Thread: What you do for a living?

I am a CT4 (communications Tech level 4) for Comcast. I install, implement, and troubleshoot bot Residential and Commercial services including security systems. I make it happen. Every home/business has its' own challenges. Just tackle it head on.

Pixel I would like to meet you some , but I'm glad I didn't meet you on that ship! Tc

Great thread Very interesting to hear about everyone.

me: High school - weekends working at my dads firm doing filing, paper shredding etc, and holidays working on a farm - mustering, fencing building and repair, and professional shooting.
University (7 years, 3 degrees (IT, Business & Law) and didn't complete a single one, just couldn't see myself happy doing what I studied for 40+ hrs a week - but wouldn't change if I could do it again, learnt a lot that I use in other ventures), university holidays was back on farms, shooting or fruit picking. After first year of university I worked full time in retail and studied full time.
Since University, business and development, sales, web development and entrepreneur.
Currently, financial services (pays the bills) plus still entrepreneur with new business launching soon
But in saying that, looking for a new change of direction at the moment, something different and interesting, hopefully without having to take too much of a pay cut and under 50hrs a week so I can still launch and run the new venture.

Some of you guys have some lists of jobs but I guess that some of you guys are quite a bit older than I. Makes me jealous of some of your careers.

Currently I work at Wally World. Im a department manager and have been for just short a year now. I am in charge of electronics and sporting goods and toys and automotive.

Before that I was in the Navy. I was a small boat operator (coxswain) and a machine gunner for 5 years. Unfortunately these skills don't help me too much now that I am out and in the civi world. Although sometimes I wish I could carry a nice M240b around walmart with me (I feel a lot less dumb questions would be asked of me then).

Before that I worked at home depot for 2 years as a snot nosed cashier.

Before that I was in high school and worked for my family's tile business as a marble cutter. Probably my favorite job I had. No stress and good pay with an hour and a half of overtime each day and a cash pay check each week.

I've tried to get into my own thing with making beer or liquor but alas the government makes it quite hard to get into it.

Originally Posted by cosperryan

Some of you guys have some lists of jobs but I guess that some of you guys are quite a bit older than I. Makes me jealous of some of your careers.

I am right there with you. Until i see threads like this it is easy to forget the difference in life experience throughout this site. Especially with people of all ages just coming into the world of the SR.

Originally Posted by cosperryan

I've tried to get into my own thing with making beer or liquor but alas the government makes it quite hard to get into it.

I do some of this as well. Beer and wine are pretty easy out here in Tucson as far as the law goes with home brewing but liquor still requires a lot of hoop jumping so i have not gone there... at least not yet anyway.

Originally Posted by cosperryan

Some of you guys have some lists of jobs but I guess that some of you guys are quite a bit older than I. Makes me jealous of some of your careers.

very humbling to see the varying backgrounds. it made me think of a letter a man wrote to an eclectic group of people about 1,960 yrs ago....
"12 For just as the body is one but has many members, and all the members of that body........
19 If they were all the same member, where would the body be? 20 But now they are many members, yet one body. 21 The eye cannot say to the hand, “I do not need you,” or again, the head cannot say to the feet, “I do not need you.” 22 On the contrary, the members of the body that seem to be weaker are necessary, 23 and the parts of the body that we think to be less honorable we surround with greater honor, so our unseemly parts are treated with greater modesty, 24 whereas our attractive parts do not need anything. .........
25 so that there should be no division in the body, but its members should have mutual concern for one another. 26 If one member suffers, all the other members suffer with it; or if a member is glorified, all the other members rejoice with it."
different context but it fits here as well. every one of us fits a purpose and we might think it to be an unglamorous one but without we would all surely notice the impact! AND NOT ONE INDIVIDUAL READING THIS THREAD SHOULD FEEL EMBARRASSED OR ASHAMED TO SHARE THEIR EXPERIENCE. thanks to all of you for being so open!