What Do You Do?

[crowbar032]

I'm an a cost accountant in a manufacturing company. Grew up on a small farm growing hay, tobacco and cattle.

I have no idea how the financial focus of an accounting degree jives with the mostly unrecoverable expense of being a hobby farmer.

 

[EricG1793]

I'm getting ready to graduate high school now, so my working experience is limited.

My dad owned a music shop for several years and I went with him for the day on Saturdays and assisted him with fixing amps, guitars, etc., as well as housekeeping. Highlight of the day was going across the road and getting hot dogs for lunch.

I do odd jobs for my grandparents and for a busy couple. I mowed the lawn at a church for a couple years and do yardwork for a couple neighbors off and on.

Last summer, as my first real job, I worked full-time for several weeks as a carpenter's assistant, where, at a few different locations, we built a porch, redid a floor, installed a few windows, patched a rotted wooden floor, and started demolishing a church's finished basement to prepare for restoration (that was the reason he hired me; he was behind and had to finish that job by a certain date). I enjoyed working for him and learned a lot, and I liked the fact that, as opposed to school, what I did was helping people, and I could sit back and look at my handiwork.

I'm currently doing a Network Plus independent study with my school's IT department. There are three other guys doing the same thing who also go there in their spare time and do odd jobs such as troubleshoot problems, reimage computers, build new computers, etc. (which is the kind of thing I'd like to start a career in), which I also do, but I have less time and am an "extra" person, so they can't pay me, but that's OK... gaining knowledge and experience is what counts at this point. I'm taking PC Repair at the same time, and I love how so much of the information overlaps.

 

[metalworker]

I own a smallshop of welding and repairs. Welding and industrial mechanic is my life since 1985

 

[Learning to Farm]

I have a degree in Agriculture, however when I graduated I found a wonderful job in IT as a Project Manager for mammography software. I travel around the country implementing and teaching radiologist (doctors), technologist (x-ray takers), and assorted staff on how to use our software to track patients (especially those with breast cancer). I love my job, but I love being on the farm even more. (We all probably feel that way)

 

[capt1989]

Captain of towboats on the western rivers of this great country (USA) since 1989. Odd jobs before that and started as a deckhand in 1986.

 

[Mud Dr.]

I work as a Mud Engineer in the oil and gas industry. Thus the handle
"Mud Dr." My primary duty is to maintain the properties of the drilling fluid (drilling mud) on a drilling rig. I work a 14 days on and 14 days off rotating schedule which I love. It gives me plenty of time to enjoy the things I love. Gardening, tractor work, boat building and restoring antique outboard motors.

 

[Combustix]

Been sailing since 84, Done just about everything in the marine world, Even sailed on one slightly infamous ship The Exxon Valdez two years before she hit Bligh Reef. Got to Captain some pretty cool ships and now sailing as a pilot. Do gotta say like Piston the time away from home can blow, but 6 months plus of vacation a year. I do enjoy the time off.

 

[NHbotanut]

Went to college not knowing what I wanted, ended up with degree for rec mgnt so I could manage a ski area.

Couldn't get in any of the ski areas, so I took a "filler job" for a export mgnt company. 10 years later I rose thru the ranks to Export Manager. We exported American Made Hand Tools all over the world.:thumbsup:

Started my own company doing On-site window blind cleaning which eventually expanded into sales and installs. 10 years later I sold it as the work kept expanding to the South and taking me away from my wife and newborn daughter.

Now, 7 years later, I am an outside Sales Rep, selling the MOST important product that EVERY company needs in order to run..... Toilet Paper :laughing:

 

[Fi-Q]

I work as a Mud Engineer in the oil and gas industry. Thus the handle
"Mud Dr."..... I work a 14 days on and 14 days off rotating schedule which I love.

I will soon (within the next 3-5 year need a new career, working on the road 50 weeks 3000 hour a year won't work very long once my oldes daugther will be old enough for school, then thy want be able to follow daddy on the road. So I am slowly starting to look for a 14-14 job. Northern Quebec is litterally booming now with mining. Like 10000 jobs fly in / fly out 14-14, and it will keep me at home in the country where there is no good local job. I don t want to relocate the family in a big city, we love it hers, and 6 months off a year can't be bad right ?

 

[EE_Bota]

I'm an a cost accountant in a manufacturing company. Grew up on a small farm growing hay, tobacco and cattle.

I have no idea how the financial focus of an accounting degree jives with the mostly unrecoverable expense of being a hobby farmer.

The enjoyment factor, with a peace of mind adder makes the ledger balance.

 

[crowbar032]

The enjoyment factor, with a peace of mind adder makes the ledger balance.

Very true and well said!

 

[budlite]

Analyst at Missile Defense Agency. Can't say much more than that without getting into trouble.

 

[Artisan]

Licensed Plumbing Contractor, plumbin' since I was 15, payin' taxes since I
was 13.5, a young 53 today. Few do it better. See cover of Reeves Journal
Magazine, July 2002. Served a 5.5 year Union Apprenticeship, did
I say Few Do it better?

I would LOVE to find some folks w/ a large diversified farm who need help.
I want to see it, feel it, smell it, but mostly I want to do it to make sure I like it enough
to sell this place and get my own. Ask me how handy I am, ONLY if your
interested...

 

[RaydaKub]

Now, 7 years later, I am an outside Sales Rep, selling the MOST important product that EVERY company needs in order to run..... Toilet Paper :laughing:

Does that mean you're to blame for the combination tissue/sandpaper almost every public building uses? Can't you convince them to get some Charmin or something?

 

[EE_Bota]

Analyst at Missile Defense Agency. Can't say much more than that without getting into trouble.

No sweat...at least one person wondered why I posted jobs from over the years...it was to give a flavor of what I have learned, and what folks can expect me to know, and because I can't post what I do now, but can only refer to it in broad terms. It's nothing spooky...it is just my company's policy for folks like me.

 

[Ron JD670]

I grew up in the rural California foothills. Rural but not quite a farm. I had the good luck to get interested in electronics near the end of high school. I ended up pursuing electronics manufacturing engineering in the later part of the last century. I had the opportunity to develop test fixtures and procedures for:
- medical and research spectrophotometer, which use light diffraction to determine the chemical composition of liquids. Also biogama systems which use radiation to test medical biopsies.
- Power modules for the First generation of geopositioning satellites. At the time the military specs were "need to know". Now your car navigation system is (some times) more accurate.
- Merchant shipping engine room telemetry systems
- I then ended up in back in the Sierra foothills at a growing little company, Grass Valley Group, and in television business for 25 years testing, engineering, servicing selling and eventually marketing professional broadcast equipment around the world. Almost made the million mile club traveling - when flying was almost fun. Married a wonderful woman and we raised one son.
Ended up at Sony broadcast systems in Silicon Valley.
Being in marketing it was my job to forecast trends and I could see the devolution of the television industry (which is another essay) and the technology becoming disposable rather than serviceable. I ended up moving to a video networking company, betting on those stock options, just before for the dot com bomb (did not see that coming). I arrived in Chicago the morning of 911 (another story) by the time I got back to "the Valley " half the employees including me were eliminated - down sized, right sized etc .......
I had been making plans for five years to move into financial services / investment advising and this was the motivation -sink or swim - I guess I needed. My wife and I moved back to the country, Southern Oregon and bought our little bit of heaven. I'm now in year ten providing retirement planning, investment, and insurance services offering decades of life lessons and experience. My clients are up and down the west coast. Don't fly unless I have to just isn't as fun any more. Rather drive my tractor.
Thanks for asking.
RoN

 

[Ron JD670]

Great posts
...........

Best job ever is being my daughter's daddy!!

Joel

Thumbs up to this thread

Joel
It is as much fun, or even more, being a grandfather of two wonderful granddaughter.
Enjoy and thanks for including that in your post

 

[DABSGT]

I served in the US Air Force for 4 years active duty, and was stationed around the world. I then became a police officer, and was on the job full time, for 16 years between the military, on several departments as a Federal, and State, and Local cop. I worked 2 years in Corrections, and I have been an EMT throughout my career. I also have been a flight crew member while deployed to bad places. I got called back in for OEF/OIF for 2 more years, and 3 surgeries to my right/left shoulders , and my right leg, after a blast, I am done, and I am living on a small farm in New Hampshire with my wife and 3 year old daughter. We have always had a small farm. Since I am a disabled veteran, the VA is paying for schooling so I can have a new career ,and I am going to school for Ultrasonography. Big change from the military/police career. I have also been looking at the Farmer-Veteran Coalition, and I have had help from the Wounded Warrior Program. I am glad to be on here, and this is a great community!

Mitch

Thank You for your service to Country and community.

 

[oliver2255]

farm help, uscgaux boat inspector, do a little machine work

 

[NHmitch]

Thank You for your service to Country and community.

Thank you, I would do it all over again, if I wasn't so broken from it, but besides getting injured, that was why I joined, to serve, not for the schooling. I met some of the best people I have ever met in my life in the military, and I miss it. Every day I thank god that I live in a country that we have freedom of speech, and can be free. After spending times in those holes, it really changes your outlook on life. I appreciate it, and were you in also? I see sgt in your screen name?