Job/Career?

I've been a member of TW for about a month now. I see a lot of new trucks and a load of $ put into mods. Just out of curiosity, what does everyone do for a living?

I drive a garbage truck, picking up residential waste. Hard work, but decent money for the area I live in.

 

I'm an Associate Scientist for Abbott Laboratories. This means I test and validate new hardware/software designs, and troubleshoot/repair medical instruments used in hospitals/labs. It works for me.

 

High tech stuff it sound like.

 

Technical support helpdesk for ACS. It's pretty entry level. I troubleshoot hardware/software issues for Burger King stores in the U.S and Canada. It's fun though I get to play God and dial in and screw with stuff on the managers networks haha. Not a bad job for 19 and not even an associates yet.

I'm going to school and heading for a mechanical/aeorospace engineering degree.

 

http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/off-topic-discussion/99-what-do-you-do-work.html

 

http://www.tacomaworld.com/forum/off-topic-discussion/1072-how-do-you-pay-your-bills.html

 

Although garbage is not for everyone, I have a lot of fun at work. I get to destroy things all day long. I own the road when I'm on it....go ahead and try to push my 40 ton truck out of the way. You wouldn't believe some of the really nice stuff some people throw away.

 

jack of all trades master of none

worked on bowling machines out of high school
Co-op with NASA wind tunnels in hampton va AAS in mech eng tech
long haul truck driver for 9 1/2 years (alaska only state i havent been in)
went to hawaii on vac
Local truck driver for 2 years
back to school got ASE master tech cert after working on Audi's for a year
Now im a forklift tech for a company with good bennies.

still wouldnt mind doing the wind tunnel thing again that job i loved so much had to leave when slick got into office and cut NASA's money.

 

Sorry folks for not doing my homework. I didn't check for any similar threads.
Thanks for the links.

 

I use to be a Novell Network Administrator.... Now for the past 4 years... I've been dressing hair... so, I'm a hairsylist. And I make just as much money doing hair as I did networking/PC junky, if not more...

 

Union Boilermaker,if you use electricity you need Boilermakers

 

I was a salesman/driver for Pepsi, I hated that job. I make almost as much doing trash and have a whole lot less stress to deal with.

 

Im a cable splicer/lineman for AT&T. I have a fair amount of education: 2 bachelors and 1/2 a masters (i never finished), with my last degree being technical/computers (networking, programming, etc.). This job offered me the best starting salary (by FAR) and benefits than any networking/admin job I was offered. So I took it. Who knows about the future...

Ted

 

I have been a PBX tech/installer/repair since 78. Now trying to convert to the IP PBX/router world.

 

A lot of hair stylist rent out a styling place for the day or an hour or whatever. So they don't work for anyone but they do pay rent on a non regular basis. Don't know if thats the case here.

 

What kind of switches? I worked with AVAYA PBX's (Partner, Merlin, etc.) for a year or so, and started working with Office IP (Avaya's version of VoIP) before i left the company.

 

Rf engineer and technician work for a company called avenger engineering sub contractor for at&t wireless and nokia

 

Toyota Sales Consultant and proud of it!