Your Career or what you do day to day?

[Joe M]

Can't believe they stopped making the H3. What a great vehicle!!!

[Joe M]

I work for the Dept. of Revenue of Pa. " B.I.D.M." Bureau of Imaging and Document Management. We process all the Documents generated by all other Pa. State Agency's, and reduce them to a Virtual Image.

[guyfox]

Well at the ripe old age of 43, i have been retired for the past 4 years. After finishing high school I joined the Canadian Forces. I use to be an Ammunition Tech (use to blow things up and play with bombs....LOL). Retired after 201/2years and went back to school. I am now a registered massage therapist. Quite the career change i know. I now only work to pay for toys that i want. It is a hard life but someone has to retire early to enjoy life....

Guyfox

[spookum]

Grew up in dads shop : He worked on cars, everything but transmissions. Said he hated slush buckets, dunno how they work and didn't care.

Me: First go-kart at 8 years old. Modified and modified and modified.

Built a 20000$ race kart (electric), chromoly frame (i welded it) kevlar tub and a fiberglass body by age 17.

Made a driller in the oil feilds in Montana.

Moved to alaska, 2 years left in in a petroleum engineering degree.

Nothing is more satisfying than taking an unknown object, making it run again. I especially love the challenge of figuring out what it is and its history.

[jerseybigfoot]

I'm a geologist. That usually elicits the response "So, you look at rocks?".

The easy answer, is yes.

The way-too-expensive-and-will-be-paying-off-till-I'm-50 pieces of paper on the wall say "Geology", but that's inclusive of a lot of different disciplines from Geomorphology to Crystallography/Minerology. I'm technically a Hydrogeologist ("hydromike" lame, I know....). I've worked for the same environmental consulting firm since grad school, and it's a pretty cool place. In a nutshell, we manage environmental issues for public and private entities and help them stay in compliance with state and federal regulations. The work ranges from performing geotechnical investigations for the temporary storage pads desinged to house the spent fuel rods for nuclear reactors (Yucca Mountain ain't gonna happen in time....) to just standing behind a drill rig in the dead of winter for months at a time. It usually shocks the driller when the dude logging the soil cores can diagnose a bearing in a Moyno pump that's about to go south.

I love to have an understanding of how things in the world work, and that ranges from plate tectonics to just about anything mechanical. I was a gearhead way before I was a rockhound, and I can't figure out if it's cooler digging a 420 million year old brachiopod out of the local fossil beds, or digging a 40 year old ATV out of the fence row.

Hey Mike I bet you didn't think anybody heard of a Moyno pump. AKA bent worm rotor with a rubber stator. Esplain how dat Moyno works again?

[egoperf]

started out as a welder fabricator working for a hazardous waste clean up company. then got into running heavy equiptment, like dozers and excavators. my toys from the sand box just got bigger and I get paid to do it now

[plott hound]

been working at the same HVAC company since 1987.am a licenced gas fitter and oil burner mechanic.also am a sheet metal mechanic doing mainly new home heating system installs for quite a number of years.last 4-5 years have been challenging,certainly had to diversify.watched our workers get laid off 1 by 1 to a staff of less then half of what is was.boss must of felt sorry for me because im still working.

[jerseybigfoot]

Hydraulic application engineer. After 35 years of design fixing and installing hydraulic system I sold my company I am now working for the company that purchased the company that purchased my company. Working for a some what larger company who thinks i'm over paid. Now I'm on my 3rd boss at that company, Something about linear integration or is it vertical intimidation.
O, yea sorry for the rant, I'm sure we all have our stories. Anyway I went to school to become a shop teacher back in the 70's but have 2 years of engineering, did spend some time working in a socialist country in Europe for about 6 months in 1975. Yes there is no place like home. Repaired lots of big hydraulic system in the marine and offshore industries, Was even in the ship salvage and marine pollution control business for awhile. Now I design and install hydraulic systems. I keep trying to convince HR I'm not a plumber.

[foxspoiler]

Began full time work life at 18 with UPS working in the automotive dept. (Big Brown Trucks). Retired a year ago. Now I work full time on 6x6, vintage sleds and hot rods.

[Stonewall]

I work for my dad farming rice and soybeans right now. In the off season when we're not farming we do alot of equipment maitnance, which can range from changing oil to completly rebuilding irrigation pump engines, we even fabricate impliments sometimes. I'm also about a month from earning my pilot's liscense, and currently going to a local college to finish out my high school(dual credit), but I hope to go to Georgia Tech to major in mechanical engineering. It might be a pipe dream, but I'd like to put the Hustler AATV back on the market...(with some ideas I have for improvments).

[hydromike]

Hey Mike I bet you didn't think anybody heard of a Moyno pump. AKA bent worm rotor with a rubber stator. Esplain how dat Moyno works again?

I was about a year out of college when I helped a drilling contractor rip apart a fragged Moyno in the field. I'd never even heard of such an animal, but to see how simple the concept was, and how in the world they fabricate that rotor was incredible. It makes grinding a camshaft for a V-12 look like a piece of cake.

[mark m.]

Toolmaker/machinist by trade. Worked my way up the ladder to Mechanical Design Engineer for a corporation that does inkjet printing. I get to go from computer to the machine shop to build electromechanical prototypes for our latest developments. Very interesting job. I have been building things since I was a little kid.

Did a stint in the service, long, long time ago. Jet engine mechanic then machinist.

[Beeman]

All I can say is Wow! Just out of the 27 posts (minus the comments of course :P) everyone has their own interesting line of work that builds into the whole mosaic of a countries economic structure. I find it fascinating the amount of wealth in knowledge and experience that is brought to the table through a single interest in AATV's and for that alone I would like to congratulate you all -- for a job worth doing and a job well done!

[lewis]

Well at the ripe old age of 43, i have been retired for the past 4 years. After finishing high school I joined the Canadian Forces. I use to be an Ammunition Tech (use to blow things up and play with bombs....LOL). Retired after 201/2years and went back to school. I am now a registered massage therapist. Quite the career change i know. I now only work to pay for toys that i want. It is a hard life but someone has to retire early to enjoy life....

Guyfox

Strange to find someone in the same field. USMC has the designation 2300.

[racerone3]

Strange to find someone in the same field. USMC has the designation 2300.

Damn Lewis, didn't know the USMC had a # for Massage tech... might have been useful to know after the last lap at Ashtabula, or several Busco rides Kidding of course... Getting paid to blow stuff doesn't sound bad... but there's usually those guys on the other side trying to blow stuff up too.... that aspect does not sound so fun....