Hey everyone. I am sitting here at work and just started wondering what everyone does for a living. I am a Federal Police Officer for the Salisbury NC Veteran
Affairs hospital. When im not here, I am a full time dad at home as well. Lets hear what everyone else does. Also if there is a thread already posted about
this topic, I didnt know about it and can I have the link. Thanks
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Posts: 174 12/04/08 6:03 AM |
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bamaTrider |
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Posts: 5040 12/04/08 7:51 AM |
I am a senior product develop. lab technician for an industrial paint and chemical company. I take rough ideas from our senior chemist and turn them into
viable products for our customers.
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Posts: 1762 12/04/08 8:27 AM
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well, i tried just being a bum, but i like to eat too well for that, so i unfortunatly had to go to work
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early in my work career, i was a billboard sign artist at silver dollar city. when i married my second wife, we moved to kansas city. the marriage didn't last, but i liked k.c., so stayed here. since the city was loaded with sign painters and the vinyl sign business was taking off like crazy, i fell back on my hobby of furniture restoration. worked for a shop here for a couple years and then decided this would make a great home business. i had the tools, and had a few contacts, so that's what i did and still do, only at 64 i have cut back some. during that time, i hooked up with an older fellow who rebuilt player pianos and started doing the cases of them for him. that lead to me getting recommendations from others and pianos became a major part of my business. good thing about all this is i've never spent a dime on advertising...all word of mouth. i just had a piano delivered to me last night from a lady who called a couple days ago and said she had been trying to get my number for weeks. told her i was probably the only business in k.c. with an unlisted number! recently did this trunk for a lady. i hate doing these things, but it was an heirloom of hers and she wanted to spend the money. so, this is what i do when i'm not out chasing motorcycle deals!! bud BEFORE 
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HSATF Tail Gunner
Posts: 174 12/04/08 8:42 AM |
Wow bud that really looks good!! Looks like you treat your customers well with the finishing touchs you do!
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Posts: 9758 12/04/08 9:07 AM
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Very Impressive!
alepel
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Great work Bud! I see the correlation between the fine detail work you do on furniture and your vehicles. Good job Bud. Bob
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Posts: 65 12/04/08 10:13 AM |
I am a corporate instuctor for ADP. I teach our customers how to use the software we sell. I just got to move into a home office. The great majority (90+%)of
my training is done via the web. So all I need to do my job is a hi-speed internet access and a telephone. Our office needed more space so I got to move home
and lovin it!
I am also an instructor on the weekends. I am a Motorcycle Safety Foundation RiderCoach. Gotta tell you teaching people to ride is a blast! Can't believe I get paid. |
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HSATF Tail Gunner
Posts: 50 12/04/08 10:30 AM |
Bud, the trunk is lovely. I have a similar one that I had restored many years ago - it was canvas covered over the wood and I was surprised to see how nice it
turned out. You have a lot of patience to do that kind of work. Speaking of patience, jaxbbc...MSF instructors have it multiplied! I'm thankful for the
class I took at FCCJ in Jacksonville, however, I wish they would offer an advanced class. They say there is never enough response - people get their
"parking lot license" and think they are pro's.
P.S. I'm presently a nanny - Skyler just turned 5 and Zachary is almost 9 months - I've been with the family over 4 1/2 years and get to work 3 days a week...perfect for taking bike trips! Laura
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Posts: 7580 12/04/08 12:27 PM
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I am an engineer who currently -
1. analyzes large industrial motor-generator applications and figures out how to customize the motor-generator products in my employer's product line to fit the requirements of a customer's application, e.g. 200 to 1500 HP motors for pumps/blowers/compressors, punch presses, rock crushers, shredders, chassis dynamometers, bow-stern thrusters, etc. 2. studies the motors/generators that have failed and figures out why they failed, 3. helps solve motor/generator manufacturing problems.
Fred
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Posts: 6411 12/04/08 1:01 PM
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I'm a maintenance supervisor for a county school system. I started with this school system in 1975, 17 years old right out of high school as general labor.
I now supervise 23 technicians (carpenters, electricians, plumbers and HVAC techs). We are responsible for the maintenance on 18 buildings which covers about 2
million square feet, spread throughout the county. I'm also the school system's asbestos management coordinator and I also carry a master plumber
licence.
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Posts: 6411 12/04/08 1:02 PM
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That's beautiful work Bud.
"We want to be free... Free to ride our machines without being hassled by the man!" |
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Posts: 9758 12/04/08 1:32 PM
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I am a project manager who coordinates the translation of Owner Manuals, Technical bulletins, Corporate Announcements, Sales Brochures, etc., into foreign
languages or from foreign langues into English. You are all familiar with buying products and the owners manual is in English and several other languages,
typcially French,Spanish, German. Well I'm the kind of guy who gets that done. I don't speak those languages but I contract the services of translators
who do.
alepel
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HSATF Tail Gunner
Posts: 60 12/04/08 3:08 PM |
I am a Quality Control Lab Technician for a company that makes conveyor belting for industrial and mining use. We ship most of our product to coal mines in the
U.S. Been doing this for 29 years, although the company has changed ownership a few times! Don't know how much longer we will be here the way the economy
is going though!!!!
 ... Paul
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HSATF 1st Officer
Posts: 917 12/04/08 6:54 PM |
Retired Mechanical Engineering Technician at US Navy shipyard specializing in diesel repair. My last three years were spent as an instructor teaching young
engineers which end of the ship is the bow, how to turn on the cooling water to the handrails and where to get 20' of waterline and how to find the golden
rivet.
Scott "Silence is golden, duct tape is silver" |
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Posts: 7580 12/04/08 9:13 PM
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gr8scott51 wrote:  Scott, those are some valuable lessons. I am no longer young, but
can you teach me how to find the golden rivet? Could come in handy during these tough economic times. 
Fred
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Posts: 1133 12/04/08 10:36 PM
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I'm a has been. (I would like to point out though that being a has been a A LOT better than being a never was!)
I retired from the Marines in 1990. I worked for FedEx for ten years then became an involuntary medical experiment (five bypasses, carotid endarterectomy, three angioplasties, two stents, congestive heart failure, etc.). With only about 55% of my lungs left, I've been declared disabled. I've been trying to make some extra cash as a freelance gynocologist, but have yet to have any luck getting clients. 
I spend most of my time trying to get/stay healthy.
Gary
"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming: Wow!!! What A Ride!!!" |
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Well, I am a ........... | #16 | ||
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Posts: 1685 12/05/08 12:37 AM
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Senior Technical Specialist(Project manager) for a large Interstate pipeline company. We have thousands of miles of pipeline in FL, AL, LA, AR, TX, MS, KY, TN
OH, IN, IL, etc. When we make upgrades, lay new pipe, install new measurement facilities, new compression(Turbines and re-cips), new interconnects and any
other construction related additions, my job is to manage the project and personel. Sometimes it's just me and the contractor and sometimes I have upwards
of 20 inspectors working for me. I like the job but it sure takes away from M/C riding as I am in a motel as much as 250 days a year. I recieved a letter from
Holiday Inn the other day congratulating me for being a top 1% customer world wide. I told my wife I was staying in motels WAY to much! I was a pipeline welder
for this same company for 22 years prior to taking this job. BTW- We are in Natural Gas.
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HSATF Tail Gunner
Posts: 174 12/05/08 4:41 AM |
Guns90 wrote:
Guns that is so funny. I tried the same thing before I was married, back in my young devildog days. Worked out well, had some clients. But was never paid. I seemed to have always payed them. Either it was dinner or clothes something was always paid for. Maybe next time I need to start charging instead of trying to be a good guy and do it for free.  
Anyways when I opened this post it was really short. And everyone seems to be going into pretty good detail. So I gotta catch up. Well after highschool I jumped straight into the Marines and did 4 years and 2 tours to Iraq. After that I went to work for the local sheriffs department where I spent about a 1 1/2 yrs. I am now at my current place as a Federal Police Officer at the local Veteran Affairs hospital. I plan on trying to stay in the VA system since it is Federal work. But I really have my eyes set on trying to work for the FBI. Of coarse I have to lose alot of weight and get myself back in shape before I can apply. And thats why I started the P90X work out 2 days ago. But if I can get myself in enough shape to do it. Everyone on here will be told if I get hired by the FBI. If not ill just stay at the old VA!
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Posts: 9758 12/05/08 7:41 AM
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West Tn Dawg wrote: I met the man and I can tell you for certain he is really full of "natural gas". 
Hey ole buddy.....you didn't think I could let that one go by did you? 
alepel
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HSATF 1st Officer
Posts: 917 12/05/08 8:58 AM |
Fredrider wrote:Fred, to find the golden rivet, I'd have to lead you all over the ship until you are hopelessly lost, ending up in some bilge area. Pointing to a dark corner I would tell you to crawl in and find the rivet, give you a kick in the butt and abandon you there. Of course, if you didn't return to your desk in a couple hours, I'd send out a search party. Scott "Silence is golden, duct tape is silver" |
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HSATF 2nd Officer
Posts: 437 12/05/08 9:20 AM |
Semper Fi, Gary, and lovely job on that trunk, Bud.
I am the associate rabbi at a messianic (i.e., Jews for Jesus) synagogue in the Detroit area. Very untechnical (except where theology and doctrine and Greek and Hebrew are concerned), which is par for the course for most of us Jewish boys. I can barely program the presets on my car stereo, let alone anything like what some of you guys are doing. All I can say is, if my T ever breaks down (again) I sure hope I'm with someone more knowledgable than me. Jesus will rock Planet Earth! (Revelation 6:12-17) Are you ready? |
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- Road Shots
- General Safety Tips and Questions
- Protective Clothing and Helmets
- Road Reports
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- Audio, Communications and GPS Units
- Bodywork, Luggage and Paint
- Brakes
- Cooling System
- Electrical and Lighting
- Engine, Intake and Exhaust
- Oil and Other Lubricants
- Seats
- Service and Maintenance
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