Your Career or what you do day to day?

[special ed]

State of michigan dsably label --- retired me as an electricion got licensed in 1978 but said I was to old to retrain nevered finished high school so now all I can do is spend time with grandson and play and try to convince him papa can't fix everything life is rough (cough cough ) but he's a blast

[Nubs]

Quit school at 16 and worked at a junk yard for 15yrs, went out on my own and never looked back. heavy equipment repair, dozers, scrapers and logging equip. now just restore and sell cars, trucks. build engines for golf carts, pulling tractors bla bla..

[tbone9]

I'm a Journeyman Millwright in a paper mill. Logs go in one end paper comes out the other. I wrench on all the equipment in between.
This is an interesting subject. So much knowledge from all different aspects. All put together for the good of one hobby.

[amphibious drew]

I'm a Journeyman Millwright in a paper mill. Logs go in one end paper comes out the other. I wrench on all the equipment in between.
This is an interesting subject. So much knowledge from all different aspects. All put together for the good of one hobby.

My experience driving past paper factories is that the entire town smells. I would put purell under my nose and light 2 cigarettes just to try and not smell the factory. I hope yours is less aromatic.

[jpswift1]

My experience driving past paper factories is that the entire town smells. I would put purell under my nose and light 2 cigarettes just to try and not smell the factory. I hope yours is less aromatic.

Oh, Johnsonburg, Pennsylvania Drew is referring to. That's Townie USA there for sure. I remember when I was teaching in Virginia and I had to travel through that awful town to get home. The smell was HORRIBLE and I'm pretty sure that it was the reason for the particularly low IQ of the local townies there. I used to always see the sign that said "____ days without an accident" as you passed the Domtar paper plant. Usually it was never more than 3 or 4 days. Here's a quote from another forum that pretty much sums up Johnsonburg, PA.

"Johnsonburg is one of the most secluded, small, smelly, and dead end towns anywhere in the nation. I lived there throughout my childhood but now live in Utah (Salt Lake City), which is a totally different universe. I would not recommend anyone to move to Johnsonburg unless they were going to be a manager or CEO, CFO, or executive at the Domtar Paper Mill. I wouldn't move anywhere close to here. Pittsburgh or Erie, but def. not Johnsonburg or anywhere within 1 or 2 hours."

[tbone9]

Really! Thanks guys for muddying up this thread with your unwanted opinions of an industry based on nothing more than a drive by.

[Nubs]

I agree, no need to cut down the way a guy makes a living. to many people in this Country don't even try to make a living anymore...

[amphibious drew]

Really! Thanks guys for muddying up this thread with your unwanted opinions of an industry based on nothing more than a drive by.

Not trying to mud up the thread. Just hoping that your factory smells better than the one I've spent lots of time by. We all need paper! I have no idea if they all smell, but the sulfur was too much for me to handle.

[jpswift1]

Drew or I didn't cut anyone down because of what they do for work. Anyone who works deserves props, rather than mooching off the system. And troubleshooting high tech machinery is a very interesting job with skills that can transfer over into AATVs......which most of us here on the site do, work on/build our own machines. Neither of us would judge anyone for what they do, we're not elitists. And actually we both have a lot of knowledge of that area. We've known people that have lived there and that information about the town was directly from Census and OSHA data, meaning it's factual, so this is more than "just an opinion based on nothing more than a drive by." And as I said in my previous post, that quote I put in there was taken from another website and it's directly from someone who used to live there. So now that we know all this information let's move on and see what more people on the site do for a living.

[tbone9]

Thanks Nubs. Drew, I too have driven past those types of mills with the awful smell. The one I'm at uses a totally different process with no bad smell. However to some people that work at those types that's the smell of money. JP, I agree let's move on and find out what other interesting careers people have. Perhaps you can start us off again by telling us about yours.

[Noel Woods]

Thanks Nubs. Drew, I too have driven past those types of mills with the awful smell. The one I'm at uses a totally different process with no bad smell. However to some people that work at those types that's the smell of money. JP, I agree let's move on and find out what other interesting careers people have. Perhaps you can start us off again by telling us about yours.

Living in Texas, like I do, you are never too far away from cattle yards. If the wind blows just right and you smell the awful smell of animal waste and processing in general, I'm always struck by the locals that say: "Um, that smells like money." So I know exactly what Tbone9 is getting at.

[ARGOJIM]

I remember when I was teaching in Virginia and I had to travel through that awful town to get home.

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[drb]

spent 30 years in human resources for large h vac company in Iowa. retired in 99 at age 54 because of cancer. had no formal education in mechanics but always loved "tinkering" grew up on small farm so we always had to fix something. got into collecting two cylinder john deere tractors and started to work on them. luckily for me had a very mechanical cousin who could always bail me out when i got in over my head. so amazed by the talent of people on this forum.

[racerone3]

Thought I was done doing this in 2013, but had to do a pit stop last night cold turkey. This video was summer of '13 and I hadn't done any practice sense.

[Sard]

Spent 10 years in government, moved over to oil and gas for some reason or other, and spent three years there as a power engineer running two thermal oil recovery plants. The last 6 months I've been unemployed and am just getting my government career going again.