how do you make a living ?

[Atlascycle]

Industrial Mechanic, Mainly stamping equipment Coil feeding equipment, and Tool Room Equipment.

Jason

 

[Fudog]

Truckdriver and shadetree mechanic.

 

[Lkdelta]

I'm an industrial powerplant boiler operator. The littlest boiler in the place would just fit on a 40' flat bed trailer,

 

[belu0501]

Matco Tools Distributor... Prior to that Lic. Plumber

 

[eborcim]

cheat steal and lie..

 

[corvairdad]

Mechanical engineer designing "stuff" I'm not allowed to discuss publicly, but suffice it to say the "stuff" keeps warfighters alive and I'm proud to do it.

 

[DRhodes]

Accountant

 

[Lunati]

A&P Technician. Most of the time work on cargo aircrafts.

 

[dodge610]

Sanitation engineer or better known as your local trash man i run an automated truck so the job is pretty much a walk in the park.

 

[Test Tech]

I was a body engineer for Ford Truck Division in Dearborn. Then I started a design and engineering business. Unfortunately, the design and engineering work followed the manufacturing work to China.

I am now a part time farmer and antique tractor restorer, whenever I'm not riding motorcycles . . .

That's interesting, I'm currently a contract test technician in building 4.

 

[nismomans13]

I work in this fresh hell most of the year welding for the local boilermakers.

 

[posaune]

K-12 Music/Band Teacher

Thank you for your service. I have a lot of respect for [good] primary school band directors.


I've posted in at least one of these threads before, but I don't think I have in this one: I'm a professional musician specializing in Historically Informed Performance of renaissance, baroque, and classical music on period-correct trombones (no, really - people *do* pay me for that ).

It is an awesome life doing what I love, but like so many other jobs posted, it sure does **** when there is no work to be had.

 

[robertgreen79]

Federal contractor here. Mainly its like this:

 

[willymakeit]

Commercial Const. Super. Have a sheetmetal and cabinet shop at home for hobby.

 

[Yojinbo]

Software Project Manager

 

[fxt]

an aluminum extrusion die corrector.

 

[mikevango]

Flooring contractor/ tax evader

 

[Crizzle]

IT, desktop support supervisor. Wear a lot of different hats as we have almost no field support at my company. We have 1400 IT staff, and only about 150 of them are outside of Phoenix, while approximately 1/2 of our staff are spread across our 250+ sites that aren't in Phoenix.

Makes for fun and enjoyable work. As one week I will be doing cabling, network setup, and install at a new site and the next I will somewhere else doing something different. Part of the reason I love working in the garage so much, means i get away from the computer and get my hands dirty.

 

[kc-steve]

I'm self-employed in the dot com field. The reason I come to GJ besides liking to turn a wrench is that I also worked 30 years as an electronic technician for aircraft navigation eq. manufacturer (VOR, ILS), dialysis machine manufacturer, and hospitals. I got tired of working for a$$holes, hence, being self-employed now.

Steve

 

[magnusk750]

We have a saying "nine occupations, the tenth is starvation" and somehow it fits on me. I have studied and worked as a officer for historic preservation for about fifteen years. During the last six seven years on a freelance basis. THAT is NOT good money so lately I ve got my spare parts business for russian motorcycles running on a more regular basis. I can survive on it but thats about it.

This year I started studies to become a construction engineer. Together with my skills in preservation I'd be a perfect combo, but for the moment I really don't know if I m up to it. I m 40 +, high school maths and physics more than 20 years behind and, well, Ill make a serious try for some months more then we'll see...

And sometimes I make odd jobs as a self apprenticed painter. Thats about it, I've quit translation jobs and running a store for ecological/traditional paints and construction materials

 

[Interex]

Commercial Property & Facilities Manager for these 2 five-story office buildings totaling 225k sqft.

 

[gsport]

retired teamster here...

 

[c_mccann]

Loan officer. Selling money.

 

[handyvorb]

Master Audi Technican

 

[Snappy]

cheat steal and lie..

Your a politician ?

 

[dodge610]

retired teamster here...

Lets hear it for the teamsters so am i just not retired yet

 

[Prior]

Lead engineer, construction equipment design and manufacture.

 

[action fab]

I own an automotive fabricaion/customisation shop

 

[Walterchang]

Teamster joke for local 399.
Why did the teamster plant cherrios in his backyard? He thought they were donut seeds!

My Uncle is an old school teamster.

Local 600 1st Asst Camera Man Remote systems.

 

[SnowBlaZeR2]

I gladly accept the American taxpayer's money in exchange for lousy pay and long hours.

I'm kidding I love what I do.

Sgt/USMC
2621/0931

 

[rhdave]

Journeyman electrician, since '07

 

[Blue Gator Six]

Cable guy. Headend actually. (just so you don't have to ask a Headend is where we recieve the signal from the satellites. and then distribute it out to the customer). I tinker with alot of different stuff on my days off, from Toilets to Hotrods.

 

[livey]

operator for a Biopharmaceutical company. Used to be a mechanic but could not make nearly as much money so now i just tinker on the side.

 

[slowtwitch]

During the day, I'm a mild mannered, lowly, old maintenance man at some corporate headquarters. By night, I design throttle linkage systems for older VW's and Porsches...like this one..

and this one..

 

[4x4gearhead]

For the past 5 years I have been working for Prinoth LLC the manufacturer of various tracked vehicles including the GoTract line of utility vehicles and also what used to be Bombardier snow grooming equipement. I spend my summers in our service facility and winters on the road doing warranty work, moving groomers across the country for demonstration, and whatever other work that comes in. I have come a long way in my journey of wrenching considering I walked into the door of this place with a wrench set and some sockets, I feel a great sense of accomplishment when I see how far Ive come and the experience I have accumulated and the tool set I have built. Since I was very young I always loved anything with an engine. Wrenching is in my blood for sure, though Im not sure how it got there seeing how no one else in my family is a mechanic. Even though I am young I can see myself turning a wrench for most of my life, and if not for work definately at home.

 

[speed bump]

I work in this fresh hell most of the year welding for the local boilermakers.

PPL plant?

 

[Cast Iron Nuts]

Self employed ventilation contractor with a fully equipped fabrication shop.

 

[Heavy Metal Doctor]

Servicr Mgr / Lead Tech for Municipal / Industrial equipment dealer. 15 Years at it. I love the work since it's so varied - I do just about anything you could imagine in a shop.

 

[tyreguy25]

As of two Mondays ago, I am a railroad contractor, repairing, installing and maintaining rails. I travel a lot, so I am on here on my Blackberry when out of town, but I work on a rail spiker. We have to repair and maintain our own machines so I am assembling a set of SAE wrenches and sockets as everything I owned was metric. I am going to hit the local old s*it emporium in town to see if I can't find something useful.

Before that, I was a tire guy.

 

[Ben Iv]

Shop foreman/fitter welder at a structural steel fabrication shop. We build alot of different stuff never gets old.