So, what's your day job?

[Cedar Row]

I knew Ted was a weeny!

I am considered to be the leading expert in electronic navigation for the US Navy. I install, repair and mostly train US Navy sailors how to navigate ships of every size and flavor using computers, like Google maps for a ship, all designed to drive the ship without touching the wheel. I'm a retired Submarine sailor of 24 years. Sell aftermarket chainsaw parts as most know me by. I flip saws on the side as an excuse to drink beer and I help my wife run one of the largest interior design businesses in the greater tidewater area of Virginia.

I can't remember what I ate for lunch most days!

Interesting! I was a quartermaster in the Navy back in the late 60's. Our electronic navigation consisted of Loran C. In the Caribbean Sea I still shot stars and sunlines and local apparent noon, dead rekoning when the weather was bad. Was on the USS Lawrence DDG 4, and the Spiegel Grove LSD 32. Navigation has changed some since then.

 

[surfincr]

Very interesting seeing all the different jobs on here.

As for me i'm in insurance as a Business Intelligence Business Analyst (i build solutions/tools out of existing software and create some effieciancy where possible) also i'm a licensed casualty adjuster. and i buy/sell/trade/repair small equipment as a side business and am trying to make a go at selling specialty dog beds i make.

 

[troylee]

I own a small Artisan Jam & Jelly business called Tin Roof Market. We make 63 flavors currently. Regular flavors and some unique flavors like Banana Rum, Jalapeno, Raspberry Jalapeno, Orange Dream "dreamsicle", Caramel Apple and Salted Caramel Pear to name a few. We sell online and to stores mostly around St. Paul, Minneapolis area. I make jam for 4 days a week and 3 days I cut fire wood and spend hours on this site.

we need contact info if we are to buy your jam.........should we run it at 32 or 40 to 1

 

[Wisneaky]

we need contact info if we are to buy your jam.........should we run it at 32 or 40 to 1

I wasn't sure if I could post that info. Here it is through. The website is still a work in progress so I do apologize. I'd mix it how ever you feel comfortable with. I like mine a little richer.

www.tinroofmarket.com
www.facebook.com/thetinroofmarket

 

[slowp]

I survived and got retired. I was having to ice knees before and after work when a day was to be spent on steep ground marking out skyline corridors. I'm a retired "forester". I worked most of the 32 years in timber management. The last and best stint was working out on logging jobs with them poor old gypo loggers,
trying to get results on the ground from specs written by specialists who had no idea what logging equipment and loggers could do. I'm not sure if there is any profession that attracts so many unique characters as logging does. I don't know why that is.

Now I do most anything I want. Today I think I'll work on my road until I get tired of it. I am in the third year of fiddle playing and have a group to go play with once a month. That's a lot of fun. The motto is Play Loud Play Proud Cuz Nobody Else Can Hear You. I putter around the place and hook up the Pointy Trailer and take off when roads are good and the travel bug hits. I'm building a kayak, but it is taking a long time because I like to hitch up the trailer and take off when the travel bug hits. Not to worry, I have a couple of plastic boats to use.

Chainsaws are not toys to me. They mean work. But when using them for work, and things go as they should, it is a nice feeling to be able to see what you've done.

 

[Mastermind]

The tough part about being a principal is that it is tough to see the fruits of your labor with kids which is why I NEED to cut wood. I bust my ass at school trying to support teachers and students and in the end I'm faced with a bunch of liability and my supervisors breathing down my neck every time someone under me makes a mistake.

Running saws takes me to another world where I can forget about bureaucrats and red tape. I get to make all the decisions with no policies forcing me to do something I don't agree with.

So far......your job is likely the most hectic.

Respect.

Not always a popular job with some folks but I've been a deputy for 19 years now.

The last 15 have been in the K9 Unit. I get to take the dog and search for criminals and drugs all night long. Best job in the world to me and will hopefully keep doing it for quite a few more years.

This is the guy that does most of the work.View attachment 396273

Thank God for you, and men like you.

Thank you for all you do.

 

[JBA]

That's what I love about my job. Drive around and point to houses churches office buildings the Pirates ball park. Hell yeah Johnny helped build that!!!! Great feeling....

 

[flyinghunter]

I'm an ag pilot, in the off season I do tree work and earthmoving. Was an auto mechanic till I decided that turning up to the same place every day wasn't for me.

 

[NH Hunter]

Compliance Officer & problem solver in the financial services industry.

 

[pooroldcraig]

Bartender in a comedy club.

 

[ft. churchill]

I twirl wrenches and spin screwdrivers at a coffee roasting plant. Once in a while I get to melt hi-chromium steels with a tungsten electrode and a bunch of current, while bathed in argon gas.
Gosh I love that fancy pants coffee. Think of the brand with the green mermaid.

 

[jetmd]

flyinghunter, what kind of equipment do you fly? Ag cat, airtractor, pawnee?

 

[Gologit]

flyinghunter, what kind of equipment do you fly? Ag cat, airtractor, pawnee?

He's in New Zealand...might be a Fletcher or an Air Truk.

 

[stihlaficionado]

Compliance Officer & problem solver in the financial services industry.

banking or brokerage ?

 

[NH Hunter]

Brokerage and advisory.

 

[stihlaficionado]

Brokerage and advisory.

PM me the name if you're OK doing so

Or Not

 

[PA Dan]

I'm a trouble maker.

I have always heard do what your good at!

 

[PA Dan]

Union Steelworker Pittsburgh PA.

 

[Magnum783]

Union Steelworker Pittsburgh PA.

I am still a card carrying union pipe welder. Just finished my masters ticket a few years back. I wish more of america would learn a trade the work is far more rewarding. I am not a fan of all unions but the pipe welders did me just fine even though I was a GI when I started my apprenticeship they honored it all. It made for an easy transition into the outside. Even though I adventually went right back to work for the DOD.

 

[fordf150]

I am still a card carrying union pipe welder. Just finished my masters ticket a few years back. I wish more of america would learn a trade the work is far more rewarding. I am not a fan of all unions but the pipe welders did me just fine even though I was a GI when I started my apprenticeship they honored it all. It made for an easy transition into the outside. Even though I adventually went right back to work for the DOD.

Learning a trade and being good at it is a better guarantee of a job than a college education Without all the debt and in allot of cases better money.
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