What do you do for a living?

BobC357 said:
What do I do? Go fishing, listen to music, go fishing, do the shopping, go fishing, go hiking, go fishing, go hunting, go fishing, go to the range, go fishing. Oh, did I mention I go fishing?:D

Here is yesterday :)
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It sounds like where I live, if you don't fish, there's not much left to do, guy's that I worked with used to say what do you do there anyway, I would say we fish and f#$k and in the winter we don't fish.:D
 
IT professional, although since 2011 it hasn't been much of a "living". Wages here are VERY depressed. If all of this $15/hr. minimum wage nonsense passed, I'd literally be working minimum wage as an IT pro with 25+ years of experience.

I just got a decent helpdesk job that raised my wages by a THIRD.

In the meantime, I'm working another low paid Windows 7 rollout job that's so badly organized that the customer ran out of Windows 7 licenses in the middle of the project. I've been sitting idle (and unpaid) since Friday.

Fortunately, my real job starts Monday.

Update:

The customer on the Win7 rollout is so UTTERLY disorganized that they don't even THINK they'll have any work for us until Tuesday... by which time I will have been working a REAL job for a day.
 
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CEO for an ISP. Getting internet to folks so they can order Amazon.com, watch Netflix and check the smith-wessonforum.com.

I don't do Netflix myself. The only movies I like were made before 1979 or so. Went to heck in a handbasket after that era. I am guilty of checking this forum and ordering on Amazon.com.
 
I'm retired military. 22 years in the Army. Then 10 years as a CNC machine operator. Now retired again. I took up shooting hand guns and searching for ammo on the internet as a hobby. I've bought a couple new pistols, (Shield 9mm and XDm .45 3.8" compact) in the past year, and got my CHL. I make it to the range and shoot 200-300 rounds a month.

Life is good.
 
Retired after 20 years as Chief of a rural volunteer fire department. Owned a general construction company for many years, building commercial and high-end residential projects. For the past 20 years I've been a consultant with a utility association, working with public water suppliers (mostly cities) developing plans to protect the quality and quantity of the water you drink. Finally going to retire full time within the year.
Dave
SWCA #2778
 
I've been a small business owner for the last 18 years. I do custom audio/video/Internet access for residential and commercial.
 
~30 years in LE with the same damned busy department, beat cop and later Detective with a crushing caseload.
Retired in '08 at 50 and have worked p/t with a couple of different LGS's. Also teach Concealed Carry and Basic Pistol.

Hunt, fish, and shoot as much as I want. Wife and I about to build on our lot on the NC coast and move there. Hope to get my Captain's License and find a new horizon.
 
Thanks to the OP for starting this very interesting thread. I started low level jobs as a teenager and eventually became a journeyman toolmaker at Honeywell. My work evolved into CAD injection mold design and CNC mill programming for a different OEM until outsourcing eventually migrated my CAD skills into continuation engineering tasks.
I enjoy my work, and I'm retirement age, but you guys talking about hunting, fishing, reloading, cutting grass, etc, are making me wonder....

Steve
 
I worked as a serviceman for a gas utility then jumped to the same position at a combination gas/elec utility. I have been a measurement technician for the last 8 years. Previous to that was an apprentice plumber, tractor mechanic and sewer and drain cleaner. That doesn't count farm work since I was 6.
 
Entered the Air Force right out of high school. Worked for two directors of operations in two B-52 bomb wings. Three years in a ammunition supply squadron in France.

Five years in the Pentagon with Air Force Intelligence - airborne electronic intelligence collection. The next eleven years with the Secretary of the Air Force satellite overhead systems in California.

Retired after 22 years and joined contractors working with the Air Force until I retired for good on April 1, 2000.

Currently hang out on my property in Eastern Iowa. Shoot as the weather permits. Watch the animals - we have deer, turkey, coon, possum, pheasants, Canada geese, wood ducks, mallards, peanut stealing squirrels, and all sorts of birds who enjoy eating sunflower seeds and bird food.

Spring is here so I will spend the next few months riding the mower over about six acres of grass...

It keeps me active!!
 
I sell guns ..... currently working for a store here in southwest Ohio, do the gun logbooks and counter sales mainly. Been working in the gun business full time for a while, ever since I got out of automotive parts sales. This is a lot more fun, I actually enjoy going to work every day! Enjoy dealing with people (at least most of them) and just glad I've managed to make a living doing something I like.
 
I've been a farmer, cook, bartender, school teacher, cop, musician, forest-fire fighter, salesman, carpenter, truck driver, and spent twenty fire years as a correctional officer at the Fairbanks Correctional Center. I retired as Security Sergeant in 2005. I'm old, tired, and have a bad attitude. I've had three kinds of cancer and a stroke 2 months ago. I spend much of my time messing with my S&W revolvers and trying to write bad poetry. That's enough.
 
Kanewpadle said:
Last 22 years as a professional locksmith. Last 19 with the same company. Good job. But I often see the worst in people.
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During my tenure with the state, I was the "other" locksmith at the prison for 7 years. Very interesting trade, worked with Folgers Adams and Southern Steel jail locks besides "regular" locks/keys.
 
Started working full time as a 2d Lt, US Amy in 1955. Retired in 1975. Only one tour in RVN, I was lucky. Worked as an Education Specialist, US Civil Service, until 1975; then retired for good. I'm 80; I go to gun shows. shoot, reload, then repeat the cycle. As Bum Philips said about retirement, I don't do nuthin' and I don't start till noon.
 
now retired. fire investigator for 12 years. before that firefighter for 8 years. before that subway car inspector for 5 years.
 
I'm currently a college student, and a bartender, mixing drinks till the sunrises to pay the bills. Once in a while, when I have a rare day off, I make lead donations at my local range:D.
 
I'm 35 and have been working as a web designer for the past 7 years. Before that I was designing ads for newspapers and magazines (before the web took over). I taught community college for a while too and had also worked in security part-time.

I keep reading and envying you guys who are retired. My generation has accepted the fact that most of us will probably never retire. With as much debt that continues to accumulate in our country, we'll all be working till we're 110.
 
16 years as a heavy commercial/industrial electrician. Spent a lot of time on the road. When I can I work at the house. I like to see my kids grow up.
 
Labworm ...

I'm surprised I haven't run into you at work.

I have the same job and left the work place at the same age and time.
 
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