SO what does everyone do for a living. and when do you ever find the time to work on your car or even just to browse and thread on this website....
what do your co workers say about your car?
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SO what does everyone do for a living. and when do you ever find the time to work on your car or even just to browse and thread on this website....
what do your co workers say about your car?
Union carpenter, laid off lots of time...
Aviation mechanic with the Navy, unemployed at the moment since the end of contract. Thinking about switching professions to something different.
Also lots of time as you can see from frequent posts. Lots of time to work on the car.
i work at wegmans. ive grown up around cars my whole life. i have a bay and a half garage that is heated.
wow yall blow me out the water im too embarrased to even say what i do...but hey im proud in a way to do what i do and wont have it any other way....pay waaaaaayyyy good for me....anywho yea ive been on a 2 week vacation last day is tmrw then back to work. all day shifts and all nighters....so yea reason for my frequent posts as well.
So what exactly do you do for living?Quote:
Originally Posted by EvySpeedy254
im a slave at winndixie and a student :(
I'm currntly working at Firestone as a technician and I will be continuing on as a professional student this september to finish up my last year to getting my 2 automotive degrees 8)
And I pretty much get about 30 minutes at night right before I go to sleep to browse the forum, and no time to work on the car :(
^^ baller i wanted 2 work at a tire place.. im obbssed with cars =P~ even if its just wheels.
im an Electrician,
i've done many houses, service calls from adding plugs 2 rewiring panels and adding more stuff. i have done commercial jobs like a local Buffalo Wild Wings.<- pain in the ass
my wife works at Gordans Jewler, BLING BLING lol its
my jobs aight. i can do side work at least~ :wink:
I work as a GS civilian at Tinker Air Force Base. Work as an action officer for the command section of the Air Logistics Center. High stress, but it's also highly visibile and very rewarding. Makes it all worth it at the end of the day.
I'm also an Air Force Reservist. I'm a Vehicle Operator (scored high enough on the ASVAB that I was told that I could essentially have any job that I wanted, so what do I pick? The shortest tech school with the most benefits, lol). Although I have no complaints; if I wouldn't have deployed, I wouldn't have the civilian job that I have today (hired off of a Veteran's Preference). Everything happens for a reason!
Work at a Casino and over the last year I have returned to school as a full time student.
When do i get on? About your lunch time, or in the early morning.
What do people think of my car? First question is they try to figure out what it is (debadged).
Next they want to know what I am doing with such a small car, considering I am over 6 ft and 300 lbs.
I work for a help desk that supports the post office computer systems. People I work with don't see my car as I walk to work. Most people that do ask anything generally assume that it handles good and gets good mileage. My response is usually "yeah it's ok" or "actually it doesn't handle that great".
Since getting decent tires and a scan gauge, handling and mileage has improved though.
Going to pick up my UltraRacing rear strut bar at the post office today actually. Been a long wait, anxious to see how it turns out.
I’m ex-armored core and now work as the Quality Assurance Manager here at H&O Cylindrical Precision. We make a large verity of parts for many different companies, but a good 50% are military contracts.
Boo - you started it, you have to share! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by EvySpeedy254
I do web site development, self employed. On the computer all day anyway, so I'm on and off here at all hours.
"retired" stay at home dad..
8)
wouldn't change a damn thing about it.
:D
i'm an engineer in the canadian navy
I work in the manufacturing industry in a company that fabricates kitchen cabinet doors and drawers.
I operate a computer controlled press that puts any of our 93 colours on the doors.
i got owned :x
I said on 'network that I just sit on my ass for 8 hours and go home but I guess I will expand.
I am contract security (worst kind of security) for a petroleum and chemical processing plant called Kinder Morgan on the southwest side of Chicago. Even tho people dont like to take security seriously, nobody really grasps how important our position is at this plant. In a short story, if something were to happen to the plant we "guard", a large portion of the south side of Chicago, from the plant to Midway Airport would be in alot of trouble. Im not going to go into specifics. I cant. The worst thing about working here is not only does nobody take us seriously and they pretty much **** on us, we are the hardest working, most underpaid guards in the entire security company. What make things worse, is there are ome sites in our company where guards get paid more than the Lieutenants who come around and inspect our posts. Its funny to watch how they (the Lts.) deal with that when they start with the company. First they start off as complete hard asses ready to write you up for breathing funny, then after a month or two and having seen almost all the sites our company has, they start to just not care. Especially when the guards who are getting paid more than them start copping them attitude. They are then the one who end up getting wrote up the most and eventually fired. Then when the Lts. come to our site, they just sign our daily activity reports, then sit down and just start bs-in us about random ****, like we are at a bar or some ****. It is quite a fascinating process to watch. The turnover rate in security is something like 70%. Yet in over 2 years since I have been on this site, we have yet see any one of us get fired or even in trouble for anything because we really do take our job seriously, even tho nobody else does. Then when the client starts ****ting on us, we **** right back. They are running late for work and forget their work IDs, we hold them up at the gate and make sure we spell their name correctly, make sure their TWIC cards are not fake as well as their drivers licenses, inspect their vehcles for weapons, drugs, or other dangerous items, I might "have" to go to the bathroom "bad" while checking them in, etc... Ive only done that once with an employee who pissed me off almot everyday. We can also lock the gates so even if they have their employee ids, they can still not get into the plant until we feel like letting them in. Its very rare when we have to do things like this, and I havent had to do anything like that in a very long time, because they know to now be nice to us. The truck drivers on the other hand, well, they can be some ignorant ass mofos. The majority are pretty cool, hell some drivers bring us ****, newspapers, gatorades (nice in the summer), cookies, etc... I had one driver bring me playboys for a while. Had check them for stickiness before i could read them. But there is that 1% that like to push buttons on things other than their CBs. Thats the short story.
sounds fun
wow it does. you kno how come u dnt try and get a new job?
Overall I do enjoy what I do and at our site there is a certain comaradery between us guards that I have never seen or had before on a work crew. The pay could be hella better tho, but I at least have health insurance and a retirement plan in action. Have I been looking for another job? Oh heII yes, but there is not much in my area that I am qualified to do, so I have decided to wait it out, get myself established in one spot for a few more years to show committment, and finish school.
Although, even if I am not qualified for the position, I still apply if theres an opening at a company, worst they can say is no.
i still have 6 years until i get my masters, cant wait lol
im a sales cxonsultant for a landline phone and web company that starts with a ve and ends with n
i workd for a cable company the last 16 b4 that years also a mack dealer and an airplant repaint centr
ive always tinkerd with cars
my favorites are 82-84 pontiac firebirds with 4spds
(ive had 30 two of em were parts deals)
even though i like firebirds i had an 09
mustang gt for 14 months and it was a blast
i truly think ford makes a real muscle car
i now just hav two aveos an 06
and a brand brand new 10
im workn over a lil
i will post pics soon as im done
I likes that company that starts with "ve" and ends in "n". :D
i like ATT better :o
Man, sounds like some really awesome jobs 8) Too bad the originator hasn't said what he does LOL
I'm an Aviation boatswains mate (handling) in the US Navy. My job is the directing and safe movement of aircraft onboard most air capable ships but mostly I deal with aircraft carriers. My job is considered the 5th most dangerous job in the world and I love it very much. Nothing like going to work and watching Jets taking off every 30 seconds or Jets doing controlled crashes everytime they land \:D/ The politics behind the jobs stink but that's what you live with when you sign that contract.
how about some pics of your job place!~ :mrgreen: EVERYONE!~
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id= ... 1239483437
Somebody try that and let me know if it works, dunno how my privacy settings are on my facebooks. I just checked them and it should be a go, but, I dunno.
That link worked. I see a gate, a guard shack, and some really dark cloud. 8)
Yikes. So do you know the first four?Quote:
Originally Posted by theclarkfam
I'm an industrial designer and I work for a company that makes geared products (gearboxes & gears) mostly for mining applications like rock crushers and conveyor belts. I work in new product development where we design and test new products. The company's claim to fame is we've made the largest gear in the world. It is 43 ft in diameter and is being used in a mine in Chile I believe.
Here are a few pics off the company website:
http://pt.rexnord.com/products/images/mill2.jpg
http://pt.rexnord.com/products/images/mill3.jpg
http://pt.rexnord.com/products/images/driveone-8587.gif
cool, that was right before a storm hit us that knocked the power out for the entire terminal for over 24 hours except for our guardhouse that regained power 2 hours after the initial outage. It was awesome being the only ones in the terminal with ac. (the facebook link one page back)
Here's the cover of your plant handout I put together a few years back. Sorry I can't show you any pics from inside the plant do to the nature of what we make.
http://i619.photobucket.com/albums/t...sbud/cover.jpg
here is one of my many offices
http://i773.photobucket.com/albums/y...0004167133.jpg
http://www.steveklein.com/communities_s ... efault.asp heres the site with the houses we wire up.
ill add more but im lackin a camera
bnsf conductor :D
I wouldn't mind your job, I applied to bnsf, but they have nothing locally at the moment. I'll keep trying though.Quote:
Originally Posted by dleebold
911 dispatcher
Quote:
Originally Posted by dleebold
I have also thought about this one in the past.
But I probably would be divorced after the first year.
Wife couldn't deal with me not here. It's bad enough just trying to maintain work and school.
ok ok. so i am a proud memeber of the fort hood military post. "the great place" as so they always say at the gate. i work as a store manager and a driver at the fort hood pizza hut. we are the busiest pizza hut in the world. and one of the top busiest pizza restrauant in the country. hard to believe but u have no idea what high demand pizza is to soldiers and being on the largest and biggest military post in the world. its a crazy challenging butt busting job. but i love it cause i love busy busy busy and to serve our troops as i was a military brat my whole life i cant imagine my life without the military so i surround myself in it even after my dads retirement n me going my sepereate way as an adult....i love my job in a sense i just hate the people i work with lol and sometimes those reeeeallly iritating complaining customers. i work 6 days a week almost 10 hour days. i also drive in which i make almost 100 a night. so im making almost 1000 every two weeks . 600 for regular pay and 400 in tips. not bad also another reason i stay. its just easy money. n going home every night with cash in hand from tips. is addicting and helps me alot when it comes to paying bills on time and stuff for my car mostly......so there you go.
i also was a couple blocks away and stuck inmy store for an entire day due to those 11-05-09 it was a tough day and alot of people here on the military base is senstive over it.
http://www.novinite.com/media/images...big_109676.jpg