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    Offline bb71challenger

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    Re: Which jobs have you ?
    « Reply #45 on: June 14, 2007 - 06:13:46 PM »
    Jack of all trades, Master of none.
    I am too tired to list all the jobs I have had through the years. Somewhere about 20 years ago a Master Jeweler taught me the trade. I work at my wifes jewelry store sometimes. Usually only at Christmas or when she gets in a bind. My "paying the bills" job is working in an underground mine. I have worked in the mining industry for 15 years. I started in another mine running miners. I then went to another mine and worked "conventional" drill and blast mining for 3 years. That was fun, we got to blow shlt up everyday  :ylsuper:  The company went mechanized mining and I ran remote control Joy miners for about 8 years. I now work on the conveyor belt systems for the same mine. We have 50 miles of belt moving ore from where it is mined to the Refinery.  Nothing fancy but it puts food on the table.
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    Offline stones

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    Re: Which jobs have you ?
    « Reply #46 on: June 15, 2007 - 01:12:16 PM »
    Quote from: willhaven on June 14, 2007 - 04:32:21 PM
    It totally depends on the cost of living where you are. From what I know, cost of living in the US is comparatively lower than Europe. Just like living in NC or WV would be much cheaper than living in Beverly Hills, CA. :)
    Hi ,you got that right Willhaven, as an example i can tell you the prices and taxes on cars are totally ridicilous, New Ford,Chevy,Dodges full size trucks is about 85-100k as 2 seater and as 5 seater about 140-165k... :faint: Everything bigger than 2 liters of engine displacement is insane pricewise...
    In 1990 a new Corvette zr1 cost about 200k here... :scared:
    Stones
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    Offline urgewalt

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    Re: Which jobs have you ?
    « Reply #47 on: June 15, 2007 - 02:46:35 PM »
    Quote from: stones on June 15, 2007 - 01:12:16 PM
    Hi ,you got that right Willhaven, as an example i can tell you the prices and taxes on cars are totally ridicilous, New Ford,Chevy,Dodges full size trucks is about 85-100k as 2 seater and as 5 seater about 140-165k... :faint: Everything bigger than 2 liters of engine displacement is insane pricewise...
    In 1990 a new Corvette zr1 cost about 200k here... :scared:
    Stones

    Hi Stones,

    where are you from ?

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    Offline stones

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    Re: Which jobs have you ?
    « Reply #48 on: June 15, 2007 - 03:13:07 PM »
    Quote from: urgewalt on June 15, 2007 - 02:46:35 PM
    Hi Stones,

    where are you from ?


    Hi :wave: i am from a place called Telemark in Norway. :bigsmile:
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    Offline 1BADFISH™

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    Re: Which jobs have you ?
    « Reply #49 on: June 15, 2007 - 06:32:44 PM »
    -pumped gas and eventually mechanic work at family owned service station since I was 12.
    -Mechanical Engineering work term with Goodyear hose plant, in tooling department, (built machine to assemble brake booster hose on Saturn Ion)
    -Technip Offshore limited working on an offshore oil platform engineering design team. (White Rose oil field close to Hibernia offshore Newfoundland)
    -Baker Hughes Inteq working as a measurement while drilling (MWD) operator on location at drilling rigs. Basically running and monitoring downhole tools to allow drilling rigs to drill directionally.
    -Same job now as a consultant under my own company name, work for 1 primary company and other companies when it gets slow....as for pay, average about $800/day. (130-250 days a year, not very consistent, but slow year mean all summer off  :crazy:   :bananasmi )
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    Offline 70RTdroptop

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    Re: Which jobs have you ?
    « Reply #50 on: June 15, 2007 - 07:48:20 PM »
    Been a custom home builder and finish carpenter for the last 20 years. Learned the trade from my father, a master finish carpenter from Germany, and worked with him for 16 years before he passed away in September 2003.
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    Offline ozrt4406

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    Re: Which jobs have you ?
    « Reply #51 on: June 16, 2007 - 04:40:03 AM »
    MECHANIC MECHANIC MECHANIC AND STILL A MECHANIC AFTER 26 YEARS . AS FOR THE EMU FARMING JERYST NO ONE IN OZ MADE MONEY OUT OF THAT. THEY ALL TRIED OSTRICHS AS WELL AND THEY STILL ALL WENT BROKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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    Offline Moparal

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    Re: Which jobs have you ?
    « Reply #52 on: June 16, 2007 - 06:12:05 AM »
    1968  making candles from bees wax
    pruning Christmas trees
    making fiberglass tanks
    Worked on our farm. Planting fields, milking cows, bailing hay
    Took time out for scolarships/Detroit tigers Baseball pitcher/ track n field distance runner  Michigan state
    excersizing english show horses
    carpentry home building
    welder
    Heavy equipment mechanic
    Land surveyor
    diving boats for an oil company
    catching aligators and selling the heads and meat
    explosive technician
    driller in salt domes
    siesmic computer operator
    computer programmer for oil geoligist
    Build computers and sell part time out of my home.
    Musician/entertainer
    Industrial electrician
    Self employed auto shop
    Machinist on industrial rotaries  (present day)

    I have been bored all my life, never could decide what I wanted to do, so I just do whatever I want, whenever I want, till I get bored again :clueless: :dunno:

    Oh,I did draw unemployment for 1 week once and felt guilty so I picked up aluminum cans and bottles for recycling, in 1979

    May retire, Chryco and I are kicking around some ideas and might open a speed performance shop and Speed performance parts store.

    Making money wasnt hard for me, trying to keep my mind busy has been a challenge.

    When I look back in hindsight, I am a nobody, and was always told by my parents I would never amount to nothing.
    I support them now :2thumbs:

    OOPS my wife just came in here and read this before posting. SHE MADE ME SAY   ... I'm a WODERFUL HUSBAND and Provider.   Least I got her fooled. :2thumbs:


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    Offline R/T

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    Re: Which jobs have you ?
    « Reply #53 on: June 16, 2007 - 07:01:23 AM »
    I have done electrical work for the past 26 years. I am a certified pipe welder also.But with all of my vision problems of late, that is pretty much over.
    I have been working in a Nuclear facility ( We produce fuel the Navy) for the past 5 years as an Electronics Technician.
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    Offline LAA66

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    Re: Which jobs have you ?
    « Reply #54 on: June 16, 2007 - 08:18:36 AM »
    I cleaned up in a machine shop in high school.
    Became an apprentice machinist afterwards.
    Then construction management (Superintendent, Project Manager, Construction V.P.)
    Went out on my own developing residential subdivisions
    Now consulting hourly as Housing is tanking.  :bricks1:
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    Offline urgewalt

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    Re: Which jobs have you ?
    « Reply #55 on: June 16, 2007 - 08:59:11 AM »
    Quote from: Moparal on June 16, 2007 - 06:12:05 AM
    OOPS my wife just came in here and read this before posting. SHE MADE ME SAY   ... I'm a WODERFUL HUSBAND and Provider.   Least I got her fooled. :2thumbs:
    Hi Moparal,
    is this not the most important job in the world => to be a husband and father ...  :2thumbs:

    You make it right ... To do want you want and when you want - WOW it's amazing - here in germany I must write
    a unbelievable number (over 600 for my present job) of applications before I get a job ...
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    Offline urgewalt

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    Re: Which jobs have you ?
    « Reply #56 on: June 16, 2007 - 09:01:40 AM »
    Quote from: stones on June 15, 2007 - 03:13:07 PM
    Hi :wave: i am from a place called Telemark in Norway. :bigsmile:

    Hi stones,
    as a child I was in holidays in Norway.
    But doesn't know in with region exacly.
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    Offline 71chmark

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    Re: Which jobs have you ?
    « Reply #57 on: June 16, 2007 - 10:34:02 AM »
    2 years as a fry cook
    6 years navy (submarine)
    27 years nuclear power plant
    51 years sex maniac
    for the future I plan on just enjoying being alive (and my 3 year old son and 5 year old daughter) not to forget first and most of all my unbelievably awesome wife.
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    Offline urgewalt

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    Re: Which jobs have you ?
    « Reply #58 on: June 16, 2007 - 11:02:14 AM »
    Quote from: 71chmark on June 16, 2007 - 10:34:02 AM
    51 years sex maniac

    Hi,

    I hope the payment was adequate  :roflsmiley:
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    Offline highspeeddirt

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    Re: Which jobs have you ?
    « Reply #59 on: June 16, 2007 - 12:57:23 PM »
    Well,
     
    Dishwasher/Cook while in high school 1yr

    US Army right out of high school 3 yrs

    Corrugated press operator right out of the Army 15 yrs

    Just recently changed to oil and gas industry as a "Roughneck" on a Frac crew but now moving up to Snubbing a whole month and a half with this now, but liking it so far.
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    Butte, MT

    Mike
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