What's Your Occupation?
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FishingPilot
US Veteran
Software developer for HP - fun job, public sector work.
7shooter
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Meat cutter, farm hand, rod and chain man, book abstracter, teacher ( 7th grade through post doc ) and 30+ years as a psychologist with the VA. Now I only work for free and mostly teach firearms skills and how trauma can affect a person in high stress situations and afterwards ( for carry permit classes ).
I have discovered that unemployment is better than employment.
I have discovered that unemployment is better than employment.
Heavy transportation equipment sales of class 8 trucks and trailers to commercial entities for 15 years. Regional finance director for PNW 7 state area, funding heavy transportation equipment, material handling equipment, agricultural equipment and plant production/processing equipment to commercial entities for national banking corporation for 13 years. Self employed as a equipment lessor for 12 years, now semi retired as a small farmer who is in charge of grooming the dogs for the dog shows - I also drive and maintain the dog hauler bus and I do the cleaning and cooking.
Pete
PS - Yes, Carrie was a Prom movie!!!!
Pete
PS - Yes, Carrie was a Prom movie!!!!
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Recently retired after 42 years as a technical advisor for a locomotive builder.
In a resaurant wih my in laws, wife, grandkids-an older oriental gentleman comes in and I notice he has a Presidential Citation ribbon on his lapel-so I walk up and ask him about it-he tells me he was in the Pacific as an interpreter. I shake his hand and tell him that I am a retired Infantryman-his hearing is as bad as mine-so he exclaims so everyone can hear-"Oh! you are retard?!". Probably thought I was going to ask for money. Or, may be he is right-about the retard deal.
OP
Ruger Nut
US Veteran
feralmerril
Absent Comrade
Worked picking strawberries, blocking lettice, stacking pallets in cannerys, a pickle factory, haying, plywood factory, foundry, garbage man, treat power poles for groundline decay, fight forrest fires, blister rust checker, work with dead fish on the conservation department, and finaly as a security speacialist and plant protection officer, more commonly known as a night watchman. Oh well. Never collected a dime of welfare, owe no man a penney or screwed a person out of one nor spent more than a hour or two in the jug and I dont think I am on anyones hit list.
CW Spook
US Veteran
Retired radio DJ, State Patrol dispatcher, Navy Spook, banker, hospital CIO/CFO, Retail electronics CEO.
OP
Ruger Nut
US Veteran
I saw your reply and started thinking about a ghost. I looked it up and sure enough, they use the term ghost aka- Spook, due to not being able to be seen or tracked.
IMO, very cool job.
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Entered the carpentry apprenticeship program almost exactly 41 years ago this week. Went from high-rise to public works to heavy industrial to residential, eventually becoming a carpentry contractor doing a lot of high end custom work. My back decided it was time to retire after 30 years, but the wallet disagreed; went back to school, got some engineering and computer skills under my belt and have been employed in residential remodeling doing sales, estimating, design, and project management for the last 10 years. Straight commission keeps it interesting, but also allows me to work as though I were still self-employed. The market has sucked for the last 5 years, but it looks like it's coming back now, so there's more work and less free time. Which is ok by me, until I figure out how to just get money in the mail 
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1911Girl
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Anti terrorism officer in Scotland working in conjunction with the department of homeland security (airports), then went on to study and become a psychiatric nurse, I then worked for a while in the US and then in Scotland, studied again to become an English language teacher, have my own school here in Spain and I´m not even 30 yet.
No occupation these days. Mostly PREoccupations for me now. I am a retired process operator. Worked for a MAJOR chemical plant for 25 years.
The way I am these days if I get the urge to do something useful or productive I just sit still until the urge passes.
The way I am these days if I get the urge to do something useful or productive I just sit still until the urge passes.
In previous lives, I was a leper, Ghengis Khan, a crusader, and Theodore Roosevelt. In a future life I will be Pope Boudreaux XXII.
Burned out software engineer, trying to figure out what to do next.
Delos
Member
Work is a 4 letter anglo saxon word
Finally retired several years ago and joined the Honey-do club. Honey do this, honey do that.
After many hard-work type jobs when young, I finally found a good job babysitting unhappy convicted predatory misfit felons. Someone must keep them from harming each other. Lock them in a cell all day and they go nuts pretty fast. Let them out and they must be watched. Tell them your are trying to rehabilitate them and they will play along for a few years. Whatever puts food on the table and permits one to live in small or medium size towns that are not yet infested with the drug gangs yet.
Hardest job ever worked was managing a chicken restaurant.
Easiest was security manager in a casino & high stakes bingo. The old ladies that ride in on the busses always have a new joke. If anyone is breaking the rules the old ladies will tell you. If anyone is passing counterfeit money the floor clerks that handle money all day will feel it and tell you. If a drunk is being a problem it is obvious. One step up from working a prison. Whatever puts food on the table and bullets in the handgun.
Finally retired several years ago and joined the Honey-do club. Honey do this, honey do that.
After many hard-work type jobs when young, I finally found a good job babysitting unhappy convicted predatory misfit felons. Someone must keep them from harming each other. Lock them in a cell all day and they go nuts pretty fast. Let them out and they must be watched. Tell them your are trying to rehabilitate them and they will play along for a few years. Whatever puts food on the table and permits one to live in small or medium size towns that are not yet infested with the drug gangs yet.
Hardest job ever worked was managing a chicken restaurant.
Easiest was security manager in a casino & high stakes bingo. The old ladies that ride in on the busses always have a new joke. If anyone is breaking the rules the old ladies will tell you. If anyone is passing counterfeit money the floor clerks that handle money all day will feel it and tell you. If a drunk is being a problem it is obvious. One step up from working a prison. Whatever puts food on the table and bullets in the handgun.
Delos
Member
If memory serves
Hey wbraswell, are you sure you've never worked in a prison. I'm sure we have met somewhere. I never forget a profile.
Hey wbraswell, are you sure you've never worked in a prison. I'm sure we have met somewhere. I never forget a profile.
Retired (7 years ago) VP of Medical Manufacturing Co.
Now I watch the grass grow then cut it.
Now I watch the grass grow then cut it.
rockyrider
Member
Retired Wrench, 40 years Auto and Motorcycle Industry. Now I can enjoy my hobbies like all of us should.
BearBio
Member
Let's see....... After the Army, I tried going back to school. Worked managing a McDonald's, managing pet stores, part-time snake collector/handler (to pay for school), went to work in the real estate industry in the title aspect== searching title records for real estate transactions, then as a title examiner, title officer and worked myself up to a Senior Title Officer, doing mufti-million dollar projects in SoCal for about 25 years. Laid off when RE took a dip.
Bummed for a year, working as a "hired gun" for attorneys (a court "expert" in aspects of real estate law), taught a few basin RE law to pick up change.
Went back to school under an adult re-entry program, earned a BS in Marine Biology (with honors), taught a college course in Tropical Ecology in Belize while waiting to enter grad school.
Finished grad school in 2 years with high honors, doing my thesis on black bear behavior (I am now age 48). I continued with my scar collection (first started when working in the pet stores, and continued while collecting reptiles in the desert). After college, I volunteered teaching kids at a Regional park in Los Angeles, worked as a part-time guide for wild hog hunting, taught substitute high school and a little college such as Marine Biology labs for my old college.
A year later, I was offered a job in Sacramento with the Feds as a biologist. After 2 1/2 years I was offered a transfer and promotion in Washington State. And my scar collection keeps growing. Been here about 11 years, with about 5 more until I can retire. We plan, then, on me getting my Ph.D.==I'll only be 75, so I should be able to teach another 10 years or so.
Bummed for a year, working as a "hired gun" for attorneys (a court "expert" in aspects of real estate law), taught a few basin RE law to pick up change.
Went back to school under an adult re-entry program, earned a BS in Marine Biology (with honors), taught a college course in Tropical Ecology in Belize while waiting to enter grad school.
Finished grad school in 2 years with high honors, doing my thesis on black bear behavior (I am now age 48). I continued with my scar collection (first started when working in the pet stores, and continued while collecting reptiles in the desert). After college, I volunteered teaching kids at a Regional park in Los Angeles, worked as a part-time guide for wild hog hunting, taught substitute high school and a little college such as Marine Biology labs for my old college.
A year later, I was offered a job in Sacramento with the Feds as a biologist. After 2 1/2 years I was offered a transfer and promotion in Washington State. And my scar collection keeps growing. Been here about 11 years, with about 5 more until I can retire. We plan, then, on me getting my Ph.D.==I'll only be 75, so I should be able to teach another 10 years or so.
