how do you make a living ?

[Junkman]

I've always wondered how you attach a merkin. Velcro, staples, rivets, bolts? Are special tools required to get good adhesion? I'd imagine the implications of a loose merkin would be catastrophic...

Most often in the old days, they were held in place with rubber cement, but with the advent of Gorilla glue, that turned out to be the best adhesive, because it stayed in place, no matter how rough the movement around the edges was. Sometimes removal did cause some amount of tact and gentleness, but then, there were some men that were known to just rip them apart. In those cases, I just recommended a slower pace to prolong the life of the product. Some just don't have a gentle enough hand to do this type of delicate work. I think that is where I developed my Carpal Tunnel problems.

 

[krusty the clown]

junk your on a roll today

 

[SILVERPLATE]

Air Traffic Controller - 30 years

 

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i am now retired because of heart bypass [4] massive stroke broken hip and knees and parkension used to build engines for aa/fc build chassis
crew chief on several big time racers

also sold automotive equipment sun engines equipment hunter alignment fmc alignment ect ect

homewrecker joplin mo

 

[nordstar]

Network Technician, I travel all over southern New Mexico. In such a large area filled with little towns, I have to do a lot of diverse jobs: data and phone wiring, network setup, pc repair, printer and scanner maintenance, wireless installs, install new systems and the like.

My main tools are mostly electrician type tools, but I have a calling to vintage tool steel.

 

[jjkrjh]

Forklift Technician

Travel from customer to customer and repair equipment. Started in GM dealers. ASE master certfication in auto and truck.

 

[Tarheelgarage]

Quality Engineer for Danaher tool group........

Trying to make all you tool snobs happy!!!

Have you ever been to the Gastonia, NC Danaher plant? I believe they make sockets there.

 

[KraftwerkMk1Jetta]

I work for my father's golf course construction and irrigation company. During the spring, summer, and fall, I'm either driving an off-road dumptruck, putting together irrigation pipes and fittings, or if i'm lucky, running an excavator. These winter months I'm usually in the shop fixing all the stuff that broke during the other months

 

[kcleere]

Project Management Analyst for a Wireless Telecom Gear Manufacturer...

 

[walrus]

Learned what a merkin was, must be a good day
Electrician related to the gasoline retail industry( I wire gas pumps )

Getting ready to build a shop, looking for ideas, love tools and muscle cars

 

[Stephenw]

Airway Transportation System Specialist, Federal Aviation Administration.

 

[KMR Construction]

Contractor

www.KMR-Construction.com

 

[CatfishXpress]

I work in the oilfield, I'm the guy that tells them what kind of rock they are drilling, and when they hit oil or gas.

In my spare time I make tricycle motors.

 

[iamhistory]

I am an HF cashier....and I'm not ashamed to say my employee discount has filled more than one Snap-On roll away.

 

[bushhawg73]

Currently working as a crime scene technician for a sheriff's office in north Florida. Very different work. The job takes many different twists and turns.

 

[vc-onthepc]

I work for the washington metropolitan area transit authority .. aa mechanic for 8 years and now for the last 2 years ive been a bus maintanance supervisor for them . Ive worked at 2 race car chassis fabrication shops / and one performance exhaust dealer . Im working on getting my garage built so i can finnaly start working on my own hot rods . I have a 71 elcamino and a 79 chevy truck .

 

[Nikolai_V]

I`m a civil engineer, working as a Project Manager for the NZ Transport Agency. I manage our block (<$4.5M) construction programme. This pays for the cruel, dehabilitating disease known as Land-Rover addiction. Not to mention dad to two awesome wee kids...

(You try working on an 60`s british 4x4, fitted with a Japanese diesel - you need one of just about everything to do any work)

 

[eschoendorff]

I am an HF cashier....and I'm not ashamed to say my employee discount has filled more than one Snap-On roll away.

Are you serious,or is this the funniest post of 2008????


Sorry, no disrespect... but we just don't know you well enough. Are you really a HF cashier???

 

[eschoendorff]

Quality Engineer for Danaher tool group........

Trying to make all you tool snobs happy!!!

Danaher has quality control?????? If you've ever looked closely at a Craftsman raised-panel wrench, you'd be as surprised as I am!

 

[Moose-LandTran]

I work in the oilfield, I'm the guy that tells them what kind of rock they are drilling, and when they hit oil or gas.

In my spare time I make tricycle motors.

Is that Kan Tan IV you work on?

 

[CatfishXpress]

Is that Kan Tan IV you work on?

No, the rig in my avatar is just a picture I stole off the internet. I'm not always on the same rig.

 

[buening]

Civil and Structural Engineer.....mostly bridge work. It pays for my 1970 Mach 1 Mustang restoration as well as many other hobbies. I let the wife pay the important bills

 

[Kevin54]

Tool & Die maker for a large aircraft lighting company. Our lights are on almost every plane that you see. Fighters to passenger planes.

 

[iamhistory]

Are you serious,or is this the funniest post of 2008????

esch: Thanks for the compliment! I'm just kidding about the cashier part.

I'm really a teacher.

 

[VOMA07]

Vehicle Operations & Maintenance Assistant for the US Postal Service(VOMA). I am responsible for four facilities vehicle needs. I don't fix 'em unless I have too. Mostly, I make sure that routes are covered vehicle wise and if need be drop what ever else I might be doing to address any problem that would arise. A lot of paperwork and computer input. Also, I make sure that we get good and proper work from the garages that we do business with.

 

[Dustoff 35]

Retired Army pilot.

 

[JayL]

Electronics and Communications Engineer working in the IT field.

 

[jtrace]

Presently un-employed worked for a rental company for 16 years as a mechanic fixing everything from electric drills to the delivery vehicals. Now I tow cars on the side and help a buddy when he needs a hand in his shop. I'm also trying to start my own buissness building and repairing race cars....

John

 

[speed bump]

I work in the oilfield, I'm the guy that tells them what kind of rock they are drilling, and when they hit oil or gas.

In my spare time I make tricycle motors.

If you don't mind me asking what company do you work for? The reason i'm asking is unless the outlook for mining or power looks 100% better in the next couple of weeks I am probably going to be out in a set of red coveralls come next December.

 

[rocketman]

The Merkin thing made me laugh my *** off. Hadn't heard that term in a lot of years. Like SMEGMA... anyone know what that is?

I'm a Senior Systems Analyst for a Fortune 500. Basically I'm a geek that gets paid really really well. Been a geek for almost 30 years.

YES... computers go back that far!

 

[vssjim]

I am an auto and light truck mechanicin McLean, Va. and help run a sprint car series.

 

[lh4x4]

Retired Police Chief who would have rather been a mechanic.

 

[Moose-LandTran]

How do you make a living?

I don't. I just about make a coping.

 

[CatfishXpress]

If you don't mind me asking what company do you work for? The reason i'm asking is unless the outlook for mining or power looks 100% better in the next couple of weeks I am probably going to be out in a set of red coveralls come next December.

I wear blue coveralls.

 

[Todd.Brock]

Im in advertising sales, automotive specifically, for the local newspaper. Lifelong gear head though...

 

[Junkman]

The Merkin thing made me laugh my *** off. Hadn't heard that term in a lot of years. Like SMEGMA... anyone know what that is?

Getting the smegma out of the merkin was always a sticky job. That usually went to the low man on the totem pole...

 

[krusty the clown]

Getting the smegma out of the merkin was always a sticky job. That usually went to the low man on the totem pole...

STOP IT YOUR KILLIN ME

 

[Uncle Buck]

Getting the smegma out of the merkin was always a sticky job. That usually went to the low man on the totem pole...

Obviously a man at the top of his game!

 

[Nuit Damnant]

Commercial Parts Manager for Advance Auto Parts. I also have a part-time shop doing general repair and some fab work.

EDIT: ...and I've never heard of a merkin before now...and I am almost sorry I know what it means now, just trying not to think of the logistics of such a thing...::shudders:: Bet you're glad you retired Junk

 

[bennyy]

I'm a smog check technician and auto mechanic.