What does/did everyone do for work?
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I'm sure there's a thread on this some place, but I figure I'd start a new one....
As for me..... I was a mechanic/driver/operator for a bunch of different construction companies in the local area for many years. In 08 when the bottom fell out of construction, then I fell into construction supply sales and have been there ever since. I knew zero about sales but had a working knowledge of what I was selling. Plus I knew half the guys walking though the door having worked with them at one point or another.
I truly enjoy my job for the first time. Now I don't mind getting up at 4:00 am and getting home at 6:00 pm everyday.
It's a small company only five of us, which makes it nice.
Now I have the gift of gab and I love to bust balls...So I fit right into sales. As my wife puts it "All you do all day is BS with people" She does have a point....But I'm good at BSing
So what do the rest of you do or did for a living?
As for me..... I was a mechanic/driver/operator for a bunch of different construction companies in the local area for many years. In 08 when the bottom fell out of construction, then I fell into construction supply sales and have been there ever since. I knew zero about sales but had a working knowledge of what I was selling. Plus I knew half the guys walking though the door having worked with them at one point or another.
I truly enjoy my job for the first time. Now I don't mind getting up at 4:00 am and getting home at 6:00 pm everyday.
It's a small company only five of us, which makes it nice.
Now I have the gift of gab and I love to bust balls...So I fit right into sales. As my wife puts it "All you do all day is BS with people" She does have a point....But I'm good at BSing
So what do the rest of you do or did for a living?
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On large projects there is the engineering side of side of the house and the administrative side. Everything administrative was my bailiwick.
That reminds me ..... it's been awhile
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As for me, like Brett, I work in Technical Support, but for wireless products instead of Apple products. I have experienced the joys of technical support for consumer products, along with spending time in the field deploying and resolving issues firsthand, but I've worked my way towards enterprise support lately as a Technical Service Manager so we're working with IT teams of large companies now. The drawback of that, of course, is that when issues escalate for a behemoth enterprise client, they can escalate all the way up the corporate ladder so the pressure is on to resolve issues quickly.
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I am a heavy equipment mechanic (oh wait, officially a Heavy Equipment Technician 2). Which means I make more money than a regular heavy equipment tech.
I am also a diagnostic trainer and diagnostic program troubleshooter.
Which means, when the other techs have a diagnostic problem they need help with or problem with diagnostic software, I'm the guy they call.
And sometimes, I am a air brake/ABS trainer.
And marine tech help. Meaning when a tech has a problem with a boat they need help with, they call me.
And in between all of that, I handle 150 pieces of equipment.
I am responsible for keeping them running.
I have a regular desk office that I rarely use and a 30,000 lb service truck that is essentially my rolling office. Some have seen the pics of it posted on the forum during some interesting times. LOL!
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She was a converted schooner, built in the late 1800s. What was called a bow picker. Which made it a pain to pull nets.
This picture is of my little brother and I on the deck, heading out to fish.
The nets are stacked on deck, the engines are all running fine, the rigging is all in good shape and I'm taking a break, while my little brother is questioning why I want him to check the nets. LOL!
And this is the waters around Alaska. This one is in Prince William Sound.
This is the old man (my step dad) and the boat he ran, we were headed to the boat on a skiff.
This picture was taken when we were running "tender" for the seiner boats.
We would pick up the Salmon and deliver it to a processor ship.
Other seasons, that boat went up to Bering Sea and Bristol Bay for crab.
I miss that boat the most.
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Just want to see if that passes the censors