What's Your Profession?
Fleet Mechanic
Joined: Jan 2010
Posts: 1,287
Likes: 17
From: San Carlos, CA
I have two jobs, and I love them both. 
-Freelance cameraman for the big network news programs and anyone else who wants to hire me. If you have watched the news, then you've seen my work. I get to go to different places and see things not everyone gets to see up close and in person. 24 years.
-Senior Communications Technician. I build and maintain public safety communications infrastructure and 911 phone systems. This is why you see my truck at remote locations with a communications tower nearby. I keep our first responders in contact. 32 years.
Other things I do, full time dad and husband, home builder, classic car and truck enthusiast, electronics geek, photographer. Life is good.
-Freelance cameraman for the big network news programs and anyone else who wants to hire me. If you have watched the news, then you've seen my work. I get to go to different places and see things not everyone gets to see up close and in person. 24 years.
-Senior Communications Technician. I build and maintain public safety communications infrastructure and 911 phone systems. This is why you see my truck at remote locations with a communications tower nearby. I keep our first responders in contact. 32 years.
Other things I do, full time dad and husband, home builder, classic car and truck enthusiast, electronics geek, photographer. Life is good.
Senior User
Joined: Jul 2012
Posts: 296
Likes: 0
From: Deer River, Minnesota
I'm a self employed luthier, I repair and build guitars, basses, mandolins, violins, cellos, etc... basically anything with strings on it I'll fix. I started "Juntunen Guitars" back in 2009 and I'm now building for people in Europe as well as the US.
Other than that I work part time in carpentry building everything from small cabins to big log homes and I work on the family farm during hay season (3 generations on the same farm).
Other than that I work part time in carpentry building everything from small cabins to big log homes and I work on the family farm during hay season (3 generations on the same farm).
Elder User
Joined: Jan 2014
Posts: 898
Likes: 3
From: Chillicothe, IA
I'm a self employed luthier, I repair and build guitars, basses, mandolins, violins, cellos, etc... basically anything with strings on it I'll fix. I started "Juntunen Guitars" back in 2009 and I'm now building for people in Europe as well as the US.
Other than that I work part time in carpentry building everything from small cabins to big log homes and I work on the family farm during hay season (3 generations on the same farm).
Other than that I work part time in carpentry building everything from small cabins to big log homes and I work on the family farm during hay season (3 generations on the same farm).
More Turbo
Joined: Nov 2010
Posts: 682
Likes: 15
From: NB, Canada
Tech at Frieghtliner/Western Star dealer, going through my apprenticeship now. Once I'm licensed I'd like to get out of it for something new. Started when I was 17, 20 now.
The last thing I want to do is work on my own projects after working on other people's junk 6 days a week.
The last thing I want to do is work on my own projects after working on other people's junk 6 days a week.
Senior User
Joined: Apr 2012
Posts: 335
Likes: 0
From: San Diego, CA
Architect, my wife and I have a small office, mostly residential but doing more commercial work recently. We used to do a fair amount of design build stuff but mostly design and project management now.
Junior User
Joined: Jun 2014
Posts: 80
Likes: 1
Hardware design engineer at a semiconductor company. I design a lot of the test/evaluation platforms. I do PCB design, FPGA implementation, microcontroller firmware development, and work with all sorts of lab equipment I'll never be able to afford. I also do a lot of technical documentation and specification.
MSEE
Joined: Apr 2004
Posts: 10,386
Likes: 35
From: Austin, TX
Same here. Some of this stuff can run in the hundreds of thousands. A lot of my equipment at home came from university surplus, Craigslist special, etc. Old and clunky, but works for what I need. I did splurge on my DMM; it gets such heavy use in the garage that I could justify that one.
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More Turbo
Joined: May 2007
Posts: 622
Likes: 2
From: Phoenix, AZ
I have two jobs, and I love them both. :-
-Senior Communications Technician. I build and maintain public safety communications infrastructure and 911 phone systems. This is why you see my truck at remote locations with a communications tower nearby. I keep our first responders in contact. 32 years.
-Senior Communications Technician. I build and maintain public safety communications infrastructure and 911 phone systems. This is why you see my truck at remote locations with a communications tower nearby. I keep our first responders in contact. 32 years.
Dan