What you all do / did for a living.

I spent a bunch of years as an officer in the Navy, on submarines. Then went to work for a with marine electronics for a civilian company for a few years. Then another government job. After that I took a year off to go sailing. For the past 11 years I’ve been doing systems engineering.
 
BFT Gibson said:
Built my PA system with powered PV & each box had a sticker.. stickers everywhere lol. I like peavey. Their older PA stuff will survive a nuclear blast. My fav cab is PV 212c with china greenbacks
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Very cool. Yea, they had a bum rap in the early days. They've always managed to stay around after bouncing out of that. I mean like really stay around as a very well know company. I personally wish they would have changed the logo that I believe they doubled down on. They still do fine by it though it seems. That logo used to have me so confused as a kid thinking it was Peavex. Lol.
 
Jethro Rocker said:
Moreso the guys that really need their brains in their jobs. Education far surpassing mine.
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That was actually tongue-in-cheek formatted very :poo:ty. I'd be lying to tell you that I personally am smart. I make up for it with obsession. Or did.

Very cool that you guys had that land and give yourselves such a treat with it. Now you can focus on being him. Yes, him. Jethro Rocker that is. Jethro .......the rocker ....Rocker. The Rock God of Canada.

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Sapient said:
That was actually tongue-in-cheek formatted very :poo:ty. I'd be lying to tell you that I personally am smart. I make up for it with obsession. Or did.

Very cool that you guys had that land and give yourselves such a treat with it. Now you can focus on being him. Yes, him. Jethro Rocker that is. Jethro .......the rocker ....Rocker. The Rock God of Canada.

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I knew you were kidding. But some here have very educated jobs.
We are very fortunate. Beats working till I am 80....
 
Engineering technician for commercial fire alarm systems contractor (non-union) the last 23+ years.
Working class job. Interesting and challenging, dont hate it.
Another 9 or so I can collect social security, if there still is any.
 
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When the lock-downs started up, the company I worked for was considered "essential" because we had a work contract with a major telecom company. We had nothing to do with day-to-day, but for some reason every single company that had a work order from any telecom, were given a pass. Yeah, that TV on the wall of a conference room was "essential." GTFO!
 
I've been an electrician for 21 years. I spent my last two years of high school splitting time with Vocational School for Industrial Electricity, so when I graduated it was actually graduating two schools at the same time. Took my WV Journeyman's License and I went to work about a month after finishing school for some really crappy employers and made peanuts for a good straight 4 years.

Then I actually joined the United Steelworkers as an electrician for about a year ( figure that one out on how that works because I still don't know lol). It didn't work out due to a big dispute against another equally crappy company. So I ended up going back to my previous employer, reluctantly but for double the pay I got when I left. Dealt with that BS for another 6 years before lucking up with an opportunity to join the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers LU 466.

Unfortunately, I entered at a time when things were changing and all my prior work experience didn't matter ( 11 years), so instead of "ticketing in" ( immediately becoming a full time Journeyman Worker-1), I had to enter the Apprenticeship for the next 5 years. Basically it meant paying for additional schooling every Saturday and starting off at a percentage of full scale pay, increasing as I progressed.

But, I made it through (actually winning the Outstanding Apprentice Award in 2017 in the end lol) and finally became a full time Journeyman Worker-1 ( even though I held a Journeyman License for 11 years prior and during the 5 years of Apprenticeship, you still aren't recognized as a JW-1 until completion of the program).

These days, I mostly am a lone wolf and get stuck building and remodeling the crappy jobs nobody else wants ( aka Poop Plants like my buddy @CoyotesGator here!) but also Hospitals ( like my buddy @C-Grin here too) Government Buildings and Medical Marijuana Laboratories. Think about that for a second: go from a place where they dump sewage to a sterile hospital or a lab where they grow weed, to a Sheriff's Department. Real fun explaining where you just came from and raising red flags all the time lmao
 
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Me? Geophysics degree, some boring years in science administration, less boring years as an IT consultant (systems management, project management). Until 20 years ago when i lost that job, and i was lucky to find a niche: electrologist. I am one of the better ones and have clients travelling from other countries.
Well, another break: i am de facto forced to retire after christmas. Up to now all ideas for some work during my old days had failed.
 
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