What is your job?

[zig]

If you've seen the TV series "Dirtiest Jobs", I've had 4 that has been on that show. First job off our family farm was working on a commercial hog farm. Our family farm had commercial broiler houses (chicken farm). I left the farm to join the Coast Guard, where I spent 14 months on a bouy tender. After leaving the CG, I was a horse shoer for 12 years. During that 12 years, I finished my college degree (which I had started before the CG). I taught high school Ag Science for two years, then went to work for the Texas Department of Agriculture as a pesticide inspector.  A couple of years ago I tried the greener grasses of the oil industry, but.....this past November I found my way back home to the Department of Agriculture.  Now I'm checking fuel pumps to make sure you're getting a gallon of gas if you pay for a gallon of gas. After 4 of the dirtiest jobs in America, I kind of feel like I've earned this job and don't plan on looking for anything else. I wont make oil field money, but anything over 40 hours is comped, so more time for hobbies.
Funny thing, we have 40 acres here...I have a few chickens, a dozen horses and I want to get a couple of pigs. Now I need to find a bouy for the pond, I guess you never completely get away from dirty jobs!

[hellboy7]

45 yo retired production and broadcast engineer for over 20 years. I worked in Hollywood for the last 10. I was Chief engineer of the most state of the art broadcast and production studios in the world owned by Playboy. I worked for all the major broadcasters and Cable companies at one time or the other on various projects. I started when they were all running off of tape and finished with digital compression and encoding onto servers. I helped pioneer the technology of Video on Demand and built, serviced and maintained the very first encoders and servers used to encode nearly all major movies and television shows today. Now I just take it easy, build early broncos and now Drifters (the early bronco of the motorcycle world). I live in the high country of Southern Colorado. My wife and I mostly grow our own food and take care of all the stray dogs around our little town (maybe 25 or so cattle dog type). I raise hell nearly everyday on my 400ex (bored to 440, cams, header, etc, KILLS a banshee) up in the mountains, play a little hide and seek with the local Sheriff . I build hobby websites in Wordpress or whatever, here is one http://adventuresportshub.com/ I do some serious snowboarding and Mountain Biking too. I have a fully equipped body and mechanics shop to do all my work left over from when I ran a bodyshop out in socal restoring musclecars and would love to do up a few drifters for folks on the cheap. I do a knockout paintjob and have some fabrication skills. Sure is an interesting group on here. Lots of really cool experiences. I need to get my Singh saddle and my Zambini emblems so I can hit the road with yall! Funny how the flimsy headlight visor and the cheap crappy mirrors show up in 3 days but the expensive stuff takes a month.

So it looks like you're the winner... with the best life ever.
I'm just a part time waiter right now... trying to make some ends meet. Got some inspiration from this thread though, I definitely want to choose a career path soon..

[drifter 1500]

I am discovering new posts daily...

You know the joke...

How to recognize a pilot in the crowd??

You don't need to, he will tell you.

I am Airbus 320 Captain flying for one privat airline (Belle Air) in Albania (Europe). Also holding Director Flight Operation position (Post Holder).

[dakuhosu]

45 yo retired production and broadcast engineer for over 20 years. I worked in Hollywood for the last 10. I was Chief engineer of the most state of the art broadcast and production studios in the world owned by Playboy. I worked for all the major broadcasters and Cable companies at one time or the other on various projects. I started when they were all running off of tape and finished with digital compression and encoding onto servers. I helped pioneer the technology of Video on Demand and built, serviced and maintained the very first encoders and servers used to encode nearly all major movies and television shows today. Now I just take it easy, build early broncos and now Drifters (the early bronco of the motorcycle world). I live in the high country of Southern Colorado. My wife and I mostly grow our own food and take care of all the stray dogs around our little town (maybe 25 or so cattle dog type). I raise hell nearly everyday on my 400ex (bored to 440, cams, header, etc, KILLS a banshee) up in the mountains, play a little hide and seek with the local Sheriff . I build hobby websites in Wordpress or whatever, here is one http://adventuresportshub.com/ I do some serious snowboarding and Mountain Biking too. I have a fully equipped body and mechanics shop to do all my work left over from when I ran a bodyshop out in socal restoring musclecars and would love to do up a few drifters for folks on the cheap. I do a knockout paintjob and have some fabrication skills. Sure is an interesting group on here. Lots of really cool experiences. I need to get my Singh saddle and my Zambini emblems so I can hit the road with yall! Funny how the flimsy headlight visor and the cheap crappy mirrors show up in 3 days but the expensive stuff takes a month. 

[DC]

There are quite a few here that use their walkers to get over to their bikes.      

[greenbarn]

Yea, I'm almost as old as Ratman...

[CDNRatMan]

im beginning to think that im the youngest person on this site

not quite that would be me and there are some really old guys here, like GreenBarn he is one of the crew from the boat that Noah was Captain of.......

[draconarmy]

US Army 25U (communications specialist)  for 8 years now, and im beginning to think that im the youngest person on this site.

[Starfruit Bongwater]

And I hit the wrong button....
Anyway so that's what I do, it's almost not like a job, really.  There's the occasional field trip, the do let me out every now an then, off to see a dealerships NOS stash, or to help load up another demantlers shop...that's always fun.
Anway, enough outta me.
Peace,
Star

[Starfruit Bongwater]

I've been called The Under Taker, Quincy, Doctor G, but my all time favorite "the Jeffery Dalmer of motorcycles"......I'm a motorcycle dismantler here in Eugene, Oregon.  We part about 50 bikes a year, (sorry, no Drifters yet), and do about 80% of our biz on line.

It's kind of strange taking a part motorcycles, it used to be somebodies pride and joy, it used to be fretted over, it used to be loved......that was till they parked it and it never ran again.  Then an extra bill comes in and they remember the carcass of their long dead friend sitting in the corner of the garage.  A little wheeling an dealing with my Boss and it ends up on my table.  A very nice air lift table I might add...I love my boss.  We don't go to auctions, and the bikes pretty much come from Eugene and the surrounding area.  Pretty much all Asian Bikes, 60's, 70's, and 80's~sounds like a radio ad.

Every now and then a legend crosses my table, like this 6 cylinder Kawasaki.

This used to be a BMW police bike....I like doing Cop bikes.

I'll spare you some of the more nastier shots, I do use a Saws-All a lot.  It saves major time and well, it's just plain fun.  Every bike is dismantled and the parts stored in our two huge warehouses...it takes all 3 employee's ~the boss, his wife, and I to remember where everything is.  What doesn't meet quality standards goes into regular stock and sold locally.  Some parts go to who don't might a scartch or two or those that do a little "farmerizing" an make it fit.  We also have a lot of electic car and bike building going on in the Eugene area.  Lots of folks tinker, I once help a guy with a drive system to raise and lower his crab traps on his boat.....then there are our local artists.  It's already fun to know the parts I pull and clean go all over the world...but now I have a bunch of sprockets in a permanent piece of art work down by the University of Oregon.....them's a lot of sprockets.

[Ricardo]

At the moment I'm employed as a 'System Specialist' doing software management and maintenance for key card systems.

[DriftinGirl]

yeah some of them are really bad...we have had to call a nurse back so she could tell us what it said....

...and the only reason us nurses could read it was cause we told him what to write in the first place 

[IBI-UBU]

yeah some of them are really bad...we have had to call a nurse back so she could tell us what it said....

[DC]

I read the Dr's handwriting...

I don't know how anyone can even do that.  It must be worse than trying to translate hieroglyphics.   

[IBI-UBU]

I was working as a pharmacy tech before my husband passed...I read the Dr's handwriting...put info into the computer...and count pills...
I'm just not sure what I'll do now... I know I don't want the pressure involved with that type of work anymore...
I have been a bartender, waitress, school bus driver, fast food person, and worked at a liquor store...
I think that is where I'll go back to...I enjoy working where the party usually begins...I don't have the patience anymore for the other jobs...

[tfloyd]

Neither COR, not COTR...I'm a Specialist, which basically means I'm the assistant to the Contracting Officer.

[DC]

Contract Specialist - US Army (civilian)
Contracting Officer - Alabama National Guard
Business Owner - Loft 212 Events (check us out on Facebook)
Real Estate

I'm about as busy as 3 normal people!

I worked on the systems integrator side for years, providing services to many DoD agencies.  Are you a COR or a COTR then?

[John Hopkins]

I have been retired for 19 years, I have skills, trades, experience and have worked at many things..I suppose the most notable was professional assassin which didn't pay as much as you might think.

John.

[tfloyd]

Contract Specialist - US Army (civilian)
Contracting Officer - Alabama National Guard
Business Owner - Loft 212 Events (check us out on Facebook)
Real Estate

I'm about as busy as 3 normal people!

[CDNRatMan]

D1 nothing wrong with me as long as I wear my tinfoil hat the voices are really quiet, and the other thoughts are kept in check as long as the elastic band does not break......

[Drift1]

Mmedur.......thank you for your service,"Never Forget!".....Ratman is on the Canadian side of the military and is getting the old thanks for serving but know your broke take care letter.....maybe you guys can tour together besides with your psychology expertise maybe you can keep him out of trouble....

[mmedur]

Medically retired US Army last April. Did construction before I was activated, and I am in school now working on my bachelors in psychology. I plan to get a masters in social work and work with veterans.

[David Poirier]

Retired US Army Military police, working loss prevention for an extremely large grocery company that is native to Texas

[Never too late]

Green barn

Not a bad idea.... Maybe we could set up some Drifter motorcycle rides similar to what Disney was trying to do.... I am sure it would be a hit! ( not sure why the Disney rides didn't work ..... Everything else they try is  usually  well recieved )

Cheers Ntl

Ps - saw a post in our forum regarding Disney planning a ride years ago that inculded Drifters.

[greenbarn]

NTL: Sounds like a great job.  Hope you get back to it soon.    Hmmmm..... recreational facilities....  maybe you could put in a city-drifter-rental-facility.........  Rent a drifter and have some leisurely recreation, in the form of some rides through the countryside.....