What do you all do for a living?

Spent almost 30 years in book manufacturing. Mostly pressroom and prepress departments. Helped with running a big old offset sheetfed press. Straight black on white stuff, lots of high end text books and stuff. Layoffs became more and more often and for longer periods of time as the printing industry has died off. Spent almost 2 years working for a defense contractor building Bradley Fighting Vehicles which was one of my most fun jobs ever but that slowed down and I was once more dealing with layoffs. Parallel to all of this I began a part time job in the parts department of the Harley Davidson dealership where I'd bought my Buell and spent almost 16 years working 2 jobs mostly for the employee discount and the fun of working around bikes. Currently I'm the purchasing manager for a family owned hydraulic cylinder repair shop. We deal mostly in larger mobile crane type stuff. Our shop does industrial chrome plating and we have a full capacity machine shop so lots of little side projects happen here. I miss a lot of the hands on stuff but no longer beat myself up physically like when I was younger. Most of my work now is computer based locating parts, materials, and supplies to keep the shop running. Nice thing is the amount of free time I have to surf internet forums like this one and a few others I'm active on.

 

I'm a manufacturer of ultrapure water quality analytical instrumentation. Or as Bill Murray would say: "It's technical." Our primary market is Power Generation and I've been to nearly every nuclear plant in the country and most of the fossil plants as well. I used to average around 50K miles a year driving around the country, but these past two years, it's dropped off to about 35K miles.

 

Currently a rapid prototype manufacturing engineer in high purity ceramic manufacturing (specifically for the semiconductor industry).

 

Stayed at the Cliffs Hotel once, wouldn't happen to be that hotel would it?

 

Nope but VERY close! Pismo Lighthouse Suites.

 

Senior economist at the department of fisheries and oceans canada

 

Building super reliable electric trucks at Rivian. Previously at Tesla and Cruise Automation (self driving cars).

 

I love Rivian I can’t wait until the release of the first two models. Any possibility of being hooked up with some Rivian swag? I’ve been trying to get some !

 

I can't wait till some prototype vehicles make it to Palo Alto and I have a chance to get behind the wheel And maybe? DM me

 

One of my clients put a deposit down on one. We’re building several structures for him,150 solar panels and 10 Tesla Powerwalls. He can’t wait for its release.

 

Wow, that sound like a hell of a setup.

 

I'm a professional crack inspector and roller coaster fixer upper-er.

I do Nondestructive Testing (NDT) and Quality Control (QC) documentation on metal and Fiberglass Reinforced Composites (FRC/FRP) for the theme park industry. Specializing in visual (VT), Penetrant (PT), and Magnetic Particle (MT) testing. I have a background in construction, rigging, mechanical diagnostics, repair, preventative maintenance, and, I work along side our Engineering and Failure Analysis department.

Currently I'm working towards my Certified Welding Inspectior's license in D1.1 structural steel and NDT level II certifications.

I think I'd like to branch out into NDT within the Power Generation field, seen a couple guys in the business here, if you're hiring shoot me a PM.

 

I’m a territory sales manager for a brewery.

 

Support Engineer

 

I work in eCommerce with a focus on Amazon and Home Depot

 

I make cryogens and wear about 6 other hats while doing it.

 

Active Duty Army

 

Own a small construction company.

I’ve been a tile setter for 25 years

 

do people’s tile choices make you cringe still?

 

All the time, I get it, people have their own taste or style... but