What do you do for a living.

[steve B]

Currently sort of in transition.

I've been a bicycle mechanic since 2001, Hydraulics before that.
Stay at home dad since 2010 and doing the bike stuff part time.

Started looking for something better paying when daughter #2 arrived, went looking for a job and found client number 1 - So I'm statrting some independent mechanical/product design.

Not quite sure how it will work out yet, but so far so good.

Steve B

[drmondobueno]

Re-retired.

30 years in the education finance business, moved to the Eastern Sierras, got bored, worked 4 months for the USPS, that was enough of that. Grow vegetables, build the occasional bamboo fly rod, chase a few fish.

Keith

[t206blogcom]

Online marketer and food blogger.

[Wymers Auction]

I am a tig welder(peasant). I want to be an baseball card auctioneer full time someday.

[z28jd]

Baseball writer covering the Pirates entire organization from the lowest level of the minors on up. Proof of how low in the system I go is this three part series I just posted http://www.piratesprospects.com/2013...-to-watch.html Fun articles to write, especially talking to people who watched/scouted them all year

[CharleyBrown]

High School Spanish Teacher. I also do freelance copy writing for major corporations and small to mid sized businesses in the U.S., Australia, and South America.

[slidekellyslide]

I own an antiques and collectibles shop for the past year...before that I owned a video store for 27 years. Netflix, Redbox and the internet finally did me in, but I am proud to say that I outlasted every mom and pop, Hollywood, and almost all of the Blockbuster stores in my town.

[gnaz01]

Regional Manager of 125 stores for the #1 Fortune 500 company (didn't want to write the name, I can't)

[Steve D]

I retired from the US Air Force five years ago today, and now have a civilian job back with the Air Force.

Steve

[Northviewcats]

High School English Teacher and Speech & Debate Coach. Old enough to retire, but still love working with young people.

Best regards,

Joe

[kmac32]

practicing veterinarian until I had a spinal stroke 3 years ago. Getting close to beng ready to go back into practice after 3 years of physical rehab.

[Phillies*phan]

Harley Davidson final assembly plant in York Pa. Numbs my brain every day I put in. Right now I put the engine in the frame. 15 years years down, 15 more to go.

[caramelcard]

Originally Posted by drmondobueno

Re-retired.

30 years in the education finance business, moved to the Eastern Sierras, got bored, worked 4 months for the USPS, that was enough of that. Grow vegetables, build the occasional bamboo fly rod, chase a few fish.

Keith

Sounds like a nice life!!

[stewbacca]

High school math teacher. I also coach both boys and girls soccer teams at the school.

[Brian Van Horn]

As of Friday, unemployed.

[grainsley]

Retired once in 2003, did a life sentence with the Vancouver Police Dept. Took six months off and then went back to work as an Investigator for a computer software company for eight years. Retired again about a year ago, and trying hard to keep it that way. Smart enough to keep my wife working, but not smart enough to come up with a Rose RC at an affordable price yet.

[baseballfan]

Lawyer

Unfortunely I wanted to go to law school but then figured out I didn't want to be an attorney. Loved law school, the practice of law is trying at times.

Should have been a teacher/professor.

[jbsports33]

Environmental Engineer/GIS Specialist (Cartographer)

and a part-time job/addiction to buying and selling cards!

[sycks22]

Elementary Phys Ed / DAPE Teacher (Adapted PE, aka kids who have special needs). Great job, very rewarding.

[RichR]

Wow lots of people on here doing some interesting work! I'm an equity research analyst.

Hobbies include baseball card collection with a focus on 1915 CJs, Hopi Pottery, Western Coastal art, and landscape art in general.

[irishdenny]

Retired US Submarine Electronic Warfare Officer. Re~fired and presently working in the Stan.

For those of you who have served this Great Nation of Ours... I Pray that you find a Cigar box full of Mathewson's, Wagner's or to whatever grabs your fancy ;-)

"You All have my Admiration!"

[quinnsryche]

Sign shop manager for 25 years. Now work part time food service at my daughter's elementary school. Get to see her every day for lunch (2nd grade).
Wouldn't trade one day of the last year for ANY of the previous 25 yrs., even at 1/3 the pay!

[Buythatcard]

Systems Analyst/Programmer at Educational Testing Services. Also sells baseball cards on the side.

[crshamo]

Retail Store Manager for large General Merchandise Retailer.

[brewing]

Originally Posted by crshamo

Retail Store Manager for large General Merchandise Retailer.

Also a part time lurker at net54baseball.com

[whiteymet]

I had the TOUGHEST job of anyone on here.

I at one time owned 5 WOMAN'S Shoe stores.

Sold the last store and retired at 55 eight years ago. Couldn't take it any longer!! In truth I burned out years before, just took me a while to get out.

Anyone want to argue they have a tougher job?? :>)

No Al Bundy jokes please, I have heard them all, and beside he just worked at a store. I OWNED them!

Fred

[Cardboard Junkie]

I worked doing hot tar roofing one summer after college in 1971. That was kind of bad. Dave.

[steve B]

When I was doing industrial hydraulics we fixed stuff in a few really "nice" places.

Two sewage treatment plants.
One mixed the semi treated water with wood chips to make fertilizer.
The other had filter presses to press the water out of the treated solids.

Not all that bad, the smell went away within a few blocks.

And a place that processed fish remnants into mink food. So take all the bits of old fish from wherever, plus the bits nobody wanted from places doing the filleting. Grind, mix with water, press out some water, freeze into blocks.

The entire place was cold, wet, and smelled of bad fish. The worst part was that you always got a little bit of something on your clothes somewhere. So the smell stayed with you for a few days. Not consistent, but maybe a couple times a day for the rest of the week you's smell fish. if there was a yuck face icon I'd use a couple of them.
I did get to see a rare sight - A seagull not being able to keep some bit of fish down.

There were a few others that were hot or otherwise unpleasant, but nothing close to that.

Steve B

[brick]

Masonry Contractor.

[itjclarke]

Originally Posted by steve B

And a place that processed fish remnants into mink food. So take all the bits of old fish from wherever, plus the bits nobody wanted from places doing the filleting. Grind, mix with water, press out some water, freeze into blocks.

The entire place was cold, wet, and smelled of bad fish. The worst part was that you always got a little bit of something on your clothes somewhere. So the smell stayed with you for a few days. Not consistent, but maybe a couple times a day for the rest of the week you's smell fish. if there was a yuck face icon I'd use a couple of them.
I did get to see a rare sight - A seagull not being able to keep some bit of fish down.

There were a few others that were hot or otherwise unpleasant, but nothing close to that.

Steve B

I just spent a week at a large fish processor in Kodiak. The process is probably a little different than you describe, but I'm sure had fairly similar work environments to where I was. I actually don't mind the fish stuff much... Now beef/poultry/pork, that's a different story!