What do you do for a living? (2022 Edition)

TPRC · December 3, 2022 11:59AM

35 years a construction/government contracts/commercial lawyer/litigator for a mid-sized firm and still going strong. Before that, I was a civil engineer.

OAKSTAR · December 3, 2022 12:30PM

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OAKSTAR · December 3, 2022 12:32PM

@DNADave said:
Forensic scientist for 28 years.

The bat did it!!

anablep · December 3, 2022 12:48PM

26 years as a high school science teacher

dunkleosteus430 · December 3, 2022 12:56PM

High school, sometimes do some well-paying yardwork when the weather's right.

willy · December 3, 2022 1:03PM

Owner of a structural steel fabrication shop. We have done buildings across the US. Mainly Hospitals, Manufacturing plants, Schools and Casinos. The last 2 years have been all about warehouses for Food and e commerce distribution.

DelawareDoons · December 3, 2022 1:03PM

@Boosibri said:
North American CFO for a large food company

Yes, I have some feedback. The food is too large, I can't eat it. If you could become a normal size food company that would be swell.

Boosibri · December 3, 2022 1:28PM

@DelawareDoons said:

@Boosibri said:
North American CFO for a large food company

Yes, I have some feedback. The food is too large, I can't eat it. If you could become a normal size food company that would be swell.

Blame it on inflation

OAKSTAR · December 3, 2022 3:11PM

@DelawareDoons said:

@Boosibri said:
North American CFO for a large food company

Yes, I have some feedback. The food is too large, I can't eat it. If you could become a normal size food company that would be swell.

I have just the opposite complaint............................Shrinkflation!

Project Numismatics · December 3, 2022 3:23PM

Ex-banker, now in finance for an energy company.

Collecting since age 10. Began dealing part time this year, primarily in moderns to help fund my collecting. It’s been a steep learning curve transitioning from a pure collecting mindset to a business mindset, but it’s been a fun ride so far. Looking forward to continuing to scale up in 2023!

Onastone · December 3, 2022 5:35PM

Manager in a grocery store with specialties in resetting, own a postcard business with maps and notecards and worked in radio for a few years, and did some cartooning too. Painted thousands of souvenir beach stones for years- thus the moniker Onastone....what would you like on-a-stone?

Goober · December 3, 2022 5:42PM

Design electrical distribution systems for businesses, subdivisions, and anything else they tell me I have to do.

Barberian · December 3, 2022 5:53PM

I suck up and analyze pond scum. Prior to that, I analyzed mud.

I even wrote a book and papers on pond scum and the bugs that leave their cast skins there in south Florida. Sadly, the other people who could do pond scum analysis in the US have passed away. So, I'm the 'Last of the scum sucking Mohicans.'

Too bad. It's perhaps the most sensitive and efficient method for assessing water quality in freshwater marshes, but apparently the taxonomy is too daunting for biologists these days. Much like learning die marriages for cherry picking, you have to do your homework before it starts paying off for you.

Favorite oxymoron: "clean coal"

Inspired70 · December 3, 2022 6:24PM

CIO for 30 years.

csdot · December 3, 2022 6:25PM

Law

asheland · December 3, 2022 6:55PM

I work in a coin shop.

Redglobe · December 3, 2022 8:48PM

I paid my self first for 38 years...retired in 2017 at the age of 57 1/2
Worked as a truck driver for a beverage company

1960NYGiants · December 3, 2022 9:49PM

44 years in Quality Control, several companies, several job titles, started as a parts inspector for jet engines now corporate Quality Manager for a MWD/LWD/Directional Drilling manufacturer for oilfield. Retirement is around the corner.

GiveMeProof · December 4, 2022 12:26AM

33 years as an electrical technician building and troubleshooting high precision CNC jig grinders. Now on SSD.

tcollects · December 4, 2022 1:33AM

@OAKSTAR said:

@DNADave said:
Forensic scientist for 28 years.

The bat did it!!

"yes, that's part of the victim's skull still attached to the bat"

tcollects · December 4, 2022 1:36AM

I always assumed there were more doctors and lawyers here. I'm pleasantly surprised to read the interesting diversity of jobs.

bigmarty58 · December 4, 2022 7:16AM

37 years local Government in DPW. Last twelve years as Director of Public Works. Hoping to call it a career in 2-3 years. Then want to volunteer helping cancer patients.

OAKSTAR · December 4, 2022 7:24AM

@tcollects said:

@OAKSTAR said:

@DNADave said:
Forensic scientist for 28 years.

The bat did it!!

"yes, that's part of the victim's skull still attached to the bat"

So you mean people don't kill people, bat kill people?! 😂

david3142 · December 4, 2022 7:26AM

I manage financial risk for a hedge fund.

nwcoast · December 4, 2022 7:48AM

Spent my teen years working as busboy in some pretty nice restaurants and later ditched that to work in furniture refinishing. That evolved into custom interior refinishing and eventually my own business house painting.
A passion for photography eventually led me back to college and then many years working as a photographer, mostly in medicine and the sciences with a lot videography tossed in there. Went back to college at age 47 and transitioned into medical imaging- Radiography. That evolved into both working in the large medical center and a second job teaching radiologic sciences part time in the affiliated college.
Happily retired now and miss that work more than I would have ever imagined!

ambro51 · December 4, 2022 8:19AM

Absolutely Loving my job for the last few years as a Greenskeeper at a very high end private golf
My typical day is an early morning wake up (4:30
A nice 12 mile commute, getting my gear ready and out to the course. My jobs include towing a turbine blower behind Samantha (my sweet little cart) cleaning off the fairways after the mowers. Mowing the vast practice range rough, mowing the range tees, fixing divots, picking up sticks and debris. Doing the trash run, repositioning bunker rakes, mulch work, odds and ends.... last season I laid out most of the extensive pine straw beds...emptying a trailer and a half of imported Georgia long leaf pine straw. The Course is wholly owned by a billionaire (not T.) and has a deep budget with first class equipment and a greens crew of 30 guys. ••••••. I PITY those who work in stuffy offices or jobs they detest. To be in a beautiful secluded environment, nature, I see deer, turkeys, Eagles..... oh, and the job rates a Zero on “Stress”!

stawick · December 4, 2022 10:55AM

@ambro51 said:
Absolutely Loving my job for the last few years as a Greenskeeper at a very high end private golf
My typical day is an early morning wake up (4:30
A nice 12 mile commute, getting my gear ready and out to the course. My jobs include towing a turbine blower behind Samantha (my sweet little cart) cleaning off the fairways after the mowers. Mowing the vast practice range rough, mowing the range tees, fixing divots, picking up sticks and debris. Doing the trash run, repositioning bunker rakes, mulch work, odds and ends.... last season I laid out most of the extensive pine straw beds...emptying a trailer and a half of imported Georgia long leaf pine straw. The Course is wholly owned by a billionaire (not T.) and has a deep budget with first class equipment and a greens crew of 30 guys. ••••••. I PITY those who work in stuffy offices or jobs they detest. To be in a beautiful secluded environment, nature, I see deer, turkeys, Eagles..... oh, and the job rates a Zero on “Stress”!

I thought I envied the guys in the aerospace field here (wish I had the branes for that), but this one takes the prize!!!
ding ding ding winnah winnah!!!

vulcanize · December 4, 2022 11:36AM

@ambro51 said:
Absolutely Loving my job for the last few years as a Greenskeeper at a very high end private golf
A nice 12 mile commute, getting my gear ready and out to the course. My jobs include towing a turbine blower behind Samantha (my sweet little cart) cleaning off the fairways after the mowers. Mowing the vast practice range rough, mowing the range tees, fixing divots, picking up sticks and debris. Doing the trash run, repositioning bunker rakes, mulch work, odds and ends.... last season I laid out most of the extensive pine straw beds...emptying a trailer and a half of imported Georgia long leaf pine straw. The Course is wholly owned by a billionaire (not T.) and has a deep budget with first class equipment and a greens crew of 30 guys. ••••••. I PITY those who work in stuffy offices or jobs they detest. To be in a beautiful secluded environment, nature, I see deer, turkeys, Eagles..... oh, and the job rates a Zero on “Stress”!

Very nice.
I was pleasantly surprised to learn fairly recently that Clemson University had a Bachelor's program for Turfgrass and mighty impressed learning about all the behind the scenes activities that keep them so well manicured.
Cheers.

WDH · December 4, 2022 2:34PM

Retired after 30 years in the commercial nuclear power industry.

LCS · December 4, 2022 4:40PM

I sold my business about 4 years ago.

I currently work at Lowes as a plumbing specialist.

I have started to pursue a career creating works of art in the field of numismatics.

Here is an example of my work. I currently have a thread going where I am offering limited edition prints at a reduced price.

OnlyGoldIsMoney · December 4, 2022 4:56PM

I write grants applications for local governments and help them comply with Federal and/or State rules. Started in 1977 - self employed since 1996.

DoubleEagle59 · December 4, 2022 5:05PM

From 1984 to 2010 a self-employed gemologist/diamond grader/jewelry appraiser.

2010 to present, retired and a golf fanatic.

CoinHoarder · December 4, 2022 6:18PM

Gazes · December 4, 2022 6:25PM

I am an attorney/litigator (which may explain some of my posts )

bigjpst · December 4, 2022 6:32PM

Auto mechanic for most of the past 30 years. New title is quality control manager for 2 auto repair locations. I still get my hands dirty every day, but most of my job consists of babysitting adults.

Oh, and for the last 10 or so years I've been one of them "wannabe coin dealers" mentioned in another thread.

CircOnly · December 4, 2022 6:39PM

I make pretty blueprints for commercial and industrial buildings in 2d and make 3d BIM models.

DisneyFan · December 4, 2022 7:54PM

Retired bank trust officer. I managed other peoples' money and helped some spendthrifts preserve their assets.
My job description.

AlanSki · December 4, 2022 7:57PM

Medically retired from the USAF in 2018. Currently I’m a volunteer FF and back in school for my RN/BSN.

cladking · December 4, 2022 8:01PM

I usually say I am a disabled ditch digger but like everything in my life my working years were far more complex than that. I'm very energetic, love almost all work, and have a knack for understanding interrelated systems and processes. I've always been a good man to have around and usually gravitated to where problems exist in various industry. Engineers are worthless where problems are caused by practices and complex systems. Modern industry is so well designed and engineered it takes the cooperation of every employee to mess them up. Few can imagine how inefficiently industry is operated.

lordmarcovan · December 4, 2022 8:07PM

I am the M-F night auditor for the Inn at Sea Island, on Saint Simons Island, GA.

Basically, I am singlehandedly the entire overnight staff for that 85-room boutique hotel, from 11 PM to 7 AM on weeknights.

cladking · December 4, 2022 8:09PM

...And you have a great deal of experience and, I wager, the most seniority.

lordmarcovan · December 4, 2022 8:15PM

@cladking said:
...And you have a great deal of experience and, I wager, the most seniority.

If that was addressed to me, then yes- I was the very first person hired to work at the hotel before it opened its doors on February 1, 2014. And I’m also the only original employee left who’s been there since the beginning, aside from the chief engineer.

cladking · December 4, 2022 8:19PM

@lordmarcovan said:

@cladking said:
...And you have a great deal of experience and, I wager, the most seniority.

If that was addressed to me, then yes- I was the very first person hired to work at the hotel before it opened its doors on February 1, 2014. And I’m also the only original employee left who’s been there since the beginning, aside from the chief engineer.

Oh. That's great but I thought you had been at the same place even longer.

lordmarcovan · December 4, 2022 8:33PM

@cladking said:
Oh. That's great but I thought you had been at the same place even longer.

I did previously work for the other two Sea Island sister resorts (the swankier, five-star Cloister and Lodge). And the King and Prince Resort on St. Simons, at the beach. Though only about nine years in this position, it is my third tour of duty with Sea Island Company.

@ambro51 - we do a lot of golf here, too, of course. Just finished hosting the RSM Classic.

(I don't play, myself. But it's big business here.)

Coinscratch · December 4, 2022 9:29PM

Office equipment dealer, we sell and service Bizhub, Canon, and Sharp copiers and printers.

gonzer · December 5, 2022 3:19AM

Horticultural Latin has been my second language for 50 years.

DoubleDime · December 5, 2022 5:56AM

Been retired almost 2 years after 37 years working in metal heat treating. Before that 9 years in the Marine Corps.

PerryHall · December 5, 2022 6:06AM

@CoinJockey73 said:
Before covid-19, i had a job, i wouldn't say i worked, but i did have a job, then i saw you could live for free off the govt thanks to CV-19, so i quit and have been receiving made up checks of made up money from our made up government, ever since. Lots and lots of it, too. I figure, people who don't have to, have been living off the govt for decades, and it's been me that's been paying for it. It's my time now. Mortgage? Paid for by the govt. Healthcare? Paid for be the govt. We have an amazing system, if you know how to abuse it. Have a great week, everyone!

I can't tell if you are being serious or not. Unfortunately, there are too many able-bodied people who take advantage of the system.

CoinJockey73 · December 5, 2022 8:34AM

@PerryHall said:

@CoinJockey73 said:
Before covid-19, i had a job, i wouldn't say i worked, but i did have a job, then i saw you could live for free off the govt thanks to CV-19, so i quit and have been receiving made up checks of made up money from our made up government, ever since. Lots and lots of it, too. I figure, people who don't have to, have been living off the govt for decades, and it's been me that's been paying for it. It's my time now. Mortgage? Paid for by the govt. Healthcare? Paid for be the govt. We have an amazing system, if you know how to abuse it. Have a great week, everyone!

I can't tell if you are being serious or not. Unfortunately, there are too many able-bodied people who take advantage of the system.

Don't worry, i can't tell if I'm serious or not.

CoinJockey73 · December 5, 2022 8:36AM

@Coinscratch said:

@PerryHall said:

@CoinJockey73 said:
Before covid-19, i had a job, i wouldn't say i worked, but i did have a job, then i saw you could live for free off the govt thanks to CV-19, so i quit and have been receiving made up checks of made up money from our made up government, ever since. Lots and lots of it, too. I figure, people who don't have to, have been living off the govt for decades, and it's been me that's been paying for it. It's my time now. Mortgage? Paid for by the govt. Healthcare? Paid for be the govt. We have an amazing system, if you know how to abuse it. Have a great week, everyone!

I can't tell if you are being serious or not. Unfortunately, there are too many able-bodied people who take advantage of the system.

What we have here is a failure to communicate lol.
We just need a Good Ole War and a draft system in place to put all these lowlife thugs back to work with a rifle in their hand. Give them something to do that they’re pretty good at, mucking it up.

edit: My apologies, was that too harsh? I was still throwing my coffee back when I read that.

I've said that for years now. Not too harsh at all.

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