Who Are We?
Oct 11, 2021 13:16:30 #
Ken Bauer
Loc: Sherwood Ohio
Pumped gas and minor maintenance that every gas station attendant did back in the 80s. 2 yeasts after I went to college they went self serve. Now I’m quality manager at a small manufacturing facility.
Oct 11, 2021 13:28:09 #
First job was waiting tables in a little diner. After high school, I went to work on an assembly line, building Pong games, lol. Worked my way up from that to purchasing and production control in a (different) major electronics company, but left that job to spend some time with my kids and reconsider my career. Went back to school and have been working in community mental health for the past 25 years or so, connecting people with severe mental illness to housing and other support services. I’m hoping to retire in a year or two…we’ll see.
Good question, Pixiedog! I was wondering the same thing about everyone. Thank you.
Good question, Pixiedog! I was wondering the same thing about everyone. Thank you.
Oct 11, 2021 15:24:51 #
Worked as a stocker/floor assistant at a Tractor Supply Store chain...kind of a farmer's hardware store. Went to college to study Architecture, but ended up getting into Land Surveying and ultimately something I found more interesting called "Photogrammetry" while still in college...essentially map making and cartography. I love maps of any kind!
Practiced that trade during my entire career of 40 years...the last 32 of which I was self employed with a small staff. Sold the business a few years ago and I "think" that I am now retired! Got to pinch myself now and then, after all those years of wearing 2 dozen different "hats" as a sole proprietor. You never stop dreaming, planning, thinking, producing, improvising, repairing equipment, marketing, paying bills, spending, saving, collecting accounts, managing people and before you get a solid hour of sleep at least once a week...wonder what you have possibly overlooked!
Can you tell that I don't miss it!
Practiced that trade during my entire career of 40 years...the last 32 of which I was self employed with a small staff. Sold the business a few years ago and I "think" that I am now retired! Got to pinch myself now and then, after all those years of wearing 2 dozen different "hats" as a sole proprietor. You never stop dreaming, planning, thinking, producing, improvising, repairing equipment, marketing, paying bills, spending, saving, collecting accounts, managing people and before you get a solid hour of sleep at least once a week...wonder what you have possibly overlooked!
Can you tell that I don't miss it!
Oct 11, 2021 15:50:24 #
Danger25 wrote:
US Army Paratrooper after high school….firefighter ever since.
Never could figure out you At my guys.
Why would anyone jump out of a perfectly good working airplane?
Oct 11, 2021 16:22:57 #
Slimshady
Loc: Central Pennsylvania
First job out of high school was on construction building a shopping mall,last was head oil burner technician at a family owned company. Been retired for a year and a half now and don’t miss working in the least
Oct 11, 2021 20:00:20 #
plumbob wrote:
Never could figure out you At my guys.
Why would anyone jump out of a perfectly good working airplane?
Why would anyone jump out of a perfectly good working airplane?
Army guys.
Dang phone
Oct 11, 2021 22:37:42 #
Had a lot of different jobs mostly with the same company just moved around within the same company.
Never finished high school, first job at seventeen was the Navy while at school there half a day electronics, half a day communications.
When I got out I had different jobs with an utility company, here’s the list while there.
Meter reader, then turning on peoples gas and electric when they moved in a house lighting and checking out the appliances.
LNG plant, turning natural gas to liquid and storing in large tanks.
Gas line booster station operator moving natural gas from Riverside to San Diego.
Then a substation electrician building and maintaining the substation equipment, up to 500,00 voltage.
Substation wireman, that was the best job ever.
Retired in November 2012 after about 45 years there.
Only college was for the apprentice program but did take side classes just for fun in photography and one in aquariums.
Aquariums was fun we got to go behind the scenes at Sea World.
Never finished high school, first job at seventeen was the Navy while at school there half a day electronics, half a day communications.
When I got out I had different jobs with an utility company, here’s the list while there.
Meter reader, then turning on peoples gas and electric when they moved in a house lighting and checking out the appliances.
LNG plant, turning natural gas to liquid and storing in large tanks.
Gas line booster station operator moving natural gas from Riverside to San Diego.
Then a substation electrician building and maintaining the substation equipment, up to 500,00 voltage.
Substation wireman, that was the best job ever.
Retired in November 2012 after about 45 years there.
Only college was for the apprentice program but did take side classes just for fun in photography and one in aquariums.
Aquariums was fun we got to go behind the scenes at Sea World.
Oct 12, 2021 07:02:54 #
Big dog
Loc: Bayshore, Long Island, New York
Pixiedog456005 wrote:
What was your first job after high school & and your last job you had at retirement / or currently still at?
I enlisted in the USCG right out of High School, age 17.
Oct 12, 2021 08:22:11 #
Worked on an asphalt and seal coat crew before I left for college and during the summers. Currently a GC mostly kitchen and bath remodels. Retirement??? I hope one day. Only 45 have a lot of years ahead of me hopefully!!
Oct 12, 2021 08:26:39 #
J in Cleveland wrote:
Worked on an asphalt and seal coat crew before I left for college and during the summers. Currently a GC mostly kitchen and bath remodels. Retirement??? I hope one day. Only 45 have a lot of years ahead of me hopefully!!
Laid asphalt for a few summers when i first joined the Fire Department to help make ends meet…man, that is a hot dirty job.
Oct 12, 2021 08:32:33 #
Danger25 wrote:
Laid asphalt for a few summers when i first joined the Fire Department to help make ends meet…man, that is a hot dirty job.
Yeah, those making ends meet jobs are tough. Being a teacher I always thought it was funny how people always said how lucky I was having the summers off. Funny thing was the bills didn't stop and the family still wanted to eat. Drove local delivery trucks in NYC and surrounding area, labored on a masonry crew. Building and stocking scaffolds, framing houses, and had my own landscaping company. All of which paid better than teaching fortunately.
Oct 12, 2021 09:10:22 #
Danger25 wrote:
Laid asphalt for a few summers when i first joined the Fire Department to help make ends meet…man, that is a hot dirty job.
The smell of hot asphalt turns my stomach still today! Couldn’t take that heat now a days. Remember feeling like I was being cooked all day.
Oct 12, 2021 09:19:49 #
Oct 12, 2021 09:51:16 #
BongsonBob
Loc: East Bay
Roofing. Then I got a job fixing business machines all over the state of N.J. Got drafted. After the Army I went back into construction, obtained my Contractors License, did remodelingl mostly for 20+ years. Obtained my building, plumbing. electrical. and mechanical inspectors licenses, and did home inspections for the last 20 years. Quit that 2 yrs. ago when my legs started getting shaky walking around roofs. Now I fish when I can, and watch my grandkids get bigger every week
Oct 12, 2021 10:10:13 #
Started out as a dumb automotive mechanic. Still doing mechanic work, just on heavy equipment now. Hoping to retire in 4 or 5 years, 62 now.
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