sweetpoison Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 I love learning what people do for a living! SO interesting👮♂️👷♀️🧑🎤👨🍳 I work with adults with disabilities and I love it with all my heart♥️ 4 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guppysnail Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 I’m retired now. I was a business executive. My niche so to speak towards the later portion of my career was teaching and mentoring servant leadership to others in order to help them achieve their greatest success. The last half of my career was the most rewarding. To be able to help folks achieve success otherwise beyond their reach to enhance their lives and the livelihood they provided for their families was amazing. I was invited to several folks children’s college graduations which was a pinnacle reward to me as inspiring and helping the parents it helped them inspire and help their children. To be able to extend a helping hand that reached to a second generation touched my heart ❤️ 8 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katherine Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 I'm not earning a living from it, but I'm currently homeschooling my children. Previously I worked in a hardware store for many years. 8 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JettsPapa Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 (edited) I've had a varied career, from being an assistant manager at a 40,000 square foot retail store at 19 years old, to building houses, to beekeeping, but finally wound up where I am now. I was on the construction crew here for 11 years, and then started doing 3d CAD work creating the models and drawings for the installations I used to help build in 2009. I enjoy it. I feel like creating fabrication and construction drawings is a combination of art and precision, so it's the best of both worlds. I get to be a math nerd, but I also take some pride in making the drawings easy to read. There's a fine line between cluttered and too much open space on a sheet. I work at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute. The division I work at crash tests roadside safety installations, like signs, guardrails, and bridge parapets, and also structures used to protect sensitive locations, like embassies and military installations. If I make it to June 1 of this year I'll have 24 years here; my previous record was 3 years. Here's some links to a few videos of some of our tests. Edited February 7 by JettsPapa 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guppysnail Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 Holy cow @JettsPapa Some of those barriers make the trucks look like they are made of tissue paper!😲. Reminds me of the 80’s crash dummy commercials. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDukeAnumber1 Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 On 4/5/2022 at 7:22 AM, Katherine said: I'm not earning a living from it, but I'm currently homeschooling my children. IMO a higher calling than bumping around spreadsheet cells like me 🙂 I do structural engineering at a small firm. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modified lung Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 Water quality analyst at the biggest sturgeon farm in the US. I do all the testing, collect and stare at all sorts of data, lots of literature reviews, proposals to solve WQ problems, sometimes engineering problems, fish jujitsu, and general whatever. They're going to let me put together a lab for disease ID soon which is pretty cool. 10 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Widgets Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 My career was the analysis, design, testing, and customer support of aircraft navigation systems. I took early retirement to take care of an aging parent. Time will tell if I have a second career. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sal Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 (edited) I am a healthcare software data analyst working for a large hospital system in my state. The software is called Epic, and most people hate it, but I actually think its OK. Primarily, I am creating metric/visual driven data dashboards for doctors and nurses and various departments throughout the hospital to use, as well as creating reports for all sorts of things like department productivity to tracking patient encounter minutes against treatment plans, and monitoring COVID numbers. My team also pulls data for large research projects, creates smart text items for doctors/nurses to do faster documentation during patient encounters, handles regulatory reporting to the feds, and a whole variety of other things. It's a really fun job. Since the pandemic, I am primarily working from home, and I love it!! I do miss chit-chatting with my team though, but we try to have a couple calls a week where we just chat for half an hour and catch up on each others lives. As a side gig and to supplement my own knitting addiction, I dye my own yarn, and sell it in a little online shop. It has actually been a pretty lucrative adventure, and I really love doing it! Edited April 5, 2022 by Sal 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katherine Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 On 4/5/2022 at 8:36 AM, Sal said: As a side gig and to supplement my own knitting addiction, I dye my own yarn, and sell it in a little online shop. It has actually been a pretty lucrative adventure, and I really love doing it! Ooh, fun! For a while before kids I experimented with food dye coloring of natural yarns. Though only for my own use and I never got really good at it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sal Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 On 4/5/2022 at 9:42 AM, Katherine said: Ooh, fun! For a while before kids I experimented with food dye coloring of natural yarns. Though only for my own use and I never got really good at it. YES! Food dyeing is fun too, I also want to try some natural dyeing sometime soon! It definitely takes a lot of practice and a LOT of "wasted" yarn, and even many years in, I still have color fails. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetpoison Posted April 5, 2022 Author Share Posted April 5, 2022 On 4/5/2022 at 6:36 AM, Sal said: As a side gig and to supplement my own knitting addiction Knitting addiction~ how cool is that I ask you!♥️ I have a dagger and sword addiction🤫 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyssa Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 I'm a graphic designer currently working in prepress at a flexographic printing company. I miss being more creative and actually designing and creating things, but I wanted to go down the line of the creative process. Through my different jobs I started as a graphic designer(making the art), then a production designer(creating/refining the art), and now prepress(getting the art press-ready). At least I'll be well-rounded on my resume for whenever I get the creative itch again! ☺️ 8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JettsPapa Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 On 4/5/2022 at 7:44 AM, Guppysnail said: Holy cow @JettsPapa Some of those barriers make the trucks look like they are made of tissue paper!😲. Yup. I don't think it's included in either of the videos I posted, but we hit one about 15 years ago where the motor came up into the cab and out through the windshield. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dasaltemelosguy Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 I've never done anything for very long. I was a quantum physicist for Rutgers University, then a chemist for a NJ hospital system, then I taught Philosophy and Comparative Religion at Seton Hall...briefly, then I became an electronics circuit designer of biofeedback and medical equipment for Bausch and Lomb. But I was seduced by music and musicians which led me to design electronics for high fidelity reproduction which found favor in the music industry so vicariously, I was 'in the music business' except that I have no talent whatsoever. But I knew a lot of people with LOTS of talent, so I like to think that made up for my insufficiencies! Eventually we formed a small company around the designs for high end audio amplification and loudspeakers which I design circuitry for to this day. 6 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lefty o Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 done a few things, but the bulk of the years was running printing presses. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guppysnail Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 On 4/5/2022 at 6:10 PM, lefty o said: done a few things, but the bulk of the years was running printing presses. Now I know who prints all the junk mail I get 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scapexghost Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 I'm in university studying for an electrical engineering degree. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josephnoctum Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 I'm a Data Scientist with a specialty in machine learning/algorithms for cyber security applications. I'd much rather be playing with fish though. 😄 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ken Burke Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 On 4/5/2022 at 5:55 AM, Guppysnail said: I’m retired now. I was a business executive. My niche so to speak towards the later portion of my career was teaching and mentoring servant leadership to others in order to help them achieve their greatest success. The last half of my career was the most rewarding. To be able to help folks achieve success otherwise beyond their reach to enhance their lives and the livelihood they provided for their families was amazing. I was invited to several folks children’s college graduations which was a pinnacle reward to me as inspiring and helping the parents it helped them inspire and help their children. To be able to extend a helping hand that reached to a second generation touched my heart ❤️ “Servant leadership”. I know I liked you. I’m just a civil servant working for the Air Force as a requirements manager. Basically, I make this happen:https://www.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/2943340/barksdale-afb-first-to-implement-upgrade-to-nuclear-enterprise-in-more-than-30/ 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lefty o Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 On 4/5/2022 at 5:11 PM, Guppysnail said: Now I know who prints all the junk mail I get 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 maybe the ugly art work on your dentist's walls, never junk mail.😎 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick_G Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 On 4/5/2022 at 1:06 PM, dasaltemelosguy said: Eventually we formed a small company around the designs for high end audio amplification and loudspeakers which I design circuitry for to this day. What’s the company? I’m Hi-fi geek, and I’m curious. 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beardedbillygoat1975 Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 Cardiology Nurse Practitioner. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edsland Posted April 5, 2022 Share Posted April 5, 2022 Retired phone guy now I drive a school bus part time. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freemoney Posted April 6, 2022 Share Posted April 6, 2022 commercial tile repair/regrout 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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