Thread: What do or did you do for a living

Originally Posted by ScoutHikerDad

I appreciate the compliment, Pete-But really, I don't even change my own oil!

Ah fuggedabowdit ! 10 years in the motor game & best thing I ever did was stop working on my own car

Originally Posted by onimaru55

Ah fuggedabowdit ! 10 years in the motor game & best thing I ever did was stop working on my own car

When the Wife hit 50 (She did 6 years before me) I stopped buying cars I have to work on. Nowadays its push the button and cross your fingers it starts, because if it doesn't start, call the tow truck! I will still change the oil but thats about it. But, when the kids pickup dies, I hand him a tool and point while drinking my beer.

Originally Posted by Gasman

When the Wife hit 50 (She did 6 years before me) I stopped buying cars I have to work on. Nowadays its push the button and cross your fingers it starts, because if it doesn't start, call the tow truck! I will still change the oil but thats about it. But, when the kids pickup dies, I hand him a tool and point while drinking my beer.

If I owned a car I could work on I'd probably do some stuff but that 'd have to be vintage like me so I couldn't afford one

https://youtu.be/ii01F1ZFH5o

Before becoming disabled I worked for a screen printing company. We made industrial decals and nameplates. I started working for them shortly before I graduated high school in 1981 and worked for them off and on until December 2005 when the parent company closed the doors on our business. I started out as a floater and pretty well worked in every dept when the axe fell. By that time I was running either a bad boy like the one in the video or a die cutter. I also made local pick ups and deliveries and was the unofficial internet technologies guy.

Air Force medic for eight years before going to college. Surgical technician for a year. Commercial painting for a year. Then, picked up a job working for Budweiser as a brewer essentially doing whatever needed doing. Unloading rail cars, cleaning floors, to operating cookers, kettles, pumping beer. Worked lots of hours, overtime, saved money and retired at 55. Still retired thirteen years later. Doing whatever I want, whenever I want.


Mike

Military highschool...med school...part time sales and service technician for lab medical devices....now certified orthopaedics and trauma surgeon in my first year.
I always liked fixing things from old electronics to cars and restoring razors...now I fix ppl for a living.
Life is hard but fun.