Whats everyone do for a living?!?

[oosik]

Well, for 16 years I was director of environmental health in Anchorage, Ak. Then one day - at the ripe old age of 41 - I realized that we were financially capable of retiring - so, by golly I did. We moved down to where I'm currently located on 80 acres of wide open wilderness and have been here for the last 32 years.

Its amazing how little is required when you have no financial obligations other than to just live. BTW - a lot of this was made possible by the VERY lucky timing of the sale of our home in Anchorage.

 

[k0ua]

I just took a position as an Account Executive with Windstream Communications selling data products and services. Before that I was selling Insurance, mostly Medicare supplements and related products. Before that I was a Sales Engineer for Windstream Communications for 13 years. And prior to that I was a Telecom Technician for a small interconnect company for 21 years. I worked for a couple of years as a 2 way radio technician, and prior to that a Deputy Sheriff in Greene County Mo. Prior to that I was a teenager. I did have several jobs including TV technician (back in the day when people actually had TV's repaired), hauled hay, worked cattle etc. Picked beans etc. BUT "I never picked cotton":laughing:

 

[Travelover]

Been unemployed for 8 years. Started out as a paper boy.

 

[newbury]

I get paid by the government to jibber-jabber on TBN and search CL and auctions for "stuff" to take to Mississippi.
Retirement is wonderful.

 

[JPRambo]

another sparky. wired homes for 18 years. been working at a hospital for 15 now.

 

[TnAndy]

I started as a paperboy too ! Retired now, spend days working on our farm for us.

Between the two, I was:

Teens: Paperboy, Dishwasher in restaurant, lifeguard, USFS land survey crew.

Young Adult: Helicopter mechanic USArmy, VW mechanic, carpenter/homebuilder.

Later: Vocational school teacher (8yrs), home remodeler/subcontractor, ran a pallet building shop, homebuilder, farmer, logger, sawmiller, solar installer.

Briefly considered becoming a brain surgeon, but couldn't find anyone that would let me practice on them.

Got a whole shelf full of hats.

 

[Parkanzky]

I didn't realize we were doing career progressions.

I worked in a family-owned retail bakery for a bunch of years and eventually helped the owner run the place.

I worked in radio for awhile (on-air, recording "spots," and as program manager for a short-bit).

I had a few factory jobs, and worked in a place that made concrete steps for awhile.

I was a licensed EMT, but never did it for money (just the volunteer time I needed to do to get the license).

When I got out of school, the jobs started to be more focused:

I was a Quality Control technician in a Chemistry lab.

Then I did R&D at the pharmaceutical company.

Now I'm in R&D at the big consumer products company. I am also Adjunct Professor at a local university, so I teach a couple of sections of the Chemistry Laboratory every semester.

 

[Baby Grand]

Started as a paperboy, myself, in junior high. I cleared about $7 a week, with tips.
Kept me in tank and airplane model kits for awhile. Learned all about dogs and people on that job, too.
Worked lots of retail and odd jobs thru high school, part time.
Got real popular installing French drains and flagstone walks in one neighborhood.
First full time job was petroleum transfer engineer (pumping gas) during one of the fuel shortages of the 70's.
After high school got a job in a lumber yard making up orders with a forklift, then driving the Mack delivery trucks.
That job paid for night welding school - then worked a few full time & moonlight welding jobs.
Tried college (industrial design & engineering) with mixed results, all the while working part time or co-op jobs to pay rent, eat & pay tuition.
During this period I had part time & co-op jobs with a helicopter mfr, a hospital products mfr, and finally at a jet engine mfr.
Went to work full time at the jet engine co, just in time for the plant to close when the economy tanked.
Got a gig working in the haunted house industry as a designer/fabricator/mover/assembler/operator.
That was fun, creative work with a group of artists, but the hours were crushing and the money was not enough to get myself out of tuition debt.
Presently working in aerospace as a design engineer, again. Pay is good, the work is intense.
Tractor therapy helps.

 

[EddieWalker]

I remodel homes, fix things, build stuff and do pretty much whatever people are will to pay me to do from changing light bulbs, putting together baby cribs and picking up dog poo, to total bathroom remodels, building decks and additions to a house.

Eddie

 

[pmsmechanic]

I'm a self employed mechanic. I have my heavy duty ticket but work on everything from quads and boats to large tractors, combines and trucks (mostly cars and trucks). I also have a small tractor that I clean corrals with, mow grass, rototill gardens and what ever else I can think up for the tractor to do. If I don't have a implement I like I'll modify it to suit my needs or else start from scratch and build what I want. I also do wiring and plumbing and remodeling in houses and work shops.

I also like to spend about three weeks a winter drilling water wells in Haiti for Lifewater drilling.

I have a truck and several trailers and haul stuff for people.

I'm a board member on several boards and chairman of two of them.

Looking that all over.... Ya I like variety! I'm not rich in money but I'm well blessed with a wife ,kids, friends and experiences in life