What is/was your occupation?

tjnamtiw said:

bbone said:

elementary school teacher, 5th grade
baseball umpire and some kind of pysical labor during summers

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Best time of the year is the Little League World Series!! So much more exciting with amazing plays than Major League baseball with the millionaire prima donna's.

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Have you ever attended the LLWS. I was born and raised in Williamsport PA. Have only missed 3 LLWS in my 32 yrs of life. Now travel back to the area for a day trip to attend with my family. Its an amazing atmosphere there.

gonhunting said:

tjnamtiw said:

bbone said:

elementary school teacher, 5th grade
baseball umpire and some kind of pysical labor during summers

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Best time of the year is the Little League World Series!! So much more exciting with amazing plays than Major League baseball with the millionaire prima donna's.

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Have you ever attended the LLWS. I was born and raised in Williamsport PA. Have only missed 3 LLWS in my 32 yrs of life. Now travel back to the area for a day trip to attend with my family. Its an amazing atmosphere there.

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Born in Pottstown, Pa and camped in Williamsport area a lot but never made it. I watch every game every year on TV and wish I were there. You're lucky. Do you try to get in the lottery to ref a game? That would REALLY be special.

Software Engineer, Mostly design and coding of Instructor Operator Stations for flight simulators

Degree is in Hotel/Rest. management,,,, spent 10 years in that field,,,then owned an ice cream store for 9 years,,,,,last 15 have been as maintenance department manager for a USDA meat processing plant that sells wholesale and retail to public,,,,,,,,or to put it simply,,,,,, "I fix stuff"!

John

vinny11950 said:

It is amazing how skilled every one here is. Must be the lure of the pellet stoves, the concept must capture the imagination of the mechanically inclined. And frankly, pellet stoves are not for the people that don't like to get their hand dirty.

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I couldn't agree more... no wonder it takes me 2 weeks to finish projects that I find on the forum took others 2 hours!

Web User Experience Analyst for a biotech company... simply put: I try to make websites easier to use.

abrucerd said:

vinny11950 said:

It is amazing how skilled every one here is. Must be the lure of the pellet stoves, the concept must capture the imagination of the mechanically inclined. And frankly, pellet stoves are not for the people that don't like to get their hand dirty.

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I couldn't agree more... no wonder it takes me 2 weeks to finish projects that I find on the forum took others 2 hours!

Web User Experience Analyst for a biotech company... simply put: I try to make websites easier to use.

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Then you clearly don't work for MICROSOFT :lol:

former technical illustrator for RF company (only 1 yr), former cosmetologist (10 yrs), currently stove sales/technician (last 6 yrs). aspiring sith lord.

Butcher,Baker,Candlestick Maker. (And Bowl Turner) ;-P

Actually Construction Laborer for 21 yrs,Framing/Finish Carpenter & Cabinetmaker for 6 yrs before that.Part-time wood cutting,antique tool sales,occasional furniture restoration,custom woodworking on commission for extra cash.Especially during holiday season.Had a small custom landscaping business several yrs back,fabricated & sold granite/limestone benches & pedestals for yard & garden too.

Journeyman Millwright in industrial construction and maintenance, then 13 yrs millwright in steel coating facility, 11 yrs currently in QC Testing lab at coating mill.

My work is putting reagents in bottles for Vetinary and Livestock tests.

Engineering in contract manufacturing for 20 years, Surgical technician at an animal hospital.
Now, support technician in the operating room at a local hospital.

Loved all of those jobs, but probably the animal hospital one the most

Sr. Technical Product Analyst for software inbound and outbound applications.

LE
Ed

It's nice to see you all have jobs, and many kinds of jobs at that. I work as a route driver for W.B. Mason and love it, I'm also a co-onwer, with my wife, of yoga studio in Branford Ct.

Any guesses?

Fire said:

Any guesses?

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Water main repair person?

I work for a municipality taking care of their plumbing and heating needs.

Sysadmin/programmer with past stints as magazine editor, desktop publisher, art handler, orchard worker, a couple of kinds of government clerk, and way back there, mobile hot tub rental.

Fire said:

Any guesses?

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I guess the same job as me. Career firefighter for the last 7 years.

Work for a pharmaceutical device manufacturer.

a little bit of everything....

IT/IS management, coding, support, dev, marketing, etc etc etc


AND, Part time farmer :D Well, I have a garden. :X

I am an industrial high speed fryer operator. In a large factory

Presently, I am a stationary engineer at a manufacturing company. I run a 5 Megawatt gas turbine cogeneration system, plus I have six 750KW Cat diesel cogen generators as backup. I maintain all support systems (Steam boilers, hot oil, hydraulic and pneumatic). Before that, I ran the vehicle maintenance shop with over 100 cars, trucks and forklifts.(They subbed out the vehicle repairs when the company got bought out) Before that I was a ASE certified master mechanic (When we were called mechanics) at an Oldsmobile dealership.

All that aside, I hate my present job and am always looking for my dream job, whatever that is!

Retired Navy.

Lots of diversity here. As for me I spent 25 years in the US Marines. Now I own a horse farm where we train off the track Thoroughbreds as show horses primarily in the hunter/jumper disciplines.