What kind of work does everyone do???

[KBennett]

Ryan and Alpha, that's some nice work! I wish I had the patience for that kind of stuff.



Until last August I was an Applications Engineer for a company that distributes automation controls... . servos, software, controllers, sensors, etc.

TMMI



I am now selling for them in a territory that covers Northern Utah and parts of Idaho & Montana. It's pretty cool being able to see some of the things people use our stuff for. Everything from making cookies and measuring oil wells to manufacturing kitchen sinks and processing the water that goes into and out of the faucet. One of my bigger customers here probably made the airbag assy. in our trucks.

 

[DieselMinded]

I work at Bayer Materal Science , Title- Sr. Tech Specialist - I operate a 2000 HP Twin Screw Extruder and compound Polymers with pigments and various impact & Physical properties Additives , I make the following products you may of heard of



Bayblend

Apec- Just made some today

Durethan

ABS

Makrolon

Makroblend

Lustran

Texin

Triax



For the following companies



Oakley

Makita

Duwalt

Dodge

Toyota

Ford

GMC

Medical Field

FDA

and many many more



they basically give us visual and physical specs for what they want , and we take Feedstock (Clean Polymer) made in Baytown Texas and mix in pigments ,fiberglass ect... what ever to get with in specs





Makita = #1

Duwalt aka Black and Decker = Thumbs down



Based on quallity and there spec range on what they want



Oakleys is a PITA they reject for things the human eye cannot even see!!



DM

 

[SHobbs]

Work for the railroad here, Union Pacific. Highly paid hobo.

 

[Rams-n-Hogs]

Spent 20 years in the AF. Secure comm. Now I do field service work for an IT company, mostly govt stuff, although sometimes I think I should've just driven a truck.



Jim

 

[RandyHamilton]

Spent 20 years in the AF. Secure comm. Now I do field service work for an IT company, mostly govt stuff, although sometimes I think I should've just driven a truck.



Jim

I hear ya ! JimBobs truck driving school looks pretty appealing at times. . This management stuff aint all it's cracked up to be. Things were a lot less confusing setting in the Combat Information Center of a Guided Missile Cruiser looking at Iran on one side and Iraq on the other!!!

It was a lot easier to tell friend from Foe back then!!!

I probably used some to those same secure comms,,,,,,,,,, both data and voice!!!!

 

[DRAG DIESEL]

I do concert sound, stage, and lighting.



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[Carlsummers]

Computer Systems Manager/Programmer on midnight shift at a VA Hospital.

 

[rubberneck]

Pharmacist at a 350 bed hospital. I work the night shift, so i get to go to the ER and mix all the drugs for the shootings/stabbings, car crashes, heart attacks, and whatever else people are doing out in the middle of the night. I wanted DRUGDLR or DRUGMNY for my licence plate but DMV said no. Oh well, some crazy old lady probably would have keyed the truck thinking i was the local crack dealer. Especially after i put the 20" bling bling wheels on. LOL

 

[Digger-Bear]

I wish there were Prof's like you here at OU!!!!!!!!!!!

Actually I did my undergraduate work at OU. As I recall it was a pretty fun place to go – it was a long time ago however – I spent most of my time in Siegfried Hall, Golganooza, & Mt. Nebo. They had some pretty cool faculty while I was there – one even let me live in her basement for a few weeks when I lost my apartment.



Sigh - times change.

 

[CAROLINA CUMMINS]

Diesel Tech, right now working for a small fleet. 3 more months and will be ASE certified in Diesel/Heavy Duty Oo. .



Also, Cummins work on the side.



They call me the "Cummins Doctor" at work :-laf might make a cool license plate - "CMNSDCTR"



Steven

 

[RBergman]

bus mechanic for the county

 

[Highfinance97]

I have my own Tastykake route

 

[AMink]

I have my own Tastykake route

!!! You have to hook up a BIG trailer to your CTD and drag it out west! There are a lot of us PA transplants that haven't had a Tasty Kake for years! Those and a few brands of potato chips. We also can't get Drakes out here.

 

[Alphacowboy]

Ryan and Alpha, that's some nice work! I wish I had the patience for that kind of stuff.

Thanks man! Its fun, and quite rewarding I must say. I will have to get pics of stuff my brothers and my dad have done over the years. My Dad runs a custom cabinet shop with one of my brothers, while another brother works with me at times, and my youngest brother graduates from college in a few months for drafting. Keeping it all in the Family!

 

[CSnyder]

Well I would say my first occupation would be a farm equipment jockey as I buy and sell about 3 to 5 million gross in equipment bi-monthly. Second would be my 480 acres of tillable farm ground that eats up about 8 weeks a year. Third would be my hotshot trucking that I accumulated 125,000 miles on my CTD in the last 2 years. Fourth would be owning a used car lot (thank God for a great manager), Fifth would be the website I ran for 4 years and sold last summer (although the new owner calls me about twice a day for help), sixth would be working as a fill in salesman at a auto salvage yard for a friend, seventh is mostly a hobby of buying and collecting older super lawn and garden tractors, eighth would be taking care of my 3 beautiful children as a widowed father.



I also enjoy doing carpentry work and recently gutted my log home and remodeled with plans of buying some wood working tools and teaching myself to build custom cabinetry and furniture. I also have a tree planter and plant about 100,000 trees a year for the state as well as private parties. I have on several occasions done custom fencing work for farmers also. My next big plan to get involved with is dozer work and hope to buy a nice bigger one with a Cummins when I come across the right one at the right price. I also do a little bit of wrenching on trucks for the local kids who have no idea how to "turn up" their trucks or maintain them properly. I have also in the last 3 monthes started being an Ebay buyer and seller (Snyder3605) and hope that I can start using that to do most of my marketing on my used farm equipment to save me the long days away from home and my kids. I also do almost all of my own wiring ( thanks to Home Depots book electricity for dummies) and when needed I attempt to do my own plumbing. When I do get bored which is infrequently I build custom jewelry boxes and clocks out of match sticks.



Well that kinda sums up what I do. This is an intersting thread and I hope it continues for some time. Its neat knowing with all the various occupations among our group on who to contact on a specific issue.



God Bless, CSnyder

 

[JRuel]

I'm a control room, process, and field operator at an oil production research facility.

 

[rbattelle]

Gas turbine engineer (thermodynamics, mostly).



-Ryan

 

[lil red cummins]

manufacturing business. privately held company that designs and manufacturers very high quality test equipment, primarily for the adhesives and surface science industries. if you want to know how much force it takes to peel an adhesive off a surface, our testers measure it.



our instruments are also used for measuring coefficient of friction (how well one surface slides over another) in a variety of industries.



this is where i work.



this is what we build.



worked on anything with a gas engine, school buses & off road equipment in my "former" careers.



jim

 

[Ol'TrailDog]

Former journeyman carpenter Local #153



Presently, USFS wilderness manager - Teton Wilderness, WY, i. e. part cowboy, part farmer, part logger, part cop, large dose of bureaucratic paper-shuffler, and glorified garbage collector (sanitation engineer)







Mostly, ner'do well -- just ask the missus :-laf

 

[Mike Ellis]

OK boys, Ol'Trail Dog officially has my vote for the best job!



Is that a Belgian you're plowing with OTD?