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I am a forester by training and supervise a small office. I also do a lot of recreation management. My office is about 600,000 acres in size?

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I am retired from dairy farming and diary genetic reasearch.

I now volunteer wtih Kids Alive International on an aquaponics project in the Dominican Republic.

When I'm not doing that I ride bike, hike, dog sled and today gave a program on dog sledding to 4 kindergarten classes.  Fun day keeping 80 kindergartners  entertained.

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I too am retired.

Through much of my life I was a prototyper, a one or few of a kind specialist who made things that didn't exist elsewhere.  For Pratt and Whitney, those were the home sized (yes they would have swallowed your house) test cells for testing jet engines.  Later I got into the laser business where much of what I did was in the form of research on DARPA programs with the occasional foray into space programs or commercial programs for large companies like Nikon.  As such I was a limited duty machinist, an electroniker, a purchasing agent, a process planner, tech writer and general all around grunt.  After retiring I worked in a hobby shoppe but that wasn't really a living as I don't understand how anyone could work for $10 hr unless they really loved the job.

But then.......bottom line, I never really considered it work.  It was so different from the run of the mill do the same thing every day sort of job that it was actually fun to go to work about 80% of the time.  Changes in the modern business world make the other 20% feel like hell.

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1 hour ago, sheep_herder said:

Nope, this one will be going to a friends' home this afternoon for some TLC.  She took two yesterday and will take two more today.  So far, we've only had them in the house for a short period of time.

I would love to have lambs wandering around my condo!!!! 

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Technically I work for WholeFoods and I don't do shit. I am their IT guy... Basically if there is a problem I have been instructed to refer them to the Corporate help desk for their issue. 

I am currently looking for a new job.. hopefully in park maintenance for the city so I can get a good 401k going and their awesome benefits! 

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I worked as an electronic engineering technician for the DOD for 37 years.  My expertise was shipboard guided missile radar systems for the first 10 years, and then shipboard air search radar for the last 27.  Our prime function was to act as the Navy's in-service engineering agent, providing technical and logistical support to the fleet as required.  We worked with the contractors to acquire and install the best possible product for the Navy and subsequently oversaw training, parts support and upgrades.  We worked constantly to improve the radar's maintainability and reliability in direct support of fleet personnel. 

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10 minutes ago, Road Blunder said:

I worked as an electronic engineering technician for the DOD for 37 years.  My expertise was shipboard guided missile radar systems for the first 10 years, and then shipboard air search radar for the last 27.  Our prime function was to act as the Navy's in-service engineering agent, providing technical and logistical support to the fleet as required.  We worked with the contractors to acquire and install the best possible product for the Navy and subsequently oversaw training, parts support and upgrades.  We worked constantly to improve the radar's maintainability and reliability in direct support of fleet personnel. 

I'm still quite amazed that we never crossed paths.  ;)  except that I began life in the sonar section of the ships.

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2 hours ago, AirwickWithCheese said:

I design and create fashionable lady undergarments and sell across the US in higher end boutiques. 

 

25 minutes ago, Zephyr said:

Given your persona, I am assuming "fashionable" is another word for 'modest'.?

All this time I thougth AWWC worked for Fredericks of Hollywood.  Was I mistaken?

 

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