What do you do for a living ???

Spent most of my working career as a materials testing technician/inspector in residential and commercial construction(fancy words for watching dirt and concrete do their things), ended up managing that dept. for the engineering firm I worked for until construction collapsed in '08. Was unemployed for about a year, then landed as an inspector for a firm specializing in storm water facility design, maintenance and repair. About a year ago took over duties as safety czar and D.O.T. compliance specialist.
 
You mean where there's nothing between you and the North Pole but a barb wire fence and two of the strands are down! Are you shoveling snow yet?

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Yeah we're about 20min from Canada.. No snow yet and I'll be riding til it does. It's still in the low 70s/high 60s during the day here but cold at night. Planning on moving south next fall so this SHOULD be my last snowy winter.
 
I currently work for the State of Minnesota doing financial stuff (read: working on a computer, having meetings, and wearing a tie everyday :thumbsdown:). What keeps me sane is knowing that I won't be doing that forever. For now, it pays the bills. I'm dealing more with software design now though, and that's more exciting than just pure accounting and finance. I have a degree in finance but should have been a mechanical engineer. I like machines more than numbers.

I was in the Wisconsin National Guard for just over 6 years in the Infantry, and was in Iraq for a year in 2005. That sucked! My unit was a heavy weapons company (big machine guns) so at least that was fun.

I was fixing and selling motorcycle for awhile, then was offered my job back with the state and I took it since the economy sucks and it's a steady paycheck. I have a small side business making wiring harness for the Yamaha Zuma scooter. Between that, my day job, and this site, I keep pretty busy. Not much time to ride or work on bikes anymore :( I think I need to quit my day job :D
I was in The Guard, Infantry, in Iraq in 05, Russafa district down town baghdad FOB Volunteer
 
Resurrecting a dead thread because I wasn't sure if I still did this for a living as I was injured and hadn't worked for the last 3 months, but here I go again, just hanging on the promises and the songs of yesterday, and a retractable lanyard. What the British and the Aussies so affectionately refer to as a "Scaffy"
 
Retyred also.
Past life with Roush, Ford, CMI, Chrysler.
Ford Zeta, modular and GTO/GTP/Trans-Am engines, along with proto Dodge V10 iron block, proto Cummins diesel to gas, Merc Marine
Caddy pace car Allante', Saddams' limo.....blah blah blah.

Chrysler design/dev durability engineer. 2.0/2.4/8.0-8.4 Viper/Hemi 5.7/6.1/6.2/6.4/7.0.

Do I win?

Most fun was mobile mechanic with 90 customers.
Drive around SE Mich fixin cars a year long in parking lots
 
Retyred also.
Past life with Roush, Ford, CMI, Chrysler.
Ford Zeta, modular and GTO/GTP/Trans-Am engines, along with proto Dodge V10 iron block, proto Cummins diesel to gas, Merc Marine
Caddy pace car Allante', Saddams' limo.....blah blah blah.

Chrysler design/dev durability engineer. 2.0/2.4/8.0-8.4 Viper/Hemi 5.7/6.1/6.2/6.4/7.0.

Do I win?

Most fun was mobile mechanic with 90 customers.
Drive around SE Mich fixin cars a year long in parking lots
I once installed an air conditioning unit on an M998, with instruction/supervision. Basically I just did what the civilian mechanic (KBR/Haliburton) told me to do so yeah, you win.
 
Space Age to the Stone Age... A resurrected thread??? :banghead: Hughes Aircraft recruited me when I left the USMC as an IHAWK radar technician in the early 80s, for a dozen years I trained military personell on the FA 18 radar system on shore bases in the US and Canada and on a carrier deployment, worked the TR1/U2 Radar system and married and adopted our daughter. Moved out of Los Angeles post Rodney King and managed a "sand and gravel pit" where I learned to use 6 6011 welding rods where one would do. I semi retired around 50 and did remodels, brake jobs ($25 a corner plus parts) and sailboat/marine service. A sailboat owner recruited me to his Research and Development dept in polymers and my last 6 years before retirement were the best years of working. I was paid the least but had the best job, colleagues, responsibilities and rewards ever.
 
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