What do you do for a living

Hard work at times especially working for contractors. You must get training in many venues during your 3 years and some are not close to his home. Here in So Cal there is a lot of rebuilding and upgrading so the utilities and everyone is working a lot. He typically works 6-7 days a week @ 10 hour days. He’s pretty happy to do his Marine weekend duty, almost considers it a weekend off.
I believe when there are openings he will apply at our local utility after he is a journeyman so he can work out of one local yard. His dad has been with the utility over 30 years and I spent 28 with them in power supply working in all 10 of their station gas/oil, coal, and nuclear.
He’s a smart kid and could go far if it’s in his plans. At 77 I’m proud of our 2 children and my 5 grandchildren. I can guarantee you none are a burden to society.

 

Love my job? Well, it's good at times. 4 years from drawing my pension and free insurance, that's a plus

 

Mechanical engineer in the high voltage circuit breaker business for over 15 years now. Started out in the hot and cold steel rolling mill business as an ME for a few years. Grew up in drag racing and doing body work and engine machine shop work along the way. Fun stuff.

 

Most of my career as a union electrician was mechanical, conduit, building racks to hang equipment and lots of drilling holes in concrete for anchors. and pulling large conductors through the conduit with tuggers(capstan winches) then terminating in the switch gear..I was often a foreman but always worked with the men. The worse the job the better I liked it. We never seemed to have the tool we needed so improvising was the game.
the bad was when a guy got seriously injured...that was the true union brotherhood, making sure his family had food , a few bucks and transportation if needed. Some one always had your back..

 

Currently I am a "construction supervisor" for a family owned company. We specialize in power plant maintenance. I started as an insulator, helped the refractory crew for the overtime, helped with expanding the scaffold division, becoming the first scaffold supervisor in this office. Now I am running the insulation crew.
Every day is different, some are difficult, some are nasty (waste to energy), some are good.
I am grateful for my job. I did not miss a day of work as we are considered essential. This allowed me to keep on with my life and my projects.

 

Great thread.....some of the posts made me think of this song. Enjoy the time you have.

 

Saw the Godfathers on that tour, they opened up for one of my favs Love & Rockets. Sorry I just never really was into rockabilly like most of the hot rodders my age.

 

agree with Superair, that is where we meet in college. Both of us were older students who busted our asses to get a head for our self and our kids and am so glad we did so look at where you want to be at 50 or 60 and grt it don e and if it means some form of school do it

 

dangerous man with a hammer -- retired
presently working at local bowling alley as a pin setter mechanic

 

I open safes and bank vaults.
So does my son and now my grand son.
3 generations.

 

Very interesting,,,do you work during the day or at night?

 

I get asked that a lot.

 

I notice you still haven't answered! Lol.

Don't worry folks, your money is federally insured.

 

Thank GOD for Bitcoin.....

 

Sometimes dairy farming gets in the way of building hot rods.

 

Especially at 4 am and 3 pm

 

I’m a heavy equipment tire technician.
28 years old. Been doing this for about 5 years.

 

Retired from 33 years in the civil service as a food inspector- thermal processing specialist. Watched them fill lots of those beverage cans and sent my share of loads to Jewel foods. Moved to the farm when I was 2 years old, still there doing about 300 acres of family farming.

 

My first job was picking fruit and cutting turf after school and on weekends, i was 12. Cutting and laying turf when it's hot and windy and there's crap in your eyes and grass roots under your fingernails is bloody shit work, i don't recommend it.
Finished school and did my apprenticeship with the Electricity Commission of NSW (Elcom), worked as a tradesman for a year then moved on to private industry. Should've stayed with Elcom 'cause the new place went bust in 12 months and the Union bailed on us. Got a job as a linesman in a new Gov't department, was there for 11 years then they screwed us to the wall harder than the last mob, the Union sold us out like dogs.
Moved on and worked for the railways, guess what? The Union sold us out, yet again...
Came to realise that Union reps are mostly failed tradesman that have worked out it's easier to drive around in a brand new truck, eat sausages at Union meetings (that my dues paid for), and send blokes out on strike. Of course when i'm on strike, they're still getting paid.
Should've listened to the old man when he warned me about joining a Union. 30 years of dues down the drain.

Now i'm a Facilities Manager, got a good team of three and not a sausage scoffin', pie eatin' full of piss and wind Union rep in sight. Working harder than ever but using my mind.

Lancewl959 the best thing i did was get off the tools. It's never too late.

 

WOW…I’m betting you don’t “Look For The Union Label” when clothes shopping. … 70s commercial.

 

Glitchy, this Is for you.

 

What do I do for a living? Nutin', absolutely nutin'!

 

Grump...none of us really believe that. We all know you find photos and post the here on the HAMB, that takes a lot of your day.....and you play with your 56 Ford.

 

Im a goldsmith and have been for about 43 years and have loved it all this time, you see, i grew up on a dairy farm so i know what work is and what i do now is wonderful, i get to make people happy everday for many reasons, wouldn't trade it for any other job.

 

I should clarify, i'm not anti-union, they've achieved great things in the past.
Things might be different elsewhere but it seems in Australia there is as much corruption and self interest in the Union movement as there is in Politics.
I trust neither.

 

Glitchy
agree with you
as a young fellow joining work,was told you have to be in a union,so joined
transferred to country job,union coming to town for a meeting,WE HAD TO PAY TO GO AND LISTEN
later found out they had all the FREE food and grog the wanted
Quickly resigned and worked 30 years without them,Our union never achieved anything for my type of work

 

I retired after 46 years with the Postal Circus . It was a good run with a lot of laughs. I started sorting mail right out of high school while going to college and then transferred into the Letter Carrier job . Walked a lot of streets I never knew of , met a lot of dogs and horny housewives..lol. Moved along into driving with class A with a lot of shift work . I had a body shop on the side that allowed me to play hot rods. The next opportunity in the P.O. came along . A job in their bodyshop opened and I was in . Spent 30 years fixing their fleet . I always had retirement in sight as the years clicked off. Looking back my life was always work, work ,and more work . I got into residential rentals and remodeling alongside the mainstay with the Feds. Working hard kept me healthy . Retired almost 3 years now I'm still at it but at my own choosing . At 66 years young my next 30 years will be filled with ......argh ....more work .....my collection of cars still awaits . Plan your work ,.......and work your plan!

 

Anything can get corrupted. Sometimes it seems like everything is when large sums of money and responsibility are involved. My Local had its share of problems. As a Steward I defended employees and fought a good fight. I also went after some dishonest Union officers…lost my stewardship. The idea behind Unions is commendable and greatly needed, finding the right people to oversee it is the hard part.

 

I am retired but serve as the CEO "Chief Embellishment Officer" of Natures Corner Florist. HRP

 

I am retired (73 years old) now but was Salesman for high purity hoses and tubing for the Pharma, food and industrial markets throughout the entire world.
Have used my knowledge gained after nearly 50 years for my & friends hot rods in all fluid transfer applications!