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02-01-2007 10:59 AM #1
What is your profession or real job?
The picture thread gave this idea to start to see what everyone does for a living. If you are retired, what did you do before you retired. I'm sure some of you are gonna come up with some doozies if you know what I mean....LOL!
I'm a Flight Paramedic on a medical helicopter. I work 2 days a week....A 24 hour shift and a 12 hour shift. It comes with some pretty cool pirks, like working the infield at Martinsville at all NASCAR races. I also work every once in a while on an ambulance at another company on a part-time basis for mad money for my car...LOL!Go Hokies!!!!!! ACC CHAMPS '04,'07,'08
4-16-07
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02-01-2007 11:26 AM #2
I have 2 jobs. Like one of them and Love the other.
Full time operations manager for The Hershy Company in the distribution network. part time ( 2 or 3 weekends a month Thursday-Sunday March through November)
I work in the Soecial events department for Meguiars.
I get paid to go to car shows hang out with cool people and cool cars
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02-01-2007 11:32 AM #3
Medically retired now. Spent 20 years in Uncle Sams Canoe Club (U.S. Navy). After retiring there worked on Brunswick bowling equipment as Head Mechanic (incharge of machines, scorer, Lanes and lane conditions, HVAC, etc,etc) for serveral different companies. (One kept getting bought by another, etc.) In Illinois and Washington state.Duane S
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02-01-2007 11:33 AM #4
Cool iceburgh. I can honestly say that I am a fan of the Meguiars products and use their products more than any other brand. I also eat a lot of the Hershey products too, probally to much....LOL!
And thanks for your service oldf100Last edited by youther; 02-01-2007 at 11:35 AM.
Go Hokies!!!!!! ACC CHAMPS '04,'07,'08
4-16-07
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02-01-2007 11:54 AM #5
Chief Inspector at a major corporate jet manuafacturer repair station and outfitting center. We do the Chip Foose kinda thing only to corporate jets.
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02-01-2007 12:31 PM #6
My primary job has been in the public sector for the past 34 years. But these days I think most of my time is spend sitting in a car going to work or home. Boy, traffic has gotten to be a bitch over the last 10 years.
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02-01-2007 12:47 PM #7
I own a trailer manufacturing co. www.Kendonusa.com
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02-01-2007 01:07 PM #8
Semi-retired aircrafter (that means I work only when my lovely wife orders me to do so).
Spent the last bunch of years working for a real jerk (me) overhauling windshields, windows, and canopies on corporate jets, turboprops, and 'copters.
It was tedious, boring, monotonous, and LUCRATIVE AS ALL GITOUT ...... however much "all gitout" is..... I've never known for sure.
Jim
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02-01-2007 01:24 PM #9
Pro Boxer for 2 years, purchasing manager for 30 years, maintence manager now for the last 9 years for our school system.Keep smiling, it only hurts when you think it does!
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02-01-2007 01:04 PM #10
Silk screening business. We do most of the local car show and rod run t-shirts. Up until three years ago, we took the screenpringing equipment to the rod runs and set up on location and printed the shirts on site. It's been a good 27 or so years. I'm getting too old to set all that stuff every weekend now. We just preprint what we think we'll need for the show and take 'em with us. TTommy
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02-01-2007 01:06 PM #11
Peo industry, work comp/payroll leasing, been at it for about a month, was a building inspector before this
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02-01-2007 01:29 PM #12
I've been doing custom body work and painting part time since '71, and full time since '86, but before '86 I:
...worked 3-4 years running industrial printers,
...4-5 years as a journeyman machinist,
...10 years as a heavy equipment operator/railroad brakeman/locomotive operator, for a copper mine.
I make less painting, but I'm much happier.
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02-01-2007 01:36 PM #13
Chief Engineer on a towboat, been on the river since 79, month out/month in.Objects in the mirror are losing
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02-01-2007 01:42 PM #14
Come on Dave, what was the REAL jobObjects in the mirror are losing
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03-06-2007 07:48 AM #15
First real job - $2.00/hr - loading 90 lb bags of sand in a blasting hopper.
Then about 5 years commercial painter.
Then another 5 years fitting/welding offshore oil field platforms.
The oil field went bust in the early 1980s and I found myself repairing coal barges on the Mississippi River.
Completed a BS in Computer Science in 1990 and currently do database programming.
After 17 years, I still haven't figured out corporate politics or the spin game.
Shooting straight from the hip is not part of the culture.
Don't you dare call a spade a spade - its more like a black upside down heart with a stemmy thing protruding from the bottom.
Now I'm trying to figure out auto mechanics with the help of this forum.Last edited by SBC; 03-06-2007 at 07:54 AM.
There is no limit to what a man can do . . . if he doesn't mind who gets the credit. (Ronald Reagan)
on small cars yes. but fat fender cars are pretty much the same in size and weight as the donor car. i found s10 brakes work great on fat fender and pickups. a deuce will just need manual brakes...
Time for brakes