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What does everyone do for a living?

BamaEngineer said:
Just drove through Troy yesterday on our way back down to Florida from Montgomery.

Maintenance Management for a large fertilizer manufacturing facility.

Roll Tide


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Bone stock!
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Roll Tide Roll ... hope we get to play this year.
 
RAM Patriot said:
Network Engineer for a private school. K-12 large campus with over 50 Switches, VOIP Shoretel phones, over 5 miles of fiber optics, 120 AP's and over 1000 devices on network during session.
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How do you like this, do you manage to stay busy? My biggest fear of switching to a career like this is that I might be doing nothing for a large part of my day, and then having to work odd hours when problems crop up.
 
silver billet said:
How do you like this, do you manage to stay busy? My biggest fear of switching to a career like this is that I might be doing nothing for a large part of my day, and then having to work odd hours when problems crop up.
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That does happen at times especially in the summer it can go from very slow to slammed with projects. Schools start their fiscal budget in July so the first part of the summer you have no budget left and July 1st to the start of school semester you can be slammed.
 
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It's cool seeing what everyone does and reading about jobs I've never even heard of before. Cheers to all of you hard workers.
I've personally been in the Air Force for 23 years now and have held 4 different specialties within.
1. Fuel systems mechanic (B1 Bomber)
2. Computer administrative assistant.
3. Airfield Management
4. In flight Air Refueling specialist aka Boom Operator (current)
What I do right now is by far the coolest job I've ever had and I plan on hitting 30 years of service before retiring.
 
I’ve been everything from a general manager for the big W in the sky in Texas(and some lucky other states), to rough necking and frac’ing in the oilfield, and currently an process operator/technician for one of the largest ethylene gas crackers in the country
 
Jeffjad said:
It's cool seeing what everyone does and reading about jobs I've never even heard of before. Cheers to all of you hard workers.
I've personally been in the Air Force for 23 years now and have held 4 different specialties within.
1. Fuel systems mechanic (B1 Bomber)
2. Computer administrative assistant.
3. Airfield Management
4. In flight Air Refueling specialist aka Boom Operator (current)
What I do right now is by far the coolest job I've ever had and I plan on hitting 30 years of service before retiring.
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That sounds like an awesome assignment, Jeffjad. Thanks for your service.
 
I am a multi-disciplined CAD guru. For the past 27 years, I’ve worked for a Containerboard/Fluff pulp paper mill. I am known as Cadman, not many outside my department know my name, LOL.

I am versed in process control, creating P&ID’s, instrumentation loops. I also work electrical power distribution from MCC’s to motor elementaries, to running conduit and cable tray for capital projects.

I do some mechanical/piping work, sizing motors and pumps. I am also the Document Control lead, and maintain over 94,000 working drawings in the Engineering Department.

my newest endeavor is gaining my remote pilot license for the three drones we have onsite.

i do have a few more hats on the wall when i need to wear them.
 
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Jeffjad said:
My pleasure....It has been a very rewarding job for sure, I always say I have the best office view in the world when I open the refueling window at 20,000 ft. Congrats on your soon to be retirement (y)
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A friend of mine at work, a lady, and a lawyer on our litigation team, is a retired Air Force JAG lawyer. She did several tours in Afghanistan giving legal advice to the Commanders. Her husband is also retired Air Force. I believe he was a navigator in bombers.
 
silver billet said:
How do you like this, do you manage to stay busy? My biggest fear of switching to a career like this is that I might be doing nothing for a large part of my day, and then having to work odd hours when problems crop up.
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I was thinking that same thing lol, almost went back to school for I.T. But I remember when the 2008 recession hit and every single business was laying off all of their I.T. staff...smh. schools might be a different story though, same with government/cities.
 
Paulmg1986 said:
I’ve been everything from a general manager for the big W in the sky in Texas(and some lucky other states), to rough necking and frac’ing in the oilfield, and currently an process operator/technician for one of the largest ethylene gas crackers in the country
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Lake Charles? I have a buddy at Sasol.


2020 Laramie EcoDiesel 2WD - Billet Silver
Bone stock!
 
silver billet said:
How do you like this, do you manage to stay busy? My biggest fear of switching to a career like this is that I might be doing nothing for a large part of my day, and then having to work odd hours when problems crop up.
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This happens in my line of work, let's just say I've seen every good series on Netflix and Prime Video and anything else(y)
 
judsonlimited said:
Unemployed currently, thanks Covid.
But Project management prior to that


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Man that’s terrible!! not Good about your job, I hope you and your family do not get the COVID.
I hope you find work soon.
 
Jeffjad said:
It's cool seeing what everyone does and reading about jobs I've never even heard of before. Cheers to all of you hard workers.
I've personally been in the Air Force for 23 years now and have held 4 different specialties within.
1. Fuel systems mechanic (B1 Bomber)
2. Computer administrative assistant.
3. Airfield Management
4. In flight Air Refueling specialist aka Boom Operator (current)
What I do right now is by far the coolest job I've ever had and I plan on hitting 30 years of service before retiring.
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Recruiter told me I could be a boom operator when I first joined. Didn't see a career outside of the military with that job so I elected to be a crew chief. Sometimes wish I would have given the boom operator job a shot.
 
braggster said:
Recruiter told me I could be a boom operator when I first joined. Didn't see a career outside of the military with that job so I elected to be a crew chief. Sometimes wish I would have given the boom operator job a shot.
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At least you still get to travel with the jets as a crew chief. Def not much related to boom operator in the civilian sector although there is a civilian contractor that does air refueling for the Navy called Omni Air, I might look into that after retirement.
 
I work in business technology for a financial services firm in NYC. I have 30 years in technology experience and manage operations for a wealth management business. I always get told that I don’t look like the truck type.

Anyway, I really love my 2019 Ram 1500 Big Horn and enjoy learning from everyone on this forum.




2019 Ram Big Horn
Bakflip Tonneau Cover
Nerf Bars
Custom JL Stereo
 
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