we all clearly share this same hobby, but what do you do to support it?
i am an electrician of 11 years.
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we all clearly share this same hobby, but what do you do to support it?
i am an electrician of 11 years.
Mechanical fitter. I've spent the last 25 yrs building, commissioning and maintaining ore processing plants in Western Australia.
I'm on disability, double curve scoliosis with 2 titanium rods implanted to my spine, base of the neck all the way down to small of my back with sets of steel wires every 6 inches or so wrapped around my spine and attached to the rods. Its not very nice.
I rob banks.
As long as you keep moving around they'll never catch you.
But if you try it and get caught don't tell em I said to do it.
Earth Scientist - Terraforming, Algae, Spore Dispersal and Fauna's....
Crew chief on H-60 Helicopters. 13 years and counting....
I will retire the first time at the ripe old age of 40.
Software developer for the US Gov.
Carpenter .....
I've been a grocery store clerk (raised in one), a stock boy, a salesman, a University administrator (Director of University Graphics), a convenience store manager (thanks to my upbringing), and always an artist, first in oils and now in fabrics. So I guess I've never really retired despite taking an early SS retirement.
I put on some dirty shabby clothes along with a shaggy wig make myself look as pitiful as possible and stand on a street corner holding a hand written note on a piece of old cardboard that says:
Will work for
straight razor money.
You won't believe how much I make! I have a sneaky suspicion that people are hoping that I'll slit my throat with one so I don't come back! :w
Actually I just retired after 40 years in the grocery business. I've been everything from a stock boy, a cashier, a produce and a meat cutter. I've never really acquired any of the 'ADs' but have slowly purchased what I wanted. I don't have anything really fancy as I pretty much go for function over 'Bling'.
OH! Personally, I think that collecting razors, strops, hones etc is a 'Hobby'. Using and maintaining a straight razor for regular use is a 'Way of Life' :tu
I work as a managing editor in the design department of a pharmaceutical company. I'm also in school working on an MBA so I have more to offer and stick with management. I enjoy the challenge of managing people and solving problems.
Mediaeval historian and involuntary exile from academia, currently working for the Gov't, trying to make things better for some folks by researching some Very Bad Things.
Research pioneer for drinking whiskey, getting up late and rocking chair critic. Retired oilfield. Tc
I have a super fancy job title but the reality is I am primarily a medic for the Canadian Coast Guard
I am enjoying doing as little as possible being retired.
Bob
I coulda been somebody... instead of a bum... which is what I am
I am in educational administration- filling minds of America's future with information so they will become productive members of society:)
Buddy of mine used to always say, "I coulda been a bartender" .........Quote:
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I have done many jobs in my early teens ....... the kind GW Bush used to say ....... "They're doing jobs nobody wants to do" ........ Thank God for those jobs when I needed 'em.
At 19 I became a union ironworker and at 40 I was too broken down to keep at that and I became a professional street shop tattooer.
Retired at 66.
I'm a rocket scientist so contrary to popular belief everything I do actually is rocket science.
40 years IBEW Lineman for power companies. Retired now. Wheeeee! ;)
Lab tech.
I've been working with pluripotent stem cells since 1991.
I spent the last few years almost single-handedly making, expanding, and cryopreserving over a thousand induced pluripotent stem cell lines from 200 patients. For that I was rewarded with being fired when I asked a co-"worker" to stop taking credit for my work. I guess I too should have spent my days on facebook, shopping online, and stroking the boss' "ego" instead of doing my actual job.
Now I am in a new lab converting iPS cells into neurons. My workload is 1/20 of that of my previous job, and I am not allowed to work more than 40 hours a week. I'm working on trying to remember how to have a life.
Below is something my wife and I made. I got a skin biopsy from Nightline's Bill Weir, isolated fibroblasts from it, and reprogrammed them into iPS cells. Then my wife differentiated the iPS cells into cardiac tissue.
http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/vide...s-arm-18253132
bon vi·vant and Gigolo...................
North American Operative for an International Syndicate,,,,, can't talk about it..
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Yup, I'll be growing brains in a while!
Ron, are you sure you wouldn't like to re-phrase that???? :w :shrug:Quote:
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Sorry! :OT:
Nope!
I'm in need of some.
Well then grow some for me too!:rofl2: :roflmaoQuote:
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So what you're really saying is that he was wearing his heart in his sleeve?Quote:
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Thank you, thank you... I'll be here all week. :)
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Computer Support at Clemson University and co-owner of a bioengineering research company.
So by day I install and fix equipment and by night I design equipment for other people to install and fix.
It's a circle of chaos.
Do you have scratch and dent sales???
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Ron,,, have you done this type of work before ?? :shrug:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yH97lImrr0Q
Nope--pretty much just hearts until last month.
Brains are new for me!
Litho printer since 1976
Moved to digital press about 10 years ago ,then redundancy after 14 years &11 months .
Now working for a company processing labels running a 3 colour web that has seen better days.
Finding it very hard work since my cancer treatment & I am counting the days till retirement.
Cheers Paul
Machinist. I own and operate the shop my Dad started in 1954. My first paying lathe job for Dad was when I was 12. I love the work as much now as back then.
I'll give you your cotis back if you give me a new brain. The current brain is rapidly losing the folds.Quote:
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My first job was mopping the floor in my Dad's grocery.
Since then, the work has been much less demanding.
So Kim Stanley Robinsons mars trilogy would tickle your interest then?Quote:
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Surely only when you are at work.... or reading industry literatureQuote:
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