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Just wondered what people do here for a living. I work in the prefab dept of our shop,I run a 56 year old mechanical steel shear. Sheared 3/8 corten steel plate tonight as a matter of fact.
 
Currently, Full time college student/farm worker/Ag mechanic/ Fix friends cars for free er. ha
 
Before I retired, I was an interior construction estimator--drywall, metal studs, flooring, etc. Not I just putter with food plots, my garden, wildlife projects and run beagles.

Larry
 
Been a farmer all my life. Right now my brother and I farm 1800 acres in mid-Michigan. In the spring, we pray for the rain to stop. In the summer, we pray it will start to rain again. In the fall, we try to harvest before the snow comes. In the winter, we complain about the cold. It's a great life!
 
Still making wheelchair wheels and tires along with other plastic parts five days a week at 73.
 
My company has me listed officially as a "Petroleum transportation specialist" which I suppose sounds better than a crude hauler. Either way, I drive a truck haulin' crude oil here in west Tx.
 
I went to college for gunsmithing, but realized if I wanted to make a living at that I would have to move to the city. So I drive a propane bob-tail truck, and work on guns on the side, plus raise a few beef cows...
 
I grow tobacco and beef cattle for over 50 years now wife is an RN lived off her most of the time. She up and retired on me, guess I'll be out of money soon then I'll just starve!
 
Warehouse manager for a large plastics manufacturer. I also help another company who has a warehouse rented at the facility I work at, mainly just printing off emails for orders. (They pay me under the table, but are a customer of the company I work for.)
 
I'm retired from the Federal government. Grew up on a dairy farm, but left it when I was drafted during the Korean War. We did engineering testing on all those Army vehicles including the M1A1 Abrams Tank, M60 Tank, Bradley Fighting Vehicle and the Gamma Goat Truck
to name a few. We ran ran drawbar pull on all of them. We also tested the Cat D8 crawler and that vehicle was shown in the movie "The Green Beret". It wasn't the same tractor we tested. It was nice having a job that you loved to go to. I worked in an instrumentation lab installing instrumentation on all these vehicle prior to testing. I retired after 43 years and that includes the 2 years in the Army. Here's one of the Field Dynanmometers we used for drawbar and cooling tests. Hal
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Active duty Air National Guard at JBLM WA State, preventing another 9-11. And getting ready to take over dads 60 acre farm.

Leonard
 
IT, Quality Manager and a Project Manager at an automotive supply firm. We build automation and tooling. Hope the business lasts another 5 yrs and then I plan to retire and then raise horses, hay, Christmas trees and anything else I can to make some money in my "golden" years.
 
I have been working full time at Retirement, since April of 2005. Prior to that, I spent 44 years as a Machinist.

John
 
I work for a very large bank, manage technology production support for the IT team. Hope to have our new place in the country ready in the next 2 years, then I can get away from all this.

L.
 
(quoted from post at 00:05:02 07/21/11) Just wondered what people do here for a living. I work in the prefab dept of our shop,I run a 56 year old mechanical steel shear. Sheared 3/8 corten steel plate tonight as a matter of fact.
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I am a semi retired Chemist. Do some petroleum consulting work for
clients with fuel and lubrication problems. Currently working full time for PPG on a solar mirror production project.

(fuelsandlubestechnologies.org)
 
self-employed contractor.roofing, all kinds,paint metal roofing, siding, windows, room additions, general maintenance on all kinds of buildings , play with old tractors.central Ohio.
 
I'm a chemist but currently working as a QA manager in a company making pies. I farm for the fun of it mostly although I do make a few bucks a it. It had been a great invironment to raise my 2 sons. With the way this year has been for weather if I loose a crop I'm just mad, not bankrupt.
 
teach 9th grade history in upstate ny

bale hay in the summer using equip older than me...
when not cutting/baling am usually fixing whatever needs fixing
spend most other time devoted to restoring an old farmhouse...foundation up...complete re-do
i stay busy... i love it when people ask me if i like having summers off...i worker harder in the summer than i do the rest of the year

25 years 'til retirement
 
Insurance Inspector. Evaluate real estate properties for insurance companies before they write or renew a policy on the property.
 
Grew up on a dairy farm, now live right acrost
the road from it. THere isn't enough profit to
suport 3 family's from one small dairy
operation so I took the job of a Ford Parts
Manager & have done this for 36 years. Work
on the farm weekends night & vacation.. Sell
Ford parts during the day..
 
I've been retired since 1999 after 32 years as a UNION Carpenter. Now I'm a Artist in Oil and Acrylic paintings,tend to my little dog ,work on our place when needed,Help the wife with misc. house work when needed,Go to the coffee shop for a visit with others like me and a few Cowboys several times a week,I like to piddle with my RV and vehicles often,when the weather is not so hot I like to ride my Quad with my friends in the mountains, I like to spend time on my PC and this Forum,I generally find stuff to keep me busy.Right now I enjoy the air condition very much,I will be 74 years Labor Day week end.
 
I currently drive a semi part-time and going back to college part-time. I also do small masonry projects on the side when I have time.
 
Fulltime farmer and custom operator-mostly haying.parttime mechanic/welder and do some"consulting".Its getting increasingly hard to make a liveing,I may have to go get a 'real' job.But with back and other health issues and the fact that you"cant even buy a job"these day,we'll see.we are in western Colorado.
 
Retired last year after 35 years as a union laborer.Now I get up in the morning read the paper,drink my coffee and make sure my wife gets off to work.Life is good.
 
Been dairy/farming/ranching for 40 odd yrs.
Since i got into Buffalo i finally make a decent living and not break the back doing it.

Good retirement occupation,lots of free time.
 
Retired Service tech worked for Company that Supplied the Water & Sewer Industry. "Worked in the road". 800 to 1200 miles a week 50 to 60 hours in 5 days . Was ready to retire at 62. was 8 years ago haven't looked back. Love retirment.
 
(quoted from post at 13:28:56 07/21/11) teach 9th grade history in upstate ny

bale hay in the summer using equip older than me...
when not cutting/baling am usually fixing whatever needs fixing
spend most other time devoted to restoring an old farmhouse...foundation up...complete re-do
i stay busy... i love it when people ask me if i like having summers off...i worker harder in the summer than i do the rest of the year

25 years 'til retirement
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Nice, very nice!!!!!!!!!!

I'm a 10th-11th grade history teacher in Southern California. My family has had a produce business since the 60's which I help run year around. My job is to maintain the orchards and care take several properties here in our valley.
 
By night I work at the water factory to pay the bills, by day I take care of cows and raise a few acres of 'baccer.

Dave
 
worked at many different jobs. ret'd fall '06 from IGA stores as a custodian/maintenence man(9) years. live in country with wife do odd jobs around premises and do a substancial amount of cutting and processing firewood.
 
I grew up on a small dairy farm.I have farmed, drove school bus, hauled bulk milk,and retired last year after 38 years with commerical freight line.
 
50 framerm yrears. DTIL II IM im fisrdt graderge Comingddddding baaaaaaaaaaaaaak from strokre 3 weeek only brokrfaaabelr
 
I was a contractor in the oilfield since I was 18, In that time I have done many different things. Jack of all trades master of none.
 
Been in the welding and repair business since 1976.We do all types of welding, fabrication, machine work, rebuild gas and diesel engines for tractors and off road equipment. Too young to retire and too old to try anythng else. Collect, restore and pull antique Ford and Cockshutt tractors for a hobby.
 
Correctional Case Management Specialist. Big term for a guidance counselor/paper pusher. I work in the 9th largest prison in America.
 
Dairy farmer, in my thirty first year of not having a job to go to.Milking cows this morning was a little warm, but we don't get the chance to have 90+ temps very often , so I am not going to complain about the heat, The dry, now that is another story.I have heard it said that if you love what you do ,then you never really work a day in your life.So heres to not worken!!
 
Im 19 and farm 450 acres in iowa. Took over all 450 acres when i was 16. I love tilling the land and enjoy harvest even more. still young and run into a few questions but thank god i have great neighbors to give me advice when needed. just part of a great farming community.
 
Nothing!!!!

Once a very long time ago I was a "Piston Engine Disasembler and Turbin Wheel Balancers Mechanics Helper"
Walt
 
I'm in lending for Ag/farmers. Do some appraisal work and try to get as many odd jobs farming as possible. Not quite farming like I did before, and after college but still I get to work with farmers at least. Got about 35 years until I can retire!
 
Retired electronics engineer. To stay busy in retirement, I (with a friend) build and repair violins, occasionally drive school bus (subbing), play in a 6 piece music group to entertain in nursing homes and the like, make a little hay on my acreage, volunteer at our local agricultural history center (Farmamerica), VP of the board of our church. There's more but you get the picture, I don't know when to say NO!
 
Took early retirement a couple of weeks ago from Dallas County Community College District.

Moving back to the farm in NE Texas and getting some long overdue work done around the place.

Might take time to <a href="http://youtu.be/idpU4UT8vc0">do some fishing</a> and sit on the front porch and drink sweet tea.
 
sh, its a secret(contract says i cant talk about it ),but i run a lab for the gov. honestly.not near so clandestine as it sounds.
 
Retired. I managed Sears Auto-Centers in the Omaha, Bellevue, Council Bluffs area for 25 years. Now I live in a remote mining town in Yukon Canada. Gerald
 
40+ years working for a general contractor. Started as a carpenter, retired as an estimator. Also farm on a small scale, enough to pay for the place we live on. Own and operate a mowing business where we mow highway right-of-ways. Do that with son and son-in-laws. Plan on retiring full time in a couple years.
 
Retired from GM. Previously worked for Chrysler, and several tool & die shops. I worked in the metrology lab, programming CMM's, large programmable gages at a engine plant. Have 10 acres, a Farmall H as a toy, and a Kubota L3400 HST as my work tractor. I work part time for my wife, who has a pet grooming business. We have 10 acres, a bunch of pets. Life is good, don't miss work too much, don't miss driving 50+ miles each way at all.
 
Self employeed as a heavy equipment mechanic/welder/machinist. Also have a background in industrial maintenance from both the Navy and civilian companies working on things like air compressors, heat exchangers, gear boxes, steam turbines, hydraulic and pneumatic controls, etc. Over the years I've also done framing, laid block, laid tile, done finish/trim carpentry, drywall, wiring, plumbing, HVAC work, etc, etc. for both myself and others.

When money is tight you learn to do whatever you need to do to have the things you need and/or want so I basically anything I can do to earn a dollar I'll do it. If I need something or something done and I can't hire someone else to do it, then I'll simply take the time and learn to do it myself. Currently I'm doing my best to teach myself CAD and CAM both for my own personal knowledge and satisfaction, and because it's something I can put to good use when fabricating custom parts for whatever project gets thrown my way. In the end I'm what most would call a jack of all trades, master of none, although I am told I usually get professional results on everything I do because I tend to be a perfectionist.
 
I was a propulsion engineer for a big airplane outfit in the Seattle area, whose name I won"t mention. I retired in 1999 after 34+ years there and was Chief Engineer for Propulsion Research and Preliminary Design. My wife and I have a small irrigated ranch in Western Montana where I raise beef cattle and my wife raises organic vegetables.
 
Retired from the Unisys computer co. about 5 years ago a after 36 years. I worked in the maintenance dept. Now I have my mowing, and discing business here in S. Calif. Stan
 
Energy Consultant - prior to that Director of Risk Management and Trading for a large Utility in NYC..

Part-time Farmer.. Ford 2000 and Ford 861..

Long Time ago - Tank Platoon Leader - M60A1 with the 1st Cav..
 
I was a DM for the Sears Auto Centers during the Baffico/ White era. Also was involved with the NTW stores out in your area before they got bought up by Sears
 
Retired underground contract miner/supervisor/superintendent after 43 yrs. Loved every minute of it. Worked all over the USA incl. Alaska, Peru, Chile, Indonesia, Mexico Got a call yesterday from a friend, he needs a trainer. Really thinking about it but my wife said that at age 66 I need to stay at home.
 
A misplaced farm kid in this wrehced old body. Been baby sitting contractors on construction sites for awhile. It's kinda like handling feeder pigs but pigs listen better.
 
dairy farmer, wrench turner,welder,electrician,plumber,equipment operator,carpenter. I do it all because since i am a dairy farmer i have no money to hire anything done.
 
Full time grain farmer and work part time for an excavating company and memeber of our volunteer fire dept. Love what I do hate to think about a day when I have to give it up.
 
I work for the city of Omaha.Used to be in the forestry department but transferred to the traffic department much easier on my body.
 
Started out mowing lawns and landscaping for about 7 years, then went into business with a friend of mine for another 7 or so.

Now I work at a local steel mill running an overhead crane moving ladles containing molten steel. I still do some landscaping on my days off too.

Picture is of a ladle that holds about 190 tons of steel. (Not me by the way)The ladle itself weighs around 100 tons, so we're moving around 300 tons total.

If i got it right, the link is a bit Good Morning America did about us a while back. Just so happens I was running the crane the day GMA was there.
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Poke here if you have a few minutes
 
20+ years Firefighter/Paramedic, fulltime City department, Company Officer on an ladder truck.
Instructor on my department and teach firefighting and technical rescue (high angle/confined space) for a local adult ed Tech School.
Rest of the time on my small farm and chasing the wife around the house!
 
Work for the Goverment rebuilding and repairing engines. I've been doing that for the last 6 years. I have worked 53 and 71 series detroits,903 cummings,onans,cats,hatz,and continential diesels. Plus me and my dad have a 50 head cow calf operation,and cut and bale 200 acres of hay 2-3 times.
 
67 years young . Retired 5 years ago from owning 2 Kubota dealerships. Still active in family farming ,trucking& earthmoving operation of 80+ employees. Do a little exporting of heavy equipment and travel over us.
 
Grew up on a dairy farm and farmed until 94, been driving truck hauling gas, diesel and fuel oil from the terminals back to our local area 450-500 miles a day, thats what pays the bills, make a little maple syrup and fix up old Farmalls for fun.
 
GM electrician for 32 years, landlord for 20something years, private electrical business for 40 years. Mechanic for my own stuff forever. Plenty to do if you feel like it. At 68, lots of don't feel like it time. Dave
 
I'm a "residuals management engineer" (I guess that's what they call it at work) in southeast lower Michigan.

We haul "bio-solids" from waste-water treatment plants and land apply it.. I do the land application. We do a lot of other things, but this is what I primarily do.

Not a glamorous job, but pays decent, and I have heat when it's cold, air when it's hot, and I spend the day in the field pretty well on my own. Can work some pretty long hours when the weather's right.. But pretty slow in the winter.

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Picture of tractor/applicator.. Both were new in 2009.. Quite a step up from our Terra-Gators that had well over 20k hours on em.. Used to have to wrestle with hoses to "offload" the semi trucks, but this setup has a boom that swings out and can offload a trailer without leaving the seat now.. Making me lazy, but I guess that's a price I just have to pay lol.

Brad
 
REtired Engineer(BSME), manager, Master Electrician, Journeyman Tool & Die Maker. How did I do all that stuff? Now I just farm my 12 acres and mess around. Oh yeah,and I help out at church, and local theater, and trustee at the Elks Lodge, serve on the County Department of Public Works Board. Life is not boring!
 
Retired 2 1/2 years ago from the U.S. Postal service. I was a rural mail carrier for 21 1/2 years. It was the best job I ever had, but it was time to be done.

Now I go for coffee, and try to keep up with lawn mowing and keeping my toys running!
 
Pilot for one of the major package delivery companies. Has allowed me to see the world and also get long enough stretches off to do projects around the place.
 
Design engineer for a major ag equipment OEM working on planters. I've also been a design engineer on construction equipment for the same OEM and mechanical controls for a small jet airplane in Duluth, MN.
 
RN, administrator. part time farmer/rancher and help run family hunting guide service in southwest oklahoma. used to work in oilfield but got tired of being laid off so went into healthcare. also volunteer firefighter.
 
I grew up on a small family dairy farm (I was half of the crew). In the summers my dad and I did hay cutting (NAA and 8N with sickle bars) for a hay contractor. Worked one summer in S. Louisiana offshore oil rigs.

Became newspaper reporter and editor, and later corporate public relations. For a time tried my hand selling insurance; thought I'd get rich but didn't. For two years I had an after-hours night job driving a bulk milk tanker through the countryside, backing into (literally) dark dairy barns and sucking out their tanks.

Last 25 years was a manager-level paper pusher for the parish (county). During that time was tending to two rent houses, plus clearing (by hand) my 12 acres in the country, an ongoing process. Sold the rental property to a hotel chain and now I stay home and play with my tractors and woodworking tools, collect my SS and pension and cash my royalty checks from the Haynesville Shale natural gas field---thanks to that old family dairy farm land.
 
High school vocal music instructor and sports rehabilitation therapist. In the summer assistant pool manager.
 

I'm one of them people folks on here whine about..........I'm a government employee working for the Army in Germany............
 
Retired Army, got to play on tanks from 74 to 96 (best part of that was being an Armor Tactics Instructor teaching new officers, was a student instructor relationship was pretty cool). After that held several different jobs to include insurance adjuster, mechanic and school bus driver. In 02 VA says thats it, with knee and back problems they forced me into retirement. So now I annoy people here and mess with tractors and such as I can.

Rick
 
I grew up on a dairy farm, then onto a cattle ranch, then onto 101st airborne, then onto construction and then turned into a graphic artist for the last 11 years. Don't ask because I don't have a clue either but it pays the bills.
 
Work for an automotive OEM for 18 years as an engineer. Engineer & statistician by schooling.

Have a small tree farm, landscape trees, no Christmas trees. I use the tree farm as an excuse to support my equipment habit of tractors, dozer, soon to be aquired dump truck and excavator.

Rick
 
Grew up on a dairy farm. I have been an electronic technician for the last 15 years. Still help on the farm almost every weekend helping my dad cash crop 300 acres. He sold the cows in 06 and hasn't missed it at all and neither have I.

Jason
 
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