Thread: What is your profession or real job?

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Airline Pilot. My Mom was a Womens Ferry Pilot during WW2. I grew up around it and starting flying in High School. After a sidetrack to Vietnam, I used my GI Bill for commercial ratings. Towed gliders, and aerial advertisement banners. Spotted swordfish for a commercial fleet. Dropped parachute idiots. Got on as a co-pilot with an operation that hauled hazardous material for the DOT. Flew those old Beech 18's. Flew bank checks and other correspondence - single engine, over mountains at night in all weather. I would never do any of that stuff ever again!! Been with my current airline for 23 years now and still love the job. But with 26000+ flight hours, I am looking forward to retirement!

Originally Posted by drofdar

Airline Pilot. My Mom was a Womens Ferry Pilot during WW2. I grew up around it and starting flying in High School. After a sidetrack to Vietnam, I used my GI Bill for commercial ratings. Towed gliders, and aerial advertisement banners. Spotted swordfish for a commercial fleet. Dropped parachute idiots. Got on as a co-pilot with an operation that hauled hazardous material for the DOT. Flew those old Beech 18's. Flew bank checks and other correspondence - single engine, over mountains at night in all weather. I would never do any of that stuff ever again!! Been with my current airline for 23 years now and still love the job. But with 26000+ flight hours, I am looking forward to retirement!

Now wait a minute!!!! Us idiots with the parachutes were at least smart enough to get the heck out of that old Beech before you flew it over the mountains at night!!!!!!

You know Dave, you may have a better idea at that!

My job is building a camaro. My hobby is makin' signs. Unfortunately I'm caught between part time work and unemployment at the present time.

Hey, I am retired again! 18 months ago I signed a contract to write a book on electronic structure and I wanted to do it to try and leave a legacy from the notes I had been teaching from for over 30 years. After my coauthor and I wrote down what we know we tried to catch up on new stuff from 2000 to the present and found we had a lot to learn, BUT ( ! ) last Saturday we sent in the manuscript and now only have to wait to check what the editors do with that stuff. Now I can get back to the car and the temperature is better in the garage. I did not keep up with the Forum much in the past year but I am glad to see it still here. My career was mostly teaching Chemistry with a variety of industrial jobs in electroplating shops prior to that as well as assembly-line boredom making refrigerators and some early fun as a service station attendant back when you had to wipe the windshields. During teaching I had some four years loosely associated with NASA doing research on putting metal ions in polymers to match thermal expansion coefficients to aluminum parts to avoid thermal cracking of joints between composites and aluminum in aircraft. Can we mention purchase of thousands of various Hot Rod magazines over the years? Since I gave up on finding a useable 59A/B flathead block I would be willing to swap a 4" Merc crank with rebuildable rods for a pair of all-chrome 682-C headlights which cost $435; maybe I could go for the money and buy the lights myself. Where else can you find a 4" stroker crank for $435?

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

I've been building Nextel Cup cars for the last 18 yrs. Before that I drove a truck for a year, and worked in auto dealerships before that. Now I want to try hotrods.

For the last 18 years I've been maintaining water & wastewater plants around the country. Not getting rich fer sure but, I've had a chance to move from one side to the other and back! When we left Mass. 6 years ago I had the frame strapped to a wall in a U-haul. We we returned it was on a trailer!

Professional wine taster.


Don

Started out after my USMC 4 yrs as a Painter in the Construction trades.
That's been overtaken by imigrants now.. Dad talked me into going to the
Studios where I did elec. rigging and then Lighting for 20 some yrs.
I've always been involved with Hot Rod cars, now that I'm retired I do
more of that

Investment Mold maker, specializing in airfoils, from turbo's to jet turbines.

Pat

BOVINE FECAL ALCHEMIST.........................turning management's BS into gold for small money!
I worked fab shops in my late teens, fabricated fuel tanks and frames for a major motorcycle mfg, built a few racers , diesel mech., dump truck fabrication...........and now welder for pipeline distribution.
Chris

I've spent the last 28 years designing airports all over the world, before that I spread asphalt behind a paver all over Lane County Oregon!

But I've also spent the last 33 years building cars, some sports, some muscles, but all fun

I am a Safety Coordinator for a construction company down here in Houston. It pays well but it's always in the back of your mind..will this plant go "boom" today! I have lost several friends in the plants, but until I find something that pays as well, I'll be here keeping the guys safe.

Official starter for turtle races

Parking Revenue, Access Control and Corp Security for the last 23 years. Before that I worked for Goodyear as a brake and front end technician. And prior to that I worked in a warehouse loading trailers for a fast food company ( Carls Jr. ). And my first job was working at a gas station pumping gas when gas station were still full service, and learing the basics in automotive repair. That was back in the early 70's, I was 12years old.