what do you guys do for a living

i am now two years away from retiring and am looking forward to long days of doing what i want. i have been in the construction industry for my whole life. i have always done things on the side also. i have been for the past 20 years doing specialized demolition. if you only want half of your building torn down you call me. i was just seeing what you guys do or want to do in the furture maybe some of us old guys could help you along since we been down most of the roads

radio tower i removed

this how the building looked

the guys cutting the roof off it the edge is 10 stories up

here it is as we are taking the top three stories off

those are brokks they are remote control like playing video games for real this also 10 stories in air

I have been a veterinarian now for 25 years, probably won't retire for at least another 25 lol. Small animal medicine, primarily dogs & cats. Worked for a practice for 10 years, bought my own and later built a new physical plant in 2000.

I've been in residential construction since I was a teenager, going on 11 years now. Doing most of my work as a general contractor these days, but seriously considering getting into building inspection and code enforcement.

I work in heavy fab... I'm a: machinist, welder, fabricator, cnc programmer/operator,  water jet mechanic, and head of assembly.
We mainly built water treatment equipment, clarifiers, thickeners, degritting operations, aerators, and anything in between. We also build filter presses for water processing and mining applications.

We're  job shop, so we get odd jobs too.

I live with my parents, and make what little money I can, buying and selling various things. I'm a student and there aren't any jobs around me. Beg borrow and steal your way through school, that's what my cousin taught me.

You guys make me feel like a bum.

Full time student. Haven't had a job in four years. I make my money selling E30 parts to go to school. Buying a house with the profits. 30% down FTW!

SchizophrenicMC on 04:08:38 PM / 22-Jun-12You guys make me feel like a bum.

rednucleus on 04:25:55 PM / 22-Jun-12You're in school so you are no bum in my world. Stick with it and get a job later that can make you happy in life. I was in school till I was 28, lived with my folks during summer and cooked in a steak house summers. Take it from one of the Old Guys, school can get you far!

StephenG on 04:36:13 PM / 22-Jun-12@ Rednucleus, Is it true what they say about veterinarians spending more time in school than MDs?

Seishuku@ 90% of our work is wwtp work. I would bet I have removed equipment for your equipment to be installed. I bid work east of the miss.river from maine to fla. I am working at about 40 plants at this time. Anything you building being shipped to Pa, MD,Va because I could get pics for you installed.

I don't tell people I do shit plants because of all the jokes. I just tell people when they ask about the smell I tell them "it smells like money to me"

Small world

I work in IT for one of the major midwest hospital sffiliate systems.  We've got affiliate hospitals in both Iowa and IL.  Tier one support level right now, I've got my degree in programming though, so I'm constantly looking for new opportunities.

We run all the EMR systems, hardware leasing, HR services, and all programs and servers for all of our affiliate hospitals.

Nissan Master Technician...GT-R Certified...Electric Vehicle (LEAF) Certified...ASE Master Technician..Advanced Engine Performance Certified...State of Michigan Master Technician...Mobile Air Conditioning Systems Certified.  Been in the industy for about 7 years now and I feel as though I'm in the position that I will maintain until I retire.

Before that I was in school getting an associates degree in automotive technology ...before that I was in the retail game with Target corporation for 7 years.

cutter67 on 05:30:06 PM / 22-Jun-12Seishuku@ 90% of our work is wwtp work. I would bet I have removed equipment for your equipment to be installed. I bid work east of the miss.river from maine to fla. I am working at about 40 plants at this time. Anything you building being shipped to Pa, MD,Va because I could get pics for you installed.

I don't tell people I do shit plants because of all the jokes. I just tell people when they ask about the smell I tell them "it smells like money to me"

Small world

cutter67 on 05:30:06 PM / 22-Jun-12I don't tell people I do shit plants because of all the jokes. I just tell people when they ask about the smell I tell them "it smells like money to me"

I've been doing security armed and armed for about 7 years now and no not that rent a cop bullshit I have dealt with about 95% of what local law enforcement deals with ive done section 8 and section 42 housing also have worked at an extended stay hotel. Right now im a security officer at a small hotel and a bouncer at a bar if you need someone kicked out of place im your guy lol you need someones ass kicked I can do that as well lol I see all kinds of shit from funny as hell to tragic I actually posted a thread with pics of the type of stuff Ive seen. Security doesnt  pay much out here hence the 2 jobs. So im going to become a correctional officer I take my physical background and psyque on the 8th of October. Why not police you ask because ive dealt with enough of them to know that Vegas cops are dirty and that's not an organization I want to be apart of....

Jay on 04:18:27 PM / 22-Jun-12Full time student. Haven't had a job in four years. I make my money selling E30 parts to go to school. Buying a house with the profits. 30% down FTW!

StephenG on 04:36:13 PM / 22-Jun-12@Schizo, he's right. Take advantage of the loans/grants/scholarships and whatever you can get out of your parents now. Its so much harder to go to school later.

I've been working industrial construction the last little bit in the oil field. I've been doing my welding apprenticeship right now, but I'm quitting and continuing on with my automotive apprenticeship, which I also get to deal with high performance stuff.
Not to mention I'm not a big fan of being away from home for 2 weeks straight for work

Massage Therapist since 07 (jan 1)
 Going to get my MD in traditional chinese Medicine hopefully starting next year.
End game is my healing center, been slowly doing the ground work for it for about a year now. Its gonna be huge.....

fyneyoungstunna on 12:34:44 AM / 23-Jun-12Massage Therapist since 07 (jan 1)
 Going to get my MD in traditional chinese Medicine hopefully starting next year.
End game is my healing center, been slowly doing the ground work for it for about a year now. Its gonna be huge.....

Damn all you guys do cool, epic manly stuff...

I go to school part time, I'm a free-lance digital artist (i.e website graphics, logos, t-shirt designs, etc etc etc), and I do automotive repair on the side for friends who don't want to go to shops (my dad has been a nissan master tech since the 70s, all kinds of certs, taught me all I know). I'm also a photographer for hire, a decent cartoonist, a would-be novelist and avid writer, a vocalist in a small acoustic set, and paid to be a social media and advertisement specialist at a locally owned business.

all my stuff sounds so powderpuff next to you guys haha

^ that stuff is pretty cool to, I tried website graphics....... Failed miserably but i did manage to make a Custom background for my Gaia online account years back while randomly fucking with codes.. :P.

I was practically born at the local drag strip and oval track in Sydney Nova Scotia so i am naturally a bit of a motor head. I Spent all of high school in advanced metal fab and the automotive shop, If the teachers wanted something made or fixed they went to me. I was entered into an Automotive Apprenticeship without my knowledge and the teachers sent me off for an interview and i Aced it as i usually seem to do. Got my letter off acceptance a few days later and was told i am one of the most prommising that they have had for the program in awhile, But i got screwed out of it in the end due to the school district fucking up my courses  :devilsidesmile: I dropped out after that.

 I am now taking every chance i get to further my knowledge of the automotive industry and advancing the skill set that i have. I was working in the oil patch for 18 an hour at 13-16 hour shifts as a welders helper (Apprentice), 24 days on and 4 off (2 spent driving to and from camp to home).  I am now working as a production welder. I make shelving, Signs, grocery carts, Luggage carts and anything else that is needed by stores and airports across Canada. Interesting job but at times it is so god damn repetitive

Getting trucks stuck on site all day before dragging them across the site with the side boom is too common
Genie lift is stuck and im covered in mud from dragging welding cables all day


Radio tower we built on site, Telus and bell came out to install their antennas and crap after completion. Then we had cell service :yay!:

Me operating the picker truck, Lifting the flair stack line to reposition it. I also removed that BIG white stack i the pic above behind the tower, Installed new gaskets and put it back in.. All the big oil bosses for different companies there watching my every fucking move and it was my second time operating a truck  :hahanot: not ticketed for ANYTHING (10 minutes of operation the first time by the way)


Me and dad. He is a pipe fitter and i am a welder and my uncle is our site boss..... I am always under fire, I dont mind tho as i did not get handed the job and that just proves it  :straight:


My current job as a production welder. for Loblaws Profit panels- Grocery tilt trucks- end isle display Bases (72X22, 64X22, 58X22 and 48X22)





Wire racks for 7-11 stores


250 Luggage carts for Ottawa Airport, Made some for Cranbrook BC after these

Was an Information technology professional, no one is hiring in Las Vegas on this topic =(
So I am doing tech support for a crappy internet company, till I can find something.

Prolowtone, where abouts were you working in the patch? 24  is a long shift, I coulndnt imagine lol

D-sport S12 on 04:58:11 PM / 23-Jun-12Prolowtone, where abouts were you working in the patch? 24  is a long shift, I coulndnt imagine lol

I started working at a small shop near my house last week, get paid only what they want to give me, mostly for experience and for learning. And i sell s12 shit on here to help keep my s12 on the road as well as sidejobs for friends. its helped keep my s12 driving so im not complaining

Spent 13 years doing CAD and cartographic work for Jeppesen (owned by Boeing).  Was briefly a Border Patrol Agent until health issues forced me out.  Now I am a mild mannered CAD Manager by day for a rail company and design/build/install supercharger systems for aircraft the other 16 hours each day.  For those of you who haven't already checked it out . . .

http://www.forcedaeromotive.com/

couple more picks of what i do

coredrilling 55" hole


what a way to make $29.00 a hour sitting on your ass


you do not want to fall into this tank. it has those "brown carp" in it

Full time student, but got a paid internship contract signed with MAN Diesel & Turbo. They make the biggest diesel engines in the world - primarily used for container ships. 110.000 Horsepower two-stroke monsters. Engines are physically made in China, Korea and Japan, but the design is made in Denmark.

My job will be to implement component standards into the CAD system for the engine constructors, so they can easily find the standard parts necessary for the drawing.

Praizewood on 07:34:29 PM / 25-Jun-12Full time student, but got a paid internship contract signed with MAN Diesel & Turbo. They make the biggest diesel engines in the world - primarily used for container ships. 110.000 Horsepower two-stroke monsters. Engines are physically made in China, Korea and Japan, but the design is made in Denmark.

My job will be to implement component standards into the CAD system for the engine constructors, so they can easily find the standard parts necessary for the drawing.

D-sport S12 on 10:44:40 PM / 25-Jun-12That sounds pretty sweet! You took mechanical engineering?

Yes, that's what I was planning on going to school for hopefully next year, just need to upgrade a couple courses

I deliver pizza's and give business advice to my boss since he never went to school and i'm a junior in the automotive industry management program at Colorado State University Pueblo. Dual Major in Automotive and Business Management.

Im a disposable lighter repairman by day and batman by night.

^^^ Now that is a profession I never considered...
I am an aircraft quality assurance inspector by day, working long term (30+ years) on a government contract. We deal with single engine Cessnas, turbine helicopters, and turboprop transport aircraft. In my spare time (HA!) I inspect and fix smaller aircraft out there to get some mad money and help out some friends. Nice perks at times when I get rides to the proverbial $100 hamburger fly-ins and all. I have been in aviation all my life, actually born on an Air Force base.

lol

too funny, no wonder Cutter wants to retire too!

shark i was Mayor of Simpleton back in the 80's it hasnt changed much has it. we were all trying to live the "Maimi Vice" life back then. i woke up one day and said there was more i could do with a couple hundred dollars than put it up my nose every night and i have never looked back  :yes:

Indepent Contractor at Telektro Mek Innovations. We make a one of a kind Combined Contaminated Fuel Detector. The business was started by Einstein's personal friend in the fifties and is now owned and operated by the founder's 94 year old widow. She is terrifying. Any of you military folk seen a CCFD?

Otherwise, chasing a worthless degree at Ball State University.

cutter67 on 04:46:35 PM / 27-Jun-12shark i was Mayor of Simpleton back in the 80's it hasnt changed much has it. we were all trying to live the "Maimi Vice" life back then. i woke up one day and said there was more i could do with a couple hundred dollars than put it up my nose every night and i have never looked back  :yes:

"i may be stupid but i still love you shark" Mayor of Simpleton.... the miami vice reference was about me and the guys i ran around with nothing to do with you but i can see how i worded it you mistook it.  all is good i hope

cutter67 on 05:44:29 PM / 27-Jun-12"i may be stupid but i still love you shark" Mayor of Simpleton.... the miami vice reference was about me and the guys i ran around with nothing to do with you but i can see how i worded it you mistook it.  all is good i hope

this......



I build 510s 7 days a week in CA atm and then going back to OR to go back to work for Nissan

well looking at all the resumes here i think we could build a great import custom shop. we have fab. men seishuku, tech men taris blue, d-sport we have Jay for parts, Xano to take care of the computers and web site sideways_12 could be in charge of security. Shark could be the salesperson.
 
the problem i am having is rednucleus i guess we would need guard dogs he could take care of them. StephenG could maintain the building because with all this talent we would need a 400,000sqft building and we will really need fyneyoungstunna to give you guys the massage after a hard day of work and lets not forget VG33er to do our t-shirts and graphics

Cutter that is one of the best posts I have read here, LMAO. BTW I hate taking care of guard dogs. 20 yrs ago I took care of some navy dogs and some police dogs - they were all meaner than shit and even their handlers were scared of them. How about I just show up with some really big guns instead of dogs, plus I run a mean bbq. Plus I'm a fast learner, just tell me what to do and I'll take it from there.

^
I also find Cutter's post amusing and clever -- a display of good HR skills.

400,000 sq ft? Sounds a bit big. I'm game though.

i guess im left out of the shop :'( every shop needs a mexican janitor

cutter67 on 02:08:56 PM / 28-Jun-12well looking at all the resumes here i think we could build a great import custom shop. we have fab. men seishuku, tech men taris blue, d-sport we have Jay for parts, Xano to take care of the computers and web site sideways_12 could be in charge of security. Shark could be the salesperson.
 

Well cutter, here is a tough one to fit in your plan... I'm a fish biologist (Ichtyologist) making a Ph.D. in Université de Montréal... I also teach some undergrad classes in ichtyology here in Montreal...

To follow Prolowton's path, here is a picture of me in my working environment....
Here is me with a fellow grad student and a tech from France on the Cascapédia river, electrofishing for Atlantic Salmon parr

I'm the ugly one with the hat biting on the cathode