Work history

[Gingerbeard]

What kind of work did/do you all do?

I did architectural drafting and design. My programs were AutoCAD, Revit, and 3ds Max. I taught and tutored AutoCAD, and was a teacher's assistant in the other two. And did 3D modeling and minor animations.
I've had to 'retire' way early in life because of minor but ongoing medical issues.

[Formernuke]

Disabled vet here.

[homegrown]

Thank you for your service Formernuke.

[OldHippie]

I'm an Oil Tycoon.
Well, maybe not but I do sell Fossil Fuels for a living.

[Canuck147]

Retired Federal Government employee here.

[SoOrbudgal]

Soon to be a retired federal government employee healthcare.

[Tersky]

I was in IT. Everything from desktop to server, though my last job i was technically a government employee as well lol. Did IT for a state funded medical training hospital. It broke my soul, but only slightly...

[SoOrbudgal]

Yep if care too much about what you do and listen to all the "Kool-Aid" drinkers it sure will. I've thrown my hat in and not lookin back.

[Tersky]

Pretty much it was just year after year of low pay and too much work along with a manager who would promise anything to the higher ups, even if it wasn't possible. That and people who kept asking me to install their mouse and keyboard when i had 20 other things to do that day.

[D.A.A.S.69]

Oilfield geology work, lol
Bass fishing, huntin guide,

[Mr.furley]

Apartment complex manager

[homegrown]

lol priceless!

[kingfish]

Dental Floss Tycoon.

[homegrown]

Frank Zappa? is that you?

[kingfish]

After my failed carrier as a Dental Floss Tycoon, I ended up a retired Telephone Man.

[LurkingInTheGrass]

23 years and counting in IT.
No soul left 😁 for them to break
mostly, love my job

One of my first gigs, involved getting a guy set up and working with 3D Max and their hardware license dongle (their support was a nightmare, ended up resolving the issue by rummaging in usergroups)

[dphipps1020]

Server at Village Inn. Looking to get into commercial growing cause I live in Colorado but I would like to get everything down first. Got big plans and the motivation to get it done but I have to wait a couple more years still. Figured I would start early and slowly upscale and when the time comes I will be ready. Until then it's slave labor for me with a hobby my dogs and I enjoy.

[Rwise]

Most of my carrier, I was an Overhead crane tech, I spent many hours in the seat of a pickup truck heading for the next job site. Overtime plenty up to 120 yours a week,, a new temp ask if he could go to full time so he would have less hours,,, I built, repaired, inspected, installed overhead bridge cranes. I am also always the head asshole in charge, just ask anyone that worked under/with/around me,,,
I also got hurt in 94 (back injury), and went to school for PCs, and then to TV Guide where I worked the servers that do their scrolly channel. This was a fun job, and I held a compac cert that allowed me to do warranty service on the new compc PCs we used (2000 on). I maintained around 5000 PCs of various breeds. I always told them they would have to run me off with a big stick, when the lady came in to tell us the bad news (with pink slips), the others told her I new it was coming. She ask me how long I new "4 years" is what I told her and the others nodded yes. When in a big corp setting they post online what the future holds, Tulsa was not in their long term plans,,, say byby!
So I went back to the overhead cranes at top current pay, had a bad crash and took the disability I should have in 95,,,,

[SoOrbudgal]

My nephew is a big crane operator also.

[Rwise]

LOL, I am not qualified to operate any crane, but I can fix the hell out of it!
My time at TVG was not stressful, maybe because I take over!

[Weeduu]

Dad's friend was a crane operator too before he retired. Mine was just setting up the load and securing it on the truck rack

[Obi-Wan]

I’ve been in the culinary field for the last 25 years, 10 years as a cook and the last 15 running kitchens. TV makes it seem glamorous and some would say it’s slave labor....my experience is a bit of both, as with everything in life, it’s all about the effort you put in.

[Canuck147]

I can relate to culinary businesses - worked in beer parlors in my early 20's - had lots of fun, live rock band every weekend.

[starramus]

Full time social parasite of the rentier class. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z8SpgmF0sA

[starramus]

Formerly a broadcast engineer ensuring the delivery of propaganda for the MACHINE!

[Gingerbeard]

Money for college:
Shark bait for a Scripps Institute study
Land diving in

Pentecost Island, Vanuatu

Chippendale understudy (How could I not be?)
Toilet paper roller. Ever get a toilet paper cut? That last one was pretty good.
Toothpick whittler/vendor.
Waif.

[SoOrbudgal]

In my late teens early 20s I worked for a meat cutting plant yes sirs I did !! I did the chickens in, they tried to train me in "larger cuts of animals" but I could not "grasp" properly I was rather small boned but strong as heck. So they kept me boning chickens until I met my spouse and he coerced me into leaving with him to the great PNW where I learned healthcare ain't sayin anymore about that.

[LurkingInTheGrass]

Queue the Chippendales music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFXTa2yeYWs