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Topic: What kind of work do you do?
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Leonard
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posted August 15, 2005 11:58 PM
Since I'm unemployed, I'm curious how our members keep the wolves from their door, so to speak.
It's okay, if there be any lawyers out there, you needn't single yourself out for abuse. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
What's your job? Any volunteers
Good hunting. LB
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EL BEE Knows It All and Done It All.
Don't piss me off!
Posts: 31449 | From: Upland, CA | Registered: Jan 2003
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Jack Roberts
Knows what it's all about
Member # 13
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posted August 16, 2005 12:25 AM
I quit working 5 years ago. Promptly lost half of my net worth in the 2000-2001 Clinton market meltdown. No pension, no healthcare, only what I had saved and lost half of.
The next couple years only saw small gains. 2004 and the first part of 2005 have made up the losses from the end of the Clinton legacy.
In the last 3 years oil stocks have done well and China ETFs have really taken off in the last 2 months.
Jack
Posts: 499 | From: Elko NV formerly MD | Registered: Jan 2003
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2dogs
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Member # 649
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posted August 16, 2005 03:57 AM
Fire Service, <4yrs left before retirement[emancipation], if my body holds out. Then I plan on sitting in my rocker & just stare & drool ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) .
Posts: 1034 | From: central Iowa | Registered: Apr 2005
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keekee
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Member # 465
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posted August 16, 2005 06:29 AM
Im a Manager for Pepsi Cola. I run the maintenance department, that takes care of the machinery, and all that boring stuff.
Brent
[ August 16, 2005, 08:36 PM: Message edited by: keekee ]
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Kee's Custom Calls
http://www.keescalls.com
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Cal Taylor
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posted August 16, 2005 07:22 AM
I have so many occupations I usually can't remember what I'm getting up to do in the morning. My main source of income is guiding big game hunts from Sept. 1 to Nov. 31. But the rest of the year I seem to stay busy. I live on a large ranch owned by a coal company, and do alot of contract work for them at different times of the year. All stuff outside, I build fence, do dirt work, put in culverts, cattle guards, water lines, stock tanks etc. etc. I am in the process of moving a building for them right now. In the winter I trap for a couple months full time and in the summer I work for a county predator control program part time. Some times it's great to be so self employed and other days I think I should go get a full time job with the coal mine and get all the benefits and make the big bucks with fewer worries.
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Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.
FoxPro Field Staff Member
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Barndog
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Member # 255
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posted August 16, 2005 07:39 AM
I'm a pedologist. In other words I map soils.
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NASA
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Member # 177
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posted August 16, 2005 07:40 AM
I’m a Space Applications Scientist. I do electronic component reliability and survivability analysis for various Government agencies. I can’t tell you which ones, or I’d have to kill you. ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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Sue and Mark Nami
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Member # 685
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posted August 16, 2005 08:04 AM
I work for a shopping mall Security.
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All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough
good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke..1729-1797
Posts: 44 | From: east coast | Registered: Jul 2005
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Cdog911
"There are some ideas so absurd only an intellectual could believe them."--George Orwell.
Member # 7
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posted August 16, 2005 08:21 AM
I'm a pimp specializing in wayfaring Chinese girls who are interested in predator callers. Believe me, pimpin' ain't easy!
No, really, letter carrier for Uncle Sam for only sixteen more years, then I'll retire at 56, not be eligible for SS for at least another 14 years (by then, I'm sure) and hope to supplement my meager pension with the proceeds of my multinational custom, hand-made predator call manufacturing company and what I can beg, borrow and steal from major outdoor magazines who want me to write them stories about calling coyotes. I hope by then to have phased out the taxidermy business.
In truth, I'll probably be broke, divorced and destitute as a result of all the time I spend in the shop doing other peoples' taxidermy, making calls and writing and will be going door to door at all you guys' houses looking for a warm bed and something to eat.
Nope, pimpin' ain't easy.
Hey, where's Tripp?
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I am only one. But still, I am one. I cannot do everything, but still, I can do something; and, because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
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Dogleg
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posted August 16, 2005 09:28 AM
I'm a directional driller. I handle the engineering and day to day practical aspects of drilling directional and horizontal oilwells. Working eight days a week is cutting into the hunting time something terrible. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
Mike
Posts: 30 | From: Saskatoon, Saskatchewan | Registered: Jun 2005
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Leonard
HMFIC
Member # 2
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posted August 16, 2005 10:11 AM
Already, interesting vocations showing up. I had no idea.
Actually, I retired a year ago, in June. A Dairy Fairy, no more.
Applied for SS the very day I became eligible, intending to suck it dry before Lance can get his hands on any. (keep that nose to the grindstone, folks)
Good hunting. LB
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EL BEE Knows It All and Done It All.
Don't piss me off!
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Norm
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Member # 240
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posted August 16, 2005 10:20 AM
I own a small business that focuses on enabling others to secure time and financial freedom by working part-time for themselves.
I also work for American Express Travel Related Services and am responsible for the investments in technology that support the management and introduction of payment products that are offered by the company.
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Carpe Diem
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Joel Hughes
SPECIAL GUEST
Member # 384
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posted August 16, 2005 11:43 AM
I work for an independant oil & gas company as a database administrator. Basically, I make the accountants, landmen, and engineers' lives easier by designing data warehouses, writing and building query tools, etc. And I support and maintain our database systems. Okay, yea, what a nerd.
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Cdog911
"There are some ideas so absurd only an intellectual could believe them."--George Orwell.
Member # 7
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posted August 16, 2005 11:47 AM
Maybe, but I bet you get along better with your computer better than I do with mine. It's a love-hate relationship.
Leonard,
What did you do before you went on welfare?
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I am only one. But still, I am one. I cannot do everything, but still, I can do something; and, because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.
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Leonard
HMFIC
Member # 2
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posted August 16, 2005 02:33 PM
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Leonard,
What did you do before you went on welfare?
I designed and worked with process controls, but please don't tell my mother, she thinks I was the piano player in a whorehouse.
Good hunting. LB
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EL BEE Knows It All and Done It All.
Don't piss me off!
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Tim Behle
Administrator MacNeal Sector
Member # 209
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posted August 16, 2005 03:23 PM
I'm a troubleman for the Electric company in a small border town.
When you call in the middle of the night to report your lights are out, it's me they wake up to send to fix them.
I'm also the guy who cuts off your lights when you don't pay the bill.
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Personally, I carry a gun because I'm too young to die and too old to take
an ass kickin'.
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Norm
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Member # 240
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posted August 16, 2005 05:35 PM
Joel... you have a great job... I had the same one for L.L. Bean as well as AXP....
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Carpe Diem
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seeinspots
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posted August 16, 2005 06:11 PM
golf course supt. i ave. 70 hrs. a week starting apr. 1 through sept. then tapers off and by nov. its vacation time until mar 1. oh well somebodys got to do it.
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Az-Hunter
Hi, I'm Vic WELCOME TO THE U.S. Free baloney sandwiches here
Member # 17
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posted August 16, 2005 06:14 PM
Retired from Qwest Communications, put in 30 years as a telephone man, outside stuff, lineman, installer, cable splicer etc. Still have 11 years till I can wet my beak in the SS trough, so I work three days a week. Im a doggie hearse driver, pick up stiffs from various animal clinics in Tucson,Phoenix and ElPaso to be cremated, then return urns of ashes.
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Rich
2,000th post PAKMAN
Member # 112
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posted August 16, 2005 06:25 PM
Work? I mowed my lawn yesterday.
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If you call the coyotes in close, you won't NEED a high dollar range finder.
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R.Shaw
Peanut Butter Man, da da da da DAH!
Member # 73
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posted August 16, 2005 06:50 PM
Not nearly as exciting as some of the above. I pour concrete for a living. Several perks, but the best one is my job quits me when the fur gets prime.
Randy
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Alaskan Yoter
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Member # 169
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posted August 16, 2005 06:57 PM
Well I'm a little over half way though a job in Adult Day Care (Correctional Officer for you more politcal correctness types)
Its a week on week off, twenty year retirement so I can't complain too much.
It used to fun back in the Max/Max days but now I have moved up to a correctional farm. Perty much make sure they dont burn the place down or walk away, and if they do I just fill out the right paper work and move on. Great food though!!
Well any way in 9 short years I hope to maybe live somewhere warm were I can hunt all year around (For different critters then swamp donkies and porcibears) At the ripe age of 45 to boot.
Directional driller...is that another way of saying your a Male Gigilo?
Todd
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JoeF
resides "back east"
Member # 228
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posted August 16, 2005 07:01 PM
Always some sort of technical pursuit, often a manager, never by choice.
Latest gig involves keeping old Motorola equipment and a couple of their competitors' equipment alive, operations in IL and TX.
Raising cattle in Mo. and IL., the return beats the hell out of what the financial institutions have to offer!
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Leonard
HMFIC
Member # 2
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posted August 16, 2005 07:14 PM
Hey Todd, in the movies they show the inmates throwing poopoo on the hapless guards. How do you handle it?
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EL BEE Knows It All and Done It All.
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Doggitter
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Member # 489
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posted August 16, 2005 07:45 PM
I used to breathe exhaust smoke and carb cleaner now I breathe welding smoke and plasma dust. :>(
Weld/fab for a company that makes ground drilling equipment, bits, pipe, in the ground hammers...
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