Furnace Operator at a hot metal smelter.
Platinum and platinum mining company.
Also was a hard rock miner for same company, and couple other mines.
I love it, a trappers dream of a schedule and excellent pay.

34 years as a tech for a phone company, and 10 as an airport manager. I also did taxidermy and wildlife woodcarvings for toy money as well as trapping since the early 70's. I'm retired, so every day is Saturday now.

4 years as a Drywall Contractor, and about 35 years as a General Contractor. Had a couple years in between those working for another contractor. Retired now, and have the body to prove it!

Resource Manager at USACE Lake Project - retired

.. glad you could make a living out of it …. Mescins took that business over down here

Car plants. Power and free rail,mono rail,flat top conveyor,lift/pop up tables,etc
Power house work. Turbines,Crushers,pulverizers, drag conveyors belt conveyors, gear boxes,etc
Food processing small conveyors, packaging equipment, Centrifuge separators,presses, driers , lots of other stuff
The last couple years I have been at a place that makes griddle bricks and a couple other products basically working with plant maintenance. It's not glorious but it's only 40 miles from the house.

Spent the last 5 years flying around on these things until Oct 1st, now I'm a supervisor managing a hospital based EMS program.

Most of yall got or had better jobs than me

.. talented bunch we’ve got here

Agreed. I had no doubt, though, lol.

…. I thought all yall Alaskans sewed walrus foreskin into to designer mittens for a living lol

No, we feed the wangs to you southern folk, and then buy modern high tech stuff for ourselves. lol.

Sling lines, turn valves talk on a radio and get fussed at by other grown men

Worked every job from bottom to top at a blast furnace. 9 1/2 more months and I'm done.

Heavy equipment operator the last 19 years.
Journey man Ironworker for 7 years before that. Also Tree trimmer and cell tower building and inspecting jobs
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Retired. I live off my pension, social security and 401K.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way. At 62 I am not done. Boats or construction ,rust or rot, pure job security..

Retired Ironworker of 35 years. Now I take care of my 2 small pecan orchard’s. In the process of setting up my honey, pollination, and bee business. Trapping bees instead of buying them. Caught 39 swarms last spring. The rest of my free time I manage to trap a few critters.

For 30 years I chased bat's around and killed beaver

Before that I was a machinist

Owned and operated a Logging Contracting business for 25 years, and then worked as a Consultant Forester for a couple of Timber Investment Management Organizations. We managed around 500,000 acres of industrial timberlands in the Adirondacks and Tug Hill Plateau.
Semi-retired now.

Late to the party but spent 30 yrs in an oil refinery, operations side in louisiana. Now run an adc business and cater cajun food over here in texas.