Thread: What is your profession or real job?

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I am a hot rod ,classic,exotic car builder who owns my own facility. I work 100 hrs a week turning nasty rusted metal into things of beauty and love every second of it.

i drive a cement truck for my dads business trying to make some money before i head off to school to become a diesel mechanic. i also run a vw repair shop out of my garage for extra money. all is going pretty well. im 19, so it will be quite a while before i retire.

Originally Posted by ratty41

i drive a cement truck for my dads business trying to make some money before i head off to school to become a diesel mechanic. i also run a vw repair shop out of my garage for extra money. all is going pretty well. im 19, so it will be quite a while before i retire.

Never know, you could manage things right and have a very busy garage and retire and let others work for you.

Originally Posted by youther

Never know, you could manage things right and have a very busy garage and retire and let others work for you.

this is what my grandfather tells me. he has done really well in the stock market and worked really hard. he is now retired living in idaho. he just built a big house and an even bigger shop. hes doing pretty well, but doesnt seem to like retirement. he never says it but he always finds some work to do. building patios, building motors, etc. i guess after working for 50+ years you get accustomed to always working, and when you retire, it's like, "now what?".

id rather not own my own shop, it is too much hassle even with my small vw shop. id rather work for somebody like CAT and run my dads trucking business when he retires. personally, i like work. im bored out of my skull when there isnt any. i dont like it when people lump my generation all together. not all of us are lazyass freeloaders thinking life is like that on mtv. sorry, dont know how i went off on that tangent.

A guy asked Woody Allen what he did for work.

He said that he helped the strippers put their costumes
on at the Bijou Theatre

The guy asked how much money the job brought in.

Woody said $150 a week.

The guy said "that's not much!"

Woody said "that's all I can afford to give them"

I do mechanical assembly on stuff like this....

made a lot of extra money playing drums in rock bands on the side, getting ready to record a 2nd cd starting in april, I was a part time martial arts instructor in the style of kenpo, and starting tuesday i will be going back to study once again and eventually begin instructing again. and my real job is a paintless dent repairman at a subaru and toyota factory. and yes many brand new cars have dents in them before they make it to the public.

Had a real job once. Didn't like it. Went back to doing Hot Rod stuff!!!!

WOW, what some jobs. I always thought my job was boring, but compared to yall, its more boring than I thought.

I am VP/General Manger for a small trucking company (50 trucks/110 drivers). We transport only the US Mail.

Jack

I'm a Ski/ Snowboard boot Authorized Rentals Technician, I work at Hunter Mtn, actully only Authorized thru Burton Snowboard company ( they gave us work shirts that say Burton Authorized Technician ), but were indemnefied by all of our equipment suppliers, except OVO helmet company, as they are out of buisnuess, but we still have little over 1k OVO helmets.

Last 5 months.............NOTHING

Starting a new job on Monday...Plant Manager , small fastener company.

I think I'll do this from now back
Retired. working on my projects 53 Ford curently / 57 chevy
94/04 Building homes garages remodeling
76/94 Took buy-out retired from major metal manufacturer (Maintanence
supervisor over (at times the entire plant) mechanical work, machine
design and fabrication)
71/76 Refrigeration engineer (ammonia)for cold storage company
68/71 Refrigeration instalation (ammonia & freon) maintainence in several
packing houses in stock yards Chicago
Before that I worked in machine shop as maintanence mechanic/electrician/plumber/anything that was broken.
college for Mechanical engineering didn't finish as Kids started showing up.
In the time I had after work and between jobs I built cars, repaired cars, and just got greasy.
I know I missed some but this isn't a job app. IS IT
This mounth I get my first S.S. check

I own an auto repair shop that was opened somewhere around 1928 by Grandpa then inherited by my Dad and then myself. Been a mechanic all my life and never wanted to do any thing else. Spent most weekends since high school strapped into some kinda circle burner untill 3 years ago when I retired from racin and started building my coupe. Of course 3 years sounds like a long time to be building a hotrod but that dang youngest kid (15) decided he wanted to go back racing after he retired from 1/4 midgets @ age 12. Well we started racing 600cc micro sprints last year and he won the championship so we are moving to sprint cars this year. Guess the coupe will get done when I find some extra time as I gotta keep Momma Worrell's favorite boy from getting crippled or killed from mechanical failures

25+ years as an Air Traffic Controller with the FAA. 4 years as an Air Traffic Controller in the Air Force before that. LOVE IT!!!!!

Layabout!

Actually, I am retired (disability almost fifty years of self abuse). In real life, I am an electrician. The job I had was at a large power company, and I worked in substation construction/maintenance, and operations; my job had elements of four trades - electrician, lineman, millwright, and test tech. For many years, on the side, I also had my own electrical contracting business, did residential concrete work, twisted wrenches for folks sometimes, and generally made a nuisance of myself.