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After high school I worked for a local town engineering office as a draftsman. After a couple months of that joined the Marine Corps, did my time, 26 years (25.5 close enough for government work) and retired. I've spent the last 5 five years working civil service as a training specialist.

 

This is a really cool thread!

I have worked in research for all of my adult life. Spent a couple of years right out of graduate school doing nutritional studies with dairy cows. Determine nutritional content of the feed...then determine nutritional content of the poop....it was messy and stinky work.

For the past 10 years (I'm feeling kinda old now that I can measure time in increments of decades), I have worked in a veterinary pathology laboratory. I mainly perform bacterial identifications and run the clinical chemistry and hematology analyzers here.

I always get a little nervous sharing this information since I never know how people feel about the subject, but my laboratory does health monitoring for the majority of the research animals housed here at the University. We do regular health checks, and if an animal gets sick, the veterinarians and their technicians submit their samples to us. If an investigator is performing some kind of research study and needs bloodwork done, that bloodwork is likely to come to us.

 

I took a semester off, but I'll be back at college in Jan, teaching the youngsters about cars.

It can be "interesting" trying to communicate across so many generations and still be relatable.....:crazy:

 

I am retired and I play, travel and enjoy my MINI and the Countryman/

I spent 32 years doing fun things within Bell Telephone, various companies, all computer work, no don't ask me to fix your phone. I have been retired since 2001.

 

I am a Senior Systems Engineer for the largest fiber channel networking company in the world, or as my wife explains to lay people "I design computer networks"

Been working in IT since I was 18 and interned at a Bank as a tape jockey...working 3rd shift, hanging tapes on IBM 3420 mainframe drives. I decided then that working indoors in a climate controlled environment was not such a bad gig.

Have been working primarily from home the last 16 years, supporting a single, massive customer of ours.

 

Wow....what a mix. I feel so inadequate now.

Been a residential and commercial building/plumbing/mechanical inspector for the county for over 2 decades now. Before that....well let's just say I was playing the field.

 

Urologist?

Dave

 

USAF for 22 years right out of high school. Worked for a private interconnect company for a couple of years along with some part time work at a gun shop. Started my own company installing business phone systems, CCTV and security systems. Partnered up with a friend of mine and built houses for a few years until I got a job offer from Goodyear Tire and Rubber. Built tires for semi's, HumV's, Strykers, and even a couple for the Concord before retiring for the last time in '09.
Now I do pretty much what ever I want... within certain strict financial constraints. An exercise in patience when your hobbies are, Vettes, Minis, firearms, and occasionally my '93 FXLR.

 

I'm manager of engineering and operations of a medium sized nuclear research reactor. Most days are fun and enjoyable as long as no one spills Pepsi on the control console.

 

Dang, must have dozed off, first I've seen this thread.
What do I do? Meet a bunch of guys for coffee of a morning, eat lunch and play golf in the afternoon. Otherwise, explore the world of craft brewing and do MINI stuff. What? There's something else to do?

 

I make things.....

 

I'm an educated bum...retired Spanish teacher, translator/interpreter, and a 3 MINI owner.

 

I am a Sr. Application specialist for a major US Payroll company. I work at home using MS SQL and surf the web and M/A all day from home.

 

I'm a facilities engineer. I do improvement projects and maintenance for about two dozen administrative office buildings and sixteen high density data centers. I know it sounds boring, but I get to see what's in all the locked off places, and every day is like an episode of How Do They Do It.

 

Mechanical engineer for an aerospace company in the machining and tech development area.

 

I've worked in computer software my entire career (30+ years). When I began, the job positions were called computer programmer. Later we became known as software engineers or software developers. I started on IBM mainframes and followed the shrinking technology to PC/Mac and now to mobile (Android and Windows Phone). I worked at 2 large corporations, then at 4 startups. The first 3 startups all failed, and the 4th was acquired by Samsung where I am now working on a music app product.

 

I'm a pilot for a large fractional aviation company.

 

I've been a web developer for the last 13 years and now added small business consulting. Before that industrial sales and marketing since '86