Job, what do you do

[RangerCash33]

Definitely rethinking my career after reading this thread! I’m a user interface/experience designer for financial applications.

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[DaRodent]

Definitely rethinking my career after reading this thread! I’m a user interface/experience designer for financial applications.

Believe me if I had a “way back” machine I would have chosen a different career.
In my mind I would have been a great international spy....that is if Canada had them lol

 

[Mokume]

• Mechanic/gopher at a small repair shop for 1 1/2 years or so
• Mechanic at a Lincon/Mercury-Honda dealership for 13 years, 7 months
• Fire equipment mechanic, 4 years
• Firefighter III, 20 years
• Firefighter III/Fire Inspector, 4 years
• Presently unemployed, and loving every minute of it

 

[egilbe]

I'm a sysadmin with a cyber security focus working at a manufacturing plant that's ITAR controlled making high reliability tantalum capacitors for medical, military and aerospace industries. Previously worked at a Bank in IT, Spent 2 years active duty in the Army and 20 years MeARNG and retired.Worked Manufacturing in the automobile supply industry and semi-conductor industry. Mostly, I piss people off because I make them follow best practice security policies, that they do their damndest to avoid.

 

[RedlandRanger]

I'm a sysadmin with a cyber security focus working at a manufacturing plant that's ITAR controlled making high reliability tantalum capacitors for medical, military and aerospace industries. Previously worked at a Bank in IT, Spent 2 years active duty in the Army and 20 years MeARNG and retired.Worked Manufacturing in the automobile supply industry and semi-conductor industry. Mostly, I piss people off because I make them follow best practice security policies, that they do their damndest to avoid.

Security is always a PITA, but it is necessary evil in this day and age.....

 

[FX4Offroad]

I work for a local school system in south Florida. I'm mostly in charge of the deployment of computers to our schools. We just started a deployment of 37,000 laptops to our 234 schools. Deadline is 7 months (Aug 31,2020)...then we start over.

Recently (2018) retired from teaching AutoCAD at local college for 27 years.

A few more years and I'll be retired from all my jobs and get to remodel, travel and enjoy whatever I want.

 

[Mpro2]

I am a Lead/Master electrician for a North Texas school district. We have 42 buildings to keep powered up, and only five electricians in the department. Been in the electrical trade since 1982.

 

[SaberRanger]

I’m a Supervisor at a Walmart Super Center. I am in charge of making sure trucks are unloaded and a crew of stockers.

 

[Boostedranger2.3]

Avionics tech/installer. Work mostly on private/corporate planes.

 

[gfitzge2]

I am a Lead/Master electrician for a North Texas school district. We have 42 buildings to keep powered up, and only five electricians in the department. Been in the electrical trade since 1982.

Mike, nice arc flash suit. Been there done that. Movements restricted, visor fogged up, gloves are so thick that you cant even feel that you have tools in hand, let alone control them but protected from the explosion. Seriously I am not saying that the safety is bad, but in my early days we did those jobs in a T shirt. Lucky to have survived.

 

[Mpro2]

Mike, nice arc flash suit. Been there done that. Movements restricted, visor fogged up, gloves are so thick that you cant even feel that you have tools in hand, let alone control them but protected from the explosion. Seriously I am not saying that the safety is bad, but in my early days we did those jobs in a T shirt. Lucky to have survived.

Yep, I remember the t-shirt days, but company safety regs have done away with that. Fortunately in this pic, I was re-setting a 480 volt, 800 amp main breaker and it tripped again and didn't blow up in my face! Found the problem up on the roof. A 3 inch feeder conduit had lost its support, and broke at a coupling to short out the wires. Took about 4 hours to repair. Just another day at the office!

 

[Nutty 5.0]

The arc flash stuff is no joke. I spent time working for a #3 pharma’s data center doing controls and had to be in in the same NFPA 70E training as the other folks. Scary stuff. 120v shocks are just a tickle.

 

[Cape Cruiser]

Mike, nice arc flash suit. Been there done that. Movements restricted, visor fogged up, gloves are so thick that you cant even feel that you have tools in hand, let alone control them but protected from the explosion. Seriously I am not saying that the safety is bad, but in my early days we did those jobs in a T shirt. Lucky to have survived.

I worked for an electric utility for 31 years. It was amazing to watch linemen work 500,000 volts live from a helicopter wearing a chain mail suite to draw at least a 10 foot arc from the conductor to their suite into the helicopter. Amazing site and sound that I wont forget. Definitly above my pay grade LOL

 

[gfitzge2]

I worked for an electric utility for 31 years. It was amazing to watch linemen work 500,000 volts live from a helicopter wearing a chain mail suite to draw at least a 10 foot arc from the conductor to their suite into the helicopter. Amazing site and sound that I wont forget. Definitly above my pay grade LOL

I have seen those videos, they are some well trained and definitely brave workers.

As a young electrician I saw a utility guy with high voltage gloves on, hold his kliens near a 13,800 volt line and draw an ark to see that it was hot. I was impressed. Not something I was going to try. I was an Inside construction wire man, and later more of an automation electrician and high voltage was not my thing. Better left to some one that knew what they were doing. Plus as an apprentice I spent a couple of months helping an older lineman. His advice to me was "boy, don't ever let anyone teach you to climb poles" I took his advice.

 

[Mpro2]

I'm glad that we don't work with anything over 480 volts in our buildings, that is the utility providers problems. It's funny that they call our 480 volt secondary power "low voltage", but it's nothing to laugh at! The 120 volt still scares me, guess that's why I'm still alive!

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