What do you do for a living?

Dale Gribble said:
Retired Winston-Salem fireman.

Working from home, now, for a big-box, home improvement chain.
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im pretty sure i know which one that is. i used to work for them in their IT department back in 15/16 until a big lay off, they offered me a position back in early 19 and laughed in their faces.
 
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Retired almost 2 years ago, the day before my 51st birthday. 20 years & change in the Army, then floundered around a bit, trying to figure out what to do. Went back to school & worked as a Medical Laboratory Technician for Labcorp until I retired.

Nowadays we mostly work on sprucing up the house, building & stocking our pond, or upping our fishing game. We do a lot of entertaining & visiting with fam & friends. Lotta front porch sitting with a drinky drink & a smokey smoke, too.
 
SurfcasterPE said:
Civil Engineer, 20 years of managing inspections/testing on construction projects. Worked on a lot of schools, nearly all of the UNC system campuses, K-12, hospitals, museums, parks, jails & prisons, lots of airport work, municipal, DOT…
Married to an employment lawyer. She’s the one with the interesting stories. Though once our worlds collided and I had to pass a project on to a coworker cause my wife was suing the client. Kinda hard to put my name on a qual submittal when my wife was taking depositions from the selection committee at the same time. Our last name is fairly unique.
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Old joke:
What's the difference between a mechanical engineer and a civil engineer?
Mechanical engineer designs bombs.
Civil engineer designs targets.
😄😁😆😅
 
What haven't I done? Still trying to decide what I want to be when I grow up.

But, currently, I work for a large retail propane and heating oil company.

Currently, I oversee Occupational Safety for our Mid-Atlantic region, (PA, NJ, MD, DE, and VA). I also help out our technical training team from time to time, as well as teach Propane Emergency Response to industry personnel.

As an added bonus, I also get to work on compliance issues involving DHS, DOT, OSHA, NFPA, and a miriad of other regulations for our 350+ locations in 27 states.

When I'm not traveling, I WFH.
 
Crazy Carl said:
Retired almost 2 years ago, the day before my 51st birthday. 20 years & change in the Army, then floundered around a bit, trying to figure out what to do. Went back to school & worked as a Medical Laboratory Technician for Labcorp until I retired.

Nowadays we mostly work on sprucing up the house, building & stocking our pond, or upping our fishing game. We do a lot of entertaining & visiting with fam & friends. Lotta front porch sitting with a drinky drink & a smokey smoke, too.
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My wife was an MLT at the Lahey Clinic in Burlington MA then the VA in Boston. She did her internship at the VA too.
Specialized in microbiology. She took my nasty green phlegm to the lab after the first antibiotic didn't work. Found it what it was and what antibiotic our doctor needed to prescribe. 😉 It was H-flu A.
 
-industrial/commercial field rep (aka, that SOB from the factory :p) for Sylvania first ten years.
-headhunter placing engineers in process manufacturing, especially pharma a biotech manufacturing the next 25 years. (self employed the last half)
-managed small commercial real estate properties for some kin for 7-8 years and decided I didn’t like the job or the employer.

I did stay married to her though.
 
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bondjamesbond said:
Retired Building Inspector.
Now I contract with Gov to be project manager for some Gov building projects.
Also a part time fact checker for the WTF thread in the basement.
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Gov't project manager? Isn't that akin to herding cats? Gov't projects top case studies of how not to manage projects. But it is on bureaucrats, not the actual project managers.
 
Sp00ks said:
Currently in a supervisory role over 20ish technical folks in Healthcare IT for one of the big 3. Retiring within the next 10 years sometime...... Can't come soon enough. 20 years next March

Prior positions were DBA, Computer admin, Worked printing companies for 20 years (offset and Letterpress, for those that may know what that is) before flipping the script and going into IT, worked on a Super Tanker for awhile (Merchant Marine).
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Been there, done that. Was Duke Health IT for 18 years. Last five managing the group that supported 40 application and their equipment for the healthcare's pharmacies. Went back to clinical to reduce stress
 
halorocks22 said:
Currently a senior in nursing school. Hoping to work at a level 1 trauma center once I graduate. I’ve found it to be pretty interesting thus far.
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It's worth the pain
 
I work for a smaller but rapidly growing municipality that is pretty much just a suburb of Charlotte now(Belmont).My title there is lead development inspector which means I oversee all of the utilities that will become the city’s ie water/sewer/storm and streets.While mostly it is new construction, I also handle capital improvement projects that the city funds with taxpayer’s dollars.Most of the time these are rehabilitation projects in old neighborhoods and are a real pita.
 
halorocks22 said:
Currently a senior in nursing school. Hoping to work at a level 1 trauma center once I graduate. I’ve found it to be pretty interesting thus far.
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In a previous life, I worked in commercial EMS as an EMT. Mostly as a Basic but did have my Intermediate certification for a while.

When I started on my Paramedic, one of my instructors told me I was wasting my time and that I should be a nurse instead.

As it turned out, already working two jobs with young kids at home, I couldn't afford to do either.

But, one of those jobs, for a while, was working as an ER tech at a Level II trauma center. Loved it but there was no money in it.

My oldest brother recently retired from BAMC in San Antonio where he worked as a trauma/ICU nurse

Good luck
 
Started in radio before I was out of high school. Several stations after that. Tree trimmer for power company in Arkansas, Cook at a country club. Then started building pools all over eastern NC -which evolved into plumbing. Got my Class 1 Plumbing license in 88. Self employed plumbing contractor and well pump service until retiring last year and moving to Virginia.
 
Amp Mangum said:
Farm Bureau insurance agent.
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So if I want to ditch my current one, which I threatened to do a couple months ago, I can keep my same FBNC policies and work through you? 😁
 
Started put repairing medical equipment for Uncle Sam then moved on to repairing lab equipment when my hitch was up. Did the lab equipment repair for a few years then got on at UNC University specializing in lab refrigeration and cryogenic repair. Did that for about 15 years and now I sale/service temperature monitoring systems for a small company.

I absolutely love working with and around the labs. I meet amazing gifted individuals everyday and enjoy learning what they are working on in the labs.
 
In Virginia, I worked many years for Burlington Industries until they closed our plant. Then, I was a migrant worker for Burlington Industries in Burlington, NC, 4 days on, 4 days off. After textiles took a big hit, I worked in mirror manufacturing for a couple of years. Then I became a machinist for Textron.

When Textron closed their plant, I moved to South Carolina and did machinist work there until the crash of 2008. Then I got into home medical equipment up until the time I moved to Texas. Thus started my unofficial retirement. I'd still like to do something but without having to deal with the public. That really narrows my opportunities.

It's been almost 3 years and I have worked on being a better husband and have enjoyed spending time with my wife.
 
I'm a stay at home dad for the past year. Before that I worked in the hazardous waste industry packing and shipping chemicals while running the show at a couple of places as a contractor. When my second kid was born my parents were about to move away so my wife and I made sure all of our debt beside our house was paid off so I could quit.
 
1075tech said:
In a previous life, I worked in commercial EMS as an EMT. Mostly as a Basic but did have my Intermediate certification for a while.

When I started on my Paramedic, one of my instructors told me I was wasting my time and that I should be a nurse instead.

As it turned out, already working two jobs with young kids at home, I couldn't afford to do either.

But, one of those jobs, for a while, was working as an ER tech at a Level II trauma center. Loved it but there was no money in it.

My oldest brother recently retired from BAMC in San Antonio where he worked as a trauma/ICU nurse

Good luck
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Thank you sir.. if I wasn't going to nursing school I'd be going the paramedic route. EMS personnel are paid peanuts for the huge amount of work that they do. I wish that nursing schools would drop the "nursing model" BS and instead go in-depth into cardiology, pulmonology, pharmacology and trauma as paramedic schools do. I'm tired of hearing about "impaired energy fields" and how to alleviate pain through "distraction techniques" and "therapeutic touch" over actual medical knowledge. Thankfully, I've been told nursing school isn't 100% reflective of actual nursing practice.

UNCG has an excellent program for veterans wanting to go to nursing school which made it very easy for me to apply and be accepted. BAMC is a great hospital, they have the best food in their DFAC.
 
hired gun.

well, Merchandising Gun that is.
when somebody wants something done
at store level in NC/SC/VA...they hired me.
several have thought it was worth it:
Warner Lambert, Procter & Gamble, Unilever.....

right now, it is Honeywell.
words of advice: it is not
the Honeywell of old.
 
Inventory Manager for a Chicago based appliance wholesale company. I've also worked as a manager of a commercial laundry company that both ran privately owned laundromats and leased coin op machines to property management companies.
Before that I worked selling shirts outside the Jerry Springer Show studio.
Did a few years in retail management, a few selling clothes and gifts and a few in convenience stores while going to college.
 
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HDscrambler said:
I work for a smaller but rapidly growing municipality that is pretty much just a suburb of Charlotte now(Belmont).My title there is lead development inspector which means I oversee all of the utilities that will become the city’s ie water/sewer/storm and streets.While mostly it is new construction, I also handle capital improvement projects that the city funds with taxpayer’s dollars.Most of the time these are rehabilitation projects in old neighborhoods and are a real pita.
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You doing any of the Overlake/McLean Empire community? Are you the guy I have to stake driveways for? ;)
 
I was the head cook and manager of a small pizza joint for 20 years.
Then I started selling tires for a local tire/oil change/repair shop.Been there for 16 years.I still do that as well as help with everything else in the office. I am continually amazed at how stupid the general public has become.

I should have stayed in school and been smarter.
 
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