What do you do for a living?

[429421Cowboy]

Sorry if this is a Sticky someplace and I missed it.
What does everybody do for a living so they can afford lead/moulds/pots/powder/primers/brass/lube/dies/presses/swage gear/lathes/gunsmithing tools/benches/casting shed/boolit traps, etc... to save money by reloading your own ammo?

I'll start it off, when i was ten i took out a $5,000 dollar Young Farmers loan from the USDA to buy four registerd bred Angus heifers that started my herd along with one my parents gave me, now I own 40 head of my own. I also work on our family ranch for the main herd and the share cows we run. I weld on the side, mostly metal art because of the market for western style art these days. I have worked for a taxidermist, was a water well driller's helper, and have guided for whitetails on the Missouri river the last four years and pretty much lived the young man's dream.
I now am a full time college student though, making my cowherd work for me finally instad of the other way around so i can hopefully become a game warden.

Have at it guys!

[starmac]

I just ride around in a truck, when I work that is. lol

[boltons75]

Fork Truck jockey at a GM supplier, we are a "just in time warehouse" for GM truck and bus, Flint assembly. You name the part on the trucks, except for sheet metal and frames, and we handle it.

[Echo]

Retired, but everything is paid for, so my USAF retirement and SS allow me some discretionary income. Before that - I was a management consultant for about 6 years. ISO 9000 International Quality System auditor, Certified Quality Engineer & Certified Quality System Auditor. Worked from Prudhoe bay to Ft Lauderdale, Boston to San Diego, and three western provinces of Canada. Before that, ran a children's unit for a psychiatric hospital (all my degrees are in mental health areas). Before that, full time student. Before that, full time USAF.

[nicholst55]

I'm one of them 'overpaid' federal employees that all the millionaires in Congress are whining about being the cause of the deficit. My job title is Equipment Specialist (Ordnance), and I work for Department of the Army. I get to play with (but not shoot) all kinds of military weapons. I might even get to shoot one once in a while when I move to my new job in Arizona.

In my previous lives I was an Armament Maintenance NCO in the Army, a corporate trainer, and a defense contractor.

I currently make a whopping $45K and change, FWIW.

[Jim]

Retired mechanical pipefitter/welder. Now I'm mining lead.

[Hickory]

Retired from General Motors,
My GM pension turned into a government teat.

[winelover]

Retired pipefitter from General Motors. Currently in Arkansas, trying to finish my new home, complete with shooting range so I can recycle my boolets.

Winelover

[Lloyd Smale]

retired electrical lineman

[garbear]

I work for a company that dries juice from plants like barley,oats, wheat grasses into powder. I am a chopper operator(harvest the grass). I also work in there production department in the winter when I am not chopping. I am also a volunteer fire fighter and city councilman.
Garbear

[Tonto]

I'm a National Park Superintendent. Started working at 12 delivering newspapers and been working ever since. Moved up from a newsie to working in a hospital kitchen at the end of high school then through college. Managed a 10000 acre private tract as a Forester/Wildlife Biologist for 8 years, got a graduate degree in the evening and started for Uncle Sam in 1988 and haven't looked back. Have worked in over 30 states and spent some time working in national parks all over eastern Europe. Three kids have tempered the hobbies....enjoying year two of the pay freeze too.

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

Part-time Electronic Tech/Industrial Electrician,
which leaves time for my Hobbies...lawn equipment repair, gardening/farmers market, cutting firewood...ect

[imashooter2]

I sit in a gray fabric covered box for 8 hours and shuffle paper. Occasionally, I'll solve a problem.

To the uninitiated, that would be a Production Engineer for The Boeing Company. I've been making Chinook Cockpits for the last 8 years. Before that, I was an ME and worked the Apache center section, 757, 767, 777 fixed leading edges and the 747 Spanwise Beam (part of the wing box).

[mktacop]

Retired from the US Air Force, now working as a Systems Engineer for a big Defense Contractor.

[white eagle]

at present I am a maintenance supervisor at a local gaming establishment
prior 15 years + I was a jouneyman bricklayer
10 years before that I was a machinist/qc inspector

[Brasso]

US Army retired, Social Security and some VA Disability.

Sam

[3006guns]

Retired due to a disability........and discovering how much fun I missed during all those years of pointless working!

[missionary5155]

Good morning
Independent Baptist Bible Church planter in southern Peru for the last 26 years. Work primarily in the Arequipa Valley system and also start churches in mountain villages. Fantastic life ! I get to ride two wheelers daily and cross some of the most beautiful desert you can imagine. Serving God is Great !
Mike in Peru

[jameslovesjammie]

I wash rocks. I am a Mudlogger in the Bakken Oil Field in North Dakota. I have been a warehouse manager (twice), auto center manager, order selector, college student, salesman, and lawn maintenance technician. I started working under the table at 14, as insurance in my home state didn't cover anyone under the age of 16.

[Calamity Jake]

QC manager in a small machine shop, but not for much longer as the owners (in there 70s) are retiring and have sold the building to a privet school next door.