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What do you do?

I started pumping gas at 16 went on to working in part stores. Moved to San Diego at 19 worked in the construction field for a bit but ended up being a auto mechanic, moved back to Jersey became a repo man until my son was born. Went back into the emergency field as a supervisor, 16 years down 9 left then hopefully retirement.
 
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powermyster said:
Vehicle Damage Assessor, I basically inspect damaged vehicles for a living. I work for an insurer carrying out a range of functions from collision investigation, liability disputes, fire investigation, quality audits, repairer equipment and premises audits, complaints and repair methods, expert witness etc etc

I cover passenger vehicles, HGV, Motorcycles and plant. Basically anything they want looked at as long as it has wheels.

Now I'm off to ask you all really stupid questions about old Mopars:wtf:
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The guy in the fight club movie has the same job
 
coronet68mx said:
The guy in the fight club movie has the same job
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Not quiet the same, but you wouldn't be the first person to draw that comparison.
It's an interesting job, dunno if I'll keep it up forever though. Went back to college and doing an MBA now.
 
I too wore quite a few hats but spent the last 26 years mostly as an inside machinist for Exxon and retired in 06. Had a couple of other jobs before Exxon as a machinist and was introduced to NC machines and worked for CAMCO of Houston for a bit. Kinda liked that and picked it up quickly and was making modifications to the program. The programmer there sucked big time. Getting on at Exxon was perfect timing because the oil down turn happened soon after. Before that, ARMCO steel for 5 years and ran an over head crane for 3 years. Before that was the AF, home building and mowing yards. Started mowing at 12 and by 14 I was working for dad building houses. My first job has installing asbestos siding. Nice eh but that only lasted for about 1/2 summer. There was also a sprinkling of a lot of other jobs thrown in with some not lasting more than a few hours. One job wouldn't have lasted more than 30 minutes if I hadn't rode out to the job site with the crew in the company vehicle. Ended up having to work the whole day :( and told them that I would not be available here on out lol. The grocery store job didn't last too long either....something about wearing a white shirt and bow tie that rubbed me wrong and wasn't told that it was a requirement until after I took the job. Really liked working on cars as a teen but didn't care about working at a gas station either. Used to hang out at this old shop between lawn mowing jobs and sweep the floors for free. My first built engine came from there several years later and I could care less about what color my under ware is so long as it's comfortable....well, so long as it's not pink. :D
 
Last 30yrs as lead tech. at one of the biggest truck rental/leasing outfits. Retired now, but my new full time job is keeping an eye out for Richard Cranium when goes online!!!!
 
I'm a professional gynecologists, been at for almost forty five years, been practicing at age thirteen.
 
MoparBill you work with a lot of stainless steel? I used to work were we built a lot of equip for Pharmaceutical company's. Tough stuff!
 
Car Nut said:
I'm a professional gynecologists, been at for almost forty five years, been practicing at age thirteen.
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So when you eventually retire, will you still keep your hand in? :rolleyes:
 
I've worked as a mechanic for Western Auto and Montgomery Wards, moving into parts for a Chevrolet Dealership. Ran the parts department for a Ford-Mercury dealership, culminating in a Gold Medallion Manager award for being #1 in the St. Louis region - got me a trip to Cancun out of that! Then I opened my own NAPA store and had a ball running that for several years. NAPA tells you one thing about your earnings potential, while they sit on different figures back at their office - I surpassed their smoke and mirror numbers and they couldn't figure out how I did it... After about 7 years, a combination of things happened just right so I closed the store, sold the building and took off on another completely different career path in computers. I started working for state government processing the lottery drawings which was a lot of fun. Moved up into the 5th largest data center in the nation, working first in the media library and then moving into the command center, think of a NASA flight center - 3 of us monitored 34 screens, watching and maintaining the IBM Mainframe Sysplex for the entire state - along with a 40k terminal network. After several years of this, I moved to another agency when offered a promotion to programmer and have been there ever since. Thanks to the state, I now have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and have finished the CISCO Network Academy curriculum as well. I'm a dying breed of COBOL programmers - coding programming for Child Support. In a couple of years, I'll retire and move out of this state - hopefully.
 
After high school lots of jobs that didn't cut it for me or me for them. Finally at 22 I got the thoughts in my head about going to college. Two degrees later - ended up spending 33 years with some of the best known and respected property & casualty insurance carriers in the U.S.. Sales and Marketing was my thing. At one time I had half the country and sixteen branches under my authority. Finally had the scare of a lifetime with a very severe heart attack. Took a year off went back for a year then decided that was enough. Couldn't take the negative politics of corporate America any longer. No longer had the stamina to absorb the constant and unrelenting g punishment the big corps hand out. Bailed out 5 years ago - and have no regrets. I have a lovely wife I want to be there for. Not a very handy guy as mostly all I know is the financial and insurance worlds. But I get by. As some of you know I'm trying to reacquaint myself with my only child of 45 years - my 68 GTX. Fully restored now but working the kinks out - lot of FBBO members have been a big help in that respect. Hope to meet some soon in person.
 
GetX'd said:
After high school lots of jobs that didn't cut it for me or me for them. Finally at 22 I got the thoughts in my head about going to college. Two degrees later - ended up spending 33 years with some of the best known and respected property & casualty insurance carriers in the U.S.. Sales and Marketing was my thing. At one time I had half the country and sixteen branches under my authority. Finally had the scare of a lifetime with a very severe heart attack. Took a year off went back for a year then decided that was enough. Couldn't take the negative politics of corporate America any longer. No longer had the stamina to absorb the constant and unrelenting g punishment the big corps hand out. Bailed out 5 years ago - and have no regrets. I have a lovely wife I want to be there for. Not a very handy guy as mostly all I know is the financial and insurance worlds. But I get by. As some of you know I'm trying to reacquaint myself with my only child of 45 years - my 68 GTX. Fully restored now but working the kinks out - lot of FBBO members have been a big help in that respect. Hope to meet some soon in person.
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Looking forward to that at Van Nuys. You financial guys never told me that I can never touch the "pile" without being killed by the tax man. A little late now for Roth.
 
European Business development manager for Canadian biotech company
 
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