Topic: Occupation in the Real World?

[SteveD CB500F]

You can step back and see what you've done.

Not whilst painting a house I hope.

Picture of alltherightpills stepping back off a ladder...

[hoodellyhoo]

While going to school I work part time for this company

What are you going to school for?

I'm working towards being a high school/middle school math teacher. But I keep wishing I could get a degree for working on old bikes. 

[DammitDan]

Just touch a hot header pipe...

It'll give you a degree all right 

[alltherightpills]

Not whilst painting a house I hope.

Picture of alltherightpills stepping back off a ladder...

Ha, ha.  Nope, I've never fallen off (knocks on wood), though I have had my foot slip off of a rung 30+ feet up.  I fell down a couple of feet before catching myself.  After an appropriate amount of cursing and taking a 10 min. break so my heart didn't explode, I went back up and finished whatever it was that I was doing. 

This is one of the several stories from work that I haven't told my wife

[masonryman]

That #$%* ain't funny.

After being a brick layer for some twenty years, I got a spark in my eye the spark had to be cut out after the spark was removed I was sent to work with a patch on my eye but no work restrictions.

 Standing on top of a 8 foot ladder, yes 3 steps above the one that says this is not a step, I got disorientated and fell off the ladder sliding down the face of the wall and hitting my head on a cube of block.


it's to any thing with one eye

[BIKE]

Corporate accounting for a non profit organization.  We do stuff for people that want stuff done and researched (government, auto firms, engineering firms, plastics, pharma....name it).
We also give a lot of stuff, including $, back to the public.

[ProTeal55]

Currently attending barber school here in the city to eventually take over my dad's shop --->

HTTP://WWW.JOESBARBERSHOPCHICAGO.COM

He has been cutting hair for over 40 years, and comes from a family of barbers (so it made sense for me to become one )

[rhos1355]

Hey, pro-teal, mucho respect. I love going to the barber's and having a right good yarn and #$%*. It takes real "people skill" to be able to do that all day. And I bet you're a good scissors and comb man. Too many razor cutters in this area. I once went into the village barber and the first thing he said was "What number cut, sir" whilst waving a buzzing razor around my head. Man, I just ripped off the towel and walked out of there. What's happened to the scissors and comb men??

[ProTeal55]

Thanks for the kind words.
Like I said above it is in my blood. My dad is a barber, his 8 brothers were/are all barbers, my dad's dad was a barber, etc..
So this past June it just hit me to drop what I was doing and go this route. it just made sense to me to get outta the copo sales gig's I was bouncing around from, go to school, and take over the family biz. Also is pretty sweet that I live above my dad's shop, so I think I have everyone beat in the commute world  

[rhos1355]

Mechanical Engineer?? Sorry man, 2 years ago, here in the uk? you could have named your price. Now? crap's hit the fan big time. Can you work in Canada? I hear Bombardier in Canada are looking for graduate engineers

[lynchj]

This is an old post but very interesting, thanks for digging it up again.

I'm a Mechanical Engineer too, I've worked at many companies over the past 28 years. Right now my title is a Senior Analytical Engineer (that means I'm old), I do a lot of stress, thermal, acoustical and fluid dynamics analysis. Regardless of my title I still run a milling machine, lathe and would much rather be welding than sitting at a desk.

[jhasewhite]

Vintage Honda Mechanic,Restoration

[j squared]

Hmmm, that should come in handy ^ 

I am a QA Engineer for a small software company.  I spend my day trying to break software, and documenting my steps as I go.

[myhondas]

Currently:
Aviation Aluminum Tube Driver (Corp. Pilot) 21yrs
Sign Shop Owner 30yrs

Previously:
Steel Mill Dispatcher 1 yr
Law Enforcement 7yrs
Heavy Equipment Operator 2yr
Gas Station Manager 1yr

[oldfett]

I guess I'll jump on as one of the sites "youngins".

I am currently 4/5's of the way through Michigan Tech's Computer Network and System Administration Bachelors course. I recently switched from Software Engineering. I loved programming don't get me wrong I just couldn't stand the idea of sitting in front of a computer for 40+ years and getting Carpal Tunnel by age 25. So I switched.

I have 4 years of experience in the IT world. Started off as a Help Desk Technician and now my job title is IT Professional. Go figure...

[flybox1]

Jurisdictions Project Manager for a Large Home and Commercial Security System Company. Seattle, WA. 5yrs
Asst. Manager, Local Tennis Shop, Avanti Sports.  3 yrs
Custom Fly Fishing Rod Builder. 10yrs. 10-20 commisioned pieces per year.
Husband - 15 years.
Father of 2 boys - 6 and 3yrs.

at the end of the week, i'm tired.

flybox1

[Jerad]

Welder,,, I built semi trailers for a while, then firetrucks. Now I work for a company  that builds pvc coil machines.like for book binding. amongst all the other stuff i do there. I weld on the bosses river boat, run cnc machines and make parts.
basically everything you can do in a machine shop is what I do. My real life I'm in my shop making parts,welding on motorcycle building machines for my shop. 
 

[shacolaid]

RN, I am a neonatal/pediatric transport nurse. We transport infants and children from birth to 21 with respiratory problems to complete organ failure. Have been a pediatric nurse for 19 years.

[pee wee]

operating engineer, moving dirt from here to there.

[alltherightpills]

I quit painting houses at the beginning of the year when I got a new job as an exhibit designer at a natural history museum.  There aren't as many ladders to fall off of, but I am around much scarier chemicals than before.  100 years ago, taxidermied specimens were preserved by treating the hides in giant vats of arsenic.  Which means that almost all of the nearly 100,000 things in the collection could potentially poison me.  Fun stuff

[Sam Green Racing]

Semi Pro drag racer........

























































when I'm not dreaming, I'm a security guard working 12 hour nights:'(

Sam.

[demon78]

Changed to house siding installer.
Bill the demon.

[Motoguy23]

I am a mechanic for transit buses.  

Its the perfect job for the fact that I can make/modify parts on the job and look like I'm working on the buses.  Its almost like I get paid to make my motorcycle.

On the flip side though when I get home I rarely feel like working on my bike because I just got done wrenching for 8 hours.  Thats why I've not had a chance to fix the oil leak on my CB500 and why I still have some wiring to do on my CB360T.  Well money is kind of an issue too.

[Trav-i]

I'm what they call an EVT (Emercency Vehicle Technician) for the county I live in. 

Basically I work on anything that has red or blue flashing lights.  It's actually pretty fun playing with fire trucks and police cars all day.  Althoutgh it doesn't pay much any more I still enjoy it.

[BobbyR]

I am a Technical Trainer for a Railcar Manufacturer. I get to spend my days in the shops with hairy sweaty men, so that is why I started the babe thread.