I work for a radio company.
Not broadcast, but PMR stuff - the kind of radios they use in shopping centres and the like. Quite a lot of hard work involved - some days I need to fit radios to new vans and cars, which is very time-consuming (at least if you ever want it to go back together properly), but it's good fun. I get to visit the parts of buildings most people don't get to see. The view from the roof of the highest block of flats in Glasgow is spectacular, and on a clear day you can see for miles. Some of my customers are a long way away, so I get to go and play in my van for the day, bimbling about the Scottish countryside listening to CDs and then tracking down weird and complicated problems with equipment in interesting places like oil refineries and shipyards.

What's even better is, since I have an amateur radio licence, I can bring in my own equipment to test on the test gear at work. If one of my radios isn't quite playing nicely I can fire it onto the venerable Marconi 2955 test set on my bench and tune it up. I get to play with far better kit than I could afford myself.

The best bit? I get paid to do something I would be doing anyway if I wasn't at work ;-)
(gordonjcp, Wed 15 Sep 2010, 16:12, Reply)