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Pre Old FarT occupation.???
penguin
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What do or did you do for a living. I worked as an instructor, Service Engineer and Technical Writer writing operator's manuals.
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Plumber. YeeHaw! liven the dream
Now come on Ski, layin pipe can't be that bad[^][:p][:D][;)]
I did help out a uncle at a used / repair appliance shop when younger and his scrap yard mostly as a second job here and there along the way he was always jumping in and out of different businesses
Todd Shipyard in Seattle for a couple of years.
Auto body and painter for 25 years.
Then my flying hobby turned into a self employed job in 1988.
Still working on them damn planes today!!
If you can't feel the music; it's only pink noise!
Works varied jobs since then. RV manufacturing, Panel MFG and even Heavy Equipment MFG.
Now after going back to school Drafting.
I worked for TVA for a total of 23 years when they screwed me and about 7,000 other employees out of their retirement by laying us off. 7,000 people were told on the same day your outta here! Your age and number of years of service had to add up to 80 before you were eligible for full retirement. Amazing how many of us that were laid off that were just short of the magic 80 points. They kept all of their minorities and woman. They kept employees that I had trained. [:(!]
TVA hired the former Post Master General, Marvin Runyon, that was known as Carvin' Marvin for his reputation as a hatch man to come in and cut the company to the bone.
I was literally thinking of burning Marvin Runyon's house down with him in it I was so pissed and I wasn't the only one. Laying people off is a normal occurrence in business but picking the old guys out that were near retirement was in my opinion criminal! [:(!]
Anyway I went to work for another company as a project manager in construction for the next 19 years before I retired 2 years ago. I ended up making more money than I would have at TVA if I had worked there until I died. Things work out.
Luckily, thanks to my wife, I'm not in prison today.
Well that tuned into a bit of a rant, sorry about that. [:I][:)]
Worked days and taught a 4 year electrical apprenticeship class nights at a local collage from 1991 through 2003.
Now an electrical technician and spend more time pushing buttons than turning screws.
Just sorta an old fart, got 88 months until retirement.
Did residential house framing and roofing,
Worked at a chemical plant in Riceboro, Ga.
Worked at a lumber mill in Carthage, NY.
Now I do small arms repair for the Army.
Plan on retiring in 6 years come end of December.
Guy came riding up on a 3 wheel bicycle. Straps on his tool belt, pulls out a screwdriver, gets the machine going.
I said to myself "that's the job I want".
Spent 39 years pulling wire and bending conduit.
Never did get to ride a 3 wheel bicycle.
Oh, I was supervisor the last 10 years, but would just as soon forget those years.
going on 7 years as an insurance producer, 1 day a week i can make 2-3 times a week as i did working 60-90 hours a week in a kitchen
however election year puts a huge damper on my biz
I got paid to play with guns and swords....[:)]
Yep, I'm a bit "touched"[:D]
I was working the last day it ran and got to shut off the power. Got to help build it, then got to shut it down.
When I was laid off I got a job as a boiler operator for the State of Kansas. Kind of like watching a tea kettle work. 44 years working, I'm now not looking.[:D]
I will not tell you unless u guess it
I work 24 hrs a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year and I'm working now.
Best wrong answer I got so far--wallie your a minister
I have been asked this so many times
I will not tell you unless u guess it
I work 24 hrs a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year and I'm working now.
Best wrong answer I got so far--wallie your a minister
I'll guess active duty military. 24/7/365 on duty.
Fighter pilot/Forward Air Controller, jet instructor and then Public Affairs Officer totaling 23 years in AF Reserve.
Media spokesman and launch commentator for NASA, then Thiokol aerospace. 15 years
Ran a custom earplug business for shooters and industrial clients. 15 years
Was a shooting (reloading) writer and novelist. 25 years
And, for a paid hobby, did character voices for radio commercials.
My first job was for the local Coke bottler, cleaning the cigar and cigarette butts and other stuff out of bottles so they could be re-used. Sold news papers downtown, stacked pipe at a plumbing supply place, worked as an artists model, ran an addressograph machine printing bag labels for a seed improvement association, worked as a psychiatric tech, cooked at a place called the Heidelberg, a college bar, worked as a painter, lab tech in a college bio department, worked for the St. Louis Zoo for 6.5 years zoo keeper to senior zoo keeper, 31 years zoo curator of herpetology and entomology. Now working my way down the honey-do list to the very bottom where fishing starts. I also hang out with Wundudnee and Matwor and Jim Stark at random gun shows.
Plumber. YeeHaw! liven the dream
Called a plumber to fix a pipe that had broken and THE BILL WAS HUGE,, told the guy Doctors don't charge this much and he replied
I know, used to be one.
quote:Originally posted by skicat
Plumber. YeeHaw! liven the dream
Called a plumber to fix a pipe that had broken and THE BILL WAS HUGE,, told the guy Doctors don't charge this much and he replied
I know, used to be one.
The big difference is that when I'm done working for you, I have made something better. When I leave, the water is back on and something broken is now operating. Doctors can't always do that.[:D]
Photographer
Life Insurance agent
Allis Chalmers de-greaser
College prof: Nebraska, Colorado, Oregon, CT
Financial Strategist/pension contract designer-Aetna
( created first billion dollar derivative- was hedge on CPI )
Started Apple II based software company to analyze mortgage backed securities for many Wall Street firms. Outshoot was reduction in home mortgage costs. Sold out to Thompson Reuters in 1989.
Was paid to vanish.
Vanished almost 28 years now.