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[vairnut]

Engineer - engine calibration which is getting engines to start, drive, pass emissions, get decent mileage. Get to travel to northern Canada in winters and southwestern desert in summers. Been resposible for spark advance for the past decade including spark knock detection and control, and camshaft position for variable valve timing engines. Also some diagnostics and turning on that nice check engine light once in a while.

[Bill Eh?]

Elementary teacher - a mixture of Gr. 3, 3/4, 4, 4/5, and 5 for the past twenty years.

[DAYTIME]

Buyer for industrial automation, assembly and test equipment.

[Modelbuilder Mark]

I work for the largest auto finance company in the country, Toyota Financial. I have been here for 4 years as of December.



I have spent the better part of the last 20 years working for financial firms. I missed a turn somewhere, as I studied to be a recording engineer, and it just did not end up going that path. My Grandfather, Father, abd brother are all auto body men, seems I missed that turn as well! LOL

[MicroNitro]

I make Model parts. Life is good.

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[Tom Setzer]

Retired Navy Cheif on Medical in 1970. Then worked for the Navy as a civilian until 1980 when Ihad t0 go back on retirement, due to my health. I spent the next coyple of years in and out of the Hospital just to get back to where I could get out of bed. Now I just Read, write a few History articles, and build models.

[kataranga]

I am a geological engineer-in-training. I mostly work with dirt.

[C.C.RACER]

Well I have 33 years in the automotive industry . Presentley work for Merceds Benz as a service advisor. Have done everytime from tire buster,ASE master tech,parts warehouse manager,tire store manager, ect... best job I have is being a good father and partner to my wife of 33 years. She puts up with a lot and has giving me Two "Man Cave's" as a reward. Love this thread as it 's a great way to get to know who you are reading about. Thanks guys and give yourselfs a hand to have made it this far in life.

[Ben]

I make Model parts. Life is good.

Jim, I think you meant to say.." I make really awesome model parts! Life is good!"

[peter31a]

Was nursing assistant in Mental Health facility for 14 years. Worked my way down the ladder to become a driver in the transportation department of the same facility for the past 17 years. Drive a Freightliner box truck to move food, laundry, meds and other supplies throughout the campus.

[Nate]

I'm a licensed structural engineer as well. Most of the buildings we design are K through 12 schools and college and university buildings. Also do some health care, data centers. Mostly low to mid-rise buildings.

I was a structural engineer for 35 years (still am licensed, but retired) working for Hill Engineers, Architects, Planners, a small 50 person consulting firm. We did everything needed for buildings and started as paper mill experts. You ALL have samples made in the first building I designed ... a new paper machine plant for Crane & Company here in Dalton, MA ... they make 100% of US Currency paper there! ... yes, it has a green aura inside! I've done work in over 1000 paper mills around the world but with the decline in the industry in the US we worked on commercial, educational, residential and just about anything else that came along. I loved going to work every day as every new job had something new I had never done before. It was a lot like modeling nowadays!

[Nate]

I am a geological engineer-in-training. I mostly work with dirt.

What's the difference between a geological engineer and a geotechnical engineer?

[sweeper]

Bigger word! LOL!

[Jon Cole]

For nine years I have been driving a minivan bus for transporting special needs kids to school. Before that, I did eight years in ball bearing assembly, clean room environment. Also did eight years pre-press (inc “stripping” LoL). Previously went to trade school to learn auto body, stayed in that for a few years.

[Junkman]

Ph. D. in physics, grad. mech. engineer, grad. automotive/vehicle/aeroplane/aerospace engineer, grad. foreign trade economist. Worked in the physical/destructive material testing and quality control equipment field, quantum physics, astro physics, nano technology.

Now I run a funeral home, an auto restoration business, I'm a technical advisor to a top fuel funnycar team and a BriSCA F1 Stockcar team, I'm an investigative journalist, political activist and writer, and a bandleader.

So strictly speaking, I don't have a day job. I work when I don't sleep. Keeps me from mischief.

Edited by Junkman, 10 October 2012 - 01:15 PM.

[eizzle]

You sir, need a hobby! Man, how do you find time to build anything but z's in bed???

[peekay]

Studied Grafic Design in the late 60s but spent most of the 70s on the road in NZ in rock bands - best job I ever had.
Came to Switzerland in 1981 and kind of lost the plot. A series of more or less dead-end jobs until a major health blow 3 years ago.
I've been in early retirement since then, minus one lung, but doing fine and enjoying life.

Edited by peekay, 10 October 2012 - 11:09 PM.

[mikemodeler]

I work in the Automotive Aftermarket field and have done so for the last 26 years. Before that I spent some time figuring out life and working at several auto dealerships (Buick, Mazda, Mercedes, BMW, Chrysler, Alfa Romeo).

I currently work for NAPA as a regional sales rep for their line of import replacement parts. The territory takes me from Washington DC to Augusta GA and all the way over to the Atlantic Ocean.

I got out of the auto parts business for nearly a year back in 2000 and worked in motorsports but it was a stressful and hectic life and I came back to the auto parts business. Some days are spent on the computer, some days are behind the wheel of my Camry, and others are spent working with customers either in their store or visiting their customers.

Nice to see how many others here work in the parts business.

[kataranga]

What's the difference between a geological engineer and a geotechnical engineer?

That depends. A geotechnical engineer can be an engineer with a civil engineering background or a geological engineer, which has a combination of civil engineering and geology background. I'm more specialized in the geotech field than a colleague that took just civil engineering.

Also, I can register as a professional engineer AND a professional geologist.

Edited by kataranga, 11 October 2012 - 12:59 PM.

[Michigan Madman]

I have a brother in law that is a manager (in the grocery dept I think) in the Jackson, MI meijer. Where is Dewitt?

It's about 50 miles North-ish of Jackson, in Clinton County. It's actually closer to Lansing- only a few miles north of Lansing on 127.