Quick question; what do you do (or did you do) for a career?

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Male escort.
I guess that explains your answer to the other thread about what other forums people follow....need to keep your techniques fresh uh? ;) HAH!
 
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I do cloud service operations. I look at the internet from the underside, so to speak. I work from home in rural northern central Ohio for a global technology company based in silicon valley.

I've also spent quite a bit of time doing IT work for small businesses. I was the general manager for a neighborhood hardware store for about 4 years.

For a couple of years when money was tight, my wife and I picked up some extra work painting rental units and cleaning section 8 housing on turnovers. It was gross, but, sometimes you do what you have to do!

Lately, I'm thinking about trying to pick up some consulting work. I miss helping small businesses use technology to their advantage.

-SF
 
Commercial real estate lawyer and part-time community theater actor. I try to do one show a year. My daughter (age 16) also has the "theater bug" and I've been lucky to be able to do several shows with her in the last few years.
 
Started out working for my dad at his tool & die shop, then went to a small die shop, then into a couple machine tool companies, building specialized automation. Then to Chrysler Corp, got my Journeyman's card as a Tool & Diemaker, then Chrysler took a dive in the late 70's, I took a job at Cadillac Motor Car Company, GM. Got into tool & die inspection, visited a lot of supplier plants, became a engineer, specializing in gages. Tried being a foreman for a couple years, gave up on that, went back to hourly, became the plant programmer on CMM's and other gages. Got my 30 years in 2008, took a buyout and retirement. Along the way, I went to school for accounting, tried hobby farming, play with a old Farmall H I restored, now I have a Kubota L3400 HST to play with also. I now work part time for my wife, ( don't we all? ) and am planning on starting a hearth build in the next week or so. I plan on getting a NC30 to heat with. When I started at GM, they had 500,000+ workers. The total now is under 50,000. I'd say that automation took as many jobs as outsourcing, if not more.

I really wish I'd gone into the male escort thing or pornstar......:)
 
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Nice! My dad is a Volvo guy. I used to love them but their quality/$ has changed dramatically over the years. He had an XC70 and replaced every single wheel bearing, a SPRING for his front suspension, etc. And he drives to/from work. Yet the old S70 and 740 we had were tanks. I am a Subaru man myself.
 
Jeesh, I really feel like a slacker compared to you guys! I started college but never finished, mom was hit by a drunk driver my junior year so my sister and I both came home to take care of her (many years of recovery but she's ok now)

I was an advertising design major so worked in printing for most if my career as a manager at OfficeMax overseeing all of the copy centers in the district then held a similar position with Kinko's. Once FedEx bought them, it went to hell for management, they only wanted retail outlets to ship packages IMHO and didn't care about the printing business (they went from FedEx Kinko's to FedEx Office now, Kinko's is a distant memory)

Now, I work from home for Pitney Bowes, in the managed service division. For almost 3 years now, I'm a National Operations Manager managing the mailroom operations/reception services in all of the Ally/GMAC offices in the USA -4 managers and almost 100 hourly employees report to me. I travel a few days at a time each month, mostly to Detroit where Ally's corporate offices are at the RenCen but also get out to Waterloo IA, Dallas Texas, Charlotte NC and a few others.

GOod grief! That's a pile of responsability! Don't feel like a slacker, you did something most people couldn't do: take care of a loved one! That is priceless in my books.

Andrew
 
Oilfeild hand (roughneck and swamped for rig moving), machinist apprentice in a railcar shop - led into refurbishing classic coaches once the boss found lout about carpentry and finish hobby, teacher/coach, now a school principal. Lots os hobbies some call work...
 
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Oilfeild hand (roughneck and swamped for rig moving), machinist apprentice in a railcar shop - led into refurbishing classic coaches once the boss found lout about carpentry and finish hobby, teacher/coach, now a school principal. Lots os hobbies some call work...
Ahhh..I know a few roughnecks out in Western Canada. It's no piece of cake up here: -50 putting a rig together must be a big different than +30 in the south?
 
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I'm on the welfare. ;em

Will be a disabled vet in a couple months after 11.5 years in the USAF. Fell from a roof about a year ago and broke my back. 3 blown discs, 2 crushed vertebrae. Uncle Sam said I was of no use to anyone, so out the door.

Dunno what I'll be doing next. Most of the things I enjoy I can't do for a living because of my back.
 
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