What do you guys do for a living?

[greco827]

...Or did you do, if you happen to be retired.

There are some amazing collections put together by the members out there and it made me wonder .... what do these guys do for a living??? I'm in IT. Boring. Kind of hard to describe what I do, but I basically make the enigmatic "cloud", happen. "Nobody understand the cloud! It's a mystery!"

[KMayUSA6060]

Head Hunter/Client Developer in the hospitality industry.

[Frank A]

Was a commercial construction carpenter for 43 years. Now retired and loving it!!

[2dueces]

Technical Engineer in the Welding Industry.

[autograf]

Long-range transportation planner for a large brown transportation company............

[Jacklitsch]

Retired (going on five years) lawyer.

[nolemmings]

Originally Posted by Jacklitsch

Retired (going on five years) lawyer.

My hero! I too am a lawyer, but my investment prowess has made certain that I will never be able to retire. I will be working on the day I die, and am researching whether I am expected to work thereafter.

[Mdmtx]

Slowing down a little. Spent many years as ops manager in heavy construction. Got tired of all the travel and moved into cost estimating/project management. Now I miss the travel/time out of the office.

Hey, do you guys see that green grass on the other side of the fence?

Mark

[darwinbulldog]

I'm an evolutionary psychologist and a university department chair. Still decades away from retirement.

[Big Six]

I sell new account screening solutions to banks and credit unions...


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[stlcardsfan]

I'm a Regional President for a community bank.

Matt, your products save us a lot of money that might be lost on bad actors!

[the 'stache]

When my back gets back to the point where I can get off pain medications, I'll return to my job as a stockbroker, though I'll have to take all my darned FINRA exams all over again.

[deeg23]

Graduated almost two years ago now (man, time flies) and I am currently a derivatives analyst at a financial institution!

[topcat61]

I'm an Advertising Illustrator.

[kailes2872]

I am a sales director for a big CPG company and run the eastern half of the country. I spend most days chasing down trucks and getting yelled at for late deliveries and trying to negotiate with ever increasing in power retailers.

But we are an official sponsor of MLB and I got to go to opening day, the all-star game, the ALCS, and if the Yankees would have won, the World Series. I play a lot of golf in the summer time and travel about 45 weeks out of the year so it could be worse.

[Rhotchkiss]

I own a company that owns and operates manufactured housing communities (mobile home parks); I am a "recovering attorney" -- have my JD and LLM in tax law and practiced for 7 years but gave that racket up a long time ago!

[enuffsenuff]

I work for DFDS the largest Roll On / Roll Off ferry company in Europe. We operate 58 large ferries and ship from UK to Europe and Scandinavia. We also cover the Baltic Sea routes. I am in the UK and responsible for warehouses,transport etc Have been in the industry for 44 years and retirement is just around the corner ⏰ upon which I will try to sort out the huge accumilation of cards I have assembled over the past 35 years and still buying.

[iwantitiwinit]

Recently retired, formerly an Equity Derivatives Trader for a few different investment banks.

[Nunzio11]

I work on the Capital Markets/Syndicate desk for a mid cap investment bank. Been there 12 years now.

[ChiefBeef]

Sr. Construction Project Manager. 4 months shy of 40 yrs. Lots of ups and downs. Blessed. Collecting since 65.

[ajjohnsonsoxfan]

Owner of LiquorStore-Online.com and NationwideLiquor.com (coming soon)

[jiw98]

I'm a Union electrician,(IBEW Local 275) working for a large contractor in Michigan where I have worked jobs from the Atlantic to the Pacific and a lot in between.

[danski496]

Pretty cool seeing the different paths each of us are on. I currently work for a large fleet management company. Locate, negotiate and ensure service providers meet legal requirements nationally, and internationally, that can primarily perform onsite preventive maintenance and emergency repairs for diesel/gas vehicles, forklifts, cranes, trailers and associated. Locate in shop providers as well. Been in the sourcing field since I left the Navy in '95.

[BruceinGa]

I believe the thing that we all have in common is that we were all kids once. We loved baseball and we loved collecting baseball cards.
Even though I don't watch baseball now I still love baseball cards.

[kkkkandp]

To answer the question I direct you to my current Linkedin profile...

[familytoad]

I work in TV / Internet engineering for a big company. I travel a lot since I somehow got promoted a few times over the years.

But, I want to be hired full-time by a company as interesting as the one Kevin shows above. I do some of those activities on Saturday or Sunday , but how cool would it be to do it Monday through Friday!

[Roulette44]

Actuary, and SVP at a Fortune 100 company.

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Roulette44

Actuary, and SVP at a Fortune 100 company.

My daughter is applying this January for an internship at a local actuarial company (or a company who employs them). We are hopeful she likes it and think she will. She likes to be secluded and she likes working on numbers .

[Roulette44]

Originally Posted by Leon

My daughter is applying this January for an internship at a local actuarial company (or a company who employs them). We are hopeful she likes it and think she will. She likes to be secluded and she likes working on numbers .

Typically Actuaries work at Insurance companies, or consulting firms that specialize in Actuarial work (pension, healthcare, property/casualty).

I'd encourage her to work on the interpersonal, group work, and social skill sets. She may not need the "practice" and just prefers to work solo......however, the computational element of what actuaries do is less and less material to the role. Machines compute the answer (used to need actuaries for that), so the differentiator is, for example, articulating a complex calculation simply to a layperson.

Just my $0.02 - no change required!

[kkkkandp]

Originally Posted by familytoad

But, I want to be hired full-time by a company as interesting as the one Kevin shows above. I do some of those activities on Saturday or Sunday , but how cool would it be to do it Monday through Friday!

My ex-employer actually got me my current position.

It's a tough, seven-day-per-week job, but my new boss doesn't mind all that much when I tell her I need time off to play golf!