Thread: What Do You Do/What Did You Do?

I realise there was a thread on this. but it seems a bit old. I also realise the existing thread is in 'General Shaving Related Discussions'. However I'm 'piggy backing' on the 'How Old Are You' thread in this sub forum. But I've wondered lately what the present active members do or did for a living, etc. I've been intrigued by some of the SOTD posters, who appear to have very interesting (and mobile) lives. So...

After leaving school I spent 8 years in a rut as a shop assistant in a sports store; surfing, lifting weights, driving my 'hotted up' Ford TC Cortina and smoking dope.

Second job was ten years in the Australian Army; two spent as a Recruit Instructor, most of the time spent working on Surface to Air Missile Systems; the last three years as a Sergeant in Charge of a missile system.

Third job was teaching computing at 'TAFE' a sort of higher education college system we have in Australia. That led into my current role as an Prison Education Coordinator, currently in a Women's Prison.

So, what do you do and what DID you do?

(PS, if mods think this is on the wrong spot or it's a repeat of the previous thread, of course feel free to delete/move it)...

This thread sounds pretty interesting.

I put myself through university (the first time) swinging a sledgehammer and a welding torch for the railroad every summer. That was a great way to stay in shape and forget about exams.

After university I decided I didn't want to work in my field so I trained as a chef, got my college papers and my journeyman's papers, and moved around for a bit working in some not so great and some great places. I did that for just shy of a decade.

Then I realized that one of the things I liked most about cooking was teaching the apprentices. So I went back to school again, this time to get my teaching degree. I had every intention of teaching high school culinary courses. The only snag was that I got into an elementary education program. No problem, I told myself...I'll change my credentials when I get out. My placement classrooms were Gr5, Gr3, and K-2 gym and Music. I loved them all. I haven't set foot in a high school since actually attending high school.

Now, I teach grade 1, and I love every minute of it.

I am a Chemist and check out bottled water, water filters and dietary supplements. I also officiate wrestling at the high school and middle school level. I also teach a boot camp for new dads to be. I am currently schooling for ordination in the Church of the Nazarene. I coached wrestling for 12 years, worked lawn irrigation, lawn-care and landscaping, plowed snow, delivered laundry, worked at Arby's, worked at Ford, and worked at an outdoor 3D archery range...

I attempted to attend Virginia Tech, but I found it to be a bar with a rather expensive cover.

Since then, I wound up doing payroll for a large national corporation, and earned various certifications in that discipline. I'm now ventured into Human Resource Information Systems, (analytics and data integrity), and loving it

I spent 20 years in the tobacco industry during which time I finished my degree in Biology from Indiana University. After leaving the tobacco industry, I took classes to learn the computer industry and am now an Ambulatory Services Engineer. I do security and training of physicians in a local hospital. I love this job, as it gives me an opportunity to work closely with physicians, as my father practiced medicine for 56 years.

Left school and spent a year assembling car batteries and helping with general maintenance to earn some money for study.
Trained as a physiotherapist (physical therapist to you in the US) and spent my holidays back at the battery factory.
11 yrs as a physio doing mainly musculoskeletal work and a little acupuncture.
Been a full time paramedic for 8 yrs now and loving the variety - though I'm constantly amazed at some of the things people will call an ambulance for. Common sense is a very uncommon thing these days.

When I was younger I was pretty good with computers and tinkered with them as a hobby. However, I had always been fascinated with flying and aviation in general. In my early twenties I earned my ratings for Single and Multi-engine land and instrument airplane and getting an Associates degree in Commercial Flight and Air Traffic Control. but I ended up losing my medical. This took the winds out of my sails and my twenties are what I term a lost decade, filled with odd, dead end jobs.

When I turned thirty some light bulb turned on and I started working more professional jobs. I had lots of accounting in school (only community colleges) and used that to my advantage. I eventually received work in an IT department for a large corporation, got married, and decided I needed to get my four year degree. When that corporation closed the plant I was working at, I continued on my degree while working odd IT contracting jobs to stay afloat. I'm glad I stuck with it. After some time, I finally landed a permanent developer position.

When my mother-in-law became ill we left SoCal for Indiana and I found a job as a developer supporting various customers; my largest is supporting a financial system for an Army command. I recently received my Certified Government Financial Manager certification, which marries my IT skills nicely with customer needs. I plan on starting my MBA in August and I do disaster action team support for the Red Cross, providing support for small disasters such as house fires.

I'd like to get back into flying again one day. One of my buddies flies a time-share aircraft for high-end customers, but he doesn't seem to like it now. They always told us in college that a vocation in flying can mean living the life of a trucker, always gone from home and tough on marriages; and my friend says that's just how it is. I had always wanted to be a crop-duster myself.

I'm happy and so is my wife. Life is good.

Moved this thread from 'shaving with a straight razor' forum , to the 'conversation' forum. Started out as a union ironworker as a teenager and did that for twenty years. Intermittently was a carpet installer for the last few of those years when iron was slow. I've been a professional tattoo artist for the past twenty years.

im a student in 11th grade still, i work on a farm during summer and during butchering time, i just got a job at one of my grandfathers grocerie stores i start that after the holidays are over, I have been workign with a recruitor and as of july 26th (my 17 bday) i will be a fully enlisted soldier with the us army, and they will pay be to finish school (150 a month) and after graduation they i will go active duty. I hope to make a career out of it.

This is a cool thread! As for me, I spent 4 years working at Steak N Shake restaurants, eventually progressing to Assistant Manager. Helped open new stores all throughout the midwest in the early 00's. Spent the last few months in some very poorly run stores, and eventually quit. Worked a few factory jobs for the next 4 years. Spent another couple years at Steak N Shake scraping(non supervisory). Joined the Army, went to Iraq twice, Afghanistan once (7 years total). Became qualified for carpentry, emergency response, level two weapons maintenance and airborne operations while I was there. Leading soldiers was just about the greatest experience of my life so far. Had to get out though. Too many hours in body armor, and too many bad parachute landing falls created a spine that's a little unserviceable. So now I'm studying to be an Electrical Mechanical Tech, with an emphasis in wind power. The GI Bill is paying the bills while I learn my next trade. But I also do maintenance for my landlord, some light duty carpentry jobs, and Habitat for Humanity when they call.