What is your line of work?

What does everyone do for a living?

I build duct for Evans Heating and A/C. I start school in the fall to get my degree in 'Heating, Ventilation, Air conditioning and Refrigeration' so I can legally service a/c units.

sounds like a fun job. im going to school for my AA in automotive technology, im trying to be a certified technician hope it all works out though

yeah.. my line of work is interesting, but people who are clautrophobic and arachniaphobic wouldn't like it too much A lot of crawling under houses!

Hope your schooling goes good. Thats what I was originally planning to do, but I'm back on HVAC because the business is already there and I'm 100% guaranteed to have a job throughout school and after school.

I do custom work on cars. Anything from Fiberglass dashes, door, panels, center consoles, sub boxes, etc, to body modifications, to engine rebuilds. you name it i do it. I own a business called 2Tall Customz. 

Curently attending school to get a BS ('bachelors of science' not the other thing your thinking) degree with a major in construction management and a minor in business. When I am not attending school I work as capenter/cabinet maker.

Here was the latest cabinet project for my uncle.

I am a vampire dispatcher (midnights) for the State Police... joined long enough to finish school, now I'm trying to get ready for Troop school...
 
Few nights a week I bartend/waitress at a local bar/restaurant...

Senior OPSEC Specialist. OPSEC is the terminology for Operational Security.

I guess I am a senior of the bunch!   I spent my entire working life in corporate life in research and product development.  I helped make the Pringles container we all buy today way back in the late 70's.  I also worked on perfecting a fireproofing cement for steel used in skyscrapers.  I moved on later to the Seven Up Company's World Packaging and Technical Center where I supervised a packaging laboratory.  After they moved to Texas I worked developing plastic medical devices, then went to an aluminum can manufacturer where I was the technical representative for 11 years visiting beer and soda plants throughout the midwest.  When the company let go most of their technical reps in the nineties, I got on with a manufacturer of inexpensive cameras and had to travel to China to oversee their making.   My local office was closed by the parent company in New York and I did some temporary work for Burger King Corporate where they flew me down to their Miami headquarters to study some new ovens they built and wanted me to be their rep. at a plant that was going to make hundreds of them.
 
There you have it.  For the present I sit on my back deck and read the posts and managing my investments since I am involuntarily retired.   Sorry, but you asked.

That actually sounds like a very fun and involved occupation. So I'm guessing that involuntarily retiring means laid off with a fat severance?

I am currently a student in college going for a duel major (both bachelors degrees) in Fire/Arson Investigation and Fire Administration and a minor in Criminal Justice. I also work part time for an Auto Parts Store

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yeah.. my line of work is interesting, but people who are clautrophobic and arachniaphobic wouldn't like it too much A lot of crawling under houses!

 
I'm claustrophobic and arachnaphobic, so NO THANKS!
 
During the day, I run a MMA training facility, and every night but Tuesday, I play music.

What kind of music?

Different kinds actually. To keep the bills paid, I play covers pretty regularly-but not your typical bar music. Stuff like TOOL, NIN, Incubus, A perfect Circle, 10 Years, etc. I'm also recording 4 albums, each with a different sound (solo acoustic guitar, mellow rock, funk, and more).

Sweet. That sounds really cool. I joined a garage band not long ago and they usually play a lot of classic rock. They needed a guitar and backup vocalist and I was the man for the job, so we gigged a few times and that was about it.

Very cool. I have some original music on my website www.dixieduncan.net. I pulled three songs off of 3 different albums I'm working on.

I'll have to dig around and see if I can find a recording of our band...
But anyway, that song is professional grade. You'll go far with music like that!

Thanks man! I hope so

im a maintenance man!!!

whoo hoo

im a high school drop out... but im makin my way, you just have to want to work hard!

i work on car washes... believe it or not here in texas it pay's pretty darn good.

my plans in california were to become a CHP officer... haha needless to say they dont take drop-outs!!

hey, im still smart, i just HATE school

oh speeking of bands, im a drummer!
 
anyone know there way around an instrument of any kind is welcome to come rock out with me!
 
(in houston)

Euro,
 
Involuntary means, in my case, that the last position for BK Corporate was only a temporary, contract for hire job... not meant to continue like a permanent position.
 
I was not entirely serious about "managing my investments".  More like pinching pennies and selling on Craigslist.com since we are on a fixed income now.   St. Louis is not the place for me anymore jobwise.  Could have moved several times out of state but didn't want to go through the stress of that unless I absolutely had to.  Moving comes easier for others but not me, unless we were losing our home or something.  As it is, we have no major expenses except health insurance.
 
By the way, involuntary retired is not the way I wanted things to be and I am not a happy camper by any means.   I want to be working in my field asap, but at my age in St. Louis the opportunities are slim and none.  But I keep looking and hoping things will change so I can enter the rat race again... hard to believe isn't it?


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Wow, that really sucks man. I hope things start looking up for you.

I'm in marketing...But cars are really my life! 

What kind of marketing?

I am in charge of the day to day operations of shipping customer equipment for the largest cable company in Arizona. I work with a third party company that actually does our shipping but I'm the main point of contact for problems as well as I'm the lone person who goes through every account and assigns and removes equipment based on where it gets shipped or returned to. Im also in charge of logging all shipments and auditing errors in shipping orders. In short, if it involves shipping, im the dude that does it.
 
Its not my ideal line of work but it keeps me busy and pays the bills while i go through college. Right now im pursuing my BAS in Network Communication and Management. Ideally im hoping to land either a server admin job somewhere or work in the field as fiber tech.

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What kind of marketing?

Corporate marketing for a company in the NOVA/DC area.  why do you ask?