What do you do for a living

Retired Fluid Power Specialist ( that's what we used to call a hydraulic guy). Retired 7 years ago and haven't had a bad day since; well at least not emotionally. Worked in paper, wood mills, steel mills, food processing, and designed some drives for mobile equipment. It was a great career. Now spending time at home and my shop in Longview, WA and loving life.

 

I grow raw materials for hamburgers . Also head windmill monkey , chief cow irratatior and in charge of all that goes wrong .

 

retired 10 years now (it's the best!). designed commercial kitchens - mom-pop, chain, independent, hospital, prison, school etc.

 

Nice. My office is a food lab, so half scientific instruments, half industrial kitchen.

 

I am only 41 so quite a bit of time before retirement. I am a Geologist and work in Oil and Gas Exploration, at least for now.

 

10 years in dealership parts departments, then 27+ (still at it) as a maintenance mechanic at an OEM brake manufacturing factory. CNC repair, product tester repair, pneumatics, hydraulics, lots of fabrication, plunging toilets etc.

 

My dad and grandpa shanghaied me before I started kindergarten.

Worked on boats growing up. Tended bar in high school. Pile driving for a while. Drove a lumber truck. Drove trash trucks. And that was before I graduated college.

After college i worked as a civil engineer and construction manager.

An accident stoped that abruptly and resulted in a month in the hospital and a long recovery.

As a result of the accident I have PTSD and the current situation has separated me from most of my support.

Then I returned to Land Surveying and 15 years ago, at the age of 40, I started my own company and once I got that established I have really only worked about 3 days a week for the last decade.

 

C Check?

 

I'm an aerospace engineer. I would help in the design, and then instruct the build of commercial satellites, and then put them on the rocket and launch them.

Sirius radio, XM radio, Directv-I did those.

 

Yes, for most of the Fleets. The 767's were called MBV (Maintenance Base Visit) A pic of me looooonnnng time ago doing Functionals in a 767 before going out for Engine Runs

 

here are some pics of what I'm working at now...
I took a vow of poverty early in life.
My parents sold their dairy cows and built a little golf course. I helped them with labour at that until they decided to close it this fall due to lack of business.
Ive been building longrifles and knives on the side for a long time. I've got orders to keep me busy, and I'll be helping my buddy in his construction business this summer. I'll be working till i dead... If I'm lucky LOL!

 

High Test, that is incredible work. BTW, I was a machinist for over 40 years, worked as a millwright for the last 20 that I worked, mostly doing machine work. Now every day is Saturday except for Sunday.

 

Thank you

 

Very nice! I have a passion for muzzleloaders myself.

 

Wow! A really eclectic and interesting group of careers here. Not nearly as many automobile related jobs as I would have thought. But then again, I inherited my interest in cars from my dad, not from jobs I've had...

 

Did a short stint at a body shop after high school, enough to know my body wasn't going to put up to that forever. I also worked at a place that built fiberglass french fries for McDonalds. THE WORST environment I ever worked in. We nicknamed it the Itch Factory. Now I'm a CAD/desk jockey for a heavy truck manufacturer but mostly I do engineering support for manufacturing, quality, purchasing and aftermarket. So I basically push buttons at a desk until everyone's happy, if they aren't happy I push different buttons or I push them in a different order.

High Test . . . wow, do you have any pics of finished muzzle loaders?

 

Worked as a commercial roofer in my late teens. Hardest I ever worked in my life for very little money. Went on to being a tin knocker and ended up at the nations capital power company. Mostly complaint and accuracy testing of electric meters. The last ten years or so before retirement I tested transformers, built clusters and managed the warehouse. Met a bunch of interesting people and got to work at most of the Federal buildings in DC. I’ve been retired for two years.

 

Started out life as a professional welder. Then was offered a job at an automotive machine shop that I later purchased. We did all the usual stuff as well as antique engine babbitting. The overhead became to high and like most of the shops in my area I locked the doors. Went to work wrenching on boats. After my body had enough of that I moved on to a maintenance position with better working conditions were I can use all of my previous skills. I’m also an ex chief in our local volunteer fire department which was pretty much a second job that you don’t get paid for.


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I spent forty years in the body shop most of them working for the biggest A hole I've ever worked for, myself. I sold my shop and for the last fifteen years before I retired in 2015 I built cars for others in there shops along with using my CDL a bit just to get out of the shop. I thoroughly enjoyed the last fifteen years building cars on my time, I got paid up front for a month at a time so there was no chasing money, no overhead, no bills and no shortage of work.

 

Lmao

 

Fantastic!

 

Hung around a filling station/used car lot pre-teen. Started pumping gas and turning wrenches in '63. Got a degree in Technical & Industrial Education in 71. Turned wrenches in dealerships, taught auto mechanics at SIU/STC. Went back to a Dodge dealership where I was a manager/do-all guy. Got into the heavy truck industry in the early 80's as manager of technical services for Gelco Truck Leasing. Gelco got bought, they downsized management so three of us started a heavy truck training company. Did that for 10 years and took a similar job at Freightliner corporate. Ended up being manager of customer training before I retired. Now I fool around with old cars and read the HAMB.

 

I can't remember ever not working. When I was old enough I started cutting grass in the summer and shoveling snow in the winter, Then I moved into the newspaper business delivering a morning and evening edition of the local paper for about 4 years until I graduated from high school in 1968. From there I went into the Navy for 4 years 1 month and 28 days( But, who's counting?). After my stint in the Navy I joined the fire department and spent 30 years working there and various other jobs on my off days. After retiring from the FD in 2005 I helped a friend do trim work until he quit in 2010. Then I went to work for O'Reilly Auto Parts for almost 10 years. While there I was hit by a distracted driver who flipped my delivery truck over and as a result I ended up with a fused neck and bad lower back so I retired completely in 2019.
Now, I bother folks on forums like this one with trivial questions!

 

I started in printing in high school/ college, did that for about 20 years, did a couple years in pool/hot tub repair, now I cut records. ( I was doing it as a side hustle for the last 10 years, now it's a full time gig)

 

Looking for my next career , she’s the woman of my dreams.. ha ha

 

Man, like cut vinyl? I'm currently producing an album and I'm just starting to shop vinyl services. Lemme know for sure!

 

Yup, we do anything from one copy or short lathe cut runs to masters for pressed runs. American Vinyl co.

 

I'm a youngin' I guess.... 38. I grew up milking cows 3 times a day - saw the writing on the wall, got a mechanical engineering degree. Now I'm an R&D engineer developing industrial automation in die casting, forging, and foundry environments. Still have the family farm, but there haven't been milk cows in years.

 

I worked in the grocery industry for 17 yrs, quit that to become a dairy cow breeder. Been doing that now for 16 yrs. Drove a milk truck and picked up hay for dairyman last 15 yrs. as well. Also have a small embroidery and screen printing business.