Whats Everyone Do For A Living Thread

[Orlando]

After talking with another forum member (who has a very interesting job) I thought maybe it would be interesting to see what everyone does or has done for a living. I'll startoff

I am a self employed Flooring Contractor. Installing Harwood, Ceramic, Viynl Floors. Worked for 20 years for a company as a employee and went Self Employed 9 years ago. It was the best move I ever made

[Buelligan]

Good Going B, I will try to get some pics up.Like I said in our PM . Its a long story with a long resume and I kept it short. I can say Working as an Actor, a BASS player and scenic Artist . I have all ways made it through . Thank GOD.

[okie shooter]

Used to design equipment and lines to build bombs, and demil all sorts of ammunition.

[Orlando]

Used to design equipment and lines to build bombs, and demil all sorts of ammunition.

Sounds intersting, can you give alittel more detail?

[sdk1968]

Asbestos Worker/Insulator.....local union #80 (22years).... project manager/spv... commercial,industrial and so on...

[tumbleweed1002]

Mechanic working for the reigonal transit syst.

[30-06]

Cowboy on a ranch in Northeastern New Mexico.

[Otis61]

Timber faller in the coast range of Oregon.

[wwIIBuff]

Logistics broker

[drine]

We did this a couple of years ago but here goes:
Laser Technician working in the medical field. Punching blind holes in surgical needles with said laser. The feed system is much like a machine gun. Needles are on a belt and a drive pulls them in, cuts, shoots, punches the old out! If you've had surgery, I'll bet 90% of the time the needles were made where I work!

[turbothis]

i build unholy firearms.

[Phirebug]

I work in population reduction.

[tump]

cook (26 yrs):icon_biggrin:

[jettag]

Climber and Sole proprietor,

D.b.a. Small Axe Treecycling
Working towards 100% (no waste) use of urban timber resources.
Pruning, harvesting/removal, milling, planting.
Anything that grows roots, gotcha covered in S. WI.:thumbup:

[QuickDrawMcGraw]

I am a Union Electrician IBEW Local # 490 Concord NH. I am a Foreman and I do Large Industrial, Commercial, Installations. The Company I am with presently ( 3 + years ) has a Knack for Waste Water Treatment Plants. I like my job and I am the best Paid Babysitter in my town . Just Kidding . I get the address and the blue prints for a new jobsite, then I sit down with my Project manager , and tell him what I need for Manpower and materials and make it happen .

[Planning]

journeyman pipefitter ( local 390), 4 years
maintenance/project supervisor large chemical company. 27 years. retired
contract maintenance consultant, several chemical companies. 3 yrs,
contract turnaround/scheduler/planner for chemical companies. 4 years
construction/startup plant manager ( built 3 chemical plants) 4 years
military service ( active, reserves, guard) 17+ years
01 ffl, 25+ years
know it all ( smart a$$), most of my life.
also grumpy old man, last few years.

[Optimus Prime]

Full time college student going for a Geography Major (emphasis on Geographic Information Systems/Cartography), so I'm pretty good with maps I guess.
I also work part time at the campus police department.

[Alaskagrown]

Commercial flooring guy, I work for my father in law. He started off doing soft goods carpet vinyl's(tile, sheets etc). Now we are doing all of that and have gotten into substrate prep, grinding, scarifying, shotblasting, patching and leveling (go Ardex!). I have been doing floor work for about 3 years now.

[landtoy80]

I am a starving oil field heavy hauling truck driver, thanks to CO Gov. Bill Ritter, Omaha and all the other liberal Dem's in government.

Only good thing that came with the reduction in work is I have more time to practice shooting, sell off my unwanted arms and build up the arms I want...
The selling is good right now but the buying sucks as there is not much to buy at this time.


PS: Another thanks to Bill Ritter, he passed the law allows 'men' to go into the woman's rest room/bathroom/shower/changing room (and protects them from being blocked from entry)"IF" they think/wish or act transgendered. Way to go Bill...

[vpost]

I work on the ranges on Ft. Hood, Direct Support Maintenance for Clabber Creek and Jack Mountain.

Vince

[pigpen]

Veteran Employment Rep.(getting Vets jobs) & unemployment compensation. I also do it for non-vets too. Been real busy latety!!

[DAA1]

Goofy little thing they call Active Guard & Reserve, basically an active duty USAR soldier for about 19 years taking care of reserve units. For the past ten or so years I have been the Training NCO, I have done everything from supply, to recruiting, to a year in Kuwait working redeployments, to my current job with a USAR School battalion where my part time soldiers teach schools 2 weeks at a time for supply. Basically a desk job, but I meet a lot of folks, and the fun never stops. 2014 I am done and will hang it up. 24 years is enough fun. Not a bad job at all, and I have some pretty good soldiers to work with. Best year I had was the year I spent in Kuwait, everyday I came to work another unit was a day closer to going home, real sense of job accomplishment seeing units go home and know I had a small hand in it.

[bladeworks123]

Don't know what I want to do when I grow up...
23 years law enforcement, (administration, investigation and training) Last 8 with domestic terrorism task force. Got burned out and retired early. Went to work for the prison system. Too many "old friends" there, hated it. Went back to school, CSU, licensed water and industrial wastewater treatment guy now, working in the natural gas drilling and production fields in Northwest Colorado doing water treatment and disposal and field operations for natural gas production. Had a few moonlight jobs over the years.

[Old Jimmy]

Let's see,
I worked for a tree company for 8 years after I got out of the AF, then I ran a punch press for 10 years.

I worked at GM for 11 years building Trailblazers until they closed the plant and I took the buyout.

I am going to Hobart welding school now and graduate it in July then I can be like Turbothis!!!

I have owned my own tree trimming company for about 5 years now and working it on weekends pays better than GM did for 5 days a week....

[jdowney]

I used to be a geologist working in gold and copper exploration. Did a bunch of things when that business went dry in the late 1990's. Now I'm a telescope operator for a radio telescope in AZ.

[Anthropy]

Company I work for manufactures municipal water and waste water treatment equipment. Spent 13 years on the road as a field tech commissioning that equipment. Was burnt out, changed jobs and have spent the last 3 years in the office telling the other feld guys where to go.

[Otis61]

After the USAF, and before I was a logger I planted trees. We planted in the areas other loggers had cleared. A conserative estimate is that I planted 1,800,000 trees in 12 seasons of planting.

[gtty]

Offshore Pipeliner/Project Engineer for West Africa, Mexico and Gulf of Mexico. Also was a CAD (Autocad) designer for the offshore industry, a locksmith and a security guard in the earlier years.

[Nazgul]

Instructional Programmer one year, before that Multimedia Specialist and 3D animator. I have the "Cool fun job" as most folks tell me at work.

[Arkane]

Air, Space, and Missile Defense Simulation contractor, in the process of switching over to Civil Service.

Vince, I wish I had a buck for every day I spent on Clabber and Jack.

[herian67]

Millwright/pipefitter

[Buelligan]

GTTY, Thats a sweet FAL. is that an HK type rear sight on it?

[xrayjuan]

Electrical Engineer working for GE.

[Patria Povo]

Researcher for a large US union (that's not in the AFL-CIO).

[Norton]

Still a site manager on a high rise for the time being at least.
Been a super on many new home jobs as well as rehab jobs.
I hope this time next year I am not selling eggs and apples from a roadside stand

[turmanator]

Windows/server lead tech for a pipeline company.
Directly responsible for 300 servers and OS's in Houston and support
for another 600 in our domain.
Learned my trade in the USMC (Kinda. those were mainframe days!)

[pgp888se]

full time parent for 14 years,
and an automotive technician in a small repair shop.

[19Charlie_84]

Armor/Cavalry Officer in US Army, Still in training hopefully I get a Platoon Leader slot when I get to my duty station. Graduated with a BS in Kinesiology.

[gtty]

GTTY, Thats a sweet FAL. is that an HK type rear sight on it?

I believe it's a SIG from what some have told me. I really liked the Nylon rope Sling. They also had the GPMG, Stens, grenades and RPG's onboard.

[Delta-3]

Retired LEO. Now a house husband livin' the good life! :thumbup:

[jmikey]

Retired rocket scientist 25 years. Nuke shipbuilder before that. Just glad to be alive!

[wwIIBuff]

got some real cool jobs out there

[weasel_master]

Electrical Engineer for a power utility.

[JustJohn369]

I am a Union Electrician IBEW Local # 490 Concord NH. I am a Foreman and I do Large Industrial, Commercial, Installations. The Company I am with presently ( 3 + years ) has a Knack for Waste Water Treatment Plants. I like my job and I am the best Paid Babysitter in my town . Just Kidding . I get the address and the blue prints for a new jobsite, then I sit down with my Project manager , and tell him what I need for Manpower and materials and make it happen .

L.U. 613 Inside Journey/Foreman Wireman. Worked on the F-22 project for 11 years., 'Till they pulled it. Are ya busy up there? QuickDraw? We're dead in the water here.

[A.D.A.]

Prosecutor for the past 10 years. Helping violent criminals make big rocks into small rocks.

[Optimus Prime]

Retired LEO. Now a house husband livin' the good life! :thumbup:

That is quite possibly my ultimate goal...

[Buelligan]

Oh ok , SIG makes sence now that I looked at it again. I dig the rope sling too. I will have to set one of my AK clunckers up with one.

[okie shooter]

Sounds intersting, can you give alittel more detail?I am a mechanical engineer at McAlester AAP, the largest army facility to build, disassemble, destroy, and store ammunition in the nation. I have worked projects for my time here taking lots of ammuntion apart. Artillery, bombs and even anti-aircraft ammo. Plus doing support for recycling of explosives and metal parts and such.

[Gunny_Frost]

Security Contractor / Baghdad Iraq / 2.5+ years

Marine Infantry / Worldwide / 20 years

[Smokehouse69]

I am a mechanical engineer at McAlester AAP, the largest army facility to build, disassemble, destroy, and store ammunition in the nation. I have worked projects for my time here taking lots of ammuntion apart. Artillery, bombs and even anti-aircraft ammo. Plus doing support for recycling of explosives and metal parts and such.

I spent the night sleeping in a car inside the McAlester AAP one time. We were convoying through to Fort Chaffee and spent the night there. :icon_biggrin: That was 38 years ago, since then I have worked for a major chemical company. 17 years as an production operator and the last 21 years a process control systems analyst.

[ackspac]

Assembly line worker, Ford Motor co. Currently slinging a 700 pd lug gun machine. Installing lug nuts on Explorers, Mountaineers and Sport Tracs, and also installing 8 lower body push pins while the gun is spinning, all within 28secs. per job.

[BIG 54R]

I am a Forensic videographer by trade, specializing in Legal video and all aspects of litigation, but I support myself being a line maintenance worker at a utility company until I can get some forensic jobs.

I had worked in broadcast news for several years after the military, till I got canned as we all do in broadcast.

I run my own production company.(Forensic and general video and media production).

I turned down a job at a litigation support center many years ago because of a non compete clause in the contract and have regretted it ever since!
Hindsight.

[hunter_la5]

Full-time student, majoring in accounting (until I change my mind again!). I honestly don't know what I want to do with my life, my old man suggested something business-related, as that is his line of work.

In the summers, I work as the Assistant Program Director at a Youth Summer Camp Facility/Conference Center. Officially I'm in charge of managing all the recreational facilities and staff. Basically I sit in an office organizing employee schedules, or I ride around on a golf-cart and yell at people over a walkie-talkie. :icon_razz: Not too terribly interesting, nor am I looking to make a career out of it, but it's a fun summer job and it pays well

[97th Signalman]

I retired in 2006 after working for a distributor of hydraulic, pneumatic, and electronic machine controls. I spent 10 years in sales and 20 years in engineering and management. At the peak of my insanity I managed six divisions of the company. I was lucky enough to be allowed to select and train my sucessors which is what I did for the last two years of my career. It was a rewarding career and very challenging. I had the opportunity to participate in the design and retrofitting of hundreds of pieces of production machinery in almost every industry that you can imagine. Automation of machine tools and production processes was our specialty.

I do a little consulting work and training for some of my old customers just to keep my hand in but the opportunities are dminishing in number as the US manufactring base has been in steep decline for the last ten years.

Now that I am retired I have time to be a grand parent, relax and enjoy my hobbies: sailing, photography and, oh yeah, guns).

The best news is, since I am no longer managing people, I sleep soundly and I never wake up with the days problems haunting the dark hours of my night. Life is good (unless I think about my 401K)

[Optimus Prime]

Hunter reminded me (I must have blocked it with how much prep work I've been doing for it lately...) I also work in the summer at a Boy Scout camp where I run the camps climbing program, and hang out at the rifle range in the afternoon when my rock is too hot to climb on.

[Planning]

Now that I am retired I have time to be a grand parent, relax and enjoy my hobbies. The best news is, since I am no longer managing people, I sleep soundly and I never wake up with the days problems haunting the dark hours of my night. Life is good (unless I think about my 401K)


that i forgot, thanks for the reminder. i have been enjoying being retired with my grandsons and doing things with my wife ( traveling, doing stuff around the house, not doing stuff around the house, what ever i want to do or not).

i don't even look at my 401 accounts any more. to depressing.

ron :airtight:

[Schmitty]

I is a stoodent, majoring in EE.

[rpmfly2]

First went to college and became a Mechanical, Electrical, and Chemical engineer in 7 years. the market was flooded with people and they started you out at 24,000 a year so I started working on Volvo's for 48,000 on commission at a Volvo only repair shop in Houston, Texas. They sold the shop and I went to work at a dealership as a tech and ended up being service advisor and shop foreman after two years. Did that until I could see they were selling and the new owners were going to replace everyone and moved to Iowa and was service manager at a Mazda/ VW dealer. 6 years
Started buying homes in foreclosure and flipping them before the current crazy crap you see on TV.
Had that and a Pool repair service I got into due to the home remodeling, aircraft rental of my own aircraft, and auto repair all at the same time for ten years. That was hell on earth but didn't need much sleep back in my younger years.
For the last ten I have had my own SCUBA Store and Training Center for recreational, technical, and professional law enforcement training in Iowa.
My competitors used to give me crap about underselling retail and working 7 day weeks teaching, selling gear, repairing gear for annual service, and just being a real thorn in their lazy a_ _! Well, all 5 are gone now in the last five years since I never used hard sell tactics like them and teach SCUBA not market it and waste peoples time!
Now, I just reap the benefits of being honest and hard working like usual and life has settled into just paying bills and looking for employees that actually know how to show up on time if at all and apply the knowledge they get from my teaching them to do equipment repair.
I spend my little idle time snow skiing, shooting and gunsmithing, traveling abroad and stateside running trip for my SCUBA customer doing underwater photo and video. I feed sharks at Stuart Coves Dive South Ocean in Nassau Bahamas when I take people down there. Tech dive the great lakes on shipwrecks to 350 feet. I finally get paid for doing what I love! Been diving and flying since 1969!

[Phirebug]

I work on the ranges on Ft. Hood, Direct Support Maintenance for Clabber Creek and Jack Mountain.

Vince

we might have met once and not even known it...we spend a lot of time out on those ranges.

[acmech]

I've spent the last 19 1/2 years working as a mechanic for a major airline here in Atlanta. The skills I've learned working with metal have come in handy building ak's. I work the line now, making sure you plane is ready to go when you get on it.

[cfish]

During and after college I played cowboy for awhile, then pursued my dream to become a pilot. Lived in the back of my toyota pick up for 6 months while going to flight school and working as an airplane mechanic. Flew for a contract freight company for 5 years and am now the Chief Pilot for a Large Financial institution!!! Ya I know every day my job seems to be in jepordy!!! Oh well. And like Planning I looked once at the 401 winced and haven't looked since. I will never retire> Hello welcome to Wal-Mart!!!!

[Iron Duke]

I`m a Deputy Sheriff (since 1996) and a U.S.Marine before that(91-95).

[chili]

I was in the USAF for 21 years, 11 were Security Police and 10 Emergency Management, I am now a civilian contractor working all things CBRNE for the USAF. As of last June my new hobby is law enforcement as a reserve sheriff deputy.

[Bad Monkey]

Mechanic then steel processor, now unemployed thinking of what I'm going to do when I grow up.

[parallel]

I've done many different things for a living, but I currently own and operate a Drafting & Design Firm. I work from home and allow my employee(s) to do the same when there is enough work to have employees that is..

[CrossFire]

20+ years as a Chevy/Buick Service Manager, then I got tired of closing dealerships and went back to school in '01.
Now I'm a Sys Admin/Network Tech for a global medical manufacturer.
12 hour shifts - overnight- three days a week. Sunday thru Tuesday.
The shift has spoiled me.
I have four days a week to sail and shoot.

[Orlando]

Very interesting, its amazing the various jobs people have here. Thanks for contributing to the thread

[Buelligan]

This is fun . I will try to get some pics of some movies sets on here. I really stink at moving pics around. I have seen some crew members have put some of us on there FACEBOOK page. I will try to move them to here.

[cosmo05]

Oil refinery Operator / Supervisor for 20 years or so.

[hulygan]

Job title is communications tech. In reality I am a cable guy. I am one of the techs that fixes our customer's wiring and equipment problems.

[Bluedog]

I am an attorney. If my latest project takes off, I will be a full-time firearms and self defense attorney, and let everything else go.

www.adosdefense.com

[JC Speiser]

WOW! Don't know who I envy the most, the cowboy or the rocket scientist!

I'm with the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office in Florida - 23 years now...

prior to that I was with the State of Florida working as a LEO for almost 10 years, different branches...Dept of Ag - Marks and Brands - Dept of Revenue...

5 years in the Army - Infantry & Transportation

I could have retired 3 years ago but I could see my 401k turning into a 201k so here I am...still plugging away at it.

[Player]

Biology and Journalism student at Baylor University.

[bigbear77]

Been in technology for my entire career and in various engineering positions (Reliability/Quality/Test) for the last 25 years or so. Actual assignments have been all over the map - applied statistics (SPC and DOE), failure analysis of materials, sensor design, high power RF, and programming in several languages. Started out on this path in the electronics parts stockroom of a small company in the early 1970's and worked my way up the ladder as I got more experience and education. Presently I'm working at a company that makes flow meters for processes that involve moving water and steam.

[jersurf101]

Sous chef at a country club. Its nice because we're on the beach and I can surf on my lunchbreak

[jimbo1956us]

worked for 16 yrs as field super for a large framing company in vegas, laid off two yrs ago and being license already started my own framing company in s. utah. its surviving right now, but i have faith-it will get better.

[papagush]

Coal Miner and EO in a strip mine just promoted to Health and Safety Rep.
For fun I teach Firearm Safety to newbe's and kids.

[pidaster]

I've had my own lawn service when I was in high school. Was majoring in Electronics in college but had to drop out due to family and money. Started a used office furniture store specializing in mid-century modern furniture, did that for a few years. Became a constantly traveling cable contractor for a year, Asst Manager of Field Operations. Best paying job I've ever had but required too much travel (LA to GA every other day). Sold guns in Austin, TX for almost a year. Moved back to MS and worked as Asst. Manager of an Advance Auto for two years. Dropped that to be a cell repair technician for Nokia for two years. They ended that job so I wound up at my current job of two years as manager of a car audio shop.

Two years seems to be the magic number for me and jobs. I'm currently looking for something new.
Also about to get started with the local sheriff department as a reserve officer.

[Otis61]

Good luck with the sheriff dept. Been thinking seriously about something like that myself.

[XO3319]

professional soldier

currently an advisor in iraq

[rudrules]

Body Shop Manager