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What's your profession?

rameleni1rameleni1 Member Posts: 998 ✭✭✭✭
edited August 2002 in General Discussion
I have read posts, and they will say "Ask *****" about it, he knows. I am new here, a couple of months. I have no idea who does what, or keep track of it. I think it would be a good idea to reply as to what you do for a living, so people could post, or email you directly if you want too. I will start, and I am a auto mechanic. I have been one since 1983. I feel very qualified in my profession. Drivability, or tune up problems, computer, abs, ect, I don't do. Any other questions, I would be happy to help with. Anything to do with guns is my hobby. I was into radio controlled aircraft for along time. That's about it. If you read this post, and don't reply, you will be put on a list. The list will be of "non posters". A can of whoop as* will be sent to you.

Rameleni1
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  • E.WilliamsE.Williams Member Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I do Auto-Body and custom fabrications on everthing from cars to cycles to enclosing trailers to fiberglass and sheet metal go-cart bodies I have even done some fabricating lightweight coverings for Dune Buggies.I have been involved in this peticular industry for 6 years and is one of the only jobs I have ever had that I actually enjoy,the money isnt bad either.

    Eric S. Williams
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  • kgnovumkgnovum Member Posts: 594 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Am self employed and a mechanical engineer/metallurgist by education. Have an oilfield production equipment fabrication firm that exports to overseas oil production companies, a specialty hardwood distribution business and of course Blue Wonder gun care products. Can help with things regarding exporting and foreign travel, reciprocating pumps and engines, wood, metallurgy, gun cleaning and bluing. Fun stuff - flying and anything at all related to airplanes. Been flying for 23 years. Do lots of hunting/fishing/guns but I'm a novice not an expert.
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  • interstatepawnllcinterstatepawnllc Member Posts: 9,390
    edited November -1
    Hey "E", I am a ex paint and body man. Loved to do moto's. I could not be competitive with the hispanics in Miami so I gave it up after 5 years. Still do my own stuff though. Rami, I am a part time pawnbroker turned buy-sell-trade guy and full-time "Central Scrutinizer".
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  • E.WilliamsE.Williams Member Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Interstatepawnllc that and when I get to re-do a good classic auto re the most fun especially when the client lets you add your own touches.I just got done with a 1970 Chevy Camaro and I had a blast with that.I always get the Cycles when they come into the shop because I have so much fun doing it I get meticulous I will not turn tht bike out till its absoulutely perfect.

    Eric S. Williams
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  • E.WilliamsE.Williams Member Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    About the only time I can remember not having a good time restoring a classic was a 1963 Chevy Impala I did around a year ago and it wasnt that I didnt enjoy the work on the car it was the owner was such a jerk.He would stop by the shop every day to check on his car and drag me off work I am in the middle of to tell me what I am doing wrong and he doesnt know jack about what he is talking about.The total restoration was costing him $16,000.00 though thats why my boss put up with him.I just didnt care for him acting like I was gonna hurt his "baby" when Im the one making her beautiful again.

    Eric S. Williams

    Edited by - E.Williams on 08/23/2002 00:42:24

    Edited by - nunn on 08/23/2002 04:19:21
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  • DancesWithSheepDancesWithSheep Member Posts: 12,938 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hollywood screenwriter. Best known for "Alpaca Lips Now".

    Why does man kill? He kills for food. But not only for food; frequently, he must have a beverage.
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  • dads-freeholddads-freehold Member Posts: 1,361 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    greetings, my trade is carpentry, but i made my living building bridges in tenn, geo, and fla until a year ago. i know about electrical work both residental and comerial, can hang and finish sheetrock, have done iron work both red iron and rebar. i have been bumming around colorado, arizona and california for the last year. done some gun smithing on ak's , mac's , and pistoles. love to camp and rock climb, back pack and shoot. respt submitted dads-freehold
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  • TazmuttTazmutt Member Posts: 862 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My "real job" is CAD-CAM Engineering for electronics firm that builds circuit bds. My goal is to be out of this mess, after 23 yrs, and do Taxidermy full time. For 13 yrs, I have been working 3rd shift and doing taxidermy in my "spare time" HA ... Enuff is Enuff !

    Sooo ... You snuff it, I'll stuff it Can probably help out if someone has question of caring for critter before taking to taxidermist, shipping critters and I will happily offer anyone on this forum a 10% GB discount

    My "specialty" is fish. Love the painting, airbrush work and am pretty goldurn good, if I do say so myself. I do quite alot of restoration work on old mounts, like fish that was painted 15 yrs ago and no longer (or never did) look like it was supposed to.
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  • maggiethecatmaggiethecat Member Posts: 2,381 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well i guess i install and maintain all kinds of telecomm lines. also did a short stint as an aircraft mechanic on kc-130. longest 3 years of my life. but at least i know how to paint them now

    For the first time a nation has full gun registration. Our streets will be safer, our police more effecient, and the world will follow our lead into the future.-A. Hitler

    must have been a democrat
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  • Brth729Brth729 Member Posts: 1,231 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    When I was younger I worked many different jobs. I've worked as a cook for my parents, installed swimming pools and spas, drywalled, painting and wallpaper, and also some light construction. The job I have presently is the one I've been at the longest and coincidentally the most fun. I'm an injection molding technician for a company that specializes in outdoor products.

    ***I'm in the hi-fidelity first class travelling section I think I need a Leer jet***
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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm a technical writer, formerly worked for 20 years in Hollywood with screenwriters and as a script analyst. I have used Macs and PCs for an equal number of years, and worked as a writer on Dept. of Defense software, driver licensing, security card and smart card software and hardware systems, and more recently I have branched into marketing writing, PR, and advertising -- mostly for industrial accounts. I have built web sites, and I have been doing collector auctions on eBay since 1999. I worked for a while with an appraiser of fine antiques, selling items such as fine silverwork and religious relics on the internet. I'm also an accomplished keyboardist and have been playing music nights and weekends much of the time since the late 60s.

    Keywords: Writer, artist, musician, creative, computers, internet, technical manual writer, business proposal manager. Very mature, smarter than some of my past bosses.

    - Life NRA Member
    "If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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  • CWatsonCWatson Member Posts: 964 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Ralph as yourself I am in auto repair.My brother and I co-own a auto shop that does general repair plus radiator and airconditioning.Been doing that for about ten years.I don't do body repair I farm that out and like yourself no ABS.When I was a teenager a was a fry cook in Mojave Calif,moved back to Los Angeles and managed a resturant in Studio City called Dupar's.Why auto repair?Because I fixed up 68 Cameros and 65 Mustangs for fun.I don't fix'm up for myself anymore,after 10hrs a day fixing customer's cars I don't turn another wrench on the days off. CW

    A near miss is still a miss!

    Before I got married I spent half my money on women and guns,THE REST I WASTED!

    Wasn't me(you?).......!
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  • pickenuppickenup Member Posts: 22,844 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'd tell ya, but then I'd have ta kill ya.

    If I knew then, what I know now.
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  • BlackgunsBlackguns Member Posts: 496 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well I dont post here at all, but I try to look in when I can. Im 21 years old and a 11B home on leave from the 101st. Im with 3/187inf and so far its been a pretty wild ride.
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  • woodsrunnerwoodsrunner Member Posts: 5,378 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Jack of all trades. Currently working as a quality inspector in a screw machine shop, that caters to the automotive and defense industries. I also recently restored a 1915 vintage singer industrial sewing machine. I am slowly teaching myself the skills of upholstery, tailoring and holster making. Someday I hope to make a portion of my income making clothing and leather goods for the reinacting and cowboy action crowds.

    Woods
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  • nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,085 ******
    edited November -1
    Cop. Long time. I carry a can of "whoop-#**" on my belt.



    SIG pistol armorer/FFL Dealer/Full time Peace Officer, Moderator of General Discussion Board on Gunbroker. Visit www.gunbroker.com, the best gun auction site on the Net! Email davidnunn@texoma.net
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  • TxsTxs Member Posts: 17,809 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I push a Holstein around town all night.
    (that means I drive a cop car)
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  • ccasey612ccasey612 Member Posts: 901 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I am a streaming media Manager. I manage a staff of 5 streamind media techs. If you do not know what that is I broadcast investor relations over the web. I am also a full time husband, full time dad, and a full time gun junkie.

    If you will blame gun makers for every shooting then blame car maker for every car accident.
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  • 96harley96harley Member Posts: 3,992 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    First I'm a Christian. God let me realize a dream so he lets me earn my keep on his footstool as a policeman. Prior to that I workded as clean up in an old bakery and then 17 years for National Tea Co., now defuncted. 9 months as a salesman, hated that, and going on 18 years as a peacemaker.
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  • Ronald J. SnowRonald J. Snow Member Posts: 1,346 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    For the past 17 years I have owned and operated a full time gun shop. Prior to that I worked 19 years as an insurance underwriter. I have built custom fly rods and tied streamer and trolling flies on a commercial basis.
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  • 4GodandCountry4GodandCountry Member Posts: 3,968
    edited November -1
    Mechanical Designer, work with AutoCad designing everthing from Houses, piping, parts, layouts, ect. Full time father to three of the most beautiful kids you ever set your eyes upon and am married to an Angel sent from heaven to save me from my self destructive ways. I love my God, my Family and my Country in that order and would die to defend any of the three.

    When Clinton left office they gave him a 21 gun salute. Its a damn shame they all missed....
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  • txnhntrtxnhntr Member Posts: 136 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    i am self employed as a welder/mechanic on heavy equipment. damn good wages but hard work. part time gunsmith as a hobby and also guide on some of the local game ranches around here. meet really interesting people and some real nimrods. other than that my other job is drinking beer and keeping my wife and boys happy.

    glen e nuinez
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  • salzosalzo Member Posts: 6,396 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Musician. Mostly clarinet, but I do the occasional sax, flute, piano, conducting gig.

    "The powers delegated by the proposed constitution to the federal governmentare few and defined, and will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace negotiation, and foreign commerce"
    -James Madison
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  • NighthawkNighthawk Member Posts: 12,022 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    To bad you didnt ask what profession you wish you had pursued.I live a Poor Mans life Im a LEO.

    Rugster


    Toujours Pret
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  • The firearms consultantThe firearms consultant Member Posts: 716 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm a retired Airtraffic controller presently working in support of the aerospace industry. FFL, and a real fondness for most all kinds of firearms. Unforunately where I live, Kalifornia, is not conducive to much expansion in tha area.

    I might not always tell you the truth, but I will never lie to you!
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  • gap1916gap1916 Member Posts: 4,977
    edited November -1
    Healthcare Administration here. Working in the state of New Mexico and loving every moment.
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  • PJPJ Member Posts: 1,556 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Retired after almost 40 years in Bank Management-mostly on the credit side.
    Pete

    "We have created a coutry where nobody is responsible for anything."
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  • txnhntrtxnhntr Member Posts: 136 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    if i had to do it all over again i would have been a pimp.

    glen e nuinez
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  • muleymuley Member Posts: 1,583 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Retired.....I worked 30 years, 1965 to 1995 for the Federal Government, Interior Department. Started out delivering irrigation water to farmers, ended up supervising the daily operation of a diversion dam, Safety Manager, Hazardous Waste Manager and a lot of other jobs relating to water. Used to hunt deer from my boat while trolling for trout and salmon. I love water.

    **I love the smell of Hoppes #9 in the morning**
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Txs, man if you don't stop stealing those cop cars for joy rides you are gonna be in big trouble!

    Biologist, have worked in zoos the past 30 years. In charge of the amphibian/reptile and invertebrate sections.

    This board, hunting and shooting are hobbies. Currently working to get myself into some skeet and upland bird shooting, so I can travel.

    A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand
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  • beantolebeantole Member Posts: 1,086 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm a Christian, a husband, a father and an attorney.
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  • Mr. LoboMr. Lobo Member Posts: 538 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm a Surveying & Mapping Manager. I used to be a land surveyor but the good old days are gone for now. I am looking forward to retirement so I can be a land surveyor again. For now it is time to save $$ so retirement is possible once I get really old.

    Jim
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  • TOOLS1TOOLS1 Member Posts: 6,133
    edited November -1
    Collector of fine tools, Junk trucks, Guns, Farm animals, Bent nails, State quarters, Puppys, Old tires, Broken computers, And consumer of free beer.
    I started out working on the farm. Then was A model for an art studio (realy). Then became a welder working construction. Picked up mechanics along the way. Along with body work.
    But God told me to be a carpenter. Had to just about hit me over the head with a hammer first. I like to work on old buildings.
    I also build hot rods, Moter cycles and restore trucks for a hobby. I am to particuler to make a liveing at it. I like to work on trucks the best.
    Have also been a father for several years. That is the hardest thing I have ever taken on.
    TOOLS
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  • 4wheeler4wheeler Member Posts: 3,441
    edited November -1
    BBROYGBVGW--GUESS WHAT THIS IS?IT IS PART OF MY JOB.

    "It was like that when I got here".
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  • Judge DreadJudge Dread Member Posts: 2,372 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well I am a top secret military weapon , a kind of UNISOL so officialy i dont exist (I don't give a s**t), I care about people
    and help them wherever I can ,I am pro US constitution 100% for liverty 200% for freedom 1000%? pro free energy , pro Life ,pro nature , and pro a system that can give all the chance to have something of their own , grow and prosper in a true free enterprise
    world , not the feudal capitalistic S**t we now have , were you save
    $100 for your retirement in a bank and next year you cannot purchase $10 worth of produce with it ...

    JD

    400 million cows can't be wrong ( EAT GRASS !!! )
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  • paboogerpabooger Member Posts: 13,953
    edited November -1
    I am a cutler special products for Cutco/Kabar but mu goal in life is to be a Piano Player in a Whorehouse!!!
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  • VarmintmistVarmintmist Member Posts: 1,074 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    At the moment, a VERY tired central office tech for a phone co. in 45 min, ill have 24 hrs in, that doesnt include the regular shift I did thursday.

    Maggiesthecat, if you are OSP, dont go CO, it inhales. A lot of * time, puncuated by every freaking idiot from every interconnect company NEEDing you to test their circuit RIGHT NOW, course right now is always at 330 or later.

    Those people who see nothing but grey areas, no black and white, are lost in the fog.
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  • RugerNinerRugerNiner Member Posts: 12,636 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well I took a Home Study course in Brain Surgery, but couldn't find a job.

    Then I opened my own business "Antiques-Made-While-You-Wait" but I didn't get any customers.

    Now I'm trying to get a job as a Garbage Man. I heard business is always Picking Up.

    Remember...Terrorist are attacking Civilians; Not the Government. Protect Yourself!
    Keep your Powder dry and your Musket well oiled.
    NRA Lifetime Benefactor Member.
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  • RosieRosie Member Posts: 14,525 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hey rameleni1
    Iffen you don't do all those things the only thing left is pumping gas!
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  • rameleni1rameleni1 Member Posts: 998 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Rosie, that did make me laugh. The company I work for doesn't have the required equiptment to repair every car. Thats why the dealerships can charge so much. They only work on one brand of car. It's not cost effective to have a 30k machine you only use a few times a year.

    Rameleni1
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