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spuddevans

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Kermit's post inspired me to start one on a similar line. I did a search and found that there doesn't seem to be a topic on what everyone on here does, or did, in their day job, so I thought I'd start one. ;)

So, just for fun, what do you all do?


I'll start it off, I'm a Clear Wall Maintainence Engineer ... never heard of one??













Ok, I'm a window cleaner ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Tim
 
I've been a machinist since 1978.
That job has changed a lot in that past 30 years.
It started out with going home soaked with cutting oil and grease.
Today it's pushing buttons on a data input screen and watching a tool
fly around quicker than you would have a hope of reacting should you have
happened to hit a wrong button on that data entry control panel...
But you DO go home in clean work clothes every day.

Rick
 
I'm a mechanical designer doing fixtures and tooling for a company that makes all kinds of reflective products and lenses. The machinists at work do their machining with diamond tools, and hold tolerances of single minutes of arc for angles, and work to 5 or 6 decimal places.

I sit at a computer and draw pretty pictures with SolidWorks.
 
I design Printed Circuit Boards for one of the largest companies in the world. I was a Jeweller in my 20"s, I think that helped me with the small fabrication I do as a hobby today
 
Retired Union Crane Operator for 35 years

hobbiest for about 30 years

 
I currently work for a medical device manufacturer as a toolmaker. A lot of the day to day work is maintaining the injection molds. I make spare tooling on a more or less daily basis grinding, milling (conventional and CNC), lathe work, EDM, etc., did my own programming and used AutoCad and Solidworks for mold design and engineering changes and such. All good things must come to an end though, the plant I work at will be closing before the end of January, so into the next interesting facet of manufacturing I go!

Kevin
 
Worked in steel mill for 31 yrs as mechanic. When mill closed drove big rig for 4 yr than the big dummy(me) fell off ladder in my garage and pulled both arms from sockets. Retired and on disablity since 2005. Started teaching myself machine work since 97.
 
started at age 16 in the transmission business which i still doing 31 years later. In my own shop for the last 18 years taught myself how to use a lathe and mill love anything mechanical.
 
hitandmissman said:
Started teaching myself machine work since 97.
Darn, you started when you were 97? Whoa! :big: :big: :big:

Best regards,

Kludge
 
Retired:
1 TV technician
2 Engineers assistant at an R&D place
3 Jr Engineer at same
4 Sr Engineer at same
5 Electronics engineer / tech at PSU
6 Same at UNM
It all ended a little over 11 yrs ago. :)

Volunteer (un paid) at local high school metal shop. More fun :)
...lew...
 
I am a dynamic figure, often seen scaling walls and crushing ice. I have been
known to remodel train stations on my lunch breaks, making them more efficient
in the area of heat retention. I translate ethnic slurs for Cuban refugees, I
write award winning operas, I manage time efficiently. Occasionally, I tread
water for three days in a row. I woo women with my sensuous and godlike
trombone playing, I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging
speed, and I can cook 30-minute brownies in 30 minutes. I am an expert in
stucco, a veteran in love and an outlaw in Peru.

Using only a hoe and a large glass of water, I once single-handedly defended a
small village in the Amazon Basin from a horde of fercious army ants. I play
bluegrass cello, I was scouted by the Jays, I am the subject of numerous
documentaries. When I'm bored, I build large suspension bridges in my yard.

I enjoy urban hang gliding. On Wednesdays, after work, I repair electrical
appliances free of charge. I am an abstract artist, a concrete analyst and a
ruthless bookie. Critics worldwide swoon over my original line of corduroy
evening wear. I don't perspire. I am a private citizen, yet I recieve fan
mail. I have been caller number nine and have won the weekend passes. Last
summer I toured New Mexico with a traveling centrifugal-force demonstration.
I bat .400. My deft floral arrangements have earned me fame in international
botany circles. Children trust me.

I can hurl tennis rackets at small moving objects with deadly accuracy. I once
read Paradise Lost, Moby Dick and David Copperfield in one day and still had
time to refurbish an entire dining room that evening. I know the exact
location of every food item in the supermarket. I have performed several
covert operations for the CIA. I sleep once a week; when I do sleep, I sleep
in a chair. While on vacation in Libya, I successfully negotiated with a group
of terrorists who had seized a small bakery. The laws of physics do not apply
to me.

I balance, I weave, I dodge, I frolic and my bills are all paid. On weekends,
to let off steam, I participate in full contact origami. I have made
extraordinary four course meals using only a mouli and a toaster oven. I breed
prize-winning clams. I have won bull fights in San Juan, cliff diving
competitions in Sri Lanka and spelling bees at the Kremlin. I have played
Hamlet, I have performed open-heart surgery and I have spoken with Elvis.
 
During High School Small Engine Mechanic
2 yrs. Tech School Tool & Die Making
19 yrs. Tool & Die Maker
15 yrs. General Manager of a Tool & Die Company (20 employees)

In 5 more years Full time Model builder ;D
will retire, if my
401K comes back! :-\
 
Marv, what do you do the other six days of the week? ;D

Best regards,

Kludge
 
Marv--I knew that there were reasons that I admire you, other than your obvious talent!!! When I grow up I want to be just like you!!
 
It is my sincere hope that I never actually grow up.

Well, I am a pointy haired boss, that is to say my title is Director of Operations at the place where I work. I started work after college in 1992, as a development engineer in England, working on vacuum systems mostly (still do). I had a brief stint as a development engineer for a company that manufactured letter folders and inserters, where I did some mechanical design, with a heavy bias to sheet metal work.

Then I moved to the USA, where my first job was as a senior (to who exactly?) engineer designing industrial vacuum systems. After that I got into process engineering, developing thin film coatings for a flexible circuit manufacturer. The last 8 years have been spent working for a start up company developing a new technology based again on vacuum deposited thin films, during which time I have developed processes, designed some equipment, broken equipment, repaired it again when no one was looking, and gradually built up an engineering and manufacturing team that I am quite proud of, due in no small part to a lot of help and advice that I have been given along the way ever since I graduated.

If you care to listen for it, the advice is out there for the taking folks. Word of advice there for any new graduates looking around. A little humility and please and thankyou when dealing with the folks building my designs went a long way I tell you what.
 
I was a programmer, analyst, project manager, and general technology geek my entire career. I started by working my way through university in the computer lab helping grad students run statistical analyses on their data. Thereafter I did software in various industries including telecoms and banking. My last three companies were mainly engaged in the field of online banking via the internet. I retired in 2005.
 
Information Technology Director at DHL Express. Retiring and moving to Austin, Tx in 5 months.

Chuck
 
I am a full time flight instructor currently. In my past, I've been an electronics technician. In high school and college did some computer programming.
Hey Cfellows, any chance your flight department is hiring pilots? LOL

 
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