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AK-Ben

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I tear apart private jets because Im a masochist apparently…

For a little over 9 years now, I’ve been performing general maintenance and major overhauls/refurbs on private aircraft. Some days are really satisfying, and other days are Einstein’s definition of insanity incarnate.

Here’s my latest project… Currently tearing out an instrument panel to facilitate new wiring installation and old wiring removal. This is a Garmin G600 installation on a Cessna 525. This will replace both six packs with two digital LCD displays, add a new autopilot, and add a new standalone standby ADI/ADC. Right now, it’s a spaghetti bomb!

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When daughter #2 was some grade, probably 4th or so, she asked me what I do for work. Those days I worked 12+ hour days 7 days a week. Anyway, not wanting to explain details I told her that I make money and she was happy with that, I forgot all about it. Months later there is some school thing and her teacher mentioned something about me working for the US Treasury. I said no, never have and asked how she’d gotten that impression. Turns out that my daughter asked because she had to give a presentation to the class, and she thought that I printed money.

Actually I run a small part of the internet, which mostly means that I fight with the government. I don’t have a picture of the internet, but it just so happens that it’s not unlike the wiring behind the dash of a Cessna 525.
 
Retired now, but I used to work on computers and communications systems. Last 10 years before I retired I ran range communications for the navy at Cherry Point. Microwave links, ATM switches, fiber optic distribution, multiple networks and encryption systems.
 
Les White said:
I maintain about a hundred virtual servers across the country. Some are purely cloud based, some live in hosts at our various locations.
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Do t they ALL live in hosts at various locations? Is t “the cloud” just somebody else’s computer?
 
Retired electrical engineer. Sold big electron equipment for a while. Facility engineer for the mission critial side of a corporate campus for 20 yrs. A lot of sleepless nights but in hindsight was the best job I ever had. And then finally supply side project mgmt working 12 hours days sitting in front of 3 screens. Quit at almost age 55 after being told In an annual review that my performance was just average. They parcelled out my work to 3 trainees who all quit within a year. Careers are highly overated. If I had to do it all over again, I would have married well and been a kept man or would have been Machine Gun Kelly.
 
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I’m a lawyer (private sector, business restructuring and litigation).

Used to work for a silencer distributor, doing industry sales and consulting.

I’d rather pull all-nighters and go to court 100 times over than work in the gun industry again. Tradeshows are a nightmare, and you can answer the same questions from confused LE/SWAT/mil armorers so many times before you realize that most “armed professionals” should be nowhere near guns.

“no, lieutenant, you cannot use your 1/2x28 pistol boosters in M13.5 LH threaded barrels. That’s not a defect, I warned you via email when you made the purchase”

“sorry captain, your entire team tried to put .300 BLK through their Surefire RC556s, that’s not a warranty issue, that’s a user error… yes, they mounted to the rifles because you have the same muzzle devices across the board, but that has nothing to do with the bore diameter of the cans… ‘556 sounds bigger than 300?’ sir, 5.56 is metric, .30 caliber is imperial measurement, the 300 BLK bullets are 7.62 in metric measurement… no I don’t agree that it’s either confusing or misleading”
 
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Retired 4 months ago at 55. Worked in local government for 34 years, got tired of the politics and not able to give/have an opinion about matters. Much less stress now, been working for some local car dealerships, just driving and turning the radio up. Make a few bucks, I call em fun/gun coupons! Also, doing many honey do lists for the misses. Life is good.
 
Am an Associate Director in food service for a senior care (think assisted living) company. Or I was until Covid hit. Now it seems like I am a glorified cook, server or dishwasher since no one wants to work anymore.
on the bright side I am prob the best paid dishwasher in NC.
 
Retired now, but worked for 50 years in the piping industry.
Started at a pipe fabrication shop in Kernersville, then to jobsites and finally into design.
Everything from wastewater treatment, chemical, petro-chem, pharmaceutical, oil-gas-coal-nuclear power, etc.
Did 3D design similar to the image below for over 20 years.

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I’ve worked on golf courses for the past 28 years. Until this summer I was an assistant superintendent, managing 18 holes and supervised a crew of about 15 people. I now manage, service and repair the irrigation systems on 9 courses and their pump stations along with various and sundry other duties that fall under my job description. I occasionally miss the peace of being on a mower or piece of equipment, but I don’t miss a minute of babysitting people.
 
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).
 
I used to read instructions and translate them into more detailed chunks so that electricians could execute them. Then try to help the electricians understand and execute the instructions correctly.

Now I do the same thing but I remind engineers of requirements they are supposed to be reading anyway.
 
TLDR: I'm a wooden triangle designer.

I design trusses for residential and light commerical (small 6-10 unit townhomes, taco bell, Starbucks etc). I'm not an engineer and besides loading, the program does the majority of the math for shear and deflection on lumber.

I spend a lot of my day scrolling here because citrix or mitek sapphire has frozen.
 
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My employer gave me the title of Engineering Technician, after I was promoted from tool prep in 2008.

My job was to optimize and improve production assembly equipment. At first, I was only involved with the assembly of the Hemi 5.7L timing chain, then we added cam-cam chains for Chrysler's 2.7L. If you own a 2009 or newer vehicle with a 5.7L Hemi engine, the timing chain came from my machine.

We did make the timing and oil pump chains for the 2.7L Ford EcoBoost engines for a couple of years, but our company decided to send that production back to Calais, France.

We will stop making the Hemi timing chain within the next week or so, and those chains will be coming from France, as well.

In 2018, I had pump tappet assembly equipment added to my responsibilities. These pieces go to Nissan, Honda, GM, Ford, and Stellantis.

I enjoyed the challenge that came with these other machines, but I now find myself burned out, so I'll be retiring at the end of this year.
 
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