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I climb stuff - poles, trees, walls - with ropes course elements on them - zip lines, climbing walls - as an inspector. Love being up high. Lots of traveling, on the road M-F. During 9/11 I was helping build a course in Korea. Missed all the excitement back home. But when I have free time, I go climb stuff - rocks! Takes all kinds...

Richard, I see your in MA. Do you get out to the Gunks much? Here's my youngest climbing Betty, I think he was 4 at the time.

DJ

Gunks! My first lead ever was on High Exposure. We did it as three pitches: up, traverse to the ledge, then out the roof and up.

That was about 50 pounds ago. :(

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(Not me in this pic, but I do have a Kodachrome shot just like this that is me. Honest!)

I worked for a medium sized bank that was recently acquired by a larger bank. The legal merger is complete. Next up is the system integration. I'll be severed on October 1, which is my 42nd anniversary with the company. Not the retirement date I anticipated, but close enough.

I'm a water boy for a lawn and garden center and slowly spending money I saved up while sporting a personna almost as interesting as some of the ones listed above, hoping to have $1 in the bank when social security kicks in, at which point I will add an update to this thread that will be very impressive to slackers, but will still leave me exactly equal to everyone else when the first shovel of dirt is flung on my box.

John,
Sorry to hear about the unanticipated retirement. I despise big banks...really miss the warmer, local feeling of a small bank. BOA is the worst. The best day for me recently was when I was informed that they sold my mortgage to another bank....

Best of luck to you.

I was a Geologist at a Hazardous Waste Facility - I do NOT glow at night and I do NOT have 2 heads...oh wait a minute...

After 26 years I was kicked to the curb as a cost-cutting measure!

Now retired, sort of, I help people who have unwanted collections of whatever connect with people who REALLY WANT & APPRECIATE Grandma's old dishes or Grandpa's coins - like you folks on NET 54!

Yes, I make a little for my efforts, but I have made WAY MORE friends!

Thanks for reading my blather!

Real estate broker for the last 10 years was in the resturant business before that for about 17 years.

Graphic Designer

Home mortgage consultant. I really enjoy it most days.

I am now a Service Coordinator for Halliburton working on 19 years and worked from the bottom up
bulky, pump truck operator, Service Supervisor 1, SS2 ( first in my area to be promoted), SSIII (the first in my area to be promoted), Service Leader, Now Coordinator. Hoping to retire after 35 years with the Company at which time I will be 57 and my Rolex watch award.

I am a mutual fund manager.

During the school year I am a full time Industrial and Systems Engineering major. Currently earning beer, er, card money as a cashier at the local airport.

I'm Director of Engineering for AMIDAC International. We manufacture exothermic and aluminothermic weld powders, thermite, graphite molds and also flash butt welders. It's a very unique industry with only 7 players in the world.


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For 10 years I have worked in the library system for Yale University. My first few years all I did was read Baseball players biographies which I credit to stimulating my interest in pre-war cards, especially Ty Cobb!

Sales Director for a top 50 dot com, working for an internet start up makes it not seem like work sometimes

I just wanted to bring this topic up again for the new members who haven't seen it yet.

I'm a property manager for a corporate housing company in NYC . I help manage different building on the the east side and chealsea . Sometimes on the west side and downtown . I enjoy it because I'm free to do what I want and get to see all the sites and sounds .

Sr Software Engineer.

Work...
 

Sr. Project Estimator for Commercial Paint & Cabinetry Co.

Film & TV Producer

Senior Security Analyst for a NGO that provides international aid and relief to those in need. We do threat and security assessments on a global scale in over 120 countries

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Lion Tamer

My family has been in the trucking business for a long time.

Network Engineer/Data Analyst

Retired Production Manager in a large sheetfed printing plant. 26x42 inch sheets with 5 over 2 capabilities. Nice to be here learning so much about the "good old days" of the T206's printing process and other cards. Love all the history. Thanks Jim

I recently switched jobs. Currently a Process Improvement Specialist (Six Sigma Black Belt) for Fairfield Medical Center in Lancaster, Ohio. It's a big change from my manufacturing background, but healthcare has been a field I've wanted to get into for a while.

Own employment service
 

Www.Allcountyemployment.com
694 Reading Avenue West Reading PA 19611

I own 2 ice cream shops and a toy collectible business, also a toy historian. love toys!

Retired from GTE in 1999 with 30 years service. Have my own Telephone Service at present. General Telephone Service. Generaltelephoneservice.com

Ops manager for heavy construction. Water, sewer, tunneling etc...

engineer, working on energy efficiency projects and electric vehicles

one more add to this theme - my first job was a block from the old headquarters of the company that made the Spalding Champions set. I would like to sneak into the basement and find a set or two still tucked away :)

Retired from the Navy in 2009 after 30 years of service. Currently working for the government. Will retire in 6 years for good. Nice to see some of you retired in your 50's. Nice!

I started a company, Duke Cannon Supply Co., that markets and sells men's grooming products. Our mission is to provide men alternatives to using teenage body wash like Axe. I also consult on the side.

Data analyst


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I'm a fluffer.

CEO of a large trade association

I make sure all of the safety containers on the highway by merging lanes with metal or concrete dividers have a full amount of water in them in case a car hits them.

In the movies i am sad to see chase scenes end with an accident knocking down all of those containers as someone will have to fill those back up and also upset to see that many of them were only half full.

I'm a pharmacist by day and a He-Man historian by night. www.powerandhonor.org


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I worked in an underground coal mine for 31 years. Took my pension and semi-retired (I do carpentry jobs sometimes if I feel like it) at age 51 ten years ago. Coal miners are not dumb guys with picks and shovels. It's rough and dangerous, but it is mostly highly skilled jobs operating heavy machinery. I was good at it and am proud of it. No way I could ever work in an office, sit at a desk. Unfortunately looks like I will eventually be cheated out of the pension and medical care I was promised. Not promised - a signed contract! Probably have to sell off my collection.

I know coal mining is tough work . . .I saw Zoolander.

Seriously, that's tough work, and the kind of work that made this country what it is today. Sorry to hear you were screwed out of a well deserved pension. That is terrible.

Still have the pension at present, but in danger. The company I worked for has played their little games. Bought and sold, mergers, all that shit that makes millions for a few. Now the "company" that is supposed to pay my benefits is going bankrupt. All the millions they made have disappeared into some crook's pocket. No money left to pay their former employees.

Without getting political, and this board is certainly not the place for that, this is precisely the kind of crap that has angered so many people into looking in the direction of candidates for president we could hardly have imagined even 5years ago. Big middle finger votes for the status quo. Good luck.

Not so much the He-Man stuff, but I am a pharmacist as well. Haven't practiced in 24 years though :eek:

The fact that I know what this is is probably almost as troubling as that you claim to do it for a living.:)

I was waiting for someone to ask...what is it?

Tech Entreprenuer - created a video indexing startup 5 years ago www.veenome.com - sold it last year and then started collecting cards again.

Re:Fluffer

Tony, I was afraid to ask. :p

They underfunded the pension over time? Did they possibly fund it as required by law? If if the company declares bankruptcy the pension should still have assets.