What do you do for work?

Right on. I use to be a consultant and worked on a lot of transportation and utility projects with endangered species or other biological resources like wetlands/other waters. I was mostly in the field back then or at contractor/client trailers for meetings. I switched to the client side and now work for a water district. Grass is so much greener. Not in the field as much anymore. A lot of my time is spent on permit acquisitions, agency communications, contract specifications, permit/contract oversight, and so on. Right now I'm living and breathing a FESA Section 7 consultation with both USFWS and NMFS.
However, I also manage some of our mitigation properties (conservation easements to mitigate impacts from large projects/programs) and have some stewarship projects (wildlife corridor enhancements, restoration, etc) which I really like.


Maybe we should start a seperate thread with @NikonBiologist and @hogfan1978? There may be others that work in our field as well.

 

Extruder operator for the worlds largest Plastic pvc pipe and fitting producer.

27 years old. Been there 7 years.

 

Yep! I did work for the state briefly, but the pay in the private industry was too good to pass up.

 

I’m game if someone wants to start the thread.

 

Lol I have a degree in wildlife biology but I wound up teaching construction trades to at-risk youth

I’d watch this thread tho

you’re a fish guy right @BabyTaco ?

 

sorry for the misspelling, it would of been easy for you to say, did you mean "tolling" or trolling

 

I hear that, I spend way too much time on the west coast. Every damn time if go from Sacramento to LA, I get stuck on I-5 shutdown by Pyramid lake... last month's shutdown ended up with me driving my rental Taco through and over the mountains on two track fire roads and less. I still haven't told my Taco (cement) I cheated on it with a ginger Taco.

 

congrats to your Pops my friend!!

 

Just started working for a company that inspects/overhauls industrial gearboxes in many different industries, one of them is plastic extrusion. I've been there two months.

 

Proud Registered Nurse for 9 years now but it has aged me 15

 

@Sammie
@Tacotsubo

 

I’m sure you have worked on our gear boxes then. We send them out and have them rebuilt when they go bad or start leaking.

 

Only 15 years, you're lucky...

 

Cardiac Cath Lab Tech for 17 years and now can't wait for retirement ...

 

The last few we have done were boxes that operated ski lifts. In the off season we get a few so they don't break down in the middle of Winter.

 

Right

 

Some glamour shots from the last couple weeks of no stop OT days launching and receiving pigging tools for the pipeline. Luckily only a once in seven years event, almost felt like I was back in the military with the amount of sleep deprivation.

 

For the most part I actually liked being an RN especially in psych. Im in oncology now and I enjoy my co workers company a whole lot

 

Substitute teacher with the permanent gig of textbook (including ancillary and teacher materials, novels, etc) warehouse manager for the school district based at the high school. I assist in the library when needed and sub in classrooms when necessary.

 

I'm a certified API (American Petroleum Institute) inspector/project manager for a small inspection company. I manage a handful of chemical plants in our area that we have contracts in and complete inspections on piping/pressure vessels/storage tanks as needed. Most of the time I just have to make sure the customer's are happy and our employees are doing what is needed.