Thread: What you do for a living?

My name is Matt. after I left school at 15 i started in antique furniture restoration. worked at a general store, furniture manufacturing, international missionary work, pulled weeds, picked grapes, loaded grapes, worked at wineries from crushing grapes to filtering wine to bottling, janitor(yes, i cleaned crappers for a living), logged for a few years, carpentry, log house/timberframe builder, back to furniture restoration, lots of boat canvas work. now i am a journeyman mobile crane operator. now that i write it down, I sure have been around and its only taken 22 years...

Wow-Lots of interesting folks on the board. Me, not so much. When I'm not doing black ops for the CIA, I am a photographer for Playboy.

My name is Marc. My first job was at the local grocery store. I had that job into college, until I found that college was not the place for me at that time. I then worked in a few automotive factories and worked my way up to foreman. The economy turned sour and then worked some local factory jobs, silicone molding and poly silicon processing. I had to have surgery and decided it was time for a change. I am currently finishing my first year as a radiography student and could not be happier. One more year to go and I will be an x-Ray tech.

Okay, please indulge my previous post regarding my imaginary careers. I just had my Creative Writing students reading "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty." That said, I have the greatest job in the world. Yeah, I teach high school English at a major suburban high school: English IV (seniors), Creative Writing, and a Mythology and Religious Lit. elective. I also sponsor the school's literary magazine, all that nerdy stuff.

I just do those other things in the summer.

Originally Posted by ScoutHikerDad

Okay, please indulge my previous post regarding my imaginary careers. I just had my Creative Writing students reading "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty." That said, I have the greatest job in the world. Yeah, I teach high school English at a major suburban high school: English IV (seniors), Creative Writing, and a Mythology and Religious Lit. elective. I also sponsor the school's literary magazine, all that nerdy stuff.

I just do those other things in the summer.

I liked writing in school,had a knack for it. I would take your courses.

Originally Posted by 73norton

My name is Matt. after I left school at 15 i started in antique furniture restoration. worked at a general store, furniture manufacturing, international missionary work, pulled weeds, picked grapes, loaded grapes, worked at wineries from crushing grapes to filtering wine to bottling, janitor(yes, i cleaned crappers for a living), logged for a few years, carpentry, log house/timberframe builder, back to furniture restoration, lots of boat canvas work. now i am a journeyman mobile crane operator. now that i write it down, I sure have been around and its only taken 22 years...

The furniture restoration and winery work sounds interesting.

Originally Posted by 73norton

My name is Matt. after I left school at 15 i started in antique furniture restoration. worked at a general store, furniture manufacturing, international missionary work, pulled weeds, picked grapes, loaded grapes, worked at wineries from crushing grapes to filtering wine to bottling, janitor(yes, i cleaned crappers for a living), logged for a few years, carpentry, log house/timberframe builder, back to furniture restoration, lots of boat canvas work. now i am a journeyman mobile crane operator. now that i write it down, I sure have been around and its only taken 22 years...

One of the companies I did heavy haul for was also in the crane rental business. We had hydraulic cranes from 3T to 1000T and conventional stuff as big as you wanted to get. Nothing like Lamson's rigs but we had some monsters. I ran pickers for 'em every now and then when the trucking was slow.

Moving that 1000T hydraulic was quite a show. It took 16 haul trucks, and the rig had it's own dedicated 50T picker. One time just for laughs, we set a 1T Ford dually on the base section of the boom. Wish I still had that pic. Lost a LOT of neat pics before I figured out that hard drives were prone to mess up.

Picked grapes and tended a small vineyard for a while too. LOL

I'm an electrical engineer. For 16 years I worked in a private firm, analyzing high/medium/low voltage electrical distribution systems for numerous nuclear power plants (clients). I changed jobs this year and am now designing electrical distribution systems for (new construction) buildings/facilities.

Today I dealt with plumbing, refrigeration, and coordinated with contractors. Filled out much paper work for the government!
Adjusted a bifold glass door and gave advice on a wood door.
Pushed a bed to storage and returned a couple.
Learned a few things with the computer because I will probably have to relieve a coworker tomorrow.
Set up some new equipment and the maintenance schedules related to them.
Did I forget a few things?
Probably, but you get an idea of my day.
MOST days I love my job as a Facilities Operating Engineer. [Maintenance man]

Variety is the spice of life.