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pearow
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Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 5:24 am • # 21 |
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I was a public school man; retired since 02; most of my time(25 years) I was football coach/athletic director; I finished up as school super for 12 years; public schools in Texas and Arkansas-p-
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Chuckinra
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Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 8:28 am • # 22 |
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cross creek one wrote: Gee, Chuck, I'd say you're about ready to take the final career leap--into real estate! You too can work long hours, holidays, and weekends, and not get paid for your time! We had a former insurance agent in our commercial RE office (now with another firm). He often talked about how well he did in insurance and how shocked he was to learn that real estate was a hard way to make a living (part-time soccer moms and grandmothers notwithstanding). Hang in there--all those other careers make you better able to relate to your clients' needs--and anything's better than watching after an M or D type boiler, right? (destroyer M div O, first assignment after OCS, 1982) -CC I thought about the Realestate thing for a couple of minutes. Than I remembered what we put our agent through looking for a new home. Saturdays, Sundays, and a couple of evenings every week. She earned that commission, but we got the place we wanted. Gawd, I had almost forgotten how rough it was in a boiler room. Asbestos, oil, mid rats, and high pitched blowers with no ear protection. I learned to steal a pie from the locked pie safe, without opening it, in less than 20 seconds. Cooks never did figure that out. It's still a secret. Cooking caned bacon, anything goes good with bacon, on the mud drum. And of course the dreaded fire sides. Saw a Dirty Jobs awhile back when Mike Rowe did one. Wasn't a tin can though. That was all back in the late 60's. Did an internet search for the ship I was on. She in now a reef off the coast of Brazil.
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Cross Creek
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Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 12:37 pm • # 23 |
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My first "can" [a real one, with battle stars (and scars), not the modular aluminum Leggo toys with jet packs that get the DD numbers now] is now a reef, too. We always thought that old girl would go down in about two minutes, with us in it, but she withstood an unbelievable amount of damage as a Harpoon target (I've seen the films), and finally had to be scuttled by EOD. Of course, the 2000 tons of fuel and ammo we normally carried weren't there to cook off.
One of the worst things sailors ever had to do (usually deck seamen, after getting royally dressed down at Mast) was cleaning out the intake tubes for the evaporators--slimy, smelly sea life, made more pungent by 150 psi steam! Water hours, steam leaks, going hot, dark, and quiet 100 miles from the battle group--man, those were some good times! I had a throttleman who used to make rings by tapping on nickels with a spoon during his watches. I think he made four or five during my first deployment. -CC
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oowt
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Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 11:06 am • # 24 |
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Well I have been a Chef for most of my career but last year I got promoted to Food service director at the University of Laverne in So. Cal. But I spent over 15 years in the restaurant business. I worked for Wolfgang Puck for over 5 years and worked in some of his fine dining restaurants. I was in Spago, Chinois in Vegas and a few other nice places as well. It has been a good career.
Justin
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jsentell
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Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 5:04 am • # 25 |
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I'm a retired police lieutenant and am currently the training coordinator of a regional police academy.
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Highlander
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Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2009 9:40 am • # 26 |
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I worked for 20 years in the geotechnical engineering and blast consulting business. Last year I switched jobs and now manage and provide technical services for an explosives manufacturer.
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armyflyfisher
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Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 4:37 pm • # 27 |
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^^^ You get to blow stuff up????
COOL!
Dave
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chunting
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Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 9:13 pm • # 28 |
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I'm finishing a 36 year career as a professional forester; BSFR UGA 1972, state, private and industrial. Plan to start a small business of some sorts within a year or two when I finally give this one up. Spent two years, 11 months and two weeks in the Army, 1965-1968. Graduated from OCS at Ft. Sill in August 1966 and left the Army as 1LT. After College I joined the GA Army National Guard after regaining my Commission. Commanded a M109 SP Battery in Savannah, Ga for awhile and left the Guard as a Capt. when I moved to Louisiana in 1979. The M109 is a 155mm Howitzer. I spent many hours behind one and suffer hearing loss because of it. I've bounced between Georgia and Louisiana since and likely will remain in Louisiana for the duration. I envy you Navy types, especially the submariners; my oldest son served on the USS Birmingham stationed out of Hawaii. My late father was a WWII fighter pilot. There isn't enough legal narcotics to have gotten me on a sub. I'm pleased to say I've done pretty much what I've wanted since graduating from High School in 1963 in Japan and have spent many years in great fishing and hunting country and wouldn't change any of it. I've had a good ride. I came to fly fishing late in life but must say, it came at the right time and is something us old guys can continue to enjoy right up to the final bell.
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Jaybird840
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Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 12:14 pm • # 29 |
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Full time cop with a large metropolitan police department, and owner of a small residential real estate brokerage. Can you say "glutton for punishment?" Real estate was a full-time career until I got a wild hair at thirty five and became a cop. I'm glad to see that both of my professions are well-represented on this board!
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Jaybird840
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Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 2:29 pm • # 30 |
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Hate to hear that about a brother, ultra lite..... What agency?
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JOHN WALLACE
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Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2009 7:43 pm • # 31 |
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I work for a plumbing company. I do warehousing, shipping, receiving, delievery. Alittle of everything!
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TNSmallieman
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Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2009 8:12 pm • # 32 |
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The past 5 years I have been managing a Home medical equipment company for a chain Pharmacy. Oxygen, CPAP, Hosp beds, all the stuff people need but don't want when they get older! Prior to that, I worked for a Medical Imaging equipment company as a biomed engineer servicing X-ray machines in Hospitals, and Dr. offices for 15 years. I also spent 12 years of that time in a TN Army Nat. guard unit in an Air Cavalry Squadron of an armored Cav. regiment. I left after Desert storm. Before that I was an enlisted U.S. Navy PO2 stationed aboard the Aircraft carrier USS America CV-66 for 3.5 years. Spent a year at the Univ. of TN prior to that before joining the military.
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Cornmuse
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Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 5:42 am • # 33 |
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I'm the "Business Development Manager" for a company that manufactures low voltage connectivity solutions (business-speak for wire). I travel a LOT - 181 days on the road this year. I wished I fished half as much.
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keebranch
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Posted: Sun Dec 13, 2009 5:28 pm • # 34 |
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Joe - we can fix that the next time you're in town.
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FlyCoach
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Posted: Mon Dec 14, 2009 5:29 pm • # 35 |
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I am a middle school history teacher and baseball coach. I also teach many of my students to fly fish and tie flies. Coach
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jb789
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Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 12:15 pm • # 36 |
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Nothing. Haven't had a pay check in almost 2 years. Will go back into real estate (land only) when this blows over.
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roadking2k1
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Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2010 11:39 am • # 37 |
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I spent 10 years in automotive repair and then 20 in printing pre-press. Got laid off 5 years ago, just as well, didn't like it since everything went digital. Loved the craftsman aspect of stripping(keep it clean, I've heard 'em all). I've got a little Handyman business now and am liking my job again.
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Huw Davies
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Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 6:17 pm • # 38 |
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12 years with the Canadian Coast Guard - most of it on Nav-Aids tenders and ice breakers - the last four as a rescue specialist at a SAR station at the north end of Vancouver Island. Before that I enumerated salmon on the Babine river (northern BC), ran a fish hatchery during the winter in a remote central coast inlet (me and a dog for a few months at a time.), was a salmon fishing guide in the Charlottes, and before that armed security on a Canadian Forces base in West Germany.
Fish have figured prominently in my choice of occupations! My current career works best for my fishing pursuits, though - I'll work 5 months this year, for a full time pay check - leaves me lots of time to stroll rivers, prowl estuaries and float about on lakes.
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Flickfly
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Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 4:46 am • # 39 |
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It don't get any better than that!
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johnboy
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Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 5:56 am • # 40 |
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Baseball been berry berry good to me.
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