Thread: What you do for a living?

Electrical engineer. I test the flight recorders that they take out of plane crashes. They're called 'black boxes' but they're really orange.

Originally Posted by pfries

It Munday do I get a mulligan?

Haha sure thing! All in good fun!

Started out at age 6 pulling a wagon along the streets with my little sister, collecting pop bottles, wash them off with a hose, sell them to the fish market at refund price 2-5 cents.

Got sent to the mountains, snatched golf balls, sold them back to the golfers.

Washed dishes in a pub, age 12, in Blowing Rock, N.C.

Had a car for hire/transport age 16, got caught trying to outrun the Feds when I drove off the side of the mountain on the Blueridge Parkway age 17( thought I was a better driver & had a faster car, neither turned out to be true ). They claimed I was running corn liquor, but they found no proof of that.

Spent a few days in jail.

Judge gave me a choice of the Raleigh Penitentiary or the Marine Corps, I choose the Corps.

4 years as an electronic tech on cryptographic equipment.

25 years as a police officer in South Florida.

Retired, raising a good son & spending the weekdays assisting hockey & archery moms with chores around their houses.

My father was a mason in the mid 70's and started his company with my uncle in 1983. The term started a business is pretty loose as they had to rent their first wheel barrow and shovel because they couldn't afford to buy them until they got paid. I got drafted/tricked into helping on my summer, winter and spring breaks from middle school through high school. Kind of loafed around like any other daddy's boy working for family, until we had our first boy. Then I took it serious, honed my craft and really started to enjoy it. Regretfully then I had to hang up my trowel and level to learn the estimation part of the business. Learned to read blue prints, specification books and complicated contracts. Currently getting some guidance from a veteran contractor who retired in estimation of natural shaped stone. In my masonry career I have learned the fact that there is a great deal more to a job than what you are doing. There is always more to know at what you have chosen as work. When I'm done with my part time eight to nine hours I give to the company I go home and wrestle two little monsters until its time for bed.

Currently teach part time at an University, and work part time at a private company (after the end of the semester full time).

Originally Posted by Hirlau

Started out at age 6 pulling a wagon along the streets with my little sister, collecting pop bottles, wash them off with a hose, sell them to the fish market at refund price 2-5 cents.

Got sent to the mountains, snatched golf balls, sold them back to the golfers.

Washed dishes in a pub, age 12, in Blowing Rock, N.C.

Had a car for hire/transport age 16, got caught trying to outrun the Feds when I drove off the side of the mountain on the Blueridge Parkway age 17( though I was a better driver & had a faster car, neither turned out to be true ). They claimed I was running corn liquor, but they found no proof of that.

Spent a few days in jail.

Judge gave me a choice of the Raleigh Penitentiary or the Marine Corps, I choose the Corps.

4 years as an electronic tech on cryptographic equipment.

25 years as a police officer in South Florida.

Retired, raising a good son & spending the weekdays assisting hockey & archery moms with chores around their houses.

Oh My john, your a felon? so am I,spent two days in Jail,145MPH in a 55 zone, 79 twin turboed gail banks vette.
Tried to out run the law and I actually Did to a point,could not outrun the radios Reckless Diving, indangering the public, resiting arrest.
That debacle cost me ten grand

I've had the dubious privilege to work in telecom my whole life. Some of the companies I've worked for you have heard of and others not. When I first started it was all about delivering dial tone to customers and now it's all about data. God only know what it'll be like tomorrow.

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

Oh My john, your a felon? so am I,spent two days in Jail,145MPH in a 55 zone, 79 twin turboed gail banks vette.
Tried to out run the law and I actually Did to a point,could not outrun the radios Reckless Diving, indangering the public, resiting arrest.
That debacle cost me ten grand

No, I'm not a felon,,,chose the Corps,,,so I got a misdemeanor juvenile past,,,,,

Originally Posted by Hirlau

No, I'm not a felon,,,chose the Corps,,,so I got a misdemeanor juvenile past,,,,,

You are a very dangerous Man

I thought I was, till I got to jail,,,,cried like a baby the first night,,,