O/T Curious what all you hambers do for work?

Art Director and part owner of the ad agency i work for.

 

I´m a hairdresser.... no joke.

 

Hmm...

Accord'n so some folks.... not much!

Actual job, USPS, (21 yrs)

Pontiac Slim

 

A woodgrainer
Yup just like the old days I put the woodgrain finish back on the old cars that
are being restored back to factory colors and patterns.
Also make a sell the woodgraining tools.
Jdee

 

i own a small hot rod and custom shop, im the only employee. thats why my car is a rusty stock piece of shit. and im also a presonal watercraft mechanic, thats why my ski is all blown up.

 

i'm 38 and have only had one job! selling road tested auto parts.

in other words, working in a junk yard

 

I joined the Army when I was 17. When I got out I went to work for the Air Force as a civilian. Retired a few years ago. And that is when I got my dream job - towel boy in a cat house. Kept the rooms supplied with clean linen and various sundries. Did such a good job they promoted me to quality control. I put my heart and soul into it but I just could not meet the production goals and they let me go. These days I am the gopher at a local hot rod shop.

 

Landscape irragation, State of Texas Backflow inspector, Irragation service cordinator...... Ok, I'm a ditch digger!

 

Im a heavy equipment operator at a class A landfill...ok its a county job I am spending tax payers money to pick through the scrap metal bin, wal-mart and home depot loads, and every once in awhile start a machine and do some work.

 

I got too much in the pot right now!

In house Graphic Designer/Art director/photographer/production manager.

After work I teach intro to Computer Applications at the University of Missouri, KC. Mainly Illustrator and InDesign.

After job 2 I do freelance Graphic Design and custom Letterpress printing of Posters, wedding invites, b-cards, announcements and the like.

And inbetween everything I help my in-laws finish stuff in their house they are building like tiling floors, installing fixtures, drywall, painting, wiring phones and running cat 5 to every room of the house.

For fun I play with my kids and take them out for adventures.

 

I am an Operations Manager at an auto auction.

 

I am the operations manager/ part owner of a pro-audio manufacturing company. I do R&d for new products, make sure everything runs smoothly day-to-day and fix just about everything that is broken including missing employees. It is mostly electronic interface products (wires,connectors and panels)

 

Owned a bicycle shop since '76.Actually,it's owned me all that time.Too much work,too many hours in the spring and summer,broke and lazy during the winter...The pay ain't too good,either...

 

I poke badgers with spoons . Thinking over coming over the pond and starting a similar business involving racoons ...

 

Retired Fire Captain/Paramedic. I'm only 34 so now I am painting at a body shop and we are starting to do more custom and restoration work. Also work at the Golf course as Asst. Pro.

 

Parts consultant at a Chevy Dealer. Also, in my spare time, porn star.

 

Sonar Technition on nuclear fast attack submarines. Doing a shore tour as law enforcement till next June.

 

I'm a small animal veterinarian-dogs,cats, pocket pets and some primates. We run a three doctor hospital with about 30 employees. These days it's as much about the "business" as the medicine.

 

"Account Executive" at the local cable company. I sell high speed internet to businesses in the Metro Detroit Area. I love my job, I love my boss, my company is very cool to work for.

 

Over The Road trucker...and it sucks!

 

I'm the one everyone loves to hate...Mr. Jonny Law himself for 15 years...that's ok...I've got thick skin

 

Architect.

For worldwide design firm.

M

(thus no mech knowledge..haha)

 

CNC Machinest, Ingersoll Rand, Bobcat Division.

in other words i make the tranny parts for all those orange and white skid steers and track loaders you see at damn near every construction site.

 

lawyer

 

I build these things...



Full flight simulators. These two happen to be for the V-22 Osprey.


I spent 1.5 years working in the mechanical end, building cockpits and primarys, 4 years working on the motion and controls platforms along with the visual systems and doing installations world-wide (God bless the U.S.A.!) and am now running up on my second year of building the computer systems that run the whole mess.


Oh yeah, I'm also an underpaid, part-time Classifieds Editor on a little known message board.

 

Easy answer... computer geek, shop owner, and bar owner...

Long convaluted answer... I'm a systems administrator and IT manager for the Tobacco Genome Intitiative and Center for the Biology of Nematode Paraticism. I am responsible for the HPC (High Performance Computing) and all related equipment in the processing of data for the tobacco genome related to a grant from Phillip Morris. It's interesting in a hot rodding computers sort of way. I also take care of all the Network administration for our group....

I'm opening another bar in Raleigh, I closed the last one about 4 years ago... I can't stay away....

I have a shop but right now have put any customer work on hiatus until I can finish a few of my own projects. That's the nice thing about being the boss and having the shop outback of the house...

 

Im an electronic technician for the usps we deliver. mike

 

Power plant operator. I'm responsible for operating two 750,000 HP Steam turbine/generator sets.

 

We did this about 4 years ago and it was really cool to see the diverse knowledge and expertise assimilated in this group of misfits.
Many hats over the years....
Had to to pay the bills.
-15 years as a certified welder working on nuclear and pressure vessel equipment for a power generation company.
- 10 yrs. Volunteer fire and ambulance EMT.
- 5 yrs programming and set up of robotic equipment for an Automotive Co.
- 20 yrs as a quality analyst and metrologist for three different companies...
( automotive, aviation and now residential and commercial equipment.
Now I just collect paychecks while I read and post on the Hamb and dream about hotrods.