Whats your job

[Varmint]

I suck farts out of the seats at a local movie theater.

[kari b]

i am a female who rides a valk, i am 5 foot tall and i run a overhead crane hauling up to 90,000 lb coils of steel and stamping them into blanks for various companies.  my husband taught me how to ride and bought me a valk for christmas nine weeks ago. it is the best gift other than my first bike that i still have a hard time giving up.    kari b

[KW]

HEY VARMINT, DO YOU CONTRACT OUT? WE JUST HAD THE FAMILY ALL UP. . . AND THE LAZYBOYS AND COUCH COULD ALL USE YOUR SERVICES.

[bsnicely]

I am a  West Virginia Motor Carrier Enforcement Officer. We enforce all local, state and federal  laws regarding trucks and commercial motor vehicles. I am also a law enforcement firearms instructor and teach civilian concealed carry classes once a month. I also work weekends in a gun shop.







Besides working and riding my Valk I am enjoying my 2006 Nissan 350Z Grand Touring.  Not quite as pricey as a Lotus but it is a blast to drive ( gonna get me in trouble, I am afraid.).

[Smokinjoe-VRCCDS#0005]

Teamster for Uncle Sam ...Heavy Hauler ...If it's too heavy to get moving and too heavy to get stopped I'll have it on a trailer. I'm one of the guys bsnicely in the above post lives for    My boss is pushing for us to start hauling for the nuclear side of our company I'm not at all looking forward to that I'll be in a class room more than out on the open road 

[fudgie]

Professional Tattoo Artist

also
ex Paramedic (NREMT/A), member Amsterdam Tattoo Foundation, Custom MC Fabricator/Designer, Grampa   

Where ya slinging ink at? Been wanting to get work done by you for years.

[Ghost]

I work for a Fork Lift dealer ship out of Ohio. Travel to factorys, farmers where ever to repair all types of fork lifts. www.mitlift.com    I have been at this for 20 plus years now.

[Goody]

Electrician for 45 years.  Started as a house mouse.  Moved into the industrial end in my 20's.  Got into PLC programming and have been with that for 10 years.  Have worked recently as a maintenance supervisor as I am wore out and can't climb the machinery anymore.  I HaTe It, company won't let me be fair to the men and wants me to hire people with no qualifications.  Giving it up, applied for disability,  Going to spend the rest of my time carving and riding my trike.

[ssober]

I am 3rd generation in a 60 year old construction company.  We are a small 25 man outfit.  We have sand plant, string of trucks, paving crew for street paving and commercial work, and do utility work.  We have to be diversified being we don't travel across state lines and don't travel over 100 miles from home. 

[Karen]

Software Engineer for a defense contractor & semi-retired musician.

[MP]

Joe,  you and I are going to have to work over that bsnicely motor carrier enforcement guy!   LOL   

Actually, almost all of the ones I have dealt with have been very good.  As in all walks of live, there are a few nut cases out there.  bsnicely sounds like one of the best.

MP

[BamaDrifter64]

I am a small-town, solo attorney...working too many hours...but not minding the hours so much since I have a great boss!   

Practicing attorney for 15 years, prior to that I was in procurement as a contractor for NASA for 8 years.

Doubt I'll ever get to retire...so I just need to figure out some way to make my suits bug-proof....

Dave

[valkmc]

former union painter at several nuke plants (7yrs), former unemployment investigator(3yrs), former Dept of Corrections Official (12 yrs)and for the last 5 years a public school teacher and coach. Valk rider since July 28th 1998, one Valk only but am on my 3rd wife

[alph]

I've owned my own food processing company for ten years, installed industrial and residential security systems for five years, then fiber optics and network cabling for another five years, onto building electrical control panels for commercial paint booths for yet again five years, now I'm in electrical maintenance at a diaper factory I'm thinking for four more years, that'll make it five!!  

And as of now, I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up!!

Life has made me a jack of all trades, master of none.

[pitbull]

Great response from all of you,what a varied bunch we are.

Although I have work for Lotus in total for about 7 years,I did leave them in 2006 to start my own business.At the time I was riding an old 1000cc Yamaha Virago and wanted to have a touring trailer to pull.In the UK there are only a couple of trailers available on the market,all of which I didn't like.So I set to work and designed a basic trailer,taught myself how to fibreglass,built a mold and hey presto,built my first trailer.I invested every bit of cash I had plus some more to make it work,but it just didnt happen.It seems as though in the UK,towing a trailer with a bike just isnt the thing to do.It didn't help that the UK laws for towing a trailer with a bike are very limited,length and width wise.Most of the enquiries I had came from the USA,Canada and Australia.In mid 2007 I was asked to go back to Lotus and decided to pull the plug on the trailer business.

Here's the first one I built,,



One I built for a UK Winger



This is my original one after I painted it to match the Valk.

[junior]

I suck farts out of the seats at a local movie theater.

and what kind of degree/trainning do you need for that and what does it pay................ after taxes?

[Daniel Meyer]

Author. Adventurer. Electrician.

What pays for all these shenigans is that I do systems integration (fancy word for "make stuff work") for the publishing side of AH Belo Corp (principally, The Dallas Morning News)

When I'm not buried up to my ears in work for "them", I work on the Old Vic, play with tools, and now, I'm starting to work on opening my own business.

[hubcapsc]

I watch TeeVee and mash buttons. Chromedome has some other fancy names for it... 

-Mike

[Goo-Goo Magoo]

I work in a chemical plant on the Mississippi river for the last 30 years. Some people say I don't work, just show up to get a pay check. What ever the case pay not bad, 12 hr shift so so. But its a job.

[Smokinjoe-VRCCDS#0005]

Joe,  you and I are going to have to work over that bsnicely motor carrier enforcement guy!   LOL  

Actually, almost all of the ones I have dealt with have been very good.  As in all walks of live, there are a few nut cases out there.  bsnicely sounds like one of the best.

MP

Yes sir Brian is a good one I've rode with him several times and even went into West Virginia to pick-up a over-size load. Brian came out and picked me up in a big parking lot and we had lunch together. First time in my life I rode in a cop car and went to lunch not jail  

[Westernbiker]

Facility manager for a laege electrical distribution company here in Phoenix Az. Before that I was a quality control manager for Garrett Turbine Engine Company, did that for 13 years.

[flamingobabe #44]

was a hairdresser for 32 years...taught cosmetology at the local jr. college for about 7.5 years...retired for 1.5 years...now I'm maid...cook...gardener...lawn specialist...party organizer...mimi....and full time friends with hotglue which is the best job in the world...fb

[POPS 57]

Supervisor of the H.V.A.C & R shop at V.A med. center Mpls. Mn. Before that was an a.c. mech.. heavy equip. operater, truck driver & labor. I will be 55 this july with 37 years of goverment service and can retire. But with the wife out of work and the kids needing some help i don't know if i will go.

[Minnie Miles]

Retired heavy equipment operator, trucker driver, at the pressent sheep and dog trainer
http://milesallenbordercollies.com/

[Charlie McCready]

Retired in 2007 after 30 years in tool and die shop of Reynolds Metals/Ball Corp can end plant. Made "pop tops" for aluminum drink cans. Mostly beer and soft drink but whatever the customer wanted we did, diet drinks, power drinks, liquid detergent, etc.  Before that I worked in machine shops, drove truck, surveyor for highway dept, building engineer for National Geographic in Wash, DC (maintenance man)...........Of all the above I like retirement best !!!  More time to ride ....see ya in KY !!

[the inspector]

Auto mechanic first 2 thirds, Auto inspector last third and at times amature obgyn doctor.

[bigdog99]

Almost 33 years in the steel industry. hired in and worked on a cold rolling mill. now am the manager of the cold rolling mill and roll shops. seems like just yesterday.

[sheets]

State Highway Department - Maintenance.  Thirty-five (+) years.  Intend to stretch this gig out three more years.  If the Guvanator (Awnuld Boobengrabber) extends the current 15% cut beyond June . . . I'll call it a day.  

[Popeye]

Worked for 3 years for a company called Trailer Train, they own rail cars.  Will have 31 years in March 2010 with Western Electric/AT & T/Lucent Tech/Alcatel-Lucent.  Variety of jobs in the 31 years, right now doing tech support.  

Would rather be working for a charity that I volunteer for but will never get my wife to move to North Carolina.  Don't blame her, I would have to travel a lot for that job.

A great job would  be a beer taste tester living in Colorado.

[Bladedog]

Was an aerospace tech for 20+ years, worked on Titan, shuttle and some satellite stuff.  Now a Test Support Engineer for an infrared manufacturing company (Gee, I wonder who... lol).  Here's some recent fun infrared pics:

One of our newest hand-held cameras.  Took these at a recent charity function.  Here's the bar.  The whiter the image, the hotter it is.  Dark black indicates either water, glass or something cold.  in this case probably all three.  haha


More folks sitting and drinking...


Took these on the way home.  Dark outside, but you really can't tell from the pictures.  Cars underneath are very hot, of course.

[cwl3gemt]

I am like Fudgie. I am a Firefighter 2/Emt-Basic. I also work at Iowa Speedway as a Firefighter/EMT, usually in the grandstands on a Medcart. Also do construction, because the track is part time, and the other Fire/EMS is volenteer. I also am a Fire Service Instructor 1, so I can also do some teaching when needed for a few topics.

[2step]

Just a old Coal Miner

[wdvalk]

Iwork as a field engineer for a firm that supplies technology to Coca Cola and other large companies in the food industry

[T-Bird]

I worked for 25 yrs for a Budweiser Distributor as a Market Mgr. I had to retire for health reasons...heart transplant in 2003. I stayed idle for about 7 months then opened up a gas & welding supply store with a business partner. The business was very good till last year when the economy went sour. Now we are just trying to keep the doors open, and I just found out today my wife will be laid off were she works at the end of this week.  Hopefully 2010 will be a better year....LOL

[HOZ]

"Integral Fuel Cell Sealer" is my job title. I clean and final close (put on the doors) fuel cells on Boeing 777 commercial jet liners, in Everett, Wa.

[JerryB]

Was in a plastic factory for 26 yrs.Retired as a quality auditor at the end of '06' and ride an I/S trike and drive an R/T......JB

[Dag]

Region Manager with "Mento AS" www.mento.no dep. Kristiansund since 1996
We are serving the Oil & Gas industry in Norway.

Filtration:
•Norway´s largest ware house in filter products
•Over 300 different filter brands in stock

Valves:
•Butterfly Valves, Ball Valves, Gate Valves, Rotary Process Valves, Plug Valves, Globe Valves, Check Valves, API 6A Valves

Hoses and Flowline:
•All kind of low pressure and high pressure hoses, drilling hoses, quick couplings, adapters and fittings.

Oilfield Supply:
Washpipe System, Mud Pump Piston Rod System / Valve covers / Liner Retention Systems, Drilling Compounds and Lubricants, Centrifugal Pumps etc....

Our new location in Stavanger


Choke & Kill Manifold

[RP#62]

"Integral Fuel Cell Sealer" is my job title. I clean and final close (put on the doors) fuel cells on Boeing 777 commercial jet liners, in Everett, Wa.

We refer to you guys as tank divers.
-RP

[Toledo Mark]

FritoLay District Manager in Ohio.  Before that I owned a convenience store for about 6 years and three gift shops for twenty years.

[sheets]

Your southern State line is a few miles up the road from me.  Not too long ago, 25 miles of my State highway was in your State of Jefferson.  Where are you located?