People's career jobs??

[Carry-a-Kimber]

Make ethylene and propylene.

[C-dub]

I also run and supply a small operation that converts a Nitrogen/Oxygen mixture into CO2...

The catalytic converter on your squad car?

That would be carbon monoxide.

[Sidro]

Oil production. I am there when the well is born and oversee all aspects of it's life till it is plugged.

[RPB]

I also run and supply a small operation that converts a Nitrogen/Oxygen mixture into CO2...

The catalytic converter on your squad car?

I was going with my body

My niece and brother make a lot of methane, he used to contribute to global warming by lighting his personal fuel supply


I forgot, (age does that) I used to drive a truck and sell electronics and did electronics repair in the early 70s too ..

[apostate]

Risk Management

[tomtexan]

Tow truck operator. I clean up the mess and haul off the junk after people crash.

[urnoodle]

Although my employer would define my job differently, experience defines it as; exceed budget by trying to meet a ridiculous deadline with insufficient resources. I am a project manager.

Risk Management

A little risk management saves a lot of fan cleaning.

[Keith B]

I also run and supply a small operation that converts a Nitrogen/Oxygen mixture into CO2...

The catalytic converter on your squad car?

I was going with my body

I can't even get my only employee—my wife—to call me "Boss," so that ruins that joke.

Time to replace her - the job market is flush with eager people to work.

TAM, you mean your CFO?

[jimlongley]

I never planned to do it, but I was a "telecomm professional" for a career.

I wanted to be a fireman, and a Marine, but the beginning of the Vietnam thing got in the way of one, and my age got in the way of the other. When I turned 18 I joined the local volunteer fire department, the city was not hiring 18 year olds. I started to fill the time between then and when I was old enough by attending college, but several factors discouraged that. I went to work for the phone company in 1966 partly to make some pretty good money and to wait out the draft (if it didn't happen I wasn't going to enlist.) I got my draft notice, attempted to enlist in the Marines, they had filled their quota, and I wound up in the Navy, and considering all of my lineman, first aid instructor, fireman, and ham radio operator experience, they made me a Gunner's Mate.

The Navy quickly squelched any career thoughts, so I returned to my original plan, be a fireman. Then I met the woman who would become my wife, and decided maybe it would be a good idea to become a provider, so when I got out of the Navy I went back to the phone company.

I worked my way up, a little at a time, to "Special Services" which included servicing Teletypes and installing all manner of data communications equipment, including gateways for a little thing they called NYSERNET, a network between several colleges in the area. Eventually NYSERNET became part of DARPANET, end evolved into the internet. Al Gore can claim he invented the internet, but I know he didn't, because I was there at the beginning, and I installed it.

That job led to a first level management staff position on a special project, and then I was recruited as a "Network Engineer" (second level) to supervise part of a new network the State of NY was having built. Hated that job, well actually some of the people involved, and dropped back to first level as a "Transmission Technical Support Engineer" covering at least 1/3 of the State of NY and serving as the statewide Subject Matter Expert on the "EmpireNet" project that I had helped drag kicking and screaming into existence.

I spent several pleasant years of work in that job and then my wife passed away. During that time I had been recruited, a few times, to move up to Bell Labs/Bellcore, but we didn't want to move (or my wife didn't anyway) but after she passed I took it as permission to take the next logical step and I took a promotional (temporary) transfer to Bellcore as a technical trainer in Data Communications and voice and data transmission.

Married my second wife and moved her off to Illinois with me, where I purchased a 1911 without any interference from the state.

When the time came to rotate back to NY, we decided we liked it better in IL, and jumped on an early retirement offer that NY Telephone made.

Retired as second level management at age 48 with 28 years of service, full time job at Bellcore fell through because the company got sold, went to work for Tellabs, gained recognition as a team leader and SME on a variety of telecomm equipment and subjects, and was recruited away from Tellabs by Alcatel, who moved us to Texas where I was a team leader and lead technical support engineer. After the telecomm bubble burst I was laid off, I held several telecommjobs, and worked as a screener for TSA, before coming to Home Depot, and here I am.

All I ever really wanted to be was a fireman.

[discoqueen]

Like some of the others here, I've dabbled in a lot of this and that. A Jill of All Trades, if you will.

Skills I still use are (in no particular order):

• Graphic Design
• Web design/development
• Photography
• Sign making
• Apparel & Accessories printing

And like others have mentioned, I'm still trying to figure out what to be when I grow up.

[rcasady]

commercial diver (offshore/oil/gas/salvage)

just purchased a new book "living off the government for dummies " so I'm hoping to make a career change soon

[redlin67]

Manufacturing/Production Manager over the manufacturing of oil and gas tools. We make every part of the down hole drill string. Drill, Baby, Drill!!

[karder]

Broadcast engineering and TV production.

[recaffeination]

Psychic

a/k/a Dodd-Frank reporting