What Do You Do For A Living?

[buckeye12]

Metals Material Handler ( fork lift operator )  at an aluminum smelter here in southeastern Ohio. Been there 21 years this April. Still on 21 turn, shift work. 7 afternoon shifts then 2 days off. Then 7 day shifts then 1 day off. Then seven midnite shifts and then 5 days off. Pays the bills with a little left over for fishing.

[J Francho]

IT consultant for the past 13 years.  I specialize in contact center analytics.

[Hyrule Bass]

i work in printing and bulk mail. I handle the mailing lists and presort them for cheaper postal rates. i then take those lists and merge them into documents that are to be laser printed. I only laser black text that has personalization, any colors or heavy black solids gets printed out on the web press. I also make the files for the inkjet machines and assist on them when someone needs help...

 

i been around this kind of work all my life. i can even help on the web press, jet press, folder, cutter, inserters, etc...

[A-Jay]

U.S.C.G.  Search & Rescue /  Law Enforcement / Training

 

28 years -  Retired

 

A-Jay

[Fishing Rhino]

As little work as possible now.  Not fully retired, but close.

 

I have been, in chronological order:

 

The general manager of a production woodworking shop

 

Self employed making clock cases for a company on Cape Cod.  Everything from grandfather clocks to wall and mantle clocks.

 

 

My next adventure was as a commercial lobsterman.

 

Somewhere along the way I managed to build our own home.  Did it all except for the wiring, plumbing, drywall and skim coat plaster.  The woodworking background helped with the cabinets, wainscotting, wood flooring, cabinets, stairway, etc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

My most recent venture is making fiberglass race car bodies.

 

 

Not so much now.  I don't go to the tracks promoting my business.  Whatever comes my way now is done for walking around money.  When the next generation of bodies hits the market, I'll be done.  Not making any more molds.

 

 

[TrapperJ]

Truss Designer, rafters for houses and pole barns, working for my old man.

 

We also sell Pole barn materials and colored sheet metal.

 

Anyone in the Oklahoma area in need of anything we will be glad to help you out!

[rodandreel2010]

EMT-P in Tennessee. Love my job, work 24 hours at a time and have lots of time to fish. I see some people at the worst times in their lives and hope to make a difference. There's no feeling like that.

[tallydude]

I'm a graduate student focusing on Native American ethnohistory. Part of the reason I haven't been posting as often the last two years is that my research has taken up almost all of my fishing time.  I'm in the process of deciding where I am going to do my doctoral work and we're hoping to have a decision made by mid-April so we can make they move this summer. Wherever we end up, I WILL be doing more fishing.

[scbassin]

Retired Submarine Sailor. Now I just bass fish.

[quanjig]

Physical security specialist aka locksmith. Specializing in hard to lock fancy, shmancy doors that architects design without a clue as to how to keep the bad guys out! In the great state of Virginia, with lots of silly designers in the D.C area!

[plumworm]

Retired, 40 years in sales. The last 30 selling food to the supper clubs and resorts in northern Wisconsin. Now my wife tells me to "get the hell out of the house and go fishing" Tough life.

[Jig Meister]

Was a cook from 18-25

 

25-now Full time student, undergrad in Exercise Science, going to grad school for Physical Therapy next fall.

 

Eventually will be a DPT.

[Lasher]

Real estate sales and vacation rentals in Asheville, NC.  Daydreaming about fishing more than actual work.  Trying to save for my first bass boat.

[Jigfishn10]

Physical security specialist aka locksmith. Specializing in hard to lock fancy, shmancy doors that architects design without a clue as to how to keep the bad guys out! In the great state of Virginia, with lots of silly designers in the D.C area!

ROFL....nice!

[senile1]

My position is Network Engineer III with Sprint.  I design, implement and configure Cisco routers, switches, firewalls, SIP CUBEs, and Cisco VoIP application servers to create converged enterprise networks for external customers.  I also configure Acme SBCs (session border controllers).

[webertime]

Fraud Investigator for the State of Vermont. "Welfare" fraud mostly. Yes it's just like you'd imagine and twice as frustrating.

[Teal]

Fraud Investigator for the State of Vermont. "Welfare" fraud mostly. Yes it's just like you'd imagine and twice as frustrating.

Mmmmm man, you can have that! Our local agent assigned to our area has his hands full. Its nothing to go to court and see this Agent with several pages of the court docket just his cases.

[CountBassula]

My current position is Senior Software Engineer, I work for Citrix in S.FL. right now. I've been programming since I was 8-yo so it naturally became a profession :-)

 

I've done contract coding in college, then computer forensics and data recovery (NDCI), worked on Wall Street writing software for derivatives trading (Imagine Software), then I spent 3.5 years developing distributed database engines (from scratch, C++, unix) and corresponding ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) pipelines, and worked with police to help them catch child predators online (TLO). I'm a systems guy, always coding for the back-ends/servers, the kind of code that users never really see. My specialty is C++, OO, high performance stuff. Also did real time 3D graphics for game engines as a hobby for 15 years and almost ended up working for a game company (think Mortal Kombat :-) ). Now at Citrix working on Windows 8 mobile stuff, can't say much though, NDA and all... all in all, my hobby became my passion which became my job :-)

 

M.

[SPEEDBEAD.]

Fraud Investigator for the State of Vermont. "Welfare" fraud mostly. Yes it's just like you'd imagine and twice as frustrating.

 

I'm the guy that refers those cases to you, only in PA.

[MrPeanut]

I sit in a cubicle and read fishin articles while looking out for Lumburgh

[rippin-lips]

The past 8yrs I've worked for a tattoo studio as a professional body piercer.

[MCS]

My current position is Senior Software Engineer, I work for Citrix in S.FL. right now. I've been programming since I was 8-yo so it naturally became a profession :-)

 

I've done contract coding in college, then computer forensics and data recovery (NDCI), worked on Wall Street writing software for derivatives trading (Imagine Software), then I spent 3.5 years developing distributed database engines (from scratch, C++, unix) and corresponding ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) pipelines, and worked with police to help them catch child predators online (TLO). I'm a systems guy, always coding for the back-ends/servers, the kind of code that users never really see. My specialty is C++, OO, high performance stuff. Also did real time 3D graphics for game engines as a hobby for 15 years and almost ended up working for a game company (think Mortal Kombat :-) ). Now at Citrix working on Windows 8 mobile stuff, can't say much though, NDA and all... all in all, my hobby became my passion which became my job :-)

 

M.

 

Sounds like you have a very accomplished career, it is pretty cool you started with something so you and it led you so far. I hope my kids can have a similar experience to be able to find a job that they actually have a real passion for. I love my line of work, I take pride in what I do and am skilled at my craft but I cannot say it is a passion of mine.

[Raider Nation Fisher]

Electrician, Welder, and Ironworker. Im also one of the less than 100 electricians in the state with extensive pharmaceutical plant construction experience. Currently working with a heavy industrial electrical company.

[aharris]

Senior Civil Designer for one of the largest DBO/EPO companies.

Running civil 3D/producing construction docs for large industrial projects.

Have worked residential, commercial and water/wastewater treatment and water resource site desgin in the past.

Civil Engineering guy here too! Whats your views on Civil 3D? I've only been using it for about 2 years. I'm sure I dont know all of the little tricks yet.

[MCS]

Civil Engineering guy here too! Whats your views on Civil 3D? I've only been using it for about 2 years. I'm sure I dont know all of the little tricks yet.

 

Cool man! I been using C3D for the past 7 yrs off and on. but consistanlty since 2008. I am used to it, I like it. I started grading on bum wad and digitizing contours into LDD and then used LDD very heavy for a while. I love the annotation(mutiple scales and dynamic links), and the dynamic links between profiles, surfaces and pipe networks. SSA is still quirky, but the way things work here the PEs run that and I get stuck with figuring the import back in and updating my pipe networks which is an issue. The hardest things IMO are learning all the ins and outs to building surfaces effectively and getting people, mainly upper management/construction estimators and IT/resellers, to understand things are not as simple as what the demos Autodesk puts out to sell the product. Things are more complicated and site specific than they account for. Sorry to ramble and get off track, but it is rare I can talk to someone regarding this. message me any time.