What do y'all do for a living?

[Chappy133]

Retired US Army (twice). Twenty years as a Solider, three as a contractor and then retired again after sixteen years as a civilian (GS) employee. Double dipping is what they call it. Might be triple dipping if you count Social Security?

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[zx6roclet]

Real estate auctions. I sell foreclosed homes online and help restabilize communities for every major bank you’ve ever heard of…. Pay your mortgage bills folks! ?

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[UGADawg96]

For the last 24 years I've been leading teams and managing a variety of technologies and products that are used to score, produce, and televise professional golf tournaments.

 

[Dakar09]

I do drugs....I mean Biotech/Pharma discovery. I manage clinical trial teams so you can hear all those cool side effects during TV commercials. Not proud of it lately, if I'm honest, but I'm 20 years into this career so I'll ride it out.

Was a Chiropractor for 10 years before that.

 

[F-yea!]

Problem Solver. I'm kind of like "The Wolf" from Pulp Fiction without dead bodies. I've been doing this for the past 30 yrs in government, military, academia, biotech, environmental protection, farming & cattle, elder care... There are always problems to solve and when folks would rather not get their hands dirty, there is me;-)

 

[rugedraw]

@Eskram stole my joke about OnlyFans...
@crazywayne311 and @rugedraw are always asking for pictures of my feet ...???

But srsly, I own an IT Consulting firm also known as Managed Service Provider for a whole myriad of clients.

Forget OnlyFans.......I'm about that OnlyFeet life.

 

[Mt.F150..]

Truck driver

 

[WoodBarn Mark]

I'm in the hospitality business. Fancy way to say restaurant.
I own a small place and a food truck.
Some days I'm a cook, a cashier, or a dishwasher.

 

[rjinaz]

Former programmer turned, Infrastructure engineer designing, building, and maintaining high volume business intelligence reporting systems.
Boring job but pays well.

 

[Superstock 3740]

President, UE Local 718 while at my job of 36 years. We made breakfast cereal. Retired out of Electronic Maintenance Department, but for the first 25 years
I was a mobile equipment mechanic (repaired Bobcats, Forklifts, Semi Yarddogs, Aerial Platforms, Lawn mowing equipment ect.). Retired with a union/company early retirement at age 59 1/2 in 2017.

 

[Forumlurker24]

graduated as a mechanical engineer last year and work for an industrial general contractor.

Not an industry I like or seem to be able to get away from, but it pays decent so I can't complain too much.

Would've much preferred automotive but it's a hard industry to get into. I plan on starting my own company soon

 

[Kanuck]

Retired electrician after 13 years automating grain elevators in western Canada, then 20 years maintenance electrician in a 495,000 square foot manufacturing plant with machines from all over the world.
Tried to retire....
Now I work for the wife.

 

[Larrymoe]

Certified dirty scuba instructor. My license plate should been your first clue. Deep diving is my specialty, particularly in dark damp caverns where proper use of a (lengthy) snorkel, is essential. Maintaining a calm and steady, breathing rate can sometimes be a challenge!

As a person who is deathly afraid of drowning, you're out of your God damned mind.

 

[VTR_16]

I'm not even quite sure when I retired.

I was practicing bankruptcy law, and covid relief shut down filings cold. (they still haven't recovered!). With all the money being handed out, and moratoriums on evictions and foreclosures, and the voluntaryish standstills by collection agencies and credit cards, there just wasn't anything to do

At some point, I didn't so much decide but realize that I was retired.

I was working on my spreadsheets (I'd been logging daily account values from the initial covid stock crash, just to have to fortify my nerves the next time around. [spoiler: selling after either of the covid crashes was about the dumbest thing you could do!].

I noticed that my accounts made far more than I'd ever grossed. And that my wife was only a few months from 59.5, making those accounts accessible.

So probably sometime in early 2022 at 57, but it was a slow realization that you could also tag maybe a year either way.

Very much not how I had ever anticipated it happening!

I was practicing bankruptcy in my 20s but not the way you were lol

 

[Larrymoe]

I've done some electrical work at some max prisons in FL, we had essentially no contact with the inmates. I remember standing around with a CO one time outside the rec field where a bunch of inmates were, and he pointed to a guy that I would have guessed was there for embezzlement or tax evasion, he looked so normal. He said "that guy raped a 7 year old". It was scary how normal he looked. You get the idea you can spot something different about these people, and sometimes you just can't. That kinda rattled me.

I try to not look up what they're in for. In my experience, if they're almost perfectly normal, it's probably DUI related. But that probably only applies because of the prisons I've worked at. All the child sex act people I've been around have been pretty strange.

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