Whats your occupation?

Hello all,

Seeing the dream job thread, got me the idea of well...why not ask what is your current occupation? I dont want to hijack the previous thread, so just current occupation. I saw there was a previous thread but maybe some of us have switched jobs or careers.

I currently work with injection molds, repair and maintenance.

Government Cowboy Wild Horse and Burro program

Retired welder/fabricator/erector, now as of this Monday, federal park ranger/ part-time.

Pine Police lol

Trapper

Maintenance engineer

Not quite, a little higher up the security scale than that, think ports!

I run a pellet mill at a feed mill and work around the farm when I’m not at the mill

telecommunications field engineer.

Retired reserve Deputy Sheriff.

Water/wastewater operator/public works man

Equipment operator at an Aluminum plant in the Ingot department. Mainly run articulated loaders either with a bucket or rotary head forks. 938 series cats or similar. Also hall caused of molten with a straddle buggy run other Equipment in the plant.

Retired self employed commercial real estate appraiser

Geotechnical Engineer. I design deep and shallow foundations, reinforced retaining walls, earth dams, and SCM's, but now that I work for the City I also design gravity sewer, waterlines, and even greenways for Parks and Rec.

Companyman for ExxonMobil. I drill oil and gas wells.

Insurance agent, retiring the end of this year. Can't find enough time to fish, hunt, and eradicate the buckthorn in my woods.

Land surveyor. Build files for GPS machines on construction projects.

Trapper

Retired Federal employee and journeyman babysitter for two three year olds.

Farm/ranch hand.

3 years dairy herdsmen
31 years tech college farm business instructor
5.5 years Extension ag educator
retired 2013 at age 66.

Bryce

Retired carpenter, now I'm just a burden on society.

Power lineman for the rural electric coop

I'm retired. I was a senior manufacturing supervisor for a company that manufactured heart catheters. After 18 years I was "downsized" when in my mid fifties. Changed careers completely,became a ranger for the NYS Department of Environmental Conservation, working out of a boat on adirondack Lake George as well as a walk in ranger in the SiamesePonds wilderness. Best job I ever had.

My bussiness card says = Wildlife Technician. I was told = Coyote Mercenary = wasnt politically correct

Logged 6 years
Ran parents store, worked relief staff in juvenile group home 4 years
Director Juvenile Delinquent group home five years
Teacher 29 years
Coached wrestling 27 years
Still coaching Girls Fastpitch 30 years
AD 13 years
Retired this spring except for coaching softball.

27 years as a Ga game warden. Retired this past June.

Now I'm a full time deer hunter (since season opened), predator control and nuisance beaver trapper (when the calls come in.)

retired millwright ,

I make dreams come true...with bodywork and Paint...since 1975

Engineering, healthcare HVAC design. New construction and renovation

2 years as injection molding tech
2 years as rotating valve tech
27 years working as project engineer, field service engineer and test engineer for turbo/compressor manufacturer
Retired this year at 55

Machinists, fabricator, and business owner.

You win !

Regional Environmental Service Director for Senior Living Communities.

18 years working as a IT phone support for the same company (plus 4 years of IT work before that)

13 years of running a Nuisance Wildlife Control side business

logger, made small pieces out of big pieces, Carpenter, just the opposite.

Pool tile and plasterer for 18 years. Then blacktop driveways for a few years .Concord grape farmer always. Now beat up from manual work and half crippled. Baby sit my great granddaughter on weekends now.

I fix and drive boats around.

Farmer, run seed and chemical business and do custom haying, will never be able to retire:)

I am a stamping press setup in a metal manufacturing business. Mainly in the 150 ton stamping presses.

Some impressive folks on here

Retired taxidermist.

Rough fish removal-commercial fishing.

Sliding into retirement currently. I still own a couple of businesses. I also own patents, and that led to forming a patent holding company which has expanded to offer that service to others.
Still teaching people to shoot, labor of love.
Looking more and spending more time in the west again cleaning out coyotes ( have gun will travel ) and enjoying time out there with some terrific folks.
Still going to guide fishing groups in north and Central America as long as it’s fun. A few Alaskan big game hunts with my sons coming up.
With any luck at all I’ll pass on sharing a laugh, pulling a trigger, or landing a drag burner.

Osky

2 years operation manager for Wheaton Van Lines. 28 years wildlife management retired in 2005

County road maintainer, I work harder than all y'all! Lol

Self employed.. We form, pour and finish concrete.
Picture of a job we finished up today. Removed the existing entrance an poured back an stamped

41 years as a toolmaker. Dang I'm getting old.

Don't tell anybody back home I worked in the oil fields, they all thought I was a piano player in a house of prostitution.

I used to be on a contruction team building golf courses for a resort in Northern Michigan. Now Mill Operation manager is what the card says We mill out and pressure treat fence and orchard poles. Also Grind and color landscape mulch along with blueberry farm mulch.

Heavy equipment mechanic

carpenter

Power plant operator at a paper mill

Building automation technician at PSU. Fire Chief for my local Vol Fire Company

State Construction Inspector

Nuclear physicist disguised as a drywaller

35 years in heavy highway I'm 53 and got 2 years to go and I'm out

I'm state highway maintenance. Our shovels stand all on their own. Beat that. Haha...

Logging Contractor for 30 years, then the last 15 years before retirement was a consultant Forester for a Timber Management Company based in Jackson , MS, that manages 270,000 acres in NY’s Adirondacks and the Tug Hill Plateau.

Retired from DoD, radar and antenna engineer.

40 years part time trapper. Same trapline for 30 years until retired from trapping!
Since 1983 and currently, started a concrete cutting business, specializing in road, bridges, runways and commercial buildings. Also do ground penetrating radar (GPR) scanning. No desire to retire.

I estimate property damage for instance claims and get bored if there are no high and steep inspections LOL. During the off season, I fix stock trailers, slap tame bulls who won't stay home, and introduce ferals to freezers

Kerosene taster

nuff said . . . :-)

Environmental consultant. Design and run systems for soil and groundwater remediation.

Gigalo

Business is booming

Surgical ninja

Free trapper, well not quite Technician at Bio refinery, ethanol plant. A better fur market and I’d retire .

Heavy equipment operator

Full time row crop farmer. Corn , Soybeans , wheat.

Part time waterman, nuisance trapper, food plot planter, PivotBio salesman.

Financial stuff.
Jim

Production Superintendent at a paper mill.

I'm the guy who puts ink on that paper..

Plumbing business owner. Install and repair plumbing on new homes and light commercial buildings.
26 years in the industry.

Chris

Electrical Engineer the last 30 years

Warehouse manager for a farm chemical supplier. Help farmer after work hauling corn in the fall.

Oilfield for 6 years. I often really miss it.

Lawyer for 23 years. The goal is to go 9 more years.

Looking forward to focusing on my cows, my guns and my non-work pursuits.

Official title is shop foreman for a mobile rock crushing company. Fix big crushers and screens. Make gravel.
Lately because we have no employees left I'm site supervisor, float truck driver, mechanic, welder equipment operator and baby sitter. Millright... etc. Been there 8 years give or take. Also plowed snow a couple seasons and did the ice roads one year.
If anyone needs a job working 60 -70 plus hours a week give me a dm lol

Been a Dairy herdsman for the past 7 years and Dad for the past 3.5. I did a mix of beef, dairy, row crops, and custom hay work for 12 years before this.

Retired military pilot, part-time commercial pilot.

Wife moocher.

Heavy/Highway Supt., 25 years at the same company, 32 years in the cement workers union.

Retired the last nine years, but had 37 years in the coal mining business. Started out setting posts for Consolidation Coal in the mid 70s, left the industry as GM of the second largest mining company in Pa.

Retired High School Guidance Counselor. Now, full time professional loafer and part time recreational trapper.

Banker

Warehouse Lift Driver 3 days a week, I have my own decal/graphic art business the other 4 days of the week, until hunting/trapping season starts than I shut it down.

Part time adc, built and sold a telecommunications company and "retired" 12 years ago. Lasted two years. 10 years ago, my wife and I opened an adult family home for mentally disabled adults. Now we own three fully staffed and managed. Bought some land in MN with plans to build an awesome campground and rental cabins. Everytime I go to work on the land,i can't stop fishing long enough to get anything done. Lol

I don't know if you can count this as an occupation but it's more of a side hustle. Odd jobs like mowing, gutters, leaves, cleaning out people's sheds, fencing, tree trimming, etc that's what I don't for late spring till early fall and then I'm a trapper from late fall until early spring. Also I forgot to mention, I'm self "employed" during my odd jobs.

Technical writer and trainer for high speed disposable hygiene machinery.

Retired lineman , refugee from NY!

Retired at age 55 from 25 years as a trial lawyer.

Wood Procurement Manager for a softwood lumber mill. Which is a fancy way of saying I’m a timber buyer lol
Fun job, I get to spend about as much time as I want to out in the woods in some rather scenic places. (Well, sometimes its scenic places, sometimes its briar infested thickets)

Owner of Plumbing and HVAC company. Third generation master plumber.

35 years insurance adjuster...probably 5 more...depending on the stock market...I'd retire earlier, but dang it - I have too many things I want to buy - cows, campers, and boats are expensive!

Logger and the wife and I run a sawmill

Tool & Die Maker

Quality Assurance Manager at an ice cream plant.

Dave

I wrap Bouillon Cubes.Its where the real moneys at.

I am an Automation Engineer for an Aluminum factory. I like my job because it is challenging and rewarding.

Private care giver.

I have one man I take care of in his home.

He's had a stroke and is left side affected.

Retired factory worker

Garryowen

Beef Farmer, Excavating contractor.

Laid brick, block, and stone 8 years
Framed houses for 7
For the last 20 years a commercial construction superintendent for a general contractor. I specialize in office interior renovations. DC, Virginia and Md.

BellSouth/ATT for 24 years now. Was planning on retiring at 60 when I got my 30 years in, but was recently moved to a new title and now have no plans to retire, lol. I’m no longer in the elements or do anything “physical” so they may have to run me off before I retire.
I trap part time on several properties from Jan - Aug to pay for my out of state hunting trips and Christmas.
Wouldn’t change anything in my life.

Retired Fire Fighter.

Mac

HVACR technician for 27 yes. Home Inspector for 1 1/2 years. Ruptured disc’s and pinched nerve ended my HVACR carrier and new spinal injury last November ended my self employment as a Home Inspector. Finally got a injection last month and it didn’t work for me and caused more pain. The disc cartilage is protruding between my vertebrae and pushing against the nerves. Sitting in the waiting room now to see the surgeon for the first visit. Hopefully they can come up with something to fix me.

Public school teacher for 15 years. Only 20 more to go.

Commercial HVAC installer for the last 13 years. Residential HVAC up to the year and 2008

Sounds like an interesting career.

You win!

I am studying up for retirement. I've already failed at it three times.

Keep at it, get yourself a pretty tutor.
I'm in my senior year, graduate in the spring

Installer/Maintainer, Business zone tech for General Telephone / Verizon for 34 years, then Airport manager for 9 years. Started playing all day every day in September of 2018.

Dairy farmer. Do mechanic work on the side when field work is caught up.

Retired after 42 years of welding for health reasons wish my health was what it used to be.

NC prison system maintenance tech.

Telephone man 34 yrs and counting

Commercial construction estimator

Retired forester.

Retired wildand firefighter.

Retired Alaska Master (hunting) Guide.

Self employed Nail Bender 35 years, Retired at the age of 55 and now i do whatever i can get away with or my wife lets me! Grandfather of 14, Great grandfather to 3.

Manager of the NC State Optical lab.

Machine repair/maintenance/rigger/electrician for a forge shop. Anything from a small manual lathe up to a 4 meter table on a cnc machine.

Keeper at a blast furnace. Hot metal Temps last night? 2774

3M. Make floor scrubbing pads. Part time farmer and trapper

Cabinet maker / designer,

Living my childhood dream of Jonny & Roy. Loved Emergency when I was a young tot.

Since then, snowboard inst, ski patrol, Emt, paramedic, firefighter paramedic, fire officer, flight medic, medevac educator and base manager. Now scaling back to just flight medic, dad of two wonderful kids, and someday living off the wife.

Only job that wanst in the dream was grocery store stocker. Did that for a short time between ski seasons.

We done wore all the handles off ours!

23 years, Medical Laboratory Technologist, NYS Licensed. We are the people that test your blood/urine/ stool or other body fluids.

Professional Land Surveyor since 1980.

Zim

Fifty years (started in 1971) a large predator biologist, now pretty much retired. Most work, through the years, has been with wolves and brown bears. Have also worked extensively with mink, otter, marten, coyotes, badgers, black bears, Himalayan bears, far eastern leopards, Siberian tigers, golden eagles, boreal and great gray owls, peregrine falcons, other raptors. Some work (mainly management) with elk, moose, caribou, bison, Sitka blacktailed deer, mountain goats, Dall sheep. As of 2022, just a plain old recreational trapper (I got old).

Jack

I read every word of that with great interest Gulo! You had / have quite an occupation I'd say.

Gulo, sounds exciting! Did you get/consider getting your Pilot's license? I'm envisioning a Super Cub on skis/floats.

Gulo, all I can say is, cool!!!!!

Construction Project Manager/Estimator.
3 More years left.

Pastor in an Alaskan bush village.

I'm kind of a late-bloomer when it comes to airplanes. Bought my first PA-18 in 1990. Finally got a license and several hundred hours and got certified to fly for the state a couple years later. Got a state 'Cub in 1994. Pretty much flew (either personal plane or F&G plane) every day that the weather allowed (and sometimes when it didn't) for the next umpteen years. Most of my time is on skis or tundra tires. I found floats made it difficult to conduct intensive game surveys (moose, caribou, bison, furbearers, wolves, Dall sheep, bears, etc.). I've logged time in about 20 different types of airplanes, but I'm an admitted airplane snob. Nothing (NOTHING) even comes close to performing as well as a 'Cub for the kind of flying I was doing.

Retired Army. Retired counselor after that.

Industrial manager 16 years. Prudential sales 16 years, Coast Guard reserve 27 years. Disability retirement at 59.

Have been a surgical test dummy for 20+ years.

Food safety consultant for a very large company

Also the TMAN Official Sourdough Bread Boy

Nessie -

Excellent. Greatest lifetime occupation I've ever heard of!

Jack

Dentist

In my opinion, Jack wins first place honors for the best career - and lived to tell about it. Plus any career where an airplane is provided is great!

I would rather fly in, out, and around wilderness areas for obvious reasons. Plus it must be safer than flying in controlled airspace with air traffic controllers. They scare me!

20 different airplanes! Amazing!!!

Commercial logger for 8 years. Now I work as a Carman in a rail car shop

35 years in various electrical positions with utilties

I own a commercial cleaning company and mostly spend my time managing the employee side of it now. Also own 18 rental units and do all of the maintenance and rehabs myself on them. Almost two years ago I started IronTrail Trapline Supply and will do that full time after I sell the other business. Pretty excited to loose the stress of managing a bunch of employees!

Luke

HVAC Tech......hoping to retire.

I concur, Gulu for the win.
Before high school graduation.
Cut grass in summer
Shoveled snow in the winter
Janitor at the beauty shop and Weight watchers that my mother worked at.
Pumped gas at a full service gas station.
Passed news papers.
Detassled corn.
One week after graduation US Army. Welder- mechanic
After army
Dish washer
Package store attendant
Mechanic
Fuel delivery truck driver
Semi truck paint and body, restore antique trucks
Classic car restoration
Maintenance director for trucking company
Part time cabinet and furniture maker.
Welding and fabrication supervisor for cargo body co.
Maintenance director for trucking company
Full time adc trapper.

I’m tired.

Construction Manager in telecommunications. Operations and Maintenance Technician for quite a few years before getting out of the field work. Carpenter prior to entering the comms. world.

Im a journeyman lineman, been working for the rural electric cooperative for 12 years now.

Self employed logger for 35 years and now I am a shovel operator building forestry roads.

Trapper

"Indentured servant" on the family farm.
Sheared sheep while in high school.
Truck driver, loader and back hoe operator, bartender and mechanic during college.
41 years as a high school English, Speech, PE, Auto Mechanics and Outdoor Skills Instructor.
38 years coaching wrestling. Elementary, High School and National teams.
20 years as a part time "Youth Counselor" at a Juvenile Corrections Facility.
3 summers Alaska Dept. of Fish and Game as "the guy answering the phone".
Currently a "Landscape Architect" and rock picker upper at our new home in ND.

I retired in the public school system in 2009. Good luck in the remainder of your career. It isn’t getting any easier.

Became a Certified General (commercial) Real Estate Appraiser at age 23 and started my own business. 43 now and been at it ever since.

Ol dad

Sue - I am a hard worker too, but got tired reading your list.

Living in a small native village in rural Alaska you have to adapt to whatever work shows up or make your own money any way you can much of it was seasonal.

I have had some interesting jobs, none I really hated. I did most phases of construction, dry wall taper and finisher helped me walk on alot of jobs.

Was a boat captain living on the river all summer buying fish paying cash,spending 30-50 k a day buying salmon.

I also fished Herring in the Bering Sea in an open skiff, then fished salmon,and Lamprey eels here on the Yukon.

Fished Bristol Bay Salmon, also worked on the crab boats contracted to lightering frozen salmon/herring to Japanese tramper ships out in the ocean.

When that shut down I would trap the winters, hunt beaver and muskrats in the spring.

A Bible camp /Gold Mine asked me to tape their drywall once, no pay but I got to fly myself to work and back once a week in a 172 (in the right seat) learned to fly and got to trap on my free time, caught my first wolf there.

I was a wildland firefighter for awhile flying over the Delta buffalo herds in a Huey with the doors open and dropped off on a mountain for a week to fight fire, fought other fires as well flown down to Washington for one 21 day fire, man that was hot.

I also ran the city roads dept and shop mechanic, and maintained their fleet of heavy equipment and buildings, boilers and stuff, did their work orders for gravel pads and laying water sewer infrastructure a bunch of years. Plowed the snow in the village, plowed the airstrip.

I worked as a mechanic and finish dozer operator building a sewer lagoon. It took five years of playing tonka trucks in the mud with D-8s and excavators,loaders and big trucks. That was fun.

Helped a driller drill wells.

Was a fur Buyer ,started up a fur buying company. I flew into Eskimo and Indian villages giving trapping instruction and outfitting them, and then flying back in to buy the fur. Sold tanned fur as well. The company still operates as Alaska larges raw fur buyer.

I am currently buying moose antlers and have a small online business. Retirement coming in a year and a half. I have big plans for that.

I'm not sure yet, what I want to do when I grow up

Logger since 1982

Industrial Maintenance/Electrician for 22 years. Decided to start over as self employed so I started a residential contractor business.

dairy farming until '96
then truck driving since Jan '97
company driver and owner operator
Now driving for Greek yogurt maker in NY

Retired from UPS July 1st of this year. Heavy duty truck mechanic.

Grassland ecologist focusing primarily on botany and bison

My Business Card...




Garry-

And we have a winner!!!

Thank you... LOL!

I used have a print shop and I printed some of these for myself and then everyone else wanted them... so, I ended up with some additional printing jobs.
I sent some to my dad and he loved them and passed them out to everyone he came in contact with.

Garry-

Besides sheriff, I’m also tax collector, captain of the fire brigade and chairman on the nonpartisan anti-Chinese league.

Smelter Recycle Operator/We Trap'em Supplies & Service

I have a lawn mowing business by summer and drive semi for a big farmer in winter. Some say I'm kinda retired, but I mow 500 to 600 lawns by myself every summer.

Heavy equipment operator. Been doing it for the better part of 20 years mostly oil and gas construction but some mining in the fort macmurray oil sands and coal mining in the bc rockies.

Materials Accountant for 1 of the nations biggest construction companies.

kytrapper- I like your gig. Alas, the latter may be a while bit the former perhaps not so much ...