What do you do for a living?

[hdsdcouple]

Well I use to own my own gravel pit and trucking company in Las Vegas Nevada. Economy went bad closed. moved to South Dakota to drive 100' grain truck and then got back into paving when grain company closed. Now this is my baby. I am assistant batch plant operator of a paving company here in South Dakota. Will be operator when the current one retire in the near future.

[Redblower]

I started out in a web offset print shop printing birdcage liners, last 22 years I've been in the sign business, started out building them (favorite job of all), sold for about 10 years, hated that, still have to sometimes, mostly project management now but still keep my license and get to go out on the road installing or servicing from time to time. We are a small sign company that has serviced several national accounts and re-branded a couple airline mergers, hope to have a couple more in me. Dad retired at 51, I must have been asleep the day he told me how, I'm past that by a few years now and it doesn't look like I'll get to the land of retired anytime in the near future. Oh well, I love where we live except the grand kids are too far away but we get by. Kool group of people we have on this forum, my first, this is as close as I get to social media and I really like it this way.
Vic

[CTRUEX]

Now I know how there is so much knowledge on this site.

I'm an industrial maintenance technician. I work in a die casting facility, where we cast and machine aluminum automotive parts. I get to maintain, troubleshoot, and repair many various pieces of equipment, mostly vertical squeeze cast machines, CNC's, and the shot blast. I get to be an electrician, juice man, mechanic, and fabricator, depending on what the call requires. There's not much monotony, but it sucks when I get a case of CRS. Before that, I built machinery, mostly hot roll laminators and rotary presses, until I was laid off. I also held the title of extrusion technician, in a plant that made PVC decking and fencing, but it closed. That was my first "real" job, since working on the farm and high school jobs don't pay well.

Well, that's my story, and I hope more people share theirs!

[Cubby guy]

First full-time job out of high school was as an A&H mechanic at the local IH dealer

A&H mechanic is a fancy name for "Guy that gets to do all the crap jobs no one else will do."

Put together a bunch of #480 disks, a few 500's, couple of #45 Vibra-Shank field cultivators and A LOT of Cub cadets. Ran the steam cleaner, dug all the gunk out of the steam cleaner room drain when it got plugged, etc etc

Went to tech school, became a radio/ tv broadcast engineer,did some consumer electronic repair between broadcast jobs.

More tech school, put in 15 years as an I.T. Guy, now officially a member of the retired OBFG club.... Old Bald Fat Guys

[IHinIN]

I'm a lead toolmaker at a tool & die shop. Been there since I graduated high school in '95. We design and build specialty machinery and work-holding fixtures. Our machines range from radiator assembly to corrugated drainage tile molding machines to kitchen appliance assembly. We've built several machines that had robots integrated into them.

I also do some manual machining as well as welding/ fab, so I have a little variety in my job.

[wj-ihc]

I'm an agricultural engineer by degree, but have been working as a mechanical engineer at an aluminum plant in southwest Indiana. I primarily work on a couple rolling mills which finish the aluminum primarily for household use, foil, stamped pans, etc.

[Shaner]

setup/maintenance mechanic, fork truck operator, weld/fabricator at my main fulltime position and farmhand at a part time farm job.

[yeeter]

Grew up on a Farm

Motorhead in H.S.

Former machinist

Former Lab Tech

Mechanical Engineering, then more school after that

Now I'm in Nanomedicine

But still enjoy turning a wrench

Its really impressive how powerful 'collective wisdom' is.

[amy3588]

Retired US Navy ,enjoying being home now and taking care of the house while enjoying my seat time on my IH CC 104.

[Billy-O]

Self employed cabinetmaker. carpenter and installation of higher end millwork for my business and subcontracting for other cabinet shops. And handyman is part of the job! Customers say "Oh, by the way...."