What do we do for a living?

[Kim]

Family Physician small town. Worked at Dow Chemical while in College. Before that as a waitress ----------- 12 hours a day 6 days a week and the most FUN job I ever had. If I had it to do over would choose a different path. Sigh. I'm waiting for socialized medicine then I can finally say "Take this job and shove it". Pity the youngins stil left.

 

[The-Fly]

I do computer /network support for the local uni here. Pay sucks, but coworkers and boss is great, and the benefits arent bad. Also love the town i live in. I can only afford my hobbie because i drive a 12 year old car, dont own a house, and dont have any other hobbies that require much money.

 

[Thin Black Line]

Army Reservist who has redeployed home from Iraq. Trying to re-build
my private practice in counseling and child abuse investigations after
it withered away while gone for a year. It's still kind of strange --I
don't know if I should pick up the book "My Many Colored Days" or
look for IEDs along the road.....

 

[robear]

Voice, Video, Data Communications Technician, Mission Control Center, NASA.

 

[MSgt B]

Active Duty MSgt USAF

Same here in VA. How's it hangin' AFhack?

I am a Maintenance Production Superintendent.
(I spend alot of time walking around with a clipboard and a two-way looking important)

Perks: Standing within 5 ft of a chained-down F-15 in full after-burner. Makes your heartbeat all funny.

Oh, yeah. I drive a Nissan Titan.

 

[dmallind]

Director of QA at a manufacturing company serving mostly medical and bio-tech markets, but some industrial and automotive too.

 

[quadfather03]

Hotel Manager. Show me the money.

 

[USMCRotrHed]

Job?

Maintenance management for a major airline.

 

[Stickjockey]

Between the engineers, technicians, and military guys, I'm starting to feel like Bob Cratchett. I'm just a lowly computer-and-radio jockey for a regional airline. I'm looking, though.

Anyone got any use for a guy with a good work ethic, a B.A. in Aviation Operations and Management, and a very old Commercial Pilot's Certificate?

 

[AF_INT1N0]

Active Duty AirForce E-5 (making the BIG bucks)

And student working on my MBA.

Used to have a 2001 Dodge Ram(made in Canada eh?), but couldn't afford to feed it. Damn, I miss that truck!

Now I drive a Subaru.

My firearms are mostly american though..

 

[gabarber1]

wow! There are alot of guys making a whole lot more than me! Guess thats why I have an 870 express, an IMI baby eagle .40 cal, and a 16 year old Marlin .22- 12 gague, .40, and .22 cal can all be cheap to shoot! as for me, I am an assistant service manager at a small Ford dealership. Still working on getting my first raise- hard though when everyonr is trying to cut their budgets.

 

[Lupinus]

right now I work customer service at a super market....it is hell and I see prime candadits for darwin awards constantly all day...sometimes you are left in aw with the stupidity.

I'm moving to SC in about a month so not sure what I will be doing there but I plans over the next five years are to start a slow transition into furniture building. Book cases, gun cabanits, tables, etc. I love working with wood and plan to start off doing it as a hobby part time and selling at flea markets and online and such and then slowly as it allows building it into a full time thing.

 

[gabarber1]

and if anyone is interested, I drive a Chev!

 

[TexAg]

Professional Real Estate Inspector.

First vehicle was an '87 Ford Bronco. Bring back the full size Bronco!

 

[gabarber1]

how do you plan to bring back the full size bronco with gas at 2.40 a gallon? You must have very deep pockets!

 

[chetth]

Rocket Scientist

(aerospace engineer, I have worked on satellites though)

 

[fjolnirsson]

Titanium foundry worker. Make aerospace and military parts.
Also own a thriving belly dance studio. Wifey is the talent, I help out with costuming and grunt work.

Oh, yeah. Aspiring fiction writer.

 

[creitzel]

Senior Software Engineer for a small company here that makes Statistical Process Control software. For those that don't know what that is, its software to help manufacturer's monitor the quality of their processes

Chris

 

[cbsbyte]

I'm a Porn Star.

 

[det.pat]

ex army, ex cop, PI and insurance photographer. i drive a 98 nissan.
pat

 

[adkelly]

I'm an recording engineer. Record and mix stuff, from commercials to albums. Almost feel like I'm getting away with something everytime I pick up a check it's so much fun!

 

[Optical Serenity]

police officer at the state level. I prefer my office to be a Ford Crown Vic, but lately they've been redesigning the cubicles to Chevy Impala's...

and I drive an all american made Toyota, and the money stays right here in the U.S. to those plant workers in Kentucky. I know several of them.

I formerly was a software engineer and a web designer.

 

[cracked butt]

Chemical process operator

If you know what that is, you're one of a very few (hint, I don't wear a lab coat and tend bunsen burners). My boss, when he's in an expansive mood calls me a 'chemical engineer' - that burns up the guys who went to college and got a degree in chemical engineering - when anybody with a good eighth grade education, patience, apprentice mechanical/electrical/plumbing skills and a strong back could do my job.

Don't sell yourself short, a good chemical operator is not easy to find. People with chemistry degrees tend to shun grunt work unless they are desperate for a job right out of school, and a lot of people who don't attend a school for a degree or a Trade don't have the mathematical aptitude or chemistry knowledge to safely do the work without a huge amount of training.


Pharmaceutical production plant supervisor/Chemist/part time chemical operator

My boss, when he's in an expansive mood calls me a 'chemical engineer'

FWIW, I call my reports 'minions,' they in turn call me 'Satan.'

 

[jtward01]

Currently disabled due to medical problems.

Spent the first 15 years of my working life as an EMT/Paramedic. Spent the following 12 years as a newspaper reporter.

 

[glove]

ToolMaker last 30 years
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