What's your day job?

I used to make othhopaedic shoes, turned 40 and asked myself if that is what I wanted for the rest of my life.

Now I'm a "professor" and teach science&technology.

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It's the kind of place where you build a working trebuchet with children and shoot tennisballs 50/60 feet and then explain why/how it works.

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Retired at fifty, hated job and federal law enforcement has the clause of age 50 with 20 years. I had 26 years at age 50 and took my half pay. My job was helping people relocate to their home countries when convicted of a crime, actually, I searched for them. I supplement my retirement with knives and fixing things, my original calling working with hands. At age 30, decided I was going to retire at 50 and invested, paid everything off. Ain't rich, ain't poor, extremely happy 3.5 years into retirement.
Have to admit, I probably lose money on knife making but it is so much fun.
 
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We try to do all our ranchwork in the day time. Ya go looking for those black cattle at night and they are tough to find!

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Oh and some leather work too. This went to Hoss:

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And then we do some leather work:

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Oh and make knives too:

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Substations and power lines, I'm within days of being eligible to retire, but might be a little young still. Have an electrical contractor business too, but I try not to do much work for myself.
 
Spent many years at different jobs, and learned a good bit from all of them. Welding as first job out of college, then industrial electrician. After that I moved into I&E engineering, then to management, then back to contract chemical plant I&E engineering/design. Finally to the best job ever - RETIREMENT!!

This is an interesting thread - thanks for posting.
 
These "day job" threads always remind what a huge information resource across many disciplines this forum allows us to access. Community!
I am really happy I came back here first once the interest returned.
 
My work is mostly sitting at a computer, doing simulations of chemistry. Knifemaking is a hobby that you can take in different directions and learn a variety of skills working with all sorts of materials. My projects are mostly too tedious and time consuming to ever be worth selling. Don't quit your day job as they say...
 
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