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[Voymom]

Hey someone else in the printing industry. Sweet. Flat bed cutters are the guys who save the press operators ass (if they can) when there is a press issue. I run a 5-color 25" in. Heildelberg. Small but I like it. Used to run a 40".

My husband is an adjuster for a large envelope making/printing company. Not sure if that is even close to what you guys all do lol Just thought I would throw that in

 

[4wVoy]

Fire scout is a decent sized helo.

Northrop Grumman MQ-8 Fire Scout - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

yeah, im retarded, i was thinking silver fox, its been a long day lol

 

[Short Bus]

I run a press that crimps the 2 parts of a lint chute (the part that your lint screen slides into) together for the worlds largest clothing drier manufacturer. If your lint screen pulls out of the top of your drier, I may have worked on it.

 

[06Envoy]

Been working at Canadian Tire for close to 6 years now...

I tell my kids that crappy tire is 'daddy's favorite store...' . No shame in working there....I envy your discounts!

Three weeks ago I started a new job.
I've been with my old company for 15yrs.
I was a small business server specialist until recently.

Vale(Inco) was one of our clients that in 2011 I oversaw a four fold expansion in servers.
Over the x-mas holidays they offered me a substantial 6-digit salary.
I had some misgivings as I routinely decline job offers and I am loyal to my company.
However, I was planning on retiring this year anyway and the $ they were offering was enough for me to question everything.
So I discussed it with my old boss and we agreed to shutdown our company and he will retire while now I effectively look after one client.
So I consider myself semi-retired now.

 

[blazinlow89]

So, I'm guessing no one does what I do... I design, install and service aquariums. Been doing it for almost 10yrs now. Started out as a hobbyist. Always get a kick outa someone asking me what "I do" for a liveing! The look on there face is priceless... lol

I do it for personal use, nothing professional. I have helped a few friends though.

Awesome and interesting career though.

 

[djthumper]

I run a press that crimps the 2 parts of a lint chute (the part that your lint screen slides into) together for the worlds largest clothing drier manufacturer. If your lint screen pulls out of the top of your drier, I may have worked on it.

And here I thought you were the short bus driver...

 

[Short Bus]

And here I thought you were the short bus driver...

I drive it to and from work. I think some of the people I work with should ride the other short bus though

 

[Filter]

I work for the University Of Rochester at the Cogen plant.

I am a Automation Tech. We make sure all the controls for the Boilers, Chillers, HP Turbine and LP Turbine are working the way they should. I also calibrate instrumentation. We work with 900# steam so proper control and safeties are very important.

We can run on either Natural Gas or Fuel Oil. But we mostly run natural gas. If needed we can produce 20 Megawatts of power. On average we produce 5-7 megawatts.

 

[jbones]

If your lint screen pulls out of the top of your drier, I may have worked on it.

You mean if if pulls apart when it shouldn't, you may have worked on it.

Well at least it's made in the USA.

 

[Short Bus]

You mean if if pulls apart when it shouldn't, you may have worked on it.

Well at least it's made in the USA.

That would be the 3rd shift crew

 

[fishguy1123]

I do it for personal use, nothing professional. I have helped a few friends though.

Awesome and interesting career though.

Thanks, it's been alot of fun I have to say. Still learning something new all the time! A lot of my customers are like good friends now too. I've watched their kids grow up just like mine practicaly.

 

[navigator]

I'm a technical consultant for a software company.
I work from home most of the time but do have to travel on occasion.

 

[rcam81]

Hey someone else in the printing industry. Sweet. Flat bed cutters are the guys who save the press operators ass (if they can) when there is a press issue. I run a 5-color 25" in. Heildelberg. Small but I like it. Used to run a 40".

I currently use a 63 inch Lawson cutter. When I was at the paper mill, I ran a 110 inch Lawson cutter. I have been "whacking and stacking" for 32 years.

 

[jrSS]

Sweet!! If ur a pressman the flatbed op. is definately the one too suck up too....lol I have been in printing for 12 yrs right after highschool. Have a gatf certification. Was told by the owner that I have an "eye for color".

 

[stormsurge]

HHMMM. A pic i took at work a few weeks ago. If i drove a little faster that day that woulda took me out.

 

[snowbear]

I am temporarily retired. I worked with a county government as a Police Dispatcher, IT Tech, IT Account Manager (for county agencies) and Background Investigator. I recently finished my BS in Geography/Geospatial Information Science (minor in studio art) and interned with the Feds as a cartographer.

I have gotten a couple of bucks from my photography, but I don't want to make a living at it.

 

[Voymom]

HHMMM. A pic i took at work a few weeks ago. If i drove a little faster that day that woulda took me out.

I think I drove past that, and a few other jack-knifed trucks. I sen a white ford exploder in the center median on it's roof. It was the day I went to sign papers on Demon and bring him home! It was Jan 17th during one of our ice storms(A Tuesday) I remember as my kids all stayed home from school and about had panic attacks seeing big semi's sliding off the road and people wiping out. I had to drive my POS Rendezvous about 10mph as it handled like crap. I was heading up to Cedar Rapids/North Liberty to the Pat Mcgrath stealership.

 

[stormsurge]

I think I drove past that, and a few other jack-knifed trucks. I sen a white ford exploder in the center median on it's roof. It was the day I went to sign papers on Demon and bring him home! It was Jan 17th during one of our ice storms(A Tuesday) I remember as my kids all stayed home from school and about had panic attacks seeing big semi's sliding off the road and people wiping out. I had to drive my POS Rendezvous about 10mph as it handled like crap. I was heading up to Cedar Rapids/North Liberty to the Pat Mcgrath stealership.

It was a tuesday but that was just south of freeport ill. Bad ice on the 26th between dewitt and clinton, iowa on highway 30. Must a been 40 to 50 cars in the ditch. Some where bad. Pics not very good but alot of emergency vehicles up ahead.

 

[suburbs]

Was a corporate guy immediately out of school. Realized I was looking at 40 years of conference calls, ebidta reports, 60+ hours a week, and wearing a suit every day.


Wanted more out of a job than a nice paycheck, moved to Colorado to work as a pro ski patroller in the winter. In the summer mostly take it easy, do a little EMT and construction work.

 

[jkdubz]

Where: Gulf of Mexico

What: Licensed officer on large supply ships (260-311 feet long) which service oil drilling rigs. Currently I am in the BP division. I do the voyage planning, maneuvering, paperwork, lead a shipboard firefighting team, and many other things.

Why: Love every minute being at sea. I went to a maritime academy and hold a 2nd Officer Unlimited Tonnage license issued by the US Coast Guard. Basically means I can be an officer on a ship of any size on any ocean in the world. I also have a bachelors degree in marine transportation from the academy. I am actually writing this as my ship is pulling into Port Fourchon, Louisiana after spending 5 days 145 miles SW of Louisiana bring supplies to a rig. Not to many guys at the company have a license as big as mine, and the company is building very large ice breaking supply ships for Shell Oil when they start drilling up in northern Alaska, looks like this fall I'll get a spot on that. The $$ is rediculously good, but the schedule sucks. Currently on a 28 day on, 14 day off schedule.

 

[Fire06]

I work for Toronto Fire Department over 22yrs. Best job I ever had and sure best working in the private sector with our shift work. Enjoy the days off. Used to part time doing auto glass, commercial and house glass and mirrors. Alot of hard work that is hard on the body. Have not done it for a year and a bit after almost 32 yrs part time and as a summer job as a kid.

 

[High Voltage]

I work for Amana Society Service Company.
The Amana Colonies are Iowa's largest tourist attraction.
I am a power lineman and the electric line superintendent.
I have been there for 26 years! Worked my way from the grunt to the boss!

I also own and run a side business doing custom decals, signs, banners engraving rocks, bricks and crocks I'm thinking about getting into doing headstones. Here is one I helped a friend of mine do this weekend for a friend and former class mate that passed.
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[The_Roadie]

Anybody who manufactures chips (integrated circuits) needs testers as the last thing on the production line to tell them whether they're good or bad. They can cost upwards of a million $ while performing thousands of test a second, so when they fail and shut down a chip production line, the customers get cranky very quickly. For 38 years I've been designing, programming, tech supporting, tech writing, training, marketing, servicing, installing, living and breathing chip testers. Also flown 3.7 million miles or so and visited all the awful and forsaken low-rent parts of the world where the customers seem to put these production lines. Sometimes I get lucky and the low-rent places are near scenic or interesting spots. I wear out passports like most folks do to socks.

I'm actually in Korea at the moment installing a new model.

 

[Lima Tango]

I'm an officer in the US Air Force. My career field is hospital administration, which means I have already been or will eventually be responsible for one or more duty sections at any given time: finance, manpower, logistics, patient administration, IT, readiness, or group practice management, among others. My career will be very dynamic, I would get bored doing the same thing year after year so I love the variability.

My base is an intelligence base, utilizing three airframes: the famous pentagenarian U-2 spy plane, the UAV Global Hawk, and the MC-12, which is an intelified version of a dual prop corporate jet platform. I'll be here for another year and a half, then off to who knows where.

 

[jballentine]

Hey someone else in the printing industry. Sweet. Flat bed cutters are the guys who save the press operators ass (if they can) when there is a press issue. I run a 5-color 25" in. Heildelberg. Small but I like it. Used to run a 40".

I am in the printing industry I've been with my job for 12 years doing so. I run a 42" Hamilton we print cereal boxes for General Mills, Kellogg, Post, Quaker, Ritz Crackers and Kleenex (work slang booger boxes). We can print 8 colors if needed but that is pretty much never we just have mostly 5 to 6 color jobs. My Dad got me the job (just like his step-mom did for him) a little bit after graduation after trying out a few other jobs.

 

[Bartonmd]

I am in the printing industry I've been with my job for 12 years doing so. I run a 42" Hamilton we print cereal boxes for General Mills, Kellogg, Post, Quaker, Ritz Crackers and Kleenex (work slang booger boxes). We can print 8 colors if needed but that is pretty much never we just have mostly 5 to 6 color jobs. My Dad got me the job (just like his step-mom did for him) a little bit after graduation after trying out a few other jobs.

I'm an Engineer who designs the UV units that cure the ink on presses like that, between colors. Also do UV conveyors and germicidal UV fixtures and solutions.

I also run a 1-man fabrication business that doesn't really make money, but buys me cool tools, and is something to weld on that doesn't cost me money...

Mike

 

[RichieT]

i work for a company that many people prolly hate but they are part of the biggest entertainment company in us and second biggest cable company also. I work for time warner cable been doing it for 6 years now. Why the benefits are good get to drive the work van home which saves the miles on the trailblazer, pay is decent and i get free cable and internet, and the biggest thing i really dont have someone breathing down my neck all the time. Before this i worked for a industrial electric / cabling company for able three years doing anything from pulling tons of cable for cubicles to running service wires for big companies

YOUR ONE OF THEM!!!! LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHIN'..... I'm with TWC 32 years. Pay and bennies are pretty good. The work ain't bad and I'm pretty much left alone. The big problem we have here is for the last 6 months we have suits from 5 states away trying to telling us how NYC works. really slowing up our system. Frustrating, but we'll deal with it. Could be a lot worse.

 

[Fire06]

It is always nice when management that has no clue of whats going on telling you "who knows whats going on " how to do something. I worked for my relative and he thought he was mister efficient but every time he got involved things slowed down because he just screwed them up

 

[mike_k]

Yeah im pretty sure my job is one of the most loved and hated at the same time. I work in Loss Mitigation (loan mods & short sales) for a major servicer. I am the lucky guy that either has to break the news of a denial or approval.

 

[ItsOnVoy]

I do not have a profession just yet but I am studying to be a Biomedical Engineer

 

[gmcman]

Going on 13 years of driving the big brown convection oven....figured I would work there until i figure out what exactly I wanted to do.....not sure what happened to the time but somewhat glad I did considering all that has happened to the economy the last few years.

Not saying any job is safe but to stray slightly off-topic, I'm tired of hearing about creating jobs when we had the jobs here. Not trying to turn this into a political arguement.

 

[Fire06]

Count on Government to screw stuff up. I think politicians would have trouble running a one man parade

 

[Uncle Blazer]

Human Resources by trade. Currently working for Transamerica as an Account Consultant for retirement plans. Basically, I am who your HR Dept calls when they have a question about your employer's 401k (or whatever type of plan you have). Been here a few years, something else would be nice. Also have 3 kids under 2 years old(2yo twin boys and a 7 mo old baby girl), so that takes up all my free time and mod money.

 

[Fire06]

Like retirement with some money:wootwoot::wootwoot:

 

[fletch09]

VP of a wholesale distributor of water well supplies.
we supply the well drillers w/ just about everything they need to intall and service a water well.
as of last Nov. been here 30 yrs.
the company was started back in 1945 by my grandfather.

 

[Hotness]

I design and manufacture UV air sterilizers/purifiers for residential and commercial HVAC systems. We have several contracts with hospitals, the US Army and many federal buildings including the United Nations. Because we have many fabrication tools and machinery, we also take on the occasional odd project. Everything from commercial coffee bean roasters to electric powered vehicle retrofitting to residential wind energy. Pretty cool job I guess. I've been here about 6 years now. Before that I spent 6 years at a family fun center (mini golf, arcade games, carnival rides) as a manager/game tech.

 

[Off Road Bella]

I happen to be a stay at home mom, have been one for almost 8yrs, with off and on jobs because I had a hard time NOT having kids I have 5 wonderful and rambunctious boys and 1 very tenacious daughter My oldest will be 11 this year and my youngest(daughter) just turned one on Christmas.

I have worked several positions from house cleaner with Merry Maids to Vet Tech at our local vet clinic. My passion is horses, I used to show them professionally when I was younger, and would love to get back in the saddle once my children are older.

My pay is fantastic and is hourly, greatest part of payday is that it's everyday! I get hugs, kisses, cuddles, thank you's, and so much more every single day. Seeing my children smile and knowing I am a good mother and an even better wife makes this job the highest paying of any career available today!

you rock that is so cool.....

 

[Off Road Bella]

my job right now is Client Service Co-ordinator at a Respiratory Clinic. My past jobs that I have done, Customs Broker, Canadian importing, HR Admin, Payroll assistant, Admin Office Assistant, Guest Service Agent, Wine sales Rep, Hostess, bank teller, Care Aide, inventory supervisor, Grocery teller, waitress, farming and retail sales and most of all that I am very proud of is being a MOM, that is life time job, and I love every minute of it. Now that I am looking at this wow I have been in many difference careers, have a great appreciation and insight of each job that I have had the privilage of being involved in, also what I have been taught, I loved every field that I have been in and learnt so much.
who knows what I am going to be next, some thing exciting thats for sure. I guess you can say that I am a chronic life time learner...... and life is too short, I am making the best of my life thats for sure.

 

[pennywise]

Im a combat engineer in the US Army. I've been deployed 3 times-2 Iraq and 1 Afghanistan. Engineers do route clearance, finding IEDs and we blow stuff up. Can't tell you why I do it but I cna't think of anything I would rather do. Besides being a billionaire, but there are no openings. I just got drill orders so I'm going to be a drill sergeant.

 

[lynch55]

Thank You for your service! The drill seargent is the first authority figure you meet when you join and I got to be stationed at the same post (Fort Knox) that I took basic in and went back and partied with a couple of them! It was so cool!