What is your job? OT

[pflaming]

Retired. Taught HS Literature for 15 years in the 60's/70's, then worked for a packaging company in fruit box sales and packaging machines until I retired. The truck takes up spare time, getting close. Oh and I read the forum regularly.

Edited February 6, 2013 by pflaming

[1just4don]

Retired couple years ago from a job that was hard to do anymore due to health reasons.

I thought I could find something more hospitible.

Thinking of buying cheap houses and flipping them,,but the market is too high to buy and too low to sell.

Might have to demo old tear down houses, driveways and garages for beans to eat.

Any other suggestions as to what to do are GREATLY appreciated.

Unless you are a truck driver or masters degree in whatever field they are looking for,,,jobs are slim.

last person said the job they applied for there was 350 applications

Its pretty bleak out here,,but living is pretty cheap,when you dont go anywhere or do anything!!

I may have to move to Omaha to find any jobs,but it is tough there too,I heard.

Guess I spent too much raising my 5 kids all by myself!!

[Captain Neon]

I am the "2nd shift" Quality Assurance Supervisor for a canned foods plant. I have the privilege of working at the only facility in these united States that fills cans inside a large hyperbaric chamber. We fully process a gallon can of nacho cheese in 18 minutes while every one else takes almost two hours, (PV=nRT). I also supervise two hydrostatic continuous retorts and have the potential to have as many as 60 vertical still retorts running at one time. We are also one of two Vienna Sausage factories left in these united States.

[alan32433]

I'm an electronic warfare engineer, DOD Air Force civilian for 30+ years. That may not make sense to most people but its a specialized field that develops and tests electronic systems for detecting, deceiving, avoiding, and/or disabling hostile electronic systems that intend to shoot your aircraft down.

[jd52cranbrook]

I'm a partially employed, partially unemployed small business general contractor,,

[Greenbomb]

Maintenance Electrician; Surface coal mine. There were about 650 of us three years ago, but we stopped mining and are in the reclamation mode. Now, there about 18 of us worker bees and about 10 supervisory and eng. types.

[JerseyHarold]

I work for a bottled gas distributor in the Ironbound section of Newark N.J. There is on some level, a certain beauty to the sheer ugliness of the area. The place is littered with remnants of once bustling factories which have long since fallen to decay and disrepair. I'm pretty lucky since I get all the jobs that everybody else either can't do or don't want to do since I've been at it for so many years.

I recently found out how the Ironbound section of Newark got its name. The entire neighborhood is completely surrounded by railroad tracks.

[Olddaddy]

I am the Preconstruction Manager for a General Contractor. I estimate, contract, source, purchase, and manage refurb projects in resort settings.

[mikesinky]

i am a working foreman for a construction company. we do alot of work around surface and underground mines. i run heavy equipment and keep things going the way there suppose to to get the job done. we are currently facing up a deep mine. coal keeps the lights on....

[JoelOkie]

Building Contractor. 35 yrs.

[40plyrod]

Nothing glamourous here. I'm a 3rd generation dairy farmer.

[wills 51]

I drive a delivery truck and work the counter for an Irrigation company

[JoelOkie]

Nothing glamourous here. I'm a 3rd generation dairy farmer.

Sounds like you got yer hands full....

[martybose]

I work in a medium-sized shipyard and am responsible for scheduling all of the available manpower to make sure that all jobs are completed in time. We work on most of the tugboats, ferry boats, barges, and Army and Coast Guard ships in the SF Bay area, as well as vessels that come to us from San Diego to Alaska.

Marty

[clay diggs]

Retired woodworker after 35 years.Always had my own shop.My building is now used for a little [very little] woodworking and a place to park and work on old cars.Worked on a lot of cars outside in all kinds of weather so you know how much I like my warm bulding.

[Reg Evans]

Until the bottom dropped out of the economy here I was a home designer/building contractor. This was the last one I built when the doldrums set in. Been twiddling my thumbs for 2 years now. I'm going to go ahead and retire next summer at 62.

[Frank Elder]

I have been in the hydraulics field since 1984, my last job was reefer and semi trailer repair&reconstruction.

[Plymouthy Adams]

Nothing glamourous here. I'm a 3rd generation dairy farmer.

milking the job eh!

[dezeldoc]

I'm an electronic warfare engineer, DOD Air Force civilian for 30+ years. That may not make sense to most people but its a specialized field that develops and tests electronic systems for detecting, deceiving, avoiding, and/or disabling hostile electronic systems that intend to shoot your aircraft down.

Alan, My brother in law does the same thing, got promoted to manager a year ago has 10 or so people working under him. he loves it.

[Niel Hoback]

Retired steelworker after 39-1/2 years at US Steel in Gary, Indiana as a weigher, craneman and stocker. Before that in a magnet factory for a short time. I don't wait for the check each month as its direct deposited.

[BeBop138]

I have worked for a Florist for 40 years. Started in the delivery department and worked there for 11 years and then to our interior landscape division, we install and mantain large and small green plants for commercial buildings.During this time I was a volunteer firefighter for 20 years.We averaged 1100 runs a year and were rated in the top 25 departments paid or volunteer in the Nation. Loved it! Plus during this time I ran a small business restoring old jukeboxes- still doing this. We did the three job thing for 15 years. I did this to retire at 52--I had a 30 and out pension with my full time job and the contract when I was 10 months short of my thirty--they decided to go to a 401K---they took my 30 out option. Well I`am 62 and still working.

[41/53dodges]

ive been learning how to be about as useful as a talking doorstop in school for the last 11 years, and when something comes, i fix small engines and do yardwork.

[plyman 50]

I have been retired for 10 years. I worked for General Motors for 34-1/2 years.

[greg g]

I retired from non commercial food service managment. I worked at New York University, Penn State, and Syracuse University as a Manager of a student Dining Halls, I worked as the Assistant Director of Nutritional Services at a 400 bed hospital in Syracuse, where I was instrumental in redesiginig all of the food facilities in the building, and I retired as Director of Dining and Conference Services at a SUNY campus. Overseeing 5 facilities, the purchasing depratment, the maintenence unit, a bakery, a C store, concessions at athletic facilities, and the catering and conference support department. Supervised a professional staff of 16 and a hourly staff of over 120 full and part time emloyees, and 90 student employees. The department had a 10 million dollar annual budget, serving 3500 full and part time students.

We dealt with every type of service and preperation from short order to fine dining, and legal beverages.

I started my professional carreer in 1967 and retired in 2005.

Currently do as needed trips for a new car dealership transporting vehicles resulting from dealer trades. Had a 270 mile drive today. Haven't done much since before Christmas, but have made 8 trips in the last two weeks. Might be a sign that the economy is coming around. But could also be a sign of tight inventories at Chrysler Dodge Jeep dealers

If anybody is looking for a new Truck the 2010 Rams are turned out really nicely and even with the Hemis, get about 18 on the highway ap per the onvboard computer. This with 0 to 100 miles on them. The redesigned rear suspension rides and handles very nicely even empty.

[Oldguy48]

Technician in the Calibration Lab at a nuclear power plant. Almost 25 years of service, and hoping to retire this year.