Long Shot 1,287 Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 This is one of the coolest projects we've done yet. Multnoma county hired us to do this move. It's not heaviest thing we've moved but one of the more complicated. I dig my job. How do you go about the struggle for legal tender? http://www.blueoregon.com/2013/01/watch-sellwood-bridge-move-video/ 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cobra 76 two 2,677 Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 Me? I'm embarking on a new mission as of today actually.... Gunsmith and designer at a local gun shop, doing the best Saiga conversions and custom tuned / built AKs in my whole state. OOorah! 9 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
evlblkwpnz 3,418 Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 (edited) I see gun money.... Edited January 24, 2013 by evlblkwpnz 6 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
poolingmyignorance 2,191 Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 Field service for the oil and gas industry. I make things that liberal hate. Oh and sometimes I work on guns too! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cobra 76 two 2,677 Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 Just watched the bridge move video. AWESOME! That's a shitload to get done in a day! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dayofruin 425 Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 I build electronic components for anything from pacemakers to missile systems. As soon as our private range is complete, I'll be putting my NRA instructor certifications to good use. 6 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dustindu4 101 Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 Design engineer for a medical device company Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Long Shot 1,287 Posted January 24, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 Just watched the bridge move video. AWESOME! That's a shitload to get done in a day! The day of the move is the glory day. The real work is all off camera. We moved the old bridge over onto temporary piers so they can build a new one beside it then demolish the old one. We moved it Saturday and they opened it for traffic today. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Spartacus 1,619 Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 Small business IT consultant. NOT a Geek Squad guy. 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TonyRumore 1,332 Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 I don't do anything important anymore, but I used work for American Airlines (Eagle). When I was 24, I was Director of Materials and ran the west coast purchasing and spare parts operation with a 50 man crew in three cities on a 24/7 shift. We supported 50 aircraft running around California. My crews were in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Luis Obispo. Later (age 26) I worked for Fairchild Aircraft and did the same thing, but we had 100 aircraft flying in 12 countries. My last job was for an Aerospace firm (Director of Operations) making aircraft windows where I got fired for doing gun business on company time. Boohoo. Tony 10 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cobra 76 two 2,677 Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 LMAO Tony! Great accomplishments fo sho! (among many many others) IMO YOU MADE THE RIGHT DECISION. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
storm6490 2,768 Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 i work for the batf collecting intel. on social networking sites. 11 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bws1 58 Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 Target of user abuse and middle management hostility. Yup, that's right... I'm a network engineer. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
devildogdakota 804 Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 Stuntcock for the midget adult film industry. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
slippingaway 89 Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 (edited) Small business IT consultant. NOT a Geek Squad guy. Same, but consultant is one of my many hats. Your small biz, so I know you probably wear your fair share too. I do mostly in-shop work like solder work, cleanups, builds, and server assemblies. Every now and then they trick me into punching down telco lines. We had a former Geek Squad guy on our team. Had to rat him out to the boss for using their weak-ass tools from a stolen Geeksquad flash drive to fix problems that he couldn't begin to understand on his own. Had to spend all day checking his shoddy work, until I had to insist he be let go. Edited January 24, 2013 by slippingaway 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Spartacus 1,619 Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 (edited) >>Every now and then they trick me into punching down telco lines. Yep, I've done plenty of that too. I hate wiring though, and it always pissed me off when people expected me to know all of the latest IT stuff, servers, routers, phones, viruses, complex network or software issues, etc. and then throw out "Oh by the way, can you get up on a ladder and pull a run of cable through the ceiling tiles?" And I say, "No. I'm not an electrician, I don't do wiring. We have a sub-contractor for wiring." Do businesses call electricians to have them wire up a new breaker panel in the warehouse and then ask them, "Hey, I have a reverse DNS problem with the email server, can you fix that too?" Edited January 24, 2013 by Spartacus 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
slippingaway 89 Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 (edited) >>Every now and then they trick me into punching down telco lines.Do businesses call electricians to have them wire up a new breaker panel in the warehouse and then ask them, "Hey, I have a reverse DNS problem with the email server, can you fix that too?" Lol. I wish I could say no sometimes to the wiring, but my boss would kill me. Unless it has to be wired into a breaker, we will do it. I don't mind too much. We'll pull the cable, we'll wire up mag locks for doors, whatever the customer wants, provided they realize it's out of the scope of our expertise so it might take us more time than calling the right person the first time. I'd much rather be configuring a Sonicwall/Untangle or setting up a VM, personally... but my boss has a policy, that if someone is willing to pay our rate, we'll dig ditches if they ask us to. I get to climb a couple towers as soon as we hit above 60 outside to run a new 3 mile Wireless N link. That'll be fun! Just as soon as I get over my vertigo. Edited January 24, 2013 by slippingaway 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TheDeacon 168 Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 20+ year IT / communications consultant and technician for small and medium businesses. That's why I have no hair left. On the other hand middle management fears me, for I am a disciple of BOFH. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Deadeye 325 Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 Masonry, concrete, plastering and frameing. We build a lot of big buildings like wallmarts 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Spartacus 1,619 Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 >>but my boss has a policy, that if someone is willing to pay our rate, we'll dig ditches if they ask us to. I've worked for guys like that too, and it doesn't last long for me. Bad policy for a couple of reasons. Not fair to employees for one thing, but also opens up the IT business to liability for doing jobs they have no expertise in. The boss will rethink this policy when something goes wrong and he gets sued. His insurance will not cover liability on things that are "out of scope". Tell your boss to find a good sub-contractor for wiring jobs and offer to send them business for a taste of whatever they make on business you send their way. That way you still make cash for "doing nothing", no overhead on the wiring jobs. In return, you also get IT leads from the sub-contractor when they are doing network wiring and the client needs IT work. This works extremely well to cooperate with another related business in this way. When I started working for the business I'm with now, the boss (nice woman) also had the "do anything" mentality, but I suggested the sub-contracting on the wiring and it's been working out very well. We still make money on wiring jobs, and we've had a lot of referral biz from the wiring guys. In fact, I'm doing a call for our wiring guys in the morning doing software upgrades at a police dept. We would never have had that work without the agreement we have with them. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mancat 2,368 Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 I work on ship-based IT and electronics, including sat comms, navigation equipment, automation equipment, and shipboard IT equipment. Usually I work on container ships, oil tankers, tugs, and so on, but I do some occasional small craft work. A few weeks ago I did some work on a yacht owned by the Hilton family. Back in the day, the equivalent of my job would've been the ship's radio officer. Most commercial lines kicked radio officers off in the late 90s when most of their function was replaced with automated systems. Joke's on you guys, you still need someone to come on board and fix all of this "automated" shit when it stops working. I get to go to sea every once in a while, get a lot of great food on foreign-flagged ships, and sometimes a lot of frustration with foreign crew. I'm pretty sure I ate fried cat once on a Chinese ship I was on. Used to do generic IT shit, still sometimes do, but I can't stand offices. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
misterT 174 Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 I repair machine tools and controls, lathes ,milling machines, surface grinders, and saws ( I hate F ing saws). I run my motorcycle parts business on the side making billet aluminum parts mostly for Harleys. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dad2142Dad 6,559 Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 I fix power plants, mechanical, electrical and controls 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
adjc 171 Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 work for a ready mix company, drive a front discharge concrete mixer....35 yrs strong. 5 more to go! 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
honkytonk 30 Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 I'm a attorney... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
SaigaKen 338 Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 Previous life was Supervisor of the Quality Dept in a large industrial drive manufacturing company.....made a few trips to Ras Laffan Industrial City and a few to Brazil overseeing quality operations......Then some dumbfuck manager from another plant showed up and within a few days.....Laid off Went to school to be a nurse and here I am contiplating starting up a side business making Obama targets............ 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lbsrdi 1,078 Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 I build shit, or really I watch people build shit. Also I am a landlord,so people hate me. And I build websites on the side. Basically I have no free time, and no friends. (Except for you guys) 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
U.S. Pratorean 1,234 Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 I'm unemployed on food stamps and disability even though I do P90x 6 days a week live in a half million dollar home have 6 cars and considered a minority since I have a 2 brown and 2 black dogs. Keep working Y'all, millions are depending on you. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NM0 586 Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 Educator and studio artist. Started at entry level and worked my way up to department head and gallery curator. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Salt1219 176 Posted January 24, 2013 Report Share Posted January 24, 2013 (edited) i used to build custom homes, now i build commercial airplanes or Boeing. i worked on the 747-4, 747-8, 747-8I, 777-200, 777-300 both freighters and passenger planes I'm also my shops Union Steward for IAM 751 local A Edited January 24, 2013 by Salt 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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