What's everyone do...for a living?

n20capri · Post by **n20capri** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 9:16 pm

I'm a marketing acquisitions coordinator for a direct mail company...I also do web/graphics design on the side...

I also work on cars on occasion. I used to detail too but haven't in a while...I have to start doing that again...I miss it...

Sandy · Post by **Sandy** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 11:06 pm

1952-1965 Public School
1965-1969 Temple University / Center City / Phila. Pa. Bus. Adm.
1969-1979 Sold Cars
In this order:-
Dodge to Chevy to Ford to ICP (Imperial Chrysler Plymouth) to Subaru to Pontiac to Oldsmobile & back to Dodge
_______________________________________________
1979 - Bought Pizzeria/Lunchenette with partner
1981 - Sold Business.
1982- Opened my own used car lot and bought the land.
1984- Sold the land & made a killing.
1985-1999 - Bought & sold Houses for profit. Did 23 houses.
2000 - Retired at age 53, and loving it.

lightning95sc · Post by **lightning95sc** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 1:04 am

Sandy, you are my hero. I'm working toward following a similar path to your post 1979 path, right down to the retirement age(I'm 41,now).
Anyway, during the day I'm the transportation manager for my local Health Department(Detroit) and in the evening and on weekends I build cars. Chuck

eric5oh · Post by **eric5oh** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 2:57 am

Nothing glamorous here. IBEW Local #134 Electrician Chicago.

mustang marty · Post by **mustang marty** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 2:59 am

Since leaving college in 1989, my career has been in computers. Currently, I am a regional systems manager (IT) for a national civil engineering firm. I have been with my current company for 12 years next month.

Before that, I worked on cars in a local service station (where are those today?). I always tell people that I was a car mechanic before I was a computer 'mechanic'

75coug · Post by **75coug** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 3:40 am

Retired at 53? Sandy, you are my hero. I suspect that I'll be slaving away at my job until I'm 70 or dead, whichever comes first.

I am the site's representative evil lawyer. Every group has to have a black sheep.

Marty, if that firm of yours ever needs legal help in Texas, give me a call. I do a lot of construction litigation (I have no doubt both represented and sued your competitors), in addition to commercial litigation and insurance defense, and dabble in a few other areas.

bryan · Post by **bryan** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 3:49 am

Well then, so far then we have a used car salesman, a lawyer and a public relations person (me)... sounds like the start of a joke. I do product launches and media relations, primarily for a startup dot com for buying, selling and trading, selling gift cards.

ponydude · Post by **ponydude** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 12:34 pm

I'm the Maintenance Supervisor in a manufacturing firm specializing in components for fiber optic cable.
I am married, but have a very understanding wife and two grown sons.

Sandy · Post by **Sandy** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 2:09 pm

I'll tell you, I'm 58 and bored silly. I'd love to go back to work. I found out that working gives life some meaning that is lost (empty feeling) when you have no place to head out to every day. Retirement is grand for 18 months, then like a beard, it's get itchy.
But... I was never part of the computer generation and I am computer illiterate !! Every job today requires computer knowledge, which I don't have.
I feel (here in the North-East) that the real estate market is topped off and prices going high, with raising interst rates is gonna make buying & selling real estate FOR PROFIT a risky business for the forseeable future.

I scanned the want ads and the best job I could find (will not go back to selling cars - had enough abuse for 2 lifetimes) .... best job I could find was cashier at a local car wash. Pays $12,000 a year, gross. $9,000 net.
It's good because no quotias to meet, no deadlines, no pressure, no computers!! Those who graduated college prior to 1965 and up to 1976 are at a dissadvantage as they never had any formal computer training.

svo413 · Post by **svo413** » Thu Feb 10, 2005 5:05 pm

81-83 I did aprenticeship at a local garage. I learned a lot about fixing with the right tools while going to college full time.
83-03 I worked as a field engineer for the semiconductor equipment business. I travel extensively (weekly) and became really good at it. It's mostly mechanical with robotics and electronics. Moved to CA for my company in 99 only to get laid-off in 2003.
03-05 I started my own business doing the same work and not having to travel more than 25 miles. I got busy and had to hire some helpers. I get phone cals from FL and now China asking for help on the equipment.

I was starting to think about retirement back in 99 but the divorce and stock market wiped me out. Cars are what I do for fun. I just hope they never stop being fun because then I'll have to pay someone to fix them.

bigzeke42 · Post by **bigzeke42** » Fri Feb 18, 2005 6:12 pm

I'm a retired union painter. Was in the union for 34 years and retired in 2000 at age 57 and love it. Do a little painting around town from time to time but nothing big.

jeremymccurdy · Post by **jeremymccurdy** » Mon Feb 21, 2005 9:37 pm

I run two branches of a Personal Training company and carry my own clientele of 40+...

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 4:08 am

Man, I came late to this game. I am an Explosive Ordnance Disposal Tech. in the Air Force. Basically we are the military's Bomb Squad although lately our mission has change in that we dispose mostly of Improvised Explosive Devices (IED's). If you watch FOX news or CNN and hear something about IED's being destroyed or something that is what I do. It's ALOT of fun but can be nerve racking sometimes. The best part is that I can retire at 44, but thats way down the road now as I am only 26.

Sandy · Post by **Sandy** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 11:30 am

When you go out, socially that is, in short order people begin playing the "...and WHAT do YOU DO ?" game. It doesn't take very long to put 2+2 together and realize as soon as you say that you sell cars, they feel it's mandatory to tell you about every car they ever owned, and what some salesman did to them 12 years ago and what happened to Uncle Joe when he bought his Pontiac downtown and what his neighbor told him about buying cars and is THAT really true and do you really save money by buying at the end of the model year and if so, how much and what happened to his car when he joined the army in 1973 and and and and and and........ All of which I really did not care to know ! So, to avoid verbally telling "what I did" {hate that phrase} I actually had "social" business cards made up, for just such an occasion !! They are very plain, all white, with my name in bold type, and underneath the coolest thing I ever wrote. It states:-

.INDEPENDENT TRANSPORTATION
CONSULTANT TO THE PRIVATE SECTOR.

They look at the card, and are too embarrased to inquire "What exactly is THAT" and they just say, "Oh" ! Conversatrion ended

Independent: I work for myself, I do not have a financial interest in the dealership
Transporation: Cars 'n Trucks
Consultant: The come in and Consult with me.
Private Sector: They are individuals; not corporations.

Not a lie in the sentence !

DaytonaTim · Post by **DaytonaTim** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 12:01 pm

80-86 Naval nuclear power plant operator

86-88 Attended West Virginia University studying Mechanical Engineering

89-2000 Finished Mech E. degree while working as a Process Design Eng. for the Dept. of Energy. I specialized in finite element design of energy research projects as well as conceptualization, design, drafting, and specification of research facilities.

95-2000 I designed and built the Daytona coupe you see in my icon picture

2000-2003 I worked in virtual reality simulation and visualization of engineering research data.

2003 - 2005 Finite element analysis of solid oxide fuel cell components...... Yeah.... someday we will replace your 350 Hp 5 Liter with a 260 KW fuel cell.........(BUT NOT IN MY LIFETIME).......

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