What's your gig?

[ErikE]

I'm in a similar boat as @mrsrobinson ....cat herder. Software solution manager in the telecom industry. mostly cloud these days.

 

[Pirate Lady]

I sell reverse mortgages.

OMFG!!! that there is fuuunnnyyyyyy!

 

[firecadet613]

I work in the restaurant biz...people always gotta eat and they don't like to cook....

 

[GnrlPatton]

Director of Software Development for an online travel company, my teams focus on building test tools and platforms.

I put in 10 years at UPS prior to that working in the technology/logistics group (early 90s-2001) and left that to join a few startups.

When I retire, I may look at day trading or selling reverse mortgages, I hear there's good money in those.

 

[Pirate Lady]

I work in the restaurant biz...people always gotta eat and they don't like to cook....

My dad is living a very comfortable retirement after owning a grocery store all his working days, always said “people have to eat”.

 

[ClarkGriswold]

“people have to eat”.

I'm almost sure that is true...

 

[Captsteve427]

Real Estate broker and I have a contracting business on the side.

 

[Maggieiscrazy]

I'm almost sure that is true...

I either eat or I drink. I don’t eat and drink. A wise man once told me. Don’t ruin a $50 buzz with a $5 burger.

 

[Mark.60]

No one has a comment on what would happen if we put all these engineers in one room and only one slide ruler ?

 

[Pirate Lady]

I either eat or I drink. I don’t eat and drink. A wise man once told me. Don’t ruin a $50 buzz with a $5 burger.

So true, I never eat when I am drinking. It’s a bad mix. Eat while drinking you’ll be looking for a sofa.

 

[Pirate Lady]

I’m trying to figure out how with all the old guys on here we ain’t had one say retired.

 

[Steve S]

I should have went into my Grandfathers business… people were always dying to get in….

He ran a funeral home.

 

[Pirate Lady]

No one has a comment on what would happen if we put all these engineers in one room and only one slide ruler ?

People always ask me “how you program for a living when you’re so bad at math”.
I know how to make a machine do it for me.

 

[my3sons]

I’m trying to figure out how with all the old guys on here we ain’t had one say retired.

We just logged in....we’re busy!

 

[blaster]

I currently run a day care. Nelson Ledsky always accused me of being an industrial spy though. I plead ignorance.

 

[Gofirstclass]

1969-77, USAF, airborne electronics tech
1977-90, LEO, firearms instructor, armorer, hostage negotiator, Community service officer
1990-2000, Investment management
2000-present. My admiral's servant (AKA Retired Bum)

 

[RBB]

bought and sold coal in southern wv and eastern ky along with deals as far as way as south america. imported and exported coal with a base being domestic utilities.
still dabble but not much. actually was offered a job today and said nope, will not come back for any amount of money period. i am done.

 

[Thornton69]

30+ year field mechanic. Forestry, construction and mining equipment.

 

[Strecker25]

IT guy. Used to be on the customer side as a systems/server/storage/network engineer. Moved over to the dark side of pre-sales engineering 4 years ago (and bought a bigger boat )

 

[NorCalRobert]

Ok sorry I can’t resist this.
I feel sorry for the engineer that has to manage / supervise or oversee a group of other engineers as these people are the only people whom actually read and research the installation & owners manuals unlike the contractors & homeowners etc. The problem is every engineer will interpret them differently.