Thread: What you do for a living?

I have been working in machine shops since I was 15 and been a Toolmaker for 28 years now, working at the same manual machine shop. I became an owner in 2005 and its been all headachs and high blood pressure ever since.

Trade Certificate in Metal Fabrication (construction) & first class welding – consisting of my 4 years of apprenticeship in the boat yards in Western Australia followed by 10 years in my trade as an industrial prostitute specialising in Pipe fitting & Welding on construction projects all over Australia.
Settled in Gladstone & spent a couple of years as a Site Supervisor for a construction firm at QAL the Largest Alumina Refinery in the southern hemisphere.
currently & for the past 15 years nearly I have been Downer Engineering’s - Senior Mechanical Estimator for the Central Queensland region,
which covers an area of about ¼ of Queensland with the inclusion of any National tenders that require my help when not busy elsewhere pricing minor maintenance & major multi discipline constructions projects from $1000 to $80 Million in the Oil & gas, Petrochemical, Alumina & Cement industries in our region.

Originally Posted by Tarkus

I have been working in machine shops since I was 15 and been a Toolmaker for 28 years now, working at the same manual machine shop. I became an owner in 2005 and its been all headachs and high blood pressure ever since.

I wanted to be a Machinist in the worst way (pre CNC) spent a year at Trinidad colo. school of Gunsmithing.
Could not make a living gunsmithing,but I learned alot.

straight razors is what I do for a living, restoring vintage razors, designing custom scales, designing and making full on customs as well. prior to this I was a carpenter working in residential construction most of my working life, had a sweet gig working in the field for an architectural firm til I tore my rotator cuff. to keep supporting my wife and two boys I went to work at dunkin donuts...... lets just say it wasn't my cup of joe.... went back to work for myself, started restoring and selling/trading vintage tools and other goods, taught myself to restore straight razors, havnt looked back since. in the near future I will be releasing a production line of straight razors made in the usa.

Originally Posted by JBPilot

As my name implies... I'm a pilot. I fly in corporate aviation.

As long as the JB doesn't stand for Just Barley I am on board...

Me I have done more than I care to think about, including owning a contracting business.
First love was in the kitchen but that was not supporting my young family.
Landscaping, drove OTR, Machinist and model maker, Plastic mold injection, Journeyman electrician and plumber (part of drove me to doing contracting).
Computer programing/software networking and repair.
Now sales

I know it,
I am a whore I go where the money is good and they treat me right.

For the past 11 years, I have been a practicing attorney. Started my career in the Bronx District Attorney's Office as a Child abuse and sex crimes prosecutor. After that, went in private practice and now I am with a firm where I run the real estate practice group, essentially helping companies and individuals buy, sell, lease, develop, etc real estate for investment, residential, and commercial use. Everything from hedge funds investing in multi million dollar buildings to individuals buying their first home. Not quite as exciting as being a prosecutor, but the money is way better and I can sleep fairly well at night without thinking about my witnesses and what had happened to them.

Got a BFA in Ceramics and Ceramic Sculpture from RIT. Took a job with an excavation company mainly as a laborer to pay the bills. Eventually was hired as a plumber and have been doing that for about 14 years. Maybe someday I will try my hand at razor restoration and channel some of my dormant artistic abilities into that.

Originally Posted by pfries

As long as the JB doesn't stand for Just Barley I am on board...

Haha no, not barley or barely welcome aboard!

Originally Posted by JBPilot

Haha no, not barley or barely welcome aboard!

It Munday do I get a mulligan?

Up until recently I was a Japanese English translator and interpreter.

Now, I'm learning something new.