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KLin

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Feb 29, 2000
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Originally posted by: Ausm
Originally posted by: Squisher
Die repairman at a forge.

I work in the Axle department now. I call it industrial mountain climbing.

I crawl down 10-12 feet into the Upsetter using the tooling as footfalls, everything is covered in oil and water. You have to contort yourself to get down to where the axles are made.

You're squeezed in there surrounded by tooling that's about 200F, steam coming off everything. Normally you spend 10 minutes down there refurbishing the tooling, but you might spend 45 minutes down there if you're having problems getting a broken bolt out.

Great pay though.



Hopefully nobody hits the "on" button when you are down there ;)

Ausm

Hopefully he uses the lock out/tag out safety method for working on machinery.
 

Freejack2

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Dec 31, 2000
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Porno movie producer.
And to think I started out as the mop guy for the viewing booths at the adult book store. One day I started talking with this guy about the qualities of Debbie does Dallas. Who knew he owned a porno movie production company.
 

MacBaine

Banned
Aug 23, 2001
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Full time student, parttime campus security, parttime soldier. In 2 years I will be a fulltime soldier.
 

DJFuji

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Oct 18, 1999
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You know, i just wasted the last 15 or 20 minutes reading through what could be essentially summed up as 100+ posts of people coming up with different ways to say they're either 1) a programmer, or 2) network support/admin. =) Should have had a poll.

That being said, the federal government pays me to kill people.

In peanuts.

Oh yeah, and i'm also a software/data-enterprise-analyst-developer-architect-programmer. =)
 

Parkeshub

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Oct 11, 2004
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I design software for a freight forwarder...and get roped into fixing PCs around the place.

B4 that...manager of the Sydney branch of a hardware repair company

B4 that...repair tech fixing switch modes and monitors

B4 that....hardware designer of comms equipment...

B4 that......
 

BCYL

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Jun 7, 2000
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For the past couple of years: Software Developer for a small company
Now: Systems Analyst for a large consulting firm
 

anno

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I'm a mother. round the clock day in day out for 20.5 years. the pay is lousy but it's been a fairly rewarding career. I'm gonna retire from that sometime after the first of the year and lord knows what I'm going to do next.. I figure I'll start with trying to return to low-midlevel state paperpushing, because that's what I did before.. and I was darned good at it. :p don't need to make a lot of money.. mostly just need something to do, and enough money to cover the younger kid's room and board expenses and pay someone to clean the house once in a while because I'm mighty tired of doing it.. anything beyond that will just be fun :).