Previous role - redesigned the public school curriculum from scratch in the UAE to make it more inclusive for females and ended up driving up attainment across all genders.

Current role - all redacted…😎
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Work - what's the best piece of 'work' you've ever done? on 09:23 - Jan 13 with 2211 viewssuffolkpoker

Been running my van hire for 25 years this year! 🙄

Best moments working with my dad and buying commercial sites in our home town.
We did do a big JV for 15 units about 10 years ago on BSE. That was fun and stressful.

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Work - what's the best piece of 'work' you've ever done? on 09:33 - Jan 13 with 2183 viewsHerbivore

The day I got an uppie from Guthers.

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Work - what's the best piece of 'work' you've ever done? on 09:47 - Jan 13 with 2151 viewsCotty

I have a paper in Statistical Science with over 500 citations. That is probably meaningless to almost everyone else.
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Work - what's the best piece of 'work' you've ever done? on 09:48 - Jan 13 with 2149 viewsPrideOfTheEast

Most rewarding - definitely the people development side.

Most impactful actual work has been leading on some fairly major M&A transactions - cumulatively $100bn plus now I imagine.
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Work - what's the best piece of 'work' you've ever done? on 09:49 - Jan 13 with 2140 viewsHerbivore

Work - what's the best piece of 'work' you've ever done? on 09:47 - Jan 13 by Cotty

I have a paper in Statistical Science with over 500 citations. That is probably meaningless to almost everyone else.


I doff my cap to you, sir.

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Work - what's the best piece of 'work' you've ever done? on 09:52 - Jan 13 with 2135 viewsSaleAway

There's a few things I can't mention, but the one I like, is that my Master's thesis was a techno-economic assessment of the viability of a new technology. I concluded that it was not yet ready for mainstream development. During my viva defence of said thesis, my tutors asked me if I was confident in my conclusions. That morning, the one major player that was still developing, had put their project on hold, indefinitely.

Its always nice to be right. 9 months of work validated at just the right time.

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Work - what's the best piece of 'work' you've ever done? on 09:55 - Jan 13 with 2119 viewsBlueBadger

Getting an arterial blood gas sample, first time, after two anaesthetists had failed to get it with two goes each.
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Work - what's the best piece of 'work' you've ever done? on 10:02 - Jan 13 with 2084 viewsunbelievablue

Work - what's the best piece of 'work' you've ever done? on 09:48 - Jan 13 by PrideOfTheEast

Most rewarding - definitely the people development side.

Most impactful actual work has been leading on some fairly major M&A transactions - cumulatively $100bn plus now I imagine.


Investment. In. People.

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Work - what's the best piece of 'work' you've ever done? on 10:02 - Jan 13 with 2086 viewsKeno

does holding 3 professional associateships, further technical qualifications and being one of the very first Chartered members of my profession count?

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Work - what's the best piece of 'work' you've ever done? on 10:06 - Jan 13 with 2065 viewsTrumptonBlue

I did the subtitles for Orient: Club for a Fiver.
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Work - what's the best piece of 'work' you've ever done? on 10:06 - Jan 13 with 2065 viewsleitrimblue

In the late 90,s I managed to de-bone a pig head in 4 minutes an 25 seconds. Setting a factory wide record an making me the envy of my fellow pig head de-boners
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Work - what's the best piece of 'work' you've ever done? on 10:10 - Jan 13 with 2025 viewsIPS_wich

Several that I’m proud of but can’t really discuss because of confidentiality reasons, but two from earlier in my career really stick out:

- in 2006, redesigned how one of the largest hospitals in the north of England managed their paper based medical records. Before the work they were ‘mislocating’ over 25 sets of notes a week causing many many appointments (surgeries, follow up appointments) to be cancelled. An audit six months after the work was complete concluded only three sets of notes had been mislocated in the six month period - and two of them were found in the back of a Doctors car!!

- in 2008, led a review of a home office contract into an outsourced service (think G4S, Serco, Capita type contract) that saved government over £12 million a year. The fees for the review were less than £100k and I was shortlisted for management consultant off the year of the back of the work.
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Work - what's the best piece of 'work' you've ever done? on 10:10 - Jan 13 with 2022 viewsfooters

Work - what's the best piece of 'work' you've ever done? on 10:06 - Jan 13 by leitrimblue

In the late 90,s I managed to de-bone a pig head in 4 minutes an 25 seconds. Setting a factory wide record an making me the envy of my fellow pig head de-boners


This is one of those things that sounds completely made up but is so oddly specific that it can't be.

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Work - what's the best piece of 'work' you've ever done? on 10:12 - Jan 13 with 2012 viewsBlueBadger

Work - what's the best piece of 'work' you've ever done? on 10:06 - Jan 13 by leitrimblue

In the late 90,s I managed to de-bone a pig head in 4 minutes an 25 seconds. Setting a factory wide record an making me the envy of my fellow pig head de-boners


I'd never gotten the impression before that you were a member of the Conservative party.

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Work - what's the best piece of 'work' you've ever done? on 10:14 - Jan 13 with 1999 viewsTangledupin_Blue

Years ago, as a lorry driver, I took a load to a customer who'd been awkward and fussy on previous occasions. Back in Felixstowe I went into the office where they had test match cricket on tv in the background.

They asked about the job and I told them everything went fine. As I was stepping out of the office I heard Richie Benaud comment "That was an excellent delivery".

Well if Richie Benaud thinks my work was good, then who am I to argue?

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Work - what's the best piece of 'work' you've ever done? on 10:15 - Jan 13 with 1993 viewsBiGDonnie

Great thread.

Playing a massive role in building my company up to now work with a large number of Schools in London.

Any teachers, teaching assistants, School reception or office staff in and around London, particularly the South East or North West of London, do send me a PM.

We're particularly great at helping young candidates into teaching assistant roles and do a lot of work with Special Needs. So know if anyone knows someone in London, who might even have some experience of working with children, coaching, babysitting etc, who are looking for either a full or part time role in education, do get in touch.
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Work - what's the best piece of 'work' you've ever done? on 10:22 - Jan 13 with 1948 viewshoppy

Work - what's the best piece of 'work' you've ever done? on 10:12 - Jan 13 by BlueBadger

I'd never gotten the impression before that you were a member of the Conservative party.


Cameron only made 4 minutes 33 seconds for his best time.

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Work - what's the best piece of 'work' you've ever done? on 10:25 - Jan 13 with 1930 viewsgiant_stow

Wiping my Dad's arse without throwing up (because he could no longer reach it owing to disability*). Unfortunately, I couldn't hide my dry wretching, so only half marks, although he bravely ignored that.

Caring is an vastly underrated profession.

* i should add that he normally had carers to do this, but sometimes they were unavailable or sometimes he was just desperate for a crap or wipe when they weren't around.

Edit 2: sorry to bring to tone down.
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Work - what's the best piece of 'work' you've ever done? on 10:30 - Jan 13 with 1889 viewsGuthrum

Lots of homes in a bad state made to look nice.

In terms of craft, the best item I've made was probably this, for the young son of a friend:


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Work - what's the best piece of 'work' you've ever done? on 10:38 - Jan 13 with 1851 viewshoppy

Work - what's the best piece of 'work' you've ever done? on 10:25 - Jan 13 by giant_stow

Wiping my Dad's arse without throwing up (because he could no longer reach it owing to disability*). Unfortunately, I couldn't hide my dry wretching, so only half marks, although he bravely ignored that.

Caring is an vastly underrated profession.

* i should add that he normally had carers to do this, but sometimes they were unavailable or sometimes he was just desperate for a crap or wipe when they weren't around.

Edit 2: sorry to bring to tone down.
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I guess that's where the extra fingers comes in handy, to get the job done quicker?

Admirable job done though - well done.

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