What is your occupation?

[hawg chaser]

Cattle buyer

 

[scooter1954]

Neil Miller, this took longer than I intended, but here's the pic of my custom walking stick. When I checked in to my office in Okinawa circa 1992, when I was 1st Sergeant of Lima Company, 3/2, the prior occupant had left me a carved 5' walking stick of bishopwood, a HARD wood found in Okinawa.

I cut it down bit, then adorned it with a Marine Corps emblem, and my rank insignia. It has an oblong leather covered ball on top, seated in a cow vertebrae, on top of the stick which was carved to show my unit and rank. It is one of my most prized possessions, along with my grandfather's pocket knife.

 

[pcmacd]

Sorry guys, I forgot this in my occupation. I occasionally get work as a butt model. Very good work

I've a degree in Mechanical Engineering.

I worked at Hewlett-Packard for 25 years.. Before that I worked for six years in mechanical test labs, and before that a couple of years at Hughes Aircraft, analyzing the vibrations of the infrared optical sight for the M1 tank and some satellite structures.

All of our sales people @HP were electrical engineers who did not truly grasp mechanical applications, so they dragged me along to sort out the application, recommend a solution, and teach the customer how to use it after the sale. It was an outstanding job, and HP was a joy to work for.

I got retired at the age of 56 and never looked back!

 

[pcmacd]

I have been working in the transmission business since 1983. Vehicle transmission that is. I have been doing it long enough to not like vehicles. I used to love working on vehicles. And very glad that I did not become a gynecologist.

Or, as Archie Bunker would have said, a "groinacologist?"

 

[Upsidedownjack]

ReTired and a Blessed pain in the, Butt, you understand!walking Stick's. Be stylish walk alongside your Wife/woman (outside by street!)

 

[Mrvmax]

Spent 4 years in the AF in the early 90's as an EOD tech (Explosive Ordnance Disposal - i.e. bomb squad) and that translated into very little once I got out. I was hired as a Process Operator trainee in 95 in the chemical industry and I have been there since then. I have been a Process Operator, Process Analyzer tech, Maintenance Team Leader, Project Manager and finally, where I am now, a Reliability Specialist specifically for Process Analyzers.

Thankfully analyzer techs are in high demand now since a great majority that were experienced across the industry have retired. There is even more demand for people like me with greater than 10 years experience in the field (I have over 20). So, I am paid well and have pretty good job security.

Anyone living close to chemical plants or refineries can consider the trades. There are trade jobs that are never going away and offer great long term job stability,

Oh, I am also a bi-vocational Pastor and do that in my "spare time" (whatever that elusive concept is).

 

[jamie eaton]

I'm just a sweaty old carpenter trying to scratch out a living for the last 36 years .

 

[Mrvmax]

I'm just a sweaty old carpenter trying to scratch out a living for the last 36 years .

A good carpenter is hard to find and a great skill. Anyone can hammer a nail into a board, when it comes to building properly that is another story.

 

[Outdrmn]

I'm just a sweaty old carpenter trying to scratch out a living for the last 36 years .

Yep I'm with ya, I tell people when they ask I just bend nails and make saw dust. My wife hates that
Any pics of yer sweaty old projects???

 

[MT-JONAS]

Any pics of yer sweaty old projects???

Mind if I post a few?

 

[jamie eaton]

My wife is on me all the time to take pictures . I usually try and forget about work !

 

[memtb]

Pretty much every male member of my Dad's family were carpenters, either by trade or as a pastime!

That ended with me, my strongest desire pertaining to wood……is to watch it burn in the fireplace! memtb

 

[Bearman375]

Mind if I post a few?

You sir, are one skilled son of a gun!

 

[dogz]

Mind if I post a few?

Barndominium's?

Over by Townsend?