What do you do for living?

[WTR&PWR]

Journeyman lineman. If I had to sit in a building or deal with/manage people that don’t know how to “work”, that would be the end of me. I respect the people that do it, but I don’t have the people skills or patience.

About 10 minutes in a substation and I start to get claustrophobic. That’s gotta be a tough adjustment from the outside. @WTR&PWR

I miss the outside sometimes. Mostly just because I liked working outside LA. And that it was the Wild West. The retirement here is hard to leave. Golden handcuffs. I like building substations and i humbly feel like I’m good at it so that helps. Substation maintenance drives me nuts. No thanks. I like constructions pace.

 

[Your ad here]

I move dirt. I'm actually the grade checker but spend time in the equipment. Worked for a GC prior building auto dealerships and so glad to not be doing that anymore.

 

[LHC Kirby]

Retired hose dragger….34 years.

Recently working as the same for the mouse in Anaheim… so I can get my grandkids in for free several times a year.

 

[Bpracing1127]

I move dirt. I'm actually the grade checker but spend time in the equipment. Worked for a GC prior building auto dealerships and so glad to not be doing that anymore.

Used to be a grade checker back in the day too

 

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Used to be a grade checker back in the day too

Do you know what swedes are?

 

[77charger]

Was a full time hot mopper of showerpans now just a part time hot mopper and acting semi retired on my time off.Cant complain work 8-10 days a month off the rest.

 

[Xtrmwakeboarder]

Bean Counter

 

[Bpracing1127]

Do you know what swedes are?

Sure do, and banjos

 

[76 Hondo]

Land Development Manager for a National Homebuilder, started as a Heavy Equipment Operator many years ago.

 

[HOOTER SLED-]

I'm an illegal alien.....thanks for picking up my tab bitches. Orale....

 

[76 Hondo]

Sure do, and banjos

Swedes and banjos ain’t real grade checking, those are for smoother checkers!

 

[VooDooChildZ28]

Owner of a pest control business in SoCal

 

[4Waters]

Work for LA City, Heavy Truck Driver, getting ready to move back to Special Projects where we do sidewalks, curb and gutter, handicap ramps, and concrete street panels.

 

[Flatsix66]

38 years working in tech. Went from mowing lawns for my dad's gardening business to working entry-level for a mainframe computer company. For the last 10 years have been the president of a computer industry association and enterprise computing performance testing director.

 

[C-Ya]

I married well…… Poor woman had no idea what happened to her. Until it was too late!

All kidding aside, I am enjoying a 2nd career as a boat captain. I work when I want. I’ve really had a great time doing this. It hardly feels like work. Its the camaraderie with my mates, deckhands, and other captains that I enjoy. Lately, I have only been taking walk-on/walk-off captain jobs. This means I just show up and drive the boat! No other responsibilities, and just leave after counting my tip! Lol

 

[PilotRyan]

I’m a pilot. Shocking, I know.

 

[Racer56]

I am a General Engineering Contractor performing demolition, shoring, excavation, grading and structural concrete. The majority of our work is shoring & mass excavation for multi-family subterranean parking structures and deep/complicated foundations for ultra custom single family homes.

 

[Bpracing1127]

Swedes and banjos ain’t real grade checking, those are for smoother checkers!

Can use a laser and do slope work with a dozer behind me. That’s where I shined. I was THE go to slope guy

 

[paradise]

Two divisions-

Luxury Home and commercial automation and audio video systems

SMB business IT Support

Small team that works hard and gets shit done

 

[Ducksquasher]

Sales...Food Distribution

 

[YeahYeah01]

VP of Operations. We do a bunch of shit. The owner and we're talking yesterday, we said it we start another division were both quitting lol. I run everything but the pest control and insulation.

Asbestos, lead, mold abatement.
Haz waste
Demolition
Emergency water loss dryouts
Rebuilds/construction
Pest control
Insulation
And several others random things too

 

[rivrrts429]

You hiring? I can play golf and I have lots of golf connections!

I’m always looking for the next Jordan Belfort of sales. PM if you’re interested.

 

[monkeyswrench]

Jack(ass) of all trades...
Mostly stuff with hammers and wrenches now. Second generation roofer...

My "job": Make sure my family has what they need, and try to get what they want. As long as it's legal, and I have the ability, I'll do it.

 

[Englewood]

Owner/Broker of an RE company throughout California (300+ agents).

As of 2017, I also opened a property management company. I wish I would’ve focused on this from the start.

I was poor and didn’t go to college. I learned to hustle at a young age.

 

[Jimmyv]

Things, I do things

and have been,
since 1978

 

[HTTP404]

I protect your medical records from the Russians and China and your vengeful X spouse.

 

[RiverCruiser]

Union Carpenter Local 909. Foreman for a company that installs division 10 specialty items. Residential drywall before that.

 

[Kachina26]

Professional cat herder.

 

[AZmike]

Truck driver here, well for 12 more years then a bum!

 

[Backlash]

Master Baiter.

 

[beerrun]

this

 

[BHC Vic]

Union Carpenter Local 909. Foreman for a company that installs division 10 specialty items. Residential drywall before that.

I’m a delegate out of 909

 

[Dport]

Ran the screed on a asphalt paver, 37 years.

 

[toto]

I work in Telecom

 

[shock22]

Work in the foundation and shoring business, baby sitting supposedly grown men.

 

[DaytonaBabe]

 

[Nordie]

Ironworker local 416, 19 years in the rebar industry, 18 of those in the field.

 

[pkrrvr619]

Wireless telecom infrastructure sales.

 

[Gramps]

started in 1970 in wildland, then went to the oil companies - haz mat - then ended in Utah with the badge

 

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Sure do, and banjos

I forgot about banjos. Who did you work for where you used swedes and banjos? Only guys I know that used them is Higgins and my old employer Tyner Paving Company.
I don't use them much anymore in Arizona because like many, the guys don't understand the simplicity of them and think they don't work and are a gimmick. So I have do the math and use a laser because it makes a beeping noise. I've set grades in so many parking lots with just swedes and never had a water puddle.

 

[lbhsbz]

I have a small business rebuilding/restoring niche market automotive brake calipers...mostly for early german and british applications. I also work with suppliers to develop parts that really should have been created in the aftermarket by now, and also wholesale some brake related parts to large distributors.

 

[renodaytona]

Quality Engineer (soon to take over the manager position when my boss retires in May) for a medical/robotics manufacture.

 

[cakemoto]

Hvac Forman
Hanging banging

 

[YeahYeah01]

Work in the foundation and shoring business, baby sitting supposedly grown men.

I know the feeling man.

 

[941Punk]

I write code and digital side hustles.

 

[Sleek-Jet]

I run/manage an electric utility. We are small, but lazy.

Started out in system operations and moved to management about 10 years ago. I get to sit in an office and deal with linemen all day.

 

[Riverhound]

V.P. OEM Services... We support vehicle manufacture quality teams with finished vehicle retrofit/rework and Intransit repairs in factories and the supply chain globally.

 

[81Sprint]

27 years in the IBEW, last 12 or so specializing in DAS and oDAS LTE and now 5G and CBRS installations. Superintendent for my company, basically I get to babysit all my field labor now.

 

[racektm]

Project superintendent for a large general contractor here in Los Angeles, mostly building major structures. 44th year in the business, started as a union carpenter many moons ago....

 

[brgrcru]

My retirement gig
Actually life came full circle for us
Back to hauling rock and sand .
Enjoying everyday cruising in my 2022 transfer