What is your job

Painted houses inside and out for 20+ years but never totally quit messing with steel since the 70's
 
Pinoy Knife said:
i am a professional Locksmith .not one of these fly by night type of guy's but the real deal .been doing so for 28 years . i don't mean to sound "Touchy" there are many out there who use my "Tittle" and bring Shame to it .
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interesting , my family has owned a family locksmith business, for over probably fifty years. my grandfather was a cop, and started the locksmith shop out as a side business, filing keys out by hand in his basement.

somehow i ended up a union bricklayer, and a daddy to 3 of the best children the good lord ever blessed this world with.
 
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Usually I tell people my primary job is houswife:) But seriously for the past year I have been staying home working around the house, I do the farming thing on a small scale. We have horses, chickens, a garden and do a sort of co opp thing with beef and pork. I spend all my free time making knives. I also do some blacksmith work but that is more dependant on when there is work to do.
 
I'm a portfolio manager. I trade, and oversee the management of several large institutional bond funds representing the retirement savings of hundreds of thousands of workers and retirees across the country. There are days I trade close to a billion dollars worth of bonds and I can make or lose a few million bucks for my clients in an afternoon. Then I go home and, after putting the girls to bed, retire to the workshop where I make 40 cents an hour making knives and freak out when I wreck a $30 piece of stag. :)
 
I'm a property insurance claims adjuster- when a tree falls on the house, I go write the checks.
 
I supervise a digital processing group at a database company...pretty much the polar opposite of knifemaking.
 
I'm a software engineer. My degree is in electrical engineering, but I liked writing code more so have been employed in software since graduating college
 
self employed Goldsmith, (not much business here in Syracuse where everyone spends more time unemployed than working) have been commercial photographer (20+ years) aluminum fabricator, actor, musician, college adjunct professor, contractors assistant (grunt) prep chef, jap bike mechanic, autobody repair tech, and violin teacher. If the interview next week goes well I will be an engineers assistant (grunt) in a metallurgy lab.

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well my real full time job is trying to maintain being a husband for 30+ years, :D DAD to two boys now grown,
it all started
making Knives in the Navy during the Vietnam war, ( active for 3 years on a 3x3, trade MR rating but worked mostly as a diesel mechanic for the 3 years - enginemen,
once discharged, Construction for a short time, then machine and tool, then tool maker, hence the Navy MR. rating..
for a few years.. then as the main automotive mechanic for the family bis for 9 years,, then in ~ 85 went full time from my part time small engine business at home ( over lap here) that in time turned in to a multy dealership for Stihl, Jonsered, Poulan , Mcculouch, Lawnboy and logging supplies and so on.. kicked my but in gear about 9 years ago pushing knives went full time in knives about 7 years or so ago got out of the drag rrrr I mean 24-7 mind warp of business and now in the last two or so, considering myself retired with a great hobby
I never got paid a lot but I was home for the kid most of the time where as the shop and home was in the same place .....
Now
I do what ever the hell I want to :D
when my joints and Migraines let me..
 
My official title is "Lab Systems Leader". Fancy title for "working foreman" as I knew it doing construction. Primarily electrical control work but anything the group needs to do. Lab safety systems to plunging the toilets.
 
I went to work in petroleum and mineral exploration in 1968 after getting out of the Army (4 years, Honorable Discharge). I stayed with that for 15 years, then went back to school and got 2&3/4 degrees in Geology and have worked as a geologist for the last 20 years.

I work for a state agency that oversees the gas and oil industry full time. I also do some work as a consultant in precious metals mining.

I am a part time knifemaker, which I have been doing for the last eight years. I forged my first knife in 1963 in high school, but only seldom had any time to do any more until 2000.

I was married for 20 years and raised 2 kids and have 2 grand children.

I have been peacefully single for the last 14 years, nothing is my fault anymore...

Like Fitzo my life has been enhanced by chemistry.
 
Union Iron worker (I'll second that :cool:)
Knife mangler
scavenger of all things metal (and shiny)
small upstart with energy independence and leading the working class into revolution!!!
 
Police Officer since 1984, currently Detective Sergeant.
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