What do You do for a Living?
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Owned a trucking company for 15 years. Sold all equipment and accounts and went to work for the company who bought it as their director of operations for 12 years until I retired. Still play lead guitar in a classic rock band with a Celtic flair and a little banjo. Hence the name.
I hear "classic rock" and cringe. You mean the same music that the Loop and the Drive have been playing for 30 years now? If I never hear Boston or Foreigner again in my lifetime it will be great.
revx6002003
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I am a Agronomist. I put together farm plans and make recommendations to farmers on what fertilizer, seed and crop protection products to use. This job also includes Sales to farmers. I also run application equipment, tall boy sprayers the ones that look like you can drive under, and the large flotation tire fertilizer spreaders, along with driving quad axle and semi trucks when needed. My part time/ fun job is driving tractor for a 600 cow dairy farm throughout the year to get crops off the field.
This is an interesting thread. I have been in the food industry for the last 20 years or so in an engineering role of sorts. But the time I have had to pinch myself, is when I was getting paid dam* good money sensory tasting bacon. The down side, I also had to taste bologna which I hate. All that was spit out.
Love my gig - haven't work a day yet!
Love my gig - haven't work a day yet!
retired from the navy in 1980. was stationed on the east & west coast, Iceland, & the Antarctic. wintered over twice at the south pole, also made 4 more trips to the "ice". after retiring from the navy I got into saw & tool sharpening--that lasted 20 yrs. for the last 40 yrs I run, operate, manage, maintain a small ski hill in NE wi. also I'm very active in snowmobiling from the club, county, & state levels. summers will find me in northern wi/UP on my Goldwing.
Each to their own. Don't play Boston or Foreigner songs. When I refer to classic rock to me are Beatles, BeachBoys, Eagles, Temptations and Petty. Maybe difference in age because only fairly new stuff is Munford and Sons which are fun banjo songs.
I've worked for a plastic thermoforming company for 29 yrs. We make plastic packaging for pretty much anything. Bring us a product that you need in a package and we design and build the mold and tooling, and then run it in our machines. Pretty neat stuff really, stuff we all take for granted I suppose. The plant that I work in specializes in food containers of all sorts, be it trays, lids, to-go containers etc....we also currently supply a portion of the lids for a well known national coffee shop chain. Pretty sad when the lid has to say "Caution Hot" on a coffee cup lid.....
arcticgeorge
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Former Local 20 Brick and Stone Masons Union Waukegan Illinois. Now in Ironwood Michigan, Brick Block and Stone Mason/Foreman day and drums for various bands night
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Good for you !!! What type of music do you play?
arcticgeorge
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I just about have been in every kind of band imaginable in the past 25+ years. Classic rock/variety hit bands are popular up here at the ski resorts/local bars and casinos.(Which theyre building one near me in Wakefield Mi. soon) Moving up here and making so much money in bands on the weekends was one of my biggest surprises. In the Chicagoland area you would play for next to nothing sometimes just gas money and tappers (or free) lol. Right now I'm filling in for a really good local band called LADD that just played the Mercer Winter Blast last weekend.....so enough bout me you play the banjo? Bluegrass is you kind of music?
In a band called "The McGowens" and have been playing with 3 out of the five members for almost 30 years. Mostly Chicago and suburbs with a few gigs in N/W Indiana and S/E Wisconsin. As stated before, My Idea of classic rock is what others would refer to as oldies lol. Not really bluegrass with the banjo although love that style. Mainly Celtic, Kingston Trio, Rovers, Great Big Sea and Mumford.
arcticgeorge
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..............Nice lots of fun. We have a Northern Wisconsin bluegrass style band with a banjo called Dig Deep they are doing real well and play the ski resorts in Mi. and taverns in Hurley up here and all over. Ok sorry to get off track guys.
maximumpsi
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I bought and operate an aluminum lakeshore dock manufacturing business that I found for sale on Craigslist a couple years ago (Solo Dock). I also make some snowmobile trailer parts (GrowthPointMarketing.com). My screen name (maximumpsi) came from my previous business selling high strength industrial concrete.
Boilermaker GF / repair and build power plants and boilers in paper mills / raise beef sell hay board horses and repair and sell used snowmobiles/ and repair and sell used farm equipment / owned and operated a used car lot and towing business for 10 years sold that in 2002 also belong to 2 snowmobile clubs 1 in WI and 1 in MI
formula_ss
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Service Manger at a company that manufactures Conveyor systems for multiple industries and have been employed at the same place for 25 years. Now my part time job is farming 2200 acres and raising 40,000 chickens for eggs. (well my wife helps).
Grant Hoar
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Magnum - is that the stripper pole union? Post-installation inspections are key, for safety purposes of course!