Topic: List your jobs - What HAVE you done for a lviing?

[6pkrunner]

1 -house painter
2 - uncreating and assembling shipped bikes at local dealer
3 - motorcycle mechanic at same shop
4- brewery worker (three summers while at university)
5 - mechanic at Chrysler Plymouth dealer
6 - warehouse worker
7 - truck driver (not semis)
8 -fisheries stock assessment observer
9 - hydrographer
10 - cartographer
11 - Unix and Oracle system administrator/programmer

[ElCheapo]

1) Strip and wax floors at school. (Summer job in High School)
2) US Navy submarine engine room operator
3) Submarine Construction machanic
4) commercial nuclear power plant mechanic
5) power plant maintenance planner
6) Nuclear plant engineer

You keep going like that and you will glow in the dark 

[mennedy]

Okay, here goes:

Farmhand for 2 years. Never been that healthy since!

Bakery Delivery, Baker.

Hotels: Busboy, waiter, dining Room Maitre D', bartender, bellboy (made a fortune!), desk clerk, Night Auditor, Night Manager, Food and Beverage Controller, Manager.

Realtor, house painter, Accountant and Corporate Internal Auditor.

Federal Government (Tax Dept): Enquiries Clerk, Supervisor, Project Manager, Auditor and Audit Trainer, Large Case Collector, Collections Resource Officer and Trainer, Course Designer and Legislative Branch Officer (designed the tax law - a lawyer wrote it), Research Assistant to two Minister's of Revenue and one Minister of Finance and resource person for Speaker of the Senate. 

Semi Retired:
Management and Supervision of 59 short hyper people on a School Bus. I like kids, driving and big vehicles so it is a great job. Too bad it doesn't pay!
Charter coach driver.

A little bit of curbing.
 
SOHC/4 Mechanic. Okay, that is an exaggeration!!! But I would like to be one.

What is interesting to me is that there are only 8 employers in total!

Marty
 

[bill440cars]

There was a reason they called the F4 Phantom II the Rhino 

J79 was sure a cool engine. So much for brakes when you could lock them ..run the engines up...and still take off.

Sure is funny how many folks in Aviation don't look at it as a "real job". 

     kghost,  I had never heard that the Phantoms were called the Rino. I crewed an F4C for 2 yrs. At my next base (Hamilton AFB in California), I crewed an F-106 Delta Dart and while I totally enjoyed being a crew chief, I wasn't nearly as high on the F-106 as I was the F-4. The 106 had only 1 engine (don't remember what engine either) and then there was the F-4, with 2 engines, and the overall design of the F4.

     A few years after I started working for the Army Reserves in Civil Service, I had a chance to go back to the F-4s because the Arkansas Air National Guard was turning in their F-100s for the F-4 Phantoms. I went to see about applying for a crew chief job, by talking with the Maint. Chief and he said he'd like to have me but, he had just hired 2 crew chiefs in the previous 2 weeks and wouldn't have an opening for about another year. In the meantime, he wanted me to go ahead and join the Air Guard so I could be refreshing my skills and be ready when the next position came open. Only problem was, being a "Dual Status Civil Service employee" if I left the Army Reserves, I would loose
my Civil Service job. Like I could afford to do that. Later (after it was too late) I found out that if I had just gone straight to the personnel office and filled out an application, I would probably have gotten the job and I could have retired doing that very job. I just couldn't believe it. I would have jumped on the chance to crew an F-4 again. Oh well, that's life.

                                                        Later on, Bill 

[ElCheapo]

Rumour has it you could shoot it (F4) full of holes and it would still get home.  Redundant EVERYTHING. Sort of like a Klingon 

[mkramer1121]

1) Bagger @ a local grocery store
2) Fast Food Crew Chief
3) Swimming Pool Installer
4) Meeting/Concert Setup/tear down crew
5)  Batteries Plus Associate/Tech
6) Electrical Assembler
7) Electrical Design Engineer

[bill440cars]

              When I was stationed in Japan, we occasionally would have Marine F4s fly in, on their way to another destination and I have to tell you that their planes were a mess! They had leaks that would have the whole underside of the plane covered with hydraulic fluid and dirt. They were really ragged looking planes. No way would we be allowed to let a plane go like that nor would our pilots agree to fly one that looked like that. I have heard though that the F4 could have some pretty good damage and still fly. We had one once that got hit while we were in South Korea and he was thought to have been fired upon. Come to find out, while doing strafing runs, he went just a bit too low and caught a ricocheting round that came into one intake, bounced off of the variable intake ramp and came out through the side of the intake itself. We had one that the nose wheel wouldn't lock into the down position. So, he flew around (to burn up fuel), the runway was foamed, the pilot flew in on the main landing gears with the nose up and gently lowered the nose at the last moment. They had to replace the radome (Black nose piece), the structure ring (that the radome attaches to)
some of the structure right behind the ring, those panels and do some repairs to the radar itself.

                                                              Later on, Bill

[calorchard]

Farrells ice cream parlor soda jerk
Minister
NHLA Hardwood inspector
Construction worker
Maintenance worker at University of California
18 yrs. Husband
17 yrs. Dad

[pete75]

Paper Boy
Farm worker
Stator Winder
Refrigeration Engineer
Town Planner
Computer Programmer
Systems Analyst

[Jinxracing]

Graphic design assistant (age 8-14 my Mom's business...never paid taxes, hope they don't come after me for that one
Paper boy
Box boy
Coffee schlepper/ice cream scooper/busboy
Gas station attendant
Unisys computer assembler
Shipping clerk
Cab driver (2 years...not much fun)
Limo driver (2 years...much more fun)
Audio mastering engineer (still do it freelance)
Flower delivery driver
Flower buyer/shop GM
Graphic designer
Songwriter/ne'er do well musician

[BobbyR]

Drug Store Clerk
Bus Driver
Shoe Salesman
Audio Salesman
McDonalds Manager
College
UH-1 Slick & Gunship Driver (Warrant Officer 1st Air Cav)
County Police Officer
More College
Program Manager for High Tech Corp
Retirement
Loan Officer
Training Manger for Rail Car Builder
Looking forward to next Retirement

[Roach Carver]

this entire list and not one fluffer. I find that hard to believe

[ElCheapo]

I did not fluff at all. On some of them I wish I had. 

[ic455]

1.Dishwasher/food prep
2.assembly line @ Briggs&Stratton
3.Jiffylube pitman
4.order picker at drug warehouse
5.assembly line @ Mattel toys
6.bottle checker @ milk processing plant
7.carpentry/painting
8.welding slave (making commercial bread racks)
9.Auto Mechanic (1st job in the field, at a little pissant shop)
10.Auto Service Tech (2nd job in field, immediately following above, in a Hi-Line shop.  You could call this my apprenticeship.  Most fun, too, vehicles I worked on/drove included Ferrari, Porsche, Bentley, Hummer, Mercedes, BMW, Volvo, etc.  Best was Dodge Viper RT/10 and Porsche Carrera)
11.Handyman (carpentry,plumbing,painting,landscaping,etc.)
12.Truck driver
13.College
14.Restoration/body shop
15.Commercial door and hardware installer/repairman
16.ASE Certified Technician
17.Self-employed ASE Tech (not so good)
18.College again
19.Bulk mailing worker
20.Partner in Auto-repair shop (partner sissied out on me)
21.Class 8 Truck Mechanic
22.Flatbed driver
23.Class 8 Truck Mechanic
24.Parts/data entry/local driver at Class 8 truck shop
25.Truck driver
26.Fertilizer truck driver (converted class 8 road tractor)
27.Frozen food handler (material handler)

Became a Dad just after #16, and again after 17, which is the best of all

[medic09]

Happy B-day, Seaweb.

Welcome, Tom.

lawn and yard work, including driveway repair, etc.
camp counselor
busboy/dishwasher
retail sales, clothing and shoes
worked a stint making backbacks for Cannondale in the 70s after school
farmhand on kibbutz for a few months, worked in the fields and turkey houses
translator rewriting papers prepublication while in college in Israel
student and instructor, seminary
airborne infantry rifleman Israel Defense Forces, combat medical specialist small team operations, evacuation medic, armoured infrantry reconnaisance company medic
civilian medic, Magen David Adom Jerusalem and Kiryat Shmonah
school teacher religous studies
rabbi
paramedic and EMS crew training officer
flight paramedic
long time husband, less-long time father 

[ElCheapo]

B-day for seaweb?

Was b-day for me on the 12th  Anyway happy b-day. 

[ic455]

My son's was the 6th, wife's is the 24th

Happy Birthday November people!!

[seaweb11]

aaaahhhhhh thanks guys. Just going upstairs to open presents. I know one of them is from the Honda dealer.
Ha,Ha, they called me to come in to PU my stuff twice!!!!!
I didn't order anything  , I just left them on the machine for the wife to listen to.

[GoatBaSS]

long time husband, less-long time father 

And that there is a lifetime career, regardless.
Is the Israeli army mandatory for everyone like I have heard it is in Switzerland? How long must you serve?

[ElCheapo]

New Job:

Annoy and offend only the people who have thier button on the complaint button here just by breathing.

5) Posts that are inflammatory in nature will be deleted.  If you have a problem with the forums, contact the moderators; if you have a problem with a member, send them a PM.  If your reason for coming here is to provoke argument, you will be asked to leave.

I guess some people have a hard time with directions. I have never recieved a IM for a complaint - nor am I looking for a fight. 

[medic09]

long time husband, less-long time father 

And that there is a lifetime career, regardless.
Is the Israeli army mandatory for everyone like I have heard it is in Switzerland? How long must you serve?

The laws are changing some now.  In my time, nearly 30 years ago, men served a mandatory 3 years and women 2 years.  More if you were in a special unit that requiredit.  After that reserve duty till age 52.  Reserve duty was supposed to be 42 days/year; but if you were in a special unit/position and you wanted to stay there, you agreed to do more.  I typically did as much as 90 days/year split into two or three stints.  Reserve duty for combat troops usually meant operations in the field more than training.  There's unfortunately always something to do.  Typically, combat troops found their duties modified once they got into their forties.  No more jumping out of planes, or something of that sort.  Pilots were a category unto themselves.

Tom, I don't know specifics, but I always heard that F4s were nearly indestructible.  When I was in south Lebanon in the 80s, IAF still flew ground support with an active F4 squadron.  Awesome planes.  Israel Military Industries may still be building upgrades for other countries.  Another old, indestructible plane that is still used well by IAF is the C-130 Hercules, or Karnaf (Rhinoceros) in Hebrew.  *That* is an amazing aircraft in terms of durability and longevity.

[Jonesy]

Lesseee...

Paper Boy
Dish Jockey (Dishwasher)
Professional Small Engine Mechanic (Briggs, Honda and Stihl Certified)
University Dyno Cell Operator (Maintain engines and run them for Grad students)
Machinist Assistant
Small Engine/Outboard Motor/Motorcycle mechanic (On the side)
Design Engineer (Current)

[bill440cars]

Tom, I don't know specifics, but I always heard that F4s were nearly indestructible.  When I was in south Lebanon in the 80s, IAF still flew ground support with an active F4 squadron.  Awesome planes.  Israel Military Industries may still be building upgrades for other countries.  Another old, indestructible plane that is still used well by IAF is the C-130 Hercules, or Karnaf (Rhinoceros) in Hebrew.  *That* is an amazing aircraft in terms of durability and longevity.

          Those C-130s are liable to be around forever! Seems like they just keep updating them and keep on flying them.  They've had a variety of missions too.

                                                 Later on, Bill

[cben750f0]

have been a production machinist(fitter and turner). worked in maintainance at a large rice mill.... worked as a heavey turner at a forge, which was cool, and now am studying applied biomedical science at uni, as a bridging course for chiropractic., am hopeng to find out in the next 4 weeks weather i got accepted to the college i was after in New Zealand..... here are some pics of me at work

[bill440cars]

              Hey cben,

                       That lathe, in your 1st picture, is pretty humongous! Think you could turn out some
              swingarm bushings with that baby? 

                                                  Later on, Bill