What do you do for a living?

It's been a number of years since we had a thread about member professions. In the past it was very helpful to know what the other members do/did when seeking advice about most any kind of subject.

I surf the internet for a living. Its a tough job, sometimes 12 - 14 hours a day.

Wireline engineer. If you need some casing perforated, I can help.

herd cats

I just realized I didn't start with myself. Retired police sergeant.

Rancher and I also sell a few hunts and lodging in my cabins.

Retired commercial drywall contractor.

I didn’t catch that, but probably because I already knew.

Territory rep for a heavy equipment auction company

I work at Benro Pump and Supply in the big city of Goldsmith.
I’ve been there for 33 years.
I design,build, repair,and sell down hole rod pumps,tubing anchor catchers,and oilfield supplies.

I sometimes piss off everyone in a residential mortgage lending transaction occasionally and get a thank you once or twice every two years

I catch and dump cats south of IH-10...in the Hallettsville area to be exact.

Good man doing the lords work

I'll give you three guess's and the first two don't count.

Just say farmer.

Corporate Financial Analyst…30+ years now. I love what I do, the pressure is no fun sometimes…

Currently, I'm a high school English teacher, for one more year, maybe.

After that, I truly have no idea.

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Deputy sheriff

Paper Maker

Farm and Ranch Real Estate Broker…..specialize in Hunting Ranches and Investment/Development properties as well as Live Water properties

Television..

I have been in the spring manufacturing trade for 48 years and presently the factory manager . 6 months more and I'm out and free .

Retired, did 40 years in the computer industry.

Companies worked for:
ISC Systems
Olivetti North America
Axiom Corp.
Fujitsu
Datamax/O'Neil Printers aka Dover Corp.
Honeywell

Popo Sergeanto by night

Realtor by day

Trying like hell to replace the night job with real estate investing.

Mechanic, class 6 and 8 vehicle since 2000, car dealerships before that….

Natural Gas distribution. Hope to transition to pipeline in a year.

Retired from 2 different Corrections Departments. One State 23 years and one County 20 years.

Facilities Manager. My background is carpentry and electrical work

For the most part retired. A little horse trading and I do mean very little.

Just started collecting SS and have been drawing a small pension, wife that is 10 years younger is still working, loves what she does or we would have sold our house and moved out of the Metro-Mess.

You know that song "I've Been Everywhere Man" thats the story of my business life.

Casually looking for a sweet gig doing

Currently hold my Life & Health insurance license.

Worked for the FDIC for 5.4 years as a Claims and Investigation Specialist and before that 1.4 as a consultant.

Residential mortgage originator 8 years.

Short sales stint in the insurance business

Car business sales & management 15 years.

LaBare when I was around 19 years for about 3 years.

Retired from crop research and now concentrating on teaching grandkids to be respectful smart a##es.

Developer. I integrate automated Cad output from our ERP system. I learned to code.

I always wondered where the nickname came from.

Ethylene production. Land developer.

Full time cattle rancher for 40+ years.

Retired truck equipment salesman with a Music Ed. degree.

Retired drug peddler.

Auto manufacturing

Retired. Worked in the direct mail industry.

Salesman, retired.
Still doing a cow / calf thang.

A jack of all trades and master of none.

GM World Class Certified and ASE Master Technician, bumper to bumper. Same store for going on 21 years. Three years with Cadillac in DFW before that, five years at a south Denton Co. Chevy dealer before that (not in the shop but service support staff).

The open Auto Tech and fabrication/welding teacher spot at the local High School is looking better and better aside from the 50% pay cut...

Originally had a scholarship from Motorola to become and engineer but some life stuff had me go into the trade after my Freshman year of college.

Retired, 35 years in retail.

Product commercialization and marketing for a financial institution. 25 years next year.

But restored cars for many years and still wrench on our daily drivers, house and motorcycle. Taking auto shop in HS continues to pay off saving our household expenses. Enjoy that.

Big thanks to you guys who are current or ex. military, law enforcement, farmers, teachers, medical services, ministers, etc. ----- deeply admire folks who served others in your careers.

So do you often wonder about other mens body parts

This is why I go by Stub.

Handyman & janitor - aka small biz owner (a couple of IT companies).

Construction.

I think it is funny also
You know what is really funny, I may have Stubbed your wife before or after you and they were probably giving me your $$$

Class act.
Musta hit close to home.

Land Surveyor

Insurance. When I first got to New Barnflies, the younger square heads called me schlanga - pronounced schlonga and meaning snake.

Pretty sure Stub was not the nickname for most of the guys who worked at LaBare and yes, I turned down their job offer.

42 years doing employee benefits for companies and financial planning - prior to that was a high school coach and English teacher for five years (got tired of starving so I changed professions)

Well if that ain't the pot calling the kettle black (class act)

Did not hit anywhere close to home!! I have enjoyed a wonderful love/sex life as did most of the women I have been with,

BTW I am Hetero Sexual only so please stop wondering
Look's like you can dish it out but cannot take it.

When they say there are kids on here, now I know who they are referring too...

4 years Navy--I got to aim and pull the trigger for the big guns on ship.

29 years chemistry/physics teacher/coach

19 years car sales/manager

Retired 2 years ago now make little pieces of wood out of bigger pieces for fun.

Problem solver.

Salesman/Account Mgr for GC

Stub talking about a man’s wife is across the line you probably wouldn’t say it to his face so you talk [censored] on the Internet it was uncalled for.

But any man that would work at La Bears probably doesn’t have any class anyways so there is that

Retired from the USN. Now I teach NJROTC. 5 more years and I will fully retire

First of all it was a joke, maybe a bad one but a joke and I was not specifically talking about his wife I was talking about wives/women in general!

Obviously you know nothing about class or you would not make such a blanket statement so STFU.
Like in any industry or segment of life there are people with and without class.

And we're the cats.

Criminal investigator. I herd cats too.

You are right ^^^^^

TexFlip bad choice of words on my part and I apologize.
Unfortunately when you open a can of worms chit happens.

Retired from USAF (Supply Systems Analyst) in 93. Retired from DHS/ICE (Personnel Security)12/31/2021.

Retired fiber optics and copper splicing contractor for Telcos.

Roofing contractor

Superintendent for a commercial construction company.

I.T./Training for jails/prisons across the country. Travel about 40 weeks a year.

Retired since 2018.
Put in 42+ years in petrochemical plants.
Machinist/Mechanic, Shutdown Planner and then Corrosion & Code Inspector/Quality Control Inspector.

Firefighter/Paramedic

I taught science and coached football for two years and then installed granite countertops while I went to the fire academy.

Became at firefighter in 2011 and haven't regretted it once. I have been assigned to Station 5 for the last 9.5 years and have been on Engine 5 and Ladder 5 about equally. It's the closest station to my house and middle of the pack call volume wise. I get a wide range of types of call since our running district has all times of neighborhoods. We are also right off I20.

This job is very interesting in that it is really hard on your body and mental health but for whatever reason I love it so much.

Network Test equipment - phone/user simulation for 5G networks.

Retired since 2009. Spent time as Chemical Process Engineer, then off to blend and trade heavy oils for another company, then moved to light oils (gasoline, diesel, jet kerosene) and trading of light oils on NYMEX, then on to a Petrochemical company from where I eventually retired. It was mostly a good ride, except for a few years with Enron (incompetent idiots and crooks).

Medically retired from Union Carbide/Dow Chemical in 2007 after 29 years in plastics manufacturing as a process operator and Shift supervisor.......now the family Gopher for kids and chauffeur for grand kids!

particle accelerators

Engineer designing and testing things that fly.

Just got off the phone with my uncle Joel. He laughed and said hi.

Spent 28 years in the Supermarket business. I burnt out managing the meat dept. when I was 47 and went into manufacturing / machining (O&G). Retired as a production facilitator (in 2020) after 14 years and living the dream. Started playing golf again and shot my best round ever on a 9-hole course in Cloud Croft NM last month. It was a par 34 course and I shot 38. I actually parred 7 out of 9 holes.

Commercial Electrical work.
Started as a green helper in 1991 and moved up through the ranks to job foreman, superintendent, Project Manager, and now Estimate.

You forgot to mention dog trainer.

Technology Director (CTO) for a healthcare system. We have 1 hospital, 5 clinics, a nursing home, an assisted living facility, a home health agency and a county wide EMS service. I stay pretty busy.

Family Service Counselor for a Large funeral and cemetery company. guaranteed job security. cause everyone is going to die at some point.

Byte herder (database). Button pusher (keyboard).

I played there about 3 weeks ago, fun little easy course. I drove the par four 5th hole four times for 3 birdies and 1 eagle. I think it's a fairly easy hole to drive for most folks.

Always been in sales some sort of way… IT, Medical… Started rehabbing houses about 9 yrs ago, ended up getting my real estate license couple years back to help save those costs. Looking around a bit now. Might make a change.

Spent 29 years as a critical care medic on ambulances and helicopters for a hospital system. Got tired of risking my life every time we lifted off. Went to DFE Tech in Tyler in 2014 and now I'm a senior mud engineer on a drilling rig in Odessa.

Commodity Manager for global heavy equipment manufacturer

I bet that’s a stressful gig in the current climate.

Currently resting on my laurels.

Was machinist and QC for 22 years. Aircraft and oilfield
Farmer/Rancher/Land speculator
Shade tree welder and fabricator

Not much anymore. Seems I'm fighting with Social Security to keep them from stealing what I earned in 32 plus years of working for the government and 7 years of public service as an EMT. Wish I was back either chasing illegal aliens or working for Customs catching dope and smugglers on or near the Rio Grande. Now, if I'm not fighting social security, I'm mostly bored or here and TFF.

Windfall ??

Build/start up deep water oil & gas floating production facilities.

It’s pretty unbelievable for the last two years

Fish, Hunt, and drink. In my spare time I coordinate vendors and project manager meetings.

I dunno, they're saying I didn't have medical insurance when I was working EMS in Presidio or Fort Stockton. Which is BS, I not only had city/county Blue Cross Blue Shield I've had it ever since I retired from Government service back in 2020. So, it's some form of Medicare/Medicaid bovine scat. What PO's me is that they are trying to screw me for money and yet handing out medical services and social security to MF'ers whose clothes aren't even dry yet from sneaking across the river.

Retired diaper maker...

Commercial Sales Manager

Heating Ventalation Air Conditioning and Refrigeration 1973 until my knee replacement 3 weeks ago. I am now retired fulltime.

Experience includes throw away window units to 100 ton systems. Household refrigerators to 1200 pound per day icemakers.

Self employed/ unemployed, corporate management, continuing education instructor and some government employment.

Forester. I grow Trees and wildlife on 130,000 acres of private land and all that goes with that. I’m not much on awards but I’ve been recognized for the wildlife and habitat work that people I have worked with have accomplished on private land at the state and regional level. After I am gone I hope my legacy will be as a conservationist that was able to leave better than what I started with to those that come after me. Ive been blessed many times over.
As a side bar: my occupation has allowed me the opportunity and places to shoot 4 or 5 days a week for three and a half decades which is how I come up with a lot of the crap I post about shooting.

I bought a charity hunt once on Temple Inland’s boggy slough. I envied those guys. Doing all the things I loved, but I’d already made a deal with the corporate devil.

Consulting services minon

Quit the oilfield in 2020 after 10 years of supply chain.

I had been moonlighting on a software development project with a partner/buddy. Went full time with that 10/2020, so now we have 4 software product lines, and we also own the software development company (up to 9.5 employees). We have a direct to consumer product coming out in less than 60 days that we are pumped up about.

And as soon as the Coast Guard will approve my damn capt license, I will be running fly fishing trips on the coast a few days a week.

7 years ago I had a consultant that was a snow developer making a 100 hr. He quit to go start a start up. I told him he was insane. Our company just bought HIS company for 250 mil. I hope you end up with a similar deal via someone. I admire the start up guys

HVAC Supply House Manager

Retired from UPS after 41 years there, hunt, fish and sell fishing rods and LED boat lights now.

Road construction supervisor.
Started in 1977, still active.
I was in the chicken business for 15 years but sold out.
I still run cattle and make hay.
I use to have a dozer and wood cutting business but it got to be too much.
I still have my dozer but I just do what I need done.
When I was younger the sky was the limit.

Semi retired. Still run cattle, just not as many as I used to and I don't daywork anymore. Do a little dirt work and welding/fabrication jobs for some of the neighbors.

Living on welfare and government cheese SUCKEEERRSSS

Do you give fly fishing lessons?

I am a finance broker for Boat and RV loans. Everything from $15000 Duck boats up to $10,000,000 yachts.

Dang, that is a long time to be around those types. I don't see how corrections officers put up with it.

Retired teacher. Currently working part-time teaching half day for a rural school district.

Retired land surveyor. Laughed so hard I forgot.

It said "for a living" lol

About the same here but commercial fire alarm. Finally got out of the field and into the estimators chair this year.
May have been on some of same projects as you throughout the years.

Direct a bunch of lazy Project Engineers and Project Managers. Retirement can't get here soon enough.

Similar here. I've done a little Commercial & Residential Electrical work, but my career is in Industrial Electrical & Instrumentation (plants/refineries/land rigs and primarily offshore platforms). Started as a green helper in 1995 and worked up to become a Lead, Foreman, Superintendent, QA/QC, QA/QC Manager, & Project Manager. Did some estimating but never officially held the title. Started in E&I Construction, but eventually got into Commissioning/Start Up as an E&I Tech and worked up from there. Been there for a long time now and have worked a multitude of roles in the Commissioning world. I've been behind a desk for years now, but do miss my tools sometimes.

We have similar backgrounds.

Have recently started a little side job raising free range chickens & ducks for eggs, sometimes I regret that decision LOL. Sh** everywhere.

I’ve been selling gas compressor parts and machine work for the last 21 years. Wish I hadn’t waited 20 years to start my own business.

I was a 3 generation Lath & Plaster Contractor. 53 yrs. of working and now retired for 3 yrs.

32 years in community banking, last 20 as CFO

I am licensed to rub your feet or back (and about 98% of the rest of you), and/or find you a 4 bed/3 bath.

Lawman

The one that pays the bill's - Subsea construction. Onshore - cattle and grass. Some years they actually pay for themselves.

The job I might have wanted was one fellow I knew had. He did the hiring of ‘dancers’ for a couple of Men’s Clubs. Unfortunately, he was a real sleaze.

Why did you give up on the New York Ballet? Don’t ever give up on your dreams!!!

I hope he is enjoying retirement as much or more than I am. We spent many a long hour in the old polyethylene plant. Ask him what a DECOMP sounds like, especially when you are in the next reactor bay. The first one I was that close to shook my bones, thankfully I had earplugs in.

Watcher of the screen, clicker of the mouse.

In my long list of jobs I forgot a couple of clubs that I worked at, I was the night time manager at a very low class topless bar Dallas Gentleman's club back in the early 90's, friends of mine Randy & Brent Dumas owned it.
I thought it was going to be a pretty cool gig, NOT I was an under-paid baby sitter for a bunch of crazy messed up women.

Now had I worked at an upscale one like the Mens club I bet it would have been a lot more enjoyable.

Emergency Response Coordinator

Field technician at an environmental company

Just an old oil field hand.

US Navy then 31 years as a Shop Hand in a Production Machine Shop...new Company President decided I was too old, fat & unhealthy to carry on. So retirement several years ahead of schedule. Lean times but happier times. Closer to family than I would have ever been. Best thing that ever happened to me.

rick

In a week I'll be retired.....so show mine as Farmer, Fisherman, Hunter.

Congrats

Fantastic. Glad to see you being able to enjoy the good life for awhile.

Just plain ol’ oilfield trash

Retired as of last year...

Now I just do whatever I want each day that may involve the outdoors. Like Hunting, Fishing, Cooking, Beekeeping, Farming, Welding, Long distance shooting, and the list goes on.......

Behavioral Specialist among other things.

US Army since 1995.

Babysit adults and disturb the peace on public roadways.

Just a trucker. Wasted my youth, let me tell you. If I could do life over again I would of got my CDL at the earliest legal age and I would of run in the oil field too. Could have been retired by now.

I was working in a machine shop in Odessa when I was a kid, before I started selling. I was eating lunch with my boss one afternoon. I asked him how he liked running things. He told me he’d been managing a machine shop for thirty years and felt like all he was qualified to do was run a daycare. He said he should have become a salesman. That stuck with me.

Oilfield hand of sorts. Buy some royalty here, sell a lease there, drill a few wells a year. Peaks and valleys.

Director of IT for Texoma division of Texas Workforce Commission
Website design
Graphic design
Print Design
Woodworking
Laser engraving


Top one is my main job, but everything else is side hustle and if anyone needs anything let me know.

Kylie also makes some pretty legit freaking tacos. The rest of the list is legit.

So can we call just if we need tacos?

Spanish teacher/coach here, year 25 coming up!! I'm a knifemaker in my free time/summers

Accelerated Computing Sales - Oil & Gas

Charlie

Absolutely tacos are always available at my house. I make home made tortillas to.

Oh forgot I’m also the neighborhood dealer

Diagnostician - do assessments for special education eligibility for an ISD, lots and lots of special education paperwork.

Managed ranches since 1989. Work outdoors every day, work with wildlife everyday and got paid to do it everyday. In this time I also did a 7yr stint in the late 90's-mid 2000's working with landowners/lease hunters managing their deer while working for a large feed store group in South Texas. About 2012 I semi-retired and bought my own place to live and work on. Sold that place and another place I owned last year in March and bought a 300 acre place in NW Gillespie County...but could not get electric, well, septic or house built so I bought a house in Brady. Hated living in town and was bored living 55 miles from my place. Had a friend wanting me to manage his place so I went back to work and loving it. My place borders his place so I can now live and manage his place and work on mine in my spare time. Full-filled a life long dream of owning and living back in the Hill Country. Life has been good to me and very blessed to do what I love every day.

Right on! I'm a certified diagnostician as well. Currently working as a special education teacher though and spend my summers in my hay farmer disguise.

God bless you both for helping these kiddos.

We parents appreciate it as well. The paperwork is endless. We're done with high school and moving on to the transition center.

My wife was speech language pathologist in public schools for 27 years. Worked with the severe special ed kids. The paperwork was a 7 day a week deal, even the last year when she went back “part time”. Way more paperwork time than working with kids time.

My wife just went from ARD facilitator back into the classroom. She said the kids are better than most of the parents any day.

Thanks to both of you. My wife is a retired elementary teacher and sat thru many ARD meeting over the years. My daughter has a psychology degree and works for a teaching hospital doing case workups getting kids from the schools to the correct doctors.
Both have used me as a sounding board to vent on and to cry on my shoulder. Thanks again.

Dang, I thought I posted this; retired for 7 years after working in different levels of the power production industry. Most of those years were with a major electrical company.

Retired
Previous owned an IT consulting/recruiting company. Prior to that in IT. Last position was head of IT Systems Development for a Fortune 100 company.

Most prior was IT including various management positions. Prior to that was Programmer Analyst positions at several companies, prior to that computer operator.

Taught IT Concepts at a University for 3 years(part time)

Did 4 years in USAF in early computers. 64-68

First real jobs were farm/ranch hand. That’s where I learned that I really didn’t like to mess with horses.

My wife had a very serious stroke in July 2017 and I have been her care giver ever since.

Bless you.

X2

Forest Ranger for the State

Gotta be a special place in heaven for caregiver spouses.

Restaurant business most of my life. Working through college parttime for a startup restaurant company. I saw the genius of the owner/entrepreneur and quit my day job and went to work with them. I rode the wave of his success as I worked my way from the very bottom to VP of Operations as we grew from about 20 to 30 full service restaurant/bars. When they eventually sold the company for many many millions, I opened my own and kept that going till I sold it and soon after retired. Very glad I sold before this covid and economy kicked in.