As it says in my profile, I'm a veterinarian. My wife and I own a mixed animal practice in northern Kentucky. The real reason I posted on this thread though is I am amazed a thread can be resurrected after over six years with no replies (between post 217 and 218). V8Buick is alive. (Plus it gave me an excuse for a 200th posting, so WTH)
Mainframe security.... boring, but it pays the bills. In my previous career I was a tool and die maker. o No:
I'm an optometrist, all you guys working without safety glasses keep me busy (when I'm not surfing this sight!! no pun intended!) Tom
Union Representative for United Food & Commercial Workers Union, Local 919. Large retail workers union in Connecticut. People either love the union or hate (loathe) the union, but I am proud of the work we do everyday for the improvement of our members lives! Besides, help pay for my Buick disease!!
Chemical process reliability engineer for the largest Silicones producer in the world. We make caulk....tons and tons of the stuff. It is a pretty cool job, most days. My second job is a father/husband and handyman. My wife thinks I use caulk to fix everything....she's probably right.
I am a pimp. Got 20 hoes working full time for me. They average $1000 a week each which comes out to $20,000 a week. A quarter of a mill a year aint bad for an un educated street looser like me in the depths of Miami. o No:
Auto collision tech, Pretty much anything to do with repairing crashed cars i can do frame straightening, panel replacement, mechanical ,prep, paint ,assemble,.Restoration love it been doing it since i started hanging at my dads bodyshop at 9 10 years old.Obviosly not back then but watching and asking questions was my job until i was old enough to take on tasks of my ownfinished my first resto at 17 70 442 w 30 been at it ever since. It doesnt pay as much as i would like but its a living. 2nd job well first really being as good of a husband as i can!
wow how a few years can change things.... formerly we both were in the commercial printing biz..... after closing the shop in 04 Beth went on to become office manager, product procurement specialist and head PHD babysitter for a cutting edge bio-informatics company>>> www.integratedgenomics.com I worked as a pressman for a couple Printing Companies (sucked) till I changed careers and talked my way into a service writer position at a successful independant auto repair shop>>> www.866carcare.com As with underwear.....change can be a good thing:TU: D & B
Been working for the same printing company since 1982. Done everything here from estimating to customer service to purchasing to plant manager. Not sure what I want to do when I grow up, but pretty sure it will involve loud V8 engines.
Chief Financial Officer of our family-owned trucking business and just regular-joe Financial Officer for our other family-owned trucking business. Lots of computer time where I work - just check the times of my posts. :laugh:
Retired Marine who does transition counseling for people getting out of the military, mostly Marines with a few sailors, a sprinkling of Army folks and the occaisional Coastie. Great job, great boss, great clientele :TU:
I was employed by the U.S. Government for 38 years. Twenty as an instructor in the Navy's Electronic Technician school at Great Lakes, IL, eight as a technical writer for several naval trade schools, four as an electronic technician at the Army's Yuma Proving Ground in Yuma, AZ, (Ballistics Measurement) and six as a Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training Representative for the U.S. Department of Labor, assigned to Davenport, IA. I set up and monitored apprenticeship progams in the skilled trades that were registered with the Dept. of Labor. Lousy pay but decent benefits. Retired in 1998.
I was previously a firefighter and a bank manager.now i am a parttime fisherman and placer miner.....But the best job i ever had was being dad
" We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. " George Orwell. Military. Deployed. A lot.
