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I don't need no stinkin living....I did it. Now it's Bon-Bons, sleep 'til noon, soaps, clean underwear. Life is good.......
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Painting Contractor specializing in Historic renovations. Part-time investor
specializing in keeping my azz in the + column...very difficult lately
specializing in keeping my azz in the + column...very difficult lately
hazard
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Civil Engineer. I design highways. The latest project is a converting a 2 lane highway to a 4 lane highway. Adding in a few interchanges and roundabouts.
spankie
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I work as a Hazardous Materials Specialist for the local county Government 911 Ceter. On Call 24-7, 365. Been a Volunteer Firefighter for 12 years. Work for my buddy at his Landscape Supply Business from April till August and Cut and sell firewood on the side. All that plus i am a father of a 2 year od little boy. I stay busy enough without needing anything else.
OldHickory
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Day job
I work in "Chaos Central". I did my prep work at a job during college taking nationwide calls on a 800 number as a customer service rep. I'm a hospital pharmacist and if I'm staffing the central pharmacy instead of doing clinical work in the charts, it can be like working a mixture of air traffic control and a complaint department. Nothing works smoothly all the time and there is always plenty of misplaced bad attitude directed at me and my department in any given day.
It sure is nice to go home and either chew through and stack some beautiful wood, or start that winter fire and watch the secondary combustion while forgeting about the day job. Spare time in the winter... backpacking in the most windy, cold, snowy conditions I can find. Usually 6000' exposed mtn tops in the SE Appalachians Oct-April with occasional trip to the West during Jan-Feb. Guess I have the appreciation for the forests that predisposes me to woodburning.
Another predisposition --My dad was an electrical engineer and started burning in the 70s and I've just kept on it.
I work in "Chaos Central". I did my prep work at a job during college taking nationwide calls on a 800 number as a customer service rep. I'm a hospital pharmacist and if I'm staffing the central pharmacy instead of doing clinical work in the charts, it can be like working a mixture of air traffic control and a complaint department. Nothing works smoothly all the time and there is always plenty of misplaced bad attitude directed at me and my department in any given day.
It sure is nice to go home and either chew through and stack some beautiful wood, or start that winter fire and watch the secondary combustion while forgeting about the day job. Spare time in the winter... backpacking in the most windy, cold, snowy conditions I can find. Usually 6000' exposed mtn tops in the SE Appalachians Oct-April with occasional trip to the West during Jan-Feb. Guess I have the appreciation for the forests that predisposes me to woodburning.
Another predisposition --My dad was an electrical engineer and started burning in the 70s and I've just kept on it.
Cattledog
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27 years in the U.S Army, retired in 03. Train Dispatcher for Union Pacific railroad, work in Omaha Nebraska, hello Wood Doctor.
Small herd of Scottish Highland cattle to keep the freezer full, a couple Scottish Terriers, big vegetable garden, a couple geese a bunch of cats.
Loving life here in Iowa.
Small herd of Scottish Highland cattle to keep the freezer full, a couple Scottish Terriers, big vegetable garden, a couple geese a bunch of cats.
Loving life here in Iowa.
Qsky
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35 Years as an auto tech,got out in '03 Began broadcasting in '94. Now I do that full time Mornings, 6 to 10 am. I heat my house with wood even though we have a new furnace. LP is just so expensive,and cutting wood keeps me in shape.I have a Sthil 029.I haul the wood back in a wheelbarrow and split it by hand. I have 14 rows 4 ft high,22ft long, and I'm working on next year's supply.
Bowtie
Gearhead
My newest occupation is a field service mechanic for a large construction rental service corporation. So far I love it, keeps me close to home. Before that I did bridge construction for 9 years operating cranes and all kinds of dirt moving equipment.
ropensaddle
Feel Lucky
Owner operator of tree service! In the business since 82.
Medical
I work for a company called Putnam Plastics Corporation, which, as of right now is a division of Memry Corp. I am a medical extrusion technician and I work 3rd shift 4- 10 1/2 hour days. I extrude coatings onto tapered guide wires used in surgeries to tolerances of .0005.
The company I work for does all very difficult multi-lumen, co-extruded, multiple compound tubings used for everything from brain surgeries to heart surgeries and much more. We are one of the makers of the lovely catheters everyone loves to hate and IV hoses and tubes for everything from IV bags, oxegen and all the nifty tubings for the rec*** exams etc.
So the next time you are at the hospital or Doctors office... look around at just how many things there are there that use tubings and hoses. It is really pretty surprising how much there is when you really think about it.
On my free time... (yeah right) I love to work around the house or work on the house and cut/split wood.
Of course the Harley takes up some time too... but hey, a guy has to play once in a while right?
I work for a company called Putnam Plastics Corporation, which, as of right now is a division of Memry Corp. I am a medical extrusion technician and I work 3rd shift 4- 10 1/2 hour days. I extrude coatings onto tapered guide wires used in surgeries to tolerances of .0005.
The company I work for does all very difficult multi-lumen, co-extruded, multiple compound tubings used for everything from brain surgeries to heart surgeries and much more. We are one of the makers of the lovely catheters everyone loves to hate and IV hoses and tubes for everything from IV bags, oxegen and all the nifty tubings for the rec*** exams etc.
So the next time you are at the hospital or Doctors office... look around at just how many things there are there that use tubings and hoses. It is really pretty surprising how much there is when you really think about it.
On my free time... (yeah right) I love to work around the house or work on the house and cut/split wood.
Of course the Harley takes up some time too... but hey, a guy has to play once in a while right?
itn
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power plant operator, boilers and turbines.
boostnut
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Jkebx, thanks for correcting me on the Marvin the martian issue. Yeah, I hear you about the latest world record shot. One of these years we need to head back out to Delaware and re-claim what is ours. 
Jkebxjunke
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Jkebx, thanks for correcting me on the Marvin the martian issue. Yeah, I hear you about the latest world record shot. One of these years we need to head back out to Delaware and re-claim what is ours.
The championship has been moved to Bridgeville because the other location was sold to a developer...there was talk of moving it to MD but I am glad they kept it here in Sussex County.
On the Marvin issue.. I have always been a MM nut
I am kinda partial to the local boys keeping the title here at home.. but alas it has not been.. must be too many making 'pie'
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Turn key at a county jail, 12 1/2 years. Climber, sm. tree business owner for 16 years. Never run out of things to do. Very blessed.
P.S.
The high from climbing is better than doing drugs.
However, you can't get it out of your blood.
P.S.
The high from climbing is better than doing drugs.
However, you can't get it out of your blood.
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farmermike
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Correctional officer if you like big words, jailer if you don't. I go by jailer. I also farm about 550 acres of corn and soybeans. A hobby farm around here. Been burning wood for about 20 years, with the price of things it looks like it will be a few more. Luckily I've got about 200 acres of woods to cut from so I don't have any problem finding wood.
SWI Don
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Product Engineer for an automotive supplier. Most of our stuff is on heavy duty diesel engines with some foray's into the light duty (pickup) stuff from time to time. Been doing this for 7 years. Previous to that was designing blending plants for fertilizer both retail and bagging plants. Did some new product design at that place also.
I grew up on a farm and now live on an acreage in a 100+ yr old farmhouse not too far from where I grew up. Grandparents are great, especially when you are travelling and mom has to be at work well before daycare will take the young ones.
My brother is an arborist and got me into chainsaws. I've got an old house that I can't afford to heat with gas so now we burn wood. I started cutting firewood to sell and ended up buying a place that I needed it to heat.
I like doing metal fabrication as a hobby, also some mechanic work and carpentry work. Trying to overhaul an old house 1-4 projects at a time.
Don
I grew up on a farm and now live on an acreage in a 100+ yr old farmhouse not too far from where I grew up. Grandparents are great, especially when you are travelling and mom has to be at work well before daycare will take the young ones.
My brother is an arborist and got me into chainsaws. I've got an old house that I can't afford to heat with gas so now we burn wood. I started cutting firewood to sell and ended up buying a place that I needed it to heat.
I like doing metal fabrication as a hobby, also some mechanic work and carpentry work. Trying to overhaul an old house 1-4 projects at a time.
Don
Jkebxjunke
*Politically Incorrect*
AKA 'money pit'? , insulated like a corn crib? I got one of those.. LOL
