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IceShanty Main => General Ice Fishing Chit Chat => Topic started by: ducksdown07 on Jan 04, 2016, 06:57 AM
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I saw a thread like this on Archery talk, and that it was pretty interesting to see the diversity of jobs.
Personally, I drive tractor trailer locally, delivering milk to supermarkets. It's a good job that pays well, especially being 26 years old with no student loans making over $50,000/year. I work 4 days a week, and am done by 10pm most days! I love it. This picture was taken on 1-4-2016 unloading some empty carts from sams club at my office.
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I make corrugated board. Which then gets made into boxes, mainly for the meat packing industry. 50k+ a year with a h.s diploma! Not a bad gig, just wish I had more time to fish!
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Retired. Aircraft mech....major airline.... Over 30 years.... 13 years millwright steel mill....mail carrier when was on lay off....and what ever I had to do to get by......when was out of a job.....but enjoying retirement....now
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RN in an ICU for last 20yrs. I'd make more if I worked more, but I have a LOT of time to fish!! ::)
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I catch the lobsters... work from April til thanksgiving.. have winters off.. i make enough, no need to give it all to the tax man.. ::)
Oakhurst milk, my favorite..the only milk we buy, and eggnog..support Maine farmers
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I work part time as a parts driver for a large auto parts outfit. Funny, but I have an old Oakhurst milk crate from when I was stationed at NAS Brunswick, and no you can't have it back!!! ;)
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Watershed Ranger, City of Akron Ohio. Patrol 20,000 city owned acres of the Upper Cuyahoga River Watershed that encompasses the drinking waters for Akron Ohio & surrounding communities.
Only a few more years till retirement.
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Work at the local college in the biology dept. , take care of 2 greenhouses , repair and maint. on research boats , teach students how to drive boats , I do some field research when they need help . Design and build some testing equipment , repairs around the building
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House and office painter for the last 33 years. Work has slowed down a bit. With the holidays and all. If it don't pick up soon. Unemployment may be an option. Then its look for more work and more ice fishing if we ever get good ice. Made it out yesterday to some back channles of the chain. Got two 9 inch bluegill. That was it. As for safe ice. Not so much.
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I work on resting up so I can go Fishing. If I'm not resting I am working in the yard or in the house cleaning. I am pretty tired of resting all the time. I think I will get a part time job this year.
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Self employed residential framing carpenter.
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CNC Programming
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Retired master Millwright/Supervisor and journeyman machinist. Fourty years in the crafts was very good to me. Retired 10 years and I do whatever suits my fancy. Today I'm headed out onto the ice.
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Law enforcement. Can retire in 16 years when I'm 47
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Retired Army and currently work as a Pipe fitter at Ford Motor..
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Heavy equipment operator/ foreman for a general contractor. After 15 years still haven't found a job that pays enough
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I'm an archaeologist, and have been a college professor for 34 years - will retire in May.
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retired ins. adjustor,and canal operator.fish full time now
;D ;D ;D ;D
RAT
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I catch the lobsters... work from April til thanksgiving.. have winters off.. i make enough, no need to give it all to the tax man.. ::)
Oakhurst milk, my favorite..the only milk we buy, and eggnog..support Maine farmers
I'm an IRS agent!
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Marketing Manager for a welding and coating company and Firearms Technician for Gander Mtn.
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Retired civil/environmental engineer. Work part time for a small site development company. I love to fish, play golf, and ski. Have to be busy doing something as long as the old body cooperates. ;D
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I'm a work leader for fabrication shops at a Air Force Research Lab, n.y. Which means that when ever I get the urge to go ice fishing I go
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I work on resting up so I can go Fishing. If I'm not resting I am working in the yard or in the house cleaning. I am pretty tired of resting all the time. I think I will get a part time job this year.
x2. Retired UPS driver. Hence the name, BROWNSTICK.
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I got 25 years in at the same company. Opportunity knocked about 5 years ago I went from being an explosive technician to a Host at the corporate office. I now get paid to take people fishing, water skiing, four wheeling, and hiking. They also let me BBQ their steaks. It's a pretty good gig. Tight lines
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Work for Idaho Fish and Game at Niagara Springs Fish Hatchery raising 2.2 million steelhead. Able to take time off to fish and hunt, couldn't ask for a better job.
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Farmer.
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service manager and head mechanic at marine delearship. certified mercury mechanic. drive open wheel dirt modified in the summer so with no racing in winter and slow at work in the winter have lots of time to walk on water
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I am a network/systems administrator. Huge IT nerd.
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Retired boiler operator.
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early retirement due to a job injury [2011] now I count snow flakes and ice thickness ;D
DOI/NPS [big mistake]
commercial kitchens build/repair [owner]
general contractor [owner]
SnoHam13
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Heavy equipment operator for a site contractor. Most days I love my job.
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Oilfield Supervisor. We do flowback, which is monitoring the stuff that comes out of the well once it's initially been drilled. If we are ever slow, I also have my journeyman electrician license to keep me busy. I can't sit still very well, unless I'm fishing or hunting. And even then, I'm not very good at it.
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Stainless steel distribution, farm 200 acres corn, beans and hay on the side, and run angus cross and purebred Herefords on the side side... stay pretty busy with the 2 kids at home too. Only 30 so still have a ways to retirement and more fishing time :'(
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self employed swimming pool contractor. Work from april to whenever it gets too cold for pools. We did this liner install the day before Christmas eve. How crazy is that.
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drive open wheel dirt modified in the summer so with no racing in winter
Cool.... A mod or B mod and what kind of chassis do you run? I grew up around the sport. Had an uncle who built cars back in the 60's and 70's. My brother ran a dirt late model in the early 90's until injury forced him to hang it up. Since then I've mainly helped guys who have run mods...and let me say, back in the late 90's I was with a guy who was very much your shade tree mechanic building his own stuff from top to bottom and we made the big show at Boone....that was unreal. A couple of good childhood friends of mine run late models and are originally from NE Wisconsin. One moved out to Western WI a few years ago to build cars and the other is still around home doing quite well. Plus I have a niece and now nephew (her husband) who run a northern sportmod and an A-mod respectively. She'll be in a 2013 BMS this coming year and he's got a home built concoction where he took a Victory and a BMS, cut them apart and made one chassis out of them. It's an experiment because he wants to get into car building himself. Where we're at in WI they race on ice and both the nephew has taken his modified out there and has done fairly well with it. It turned a ton of heads when he rolled in with a dirt car with studded tires on it but within a couple of weeks others were bringing their mods out as well.
Dirt racing is incredible in so many ways and is a true family activity. People who have never been around it just don't "get it." Those who have an open mind and are introduced to it begin to see a glimpse of the passion involved but until you are truly immersed into it you'll never fully appreciate what it is.
Back to the original question...
I'm a college administrator.
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Educator. Design and implement innovations in schools and school districts. For the past ten years, it's been online learning and digitized curriculum for classrooms. Still have about 15 years before retirement becomes necessary.
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Icefishersteve,I've got the same pool..The lagoon.
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I'm a porn star!!!! :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao:
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Part time police officer, deputy and corrections officer
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32footsteps
currently run a 2013 B&B chassis sport mod. i run supernationals yearly for the last 7 years. made the big dance 3 years straight from 2011-2013. just missed getting in the last 2 years. best finish was 2012 when i finished 5th. racing is truely a special sport. i have many many friends from many states that i am close with and are "racing family" that i have met along they way. most would do anything to help a fellow racer out with whatever they need. truely am blessed to call them all "family". it really is an addiction just like ice fishing!!
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I'm a porn star!!!! :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao:
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Wetland and Stream Restoration heavy equipment operator.
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Civil Engineer, in NYC right now helping with construction of brand new subway line on east side of Manhattan. Job is cool, but I hate all the crowds...and the commute, ugh..fishing and hunting on weekends keeps me sane ::) :o ;D
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Union machinist 30yrs. Making made in USA mean something.
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I am a heavy automatic press operater for the leading supplier of garage door hardware in the US. If your hinges to your garage door panels have ATL stamped into them, chances are good that I made them. ;)
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Im a project/civil engineer for the state of Wyoming.
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Plumbing Contractor. Mostly new work and remodeling in both residential and commercial.
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Project manager for general contracting firm, that's why I'm on here during the day so much, always on a computer or phone ;D
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im a picker like the tv show but I dont get paid for acting. i sell stuff on ebay etc. I specialize in fishing and hunting items, mainly gun parts.
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I'm a porn star!!!! :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao:
I thought I saw you in the movie" Antlers in the tree top" by who goosed the Moose.
Or was it "Yellow River" by IP Freely?
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I'm a commercial real estate and employment lawyer.
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Retired at 55, :),fishing and golfing are my hobbies,the wait in between is killing me.
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I manage Military Construction projects for the National Guard in the State of Montana
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Commercial Appraisal Analyst :o
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Department Manager for a clothing store. It sucks. Offer me a job. :)
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Retired engine assembler of 36 years.
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Retired Firefighter/EMT and retired bowyer.
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Relationship Manager at the largest stock transfer agent in the country, and student working on my MBA
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Chef...unconventional schedule and the slow season gives me lots of weekday fishing time. Fishing isnt a social activity for me so I love being able to avoid the crowds
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Production scheduler
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Retired for 10+ years after 36.5 years in the telecommunications industry.
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Excavating laborer. Owner decided to slow down and semi-retired(thanks for the heads up a%*hole), so this year I was a framing carpenter (aka, lots of sweat, not much money). Supposed to be getting a job with an outfit that refurbishes and builds bridges in the spring.
So when you're sitting in a traffic jam on I-80 because of bridge work, I just might the the guy you're flipping off!!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D
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welder fabricator at Quest Manufacturing been welding and fabricatoring stainless steel for the sanitary and industrial applications for over 25 years
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Drove truck for 33 years, retired in 2014 at the age of 57.
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4K-12 Physical Education Teacher.
Ice fishing teams are a growing thing in Wisconsin, so there's a chance I might be adding that to my football and baseball coaching responsibilities as well.
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Audiologist 👂👂 for The Department of Veterans Affairs.
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I sell Enterprise Software and manage a sales team. Boring but one of the few jobs where you can make more than lawyers/doctors without a degree!
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General Manager for Stainless Steel Pressure Vessel Fabricator. We make some pretty neat stuff for pharma companies like Pfizer and Bayer as well as complex chemical process vessels for BASF, 3M, Dow, etc. I work with some amazing Fabricators; always impressed and proud of what those guys turn out.
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I am a telephone man for 36 years and also retired from the Navy Reserve.
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I too work for the phone company, splicer 16 years. CWA local 13000
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Diesel fitter
I work with my brother, he repairs ladies underwear.
After he's finished with them I stick them on my head and say
"Diesel fitter!"
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Shipping and receiving. 12 years in produce for a grocery chain,. Closed up. 12 years at a paper cup company. Taken over twice. closed up and relocated to the south. 9 years for an HVAC distributor.
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Work for NYS, 6 years and 3 days until retirement, then professional fisherman!
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Law enforcement and code enforcement officer...retired.
Ski
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Commercial construction superintendent for 14 years, in the commercial construction industry for over 20 years.
Nick.
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I work as an Operations Technician and one of the world's leading producers of Ethylene and Polyethylene products.
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Im an accountant. Someday, probably sooner than later, the company i work for is going to be sold. At that point I hope to help kids that are growing up in unstable homes.
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IT Network Engineer
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I am a QA Technician at Perrigo Pharma. We make all the store brand OTC drugs and vitamins. Save your money and buy store brand meds, we use the same ingredients and use the same process as the national brands. The FDA regulates the process so why spend more for a name. :)
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I own a couple sports pubs. Well one now going through divorce. Bright side is I live at lake now and fish almost daily.
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Make the adhesive that bonds the new aluminum bodied F-150s - Dow Chemical.
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Trenchless pipe inspection,rehab and repair superintendent,every winter I get layed off so it gives me lots of time to ice fish
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Brick and Stone mason......39 years.
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Civil/Municipal Engineer
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School Building & Grounds Supivisor / Landscaper
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Firefighter/Paramedic 31 years with 15 months to go.
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Pre-press tech. at the local newspaper for 37 years now. For you youngsters, a newspaper was something your parents used to subscribe to and read every morning, back before computers were born.
Actually, computers, especially Apple, were how Pre-Press Techs got "techy".
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Plumber and Gasfitter, Local #12 Boston, MA.
I dreamed of being the caddy for my son on the PGA tour, maybe someday, you never know.
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Auto parts sales for Consumer Auto Parts 11 years now, make ok money $40k for sitting on the internet all day lol
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attorney
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Retired NYS Corrections Officer/Prison Guard after 31 years.
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My title is Fluid Tech.
I look after the coolants on CNC machines, fluids in wash systems and heat treating systems in a factory that produces transmission gears.
Also cleaning & minor repairs to the systems.
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Self employed interior trim & cabinet carpenter. Never enough time to fish as much as I'd like to.
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Power Plant Shift Supervisor 28 yrs in the field and 4 different states.
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Stonemason 25 years
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i make your campbells soup lids. high speed production. use to build machines. this pays the bills though. oh how i miss fabrication and machining.
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Certified welder. Structural steel
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Part time Gander Mountain Fishing Department. Retired General Motors Assembly Division, Janesville, Wisconsin
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union bridge painter local 155 and 806 22 years to retirement.........
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Power lineman
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Local 395 Ironworker for 20yrs
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Commercial Lender
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John Deere consumer products tech,ie mowers,utility and compact tractors etc, gold level Suzuki atv tech, Honda engine /power equipment tech, among other talents.
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Director of Operations, Floor Maintenance. I strip, wax and maintain floors. A lot of time to catch up on reading while waiting for wax to dry. ;D
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Retired! Last career was service manager for a lighting and electrical company. A few "careers" before that. Work ( if you can call it that) part time at Lowes helping customers find stuff.
Keeps me busy with people. I like people ;D
Rg
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I am a chemical plant operator. Four on, four off schedule means finding time to fish isn't too tough. Although it's never enough.
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Tool Maker for the Arms Maker for Responsible Citizens. 20 years in Dec. Moonlighted doing Carpentry(owner) while working second shift at Ruger. Part-time knifemaker and decoy maker. Enjoy the toolmaker job now. Been doing it for 2 years. When I was an operator, schedule had to coincide with others in the cell. Now doing the toolmaking, I have my own schedule. I can start as early as I like and leave whenever as long as I get 8 hrs in. Most days I start at 3am and I'm out by 230pm. During deer season I am out by noon. Very laid back now. That's good because I have about 25 years left til retirement. ;D
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I am retired but I was a Subterranean pipeline closed circuit TV operator! We cleaned a video inspected sewer lines! :sick:
IW
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Everybody has neat job titles.
I just chop trees down ???
WS
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Everybody has neat job titles.
I just chop trees down ???
WS
Everyone has secretly wished they were a lumberjack from time to time! ;)
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Everybody has neat job titles.
I just chop trees down ???
WS
But don't they call you guys Tree Surgeons. LOL
IW
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Finish blade hand for heavy highway and civil dirt contractor. This allows me to have a couple months off this time of year.
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Sanitary Maintainece technician (janitor,porter,custodian) for a supermarket chain in south eastern New York. My job involves everything from cleaning the floors and toilet to cleaning the refrigerated product display cases. Hence the screen name here on Ice Shanty. Whopper Stopper it seems everyone has a fancy job title now a days. No more repairman or mechanic everybody is some kind of tech. My employer also calls us employees associates.
Steve
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The last 20 years at a private university, Manager of Network Infrastructure; that's a guy that troubleshoots, repairs, maintains the fiber optic and copper data network cabling, the telephone switch and cabling, and the TV cable system. Keeps me busy and I get most of the time off I want, for fishing and playing. 17 years before that on a dairy farm - herdsman, mechanic (diesel, gas and equipment) and equipment operator (tractor driver) ;)
I liked it, the owner passed away and I felt it was time to move on. Before that it was odd jobs and four years in the AirForce. The "hurry up and wait" drove me to take the opportunity for a honorable discharge. (I did nuculear munitions maintenance and explosives ordanance disposal in those four years).
I want to be an astronaut when I grow up. :P
Almost ready for my next career move -------- retirement. @)
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Boilermaker each job is different. Right now its 7 days a week and 10 hours a day.
We have no ice so can't fish anyway.
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But don't they call you guys Tree Surgeons. LOL
IW
I know a guy does that. He goes by "Arborist".......
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Everybody has neat job titles.
Actually, mine is self bestowed. ;) I'm a one man operation and don't really have a title. I just told the bosses I was Director of Operations, Floor Maintenance and they said "Fine & dandy". Anything to inflate my ego. ;D
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Everybody has neat job titles.
I just chop trees down ???
WS
I always wanted to be.................A LUMBERJACK
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Rg
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Everybody has neat job titles.
I just chop trees down ???
WS
On the side are you a Sap Extractor. :woot:
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I always wanted to be.................A LUMBERJACK
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Rg
.....And you're OK. ;)2
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Retired now did work with the criminally insane for years
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I work in a bakery I mix bread , 300 to 500 lbs at a time
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Air force security forces for me... For those unfamiliar its air force military police
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I am a chemical plant operator. Four on, four off schedule means finding time to fish isn't too tough. Although it's never enough.
Same here, I work for DuPont. 4-12 hr shifts,4 days off.
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Air force security forces for me... For those unfamiliar its air force military police
Burck17 thank you for your service. My son is a Flight engineer With the 914th in Niagara Falls and one of his best friends is in security forces with the 914th also.
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Active Duty AF. 3 more years till retirement!! :)
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Burck17 thank you for your service. My son is a Flight engineer With the 914th in Niagara Falls and one of his best friends is in security forces with the 914th also.
Thanks for the support. I really enjoy my line of work so it hardly feels like service which is a good thing.
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Ironworker local 9 for 15 years
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Work as a john deere salesman and am a medevac pilot for the army national guard.
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Environmental Tech. Lac Courte Oreilles Natural Resources/Conservation Department.
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Have worked for the Feds for 40 years. One more year to go.....
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Pastor for the last 30 years, 25 in current Church. Ice almost ready...
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Drive semi doing seasonal heavy highway road construction mostly hauling asphalt and love it work April-November and get my winters of to hunt and fish
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Trout hatchery.... and hunting and fishing guide.
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Retired after 40 years of driving semis, 36 of them at Chrysler. Don't miss it at all.
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Department Head of Science
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I manage a construction materials lab for a Civil Engineering firm. We design asphalt and concrete mixes and test asphalt, concrete and soils. We have worked on a lot of reconstruction work in Yellowstone and most of Going to the Sun in Glacier National Park.
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Retired out of so calif..law enforcement at 50. Now Im the maintenance supervisor for Marriott Hotel in Cedar City, Utah..
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work at a lobster pound and I'm a deck hand on a commercial fishing charter and whale watching ship.
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work at a lobster pound and I'm a deck hand on a commercial fishing charter and whale watching ship.
is that were the bad lobsters go?
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is that were the bad lobsters go?
what do u mean?
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lobster pound never heard of it
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Crane operator, Operating Engineers Local 139, WI
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what do u mean?
Like dog pound, haha…what is a lobster pound? Googled it and its a restaurant?
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I work hard at trying to keep my wife happy.
I ain't very good at it ...
:tipup:
Lobes
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Manager of a Senior Center.
Transferred six months ago from an inner city center that mostly catered to the homeless senior population. Quite eventful!
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Construction Local 1 NYC
30+ years to retirement!
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Hard rock miner. Mine for platinum and palladium in montana. Great pay and the schedule is the best. 5 on 5 off 4 on 4off. Give lots of time for fishing.
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Head Waiter at a family run restaurant. Work evenings only. Own/run a lawn care business during the warmer months. So, lotsa time to drop a line. living the good life. ;D
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I saw a thread like this on Archery talk, and that it was pretty interesting to see the diversity of jobs.
Personally, I drive tractor trailer locally, delivering milk to supermarkets. It's a good job that pays well, especially being 26 years old with no student loans making over $50,000/year. I work 4 days a week, and am done by 10pm most days! I love it. This picture was taken on 1-4-2016 unloading some empty carts from sams club at my office.
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Is that a union job?? I'm looking is why I ask
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IT technician full-time, and install surveillance systems on the side for extra income.
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Union Mason....Local 2 Albany NY....brick, block, stone, concrete and plaster. 30 years with the Union this February....went to college wanting to be a State Trooper...what the hell was I thinking?? ;D
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I'm Thinking, you were thinking "damn, I would look good in that uniform." ;D
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I saw a thread like this on Archery talk, and that it was pretty interesting to see the diversity of jobs.
Personally, I drive tractor trailer locally, delivering milk to supermarkets. It's a good job that pays well, especially being 26 years old with no student loans making over $50,000/year. I work 4 days a week, and am done by 10pm most days! I love it. This picture was taken on 1-4-2016 unloading some empty carts from sams club at my office.
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I'm a service tech for Amerigas Propane. Started with Heritage propane in 07, acquired by Amerigas in 12. If you can tolerate corperate America, it's a good job. Good pay and benni's.