What pays your bills?

[C.U. Fishin]

Show Maintenance Supervisor, I take care of all the mechanical systems in a large Broadway/Concert venue during the performances and fix any issues that come up with electrical and plumbing(or whatever). The job for the most part is easy and interesting, on a good day I get things set and running and wait till the end to shut them down. On a bad day, well you don't want to know, and I can't explain it without using off-color language :roll:

 

[TNtroller]

work in a food distribution warehouse as the outbound load scheduler, read emails, look up order info, figure out where it will fit in the constantly changing puzzle with about half the pieces missing, and put up with idiots. yep, that bout covers it.

 

[worminken]

I was a Stripper for 20 years. Now, I just repair furniture 30 hours a week and work at Lowe's forty.

 

[FishingBuds]

I hold two positions

Production Manager of a window fabricator for 18 years.

I've accidently became a Therapist for a window fabricator for the pass 18 years :lol:

 

[Sgt. Stiglitz]

Well, actually, you guys do.

I hunt people for a living............US Border Patrol. Been doing it for almost seventeen years. Before that City Police Plano Texas.
Don't believe the crap about: "They just come here to work." They Don't. Most come here to leach off the rest of who have paid into the system our entire lives..... Lately, the one's I have been catching are going to Detroit or Chicago, Why you ask? Two years free unemployment for all, and you don't have to prove your a US Citizen to get it. #-o That was 269 lbs of Pot there worth over if I remember right, $350,000.00.

"The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." - Margaret Thatcher

 

[bassboy1]

Well, actually, you guys do.

I hunt people for a living............US Border Patrol. Been doing it for almost seventeen years. Before that City Police Plano Texas.
Don't believe the crap about: "They just come here to work." They Don't. Most come here to leach off the rest of who have paid into the system our entire lives..... Lately, the one's I have been catching are going to Detroit or Chicago, Why you ask? Two years free unemployment for all, and you don't have to prove your a US Citizen to get it. #-o

"The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." - Margaret Thatcher

Thank you for your service. Y'all certainly have a tough job, and as bad as it is with y'all working down there, I can't even fathom what it would be like if y'all weren't doing what you are doing.
:USA1:


Me? I'm just a lowly student, doing aluminum fabrication/welding on the side, gradually building a shop setup and customer base as I go, hoping to be full time (having built the business up without acquiring a penny of debt) in a year or so. Until then, I'm just taking everything one step at a time, and jumping at opportunities when they present themselves.

 

[one100grand]

I'm a salesman, presently selling custom made window coverings. Before that, I sold advertising and before that, I used to sell produce to small mom & pop type shops & restaurants. It's not glamorous nor is it terribly complicated work, but I enjoy it when I don't have to deal with stupid people....wait...maybe I don't enjoy it...

My fishing and boating hobbies are supported by my other hobby - poker. I'm an aspiring pro poker player, but unfortunately I can't quit my job while my wife is finishing her masters degree - as soon as she's done, I will make a serious run at playing cards for a living. Someday I'd like to run a charter operation, but that day is nowhere near.

 

[PartsMan]

Partsman. :mrgreen:

I sell Case IH parts at one of the oldest Case dealers.
F. W. Zaloudek Co

 

[ejones1961]

I treat wastewater for a poultry processing plant

 

[Popeye]

After 20 years as an Electrician in the Navy I retired and draw my retainer from them, The VA rated me at 90% disabled so I get a little money from them too. I also work for an energy services company. We do all kinds of things to help our customers reduce their utility bills from retrofitting lighting and AC systems to building small power plants for them. All customers are either Federal or state government funded in one way or another. My small part is as a Technical Specialist (plant operator) at a co-generation power plant where we provide all the steam and electricity for the North Chicago, IL VA and part of the Navy's Recruit Training Command. None of my endeavors require or allow me to wear plaid.

 

[KMixson]

I am a Ground Support Equipment/Fuel Farm Maintenance mechanic at Charleston International airport. I have been i various positions at the airport since getting away from driving trucks in 2001. I drove trucks for twenty years and I was burnt out as a truck driver. I have over two million miles while driving. I have been to all 48 lower states and Canada in my years of driving trucks. By the way, my favorite state is Idaho. I would see those guys standing in the streams fly fishing as I passed by and I wanted to that so bad. If I didn't have so many ties here in SC I would move to Idaho.

 

[caten in wv]

i work for the state of wv as a equipment operatior at the the dist force in dist 4 of the wvdoh the pay sucks but i love the job and love to go to work

 

[one100grand]

I am a Ground Support Equipment/Fuel Farm Maintenance mechanic at Charleston International airport. I have been i various positions at the airport since getting away from driving trucks in 2001. I drove trucks for twenty years and I was burnt out as a truck driver. I have over two million miles while driving. I have been to all 48 lower states and Canada in my years of driving trucks. By the way, my favorite state is Idaho. I would see those guys standing in the streams fly fishing as I passed by and I wanted to that so bad. If I didn't have so many ties here in SC I would move to Idaho.

I'm originally from northern Idaho, it's the greatest place on earth...as long as you don't need to work. The jobs there are few and far between, but the area can't be beat for the outdoors, I remember growing up we'd go hunting around 5 AM, hit the streams for trout around 9, hit the lake around noon, then head back out hunting around 4-5 in the afternoon. As soon as I retire, I'm headed that way!

 

[TNtroller]

+1 on the thanks to the Border Patrol man. Is that a co-worker in the tunnel opening or a bad guy?? GL and be safe =D>

 

[stratosjoe]

thank God its not my fishin abilities...I am a short ,fat, old quazzie retired ,partime Ins. agent with a fully employed happy to go to work as a school teacher wife (Bless her heart)... :fishing2:

 

[jigster60]

My pension pays my bills now...Plus the bride is a nurse......I spent 40 yrs as a railroad engineer for CSX railroad hauled coal to power plants so we can keep electricity flowing for the southeastern part of U.S.A....Now I'm retired and enjoying everyday of it......Sitting around in my plaid shorts...........................JIGGY

 

[dixie_boysles]

As ya'll know I work at a granite quarry as a draftsman. Every once in a while, i get to make a shop drawings (or blueprints as some like to call them). Here is a shop drawing that I made on AutoCAD for a Memorial base for the Army:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/14942986/Shop Drawing_revision Layout1 (1).pdf

here is a shop drawing for some planter curb for the University of Baltimore:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/14942986/14566 - Shop Drawings.pdf

And here is a shop drawing I done for Rolex (yes the watches). It is planters as well:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/14942986/001.pdf

 

[Sgt. Stiglitz]

Not a tunnel. In the mountains along the Arizona/Mexico border, south of Tucson, maybe a mile north of it. Found 6 backpackers hauling Dope across the border. Helo came in to haul the dope out because it was too far to carry ourselves.........Each bundle is aboit 50 lbs. The little guys in the photos are three of the six who were carrying the pot, doing the work US workers won’t do......... #-o I probably violated some of their civil rights here by posting their photos with their faces, you know, innocent till proven guilty and all that........Even if you catch these guys red handed with the dope, you can't get the AUSDA, Assistant US District Attorney to go on them, so it's catch and release. But don't any of us ever not pay a traffic ticket or run a red light, they would be all over us. See, it's a money issue, if you have a job and can pay the fine, they come after you. It cost the state and Federal Government money to house these in jail and they won’t make any money off it.......Good thig is, they robably lost their heads when they got back to Mexico for losing the dope........

 

[Popeye]

Drive them back to the border all high profile like and when you get there, hand them an envelope with a couple hundred dollars in cash, give them a big hearty handshake and/or big man hug thing that seems so popular these days and send them back across. Wave and smile and yell, "Thank you guys, see you next week" You won't.

 

[dixie_boysles]

off topic kinda, but I just seen where the border patrol jsut got some Ford F150 Raptors, that is badass!