i work the counter at flag auto recyclers.

 

I'm a Pharmacist from Bangor, Me. Too bad I hate the general public huh?

 

Chemical Area Operator...which is a fancy way of saying they pay me to play with dangerous chemicals...like 98% sulfuric acid, 50 sodium hydroxide (caustic solution), methanol, turpentine, 14% hypoclorite solution (bleach), sodium chlorate and my favorite chlorine dioxide. We've got 600,000 gallons of the CL02 (chlorine dioxide) on hand, in three separate tanks, had an independant survey done once and they said if one of the tanks ruptured a 15 mile circle around the plant would no longer be inhabital......what they neglected to take in account is all 3 tanks are tied together with 18 inch lines.....no way to stop all 3 from draining if one were to rupture.....hehehe.....Later Whit

 

I am a Trucker. Kind of a family thing...
You know they say "if you got it, a trucker braught it"



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Hi

I'm used for parachute maintanance ( several different systems)

Jens

 

Hi,

5 years Military Police, last year in was on the S.R.T. team has Marksman Observer.
8 years with Pinkerton Security, 2 years full time the res part time.
7years and counting has an Assistant hunting Guide, taking the Guide/Outfitter test this spring.
5 years Hospital Security on the Graveyard shift.




It's your lie tell it however you want.

 

I'm a BMET. Biomedical Engineering Technician. I work for a 240 bed hospital where we repair, maintain, and install medical equipment (heart monitors, Ventilators, Defibs, etc.) as well as diagnostic euipment.

 

I have been self-employed for the last 15 years as a fence builder building mostly Ranch fencing which i loved doing. After 9\11 which was the catalyst that created our current economic downturn in my opinion....alot of people started doing the same thing and now there are Too many people working too cheap!!! So I'm tryin to make a transition over to "working for the Man" . I got recertified with my Commercial License and I think that maybe I'll start driving a bobtail truck part time and I'll have to find another part time job in the afternoons to get my GNP up sufficiently to be able to eat on a regular basis.....Life ain't easy ...is it???? fd

 

I'm the building engineer for Radio city music hall in NYC

 

I am retired twice. I retired from the Navy as a Senior Chief Engineman, and retired as a Mechanical Engineering Technician (HVAC) three years ago. I have also owned a service station and worked in another half dozen of them. I was a certified diesel inspector in the Navy and I also am certified HVAC part 608 & 609 for refrigerant recovery and reclaimation (automobiles and stationary). In the Navy I served 16 years on diesel submarines. Now, I just do as I dam well please!

 

Petroleum Exploration Geologist.

Pretty sweet job when oil prices are high, otherwise it can get rough. 40hr weeks in an office were a giant leap from my "former life"

I worked the last 10 years for a landscaping/excavation company while putting myself through school. Needless to say, I was a tired camper and my 6 year degree took me eight. I wouldn't trade the experience for anything though. I may go back to it sometime in my life.

Waxy

 

Waxy , how much math did you have to have ??? maybe up thru Cal 2 or thru Diffy "Q"(differential equations) and was it the most difficult part of your degree....I' m guessing that you also had to spend alot of time in various computer simulation classes as the current emphasis is on 3D mapping or what ever they call it now....Looks real Complex....fd

 

Well I'm sure many of you probably all ready know,due to Waxy and myself in great debait in the thread about unions......

I'm a union operator.....heavy equpiment such as.......
bulldozers,cranes,hoes .....ect

International Union of Operating Engineers .........Local 181

 

Math through to Cal 2 as you suggested. And YES it was the most difficult part of the degree, if I never see another differential or integral again it will be too soon. The 3D structural geology classes can be very complex and challenging as well.

Believe it or not, for most geologists in the industry mapping and work is still done by hand. The large companies, you know, the ones with their names on the gas stations, have advanced 3D computer work rooms, but at this point they are WAY too cost prohibitive for most companies, especially the small ones like the one I'm at.

Geophysicists use complex programs like those you are talking about to created 3D models of subsurface geology. Fascinating and valuable stuff, but there's some smoke and mirrors involved too.

Think of my job as trying to map in three dimesions the beach or a reef at your nearest lake, only you've never seen it before, just something like it, and you don't know exactly where it is. The only thing you have is some squiggles on a piece of paper (petrophysical well log) and the occasional 3" round piece of core (rock) taken from the beach. Oh yeah, and it's 2 miles underground. The beauty of geology is it's 2 parts science and 1 part art. You can't be a good geologist unless you have all three parts.

Drilling oil wells is truly a feat. Think of it as going up to the top of a 30 some story office tower with a big box of drinking straws. Now hook them together one after the other, all the while trying to hit a target the size of piece of paper on the ground. The precision and accuracy with which this is done is pretty mind boggling stuff really.

Waxy

 

Im going to tech school and plan on being an automotive thechnician. Rhight now i play bass for musicals and stuff.