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wanderer1 · 04-07-2007, 04:15 PM

Oh yeah,wanderer has been my c.b. radio handle sense the mid eighties.

2airishuman · 09-03-2007, 11:22 AM

good thread 42day...

cheers
2air'

brownsmtnlab · 09-03-2007, 01:52 PM

I (Kevin) work as an electronics technician for a Dutch company that specializes in wide format printing equipment/high speed color and network printers. This involves a lot of state owned equipment, it keeps me local, and allows us to live in a very rural area...In our previous life, I was a recording engineer in the film industry, and my wife Erin was the Librarian/Archivist for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles....She's now happier as the librarian for two small rural elementry schools in our county.. Our kids' job (ages 8 and 9) is to stay out of trouble...We have yet to regret our move 12 years ago towards "voluntary simplicity".

Excella CM · 09-03-2007, 04:14 PM

Evidently there's no limit-my better half says I can make anything seem like work!

Condoluminum · 09-03-2007, 05:15 PM

After enjoying 18 months of retirement from high tech electronics contracts, I've agreed to accept position as Risk Mgr for our Credit Union, on "full-time" basis for at least 3 or 4 years... Good salary, really interesting work environment (from legal to regulatory compliance to internal/external audit to protecting 125K members from scams and frauds...). Giving up part-time development of negotiating training program content, but negotiated enough time off to continue making good use of the rolling condo... I hear these are now called "Encore Careers" and working for non-profit feels good, especially in the Valley of Outsourcing and Offshoring and Backdating of Options...

John

LJH · 09-03-2007, 06:13 PM

I'm one of those under worked, over paid Union guys, we here so much about. Someone has to do it!

Keep Smilin LJH

TBRich · 09-03-2007, 07:26 PM

I am a self-employed graphic designer.

Greg does everything else.

TB & Greg

overlander63 · 09-03-2007, 07:33 PM

My career has changed (again), after a brief stint as a scooter test pilot

, and forced temporary retirement, I am again out working, as a tech repairing almost everything, keeping an eye on the "kids" (one is 42, another 40) in the shop, and thinking about returning to a teaching career.

volvophile · 09-04-2007, 02:44 AM

Wow, this is quite a thread. Gives me an idea or two for what I want to be when I grow up.

I do phone support for Microsoft enterprise server environments for a large computer/technology corp. Large enough to employ lawyers who have a tizzy if I mention its name.
Anyhoo, I remotely resolve problems mainly for other fortune 500 companies.
I work nights from home, so the commute is good, but also explains why my posts are at 2:30 am and tend to ramble into incoherency.

The plus side is Im at home (and awake) when my goes to her part time job as a case manager for the state, to be with our 2 youngsters.
Once the youngest starts going to grade school, I might start looking at getting a daytime job again.

gowyn · 09-04-2007, 05:45 AM

Thought I'd chime in.

Had a few careers, was Navy diver but now f/t firefighter. Day on, day off, day on, five off. Great schedule if only the wife was on same...

Heather is a buyer for Trojan Tech, manufactures UV systems.

Devon our daughter starts school today...whooohooo first day of school

Condoluminum · 09-05-2007, 11:15 AM

Terry-

Glad to hear you've got tools in hand and are back at work... Test Pilot doesn't seem completely accurate, unless it applies only to time when airborne in the vicinity of a current or former scooter.. There needs to be a better term than "Scooter Crash Test Dummy" to describe your previous year's work.. Perhaps you could get a set of those cool black and yellow segmented circle patches for your coveralls to show others how it's done...

Teaching sounds fun, though it's hard on the feet and legs if you have to do it standing up all day...

John McG

jeffnjen30 · 09-12-2007, 11:24 AM

oops, I mean parents to 7 kids total. Jeff is IT - Project Managment for a restaurant chain. Jen runs an antique store with her mom.

smattson · 09-17-2007, 09:45 PM

Vice President of Sales for Nonprofit Association Insurance Services. Put 30,000 on my Jeep Cherokee this year. Stay in Airstream while on road instead of hotels.

bbop_96 · 09-18-2007, 05:24 AM

Ultra deep water drilling Logistics Specialist, don't plan to retire, having to much fun. Live half your life away from home, but now i have two families, one here and the one at home. Look forward to getting the A/S as far from the GOM as i can every chance i get.

HiHoAgRV · 09-18-2007, 08:31 AM

I'm a Mechanical Engineer by training and worked my way from floor sweeper through R&D to senior management over a 20 year period in privately owned manufacturing. Then came last years ownership change...or should I say the invitation to select an alternate career path

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To heck with the brass ring- I'm now deliriously happy at the bottom of the food chain working for the Corps of Engineers helping our Solders around the world!

Maybricks · 09-18-2007, 11:29 AM

Cool thread ....

I read every one and was sorta hoping you would be at 1000 before I got to the end!

Makes me feel inept all these high flyers and happy settled people

As for us.... We live and breathe Airstreams

and love it!

We import, ship, live, rent, restore, convert.... talk about them all day, run a forum and we're well into setting our UK trailer park up....

We hardly get chance to deal with our classic UK caravans

Before the aluminitis struck.....

My business partner qualified as an engineer

then amongst other things has built hot rods, living wagons & buses, restored classic vehicles, boats, caravans, trailers........

I worked in the civil service and can't say anymore or I'll have to shoot you all.......

From what I know about what goes on in this forum... I think happy... sociable... helpful.. & attracted to big shiny things must be the common threads!

Quote:

Originally Posted by flamingo-kid1

This is my 500th post, and now I should be a Rivet Master.. a MUCH coveted title, even if it should be "Rivet Mistress." I thank you all for helping me in MANY cases, and "putting up" with me in others!

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What do YOU do for work?

Is there a common thread between us, aside from being attracted to big shiny things??

heybaby1 · 09-19-2007, 10:05 PM

Ballistics technician....I test ammo

AirstreamCSI · 10-02-2007, 01:51 PM

I'm a newbie....retired police forensic detective for 18 years....unretired a month later and now work as a case detective what we call field investigator for same department in Asheville, NC. I am on my second Airstream which is a 1971 Overlander. I love this list!!

timmy67 · 10-02-2007, 02:20 PM

I sell heavy haul trailers for a living. Been with Aspen Custom Trailers for just over 10 years. I took over the retiring fellows territory about 16 months ago. It's a big change from sales support but I'm reallyenjoying it. Now we just need a good hard freeze up here so guys can start moving drilling equipment. I don't own an AS yet but I have been doing lots of research right here. I want to thank everyone who has responded to my questions and a big thank you to everyone who contributes to this forum. What an incredible wealth of knowledge. I'm happy I found all of you.

Muddy Waters · 10-18-2007, 10:38 AM

Spouse just retired from a long career in banking and we moved to SoOregon. I was a teacher and before the kidlets, worked for a bank on Wall Street. Yuck. We still have a teenager at home so won't be totally footloose for two more years but want to start practicing for our 'galavanting years' ASAP.