Thread: What is your profession or real job?

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Originally Posted by cffisher

Don Dalton
I served my machinest apprentist ship at Westing House Airbrake back in 66/7 in Chicago. Small world I think we were making brake parts for mine cars.

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Charlie:
66 is the year I started with WABCO in Lexington Ky.Left and went with IBM there .Came to Tx. in 68 with Big Blue ,a good move.

Don In Austin

After hammering them in a previous post I better not identify them lest someone figure out who I am

Had a few jobs b4 I pulled the plug....

Broadcasting...Chief Eng at KMO in Tacoma in mid 60's

Boeing Flight Test...Flew on first 737 as part of Flight Test Crew and then on
the first 747 (RA001) in late 60's.
Worked for Motorola MSS for 25 years maintaing Communications for Seattle
Police and Fire as well as other Federal, State and Local Government communications installations.

Now I live on a farm and shovel horse shit and play with my cars.
Don't have to carry a pager or cell phone and most of the time I don't even wear a watch....LOL
DT

Retired last year,after spending 33 years as a heavy equipment mechanic,mostly for N.Y.S.D.O.T.In my spare time,Ibuilt a lot of stock cars,for both ditr and asphault. Now that I've got plenty of time, I'd like to build something that's not going to get smashed to s---. Hank

Worked as a product Engr & Engr. manager for Western Electric,AT&T & Lucent. Retired at the age of 51 & now enjoy building cars, going to swap meets & car shows in Central Florida.

Viking,

I used to dodge boats like your while waterskiing on that same river. Just kidding. We kept our distance, but the wake behind the tow was a lot of fun. BTW, I was born about 5 miles from that arch in the background of your first photo.

My dad used to run a grain and fertilizer depot in Springfield, IL, and he and my mother used to ride a towboat downriver on occasion as guests.

I'm RETIRED but was a Project Engineer, Project Manager, Shipping Clerk, Uprate Manager/Engineer, jack of alltrades for a large power generation equipment manufacturer specializing in gas and steam turbines plus a combined version of the two. Probably in excess of 90% of this was for jobs 'elsewhere' in the world than the US. It was fun, exciting, energetic, challanging until it wasn't(the last 5 years). This is one of the most fascinating projects - and I was the material manager/ shipper for about 750 million dollars of equipment to a site in Wales. It was a prototype unit, producing about 500 megawatts of power. The photo is one of the commercial versions assembly in the factory -

Viking,
My Uncle Is a Trip Boat Capt. Been on a few myself (just riding). I used to load/Unload Dry & Liquid Barges at IMC Agrico. It's really neat how those boats are designed & operate...



My first job (that actually paid) was at a local Fishing & Convience store, and at a Local Resturaunt. Also Volunteered at the local Fire Dept. & trained hard for a year to work part-time paid. Did that until 3 years ago when I moved to TX. Joined the Local Dept here when I moved.

Next "full time" job (In 1992) I worked at a fab shop & General Contractor - FABCO Inc. - Did lots of different jobs for them. Heavy Equipment Operator, Maintenance at an oil reserve storage facility. Contract Operations Tech Offshore. and a few other things...

Then I worked In the shipping dept at a chemical plant that made Melamine.
The NEW Automated Packing machines resulted in an R.O.F. pinky for me... Thanks to fellas like Brian for making those... .... Just kidding ...

Next I was transferred to BASF as a Rail Maint. Laberor. Worked my way up to Rail Inspector, Brakeman, Conductor, Engineer, Then Dispatcher/ Night Crew Manager.

Then got hired at IMC Global as a Process Operations Tech. (Fancy Lingo for Highly Paid Laberor). @ 26.95 / Hour .... Whose complaining though??? Loaded Barges, Ships, Trucks, Railcars.... Whatever they wanted me to put it in... Was there 3yrs. when he Market Dropped, they shut the plant down... Myself and 256 others there got walking papers .... Fun While it lasted though.

Sooo ... Back to the Railroading at BASF... (Good thing I don't burn bridges when I leave a Job... ) I always Gave 110% to my work

Next, I finally decided to go Full Time at firefighting... Hired in as a contract Industrial Firefighter / Instructor.

Now for the last 3 years I've been a Safety Inspector for a Major Natural Gas Producer... (Construction & Industrial Safety is what I went to school for along with all the other Fire training classes... Was torn between a BS in Fire Science or Safety Engineer - Shouldda Stuck with the Safety Engineer.... ) I did manage to get a bunch of really cool looking initials through out all of that ... like NREMT-B, NRST-I, CVRT, CRRT, CHMT, and several more .... All those simply mean that everyone can see I KNOW my ABC's ....

Geez.... Looks like I got carried away .... Sorry guys, didnt mean to ramble....

I have been working in the Computer Operations field for the last 13 years.
The last 7 of it for a large trucking company.

They own the little blue trucks that run up and down the road all over the 48 states and in Mexico and Canada. We are also starting operations in China.

Before that I did a myriad of different jobs. Truck driver, furniture mover, Delivery Supervisor for a furniture company here in Omaha. Also worked in the Meat packing industry for a couple of years.

But I think that I have found a home working on computers, be they large or small, I try to fix them all!

Electrical design engineer formerly specializing in read/write magnetic recording channels for tape drives/data storage. I'm in the midst of 2-weeks off between jobs and will soon be a design specialist for a company that sells programmable logic devices... many other not so glamorous jobs the previous 20 years.

At one point in high school worked the county library, pizza cutter at pizza hut (no one messes with the guy with the big knife), and system/mainframe operator at a mid-sized local company simultaneously putting in over 60 hours a week to save for college.

Only 30 more years to retirement.... where's that lotto ticket?

-Chris

Originally Posted by skids72

Electrical design engineer formerly specializing in read/write magnetic recording channels for tape drives/data storage. I'm in the midst of 2-weeks off between jobs and will soon be a design specialist for a company that sells programmable logic devices... many other not so glamorous jobs the previous 20 years.

At one point in high school worked the county library, pizza cutter at pizza hut (no one messes with the guy with the big knife), and system/mainframe operator at a mid-sized local company simultaneously putting in over 60 hours a week to save for college.

Only 30 more years to retirement.... where's that lotto ticket?

-Chris

I BETCHA YALL NEVER SELL ANY OF THOSE "LOGIC DEVICES" TO ANY BRANCH OF THE GOVERNMENT, FEDERAL, STATE, OR LOCAL.

Jack

Good one Jack.... goes along with something like "military intelligence" (no offense to our veterans and men and women in uniform)... actually, the feds and various contractors are not such a small customer...

-Chris

There may be something you don't understand here pal. It's a well known and true statistic that most heart attacks happen on Monday mornings between 7-9 am.(this is REALLY true). And you want me to get a job???? Noway hosea.
I was in commercial maintenance.

30+ years as a lithographer. Ink on paper and I bleed Ford blue in 4 color process.
Played the drums for 20+ years...had some fun...lots of women....but not nearly enough cash to live on full time. Had the pleasure of meeting Gene Krupa, Buddy Rich and Lionel Hampton during that time. Anyone remember them??
I polish aluminum parts on the side for extra cash.
Far from a rich and famous lifestyle...but it pays the bills.

G.

Originally Posted by FFR428

30+ years as a lithographer. Ink on paper and I bleed Ford blue in 4 color process.
Played the drums for 20+ years...had some fun...lots of women....but not nearly enough cash to live on full time. Had the pleasure of meeting Gene Krupa, Buddy Rich and Lionel Hampton during that time. Anyone remember them??
I polish aluminum parts on the side for extra cash.
Far from a rich and famous lifestyle...but it pays the bills.

G.

Buddy Rich???? Man, you are really dating yourself there G!!!! Someplace around here I have a Tommy Dorsey album and on it Buddy Rich is introduced as the "new kid drummer"!!!!!