Your Career or what you do day to day?

[old farmer]

hi being retired did nothing but cleaned at the basement ongoing job fixed 3 exit signs at the lodge needed batterys took 2 older people home 55km from the day centre got some grocerys had supper and called it a day

[techfx]

Me, Technical Support for the last 10 years (after getting a raise to do that over electronics/ radio repair). It was mostly drive thru restaurant equipment, but now it is "Augmentative and alternative communication" devices, which is what some people depend on for communication if they can't speak. Dad grew up on a farm, worked on tractors, then auto mechanic (or various machines depending on the type of job), now he helps manufacture industrial air compressors.

[dirtdobber]

I grew up working for a couple of farmers in the Mississippi Delta, then in a welding and machine shop during college. After college went into government and after only a few years moved into consulting....been at that for nearly 20 years now. My professional expertise concerns demography, land use development and regulation, etc.

[Hercules222]

It's at a cargill beer malt plant.

Mmmm.. Beer...
Sorry, had to!!
I am in my 4th year doing lawncare and snow removal. Before that I drove truck for 4 years and before that I turned wrenches at a Harley dealership. Seems like if it doesn't have a motor on it I'm not interested.

[Rabbit929]

Industrial maintainance mechanic. I work on mostly millwright type stuff, and precision allignments of large motors, drag conveyors, dust systems, ect.
It's at a cargill beer malt plant.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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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[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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...

[tbone9]

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