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Currently I'm a manager for a big box retailer.

Previously I was a:
Arabic Cryptologic Linguist
Manager at a gas station
Sandwich artist
and a few other things...

Lab tech/phlebotomist at a small community health center.

I run my own little scaffolding business. Truly love working for myself!

I actually have a small GW related claim to fame! I erected the scaffolding that was used to help create the Rhino GW has on their new WD!

click the link and check the vid. (please note I'm the younger guy!

http://www.mscaffolding.co.uk/

Boar

first job was front desk clerk/bell hop - extra minimum wage (5.25 at the time)

was an over night stock person while in the delayed entry program

air traffic controller while in the Marines

got stuck in the safety office for the last 4 months of term and decided to major in Environmental Management(EPA) and Occupational Safety and Health(OSHA).

almost done with said degrees, only associate science degrees though. planning to transfer and get a bachelors in rock collecting(geology). Found out I do not like to stay indoors after doing the air traffic control thing. I have 22 months or so left on the GI Bill and I plan on using it up.

I work in IT field in University...

I have been a Concierge,porter,receptionist,valet and trans Atlantic communications device operator for the last 11 years at my local Hotel/casino and I love it, it's a great job for a great company and like a lot of people I enjoy meeting such a diverse range of people and dealing with a range of problems and ideas and bringing them to fruition so everyone is happy

I am a student. I study in MBA Finance...

I turn stuff off and on again for the council.

After the Gubment cuts shut down my department, and the foreign owners of my employer refused to acknowledge my part of the country, I 'branched out' a bit.

Networking is boring at this level :(
It has nothing on virus-splatting and signal herding.

I'm the senior technician at a secondary school and thinking of becoming a teacher because I quite like working with kids. God what's wrong with me?

 Howard A Treesong wrote:
I'm the senior technician at a secondary school and thinking of becoming a teacher because I quite like working with kids. God what's wrong with me?

You like not making money obviously...

I could have sworn I had replied in here before, but I just went through all 7 pages and didn't see a post.

11 years in the US Air Force, so far. I've spent all of it as a Weather Forecaster.

djones520 wrote:
I could have sworn I had replied in here before, but I just went through all 7 pages and didn't see a post.

11 years in the US Air Force, so far. I've spent all of it as a Weather Forecaster.

This is at least the third different thread on the subject that I've seen since joining Dakka, so it might have been a different thread. Thank you for your service.

I have a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering and a Black Belt in Lean Six Sigma and work as a Process Engineer in a manufacturing plant. Love it.

 KalashnikovMarine wrote:

 AustonT wrote:
You could always be a mad scientist FOR the army

DARPA has all the cool toys a decade before anyone else knows said toys are even theoretically possible

I'm currently at university studying physics, my dream is to work for DARPA

I fix escalators.

But...an escalator can never break. It can only become stairs!

meh, i'll play too.

I was a Satellite Communications tech in the Air Force (only 3 years, boo bum leg)

When I got out I joined the local IBEW for sound and communications, became a journeyman status for Installer, went into project management.

Then I hopped back into a field tech (WG-11) for the Department of Veterans affairs, then got promoted to my current position as a Physical Security Specialist GS-11 (security electronics really)

and I am waiting to hear back from the US Geological Service about a position back as a Satellite Communications tech in the civil service field working on the seismic research program for Northern California.

oh yea, I go back to school end of this month to continue to get my Electrical engineering degree.

 kronk wrote:
But...an escalator can never break. It can only become stairs!

Mitch?! I thought you died D:

I work for the Cafeteria on my Campus. Hours are nice, People are nice, work is good. But my boss is scatterbrained. I have had to give him my schedule 3 times every semester. This last time he formulated my schedule when i asked him what time im working.
And I only get money 8 months out of the year.

 kronk wrote:
But...an escalator can never break. It can only become stairs!

They do, but I basicaly have a job because most shoppers turn round and walk out instead of taking the stairs, or even use a lift...so people who own shops with moving stairs pay money to keep them running, due to health n safety escalators are not fit for public use unless moving due to each step bieng to high..hence my monies for fixing them, to be honest, most of the time I walk into a shop when closed, open the escalator, and surf dakka..they dont break often, but I get paid to make sure they dont.

I could not do a normal job, 9_5, same place, same time...would bore me to death, instead I get to travel the country, plus the money is good..its a easy, but unsocial job with long hours and 1000+ miles a week on the road, but I manage myself to a degree which is cool, but liable in court for injury or death to public due to neglect, so responsibility too. Believe it or not, there is a guy on youtube who rides escalators and films it, and advertisement companys pay him to advertise, lol..i was like wtf.

Recently promoted to a multi-national security operations specialist for a Fortune 500 company.

 Alfndrate wrote:

 Howard A Treesong wrote:
I'm the senior technician at a secondary school and thinking of becoming a teacher because I quite like working with kids. God what's wrong with me?

You like not making money obviously...

Actually, I believe European teachers make more than ours. America is the only first-world country to treat teachers like crap. It's one of the things that's seriously wrong with us.

Materials inspector for construction sites. Mainly concrete. I make sure the roads and bridges don't crack under the weight of your tires.

I also haven't worked in like two weeks. It's just too cold to pour concrete. Not the greatest situation.

 timetowaste85 wrote:

 Alfndrate wrote:

 Howard A Treesong wrote:
I'm the senior technician at a secondary school and thinking of becoming a teacher because I quite like working with kids. God what's wrong with me?

You like not making money obviously...

Actually, I believe European teachers make more than ours. America is the only first-world country to treat teachers like crap. It's one of the things that's seriously wrong with us.

And there's my jumping on point. I've been a teacher for the last few years. Dear Lord how I have become more bitter and cynical since I began teaching. It's not the students, mind you, but the parents who don't want to have anything to do with the school and the administrative staff who operate on the level of inept football coaches rather than professionals. This is doubly true in many of the school districts in PLA (persistently low-achieving) status, which are the districts most in need of strong leadership and community-wide involvement.

That being the case, I've been doing interviews to get into entry-level drug rehabilitation work with an eye toward getting a master's in social work once I get my foot in the door. Fingers crossed....

Id love a job shaving beavers, dam.

rustproof wrote:
Id love a job shaving beavers, dam.

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