Whats everyone do for a living?!?

MAN IN BLACK · Feb 15, 2015

3rd generation egg farmer here, I have 17000 layers that give me a little over 9000 dozens of eggs a week
I also have 50 acres of land that I lease to the neighbor and a 36 acres woodlot for keeping me in shape.

rgr33 · Feb 15, 2015

Vineyard owner. Grow Pinot noir grapes for the Oregon wine industry. Before that I was in logistics for a distribution conglomerate.
Paid well but not fun.

sleepybozo · Feb 15, 2015

Retired after 20 years as a firefighter/paramedic. So I'm living off my pension that doesn't really stretch to support much tractor stuff. On my days off I volunteered in the district that lived in. Before I was picked up I worked as a printer, janitor/maintenance person/security/"as required" for a large church with a 21 acre campus, bank security (during my tenure my bank in east Oakland, CA, was the only one in the district that wasn't robbed!

), Army Reserve, mover, go-fer, plumber's assistant, grounds and building maintenance for a large Navy transient family housing complex, and probably some stuff I'm not remembering right now. Also raised Angora goats, rabbits, poultry and sold enough mohair, goats for meat, and eggs to pretty much (but not quite!) pay for the animal projects.

Raised grapes and vegetables, for personal use. Somewhere in there I got married and raised two boys. But I, also, have never picked cotton.

k0ua · Feb 15, 2015

But I, also, have never picked cotton.

I never picked cotton
But my mother did
And my brother did
And my sister did
And my daddy died young
Workin' in the coal mine

DFB · Feb 15, 2015

k0ua said:
I never picked cotton
But my mother did
And my brother did
And my sister did
And my daddy died young
Workin' in the coal mine

:thumbsup:

hosspuller · Feb 15, 2015

Retired engineer ... grow hay and harvest tax deductions. Wrench on my equipment and vehicles. Volunteer at local hospital one day per week... good for soul.

HeLa · Feb 15, 2015

some kind of combination of engineering, patent lawyering and corporate technology strategy for a large electronics company - with a focus to automotive.

i still think I was born to be a farmer but I've settled on the realization that weekend gardening is about as close as i'll get.

Sprinklerman · Feb 15, 2015

A am an AAFM .....................................Almost anything for money

Irrigation contractor , sealcoating , roof cleaning , snowplowing , parking lot striping , landlord , house rehabber , father , husband . And still not grown up

SPIKER · Feb 15, 2015

Like many here grew up in the early 70's and into the Regan years where things were as bad or worse than is has been in last 7 years.
Started out shoveling snow & mowing grass as kid working with my brother & cousin where by 10 or so years old we had a LOT of regular people doing landscaping. After doing that till ~14 & moving out into country I worked on dairy farm cleaning stalls and haying, feeding etc. I also worked on paper routs at the same time when in town delivering and my older sister got a country driving rout that I stuffed papers. by 16 I started working part time in a machine shop & part time in Autobody shop as I continued working on cars when my brother would buy 50 buck beaters & we fixed painted & resold them as extra $ when other jobs were slow.

During all those times we hunted & fished & helped in the garden to feed ourselves. At 16 I went into Vocational school to learn more on the autobody front, however by that time I had already painted a BUNCH of cars & found out I had learned 90% of the tasks long prior by hard knocks. Economy was still bad but getting better & I joined Air Force at 19, where I probably would have stayed in longer than 6years but Clinton cut the forces and I lost my job & was forced out. So I took a while building trades Hanging & finishing Drywall & helping plumbing & electricians. Took to college for a electronics engineering degree & ended up workign building industrial equipment as a small custom manufacture for a LONG time welding fabrication background really helped me move to management design & customer interactions there. After 2000 downturn I worked as electrician maintenance in a couple factories & moved into electrical design engineering for 5 years at a heavy industrial/equipment manufacture. Now I'm back in classes to get a BSME/ET degree to keep learning & applying my know how. I'm also putting in 40+ hrs at a Automotive Tier1 manufacture in their testing department putting bits to cycle life & design testing.

I still work on homes, appliances and the farm where I pull out logs & make lumber. Stopped gardening as I just dont have the time to put into a few bucks worth of veggies that I can buy at the store for about what 2 hours of work costs me in time.

Mark