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[EuphoricBlue]

Apprentice Tech, on "vacation" right now. (IE: Layed off ) Going back for my 3rd level as soon as the paperwork is done.
I'm also a certified digital animator... but you know... stuff. I went into automotive after I finished the animation program.

[mn85crx]

I am a mechanical engineer. I design construction equipment for the big yellow American company... I mainly work in hydraulic system design and frame/structures design for almost all the product lines.

Scott

[1986_crx_si]

Landscape architect in a large architectural office.
...and lucky to be employed since 1/2 of all architects nationwide are unemployed during this great recession.

my step mother included

[93hpCRX]

I'm a college biology teacher (been teaching for 13+ years).

My wife and I are also hobby farmers with a horse, goat, chickens, ducks- we had 3 cows and some geese a few years ago. I also cut, rake and bale my own hay (square bales) and sell the excess to other hobby farmers.

Currently i work at a grocery store, a farm during the summer and spring, a design and printing store, and i do mechanics on the side. I know all about that baling hay shit! its very hard work but it can be a cash cow as well!

Dustin

[WOLFCRX]

I am an upholster, I do all home and office furniture and some auto on the side for friends and family. Started when I was in junior high and loved it so I stuck with it. 26 years now

Here is my Christmas present to me this year, an old La-z-boy recliner done in a leather fabric combo.


Another side job I have been doing for 23 years now is I run casino gaming tables for a mobile casino, we have 40 plus tables in a full casino we bring to you and set up at your place. I work and train dealers for all the tables, craps, blackjack, roulette, hold-em and let it ride. I also build all the tables.

Doug

[Old School REX]

This is cool

Currently I am a supervisor at a shoe store that is nation wide, maybe you have one in your state? Off Broadway Shoes Warehouse is the company. It co-operates with my school schedule as I am a full time college student. I used to have very interesting jobs... but school comes first. For example I used to paint custom cars. LOOVVEED that job...


Hope you guys don't mind a few photos of just two of the cars we built at my old shop.





Cam

[Maine_Honda_Racer]

Glad everyone likes the topic!

[crxls]

I work for a company that builds performance diesel fuel injection pumps, injectors and turbos. My position is dyno testing and tuning. I don't hate going to work every day and I don't get dirty anymore.

[pvbcrx]

Also jealous of Keith, I have 9 years left before I can retire from my job as an aerospace engineer. However, I really enjoy my job, so I may work longer if it stays interesting.

Doug

[VaporParanoia]

i'm a police dispatcher for a school district, full time, and i occasionally sub at a private catholic school

[sslgreg]

Safety and Training Manager for a charter bus operator in San Diego. Been working here for almost 21 years and still enjoy coming to work. Though I am looking at a job change - purely for financial reasons.

[radar51]

Unemployed, but I do mechanic work on the side as well as light IT work

[3gencivic]

I'm a apprentice mechanic level 1. hope to be in level 2 this spring. i right my final on the 18th. i work for the local Hyundai dealership. and love it there. i was at the Nissan store for 5 months when it first opened but there wasn't enough work there so i went back to Hyundai. i was able to do this as the owner of the store actually owns 3 dealerships. he has the gm dealership too with a paint body shop that got #3 in Canada for service. but yeah i like the Hyundai. store and the new cars out for 2011 are beyond great. the quality is finally up there with the rest of the market not like the pony was.. lol.

[Qronik]

I've been a Disc jockey, Air talent, Radio air personality, Voice-over guy since 1974 . It's a gypsy life style with no job security and no prospects of retirement . color me stupid .

It has some interesting benefits as i was the voice of Los Angeles International Airport ( the red zone is for loading ...) for a decade, and i voiced the entire F/A-18 training program, worldwide, out of NAS Lemoore. (The Australian Pilots actually complained that ' I ' had an accent .The pilots from the RCAF said "He's ok, eh?" No idea what the Kuwaiti's thought)

In between radio gigs, I've been a tech at a web hosting company, studied music education at Fresno State, driven D8 Cats, and tended bar. And for a while, i was somewhat involved in politics.

What a long strange trip .....

[Emefef]

There's a really wide variety here....I worked my through school working at a grocery store (produce) for 10 years part time. I've worked in a fabric store, thermal generating station (4 months on a turbine crew, 4 months on an electrical crew). I cut grass at a (horse) racetrack, I printed report cards and paycheques at the Board of Education.

I started on the trading floor at the very bottom of the ladder. When I started, my annual salary was less than what I was making at the grocery store part time, and while I had both of those jobs I started teaching on the weekends. I had all three jobs for about 3 years.


Apart from the stock exchange business, which I've been in for about 22 years, I'm a Chief Instructor with the Canada Safety Council's motorcycle rider training program. I'm just going into my 23rd year of teaching.....and nowhere near retirement. I do rider examinations (road tests), and I'm also one of a dozen demo riders contracted by the Ministry of Transportation to help train new examiners. I won't get rich doing that stuff, but I sure don't do it for the money.