Beckerhead Jobs

Right now I am doing Foreclosure Inspections.. It's keepin' my nose above water until something permanent comes along. Hopefully be taking an armed guard course in a couple months, or I catch a break somewhere else..
 
Moosez45 said:
Well, since this thread started, I haven't had anything to contribute.

Now I do.

As of today, I am an industrial electrician performing facility and mechanical maintenance at a powdered metal facility.

Yay me!

Moose
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Congrats Moose!
 
I am a 911 Dispatcher - was also working for a vision insurance company doing customer services but on Thursday they did ye olde organizational changes and out I went.

It might make a pleasant change tho, I was working two full time jobs for 2 years, I will have to find something else pretty soon though.

Still blessed to have the other job though
 
I work for a catholic hospital in southeast tn . I work on the supply side of the OR so I get all kinds of goodies that they throw away .
 
Retired from the army after 27 years of service (23 years ago) and from a small (very small) business about ten years ago. Live in a 110 year old farmhouse which falls apart faster than I can fix it, mow about 5 acres of grass all summer, cut firewood all winter, do triathlons, hunt, play with knives and spend time with grandkids when possible. Also in to old British cars but have not found time for that in several years now. Life is good.
 
Col Defender said:
Retired from the army after 27 years of service
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Thank you for your service. :thumbup: And the same goes for all of you current & former military folks here. :thumbup:

I'm a stay-at-home dad right now; started this gig in 2006. I wish I could say it was for noble purposes, but it was mainly because taxes were killing us financially. The good part was it allowed me to spend a lot more time with my son, I got to lead a Cub Scout Pack, and spend a lot of time at his school. Couldn't ask for any greater blessings than those.

I'm re-entering the workforce here soon, it'll be interesting to see what comes up in the next few months.

~Chris
 
Better the farmhouse falling apart than you falling apart!

Col Defender said:
Retired from the army after 27 years of service (23 years ago) and from a small (very small) business about ten years ago. Live in a 110 year old farmhouse which falls apart faster than I can fix it, mow about 5 acres of grass all summer, cut firewood all winter, do triathlons, hunt, play with knives and spend time with grandkids when possible. Also in to old British cars but have not found time for that in several years now. Life is good.
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Captain Airyca said:
How do you like dispatch? It's it rewarding?
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It can be, depends what agency you work for, I'm in a large center for the CHP we dispatch for 6 counties and sometimes the calls are hard to hear like horses or animals in big rigs screaming due to a TC or kids crying due to domestic stuff.

Most times we won't know the final outcome which can affect some people but for the most part I don't let much bother me.

I consider it a career more than a job, I don't just serve the public, most of my job is making sure the guys & girls on the road go home safe at the end of their shift.

As a dispatcher your the eye of the storm, your taking 911 calls whilst talking to field units and allied agencies, doing 5 things at once and in control if it all.

I've worked radios with 60 field units on it and each one of them needing something at the same time, it's a rush :)

One thing that always gets me though is that people do not know where they are! Street and cross street, I've taken calls from people who want jack in the box closed down coz they forgot a chicken strip and even one guy who bought $10 worth of cocaine gave his dealer a $20 didn't get his change so he wanted us to arrest his dealer AND get his money back for him....
 
Luke. said:
One thing that always gets me though is that people do not know where they are! Street and cross street, ...
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And it's not just civilians! I was involved with EMS for 17 years, and it always amazed me that State Troopers, WHO PATROL THAT STRETCH OF THE INTERSTATE, have no clue where they are! You can excuse a traveler from out of state, but someone who drives that section all day, every day? They'd call in an accident "eastbound at exit 16..." and inevitably it would really be westbound at exit 15. :rolleyes: We learned never to commit the ambulance to the entrance ramp until the location was verified.

Capt: I see you've asked twice about dispatch. From the folks I know it is a fairly thankless job, and you are the "forgotten" member of the link. I was a Critical Incident Stress Peer councilor (like PTSD) for many years, working with emergency response folks who had bad calls. Even in the training we were told to ALWAYS include the dispatcher in our interventions.
There is lots of frustration with the job, knowing the sh*t that's going on on the other side of the microphone, but not being able to do anything but sit in the dark room and dispatch. The Rescue Personallity wants you to go out and FIX IT, but the job won't let you. It certainly isn't a job for everybody.
Oh, and didn't I tell you? The pay sucks! :D
 
Doc_Savage said:
As a knife toting Boyscout, scoutmaster if you must, I have to protest the display of geodo-anchor equipment....


Oh... I've been a surveyor for over 40 years.... And a professional (registered) land surveyor for over 26 years....

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The Geodimeter guns can be a pain in the butt for sure, some people just love them to death though. These days I mainly just change internal batteries and calibrate them.
40 years in the industry! I guess you have seen a few changes in equipment over that time.. :p
 
K9-Handler said:
It certainly isn't a job for everybody.
Oh, and didn't I tell you? The pay sucks! :D
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LOL I hearya K9 on the units not knowing where there at either.

Pay depends on where you are, highest I've seen is Belmont PD in Marin county $80,000 per year
 
I'm a freelance Architect. I mainly do computer rendering and batch autoCAD for firms all over the world. I work in 3ds Max, Rhino, Revit and tons of Photoshop. Here is a quick sketch study I did this morning of a facade design for a building sited in NYC (the project is a new cathedral). I used mainly photshop for this one (It looks kinda wonky because it's only a sketch and I had 15min to get it done):

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mckrob said:
Not a beckerhead yet, but I'm a Professional Geophysicist (P.Geo.) working in mineral exploration and I have a small consulting company. I've been at it for almost 20 years now and still love my job, it's taken me to some of the remotest places on the planet. I mainly do gravity and magnetic surveys.

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Nothing like getting paid to walk in the woods!
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Awesome job!
 
Former civilian LE, now Fed LE with DVA.....and a Army Reserve Warrant Officer (MP Corps).

I think though I'd rather be a homeless transient.....but there's no money in that line of work.
 
My current employment has no pay but the rewards are great! I'm a Dad. That's what I do, all day, every day!
 
Luke. said:
It can be, depends what agency you work for, I'm in a large center for the CHP we dispatch for 6 counties and sometimes the calls are hard to hear like horses or animals in big rigs screaming due to a TC or kids crying due to domestic stuff.

Most times we won't know the final outcome which can affect some people but for the most part I don't let much bother me.

I consider it a career more than a job, I don't just serve the public, most of my job is making sure the guys & girls on the road go home safe at the end of their shift.

As a dispatcher your the eye of the storm, your taking 911 calls whilst talking to field units and allied agencies, doing 5 things at once and in control if it all.

I've worked radios with 60 field units on it and each one of them needing something at the same time, it's a rush :)

One thing that always gets me though is that people do not know where they are! Street and cross street, I've taken calls from people who want jack in the box closed down coz they forgot a chicken strip and even one guy who bought $10 worth of cocaine gave his dealer a $20 didn't get his change so he wanted us to arrest his dealer AND get his money back for him....
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THank you for the responses. I haven't been on the forum much, but I've been trying to read when I can. There is a dispatch job in my town that makes very good money/benefits I am on the fence about applying for, any experience you have to share is very kind.
 
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