occupations

[Catamount]

Software engineer.

Love escaping to the garage to get my hands dirty.

 

[camarotoolman]

flee market bum

 

[k9american]

Mechanical Engineer, own an engineering firm specializing in automation and packaging machinery design/build.

www.raynoradams.com

Cool website, hemibee. I've always been fascinated by automatic packaging machines, like cans/bottles of coke, beer, soup and boxes of cereal, etc., etc.You ought to be on "How Things Work".

Physician here. Primary Care - Family Doc.

 

[k9american]

tax attorney

Our side or theirs?

 

[Hawk Thor]

Hello Hawk Thor. Have you ever been to sea/Navy or merchant marines vessels or have you been doing ship yard support.

We don't have a navy here, just the coast guard and ICE-SAR. I haven't been working as a mechanical engineer at sea, not yet anyway. I need to go to school for one more year before I can get any decent job on a ship.

We mostly do repairs and modifications on medium and large fishing trawlers, smaller container ships, coast guard vessels and similarly sized vessels. We also get some smaller ship and boats.

I definitely plan to work at sea when my studies are done, that's where the big money is. I'll hopefully settle into a nice job in a hydroelectric or a geothermal electric dam when I get too old to crawl around engine compartments and spend time at sea.

Now I'm working to feed and house my GF and son, and finishing some of my required shop time.

 

[hemibee69]

Cool website, hemibee. I've always been fascinated by automatic packaging machines, like cans/bottles of coke, beer, soup and boxes of cereal, etc., etc.You ought to be on "How Things Work".

Physician here. Primary Care - Family Doc.

Thanks k9, we do some cool stuff but your profession is far more admirable

 

[Steve.S]

Police officer...this time of the year, business is, well...busy!

 

[Mario]

RF Telecommunication Technician.

I install and service radio systems for mining companys and Government sector. We service 37 towers sites and more than 500 customer units.

 

[kapster]

New here also. Love this forum, can't stop reading.

Journeyman machinist. Repairing/ making replacement parts and building new machines in a factory. CNC and manual mill, lathe, EDM, surface grinder, blah blah, blah. welding, mig/ tig. Help on father in laws farm. Driving tractor and wrenching. This past summer we put up 3 grain bins and a grain dryer. Keeping the dryer running has been a job in itself.

 

[Catalyze]

Retired after 36 years in Fleet Mainenance for the Government. I have pushed trucks and paperwork.....and now I push myself out of bed when I want.
Craig

 

[jhn9840]

911 calltaker/dispatcher currently
Welder in a ship repair yard in my younger days

jhn9840
John

 

[nit2wn]

Autoworker, Mercedes-Benz for the last 7 years.

 

[cglasgow]

Software engineer.

Love escaping to the garage to get my hands dirty.

Nice to meet you -- same here. I do embedded sw for telecom gear.

I spend all day creating stuff that I can't see (sw) -- I love getting home and creating things that I can see!

Before I began slinging bits, I was in the car biz for 10 years....

 

[Bfoughty]

Fire Fighter / EMT / HAZ MAT Tech. for 28 years. Union President IAFF L-2047 (home Local) just elected for my 13th year. , 2nd District V.P. for the Professional Fire Fighters of Oklahoma (State Union).

 

[crf_kdx]

Math prof at a regional university in KY . . .

 

[ladderwell]

Firefighter / Paramedic now, welder / airframer in the Navy, and carpenter before that.

 

[BBBC23]

I own & operate an autobody collision repair shop. I have four employees including my brother & a sister. I also coach high school baseball

 

[Greatwhitewing]

Mechanical Engineer for a defense contractor making the best Radars in the word so I don't work for Lockheed...lol

I also do engineering metrology using high end laser tracking instruments.

My interest in tools spans my professional and private use.

 

[Doxhog]

Professional Engineer (Mechanical/Environmental)

 

[PhantomEB]

2nd year millwright apprentice.

 

[trodery]

Vice President of Operations for a chemical trucking company.

 

[cib]

Corporate trainer in IT, used to be System admin. Also part owner operator of family farm.

General Jack of All Trades Master of none.

 

[cnyeco1]

Registered nurse, med/surg

 

[florze]

Started off as a carpenter, switched to teaching Woodworking, retiring this year. Going back to the tools, to build cottages. Had enough of the parents, kids are great...

 

[geologist]

Geologist.

Update: Might be working as a test engineer at a coal sampling and rail/truck/port terminal sometime in January.

 

[ffemtdisp]

Emergency Communications Dispatcher, 29 years
Deputy Coroner (Fill-In)
FF/EMT-Paramedic 30 years

 

[Okie Pete]

Feed cattle .Try to grow Wheat when Mother Nature lets me. Windmill luber ,water well puller , fence builder , welder, mechanic of Farm equipment , tire changer , varment traper , tree cutter [ dang red cedars] , Bull chaser and been chased by the Bull wasn't fast enough a couple times . My Dads right hand.

 

[toytech40]

Worked as auto tech for 25 years, at dealer, independant, shop owner, and also ag related shop. Last 5 years full time natural gas processing plant operator, part time mechanical technician on just about anything. Also combine operator for several farmers during harvest, mayor of the small town I live in, assist city man with water system operations and also where ever he needs an extra hand, Grand Knight of local Knights of Columbus council, steering comittee member for proposed regional water district for wholesale water suppliers, safety officer for local threasher show association, husband, father, brother, uncle, friend, neighbor, garage tinkering fool, and collector of mechanical antiquities.

 

[plumber84]

plumbing, heating and gas engineer in sunny old England.

 

[jwitt]

Water meter repair tech.

 

[Sk_noma]

Autobody tech...4th yr apprentice so far should be a journeyman by June.

 

[Az Scooter]

My first job was self-employed, distributed the daily newpaper. Then worked for Dad builing houses, a bunchof odd jobs, 10 + years selling auto parts, a fireman/emt for 10 years. The last 30 years self-employed selling/servicing fire extinguishers, sprinklers, suppression systems. I now have 3 full employees, and we cannot keep up.

You forgot to mention crawling kitchen hoods.
I provide maid service for homeless people. We clean bus stops.

 

[Hammer1963]

Owner/tech of Autobody-collision shop. Work as a Tech in the shop everyday. Prior to this, I worked as a Journey Machinist for 12 years. I also run a Competitive Baseball program for High School age players. True ambition is to be a fulltime Bum

 

[neitzel]

Combined cycle power plant operator.
The current plant in still in construction phase, starting to transition to start-up and commissioning. On-line and commercial in June/July of '12.

 

[RLRRLRLL]

Service Writer at a Harley-Davidson/Honda/Yamaha/Kawasaki/KTM dealer. Prior to this i was a parts guy for 2.5 years, and worked in an old school service station for 4 years. Im 24 now, and have no idea what i want to do with my life haha.

 

[WQ59B]

Graphic design : 11 yrs
Heavy machinery operator : 7 years
Run own contractor business : 4 years

 

[mudflap]

Full time Diesel Tech for the city 24yrs - part time Farmer - part time old truck collector

 

[Greatwhitewing]

Don't ever recall hearing of Harley combined with metrics for sales or service. Just for my own curiosity can you link the dealership please? Not a doubdting thing, just wanna see it thing.

Service Writer at a Harley-Davidson/Honda/Yamaha/Kawasaki/KTM dealer. Prior to this i was a parts guy for 2.5 years, and worked in an old school service station for 4 years. Im 24 now, and have no idea what i want to do with my life haha.

 

[Graham r ford]

Body shop mechanic,started 1975 most of it working in the motor trade.Chrysler Daihatsu Rover.

 

[2fat2fly]

Don't ever recall hearing of Harley combined with metrics for sales or service. Just for my own curiosity can you link the dealership please? Not a doubdting thing, just wanna see it thing.

In Dayton,Ohio there was a dealership called F&S Kawasaki,Suzuki and Harley Davidson. The HD side was seperated from the metrics by a hallway/passageway and both sides had seperate front entrances. I don't know if they still sell all 3 brands or not.