Thread: What you do for a living?

I have worked in catering, sales, retail security and I was an IT technician. I also did freelance software development and am now a lecturer. But I am also training to be a penetration tester.

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I live off the spoils of my wife.

Originally Posted by earcutter

I live off the spoils of my wife.

Well Done My Friend

Originally Posted by entropy1049

Well Done My Friend

Thanks man! My finance Prof. Always said that you could make more money in 5 minutes than working for a lifetime by simply marrying up.

I think he was half joking - I took it to heart.

Mechanical Engineer by education, Electrical Dispatcher by profession. Working on getting into SCADA programming. Plus some network marketing on the side.

The first time through college, I worked in restaurants, poured concrete and did some carpentry in Houston in the summers. Then I taught high school for five years, got sick of it and went back to college. I'm almost done with a degree in nursing, and plan to be an ER nurse.

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.