What Do You/Did You Do?

[Lloyd Smale]

retired electrical lineman/line foreman. 8 years in the service before that.

[TexasGrunt]

Farm worker

Food service

United States Marine Corps

13 years selling hunting and fishing equipment

20 years as a professional blue collar street walker

Now disabled, retired, and casting boolits, reloading, making fishing lures, fishing, shooting.

[shaper]

Out of school into the Air Force as a aircraft mechanic for 8 years. Delta Airlines as a aircraft mechanic, non destructive inspector, pre flight inspector, foreman of the inspector department, retired after 31 years. Now I have a powder coating shop in the back yard and I try my best to get something to grow on this ridge and restore an old Chevy truck.

[smoked turkey]

1969 BSEE from Missouri School of Mines (MSM), then University of Missouri at Rolla (UMR), now Missouri Science & Technology (MS&T). Worked in the power industry for electric utility 30 years doing all sorts of transmission and distribution design and construction. Been retired 19 years. Best job I ever had. LOL.

[flyingmonkey35]

started out in high school selling shoes in my dads shop. joined the Army ntl grd as a MP wound up shooting Cannons.
did 16 years as Security in Casinos, hospitals with 3 working in a Jail.

For the past 9 I've been in computers. currently working for DellEMC. working on muliti million dollar storage arrays.



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[curdog]

I worked 25 years as correctional officer with Ill Dept Corrections. I am retired and I chase whitetail deer with a recurve bow and cast boolits and shoot a lot. The rest of my time I just waste.

[yancey]

Working on my 35th year as a Lineman Catv

[DougGuy]

Went to the shipyard (Ingalls West Bank, Pascagoula MS) lied about my age, time they caught me I was 18 they let me stay. 1st real trade was a burner (cutting with hand and machine torches), loved it, traveled all over the Gulf Coast and the Atlantic Seaboard as a burner working in a lot of different shipyards, then went on to fitting, welding, finally pipefitting and pipewelding.

Most fascinating work: I built oil rigs on land at Brown & Root in Houston, went offshore and installed them on their jackets, welded in a pressure vessel shop that built the really heavy vessels, 4" wall thickness was common.

Most enjoyable work: Fitting and welding hi-purity stainless pipe in pharmaceutical plants around the Raleigh area. Clean, out of the weather, light material to work with, GOOD money! Plenty of overtime!

Most hated work: CCO certified crane operator working for KBR. They just ****.

In the middle of all the steel work I managed to play in bar bands 25yrs, toured paying bass with a national act, run my own guitar repair shop and owned a gunsmithing business doing mostly checkering and building 1911s and other specialized jobs.

Cancer took me out of the pipe trades in 2013 so I am mentoring another welder part time and doing some gunsmithing by request.

[Love Life]

Went into the Marine Corps straight out of high school. Been there ever since. 13 years and counting.

[blackthorn]

Raised on a small farm in central Manitoba. Left school at age 17 with a partial grade 11 (knew it all, dontcha know?). Had several short term jobs in the first year or so and then went to work in the plywood manufacturing industry in British Columbia. Married at 20, two boys by 23, active in the local gun club etc. Worked in the plywood industry for 32+ years, the last few were spotty due to company decline. In-between lay-offs, I set up and ran a center for assisting unemployed people with any/all problems related to being without work. This was a great job (but poor pay) because I got to write my own job description. This center, along with 31 others in the province, was initiated and overseen by the BC Federation of Labour but the assistance offered was extended to anyone, Union or not. I wound up managing 8 centers besides my own. My center morphed into a full blown food bank in addition to its prime directive. During this time I learned to represent people on appeal to various agencies such as unemployment insurance, welfare, Pensions, Worker's Compensation etc. I set-up and ran several placement committees for workers displaced through plant closures, as well as sitting as a labour interest rep on several community organizations. In 1991 I applied for and got a position as a labour rep on the Boards of Review dealing with appeals from decisions made by the Workers Compensation system. The last 15 years of my working life I wound up writing decisions with respect to appeals by workers and employers from our Worker's Compensation system. These decisions had to be well enough written to stand alone in the Canadian court system if they were challenged. None of mine ever were. Around the year 2000, I became a Vice Chair with the Workers Compensation Appeal Tribunal and I retired from that position in 2004. Six months later, along with three other retired Vice Chairs, we were re-hired on contract to deal with the large backlog of claims that had built up. I worked from home for the next one and a half years, at which time I retired again. A couple of weeks later I was asked to take on a short term contract advising/representing people on appeal to the Compensation system. I did 2 short term contracts and retired for good. Nowadays I do help the odd person who gets bogged down in the intricacies of the compensation system, but I do it for fun not for money.

[Wayne Smith]

I think we did this once before, ran on to 20 or so pages?

Licensed Clinical Psychologist, for the past 22 years I have been with Christian Psychotherapy Services in Hampton Roads, VA. We are the largest clinical agency in the area with five offices and over 120 therapists, including MD's. I have worked both clinical and forensic psychology and am now beginning to see winding down as a positive.

[Hickory]

Worked a GM iron foundry. If you own a GM product we probably poured the heads, crankshafts, blocks, rearend carrier, intake and exhaust manifolds, disc brakes, and calipers. And other small parts.
We no longer do Detroit Diesel, Toyota, Chrysler, or Honda parts.

[jonp]

We did do this before and I thought it was very interesting to see the varied and high skilled work reloaders and casters did or are still doing. Gun Nuts must be the most well rounded and trained people in the world. If SHTF I'm getting a group of reloaders and casters together. Between all of us we could form a pretty good nation and thriving economy.

Army jumping out of planes and visiting various interesting places doing stuff.

College and Environmental Consultant as staff Biologist and spent time doing that, cruising timber etc out west. I also helped write one of the 10yr management plans for the Grand Canyon which got me an all expense paid whitewater rafting trip down the Colorado and a paid summer camping on the North Rim looking for Goshawks and Spotted Owls

Got in a truck when the Consultant Company went out of business and 3,000,000+ miles later still driving.

Less interesting jobs were janitor, greens keeper, pulp cutter using both a skidder and a Belgium named Clyde, bricklayer/mason's tender, construction, dairy farm help, landscaping, lab tech doing DNA typing, working in an arboretum doing plant ID for expeditions from The Amazon/Congo etc, other stuff..

[Reverend Al]

I spent 5 years working for a local newspaper until it closed it's doors. Then I got my dream job ... I worked the next 38 years in retail sporting goods selling guns, ammunition, reloading equipment, and hunting related gear. It sure was nice to wake up in the morning and WANT to go to work! Been retired for 6 years this month and I have been trying to get in as much range time as possible, but some health issues have cropped up in the past few months which are now cutting into my shooting schedule. Hopefully my cardiologist will get it all sorted out so that I can get back to the range a couple of days a week ...

[Tom W.]

Mostly QC at a sawmill, with a stint as a sawfiler until the mill shut down, then a QA tech at two different chicken plants until my cancer came back. Now I'm retired and disabled and a CPA to my wife. No, that has nothing to do with bookkeeping.
Early in life I worked at a printing factory making the tissue wrappers for toilet paper. Moved to Alabama and got a job installing monuments, later doing the work that is needed to engrave them. For a while I worked in a tire shop, selling, mounting and balancing them. Later I went to work for a bauxite company. Easy and high paying. It ultimately closed,which sent me to the sawmill. I used to get 60 lb. Ingots of pure lead and a lot of nickel Babbitt from our distributor. Casting was really good back then!

[Echo]

Musician in HS & Frosh year in ME, dropped out & joined USAF, was an electronics instructor on the Matador, our first cruise missile, studied and made FCC 2nd Class radio/Phone engineer, OCS, then computers. Communicator in Airborne Command Post system (Looking Glass, our bird was Achieve), back into computers after SEA, after a stretch as MaintCont for 31AD, retired with a new MEd in Psych, then got another MEd in C&G, did the work, including Neuro-Psych testing (Reitan battery), then QC (CQE, CQA, QSA) and international management consulting. Fairly retired, worked as docent driving a tram @ Pima Air & Space Museum, largest private air museum in the world. Totally retired now, casting boolits & chasing n00ky.

[starbits]

20 years in the Army,mostly EOD and ammo storage and supply. Used the GI bill to get a BS in Physics and went to work for one of my professors running his noble gas lab for 6 years. Retired a second time and am just enjoying life.

Starbits

[Biggin]

10 yrs doing concrete work last 16 electrical lineman

[308Jeff]

Apologize this has been done before. I didn't find it in a search.

I probably have 20 more years to go!! (At least I hope that is all that will be needed!)

Same boat as me.

[lightman]

Not a problem Bro, its still interesting!