Getting to know you, what jobs have you had?

[Rich Knapp]

Jobs you held and made a living doing.

Farm hand, grounds keeper, pizza delivery, janitor, window washer, car washer, auto mechanic, welder, fabricator, US Navy, cement flat work, home framing construction, pole barn builder, lumber piler, cut off saw opperater, foundery worker, Paper mill worker, manager, sales man, Diesel Tec (for a couple major companies) as last job before becoming disabled.

20 diffrent full time careers. Started working for a paycheck at 13yrs old.
This dosn't count diffrent positions with in the same empoyer.

Started out making $1.50 per hour and worked my way up to average $50k a year. But x-wifes took most of that.
Now on SSD due to M.S., other Medical problems with low back and cognetive functions getting worce.

[BendtheBar]

Here's me:

--Library (College)
--Dairy Queen Janitor (College)
--GNC Dork (Post-college)
--US Army 1991-1994, Unit Supply Specialist
--Acura/BMW Saleman, Crown Auto, Richmond, VA
--Truck Sales, Coeur D'Alene, Idaho
--Shipping Manager, US Chrome Corporation
--Owner, Evolve Computers, LLC (1999-2000)
--Occupational Healthcare, Hearing Conservation Specialist (2001-2006)
--Machinist (2007-2009)
--Professional Writer/Web Content Manager (2009-2010)

[jslep]

i don't have a long list.........

gradeeated 94' started home remodeling
96' started strictly framing
04' started working for myself
08' went back to home remodeling when the market crashed(still for myself)

[onetiredkris]

My list is pretty short too.

5 years of being a ford diesel technician
6 months of being a bouncer/escort at a strip club
AND just got back into the diesel game last week! and am super excited because thats ware my real money comes from

[nighttrain]

1st job-- burger king (1987)
2nd job-- construction work in the summers (During HighSchool) with same company my old man worked for (1987-1990)
3rd job-- cashier at convenience store (during HS) (1988)4th job-- worked as a plastic welder in a plastic factory (during HS) (1988-89)
5th job-- Pizza restraunt-- making Subs, Pizzas, Calzones... etc(1989-1990)
6th job-- Joined Army--- 20 years (1990-2010) as a diesel Mech on Bradley Fighting Vehicle, but i have worked on almost every piece of equipment in the Army inventory... have managed maintenance teams, have run the entire maintenance program for an Armor Battalion (in excess of 300 pieces of equipment), and last 3 years i have been a Maintenance Instructor; teaching new recruits and mid career Soldiers entry and advanced maintenance skills... (also worked for a Body shop while i was in Kansas, painting, hanging parts and the like) (used to build motors and do side auto work while leaving in texas)

Present day-----retired from the Army 2 weeks ago--- currently looking for another job!!!!

[Rich Knapp]

Originally Posted by onetiredkris

My list is pretty short too.

5 years of being a ford diesel technician
6 months of being a bouncer/escort at a strip club
AND just got back into the diesel game last week! and am super excited because thats ware my real money comes from

I hear ya. ^5 ever hear of CTI (Red and white trailers, red trucks) That was one of my Tec/Welder jobs.
See a patern here? I see a lot of diesel tecs. lol

[kman025]

work in a pizza place at a water park

[Marc]

EggRoll House- 3 years

Landscaping/ tree nursery- 3 years

Task Master general contractor- 1 year Various Remodeling jobs

Highway Equipment Company- 6 months -Company is a joke

Ma and Pas Construction Inc- 6 months Mainly roofing

L&P Painting Inc.- Industrial, doing anything from tank linings, scaffold building, sand blasting painting walls, high pressure (40,000psi) water blasting, Industrial flooring, Ceramic insulations, Zinc and Epoxy coatings, you name it pretty much.

T&K Roofing- 3 days. I was one of the few guys with a drivers license so I got the advantage of getting to do alot of equipment deliveries and hauling things etc, but the third day they wanted to start me in on a roof project that would take us over a year to complete. It was a hot tar roofing project that included the removal of the existing asbestos roof. I did that for one day and said screw it. I am all about working hard and being proud of what I do but no way was I doing that ****. Health hazzard and ridiculous working conditions. No one was wearing masks or anything, it was like these bastards were just morons through and through.

Now I work for Tri-State Painting, we do all comercial work, mostly new construction its great clean easy work compared to the Industrial side of things. Very flexible and layed back, I love it.

I go back to school this fall for Construction Management.

Some of the earlier listed jobs overlapped or were simultanious.

[onetiredkris]

Originally Posted by Rich Knapp

I hear ya. ^5 ever hear of CTI (Red and white trailers, red trucks) That was one of my Tec/Welder jobs.
See a patern here? I see a lot of diesel tecs. lol

Yeah they come in every now and then, havnt seen one lately though.

Haha yeah we do have some diesel expertise here!!

Its a great path, i love it. As a matter of fact all next week im going to be at the factory training center for a rundown of the brand new 6.7 ford is putting out this year.

[strkout35]

Originally Posted by onetiredkris

escort at a strip club

lulz, could be taken the wrong way