Retired.

Before that - Guitarist (Local 47) TV Director. Videotape Editor. 3D Animator. Messenger, Hairdresser, Temp Work,
Jarhead, Retail sales - Guitars and Records First job. 16 years old at Colony Records at 52nd and Broadway, NYC

This will be interesting, I'm always curious as to what type of work backgrounds members have.

Overpaid rent-a-cop.

Now, self employed doing what ever I can and trying to get work with a new gun store/range scheduled to open soon. Before that, Alaskan bush pilot, flight engineer reciprocating on DC6s, flight instructor (CFI, CFII, MEI), ramper, lodge worker, stone mason, construction laborer, retail assistant manager, USMC, college student (English major/photography minor), traveling hippie (Europe and USA), U.S. Forestry Service, gas pump monkey, kid.

whitey wrote:This will be interesting, I'm always curious as to what type of work backgrounds members have.

Holdout

Recently graduated from college last year with degrees in History and Spanish. I plan on getting certified to teach this summer. Right now I am working two jobs: Teacher assistant at a middle school and at a local UPS warehouse, been doing that gig for 6 years.

Marriage and Family therapist. No way to sum up the range of life issues involved but includes career choice, drug use, parenting, blended families, human trafficking, health issues, criminal issues, sexual orientation issues, disease, death, birth, child abuse, sex abuse, emotional abuse, communication issues, and leisure.

You or your patients?

Inquisitor wrote:You or your patients?

I can honestly say living a full life prepared me for my current gig.

Student '60-'64
Army Natl Guard '63-'64
United States Navy '64-'85
Oracle Database Administrator '85-'10, Retired Data Processing Technician Chief
Retired '10-Present...

I'm a sort of senior technical specialist in a computer/IT field. I've worked in the private sector for most of my career, trying to stay out of management because who needs all the corporate butt kissing, y'know?

I hope to continue working for 5 more years or so until my daughters are through college, then retire.

Back in my 20s (the 1970s) I worked as a pro musician in L.A., playing what would now be called world music -- a lot of Eastern European, Greek, Irish, etc. My first job at 17 was playing accordion at a Russian Restaurant on Geary St. in S.F., called the Bolshoi. It was replaced later by a gay bar called the Climax, also no longer there.

GuitarsandGuns wrote:

whitey wrote:This will be interesting, I'm always curious as to what type of work backgrounds members have.

Holdout

Ok, truck driver for 18+ years and resident LGC ambassador coming to a town near you.

RNC Chairman.

the comedian wrote:RNC Chairman.

I *knew* it. Damn plant.

Butcher, waiter, bartender, chef, teacher, middle school administrator, dairy farmer, winery employee, dairy goat breeder and judge, cheesemaker, currently a whiskeyed-up old crank trying to learn how to make my own cat-ridges for the pistols and keep my head down.

General lay-about with almost zero computer skills and way too much interpersonal communication skills.

100 years ago, I'd be a snake oil salesman, today I am a Windows Administrator.



Seriously, I've been in IT since '94 with a brief stint in there as a courier and an automotive paint mixer. I can't program for anything and hate working on PCs, so I focus on servers and networking. I'm currently employed by a privately held hosting firm here in St Louis.

My dream for retirement involves a hobby/subsistence farm and being a certified gunsmith and possibly a firearms instructor.

Before IT, I helped my dad when he'd get his handyman projects so I've become rather good at those kind of things. I just don't really enjoy it much.

larrymod wrote: Back in my 20s (the 1970s) I worked as a pro musician in L.A., playing what would now be called world music -- a lot of Eastern European, Greek, Irish, etc. My first job at 17 was playing accordion at a Russian Restaurant on Geary St. in S.F., called the Bolshoi. It was replaced later by a gay bar called the Climax, also no longer there.

I played once at a Greek restaurant on Cahuenga for a political rally. "Athenian Gardens"? The Oudist was John Belezekian. A classical Oudist. He played with an Eagle feather.

'70's played top-40 at "The Swing" , in the Valley at Coldwater.

There were only about 300,000 musicians at any given time in LA at the time. I'm sure you and Rolandson and I must have crossed paths at one time. Probably on the 101.

Didn't you appear in a "Lou Grant" episode? playing pennywhistle. Was that you?

Sorry my short term memory sucks.

Hospital work at the moment.

I'm currently what amounts to being a millwright in a laboratory, doing various small machining jobs, a good deal of mechanical work on equipment and some tool design and toolmaking. I also volunteer as the director of the archive and art gallery at a community organization focused on the full range of outsider sexuality communities.

Previously, I have been a motorcycle mechanic, jeweler, tool design consultant, artist's assistant/fabricator, messenger, photostat camera operator, laboratory assistant, safer sex educator, designer and manufacturer of silicone dildos (when that was new technology), and (like a certain famous guy) a community activist.

I have been a dealership junky ever since graduation from high school.detailer ,bodyman and mechanic as well shop maintence/janitor.I currently am all 4, as well as running a small scale farm with 10 cows,50 acres and an old Farmall tractor,it doesn't pay worth a shit but it is one of the most enjoyable jobs I have ever done,if I could make a living wage at it I would quit the GM dealer where I work in an instant.I have worked on wide range of cars,one place I worked was an Audi-'VW-Mazda-Subaru Mitsubishi dealer,another was Toyota -Isuzu as well as Honda,Pontiac,GMC,Chevy,Buick and Pontiac,but I have workd on same way or form on about every kind of car imagineable not too mention medium duty trucks and tractor/equipment type stuff,I tried working on boats once but it didn't work out,after 2 days I hated boats and quit

I have been in social services for most of my career. Worked in construction as a youth, reparing truck tires, as a repossesor, and in food service. The last 19 years I have been a mental health worker, program director, and case worker for psychiatrically disabled people, and currently a case worker for people with developmental disabilities. I make sure that people have access to services that help them be safe, healthy, and as productive a member of society as possible.

Repo man has to be high risk.

Retired. Worked as a "Public Health Educator" for approx 20 years. The tltle is misleading, I interviewed people with sexually transmitted infections (primarily syphilis and HIV/AIDS) got them into treatment, elicited their partners, and others at risk, located, informed them of risk (while keeping the informants identity hidden) tested the person and/or refered them to treatment Due to the nature of the syphilis epidemic (and the strong feeling the middle and upper class people can persuade there doctors to avoid reporting to the health department) most of my work was in the inner cities of Milwaukee, Kenosha, and Racine.
Prior to that used bookstore partner, Claims Rep for Social Security and 3 years U. S. Army


as usual I run on too long. Too much time on my hands

I thought I hated my job, until I read what others do.

whitey wrote:I thought I hated my job, until I read what others do.

What's to hate? The romance of the open road! The wind in your hair! Gorgeous women flinging themselves at you at every truck stop!