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So, what do you do for a living?

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In conjunction with "show us your mugg" I thought it might be nice to see what ya'll do to "bring home the bacon".

I currently serve as a state police officer in Nevada. I retired once, became bored, and despite vowing to leave law enforcement, I went right back. I am an Agent of the Nevada Gaming Control Board which is the state agency that investigates casino crime in Nevada.

Think "casino cop" or "poker police" :laugh:

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I work as a welder/machine operator, not so exiting but it puts food on the table :)
 
I thought we had a thread like that, maybe not, if I see it again I'll merge them


I grew up in the restaurant business, bussin' tables at 12 years old. Went in the USAF after highschool, after that, went back to bussin' tables! Ran the family restaurant for about 12 years till I quit and opened up a computer repair shop in '97, stuck with that for about 7 years then started working for others doing computer repair. My current employer has been putting up with me for now on 5 years, doing more network jack of all trades.
 
I work for the local gas+electric utility.i have been in their appliance service business for almost 34 years,27 as an HVAC technician,and the last 7 as dispatch specialist.Our command center lays out the roster and dispatches work to approx. 175 technicians covering central and northern new jersey.I hope to retire in about 4 years and move to northern California,but we will have to see what the economy holds.
 
Well I served 27 years in the Canadian Forces. Started in the reserves as a crewman in the 1 Hussars and then went reg force in the Air force. Medical release saw me become a civvie and I worked in the CF-18 Flight sim. Then went back as a civvie teaching CF-18 technicians. Spent almost a year unemployed and now am the museum curator / operations manager for the Cold Lake Air Force Museum. Waiting to see if I won the competition to get the position full time now.

James
 
Just started my 13th year as a high school biology teacher at a moderately-sized school district in the capital region of NY...
 
Well lets see I had all sorts of odd jobs until I joined the Army in '92 . I served with the 101st Airborne D. Co. 1/187th Inf. Rakkasans as an 11H/11HE9. After I got out I worked autobody in NJ until I moved back up to NY. I was hired by NYNEX telephone company in 1996 we became Bell Atlantic and now we are Verizon. I just finished my 15th year with them as an Installer/Repairman for our copper lines.

Over the last three years I have been working on getting a model magazine together. Model Builder International. We released our pilot/preview digital issue this summer. And, we are now working on other issues to start coming out (fingers crossed) in January. These issues will be paper and digital. This has been a dream for a long time and hoping it all works out !!

Kenny
 
JSteinman said:
20 years as a clinical Orthodontist, the last 17 as my own boss.
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I bet you got an ultimate set of tools dude!

:pp

I got a bag of burs and stuff from my dentist, they work really well but I gotta get over them being used.. :blink
 
Ihave done a few things during my working life

Farm Labourer
Tomato Grower
invoice clerk
Resin Laminator

But the thing I do best is that I am a store detective with 17yrs experience :fencing

Now currently a security attendant for the village where I live
 
Currently I am working on an assembly line putting hydraulic motors for off-road applications together. By trade I am a certified aircraft mechanic. Spent 12 years in the Luftwaffe and also worked as Engineering Tech and quality Tech.
 
I too am a Mechanical Designer...I have a hard time saying that I am a Mechanical Engineer, since I have never been to school
for it...but I do the same thing that those "edumicated" dudes do.

Tom
 
Started working at the age of 10 , landscaping , tree service/removal , masonry , carpentry , till the age of 17 , didn't have much use for school .
I used to cut school to go to work .

At 17 , signed meself into the Army , I won't go into that .

Started working for Ma Bell around 1972 , left in 1974 and built cable tv systems across country .

Got back into the phone company around 1980 , Ma Bell divested and they became New Jersey Bell , then Bell Atlantic , and then Verizon .
Retired in 2008 , became a shipping and recieving supervisor for Kohls , went unemployed for awhile .
About a year or so ago I got a job as a maintenance man [ jack of all trades ] for Barnegat Township schools , fix stuff in 6 schools .
 
I used to work in newspaper graphics, when cutting and pasting involved scissors and melted wax. Finally got my dream job of penciling comic books- worked mainly for DC Comics on Justice League, but also for Marvel, Dark Horse, you name it. The comics market crashed out in the early nineties, so I freelanced here and there, falling into toy design and concept art. Went full-time with blur studio at the onset of 2001- still here doing concepts and storyboards for the the greatest crew on Earth.


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chukw said:
I used to work in newspaper graphics, when cutting and pasting involved scissors and melted wax. Finally got my dream job of penciling comic books- worked mainly for DC Comics on Justice League, but also for Marvel, Dark Horse, you name it. The comics market crashed out in the early nineties, so I freelanced here and there, falling into toy design and concept art. Went full-time with blur studio at the onset of 2001- still here doing concepts and storyboards for the the greatest crew on Earth.


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WTF was that? (besides totally epic!)
 
I currently work as a statistical programmer for a pharmaceutical CRO in the pharmacokinetics field. I use a programming language called SAS to collate data from medical studies and put it in a usable form for the analyst, who is then able to determine what the drug does to the body and what the body does to the drug. In a nutshell, when you take 500mg of Tylenol for your headache, the work I do helps determine that amount of medication.
 
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