What Do You Do For a Living?

[crawdad]

Freight train conductor.

I'm a bit of a railfan. Which railroad do you work for?

 

[doug535]

Automotive repair guy here, 35 years so far, Master Tech with L1 certification. Started pipe carving in November of 2017 as a hobby and it has progressed into a possible retirement from auto repair, my feets and back are getting pretty tired.

 

[didimauw]

I'm a bit of a railfan. Which railroad do you work for?

CN. Otherwise known as the WC. The Wisconsin Central division of Canadian national.

 

[Briar Porch]

Retired from selling and repairing vacuum cleaners. In this day and age most people just buy a new cheepie at the big box store.

 

[stbruno70]

Tax geek. Former agent of the Internal Revenue Service and have also worked for various tax law firms and CPA firms. I now am on the side of the angels and represent people who have problems with the tax authorities.

 

[scottygod]

Cool, then you know our resident comic book star, jiminks?

Only by reputation here, sadly. I was aquainted with a professional comic inker some years agp on an art forum. I'm curious now if it's the same gentleman.

 

[hawky454]

Just recently changed careers, I’m now doing Tech/Dev Ops. I absolutely love it!

 

[Ted Vig]

My wife and I run a small guitar shop in Saint Paul, MN. vigguitarshop.com

 

[elessar]

My wife and I run a small guitar shop in Saint Paul, MN. vigguitarshop.com

Awesome. Next time I'm up in the cities I will try to stop by. I checked out your website. I too have made custom pickups in the past. I used my 3D printer to make custom bobbins. My 4 string bass has a neat triple magnet per string arrangement. Do you do any active electronics?

 

[Ted Vig]

Awesome. Next time I'm up in the cities I will try to stop by. I checked out your website. I too have made custom pickups in the past. I used my 3D printer to make custom bobbins. My 4 string bass has a neat triple magnet per string arrangement. Do you do any active electronics?

Way cool! I install plenty of Bartolini, Aguilera, etc. For active stuff. I do lots of repair and focus on vintage style pickups, although I get lots of interesting requests. Man, a 3d printer would be mighty handy...

 

[saintpeter]

retired and author

 

[UncleRasta]

Ember Management apprentice bolstered by retail clerkery and occasional photography gigs. " Have beens" include: fish processing supervisor, bookseller, artistic director, tour manager...

 

[olkofri]

Geographer doing leather work. Go figure.

 

[Patrick_Green]

but, I have also made my speech and debate coaching hobby a pay gig.

Have you been active in debate? I went to state back in 2011 in Texas for Lincoln-Douglass debate with my highschool team. I dont debate anymore, but I enjoy listening to political and theological debates conducted by scholars.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Have you been active in debate?

NSDA stuff... it's not nearly the same as hearing politics or religion. You have to be prepared to argue both sides... which you probably know.

 

[ashdigger]

I'm in charge of Death and Destruction. More the Why, How and Where than the Act.

 

[weezell]

Sales Weezell Extraordinaire!

 

[JMcQ]

I am active duty U.S. Navy and plan to retire within the next two years and find a new career.

 

[achtman]

I‘m an academic doing research on the evolutionary history of microbial pathogens. I did this in Germany until I retired at the age of 65 and moved to Ireland. I then retired there again when my contract ran out after 6 years and started again in England in 2013 Two more years and I retire from academia for good and move back to Germany.

I smoked a pipe for 5 years while trying to break my cigarette addiction back in the 1970s. I finally gave up fags for good 4 years ago by promising myself I could buy any pipe I wanted as long as I never smoked another cigarette. It worked but the pipe collection now has more than 100 pipes, most old Brit wood but a bunch of others, even including brand new commissioned pipes.

Mark

 

[JMcQ]

I‘m an academic doing research on the evolutionary history of microbial pathogens. I did this in Germany until I retired at the age of 65 and moved to Ireland. I then retired there again when my contract ran out after 6 years and started again in England in 2013 Two more years and I retire from academia for good and move back to Germany.

I smoked a pipe for 5 years while trying to break my cigarette addiction back in the 1970s. I finally gave up fags for good 4 years ago by promising myself I could buy any pipe I wanted as long as I never smoked another cigarette. It worked but the pipe collection now has more than 100 pipes, most old Brit wood but a bunch of others, even including brand new commissioned pipes.

Mark

Sounds like a very impressive collection.