Thread: How Did You Get Your Job?

Im a lift truck mechanic and have been for 17years officially. My much older brother started working for a dealer ship and use to buy old power pallet trucks at the Ontario food terminal for $500 buck. He would bring them home and pay me $500 to grind off all the paint strip them repaint them and rebuild them. He would then throw in some new batteries and sell them back to one farmers at the terminal. I was 14 when he started doing this, making a $1000 bucks a month in high school was crazy. I was first guy to have his first car etc.
I went to college and got a deploma in electronics. Got a job doing that and hated it. Then got a job as a Lift truck mechanic.

It would be nice to also hear what you do as well as how you got it.

Fell into it waiting to finish school, well recession hit and no jobs came in my field of business economics! So I keep working the job ladder at my job from college. Now I am a senior insurance specialist at a hospital for Mental Health. All my friends for some reason think I am a nurse, that's always a good laugh.

So I get back to the office - I am in corporate sales. I plop down into my chair exhausted after having to listen for hours about the merits of the new line of packaging we are about to launch. My check is on my desk - nice.

I open my check - it's huge! Woot! I didn't have that good a month though - I thought. Looking at the breakdown of commissions, I note we double billed a client.

Bypassing accounting, I walk straight into my bosses office. "Oh David! They'll never know! They are growing so fast they can't remember what they did a minute ago never mind last month."

Effing tool! Not cool! I leave to go to a " sales call" and find the closest coffee shop with a paper! Time to own my own co again me thinks. I scan the business to business section and see veterinary business for sale. Why would a vet put an ad in the paper I wonder? Only vets can own vet clinics where I was - why not a vet journal? It tickled my fancy... so I called. Why not lol?

The guy asked if I had time - which I did - so I jetted over to his office for shear giggles really. We spoke for hours. He was selling the logistics side of a business he had set up.

No resume, no background checks... we shook hands. I drove back to the office and gave my notice.

I'm just waiting for Cangooner's story!

I signed on the dotted line of a Delayed Entry Program Enlistment contract nearly a year before I graduated High School. I left for Basic Training seven days after graduation. I have been in the U.S. Army in one capacity or another since 1995. I am currently a dual status federal technician, meaning I am a U.S. Army DoD civilian at my M-F at my full time job but I am also in the National Guard. I need to be a member of the National Guard to have my civil service job, if that makes any since. I have done a few other things and been a few different places but my specialty is aviation maintenance. I also work for myself on nights and weekends along with my wife and in laws we have a small farm growing Asian produce.

I work at the same company as I did in a former life but doing a different job altogether. Unfortunately, when I left this company 12 years ago, I did my share of bridge-burning and wasn't likely to get hired back. Lucky for me, I had a friend working as the SQA manager in the R&D group. He convinced others to give me a short, 6-week contract for some miscellaneous systems test work. I proved myself over that short time so they extended my employment indefinitely. After about a year, they re-instated me as a FT employee and counted my previous employment towards my seniority which meant I got to rack up an extra week of vacation. Bonus!