So, what's your day job?

[WoodChuck'r]

Dude. I want your wife. Is she for sale?

No need to sell. There's no prenup so I'll get craycray alimony. Have at it bruh.

 

[psuiewalsh]

I worked 10 years in fabrication of fuel system components for GM in Rochester NY. Mainly working in the screw machine and secondary finishing departments as a production and then quality supervisor. Now a quality supervisor for a cardiovascular device manufacturer. We build disposables and hardware to serve as your heart and lungs when on bypass. On weekends I enjoy novice logging and cutting firewood while helping on the family farm and heavy equipment repair.

 

[struggle]

My wife makes the money.


I sit around, sleep, poop, and play video games.

I used to do that and got greedy so I went back to work. I really couldn't stand the sitting around once my kids started school full time.

 

[Weesa20]

I'm a physical therapist and supervise a team of about 20 therapists at one of the better known hospitals in the Southeast. Teach a little, too.

 

[WoodChuck'r]

Rochester NY

I grew up in Rochester. I'm down in Dansville nowadays. West Sparta to be exact.

I'm a native to Rochester and the Finger Lakes region. Lived in Roc til I was 16, then moved to Bristol, Canandaigua, Bristol again, and West Sparta. Parents lived in Naples for 10 years.

Had no idea we were so close!

 

[treetop1986]

Heavy equipment mechanic

 

[Joe Kidd]

I'm a physical therapist and supervise a team of about 20 therapists at one of the better known hospitals in the Southeast. Teach a little, too.

CMC?

 

[Ray Bell]

I really need to know what's going on here and what you do for a living. You have me interested!

I am thinking he is a sturgeon??

 

[stihlx8]

I wish I had one of them day jobs. Been workin swing shift in a steelmill for 29 years. Hope to get out soon. Do mechanical maintenance, welding and hydraulics. Before that truck repair, before that drove a feed truck, before that farm equipment repair and a little farming mixed in. Now own a small farm with 60 head of Red Angus beef cows and some hay and 25 acres of timber. Also do a little dirt work sometimes. Hope to get a portable bandsaw mill to entertain myself in retirement. Chainsaws are just another reason to collect neat stuff. This is the most interesting thread on A.S. Amazed at how few duplicate jobs there are. Thanks to everyone posting, really cool to see what everyone does.

 

[psuiewalsh]

I grew up in Rochester. I'm down in Dansville nowadays. West Sparta to be exact.

I'm a native to Rochester and the Finger Lakes region. Lived in Roc til I was 16, then moved to Bristol, Canandaigua, Bristol again, and West Sparta. Parents lived in Naples for 10 years.

Had no idea we were so close!

I was. But that was 6 years ago.

 

[Weesa20]

CMC?

Farther East...the one with the good basketball team and so-so football team. But I lived and worked in Hickory for a while at CVMC. That was fun....had a fast car and a faster bike and spent every free minute in the mountains getting lost...traded them in for two wonderful boys...best deal I ever made!

 

[MCW]

My first job was working on a pig farm, shoveling 20,000 pound of feed per day.

Then I got a job working at a cement block company, it smelled much better and it was easier work, but when they found out I was only 17 they sadly had to let me go. (I graduated from High school at 17).

I got a job as a garbage collector, they didn't ask how old I was and paid cash from a black limo once a week. It was a little to shady for my taste so I quit.

I became a dishwasher at a 24 hour restaurant and when I turned 18 I went to Fisher body to build Chevy Nova's and Corvairs. I went to Hydromantic to build M-16 rifles on a worn out centerless grinder. I got tired of producing scrap so I quit and got a drafting job at a consulting engineering business (I had won a drafting contest in High school that was sponsored by the big 3 auto companies) that gave me an "in". I always was good at math so I started doing heating and cooling load calculations, and sizing ductwork and equipment.

I worked for 3 engineering firms and ended up designing nuclear power plants. I became a subcontract field engineer at the Midland Nuclear plant for 3 1/2 years working with the HVAC and Piping contractors. When they converted it to natural gas I went to the chemical company across the river and designed Ag chemical and Pharma plants. Did that for many years, went to the Essex glue factory in Hilsdale and designed plants for Hillsdale Mi., Poplar Bluff Mo., Korea and Brazil. I did a stint as a mechanical maintenance planner back at the chemical company, then went to the Fermi Nuclear plant as a planner during RF-11. I started drawing P&ID's in 1973 with a pencil and ended up using AutoCAD and Microstation.

I ended up drawing piping ISO's for the registered pipeline program back at the chemical company. My hip wore out, walking up and down steps on 10 story process structures and walking down piping that runs a couple miles long in the high lines became difficult when every step hurts. My performance slipped and they booted me over the fence. I had bought short term disability insurance with the idea that I would get the hip replaced, but they booted me before I had a chance to do it. Now my brain is full.

I got a new hip and started building cow barns with my neighbors.
I have been working on motorcycles and small engines since 1967. I built my first computer in 1995. If you can read and do math you can get a lot done if somebody gives you a chance.

Very interesting. So did you end up with any actual formal engineering qualifications?

 

[MCW]

No. I am totally unqualified. I did take a college class in HVAC design and I attended the Carrier HVAC Technical development program and got a certificate. I also had a class in process piping plant design and layout. and equipment design. I also studied the Detroit plumbing code.

My mother died when I was 9 of cancer and my dad worked for a trucking company and was buried in hospital bills. We lost our house when was I was 12. There was no money for schooling past high school. I just did the best I could and did a lot of reading and learning on my own while scratching out a living. The Carrier manuals, Bell and Gosset books and the ASHREA books were a great resource.

Working with people like the Architect Alden Dow and developer Alfred Taubman was a real hoot for a kid who barely made it out of high school. I worked for Alden Dow for 3 years designing mechanical systems for schools, hospitals and commercial building. I met Taubman while working for Gussow, Dean & Associeates in Dearborn Michigan. I did the mechanical design for some of his shopping malls. Briarwood in Ann Arbor was my first shopping mall. It was a hoot. I designed the mechanical systems for Tubman's house while working at Alden Dows a couple years later. He had bought the house that was owned by the President of Chrysler corporation. Small world.

I interviewed for a permanent job as a mechanical maintenance planner at the Fermi Nuclear power plant right after doing that job as a contractor during Refueling #11. It didn't go well. Those guys had never worked anywhere else. I could tell that they could not believe my resume. I have left out a lot. When I read it I can hardly believe it myself. I didn't get the job.

I'd shout you a beer if I lived closer. You deserve a lot of respect for achieving what you have with no qualifications.

 

[blakey]

Went to college for electronics tech, worked in radio and tv as a broadcast engineer, ran my own electronics/computer business, also livestock and hay farming. Been an IT guy at a school board for the last 10 yrs. Do everything from data cabling, laptop and printer repair to projectors and smartboards and now ipad glass replacement.

 

[z71mike]

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[z71mike]

Well I just wrote a nice long post. Then went to edit a few typos and my fkn phone blew away all the typing. Too lazy to retype it all. Dang it. Sorry about that.

 

[z71mike]

oh man I feel your pain. My router dropped my signal earlier and I thought mine was gone. I got lucky, it was still here when I reset it. It was just in very light text in the reply box. When I clicked on it, it came back to life. I am old, I don't do well with phones....

I'm halfway through my 30s, and I hate having to use a phone. Haha. The upside is a constant connection to AS.

 

[paul hill]

Not always a popular job with some folks but I've been a deputy for 19 years now.

The last 15 have been in the K9 Unit. I get to take the dog and search for criminals and drugs all night long. Best job in the world to me and will hopefully keep doing it for quite a few more years.

This is the guy that does most of the work.

 

[jughead500]

Not always a popular job with some folks but I've been a deputy for 19 years now.

The last 15 have been in the K9 Unit. I get to take the dog and search for criminals and drugs all night long. Best job in the world to me and will hopefully keep doing it for quite a few more years.

This is the guy that does most of the work.View attachment 396273

Hey guys! RUN!
Just kidding.man i wish we had more of you and your K9 friend in my area to clean things up.it's so bad in my sleepy little towns neighborhood that they even sell drugs in my church parking lot. they walk from house to house picking up Meth,Morphine,etc.etc.etc. there is at least 6-7 drug houses out of about 15 just on that block.

 

[olyman]

Dude. I want your wife. Is she for sale?