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Former NCO in U.S. Army Intelligence (Russian/German linguist/transcriber and instructor)
Former police officer (inner city) and Internal Affairs detective, Baltimore Police Department
Former chef
Currently an IT Project Manager (telecom, government services - Federal, State, International, aerospace/defense, high-tech manufacturing, international trade, health insurance, and mining.)
MAN,some of you guys have done a lot of stuff!Very interesting though.Keep them coming if you haven't posted.Please write out descriptions you would normally abbreviate(acronyms)so that people not familiar with your area of expertise will get a better idea of what you do.Also your age if you don't mind.
Age 47, Police Lieutenant for a large urban PD near NYC. Now retired to due Line of Duty injuries. Major spinal trauma has severely limited my abilities to pursue my many interests-I hold a Commercial Pilot License with Multi-engine and Instrument ratings, I had intentions of flying for a second career but my unplanned "early" retirement and subsequent disabilities won't allow that. I also worked as a Paramedic prior to going into Law Enforcement.
I really enjoy metal fabrication(when able),35+ year guitar player and a razor addict.
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Originally Posted by sinnfein
UAV= unmanned aerial vehicle..aka i fly remote controll planes for the army, 27 years old. hopefully after the army i want to open a brewery somewhere
-dan-
I make shaving soaps, creams and other toiletries for my Gentlemen customers in my home shop and love it :)
Sue
Just turned 46 on Nov 9. I've done the following, oldest to current:
Actor
Lawyer
BMW (boat maintenance worker)
Sailboat racer
Software technical support
Senior Product Manager
Husband and cat herder (ongoing)
Home renovator
Published author
Currently on a one-year sabbatical, working on my ham license and getting active in local emergency response teams.
That's a cool dream Dan. Good luck on opening your brewery!Quote:
Originally Posted by sinnfein
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Originally Posted by Quick Orange
AYE! perhaps you could make a SRP ale! with hints of bayrum
:roflmao
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Originally Posted by Detach
You know, that's not a bad idea! I'd buy it! Kinda like a malt liquor type deal...:shrug:
Mark
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.
Mark
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.
Probation Officer. For too long:rant:
Canadian Forces pilot
:DGood one.Quote:
Originally Posted by loueedacat
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.
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.
You're still young son, and from the looks of the latest movies, talented. You'll get a kickass job I'm sure.Quote:
Originally Posted by Blade Wielder
hey this hat comes off its a fake!! :roflmao:roflmao:roflmaoQuote:
Originally Posted by Blade Wielder
-dan-
Hi,
I've been working as a computer analyst for the last 10 years...:gth
bus driver
bus driver:rock:Quote:
Originally Posted by aroliver59
Hey, thanks. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by bpave777
It seems the kickass jobs go to those with experience, doesn't it? ("Kickass jobs," in this case, being positions that are enjoyable and high-paying, and not necessarily a job which requires you to actually kick ass. Though I'm sure there are a lot of kickass, ass-kicking jobs out there. And they'd probably ask for experience. But even without it, there's probably some ass-kicking test they could put your ass through.) :D
LOL! You'll be surprised with what turns out to be a kickass job. They're not necessarily the ones you think they'd be, and of course it's all what you think it is. For instance if you would have asked 20 year old Bjorn if being an IT Manager would be a kickass job I would have laughed in your face, probably with beer coming out of my nose. However, I love what I do.Quote:
Originally Posted by Blade Wielder
Mind you it took me 20 something jobs to figure out what I loved to do. Also, my training was all on the job. I went to school for Political Science, and thought I'd be an attorney of all things.
Old heavy duty vehicle parts guy and lovin' it.
Lawyer. I wanted to be an organic sperm donor.
Bob
I used to be in clerical/Admin work for the local PD. After that I trained in leatherwork and had a small business with a friend. At the moment my friend and I are currently working towards restarting the leather business again, wooohoooo!!!!!!:D
Diesel Mechanic 28 years.
Train Driver.
15 years as a countryside ranger, 4 as a countryide manager and just finished a years fulltime home study for MSc degree following redundancy. Just about to launch a wee consultancy and go self employed for the first time in my life. Scary and exciting. No great capital outlay required - just me and some insurance! Just as well in this climate.
Real estate sales, leasing and development.
Current occupation: Baptist missionary to the Deaf in Kenya. Previous employments include floor crew, corrugator stacker, and assembler and hydrostatic tester for oil field equipment - all that and I'm still young (26).
First job to last
1970's :
Petrol pump attendant - yes, in the days pre self serve
Motor mechanic
Sang & played Blues Harp in a few bands
Taxidriver
Storeman & packer.
Worked in small goods factory for 3 days - like being in Conan the Barbarian, huge vats of stuff bubbling away..(I was a vegetarian then)
1980's :
More taxi driving
Studied and graduated in Remedial Massage 1985 & Homoeopathy 1988
First black belt in Jujutsu 1988
June 1990
Moved to Snowy mountains
Started my own clinic & dojo
June 2003
Moved back to Sydney
Trading stockmarket - not a real job
Storeman & Packer... quit after a few years of that
Currently at age 53, unemployed & missing my old life in the mountains but still teaching/learning the art & doing a few razor restos etc.
Good luck Makar! It's always cool to hear about entrepreneurs on here.Quote:
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Art Director/Graphic Designer with my own advertising company.
Software Engineer for a heath care provider (seven hospitals).
88m in the US Army for 8 yrs
Martial Arts Instructor for many years (Shotokan Karate)
Bamboo Fly Rod restorer.
Bonsai Enthusiast.
Occasional Cyclist.
after i got out of the army i was a truck driver a job that i still do part time but i am a corrections officer for the state of alabama working in a maximum security prison
Jack of all trades but currently serving the world with spare/repaired parts for Tomra reverse vending machines.
I'm a grunt in the sandblasting and powder coating industry.
I am currently a full time student (Accountancy) and work full time (inventory analyst) for small US based cable company... Comcast. ;-)
I will be 26 later this month