I already do :eek:.

I run....
 

a small company that produces lab supplies for environmental labs....

Great Thread
 

I'm a 5th Grade Teacher and own a Home Improvement company - Self Employed!
Congrats to all who have just recently retired and THANKS to all of you who have or are serving and protecting my children in the Greatest Damn Country in the World!

Peace,
Tim Kindler

Mine
 

Digital video engineering manager for a large cable company in my 13th year.
My team operates in 5 states currently and likely to grow wider across the Western USA.
Past president of local SCTE (Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers) Chapter. It is an exciting, always changing technology...after almost 20 years as a barkeep. Wouldn't trade those experiences in life for anything either,but the bartender pension plan pays poorly:D

Oh retirement sounds good some days but working fuels the baseball card addiction so it's off to work again tommorow morning!

I'm with you, brother. It took me a minute to realize there were other people in the picture. :p

By the way, I've really enjoyed reading this thread, everybody. It is truly amazing to me how people with such diverse backgrounds and employment histories can come together to enjoy a common hobby, and a love of America's pastime. These threads are wonderful, because while the items that are shared on the forum are simply amazing, it is the members of Net54 that make this place what it is.

I think most wives will tell you where to go...but it's not to the ER. :eek:

Lawyer--civil and criminal trial and appellate practice, state and federal. Unfortunately, the prevailing politics have largely ruined a large portion of the practice in recent years. With a firm for 17 years, and on my own for going on 17. It is hell dealing with lay clients in Michigan these days (about half my practice; the other half of my clients are trial lawyers) with regard to criminal appeals and petitions for habeas corpus in federal court. All you hear in this state these days is "Well, ma and the 17,000 brothers, cousins and uncles only have 78 cents between them." With just a few exceptions, they want you to put in 50-100 hours worth of work to do a thorough, complete job of the highest quality [absolutely the only kind of work I do--I wouldn't even begin to know how to do anything "quick and dirty"] for next to nothing. Very frustrating lately, especially with the wife having lost a job as president/CEO of an optical company paying $150,000 three and a half years ago.

Thanks for letting me vent a little frustration--I intend to refocus my practice a bit to get into an area where I won't have to butt my head up against the stone wall of politics in the near future!

Very interesting thread--nice to hear about all of the diversity in occupations abounding in the hobby.

Best to all,

Larry

Forensic Structural Engineer

(I'm the guy they call to figure out why a building cracked, broke, or fell down.)

Lawyer. I practice almost exclusively in the area of plaintiff's insurance bad faith and fraud.

What do you do for a living
 

I think I have had a lifetime of many careers (built F-14 fighters, A6 fighters, Environmental Consultant, Instructor, etc....), or it feels like it anyway!

Most recently, for the past 16 years I have been with a large multinational insurance company. I have been "restructured" through most of their departments in one capacity or another. Last 5 years I have worked as a field investigator for commercial/business claims. I am hoping to squeeze out another 10 yrs or so before I call it quits.

Inherited some tobacco cards 4 years ago and have been hooked ever since!:D

I buy and sell baseball cards :D

Administrator at a family owned railcar repair facility. We clean, repair, and qualify tank cars.

Since it's a small family owned company, I wear many hats: inspector, IT guy, complaint dept, and mostly I deal with our customers to make sure we're giving them what they want (which is usually where complaint dept comes into play).

Small Animal Veterinarian for past 21 years. Thinking of getting into a different part of the veterinary field. Any animal health pharmaceutical guys out there looking for a rep in the Louisville, Ky area??

Nothing. I am slowly headed toward becoming a couch-surfer and getting my meals from the free samples at Costco.

All these cool jobs, not many medical people here?

I am a Registered Nurse on an Orthopedic unit...I'm the guy shooting you up with anti-puke medicine after you just got your knee or hip replaced. I was bumped off the Cardiac unit in a recent facility job relocation program that affected 200 of us...Id rather build and test missiles. I leave either tonight or tomorrow for 3+ weeks on my first vacation in over a year, living out of tent like dirtbags!

pastor
 

I am the Assistant Pastor for a PCA church. I tend to the 12 - 40 crowd - youth, college, young people, young families...

I also teach Speech and Writing one day a week at a high school homeschool co-op. It is a fun side job. I assign them a week's worth of work and, for the most part, they come back the next week having finished it all. Then we talk about it. This is my second year but I am still surprised each week when they show up having done all the work. I never did any work when I was in high school.

Management Consultant
 

Partner with Booz & Company ... specialize in working with automotive and industrial companies on strategy and transformation

Well, in this day and age, Medical people can't afford luxury items, like little pieces of cardboard!!:eek::eek:

Well, add me to the list of Medical Professionals.....I am an Anatomic and Clinical Pathologist in a large single specialty group in the Pacific Northwest. I spend most of my day looking through a microscope at little parts of patients that get removed during surgery or another type of procedure, and issuing an evaluation (.....too graphic?????......).

Definitely a lot of cool careers that others have on the board.

I'm an engineer with my own small company. Our work is mostly centered around blasting - utilities, building implosions, bridge and tower demo.

Graduate student @ Tennessee Tech

That must be interesting.

The industrial mechanical work sometimes involved that on a really small scale. Best to know why it broke so the new one dosen't break right away:D


Steve B

wow..very popular thread...
 

Private Investigator for large (divorce) law firm....

I am a pharmacist, working for a large insurance company, doing telephonic medication reviews with high risk patients.

Structural Engineer working for a construction company specializing in low rise cold storage distribution centers for the food service industry.

edited to add for sbfinley: Tennessee Tech class of '88

I am the Pastor of a great church. Been in ministry for 21 years.

GIS Analyst and Developer for an engineering firm. Most of my work involves the Marcellus Shale boom in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio.

Leon.....congrats on FINALLY being out of the restaurant business!

And now he is full time in the adult babysitting business :)

Database Administrator and systems design, and a little web development for an IT company

Professor of Buddhist philosophy/author/translator, and a few other things.
JimB

I sell bb card insurance.

Lucky

Design Engineer at IBM Poughkeepsie, NY
Engineering Teacher at High School on Long Island, NY
Retired

I seek out and destroy outbreaks of Streptococcus mutans within the general population.

Boeing 777 mechanic

Pastor George E., where is your PCA located? I'm in the Cedar Valley.

Mechanical Engineer here, 13 years at Chrysler and now nearly 5 at John Deere. Most of my time at Chrysler was spent working on and improving the Hemi engine and now I work on large diesel engines in an advanced engine technology group. Two very different worlds, yet so similar.

I'm a longtime soccer coach (made it to the college level) before quitting to join the corporate world, but the corporate world, it turns out, wasn't the thing for me, so now I'm writing a book.

It's a short story book, which of course lacks the grandiosity of a novel, but I'm cool with that. Some of the great ones like Hemingway and Joyce got their start with short stories.

Joe,

pm sent.

George

Retail Store Manager for large General Merchandise Retailer.

Also a part time lurker at net54baseball.com
:)

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

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

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

Masonry Contractor.

Work for a defense contractor that specializes in combat and tactical vehicles. Basically get to travel the country, and world at times, and blow vehicles up...

Adam, I'm an RPh too, but haven't filled a script in over 20 years :D

I work raising funds for a cancer center in new york state. Other than being a doctor who could possibly cure cancer, i doubt i could be in a more rewarding profession. Also a part time doctoral student who is hoping to be done May 2016.

they teach engineering in high school?

weird...I had all AP classes my senior year but never was offered engineering...

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!

work in the PACU(post anesthesia care unit) as an RN