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Offline Elktracker

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Re: What's your day job?
« Reply #75 on: February 19, 2012, 05:14:43 am »
Wish I could say I had one career but I have done allot I worked lawns and farms in high school, then fresh out of high school I pulled green chain for 2 years, then worked for the railroad for 2 years and at a local whelding shop on weekends, Ran Mobile crain for about a year, then onto homebuilding for 3 1/2 years and have been a stay at home dad for the last 2 years and I work for the water dept on the weekends treating peoples water before they drink it. I am hoping to get back into the lumber mill as I really enjoyed it and the pay was good. My wife is in Labor as I type so im about to be a doctor and deliver my boy with the help of a midwife ;D You think the its bad when your on here all the time what about when you wife is in labor lol >:D I gotta get off here :laugh:

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my friends think my shops a mess, my wife thinks I have too much bow wood, my neighbors think im redneck white trash and they may all be right on the money!!

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Re: What's your day job?
« Reply #76 on: February 19, 2012, 10:31:31 am »
CONGRATS JOSH!!!!!
You skin that smoke wagon and we'll see what happens!---Are you gonna do something? Or just stand there and bleed?

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Re: What's your day job?
« Reply #77 on: February 19, 2012, 03:31:47 pm »
I get paid to be an NDN! I am an Indian Cultural Demonstrator/Park Ranger at Yosemite National Park in California. I have been here for 18 years. Before that I worked for the US Forest Circus. Anything that gives me a lot of outside time.  My wife and I occassionally teach for primitive skills groups and other similar groups.  For those of you who have attended either Rabbit stick or Winter count there is another PSC in California the first week in May called the Buckeye Gathering.  Most recently I performed on stage and demonstrated knapping at Casa Grande Ruins in Arizona. We are currently court ordered placement for two of our three grandchildren. Between two hours of commuting, chores around the house and grandkids I do not have much time for anything else!

I see you don't have much free time but what a fulfilling job imho...very envious my friend!
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Re: What's your day job?
« Reply #78 on: February 19, 2012, 08:05:03 pm »
I am a land surveyor in norman ok. I get to travel all over the state and play in woods most of the time ,been doing this for about 4 years. My job is what got me into making bows I cut a limb one day and tried to make a bow from it (of course it broke ) and thats what got me hooked.
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Offline tattoo dave

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Re: What's your day job?
« Reply #79 on: February 19, 2012, 10:03:45 pm »
I'm a service rep for a lawn and garden company. We supply lowes and a department store called meijers with lots of garden stuff, such as potting soil, patio stones, retaining wall blocks, fertilzers, and even bagged cow poop. So I guess I would fall into the terd herder club. :o I used to be a tattoo artist, but needed more consistent paychecks.

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Offline Lemos

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Re: What's your day job?
« Reply #80 on: February 19, 2012, 11:03:16 pm »
Local 125 union heavy equipment operator, I use large tonka toys to put power ducts and vaults in the ground. Its allowed me to travel for free up and down the west coast.

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Re: What's your day job?
« Reply #81 on: February 20, 2012, 12:21:50 am »
I am a psychologist.  Work with people who live with effects of brain injury.  Did bridge construction to get through school.  I used to to run a fairly large residential facility, but that took too much time from God, the family and the field so now I work private practice and decide for myself how much work is too much.  I count my blessings every day and some days 2, 3, 4 times.  God willing, 11 more years and I can scrape bows and make arrows all I want.

Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: What's your day job?
« Reply #82 on: February 21, 2012, 12:10:29 am »
My background includes working as an actor in a professional theater company, a country and western AM radio dj, back to college chasing a biology degree, then running the hatchery in the world's largest (at that time) indoor tilapia farm, heavy machinery, telephone call center crap, and half a dozen other odd jobs as the mood struck me. 

Nowadays I piece together a living working part time at a friend's upscale liquor and wine store (sigghhhhh), plus owning one small business of my own (Singing String Archery...Functional Museum Quality Replicas), partner in another small business (Avian Research and Consulting...field research and data gathering, consulting, and other tasks as assigned), plus working for the occasional movie/tv/documentary/commercial film crew that passes thru the area, oh-almost forgot, I also model for any number of artists (Wayne Justus, Corrin Hollenbeek, and a few others).  *grin*
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Re: What's your day job?
« Reply #83 on: February 21, 2012, 04:57:23 am »
     Well, let's see, my first jobs were with my Dad, when I was around ten or so, and it consisted of scraping concrete off of floor slabs, on the houses my Dad was plastering, and mixing plaster for my Dad, any of the other plasters.  Nope no mixer. I was the mixer.  Mixed it in a mortar board.  Which was basically a boat, with 2 X 12 boards for sides and ends, and a sheet metal bottom.  Then after I had it mixed, I would shovel it into a wheelbarrow, and push that through deep sand, to the outside wall where they were working, or inside, when they finished the outside, and then I would shovel it onto the mortar stand, and then go back and load up again, and push it back to them, and start loading up the mortar boards, and then go and mix more.  Quite a workout for a kid. :P  Hell, it would kill me now. :o  Then after high school, I went with a friend of mine whose family worked the packing house circuit, and worked in packing houses, and the fields, and decided I liked the packing house better. ;)  Then I  worked at Lion Country Safari, west of West Palm Beach, as a Short order cook, then I was drafted, and went into the Army, and only had two years to do.  Well I and a bunch of other guys took some tests, and then some more, and as the tests continued, there were less and less of us, till it was just me and a couple of others.  Well were then herded into a room, and were told that we were exceptional, and as such, we were going to get to choose our MOS (military occupation symbol), and as we all knew all US's (draftees) went to Nam! :o  But being as we were so extraordinary, we would get to choose our job, and it would only cost us an extra year. Hell you can do a year standing on your head!  Well, that hook, line, and sinker went down pretty slick! ::)  Well I ended up in Italy as a Cryptographic clerk, and then after using a little child psychology, on the battallion commander against the base commander, I was able to get into the mail room.  Had it made!  Everyone treated the Mail Clerks well.  The cooks would bring us treats, and we would give them their mail early, the supply room guys would let us slide on stuff, etc.  I got to go to Berlin on an orientation tour, and got to go on both sides of the wall.  Very interesting and a real eye opener.  Especially since with my clearances, I was not supposed to be within 60 miles of any communist countries, and here I was 90 miles inside of one! :o  Myself and another guy were wondering around and saw this lady with a bunch of grade school aged kids, in little blue uniforms, with a clip board and some paper on it, and they saw us and came up to us, and said "your Name?" and pointed to the form, and there were a bunch of names on there, and I asked the lady what it was for, and she didn't speak English, and my German was practically non existent, anyhow we signed, after all they were cute kids, and polite. ::)  When we got back on the bus we told our guide about it, and he went ballistic, :o and told us to show him where this happened and we did, and we found the woman and the kids, and he started talking to her, and then he comes back to us, and escorts us back to the bus, and told us NEVER sign anything over there!  Turns out we signed a protest for a political prisoner. ;D I also got to deliver equipment and paper work to the colonel at the NATO Communication cave called West Star. That is after I got out of the communication biz, and got in the Mail room. Only the great part was I had a Sgt. drive me, and I was only an e4.  He did not like that, especially when he could not go into the cave, which was pretty neat, like a James Bond place. All tiled, and mess halls, with various countries, etc. I would have to wait sometimes for a reply, and I would be told to go get something to eat, while they got the replies ready.  The Sgt. didn't like that either.  Sometimes I already had the replies, and I was just cooling my heels, and enjoying annoying the Sgt. because he was somewhat of a Jerk.  He would get all upset and ask what the heck took me so long, and I would tell him it was a long way to where the communication center was, and then I had to wait for the Colonel to get the replies, and requests he had.  I told him, what do you want me to do, tell a full bird colonel to hurry it up!?  The Colonel wasn't the sharpest tack in the box, he had the communication center all screwed up.  It was not entirely his fault, though, it was dumped in his lap.  His initials were D.I.M.  We called him uncle Dim. ;D  Then I was supposed to go to Nam, but I had appendicitis at Ft. Lewis, Washington, and got sent to Ft. Lee, where I again used child psychology against a battallion commander, who had the rep for being an A@@@! and it was justly deserved, and to boot,his command Sgt Major, and first Sgt, were doozies also!  The command Sgt. major had spent time in the brig in Germany, for beating a man to death, :o and the First Sgt. had spent time in the brig in NC for stealing office equipment from the supply pool, and selling it on the outside.  ::), well he heard I was a office clerk at the other company, and wanted me for his own!  I thought nope ain't gonna happen! ;)  So when I went for my interview, he asked me how many words a minute I could type, and I told him 30-35 a minute.  He said that wasn't very good.  I told him I thought it was for me.  Actually I could type 70-80 a minute, and even more on a teletype, so he got on the phone, and said to send the other guy over for an interview, this guy can't even type, I acted hurt, ;) and then he asked whoever was on the other end, if they still needed a mail clerk, and they did, so there I was back in the mail room. ;)  Then I got out, and went to school to be a Dental Lab Tech, and after working at that for a few years, I decided I needed something that would afford me the ability to eat better.  So I worked as a Security Guard for a Buddy of mine in the Virgin Islands, which is a misnomer, and then came back and worked for the Fed, on the Citrus Black Fly program, and then worked at a Buddy's Concrete plant, for a few years, and then worked as an electrician's helper, and was going to get my Journeyman's license, but then the job would run out, so I decided to look for a career, and ended up working for the Fire Dept. dispatch center for 2 1/2 yrs. and finally got hired on for combat.
I also became a professional clown, and then an instructor for public education through clowning to teach fire safety to children, at the Fla. State fire College.  We now teach it at the Elks Youth Camp, because we could not depend on getting the classes, or the auditorium, even though we put in for it almost a year ahead.  If some Mucky Muck from Tallahassee decided he wanted to do a class presentation for some PR or whatever, we were tossed aside, and the students from around the country, were out of a class, and they had to get vacation time off a year in advance, and so did myself and the other instructors.  So the class at the Elks Youth Camp, works out great, and it is entirely free, including food, and rooms, they pay for their make up, and the outfits, we help them pick out at the Good Will.  The only meal they pay for is when we take them out to get their feet wet at Ryan's Restaurant in Character,the night before they do their skits at the elementary school.  Any who, I am now retired from the Fire dept. and my schedule is ....... well, there isn't a schedule. 8)  I basically go to bed late, and get up late. ;)  I have done other various jobs in between real jobs, scraping 50 yrs. of paint layers, off of clapboard houses, and then painting them, in August, for $6.00 an hour, and digging ditches, and cutting and hauling trees away, and basically anything I could do for a few bucks.  But back then a dollar went a lot further.  I remember when I was a kid, my Mother would give me two dollars, and I would walk down to the store, and come back with two pounds of hamburger, a loaf of bread, a pack of hamburger buns, a box of crackers, and a box of cookies, and a half gallon of milk! :o  You can't do that today! :(  Too darn many cameras!  >:(::) ;D ;D

                                                  Wayne   
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Offline yod9

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Re: What's your day job?
« Reply #84 on: February 21, 2012, 12:36:55 pm »
IT Consultant by day
Artist, Musician, and Fashion Designer by night.
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Re: What's your day job?
« Reply #85 on: February 21, 2012, 01:52:35 pm »
Howdy All,   I'm sorta chuckling to myself.    Stickbender wrote an opus that made my one liner reply look skimpy ( and made me feel lazy), and then Yod9 posted a reply even shorter than mine!
All fun to hear.    Ron
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Offline osage outlaw

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Re: What's your day job?
« Reply #86 on: February 21, 2012, 02:07:57 pm »
Since everyone is putting previous jobs, I'll add mine in as well.  Before I became a licensed turd herder, I worked at a casket company.  I started out painting them and moved up to an inspector before I left for browner pastures  ;D  I've also worked at a machine shop, lumber yard, construction, and a clothing warehouse.  I worked part time second jobs at a farm supply store and a grocery store when I first got married so the wife could stay home with the little ones.
I started out with nothin' and I still got most of it left

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Re: What's your day job?
« Reply #87 on: February 21, 2012, 10:20:03 pm »
Sort of a side issue, but I have a neighbor who is painting his house.   He's got a couple of kids in high school age kids that helped him for a while but then dropped out of the project.  I asked him "Why aren't they helping?" and he replied that "I work hard so my kids don't have to."
I won't say that is a totally unreasonable idea, but it sure wasn't on my dad's mind.  I know I learned to use a shovel, rake, paint brush or broom long before I learned to read a bicycle.
I have since made money doing paper routes, lawn mowing, summer farm labor, evening circulation (subscription) crew at a newspaper, warehouseman, apartment manager, and lab animal tech.  Once I received my DVM degree I've worked in general practice, emergency practice,  filled in at spay/neuter clinics and now have a practice restricted to surgery ( mainly orthopedics.)   I've gotten paid for a few of my music gigs, but not enough to seriously endanger my amateur status.   

Ron
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Re: What's your day job?
« Reply #88 on: February 22, 2012, 02:55:31 am »
M-P, my dad was the same way.  At 13 I was mowing the neighbors lawns and had a gig where I would wash all the cars at the used car lot down the street.  I think I got paid 5 bucks a car or somthing like that, which werent bad for 13 years old.  My junior year of highschool, one of the guys in my church offered me a summer job at his plumbing company making 7/hr.  and the following summer hired me on at 10/hr until I left for basic training.
You skin that smoke wagon and we'll see what happens!---Are you gonna do something? Or just stand there and bleed?

"Show me a man who will jump out of an airplane, and I'll show you a man who'll fight for his country."
Lt. General James Gavin

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Re: What's your day job?
« Reply #89 on: February 25, 2012, 09:52:24 pm »
I'm 17 years old, Senior in high school. 3 months till graduation,then, who knows what will happen. Up until recently, it was the army, then college, then nothing.........
"I started developing an eye for those smooth curves as a young man.  Now that my hair is greying and my middle spreading I make bows instead."

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