Thread: MEMBERS OCCUPATION/CAREERS

Former Naval Radioman 1986-1995 until I blew out my knee. I drove Tractor Trailers over the road for Werner, then drove local in Jacksonville hauling tankers for 6 months, until the Post Office called. I'm a disabled war vet, so I got in quickly. I work in Plant Maintenance, riding a desk now. I do mostly purchasing, I'm also a qualified Mechanic, Safety Specialist with OSHA quals, and Scuba Diver..

Fascinating collection of professions! Mine is somewhat mundane though. Started as an air traffic controller and controlled airplanes at 5 different locations in the US in control towers, approach controls, and Centers. Then transferred to our HQ where I did heavy concept development on a number of things including a portion of the air traffic system we use today. After that I went over to the "dark side" (management) and managed a number of ATC facilities in the western US. I currently manage an Air Route Traffic Control Center out west (they're the facilities that control you when you're up at cruise altitude - called "centers"). In my spare time I own a web hosting and design company as well as own a few little businesses that sell coins, art, and other things. But mainly I feed my RAD :-)

I've been college professor (finance) since 1983. Started out in public accounting and decided to go back to school to study the financial markets.

Hi! I'm Khaos and I'm an alcoholi... whoops wrong support group.
Let me try again. What I meant to say is that I'm a frat bo... whoops.
Third time lucky. I am a engineering student/varsity athlete/social chairman at Cornell. There we go. That sounds respectable.

I have the exhilarating pleasure of drawing HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning) circuits for hotels, schools and shopping centers - anything big that needs mechanical ventilation and can afford the project.

Don't be fooled into thinking it's interesting in any way. It's monotonous precision work that has impossible deadlines, while in constant pressure from boss, clients and coworkers, to produce an accurate concept and deliver cheap and effective solutions.

I tell others I do it for the challenge - cause the pay stinks.

i was a fisherman for 38 years fished 3 diffrent states and central america, i loved it then the states did away with all the nets and i started driving trucks for 11 years , then hurcians hit us realy hard and when i got through rebulding ,i falied the dot helth test. high blood presure and copd. now i rebuild stright razors, so typing and spelling after 50 so years is verry hard to do .

I told my mother while I was still in high school I would never retire; I get bored to easily. I graduated college in 1991 and here is what I have done: U.S. Army, bounced at a bar, managed a pizza place, served as a Deputy Constable, worked as a nuclear missle motor technician; and most recently I worked as a Adult Probation Officer for the past few years. I just quit, cashed-out my public safety retirement, sold back my 328 hours of vacation and entered into the Arizona Heart Institute's School of Cardiac Ultrasound.

If this were a few hundred hears ago, then I might be a gipsy.

I just finished a degree in construction engineering, now work as a construction manager on commercial projects.

retired musician.

I'm a college graduate who's trying to start a career as an actuary.

But for now I just fix computers.