What was/is your occupation?

[Eagle43]

Bureaucrat, MegaCorp Flunkie and Pension Check Accumulator. That last one is important.

 

[dmpi]

Software engineer at MegaCorp

 

[Jarhead*]

Bureaucrat, MegaCorp Flunkie and Pension Check Accumulator. That last one is important.

May the wind always be at your back, and you spend more time with the last one than you did on the first two.

Nice going, you old phfart

 

[bosco]

project engineer, bridge designer, marine engineering manager, coastal engineer, programmer/hardware interfacer, labor analyst, fisheries technician, clerk, electrican apprentice, pulp mill worker, green chain puller

 

[Jarhead*]

green chain puller

Boy does that bring back memories. In 1957, recently released from active duty in the USMC, I was in need of some cash to buy a car.

There was a recession at that time in the lumber business. There was 42 applicants for 2 jobs "pulling on the green chain".

They required a written test. The guy that administered the test was a supervisor in that dept.

One of the questions on the test was related to "Time Zones", and when I got to that question, I raised my hand and he came over to my desk.

"Pardon me sir, but I'm applying for a job on the green chain, is there travel required?" He rolled his eyes, and said, just keep going. ;

I was hired and spent 3 mos. working on the "Chain Gang", bought a used car, and a few bucks to get out of town.

 

[cute fuzzy bunny]

Don't get me started on NCIS.

Okay, why not?!? We watch that show and it seems at least every other episode has them tracking down and shooting terrorists.

I'm going out on a limb here, but its my guess that NCIS' actual incidence of running into a terrorist at about 0.0002 and their likelihood of even having a weapon on them when it happens at 0.0.

My wife couldnt care less because she just likes mark harmon.

But I'd love some informed opinions.

 

[bssc]

My wife couldnt care less because she just likes mark harmon.

But I'd love some informed opinions.

My wife watchs it too and I suspect that she likes Mark Harmon too.

When I was a kid, the JAG lawyers I knew were in it because the Army paid off their student loans. Many of them decided that since they had put in their 8 years, it wouldn't hurt to put in another 12 and get a pension. Then why not stay another ten and get the full pension. One of my friends' dads, after he retired from the JAG, went to a company that made SPA. We used to joke about him fixing parking tickets when they parked their howitzers in the wrong spot or let their meters expire.

 

[gindie]

My jobs -

garden shop (i.e. flower waterer and tomato plant salesman), Arby's, math tutor, software developer

 

[chrisdut]

Wasn't intercst (REHP founder and 30-something retiree) also in risk management? Probably helps you see the upside of stocks and the downside of working.

I think he was a Civil Engineer.

 

[lazygood4nothinbum]

volunteer worker (community stuff, recycled glass before it was fashionable, etc)
family flunky (house boy, lawn & pool guy and first mate/deck hand)
factory worker (the soot got through my clothing to make my skin completely black)
warehouse worker (i got to drive the forklift after the last guy put the forks through the side of a trailer. i could turn that puppy on two wheels without spilling. very fun job. i had to work with this guy who was scared of heights and who was real whiny so sometimes i'd leave him 15 feet airborne if he happened to be up there when the break bell rang.)
fast food (i lasted two days and never bothered to go back for my pay check.)
more volunteer work (during college i taught tough kids in ybor city (tampa) who refused to learn during normal class hours. i did a pretty good job with them too.)
construction worker (inspector for engineering family-i only got hog tied to the steel frame of high rise buildings a few times.)
newspaper reporter (a daily and later a weekly)
publishing company editor (mcfortune5-actually was their top award winner before i realized it didn't make a spit of difference & got lazy.)
some kind of specialist (they ran out of titles)
good4nothinlazybum (so far & by far my favorite j*b)

i used to get to play with bulldozers. and i'm not talking tonker toys. didn't have anything to do during lunch so i climbed up about 200 ft....

me with hard-hat hair on top of tower crane...

 

[Nords]

But I'd love some informed opinions.

My opinions aren't that informed but I have some.

While I was at my final command I was tangentially involved in the unrelated suicides of three co-workers over a three-year period. All were straightforward, no mysteries or conspiracies. At some point NCIS showed up to interview us, and in the case of one of the deceased they were required to release his personal effects to me.

For people who presumably spent all their time investigating and interviewing, they sucked at both while being callously and bureaucratically offensive. If that was a tactic designed to get me to divulge more information then it backfired.

I've had NCIS agents insist that they were required to bring their loaded weapons onboard a submarine, after attempting to conceal them from the topside sentry, and justify their insistence as "personal protection". That agent's business was conducted on the pier while I had base security coordinate with the local NCIS office. Weaponless or not he was too dangerous to trust.

Maybe they weren't going to waste their really good people on someone who was only tangentially involved. But as reassurance for future assistance it failed miserably.

 

[wabmester]

I think he was a Civil Engineer.

I found his resume online.

JOHN P. GREANEY, PE, CONSULTANT : Risk analysis, capital cost estimating and forecasting for the process industries-oil & gas, chemicals & pharmaceuticals

 

[cube_rat]

Hey, Lazygoodfornothinbum - You look hot in that bottom pic. I think all of the men on this board need to post their past career pics

 

[CCdaCE]

Hrm. I'm a Civil Engineer, hence the CE part. And I've always had a hankering for risk analysis. Maybe a career change is in order, after some schoolin'. Prior to this ...

Paperboy off and on.
15-18 Janitor at Clinic
18-24 Civil Engineer Intern and College - wide variety of projects from drafting mine shaft bat cupola plans to boat launch ramps to construction inspection/survey of state park shower buildings, well installation, etc. "Anything and everything".
24-Present Civil Engineer for DOT - Construction administration, supervision of materials testing, survey, construction inspection, etc.

Yay, I got my PE lic. too.

-CC

 

[Nords]

Hey, Lazygoodfornothinbum - You look hot in that bottom pic. I think all of the men on this board need to post their past career pics

OK, Cube_Rat, here's the pre-ponytail version.

Your turn!

 

[scrinch]

I think all of the men on this board need to post their past career pics Grin

Okay here I am at lunchtime after several weeks in the jungle in Sumatra.

 

[cube_rat]

Actually, Nords is hot too! Love the whole uniform look. hehehe

Your turn!

Oh, but I already shared THAT pic of boob woman many times.

 

[Nords]

Oh, but I already shared THAT pic of boob woman many times.

That's OK, I've spent the last 13 minutes getting ready to delete the Kathy Bates version before more people got hurt...

 

[bbbamI]

Woo Hoo! My ....what great lookin' guys!

 

[chrisdut]

I found his resume online.

JOHN P. GREANEY, PE, CONSULTANT : Risk analysis, capital cost estimating and forecasting for the process industries-oil & gas, chemicals & pharmaceuticals

I did a little research and agree with all of the above...here is some additional info. He received his BS in Civil Engineering From WPI in three years, obtained an MBA from Syracuse, worked as an engineer/capital cost analyst and retired at 38.

 

[CyclingInvestor]

age 09-18 paperboy
age 19-21 procter
age 21-48 computer scientist (aerospace, finance)
age 48+ nothing

 

[Cattusbabe]

Another Registered Nurse chiming in. 32 years worth. Various duties, various shifts, both direct patient care and management.

 

[Leonidas]

I think all of the men on this board need to post their past career pics

My last official work photo. Me getting an award at an undisclosed location April 2004.

 

[RAE]

Environmental Educator, Forester, Wildlife Biologist

 

[REWahoo]

I think all of the men on this board need to post their past career pics

Here's one that dates back to my military days...