What do you do for a living?

[Indy]

3 hours ago, shotgun said:

I work with shit none of you (except Bikeman564) understand.

EXCUSE ME???

 

No freaking respect, I swear.  I did interview for a Mechanical Engineering job working with fire suppression pumps.  The ME I'd be replacing tried to stump me with a failure question, which didn't stump me at all and I even explained what the other failure modes would look like.  Biggest issue is a I don't know Hydraulic theory and curves (though hiring manager kept emphasizing he can teach me those) and I haven't done Labview programming (though everyone I know who has done it learned on the job) the programming aspect is why they decided to consider an Electrical Engineer.

Tomorrow I have an interview for a Quality Engineering job for a Lithium battery manufacturer, originally they were aiming at electrical vehicle market, but sounds like they now do some hybrid buses and micro-power grid systems.

Amazing how diverse of areas I can get interviews for (though versatility always been my biggest strength) but just can't get a job because always lacking experience in area they want, apparently most don't think people can learn.

[Indy]

1 hour 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. 

My last employer was Raytheon.  

[Road Runner]

7 minutes ago, Indy said:

My last employer was Raytheon.  

I worked with Raytheon.  They built one of the radars that I worked on.  I used to travel to Boston a lot.  

[Longjohn ★]

4 hours ago, AirwickWithCheese said:

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

Granny panties.

[Further]

I punch a time clock and keep my mind & mouth shut.

[JerrySTL ★]

Database Administrator. Was working for the USAF until recently but working for the Army now.

[maddmaxx ★]

1 hour ago, groupw said:

He said “high end”. I bet that means the places you have to show ID to get in...

By "high end" I believe you will find that cheese works with products that provide an uplifting experience.

[Airehead]

8 hours ago, Chris... said:

I run my own sign-making business from my basement

And you do excellent work-- I am a satisfied customer who gets no compensation for this endorsement.

I am a school  superintendent who never likes to call a snow day.  Basically, I try to stay out of the way of the people who do the work that matters.  Oh, and I make sure they have the things they need.  I wanted to hire Hillary as a principal and I think that is why he left.

[Longjohn ★]

26 minutes ago, Airehead said:

 I wanted to hire Hillary as a principal and I think that is why he left.

He would make a good principal at one of your schools but I think he would miss Ohio. It's too long a commute unless he borrows your plane.

 

Edit: We should mention his SW name of @Forum Administrator so he knows we are talking about him.

[Wilbur ★]

9 hours ago, Road Blunder said:

We all know what Wilbur does

That is just the hobby part of what I do.  

[AirwickWithCheese]

we also sell corsets and bustiers. Used to carry a fine line of ladies shoes but we lost out on the red bottom craze.     

We carry a line of waistchains and pretty bellybutton rings for the new generation.

[Road Runner]

5 hours ago, maddmaxx said:

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

We may have walked right past each other on some ship or other at some time.  But I had a lot more hair back then and that was before I started using the name, "Road Runner".   

[ChrisL]

4 hours ago, Road Blunder said:

I worked with Raytheon.  They built one of the radars that I worked on.  I used to travel to Boston a lot.  

I was a contractor for Raytheon for 6 years. Based out of El Segundo but managed programs in Fullerton, Malibu, Goleta &  Long Beach (before it closed).

[Road Runner]

11 minutes ago, ChrisL said:

I was a contractor for Raytheon for 6 years. Based out of El Segundo but managed programs in Fullerton, Malibu, Goleta &  Long Beach (before it closed).

In California, I worked for many years with ITT Gilfillan located in Van Nuys.  I also spent much time at Mare Island (Vallejo), Long Beach and, of course, visited many ships for many years in San Diego.

San Diego was my favorite.   

[shootingstar]

Research content seeker, wrangler, supervisor, corporate trainer and content manager in engineering (16 yrs.), law (10 yrs.) and government.

[Randomguy]

19 hours ago, Road Blunder said:

Blood is dirty?

People say it tastes like copper.

[Parr8hed]

22 minutes ago, Dickpants said:

People say it tastes like copper.

It absolutely does. 

[Razors Edge ★]

Software development, web dev, project management, and a whole host of "what else needs to be done" from QA & tech writing, to funding & budgeting drills to "only guy who writes shit down".

Tom  

[Road Runner]

2 hours ago, Dickpants said:

People say it tastes like copper.

 

1 hour ago, Parr8hed said:

It absolutely does. 

How do people know what copper tastes like?   

[HiWay61]

Retired after 42 years in trust banking.  I now spend time volunteering - Capital Development Committee of the local public library, treasurer of the local arts foundation, on the board of an organization that provides services to folks with intellectual and developmental disabilities and several roles in my church - and doing a bunch of outdoor stuff.  I also occasionally help out a friend who builds custom furniture and cabinets.  Always wanted a wood shop in my home but never had one.  This occasional side job gives me the opportunity to do some of that stuff.

[dinneR ★]

13 minutes ago, Road Blunder said:

 

How do people know what copper tastes like?   

[shotgun]

15 hours ago, Indy said:

EXCUSE ME???

 

No freaking respect, I swear.  I did interview for a Mechanical Engineering job working with fire suppression pumps....

No disrespect intended. I did not mean to imply that people weren't capable of understanding, only that not a lot of people have metallurgical experience/knowledge.

[Indy]

21 minutes ago, shotgun said:

No disrespect intended. I did not mean to imply that people weren't capable of understanding, only that not a lot of people have metallurgical experience/knowledge.

Nope, worked with a lot of material engineers, those guys can be quite interesting and quite strange.  And as always, I was only half serious anyways.

 

[Road Runner]

18 minutes ago, Indy said:

I was only half serious

Usually, my posts are only about 0.0142857142857143 serious.

[Scrapr ★]

tl:dr Pick up trash

the longer version

started a construction clean up service 28 years ago. First 2 years I drove a truck to pay the bills. It was originally just to pick up some vacay money. After 2 years I figured out I could make a business of it. So I quit the night job .....and broke my ankle the first week after quitting. Was able to grow the business to the largest in the area. Used to get a few requests to talk at conferences and stuff. Currently 11 trucks and about 13-14 on payroll. 

It's been fun and I have learned a lot. I love being around construction people. They are mostly can do people. And mostly positive. 

Currently shopping the company to a few select people to purchase. I've had a good run

[BuffJim]

Trade Compliance

I answer and create e-mails. All day long.

[team scooter]

I work in a lame soap opera drama.

Yesterday I took a personal day. When I came in this morning they were all waiting for me. "What have you been telling the customers?"   Apparently a couple of customers called asking for me, when they found out I wasn't there, they said something to the effect that I must have finally got smart and found another job.  LOL, awesome! Wish I thought of that myself.     

[The_Karen_Cooper_Incident]

19 hours ago, Prophet Zacharia said:

Soap. I make and I sell soap. The yardstick of civilization.

Okay, Tyler.

Couch

[Parr8hed]

5 hours ago, Road Blunder said:

 

How do people know what copper tastes like?   

You've never licked a penny?

[12string]

I spend too much time with copper, but I make a point of not licking pennies.

By day, I design circuit boards

By night, I do music for the church

But the band has had a couple paying gigs, so I'm going with "Professional Musician"

[Parr8hed]

2 hours ago, Couch_Incident said:

Okay, Tyler.

Couch

We don't talk about that.

[Rattlecan ★]

49 minutes ago, Parr8hed said:

You've never licked a penny?

The typical penny has so much grunge on it that you wouldn't know what you were tasting. I wouldn't put a coin in my mouth on a dare. Well, unless there was a million bucks involved, then I might take the chance.

[jsharr ★]

4 hours ago, BuffJim said:

Trade Compliance

I answer and create e-mails. All day long.

Dear Beloved,

I am trouble in much.  My father was Minister of Important Finance for Burundi Province....

[2Far ★]

4 hours ago, BuffJim said:

Trade Compliance

I answer and create e-mails. All day long.

I was thinking that if you got paid for creating and answering e-mails all day, you'd never get done.

[BuffJim]

1 minute ago, jsharr said:

Dear Beloved,

I am trouble in much.  My father was Minister of Important Finance for Burundi Province....

Most of my efforts are concentrated on the latex industry.

[jsharr ★]

1 minute ago, BuffJim said:

Most of my efforts are concentrated on the latex industry.

So most of your work could be found in the Penske file?

[maddmaxx ★]

3 minutes ago, BuffJim said:

Most of my efforts are concentrated on the latex industry.

Would you have any suggestions for Mistress Wanda?

[12string]

10 minutes ago, Rattlecan said:

The typical penny has so much grunge on it that you wouldn't know what you were tasting. I wouldn't put a coin in my mouth on a dare. Well, unless there was a million bucks involved, then I might take the chance.

It would take an awfull long time to lick that many pennies!

[Green Grass]

I'm a manufacturer in a sports and leisure industry.  I have about 140 employees.  

So, yeah, I'm stressed occasionally.

I may have a major announcement in the next 60 days...

[Road Runner]

2 hours ago, Parr8hed said:

You've never licked a Penny?

No.  But I'd really like to.   

[maddmaxx ★]

Amanda!

[roadiejorge]

Media archive manager

[MickinMD ★]

I'm retired from my 2nd career, 22 years as lead teacher for Honors (Gifted and Talented) Chemistry and Physics at Maryland's largest high school, as well as coach of the Cross Country, Varsity Softball (Fastpitch), and Chess Teams at various times.

Before that I was a Process Development (Organic) Chemist and was Chief Research Chemist for Minerec, a no longer existing subsidiary of Dow Chemical.  At that time, Industrial Bench Chemist was the career with the shortest avg. lifespan of college graduates.  I started running again after several years away from it on Saturdays and could taste the chemicals I had been working with the previous week. So I changed careers.

Before that I completed graduate school at IIT on a Teaching Assistantship and full scholarship.

Before that I worked my way to a bachelor's degree through UMBC. flipping hamburgers at a fast food place, working at a shipyard or grinding welds for a construction company in the summer, until I got a job doing chemistry research on campus after my sophomore year.

NEW CAREER?

Back in the early '90's, I was in the Black Hills of South Dakota and did the tour in Lead, SD, of the abandoned Broken Boot Gold Mine.

At the end of the tour we were allowed to pick a couple paperweight-sized pieces of gold ore from a pile and I asked our knowledgeable guide, a retired company man who had worked his way up from miner to middle management, if we were getting something like 0.001% gold.  He said it was probably more like 0.1%.

I told him I had worked for a company called "Minerec," short for "Mine Recovery," and I knew how to design and make safe, non-toxic, organic chemicals that made the recovery of 0.1% copper, zinc, and some other metals ores very profitable. They are called "flotation reagents."  I explained how that I could probably make one for gold, but it might take 5-10 years and require $1,000,000 per year in research costs.

Our guide said, "If you could do that, a lot of people in the Black Hills would want to talk to you. In fact, I bet some of them would fund your work if what you say is true and you presented it to them."

So if I ever get bored of a comfortable retirement and want to work 80-100 hour weeks for the next 5-10 years, I think I have a new career to go after.

 

 

 

[Wilbur ★]

21 hours ago, Scrapr said:

tl:dr Pick up trash

the longer version

started a construction clean up service 28 years ago. First 2 years I drove a truck to pay the bills. It was originally just to pick up some vacay money. After 2 years I figured out I could make a business of it. So I quit the night job .....and broke my ankle the first week after quitting. Was able to grow the business to the largest in the area. Used to get a few requests to talk at conferences and stuff. Currently 11 trucks and about 13-14 on payroll. 

It's been fun and I have learned a lot. I love being around construction people. They are mostly can do people. And mostly positive. 

Currently shopping the company to a few select people to purchase. I've had a good run

So L'il scrapr isn't taking the helm? 

[AirwickWithCheese]

9 minutes ago, Wilbur said:

So L'il scrapr isn't taking the helm? 

That's why he called in Cheese.   

[Scrapr ★]

1 hour ago, Wilbur said:

So L'il scrapr isn't taking the helm? 

No. I gave my best sales pitch in High School. Unfortunately he & I do not have a great relationship. So working for your Dad ain't great. And my time frame is compressed now. Was thinking of semi working until 70. But w/WoScraprs cancer I want to spend time with her. 

[Tizeye]

Work? That is a dirty 4 letter word and I don't use that type of language.

Kind of retired and so is wide after concussion from bike accident. Escape to self employment as photographer and realtor before the 'honey-do' list gets too long.