What do you do for work?
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Find the wasted speed between the barber pole and the overspeed clacker.
Remember, Vmo/Mmo is not a limitation, it's a goal!
That is fucking great!!!
I work in the food industry that makes tomato products (ketchup,salsa ect,ect) for stores all over the country. And hopefully be going back to school now that my wife just received her BA.
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I make track pins for Caterpillar bulldozers, in 4 months I will be a flight instructor! Big difference.
Currently in training to cut people open legally, give drugs that numb your senses, tell you that you need to lose 15 pounds, and get sued because your 94 year old grandmother died of natural causes but clearly it was my fault and I did something wrong.
Sales manager for a structural steel fabricator.
Not very exotic, or exciting, but I've stayed in the same industry since the week after I graduated high school and it has paid off. No college degree, just lots of hours, sweat and the desire to be better at what I did than any of my coworkers. Started off in the shop with an 8" grinder and a tack-welding lead. Didn't take me long to realize that I didn't want to spend the rest of my life in that position.
Not very exotic, or exciting, but I've stayed in the same industry since the week after I graduated high school and it has paid off. No college degree, just lots of hours, sweat and the desire to be better at what I did than any of my coworkers. Started off in the shop with an 8" grinder and a tack-welding lead. Didn't take me long to realize that I didn't want to spend the rest of my life in that position.
presently i manage & audit multi-million dollar programs for assets designated for overhaul for interservice requirements through DOD's premier overhaul facility ensuring return on investment for oconus and conus operating sites while attempting to reduce the burden of such on the American taxpayer and NATO funded projects.
which in it's purest form means i push pencils, click mice, and go to meetings. the above sounds alot better at HS reunions.
which in it's purest form means i push pencils, click mice, and go to meetings. the above sounds alot better at HS reunions.
Hardwood floor guy. Currently employed with one of the best companies in the Seattle area but maybe only a year or so from opening my own company.
If you're in the Seattle area and want your floors looked at contact me. I have been in the industry over 15 years and can work with any realistic budget to improve your hardwoods.
-Mike
If you're in the Seattle area and want your floors looked at contact me. I have been in the industry over 15 years and can work with any realistic budget to improve your hardwoods.
-Mike
Now if you could just make an acronym for the first paragraph, then we'd all understand that you work for the gubmint......
Heat Treater. I make shit hard. No comments needed, Ive heard em all.
Also, raise a few cattle..
Also, raise a few cattle..
I am an Ammonia, Steam Boiler (low pressure) mechanic. Stationary Engineer in training at Kraft Foods. The only factory in the world that Cool-Whip is made
I used to be a gynecologist but I had to quit because I kept working for free. Now I work for the power company scraping bird shit off the power lines, great pay and all you can eat.
I'm studying for the bar exam so I can finally use my argument skills for something other than the "cartridge with high bc bullets" vs. "something else" thread.
If I don't flunk the bar exam, I'll be a lawyer doing all sorts of litigation.
I'm starting to think that a job diving into raw sewage would be better than studying for the bar exam.
If I don't flunk the bar exam, I'll be a lawyer doing all sorts of litigation.
I'm starting to think that a job diving into raw sewage would be better than studying for the bar exam.
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I'm pretty fortunate. I get to play for a living.........
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Type 01 FFL/Country Boy. Nice when I can bore sight a gun, then walk outside and test it!
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Plumber for 18 years owned my own Business.. Sold it right before the Real Estate crash. Purchased property for pennies on the dollar and NOW I'm still a plumber maintaining my own properties. And work as a Hardware Engineer for a Large firm..
I was always told growing up that I could be anything i wanted to be...turns out it's now called identity theft.....
Retired Army 20 yrs..now working in a local shop..loving it.
Retired Army 20 yrs..now working in a local shop..loving it.
Petroleum landman in the great state of Texas. I figure out who owns minerals and do all the contract negotiation. Hollywood is giving us a bad rep right now....on the other hand there are some sorry ones in my profession...
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Semi retired physician working 4 days a week. Trained at a County hospital and saw everything. Tenyear ER stint when younger. Now just adult medicine with my average patient age about 80. High blood pressure, diabetes cardiovascular disease including severe chronic CHF, cirrhosis, stroke, cancer, etc. I do it all and still love, but getting harder every year with all the required worthless changes. At least I make decent money for weapons and ammo.
12 years, Firefighter/ Paramedic for 24 hours, Welder/ Fabricator for 48 hours.
Been doing the metal work since 1996 and now work, by myself out of my shop at home or out in the field with a portable rig. I LOVE BOTH OF MY JOBS! But if I won the lottery I'd retire from the FD and build one of the most bad ass shops you've ever seen and keep cutting, heating, and welding metals.
Been doing the metal work since 1996 and now work, by myself out of my shop at home or out in the field with a portable rig. I LOVE BOTH OF MY JOBS! But if I won the lottery I'd retire from the FD and build one of the most bad ass shops you've ever seen and keep cutting, heating, and welding metals.
Semi-retired Electrical Engineer--3 days a week I red pencil screw ups in contract drawings for x-million dollar construction projects for the NYCDEP---but in upstate NY. Whyinhell don't they put engineering students on real jobs, with a bag of tools on their belt in the summer, so they know what a 50 HP motor really looks like?? Spent 20 years actually bending conduit and pulling wires myself.
Im work at a Volvo car dealership in the parts department. You guys need some thing for your Volvo,I will give you a good price and ship it.
We do our best!
And as far as the day job goes, I write reloading manuals, shoot, attend trade shows from Vegas to Nuremburg and anywhere in between, spend time at matches and visiting forums such as this.
It's a dirty job, but somebody HAS to do it!
And as far as the day job goes, I write reloading manuals, shoot, attend trade shows from Vegas to Nuremburg and anywhere in between, spend time at matches and visiting forums such as this.
It's a dirty job, but somebody HAS to do it!
My degree is in Plastics Engineering (injection molding, tool design, part design, manufacturing). Made car parts for a few years, then cell phone antennas (remember the Motorola star-tac?), then made cell phones for a big Japanese OEM for 11 years and I currently work as an Advance Manufacturing Engineer building commercial digital lighting control systems, sensors, switches, electrical panels... Always have worked in new product development. It is fun coming up with ideas and helping to design and build new shit...
I make a living doing exactly what I enjoy doing a lot, painting up gunstocks, scopes, you name it. It's a lot of fun, makes me happy and pays the bills all at the same time. Won't make me rich but it's a very low stress lifestyle, which is worth millions to me.
Branden
Branden
You obviously have your shit together! There is so much truth in the part that I made bold. People just don't get that there are more important things in life than money, cars, boats etc. etc.. Low stress is great for your health.
Some professions are often in direct contact, among other things, with the people's worst moments and/or sufferings (as can happen workin' as doctor,LEO,lawyer,etc.)_
I've ever had the impression that not only this can sadden you when this happens, but after years of that I think some of those repeated episodes could find a way inside you, becoming part of your memories, therefore part of you, especially when you KNOW that it's nothing you could do...etc.
For this reason Short-bus statement got my "like", for this reason I hope to be so lucky to can continue to draw, w. or w/out computer (better w/out),even if someone could say that neither of us has never "seriously" grown up, even well knowing that neither of us would be close to our next billion of dollars...
I've ever had the impression that not only this can sadden you when this happens, but after years of that I think some of those repeated episodes could find a way inside you, becoming part of your memories, therefore part of you, especially when you KNOW that it's nothing you could do...etc.
For this reason Short-bus statement got my "like", for this reason I hope to be so lucky to can continue to draw, w. or w/out computer (better w/out),even if someone could say that neither of us has never "seriously" grown up, even well knowing that neither of us would be close to our next billion of dollars...
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I work as a paramedic. I can make a meager living, but, I don't do it for the money. Every once in a while I get to help someone in dire circumstances and they appreciate it. That is reward that no amount of money can compare.
Thank you, but I won't confess how long it took me to realize what does and doesn't matter, lol. Kids have a funny way of giving you that shot in the nuts to make to reevaluate the way you see the world, it took a second kid to really give me that shot in the nuts though.
Branden
I develop and engineer a vibrator factory! How would you like to be a tester for our company? Lol!
Mining analyst for a investment firm. (Fly around the world to look at big holes in the ground...)
