This is my "Day Job". What do YOU do?

Retired US Navy officer (Surface Warfare), followed by 9.5 years in the computer industry (until my job was shipped off to China). I currently make it more affordable for folks to use attorneys. If I said much more than that, for any one to understand it, my explanation would sound like a sales pitch, which would be infractionable and I hesitate to be infracted. :D

I've also been a Volunteer EMT/Firefighter for 26 years. In Texas, "volunteer" means we do it for free, and we're crazy enough to like it. My future truck farm is still trying to transition from "massive garden" stage to the "economically productive" stage. And I do a bunch of stuff that could make me money if I ever get good enough at it.
 
I'm a printer and graphic designer.
I currently print for a large medical company and run their only print shop.
I'm responsible for all the paperwork you get at one of our events.

I've been in print since about '93 and I must like it because I broker and print as my side job too. I mix it up a bit and started making sketchbooks and journals and selling art supplies. I would like to make THAT my day job.
 
I train horses and teach people to ride them (often teaching them how to ride their own horses!). Arena work (academic figures), trails, jumping, and some cattle work. My favorite part is training horses for historical reenactment, which gives me the opportunity to use 18h century weapons, including blackpowder firearms, from the saddle. Last week I worked two horses within 200 yards of a 30-pound field gun going off before going after ranks of musket-firing infantry. Those horses are still getting the hang of it ☺.

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Rupestris said:
I am a product specialist and trainer in the automotive paint business. My job is to make sure your car comes out of a body shop looking like it did before the accident and not like this:

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Oh, man. I love these pictures!

No, really. I'm in the automobile industry myself (dealership), and I quickly learned to adapt Bernard Levine's knife advice to the procession of vehicles in front of me: Read the vehicle, not just its paperwork ([lack of] accident history, auction condition report, body shop bill, etc....).

I enjoy "reading cars" to determine what has gone So Wrong, so your images are stand-outs! :D

[One of my favorites: a hail-damaged truck that a body shop's "fix" damaged far more than the initial hail....]

~ P.
 
Data modeler/analytics. I was an IT guy (mostly database) for many years but with the boom in analytics, my Applied Math degree has actually become desirable. I had a hard time finding a job after I graduated, not many folks were looking for Applied Math majors in the early/mid 90s. Math + computers = fun!
 
I've been in power generation for about 13 years, currently I am a Wind Turbine Technician.

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~Chip
 
The bulk of my working career was the U.S. Navy - 24 years (1965 -1989).

My first ship was the USS Henley (DD 762) - a Destroyer (Tin Can or Small Boy in Navy lingo).

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My last ship was the USS Ranger (CV61) - an Aircraft Carrier (Bird Farm in Navy lingo).

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After retiring from the Navy, I worked at a shipyard as a Marine Electrician and finished up my working career at the local power and gas company in San Diego, CA in the Heavy Diesel Garage working on, repairing, and certifying fiberglass booms and related pieces of equipment on vehicles in order to ensure that they did not conduct electricity.
 
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After 22yrs in the Army and recently retired after a further 20yrs as a police officer my day job now is walking/playing with my bonkers Alaskan Malamute, sitting on my backside watching films and serving the net, so basically not a lot or whatever I want, its great being out of public service :cool:
 
I am a product specialist for a weather based/ web based irrigation controller manufacturer. I get paid to take walks in parks and trouble shoot irrigation systems.
 
My day job is usually at night. I manage a restaurant. My most rewarding jobs are being a mommy to 4 kitties and my volunteer work. I volunteer on a communications team and another team at the emergency operations center. I also volunteer at church helping maintain the grounds, as an alter server, rosary maker, and this fall I'll be joining the Eucharistic ministry serving the sick and home bound.
 
Criminal defense attorney.

I was in solo private practice for about 5 years, then went in house as a public defender. Felonies.
 
I am the shop foreman of a machine shop owned by my mother and father in law. We specialize in fast turnaround, small batch, tight tolerance work. Cutting metal is awesome!

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Dept of the Navy civilian in IT. Sometimes it is a lot of fun, sometimes it is quite boring. I was active duty navy for 9 years, a contractor for another 7.
 
I do short term technician and consulting type jobs on ecology and conservation projects, starting my next job with mosquito control in a week. My last job was oversight of Sandy debris removal of a wildlife refuge, before that I worked with the Delaware Bay Shorebird Project doing horseshoe crab egg density surveys. I also spend my time working on personal projects in entomology focusing on wasps.

I also work as a manager at a Drive-In movie theater, my job is to fix up the joint and keep the riffraff out, I mean seriously nasty people in every way. I have stories that makes People of Walmart look high class.

I also Substitute teach when I feel I can deal with it.
 
I am on my last week of highschool. After this, I will begin my career as a farrier.
 
My day job is lying in bed, wishing I was sleeping. Sometimes, I even manage to do it.
At night - healthcare.
 
I work in the parts department at a car dealership, so not very exciting. It's nice to know there are others in my field out there. I like the brand I work for but I'll never be able to afford one. Even if I could, I would get something different ;)

And since I loooove working so much, I have a second job in a furniture store warehouse at nights and on Saturdays. It sucks....
 
Rupestris said:
I am a product specialist and trainer in the automotive paint business. My job is to make sure your car comes out of a body shop looking like it did before the accident and not like this:
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Operations management in a CNC aerospace machine shop, small family owned business.
Been in manufacturing/engineering/operations most of my life, except for a period where I (along with family) owned and operated 3 auto collision shops,
Dupont. Akzo, Sherwin, used them all :-)
 
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