Peterson Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 I hire and manage programmers to build software for clients. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Circuitmage Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 Electronics engineer that doesn't work on electronics much, or do much engineering (except at home).....25 years at 10 different places....ranging from military/aerospace sub-contracting, semiconductor manufacturing, telecommunications, consumer electronics...and I even worked for the oil and gas industry for a couple years. This year I have gotten my fair share of playing with spreadsheets. 3 months sitting in front a computer collecting data is enough the kill your back. (corporate slave). 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Gasmantle Posted September 9, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted September 9, 2020 Retired railway signalman. Yep, I'm that guy you never see but who puts your train in a different platform just as you've carried all your luggage to where you think the train will arrive 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Scubadragonsan Posted September 9, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted September 9, 2020 (edited) 6 years in the Marine Corps, taught taichi for 10 years, retired after 25 years from PADI teaching scuba diving, full time hospital secretary.... 4 more years toward retirement....After retirement, teach people to ride EUCs?! Edited September 9, 2020 by scubadragosan 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Dgar Posted September 9, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted September 9, 2020 Quote 12 hours ago, Boogieman said: Have had a goal since young to be monetary independent before getting too old to travel and adventuring and to be able to work with whatever I want, when i want to. There is a life after 40 they say I'm turning 60 in a couple of months and I can tell you, there certain IS life after 40. 40 is when my life basically started...running marathons, rock climbing, camping and hiking. Of course 59 is when my EUC chapter started. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post orangekrushrider Posted September 9, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted September 9, 2020 On 9/8/2020 at 11:06 AM, Toshio Uemura said: Sounds a bit like there is no inherent value and satisfaction in work but money. I think “working my way to the grave” is not such a bad thing at all, as long as you love and enjoy what you are doing. 30 jobs in 30 years... still pondering on that 'inherent value' in work thing 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huxley Posted September 9, 2020 Share Posted September 9, 2020 3 hours ago, scubadragosan said: 6 years in the Marine Corps, taught taichi for 10 years, retired after 25 years from PADI teaching scuba diving, full time hospital secretary.... 4 more years toward retirement....After retirement, teach people to ride EUCs?! Six years reserve army, six years taba aikido. Did consider going for bsac and padi but backed off when I saw the price of the kit. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Liv2xplore Posted September 10, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted September 10, 2020 I'm a buyer for one of the largest industrial hose and fittings companies in the country. Been there for 15 years, started in the warehouse, moved through parts sales and am now a purchaser for 4 of our locations including our Alaska locations. A Government Sales position just opened up and since I used to do that before it was an official position I'll be applying for it tomorrow. Of course I'll only take it if there's a pay raise involved. No reason to take on more stress for less money. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainystateguy Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 4 minutes ago, Liv2xplore said: I'm a buyer for one of the largest industrial hose and fittings companies in the country. Been there for 15 years, started in the warehouse, moved through parts sales and am now a purchaser for 4 of our locations including our Alaska locations. A Government Sales position just opened up and since I used to do that before it was an official position I'll be applying for it tomorrow. Of course I'll only take it if there's a pay raise involved. No reason to take on more stress for less money. We are practically neighbors. I am in Centralia. Best of luck with the job change and pay increase. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redfoxdude Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 (edited) I'm an electrical engineer for a product development/consulting company. We're kind of like the engineering version of ghostwriters. Edited September 10, 2020 by redfoxdude 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Boivin Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 Landscaping and construction laborer, doing a distance ed course in electromechanical. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PLEASE_DELETE Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 (edited) Deleted. Edited March 18 by PLEASE_DELETE 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike_bike_kite Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 I used to design databases and applications for banking systems. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Toshio Uemura Posted September 10, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted September 10, 2020 (edited) 19 hours ago, orangekrushrider said: 30 jobs in 30 years... still pondering on that 'inherent value' in work thing That is the right attitude, I believe. I am sure you know now exactly what you don’t like to do. Same here: started to study nuclear physics, did not like it. Switched to languages, didn’t like the French too much, loved the German, got my degree in German literature, love communication, lived in a Zen monastery for 6 month (until enlightenment 😇). worked in a psychiatric hospital for 1 year, loved it but wanted more. Established a translation company, which I then transformed into a foreign (mostly European) business representation company. At present we represent middle class European companies on the Japanese market, handle their communication with their Japanese clients and support our clients sales activities, take care of their quality issues mostly in the automotive industry. So in short, I am owning and managing a small company (which mostly my staff runs 🤣) and I am also teaching GERMAN (communication and literature) to 400+ students at 5 different Japanese Universities (at present remote lessons) and I really, really love what I do, especially the teaching part. I probably love teaching as much as riding my Z-10, depending on the weather situation. So unfortunately I am not yet at 30 jobs in 30 years, but I got as far as 5 jobs in 5 years until I luckily found, what I now call „inherent value“ in my work kind of thing. . Í‘d love to tell you more about it, but I think we both agree that this is not the right place for Zen and bottomless deep philosophical discussions. And I am sure you are on the right track with what you do, to sooner or later find the inherent value in work thing. Keep on quitting work you don’t like and keep pondering ... as life is already lost, if you haven’t lived it the way you wanted to live it. 🤣 Edited September 10, 2020 by Toshio Uemura 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toshio Uemura Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 21 hours ago, Dgar said: I can tell you, there certain IS life after 40. 40 is when my life basically started...running marathons, rock climbing, camping and hiking I love people who spread hope and paint me a bright future. 🤣 when I was 18, I thought wouldn’t it be wonderful to live until 40, then skip the next 20 fruitless, stressful and unsatisfying years of slavery all the way straight to 60+ and enjoy the wisdom and freedom and know-it-all-attitude of the elderly. But then, I discovered the „inherent value in work thing“ and now I read you write „... there certain(ly) IS live after 40.“ and I am intrigued to trust you. It starts to feel right. So thanks for giving me hope! 🙏 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dreygun Posted September 10, 2020 Author Share Posted September 10, 2020 On 9/9/2020 at 1:43 PM, Dgar said: I can vouch for the life after 40 as well. Everything seemed to settle in and fall into place <3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dgar Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 Quote 2 hours ago, Toshio Uemura said: I love people who spread hope and paint me a bright future. Thanks. I think it depends on how you approach it too. If you want to be a couch potato (I almost was) and complain about everything, then you may be pretty miserable after 40. But by your 40's, any kids you have are usually more independent, you have more disposable income (assuming you aren't up to your neck in debt) and you have some things in life sort of figured out. Try new things and you may find something that makes your life so much more fulfilling regardless of what age. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post RetroThruster Posted September 10, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted September 10, 2020 Spent 20+ yrs in sales (mortgages and powersports industry), now I drive around opening and closing mail-box lids, glamorous... 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PLEASE_DELETE Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 (edited) Deleted. Edited March 18 by PLEASE_DELETE 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post yon Posted September 10, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted September 10, 2020 self employed rat catcher 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toshio Uemura Posted September 11, 2020 Share Posted September 11, 2020 8 hours ago, /Dev/Null said: thinking about a second kid... I already admire your upcoming second kid. I wish I had had a father with a collection of EUCs. My father only had pricy cars that he was very reluctant to ever let me drive ... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Willy510 Posted September 11, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted September 11, 2020 I build contraptions that look for dark energy in the sky and some that look for dark matter in a big 17 mile diameter ring underground along with magnets that can bend beams of light for research. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eve Posted September 11, 2020 Share Posted September 11, 2020 (edited) I work in a winery right now. Putting empty bottles on conveyor belts. The nice thing is that i can "taste-test" every wine we fill. Edited September 11, 2020 by eve 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post RetroThruster Posted September 11, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted September 11, 2020 Diversified group here, I like it! Y'all will learn (if you haven't already) that I ain't the sharpest tool in the shed so I feel like I'm in good hands. Not sure if I saw a mental health expert here, I get "you're crazy as hell riding that thing" a lot, be nice to add one to the list 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toad Posted September 11, 2020 Share Posted September 11, 2020 I work as an information-systems diplomat: an artist in sham engineers' feathers. But, in my imagination, I tend a large, clattering machine and repair it by forging replacement parts; and the emails that I send are actually doves that I am juggling. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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