lmackattack
old school
Last 10 years have been working full time for a Indy race car team / parts importer. Part time I run my Semi dump truck / lowboy in the construction fields.
Trent
Trent
where do you work?
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kjd
Go make something!
Hey, Trent, is it a Mack?
Back when I had a job I was a model maker on the movie Coraline that came out this past weekend. If you want, I'll send you a list of stuff to look for that I made.
I've also been an architectural model maker, geologist, bus driver, wildlands firefighter, carpenter, vibratory roller driver, janitor, TV camera operator, paper boy, newpaper inserting machine operator, and a cook. That's all I can remember anyway.
Today I am applying for an Environmental Engineer job, wish me luck!
Back when I had a job I was a model maker on the movie Coraline that came out this past weekend. If you want, I'll send you a list of stuff to look for that I made.
I've also been an architectural model maker, geologist, bus driver, wildlands firefighter, carpenter, vibratory roller driver, janitor, TV camera operator, paper boy, newpaper inserting machine operator, and a cook. That's all I can remember anyway.
Today I am applying for an Environmental Engineer job, wish me luck!
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lmackattack
old school
Currently I am a full time student majoring in chemical engineering.
Since I can remember my family has owned our current business. We manufacture polyurethane concrete repair materials. We just showed our newest product (which I got to play with in the lab while they were testing formulas) that will be able to color match decorative concrete. We have a big list of people ready to buy it.
Since the economy being down, repair is cheaper than replace, so business is booming!
Since I can remember my family has owned our current business. We manufacture polyurethane concrete repair materials. We just showed our newest product (which I got to play with in the lab while they were testing formulas) that will be able to color match decorative concrete. We have a big list of people ready to buy it.
Since the economy being down, repair is cheaper than replace, so business is booming!
pcarrell
Just a guy
I am the head of the service department at the phone company. I also am a full time student (about to graduate with my Bachelors). I also am the Associate Pastor at our church. On top of that I'm the dad of two teenagers and the husband of the woman I love.
Is that enough hats to wear?
Is that enough hats to wear?
jeffrey-wimberly
Dr Frankendiesel
I stay home and work on my layout and other projects. I'm disabled and can no longer work in anything approaching regular employment. Sometime the Sheltered Workshop in town gets something that I can do while staying off my feet and doesn't require a lot of energy.
Boy, you guys have done interesting stuff. I'm just a retired bum now. I started out as a repiratory therapist and then signed on with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Did that for six years before I went back to college. Got a degree in psychology and hospital administration. Was a hospital adminstrator for about five year and we then moved to nothern Califonia to escape the smog. Ran another hospital there until the company I worked for decided I'd be a good project manager for our new construction. I joined the Sheriff's Reserve forces while we lived there and was a reserve deputy, working my up to being in charge of the helicopter/search and rescue bureau.
I decided I knew contruction project managment well enough to open my own firm. Got PMI certified and worked as a consultant for a number of companies, mostly utilities doing hyrdo and transmission line work. Did that for 12 year before I retired at 56. We were going to sail the Caribbean, our retirement dream. Sold the house and, three days latter, my first wife, Jean, was diagnosed with leukemia. Got sued by the people we sold the house to even though she was a nurse that worked with Jean.
Got that taken care and spent the next two years doing what I could to save her life but it was to no avail. She died is 2004 at 58. 
Sold the house in California in 2005 before the state and the housing market collapsed. I bought a motor home to travel the country, assuming that's how I would spend my remaining years. I knew my present wife, Dianna, because we both have the same wierd inner ear disease calle Meniere's. We had been friends for about five years, before my wife died and she divorced her scumbag husband. I stopped off to see her in 2005 to visit for a week and never left. Those Southern girls are hard to leave. So I now have the second love of my life and a 19 and 21 year old daughter. I also spent about $3,000 building a layout with things I gave away or sold for practically nothing in California because I thought I would never build a layout again.
That's the long version of what I did and how I got here today. For you younger guys whp think you've got your life all planned, good luck. Sometimes God has way different plans for you than you think are the right ones.
I decided I knew contruction project managment well enough to open my own firm. Got PMI certified and worked as a consultant for a number of companies, mostly utilities doing hyrdo and transmission line work. Did that for 12 year before I retired at 56. We were going to sail the Caribbean, our retirement dream. Sold the house and, three days latter, my first wife, Jean, was diagnosed with leukemia. Got sued by the people we sold the house to even though she was a nurse that worked with Jean.
Got that taken care and spent the next two years doing what I could to save her life but it was to no avail. She died is 2004 at 58. Sold the house in California in 2005 before the state and the housing market collapsed. I bought a motor home to travel the country, assuming that's how I would spend my remaining years. I knew my present wife, Dianna, because we both have the same wierd inner ear disease calle Meniere's. We had been friends for about five years, before my wife died and she divorced her scumbag husband. I stopped off to see her in 2005 to visit for a week and never left. Those Southern girls are hard to leave. So I now have the second love of my life and a 19 and 21 year old daughter. I also spent about $3,000 building a layout with things I gave away or sold for practically nothing in California because I thought I would never build a layout again.
That's the long version of what I did and how I got here today. For you younger guys whp think you've got your life all planned, good luck. Sometimes God has way different plans for you than you think are the right ones.
SpaceMouse
Fun Lover
Well basically, I am a Law of Attraction coach, meaning people pay me to help them get what they want. This is mostly in business, but in other things as well. I also am working on a couple joint ventures. So for the past year, I've worked from home.
vato loco
Just a Foolish Saint!
I work for Pasco County Parks and Recreation as a Gounds Keeper currently stationed at San Antonio Athletic Complex http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v...&scene=28812343&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&encType=1 . My supervisor and I maintain a small 14 acre park containing 4 baseball fields. Currently we are getting the site ready for opening day in two weeks!
BTW: if you look on the biggest field and zoom in......you'll see me on a tractor grooming the clay infield!
the birds eye pic's are more current shots of the fields.
BTW: if you look on the biggest field and zoom in......you'll see me on a tractor grooming the clay infield!
the birds eye pic's are more current shots of the fields.
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TaeOH
or just Tom...
I work in the IT end of Business Intelligence of a Marketing and Services firm. My title is Technical Specialist. That just means I am a jack of all trades in application engineering. Currently work mostly in a product called Cognos, it is owned by IBM now, they bought it last year to make up a large part of their BI suite of products.
I like technical work, it is unfortunate that I lead and delegate more than I get to fiddle myself these days. The company I work for is not very interesting, but I have fairly good Job security, I guess as secure as any can feel in this economy.
I like technical work, it is unfortunate that I lead and delegate more than I get to fiddle myself these days. The company I work for is not very interesting, but I have fairly good Job security, I guess as secure as any can feel in this economy.
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KenW: Bet you know my SIL. He is a Geophysicist for Anadarko and lives in Spring...name Paul K.
blownoutcylinder
Active Member
Two things---Personal Support Worker at a local care center that works with multiple handicapped adults/children and a teaching assistant/facilitator for a school near where I live.
I first worked 4 years military and 6 with the government as an electronics specialist. Returned to T-town and went into industry and was the General Foreman at a herbicide manufacturing plant for 7 years. Then and for 15 years, I went to the technical area of industrial maintenance as a technician in automated control and instrumentation. Finally finishing my degrees, I went into engineering.
Tired of being banged up, I signed up with the local Community College as a Director of Training/Instructor to design and develop an Industrial Maintenance certificate program with 28 courses. The purpose was to train, cross-train, and upgrade the technicians of West Alabama industries in the areas of hydraulics, pneumatics, electrical/electronics, mechanical, instrumentation, welding. I had two full time instructors and 8 adjunct, all with at least 20 years experience in their discipline.
NOW: retired...not tired, happy, and play with trains (and the wifey if I can catch her
)
Tired of being banged up, I signed up with the local Community College as a Director of Training/Instructor to design and develop an Industrial Maintenance certificate program with 28 courses. The purpose was to train, cross-train, and upgrade the technicians of West Alabama industries in the areas of hydraulics, pneumatics, electrical/electronics, mechanical, instrumentation, welding. I had two full time instructors and 8 adjunct, all with at least 20 years experience in their discipline.
NOW: retired...not tired, happy, and play with trains (and the wifey if I can catch her
)
jeffrey-wimberly
Dr Frankendiesel
Sounds like the kind of center I would have been at as a child had such a place existed back in the 60's and early 70's. It's good to know there are such places now.
IronBeltKen
Lazy Daydreamer
I'm in the IT field, working as a database administrator (DBA) at a university-affiliated technology research facility. My department designs and builds satellites for NASA, and often manages the missions they fly on.
I work for a company called ARTO Bathrooms here in Brisbane.
We import and supply vanities/vessels/faucets and bathroom accessories etc into Oz and sell to Plumbing/Hardware supply stores. We are one of the largest in Australia since we started up in 2004.
I'm assistant warehouse manager/delivery driver and from time to time do showroom.
We import and supply vanities/vessels/faucets and bathroom accessories etc into Oz and sell to Plumbing/Hardware supply stores. We are one of the largest in Australia since we started up in 2004.
I'm assistant warehouse manager/delivery driver and from time to time do showroom.
leghome
Maytag "Danged Agitator"
I retired from GM in 1999 at 51 yrs old. I delivered paint and auto body supplies for 5 1/2 years after that. Then worked for Woodcraft for 18 months and now work at Mathews True Value Home Center in Pendleton, IN. where I do building maintenance, repair storm windows and screens, help with lumber deliveries and build anything we need for the store plus anything else the Owner wants me to do.
Rico
BN Modeller
Wow, some interesting stories so far guys!
I guess I'm mostly self employed right now buying and selling 1/1 scale trains and train junk. One half of the gumint (government) says I'm permanently partially disabled now, the other half that hands out the grants says I'm not.
I drove truck for years all over the US and Canada, worked on the ships on Lake Winnipeg, flew around in helicopters for the phone company, ran a small switcher for a coal burning hydro plant, contracted to the railways cutting cast off ribbon rail all over the place, recently was foreman of a hi rail fire crew following Loram across the country.
I did a lot of other things but these are the main ones.
I guess I'm mostly self employed right now buying and selling 1/1 scale trains and train junk. One half of the gumint (government) says I'm permanently partially disabled now, the other half that hands out the grants says I'm not.
I drove truck for years all over the US and Canada, worked on the ships on Lake Winnipeg, flew around in helicopters for the phone company, ran a small switcher for a coal burning hydro plant, contracted to the railways cutting cast off ribbon rail all over the place, recently was foreman of a hi rail fire crew following Loram across the country.
I did a lot of other things but these are the main ones.
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