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Thread: What's your occupation?
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11-24-2008, 06:10 PM #131
I've also done a few things in the short working life I've had (I'm 29 years old).
- When I was 11 I started a lawn mowing business for the summer and got as many as 13 customers at the high point - I kept this going until I was 19 years old.
- ...while this was ongoing, I also worked with a neighbour who was also a master tradesman from England as he was renovating his house (I learned so much, and still put that knowledge to good use). I did that for 4 years (15-19 years old).
- I then worked for a computer parts wholesaler, first as a transport accountant, then as a return to vendor specialist.
- I then worked for a professor at the university I was going to, helping with psychiatric experiments (gave me nightmares) which involved anesthetizing rats, cutting off their scalp, drilling two small holes in their skulls, and inserting micro-pippettes with saline solution into their brain and running electricity through them at distinct intervals recording the effects on the brain (this was apparently MS research). I did that for 8 months, and it nearly did me in.
- I then worked for a home electronics retailer for a few years while putting myself through the rest of my undergrad.
- While working on my graduate degree, I worked first as a research assistant, and then was fortunate to teach first year composition to non-English majors at the university.
- Since graduating, I've been in the public service, doing mostly policy work.
MarkLast edited by Milton Man; 11-24-2008 at 06:12 PM.
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11-24-2008, 08:35 PM #132
So we want to list all occupations now? I'll bite
Anyway, as I previously stated I'm 27 going on 28 in January. I started working for my Dad during summers when I was 9 years old. My Dad was a commercial salmon fisherman on the west coast of Canada. So I deckhanded for him from age 9 to 14. When I was 15 we moved to the praires and I got a job working for a farmer after school, weekends and during the summer months. I got a second job working for the local village mowing grass and doing maintainence when I was 16. The next year the farmer I worked for quit farming so I got a job at the local Sask Wheat Pool grain elevator, I worked there after school, weekends and during the summer until I graduated, then I got a job working at a UGG grain elevator in another town for a few months until I got laid off.
I moved to the city (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) and got a job at CaseNewHolland which manufactured farm equipment. I worked there for five years and did a many things, such as, fork lift driver, assembler, shipper, I ran punch press, iron worker, CNC metal saw, and drill press. I quit there because I just got sick of it and went to work at Hitatchi Canada, where I beveled sheets for a windmill towers, they are very thick (up to 1.5") so they need to be beveled so the welders could weld them. I worked there for a month before I was offered another job working for an oil well servicing company in Alberta. I worked for BJ Services in Red Deer Alberta, they trained me for my Class 1A drivers licence and various other things, and for the next year and a half I travelled all over western Canada operating a Nitrogen Pumper truck. The N2 truck takes liquid N2 at -196 Celcius and then pumps it through a very high pressure pump, then it converts it to a gas with a burner expanding it 700 times it's original volume and making it very energized. This gas is pumped down oil wells with sand to fracture formations or used to clean out wells. I disliked being away from home so much, so I moved back to Saskatoon and got a job with a company that made custom parts for many companies, including several very big defence contractors. I ran a CNC metal roller and a pipe bender for them for 8 months before I decided to get back on the roads again and got a job driving a vac truck for an environmental company, I went over the sloppy details of this job in my previous post. So that's it, quite the lineup.
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11-24-2008, 10:49 PM #133
Probation Officer. For too long
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11-25-2008, 05:32 AM #134
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11-25-2008, 03:54 PM #135
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11-26-2008, 04:53 AM #136
Right now I am a student, almost done with my Commercial Pilot License and will probably start working as a flight instructor early next year.
Before that I worked at a Pratt & Whitney engine shop in Norway as an aircraft mechanic fixing CFM-56 engines (the ones in B737 and a few airbuses.
Cool that it is some more people working in aviation here.
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11-27-2008, 02:13 AM #137
I'm an cowboy-astronaut-millionaire.
Okay, no I'm not.
All of you seem to have such cool jobs, though. Ones where you get to carry guns and drive / fly things.
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11-27-2008, 04:56 AM #138
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11-27-2008, 06:02 AM #139
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11-28-2008, 05:49 PM #140
Hi,
I've been working as a computer analyst for the last 10 years...