Hello all..

Me I work in a lead smelter as a Blast Furnace Operator, alternating days on the furnace and in the feed control room. The company I work for is the largest single site battery maker in the U.S. (and family owned).

Its a difficult job but I like it.. I smelt down about 50 tons of lead a shift, mostly from recycled batteries and what we call plant scrap (the lead contaminated garbage from all the other battery manufacturing plants onsite.....

Five years active duty US Army, with 25 years after that in the Reserve. Since leaving active duty, I've been in a variety of engineering jobs with FoMoCo in Dearborn, MI, for the last 29 years, where I'm currently the Supervisor of a Computer Aided Design Section. (At least until the axe falls next month and THEN we'll see!!!)

Tom

I was a Policeman for 30years now Im medically retired, 5 heart attacks in a row, I started my career in N.S.W. Australia served for 13yrs then move back to blighty was a tourist guide on Tower bridge for two years then joined the City of London Police for 17 years.i was an acting cheif inspector when I retired,i now work part time in a supermarket Beers wines and spirits(oh Joy) pays for my booze and plastic habits.Hope to buy a little house in the south west of La belle France soon when SWMBO retires. Evening all

Since over 20 years i'm a Custom and Excise officer.

Cheers

I'm a J.O.A.T.M.O.N. in the IT field

Jack Of All Trades Master Of None

I am currently a Systems Analyst - I fix systems! From manual systems to computer systems. I fix'em with what works best. I don't discriminate, I employ paper based systems, computer systems, whatever works best for the situation.

I've been in IT since 1988 (man I'm gettin' up there). My primary focus has always been software development. I've always worked in small shops and I've done everything from pulling cable to system admin to dba to monkey.

My title is Service Coordinator, sort of like a social worker without the counselling, for the state's department of mental retardation. In 5 years I'll be a retired service coordinator. My degree was in education and history with a minor in English. Back then, a teacher couldn't buy a job. Along the way here I worked retail-electronics, then cameras and finally a national toy and hobby chain (when Monogram was putting in those really cool Shep Paine diorama folders.) There were also stints in insurance and filling vending machines/managing on lunch operation in a couple locations.

For the past 19 years I have been a Field Service Engineer (a glorified mechanic). I started out in the printed circuit board industry in 1987 and spent the next 14 years there over three companies. After being laid off just in time for Christmas 2001 (the industry really went bad after 9/11), I ended up in Medical and service and install bone density testing equipment and also MRI units since April Fools Day 2002. I still haven't figured out who was the bigger fool, them for hiring me or me for taking the job!!!!!


Dave S.

I am just about to start my first job after fully qualifying at university as a lecturer. I am going to be a Lecturer in History at a college in Cornwall. About time I did a real job :-) Though I do get 40 days off a year plus all the bank holidays

Ross

I'm a aystem analyst, programmer, database administrator and a senior manager in one the big telcos here (PLDT Co) . I've been working in this company for 15 years. I specialize mostly in fraud and revenue assurance systems...but now I'm venturing into system development for billing and network facing systems ....

I started as a telco fraud investigator back in 1991 until I ended up in the IT part of the business.

I have a Master's in Biochesmitry and Molecular Biology, and right now working for a PhD. And I haven't had a job in my life... It kind of drives me nuts.

My official title is Senior IT Project Manager but my job is really not that grandiose. I have been in the IT industry for about 15 years now and am currently employed by a major private health insurance company here in Aus.

I'm a creative director in an advertising agency.
i.e. A graphic designer and conceptualiser.

I was trained in the days when a graphic designer had to be able to draw and paint to at least a rasonable standard. But those days seem to have gone.
Out of the creative staff of 20, only two of us can actually illustrate.

Cheers
peter
:-)

Hi

Currently my title is "Application Specialist".

No not for the New Zealand SAS but in the Support Department of a boutique Software Company.

I am second level support person for a highly specialised time and cost recording software tool designed for the legal and accounting profession.

Previously well thats a small book in itself but suffice to say that I do have a rich tapestry of work experience.

Regards

Sean

Full time student majoring in History at good ol' Ball State University (in Indiana). I'm a traditional Junior now (meaning 3rd year) with a possible/probable Military Science minor (read: ROTC).

Jeff

Mechanical Engineer for nearly 30 years now.

I used to work as a Medical Laboratory Tech until about 3 years ago. I worked for about 22 years at it, the last 16 years on the graveyard shift (by choice) and loved it. I've had 3 heart attack since I was 35 (I'm now 48) and had to retire and go on disability.
Modeling keeps me off the streets at nite! :-) Mind you, I find that since I retired, I've been busier than when I was working.

Nice thread

Well finished school, Both graphics/design got all my degrees here. Went on with Multimedia Design got all the degrees here too. After finishing school I worked in the digital department of an Agency for illustrators, Worked as a designer/Art Director in a design studio specialised in package design for the retail business. In the mean time I gave evening classes in the beginnings of Photoshop, Worked at farmers and in the flowerbulbs in my Sparetime.
and 2 months ago I started a new challenge for myself and started my own Design Studio called the "Spoetnick Studio" and am my own boss/Designer/Art Director now

With friendly greetz

Robert Blokker

Operations Manager for the County of Santa Cruz CA. franchised refuse hauler for the past 19 years. (Read: I control the garbagemen!)

Not glamorous but necessary!
Cheers,
Charles

I am a Dispatcher for a gas+electric utility+appliance service company for the last 1-1/2 years,for the previous 27 years I did the actual repair work.Now I sit on my butt and surf model web sites!!!

Been a volunteer firefighter for 3 years and am now finishing up Paramedic school. I'm hoping to be a career firefighter.

Electrician

I write for my licence in October. 9000 hours and 7 months of trade school all comes down to this.

Can't wait for it to be over.

I work mainly in industrial and commercial settings.

Jeff

Interesting batch of trades..........

I am a disabled retiree....currently working as a Veterans Affairs Certification Specialist. To those with GI Bill bennies, I'm one of the guys that makes sure you get your duckies!! $$$$$$

Mike

Registred nurse, working in a coronary intensive care unit, but thinking about switching to pre-hospital care (=paramedic).

Freelance Musician. Wide variety of assignments, started as army musician, now playing bassoon professionally. Most recently just completed a season Mozart's Marriage of Figaro. Can probably recite the entire opera from memory... modeling keeps me sane, since most of my musician colleagues are half crazy.
I interchange my modeling tools with my reed-making tools, there are a lot of similar skills required.

Lets see,
17 years in law enforcement. Left that after a nasty incident involving a meth lab. I now am in the mortgage business for a major national bank.