Day Jobs?

I am a district manager for that large chain of discount big box stores. I am in a different store every day seeing how they are doing offering nothing but kind words of encouragement and love like all management does. The truth is that it's a pretty good job and I get to work with a lot of different people every day so it's usually interesting. One of the things I really enjoy about making knives is that after being with lot's of people all day, the shop is just me and everything and every body just drifts away when I'm working on a knife.
 
me im just a lowly Locksmith , been a professional for 26 year's ,before that i was persuing a job as a machinist. i can make anything given the "right tool's " many times i don't even need the "right tool's " i love making stuff, jig's , tool's , machines ,whatever . been making knives for about 10years from scratch , before that i would buy any / all i could afford and sharpen them clean them up ,occasionally take them apart . began Pounding about 3 years ago and will only stop when i have to. im a maker who eat's , breathes , sleep's knives . i make knives any chance i get beacuse i never know when the phone is going to ring and the person on the other end say's Help me im locked out of my car/ house / business/ whatever , sometimes it is you charge too much . i don't know what people expect to spend on a Professional at 3 am . i advertise all over the place and charge what i need to to stay afloat $ 1,500 per month is just the advertising . ok sorry i went into the "Rave mode" there i make knives beacuse i enjoy it.

Matt :)
 
I search and examine the title to real estate for a title insurance company (for twenty years now, unbelievable!). I research the public records at the county level looking for deeds, mortgages and other liens so I can prepare a commitment for a title insurance policy that outlines what has to be done in order to sell or mortgage a piece of property. Boring! Especially now that about 90 percent of our work is done sitting on our butts in front of a computer. I used to get out of the office at least two or three times a week to visit surrounding county's court houses, many of them are online now but at least I can keep tabs on the forums throuhout the day!:D (I also have a degree in history education and I may go back to that some day when my wife eventually gets her degree and the kids are in college. Don't know but since she would also be working in the school system it would be kinda neat if we both had summers off. Summers to travel and make knives but that's many years down the road!)
 
I recently started a new job after managing restaurants and bars for the last few years. I now sell construction equipment i.e. cranes, loaders, excavators, and dozers. I get all the benefits of scrounging materials of of job sites, but I don't have to do nearly as much work:) :D :) :)
Kyle Fuglesten
 
Originally posted by Gwinnydapooh
Hey, John, I went to college in Monmouth from '96-'00. I bet you learned more there than I did.
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Monmouth College, 1969-1971.
SAE fraternity, a spitting image of the circus portrayed in "Animal House". Skinny dipping in the Mississippi with a whole sorority.. now that was fun. The "Summer of Love" had finally hit the Midwest, and times were fun. At least I think they were...it's hard to remember. :D

I worked "day-labor" just one night at Wilson cleaning hog debris...yuk.

Small world.
 
I was born and raised on a cattle ranch. Went off to college, went broke. Started working in the copper mines. I was a Crane Operator in a Solvent Extraction Plant, then a Plant Operator, then back to ranching then broke again, then back to the mines as a Plant Operator then I worked as a Heavy Equipment Mechanic (big dozers, bigger loaders, huge dump trucks, 190 and 240 ton capacity. Now I raise and stock rainbow trout for the New Mexico Dept. of Game and Fish in the South Western Quarter of NM. Gonna retire from this one it probably aint gonna get much better.
 
Started my working career at the age of 12 as the head chicken feeder at the egg ranch next door. This job usually took a couple hours each day, either before or after school but it was a 7 day a week job. Worked it for 6 years till I finished high school. Went to school after that for a year or two and majored in draft dodging but failed at that and eventually ended up in Nam in 69-70 with the 4th Inf Div.. Worked a number of construction related jobs but finally settled on being a carpenter for 25 years till I had a heart attack on the way home from work. Had by pass surgery shortly after that and 3 months later was back at work again. Things never seemed the same after that, it was hard enough being an older working carpenter but after the heart problems I was treated like a liability on the few jobs I was able to get after that. Basically the knife making came about 10 years ago and it did help out inbetween construction jobs. I decided to go full time knife about a year ago. Made alot more money pounding nails but never liked it, got something I love doing now so that makes up for the lack of money..
 
Laredo, you know Hyundai, Honda and Mercedes have plants in Alabama right? :confued: Come on down, but be prepared for the title of "Da#n Yankee" if you move down here. ;)
 
A SigEp?

You shouldn't even be posting to a GDI like me. :D

Did I get the dates wrong, or was Gibson Hall there when you were? They used to call it the Holiday Inn because it looked like a cheap one. It was right across the street from the gym. Now that whole area is the new fieldhouse and a new building with beautiful air-conditioned "quad suites" instead of the cinder block cells we knew and loved.

You probably also got to live in an actual fraternity house back in the day, which they can't do now. Got three dorms on the top of the hill overlooking the football field for SigEp, ATO and another one I can't remember. The sororities just have to live in dorm rooms like all the other girls, or at least they did when I was there. My wife was in the first "new" class of Alpha Xi Delta when they brought it back to MC in '99.

Small world indeed.
 
Also, I teach Humanities once night a week at the local community college. Architecture pays the bills, knifemakings satisfies the

And ya ll said my avatar didn't match my job.......:eek: ;)
 
I am electrical engineer, doing design work and managing R&D projects on UPS' (Uninteruptible Power Supplies) at the Houston Texas branch of a Japanese based multinational corporation. They also design and manufacture three-phase motors and the corresponding controllers at this facility. We do not repair microwave ovens and TV's here though. Previously, I worked in the R&D department of "the largest manufacturer of three-phase motor controllers in the southern hemisphere", located in a town of 50,000 in New Zealand. Yes, I did rescue many of the prototypes when we cleaned out our test lab.

I started making knives on my lunch hours, at my job in New Zealand. It seemed to be a better use fo my time than to surf the web or use my precious family time after work. It gives me a good break from the crap that I have to deal with in my job. Sometimes, I feel as if I am working in a daycare facility or a zoo (see www.newtechusa.com/ppi/main.asp for a laugh). My co-worker's reactions to my hobby range from "are you going to kill someone with that?" to "cool, let me know how it turns out". It helps that the guy in the cubicle accross from me forged a sword when he was a teenager. They are all surprised when I tell them that I am making them for my wife. They are even more surprised when they find out that they are made to her design.

Phil
 
Originally posted by Gwinnydapooh
A SigEp?

You shouldn't even be posting to a GDI like me. :D

Did I get the dates wrong, or was Gibson Hall there when you were? They used to call it the Holiday Inn because it looked like a cheap one. It was right across the street from the gym. Now that whole area is the new fieldhouse and a new building with beautiful air-conditioned "quad suites" instead of the cinder block cells we knew and loved.

You probably also got to live in an actual fraternity house back in the day, which they can't do now. Got three dorms on the top of the hill overlooking the football field for SigEp, ATO and another one I can't remember. The sororities just have to live in dorm rooms like all the other girls, or at least they did when I was there. My wife was in the first "new" class of Alpha Xi Delta when they brought it back to MC in '99.

Small world indeed.
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Actually, the Sigma Phi Epsilon was a different fraternity. The one I was in was Sigma Alpha Epsilon. It's long gone. We got put on social probation after several "incidents": toga/fondue party, a girl got burned mildly when a fondue pot got upset onto her leg. They didn't like the fact we had a keg on each floor and naked girls wrapped in sheets dancing. :) (Moral of that story: drunken/high frat boys should not take a drunk, naked girl wrapped in a sheet to the infirmary for a first degree burn! :D) Several guys and some Theta Chi boys decided to have a panty raid and ended up nearly pushing the grand piano off the balcony of a girl's dorm facing the student union. Stuff like that ended up eventually having the chapter die. We didn't like Sig Eps.. too studious and upright, and like the stereotype of nerd frats. We were whacknuts by comparison, a weird mix of jocks and hippies. A true party house.

We had the middle house in that three-dorm frat complex. I was the breakfast short-order cook in the college-supplied three house kitchen my last trimester there, having worked my way up from floor-swabbing to pots-and-pan washing to dishwasher and finally cook. Slinging hash was one of my most enjoyable jobs ever. At that time it was Sig Ep, SAE, and TKE. ATO was in an actual house across campus, the "jocks". These were the days when stuff happened like a professor of psychology would walk around a campus music festival giving unknowing people a slug off his wine bottle, secretly loaded with LSD, so he could observe the effects. I think you probably attended a somewhat less raucous Monmouth College than I did..... :)

Gibson was there when I was. The library went up that last year I was there. The college was broke paying for it, so they gutted many programs of professors, including the chemistry department and my advisor. I left. I both loved and hated that place.
 
I haven't had this good a laugh in days, since Bruce droped his last- nearly finished blade.

I'm retired now, so I'm just a full time husband, full time father, full time grandfather, full time silversmith, full time author, full time lecturer - and I'm a full time apprentice brane surgion- learning from the master brane B.B.

Harry
 
Originally posted by fitzo
Monmouth College, 1969-1971.
SAE fraternity, a spitting image of the circus portrayed in "Animal House". Skinny dipping in the Mississippi with a whole sorority.. now that was fun. The "Summer of Love" had finally hit the Midwest, and times were fun. At least I think they were...it's hard to remember. :D

I worked "day-labor" just one night at Wilson cleaning hog debris...yuk.

Small world.
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fitzo,they didn't even get you broken in! Hey,was that on the kill floor,or where did they have you doing cleanup? Yes,an 800 classification for a newbie is pretty tough! Yep,it is a small world! I still have a bunch of pals there.
 
kill floor, one night, buzzed (I was not a "good" boy). ghastly! :)

Have another Wilson connection. I have a rich cousin who has been a chief financial officer for a number of companies. His specialty was union busting. First was Wilson, then United Airlines, then Donnelly Publications. Doesn't go over too well in a hardcore pro-union blue collar family. :(
 
I work as a driller on an oil/gas drilling rig. Right now the rig I work on is in north Misissippi, but most of my work has been in south Louisiana and southeast Texas. I also spent two years in southwest Florida drilling wastewater injection wells.

Todd
 
Another lowly locksmith here. I understand Matt's raving. I get bugged when people who live in houses and drive cars I can only dream about complain that they can't afford to pay my prices. And I'm always amazed that they seem to think that the money they just paid me to open their car goes directly into MY pocket. ("Wow, fifty bucks for thirty seconds work - I'm in the wrong business!") One wonders whether they think the checker in the grocery store gets to put the hundred bucks they just spent on groceries in HIS pocket. I suspect not.

Of course, business is so bad, I'm down to working half days - twelve hours instead of twenty four!:D
 
Originally posted by fitzo
Yer scaring me, Nick. :D Not about what ya do, but IF I ever rented a skinflick (I don't) and I suddenly realized it's someone I know....:barf:...maybe you should do it like they did in the 50's and 60's and wear a disguise..
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I used to wear a disquise.:eek:
 
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