Thread: What is your profession or real job?

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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.

Spent forty-odd years turning 329 acres of land from standing bush into a dairy farm. In order to get working capital I went driving cranes, trucks, (large ones, 40 tons or more,) bulldozers, excavators, buses, (tour trips,) also did a lot of contract welding on building sites, anything that paid good dollars.
Chucked it all away four years or so ago. I now spend most of my time playing in my shed, (40ft x 80ft) not doing much, but having fun.
I also run a caravan rental business, site vans, not for dragging behind a car.
It's a good racket....I pay $1500 to $2000 for a van, tittivate it up a bit, and lease it out for $35 to $45 a week. I can recoup my capital inside 12 months.
If one gets wrecked, (and so far only one has,) it's not a great loss.
It pays the bills and keeps me amused.

johnboy