I am an Electrician,but I work for Verizon now. I have been with MaBell for 10 years now in different capacities. I started out installing equipment in central offices which included back-up emergency diesel generators,large capacity battery plants,rectifier plants,and other associated equipment. Now I am a maintinence technician for the company,and I know routinely maintain these systems that I installed for 7+ years. It isn't glorious work,but I know that my everyday work allows the telephone network to be operational 24/7-365 no matter the weather. I love my job most of the time,mostly because I work by myself most of the time,and I get to make my own work schedule most of the time as well.

I still do electrical work on the side from time to time,and I do miss the trade sometimes,but not this time of year when I would most likely be working on slab somewhere in the blistering cold.

 

i work at BOBs which is a clothing store. im in the shoe dept.

 

I am a patternmaker for CAT. (No, I don't make dresses.) I build the tooling the sand is packed into, that makes the molds that iron is poured into, to produce engine blocks and cylinder heads. The foundry I work at makes Nascar engine blocks - very small - to 3500 series V-16 blocks - pistons are about the size of 5 gallon buckets. Best job in the foundry as far as I am concerned.

 

i just quit working for CAT in the toccoa, ga foundry a few months ago. i did almost every job un there other than pour the metal. i also made the molds. that is one of the best jobs in there. that or sand supply. all in all though, foundry jobs ******* succckkk. silica sand is NOT your healths friend.

good is that they pay pretty good and have good benefits.

 

I remember working on the seal ring patterns as an apprentice back when they were manufactured here in Peoria. It was a different foundry than the one I work at in Mapleton. It was very small and in a state of disrepair. That was a major reason it was moved to Toccoa.

I agree about foundry jobs not being the best work out there. I was a chipper the first 5 years before the apprenticeship. Horrible job.

 

I work with the disabled. I run a group Home with 6 behavioral/mentally handicapped individuals.
very rewarding. makes you not take things for granted.

 

my girlfriend does that, it makes me feel good via proxy

 

yay update I'm now running operations for a team of freelanced editors as their asst. managing editor.

oh but still a freelance writer by night...

 

I built swiming pools for 5 years, Hard work & no time to myself (in the summer) but fun and rewarding, untill i found out that I was gtting screwed, coulnt ask for a day off with out getting laughed at, pay was crap, and the people I worked for/with (not all of them just most of them) were not good people to be working with , I teach snowboarding in the winter (past 7 years), and now I am working full time for verizon(I fix your DSL), with in 3 mounths of starting I make only $1 less at verizon than building pools and gained 80% benifints, more than a fair trade in my opinion, and all I do is talk people through how to get there dsl working correctly.

 

Update time for me too.
I'll be working the night shift at superstore (stupidstore for you canadians), over the holidays to pay for next semesters text books.
One and a half years down, six and a half more to go.

 

I'm an engineer and CAD jockey. I'm actually designing bullet traps right now.

 

i do tree work for a tree service.

 

i now do not work at this time its a long story. is there anybody on here that has an A&P (airframe & powerplant) that might be able to help me prepare to get mine.

 

yes

 

heeeey it's Al Bundy. j/k, i'm sorry, i just couldn't resist.

 

Mechanic at Eau Claire ford!!!!!

 

I work as a production technician at a nickel refinery, although my background is in gold production, ie pouring the gold bars etc.

currently working 12hr shifts, 2 days on, 2 nights on, 4 days off, plus annual leave.

I'm trying to get work as a production technician on a FPSO in offshore oil and gas...more money and better roster.

 

Sale cars for Toyota. Great money in the summer, winter is BS.

 

I work at a place that makes titanium medical parts that put you back together. We mainly make the plates that hold your neck, arms, and hands together. I run the 5 axis CNC machining center that creates some of these pricey little parts.

 

Do you make very small titanium screws? I may need to thank you...

 

im a tactical data network specialist for the marine corps in camp pendleton, ca.

i know not your typical rx7 fanatic but i love my little '84

 

LOL...I keep getting called "Peggy Hill" (I'm a substitute teacher, in case you didn't guess it! LOL)

 

You just whoring again wacky?

 

I work for a company called Reliance Home Comfort we rent natural gas water heaters and sell furnaces and central air, I work in the service department and I fix old and new furnaces and air conditioners and some hot water heaters. Licensed gas technician and residential refrigeration mechanic, i do mainly electrical troubleshooting and it gets pretty repetative and boring but the pay is good and I have a brand new work truck that I get to haul car parts in so it ok for now. Sometimes I feel I'm too young to be stuck in this job and want to do something new or move somewhere exciting but who doesn't rite?

 

Currently working in a small local Radiator/Air Conditioning shop.

Probably going to go back and work for my Dad again installing hardwood/tile floors though.