BAs, What do you do for a living?

Not a dam thing.....just retired after 29 years of rotating shifts on 7 day shift schedule for a utility company. Currently I'm sleeping when ever the fuc* I want and plan on doing so until I get tired of that...then???

 

I started and will do my absolute best. He is is a great kid, I broke 3 generations of naval academy grads but I still like to think I have a connection to that place. Went so many times with my dad when I was a kid. But anyway enjoy the down time..,beat army!

 

I retired in 2015 after 35 years as an Electrical Lineman. I was the guy that kept the lights on.

 

Icu nurse

 

Thank you for keeping the lights on.

 

I'm going to guess that you're involved with this Covid thing, so thanks for what you do, and stay safe!

 

Ya it’s not as bad as the media makes it out to be but sure.

 

I’ve worked as an Ecologist in NYC doing research and wetland restoration work for the past six years. Before that I was a research assistant on a big salt marsh research experiment on the north shore of MA for about five years with some college overlap. I spend my spring, summer, and fall knee deep in marshes around NYC and winters at home applying for grants and permits and writing environmental compliance reports. I feel very lucky to do what I do in a place like NYC. Great colleagues as well!

 

I've been retired for six years. Before that I worked IT, both as a consultant or in house as the pendulum swung; I greatly preferred being a consultant because corporate culture and I tended to grind gears. I learned almost everything computer related on my own at an electric utility just to make it easier to do analytical work. I ended up in HR where I learned this mainframe third GL called Focus that was good for massaging data from an HRIS multisegmented monstrosity into report form. One day I was ready to go home and a few guys I worked with in IT had this problem of finding a few needles in a very large haystack that kept the employee savings plan payroll deductions from balancing. I liked those guys plus conceptually it was an intriguing problem that I knew would take them forever to do in COBOL so I said lets go. I called my wife and told her I'd be a little late for dinner which ended up being four hours. Anyway, a guy sat with me who knew where the data was and knew the key fields to use so I eventually got two files and merged them together, which made me a hero. I still feel good about that 30 years later.

Anyway I figured out I could make more money for my skill set elsewhere and joined a consulting company which was the best place I worked. Unfortunately they got bought out by another company that turned it into a shitstorm. So I went in house at a bank that was almost as bad as working for a utility. I knocked around at some other gigs before retiring and expanded my skills to non mainframe things like Oracle. I had some ups and downs (once did production support work on Christmas as my family was screaming at me to come to dinner and ignoring that what I was doing was why their Christmas was so nice) but I usually felt like the luckiest guy in the world.

What I do these days is write improvised music reviews. Beer usually helps get the muse active.

 

High School Band Director and musician.

 

I know when I did an industry cert in August they had similar silly rules at the testing center. . Had two coughdrops in my pocket,. Had remove them from the wrapper to keep them in my pocket. I much preferred testing for promotion where they just threatened you with Courtmartial if you cheated. They did make a proctor go to the can with you, if you had to go...

 

Let me know if she ever wants a ManToy.

 

Envious much?

 

Spent 26 years in the Air Force as an HVAC Tech at Titan II Missile Sites & then as a Radio/Communications Repair Specialist,

Then I took some time off to be stay home with my youngest son while my Wife worked, That was fun, but took me a while to find a path back to work. Moving to rural Oklahoma didn't help.

Went back to school & now work as a Biomedical Equipment Tech at a local hospital. Super rewarding job as long as things are going right. When things go south, you are not so popular.

There is enough physical demand to this job that I am looking forward to final retirement. Since my youngest is a Sophomore in High School that might be a ways off, my knees & back might say different

 

Don't mind at all, it's the Lancaster County Farmer's market in Wayne PA. Stop in and say hi sometime, my name's Dan.

 

I work with city kids too. Never boring.

 

Broadcast Engineer for 36 years and counting.

 

Nothing. I'm unemployed.

 

Engineering / R & D. I design attachments for heavy equipment.

Still holding out hope for that professional cornhole career .

 

That is probably for the best. Substance abuse is a problem in the profession. Let us know when he finds out he passed and we can drink one for him!