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I build bathrooms.
Had to go back to the bathroom I finished a week ago to install the sinks now that the counter tops were in and move an outlet because the glass people drilled the hole in the mirror wrong. No biggie. There's another 8' of mirror yet to go in.
I gutted this room 4 weeks ago, poured a new shower basin, built a new bench for the jet tub, sheetrocked it and tiled the place. Fancy home in Minnetonka.
I do cheaper bathrooms too. But I try to do them all as best I can.

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Lawn mowing and landscape maintenance. Haying, raise a few beef cows, chickens, and horses. And have my tractors and other equipment.j
 
I fix office equipment, photocopiers, printers, fax machines, laminators, shredders etc.
I also work on electronics on the side and do custom electronic installs for classic cars and install remote car starters all on the side from my home shop.
 
Currently I am nesting parts to be cut on a laser machine to make agricultural (or other)bulk product handling equipment.
 
Farm. Will probably retire in a year or two,prop my feet up and watch the world go by until I go to that great mansion in the sky and hopefully farm there for a few million years.lol.
 
Retired tool & diemaker. Mostly ran Zeiss CMM's the last 30 years. Now I help my wife at her dog grooming shop, generally half a day there, then go home and work on my projects. Currently fixing up a 40x40 pole barn, making a man cave for myself. I bought a L3400 Kubota earlier this year, and I love that little orange thing!!
 
I retired from the Unisys computor co. about 3 years ago. I haven't stopped working though. I have a discing, and mowing business. Mostly during the late spring when the weeds are dry for fire protection here in calif. It's only about 4 months out of the year. so I have plenty time for other projects. Stan
 
Power plant operator for 9 years, recently moved into instrumentation and electronics section.

Heck of a use for an Animal and Veterinary Science degree...

Aaron
 
heavy equipment operator, also own and drive trucks for a living ,hobby farm, play with old tractors
 
I retired at age 72, from auto body work. Started in 1947, in the auto trade. Auto, truck, Ford tractor repairs, then body work.
After retirement, i decided i'd best do something to keep healthy, so i started fixing lawn equipment, and that what i do now, at age 86! My Dr. sez he's never seen somebody as old as i am, as healthy as i am! Heck, if i had sat around the house when i retired, i'd probably be long gone! Dr. sez--keep on keeping on!
 
Heat Transfer Applications Engineer. Run a few Beef Cows and help my wife with some houses we have for rental property. Full time father even though they are old enough they should be taking care of me.
 
Used to work for a Pontiac dealership in the 80s warranty mechanic dealing with problem cars and customers, in the 90s helped in the body shop there. Was laid off, started working for an express courier company, currently working for a medical lab doing pickups/deliveries
 
Full time job, a work for county as a maintainer operator. Small farm consisting of 100 acres of corn
soybeans an hay with 25 stock cows
 
Breed Quarter Horses (actually the stallion does it) and handle what goes in and comes out along with all other related projects then go to my day (mostly nights) job working for the US Army to pay for the above and develop my people skills.

Dave
 
My business card reads hay sales, custom operations, excavation, and conservation consulting. What that translates to today in this economy is I sell hay, some I raise, some I buy; run 70 momma cows; and board a few horses, cows and dairy heifers. Since I'm not getting much dirt work I've been trying to build up my infrastructure. Acre-wise I'm way under stocked so I hope to add paddocks and waterers to increase my horse numbers.
 
retired for 20y electrian for 30y grew up as a mecanic dad sold ford cars ,trucks,tracktors worked for him until 1960 am now 85 do next to noyhing and go to tractor shows .
old art
 
I farm.

After 10 years in construction, and the collaps of that industry. The last couple years I worked for other outfits who make hay and grow beef critters. I started a small commercial vegetable farm this summer, and plan to expand for the next few years.

Still spend some time swinging a hammer when I get the chance.

Ben
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I'm a Firefighter/Paramedic, both fulltime and paid volunteer. I've done a variety of parttime jobs, but I'm working on starting up my woodwoking business again.
 
Hey Ultradog MN, I"m just north and West of MTKA,retired from 28 years of turnin wrenches for Henn. County. Fourth Gen. Farmer, Got rid of my beef herd a few years ago, now making and selling horse hay in small squares. collecting and using Massey Harris tractors and also doing some pulling. Have a big garden and heat with wood and stuff, Trying to live the way god meant man to live---COUNTRY.
 
Engineer, currently doing the earthwork/roadways for a set of Siemens windmills in NorCal. Got some nice toys to play with, 2 D8T's, D6N, a 140H and 160H graders, 330 excavator, etc.
 
Building bathrooms is a good job to have. Like the title of a training book for kids, everybody poops. I operate a M-X track and just went back to welding. I'd like to find a shop where I could renew my pressure tickets. Dave
 
Dave, AS much as I'd like to-- being somewhat of a jokester, I'll leave that one alone ----- LOL

I'm retired truck driver former tire builder and before the army got me I was farming with my family
 
Retired Manufacturing Engineer, Journeyman Tool & Die Maker, Master Electrician. Still do a lot of volunteer work and take care of my hobby farm, cut wood, garden, etc. & work on old tractors and generally have fun.
 
i live the easy life.
raise bison(nothing to it)
do some wrenching on my equipment, or renovating my house/barn when i feel like it.
make the wife happy
And whatever else i fancy doing.
 
My craft here is a "Metal mechanic".
They combined three crafts Boilermakers, Welders and Sheet metal mechanics. You get letters behind your name for each category you are qualified in. Mine are B, W, S meaning I am primarily a Boilermaker with welding secondary and sheet metal last. Since they have closed our shop here and there are only four metal mechanics left here I now do Inspections. I am a Certified Welding Inspector and I do API Inspections. I have three API certs for inspection. API-510, API-570 and API-653. 510 is for pressure vessels, 570 is for piping and 653 is for storage tanks.
 
I am a toolmaker and machine builder. 10+ years. and then a Mfg. engineer before and an engineering technician before that.

That bathroom looks nice, my tile working skills aint that good.
 
Service nanager and service tech for 25 years on commercial and industrial laundry equipment. Old lonely the Maytag man on steroids.I tell people that call me the Maytag man that you can put his machines inside ours!
 
Demolition contractor some land clearing and grading and most anything else that can be done with heavy equipment. Also farm about 50 acres so we have a place for any excess profits. Build floating docks in spare time. Looked at a burnt house yesterday 4000sq.ft. had four of those Custom Harley motorcycles with the big back tires burnt to a crisp in the garage.
Ron
 
Demolition contractor some land clearing and grading and most anything else that can be done with heavy equipment. Also farm about 50 acres so we have a place for any excess profits. Build floating docks in spare time. Looked at a burnt house yesterday 4000sq.ft. had four of those Custom Harley motorcycles with the big back tires burnt to a crisp in the garage.
Ron
 
Retired from construction estimator in the interior trades field. Drywall, studs, ceilings, etc. Now I just putter around wiuth wildlife projects: food plots, timber stand improvements, etc.

La
 
Coal Fired Power Plant Operator for 5 years, 8 years active Navy prior to that, grew up on a farm and back on it now, my schedule at "work" allows ample time (although never enough) for the farm. Me and Pop run a couple hundred acres of corn and beans with 60 head of beef. Gives me a proud feeling every spring to be tilling the ground that my great-grandfather did in the early 1900's with a one row plow and mule, even if I am turning it under 21 ft. per pass.
 
Retired Service Tech. Worked for a company that sold pumps and related items to the Water & Sewer Industry. For the last 8 years just work in my shop and cut fire wood for winter.
 
Framing and finish carpenter.Prefer new construction but not to picky in this economy.More finish,mostly high end, than framing as the price dropped to non profitable levels in framing.

Nice work on the bathroom remodel.

Vito
 
been working on asphalt plants for the past 35 years .dad and grandpa also worked there for many years.the last 26 of them has been in columbus ohio.i have 110 acres 1 hr east along i-70.i have 2 massey ferguson tractors 165 and a 35 both diesels.
i make around a 1000 bales of hay fer year feed 4 horses and sell the the rest.
RICK
 
At the moment, I sit on my unemployed butt and surf online and print for jobs. If I wanted to clean motel rooms or empty bedpans for minimum wage, I could start tomorrow.

Been in the maintenance business all my life in one form or another. Going for my CDL-B and hope to get a local driving job.
 
I work for local Budweiser wholesaler as mechanic/warehouse/fill in driver (part time 40 hrs. a week), farm 300 acres corn/beans/hay, custom combine another 200, raise a few hogs, and holstein calves, sell hay, also mount and sell tires ( used to run a tire shop/gas station in town but have since retired from that because of groundwater issues with the old gas tanks)
 
Grew up on a dairy farm, but left the farm to work for the Federal government when finished high school in 1951. My brother joined the Air Force a few days after we graduated and I was drafted 18 months later and I married my high school girlfriend. I was rehired back at my old job since I was furloughed for the draft. Our daughter was born at Ft Bragg when I was with the 82nd Airborne Div.

We tested all those vehicles that the Army used and few firetrucks for the Navy. Some of the vehicles we tested was the M1A1 Tank, M60, M48, M47 Tanks. We also tested lots of trucks. We did the 8 & 16 ton Goers too. One of the trucks was the Gamma Goat. Here's one of the Heavy Field Dynamometer's we used for drawbar and cooling tests. Looking back on it was nice to have a job that you love to go to. I retired after 43 years. Hal
PS: If anyone ever saw the movie The Green Beret we also tested the D7 Cat like the one shown in that movie. All this testing was done at Aberdeen Proving Ground MD and is still going on.
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got a degree in electrical engineering worked as a cable splicer for 12yrs and was laid off. now back to farm work as a milker, and veggie farm work on my friends csa/truck patch. also do hay for my familys farm and run my small maple sugar operation.
 
first 10 years was a machinist welder, worked for heavy highway construction business - liked the work just kept getting laid off, last 25 years adjuster for heavy equipment and house claims, on salary so work 50 hours week, play on 7 acres, wish my aunts and uncles would not have sold grandads farm when I was kid, Mark
 
Geotechnical Engineer and construction materials testing with the same firm for 34 years now - tryin to decide if I like it.
Pays for my hobbies (and most the wife's too) but looking forward to retirement!
 
Collect my retirement and SS checks. Great job, the best one that I ever had. First job was servicing industrial scales for 13 years and then went to work at a aluminum plant for the next 28.5 years. Never a day in all those years with out a job to go to. Now I do anything that I want to. Couldn't get any better.
 
From 1959 I have mainly worked in the plastic injecting molding industry in all aspects from unloading material thru part design, mold design and manufacturing parts. Always worked at least two different kinds of work at the same time. Build some houses, excavating, some body work as well and auto and truck repair.

Started my own plastic factory and mold building shop in 1976.

Still doing most of the above except for the building trade stuff.
 
Electrical, electronic, process control in the Nuclear Industry. Still have the top rated "Green" rad protection badge. Retired from the Emergency Response Team where I served 10 years as a fully qualified firefighter.
I sink a significant portion of the paycheque into a wee hobby farm.
 
I work for a masonry contractor and we work most of the time in Rutgers University doing all kinds of repairs Live in NJ but have a farm in PA where I grow a garden and play with 2 Ford tractors, an 8n and a 1973 ford model 2000 gas
 
I manage a herbicide application company. We specialize in industrial, municipal, and utility applications. We spray the weeds in everything from small sewage lift stations to huge nuclear power plants.
 
Retired at age 67 now, Still watch over two Kubota dealerships, 2200 acre farming operation and trucking company but try my best to just play with my toys unless something goes wrong. Grandchildren seem to want to work harder and do more than my actual children.
 
i am the bodyshop foreman in a chevrolet dealership in northern wi and throw hay bales rake hay and a little baling for a friend that needs help and then i get to bowhunt his land
 
Started out in carpentry in the last big recession in the 1980and up yrs. After a 2yr degree in Heavy equip mechanics I started out doing that then returned to school and got a degree in management. Tried that position in the HD equipment field but couldn't play the brown nose game so I returned to being a mechanic. Landed a job in a large plant as a mechanic working on a mixed fleet of about 700 units. Been there 20 yrs. I think I have the last good paying hourly job left in Michigan (for now, knock on wood). Play with a bunch of old IH farmalls and mostly collect junk.
 
I am a forester/log scaler/log yard supervisor for a large sawmill in the area. So basically I deal with trees from the time they are standing in the woods until they are decked at the mill waiting to get sawed up.
 
I own a small logging and sawmilling business. I raise some beef and heifers. Work in the shop during mud season on my equipment and do a little mechanic work for the neighbors.
 
well I was self employed for 25 years doing construction,then the economy died,so I got me a new job for an animal health products company,then when I get home I do what I love and that is farming, raise cattle and sheep.
 
Doin good Larry! Have been really busy, I check in once in a while but havent posted since this spring. Thanks for asking.
 
Fulltime farmer/rancher in the summer. Do some custom harvesting locally. Don't get very far from home. Do some carpentery jobs is the winter after the morning chores are done. Usually keep pretty busy all year.
 
Heavy equip mechanic for CSX Transportation since 05, service rep for Plasser American(rr equip manufact)for 3 yrs before that. Fell into that job right out of tech school at NADC. Only got 32yrs to go.
 
I'm a contractor. Started doing construction/remodeling in 1976 when I was in high school. I've done everything from concrete to roofing and everything in between. I mostly do kitchen and bath remodels, trim, and ceramic these days.
 
corrosion specialist for major pipeline co for last 32 years, NACE acreditted level II coating inspector,internal corrosion technologist, and CP tester, rent out the farm land and tinker with old equipment.
 
I work for a local sawmill, producing 8 foot studs. I work mostly on the sawmill side of the operation. To help put in prospective the size of the mill, we cut about 35-40 trucks(semi loads) in one 10 hour shift. The log length around 100-102 inches and diameter 4-19 inches We run 2 shifts a day, monday-thursday. Been doing this for about the last 10 years. Every day is a different adventure...
 
I've been a water well driller for about nine years now. Before that I was a materials mobilization unit technical engineer. I was running a dump truck for a large sawmill.
 
Retired from a paper mill 2 years ago, was in mechanical maintenance. Recently decided driving a large truck was on my bucket list. So, I have been driving a sugar beet truck (gw 63,000) for the last 3 weeks, also hauled some beans, (soy, navy) I don't mind it in the day time but at night it's a pain. Two 12 hr shifts, noon to midnight and midnight to noon, so no getting out of driving in the dark. Probably won't do it again. Will post some pictures when I figure it out. Also one of my co-workers got killed the first week, didn't stop for a train, bummer.
 
Nice bathroom...I"m in the middle of remodeling one of ours.

I"m a Principal Systems Engineer for a major aerospace company, currently spending most of my time working on a spacecraft going to Jupiter. We also have a Mars mission and a Lunar orbiter I spend some amount of time on. Been with the same company for 27 years, but have moved around some. Spent 15 of those years working on advanced aircraft. Hoping to retire in a few years and be able to finish of few of the antique tractor/car/truck projects floating around here.

Keith
 
El Toro- you mentioned the movie "The Green Berets" with John Wayne. Some of that was filmed at Ft. Bragg- if you watch carefully, it is not all jungle foliage- some pines in there.
 
worked 10 years for P.M.U. farm,then 2500 acre grain farm,then for bee keeper 1000 hives,then for machine shop as maintenence and organizer,meat cutter for 4 years now have 160 acres farm a little,drive truck for up to 6 weeks every fall(start on monday)spare bus driver and just bought 18 sheep.
 
I am on forced retirement disability(Bone Cancer). Still do odd jobs around town. When I am able to walk. Not as fast as I used to be but I get around.
 
I teach 9th grade history in gloversville, ny, and bale small squares in the summer, in between that i d oa little custom carpentry - decks, bathrooms, tiling etc... - and am 5 years into a complete gut and remodel of a greek revival farmhouse (1860) with a late 1700's addition on the back but no one pays me for that.
 
Great Topic Ultra Dog I enjoyed reading it.
Bathroom looks Great work of a true Craftsman.
I am a Master Electrician By trade Mostly work in Data centers and critical power UPS work, also do high Voltage work.
also Cross trained for Optical fiber and cat5e work.
it would be easier to list what I don't do Painting inside house.
when and if I ever retire I will get one of theose 110 thousand a year job escorting for for one of the goverment contractors I work for in Northern VA.
 
As big as Ft Bragg was they may have filmed the whole picture there. The double timing runs you saw in the movie was an every day occurrence. Hal
 
That's the degree I graduated with! Now I have our family business and farm. Funny how things change in your life. Went to school to learn how to beat the hll out of soil to put a building on it, now I gingerly take care of every bit I have to grow crops on it!
 
Journeyman Machine repairman Machinist Retired. Got a small shop. Lathe, Mill, welders and Cutting torch. Restore tractors, mostly John Deere.
 
Bale & store away about 8000 square bales & 150 rounds. Basically a one-man hay operation. Takes 5 months to harvest and 7 months to load them on people's trailers. Taught high school mathematics for 36 yrs and junior college (evening) math for 24 yrs. Collect & tinker with tractors.
 
Drive tractor trailer for the last 10 years hauling gas, diesel, and fuel oil from the terminals to various locations over 100,000 miles a year. before that I milked cows with my parents in NH and NY, sold out mid 90's my kids were the ninth generation on the NH farm. miss it almost every day
 
Automotive technician for over 30 years. I was a dealership mechanic in a St. Louis area Dodge dealer until 2003. I now teach a high school class in the morning and college classes in the afternoon.
 
I have been retired for eight years. I grew up in MN and moved right across the border to WI where I worked in a factory for 39 years. I started out running a punch press and worked my up to a maintenance electrician. I putter around with my Ferguson and Ford tractors. Right now I am at the Hawkeye Downs race track in Cedar Rapids IA for a automotive swap meet which has been fun along with the nice weather.
 
After reading this post, not a D@MN thing! LOL! Ok, I was always interested in farming. I helped put up hay, off 'n' on, through my teenage years. After highschool, I started off at Milwaukee Power Tool on the punch press for Sawzall blades. I knew, from that point on, that I ain't factory material. I took four other factory jobs before I said (something nasty!) & quit the last factory job to become a roofer. I did that for three years & ruptured the two lower discs in my back. No, I was not smart enough to injure it on the job. I didn't know what to do after that. About two (painful) years (& approval for disability) later, I figured it out. I'm going to take Grandpa's tractor & do something productive with it or die trying! Yep, I was a bit depressed at the time, to say the least. I got over it. Come to find out all this work is good therapy all around. If I stay active, my back won't hurt so much. If I sit around for a day or two, it'll get bad in no time flat. I've also found out the hard way that I should listen to the doctor's weight restrictions. They're not there just to keep me out of gainful employment, huh? This past week was a reminder. I upgraded from a Stihl O11-AV to the Farm Boss. I used it for about an hour & was just fine. I went cutting the next day, for five hours, & had to do nothing again for four days. Today, I was able to climb back on the tractor to get some horse apples hauled. Now, I'm sitting here having a Chesterfield & a Schlitz & yacking at y'all. Hope the boss don't catch me being lazy. AHHHHHH!

*Urp*

Mike

P.S. I had started to quit drinking before the injury. I quit cold turkey after the injury. I was bone dry for four years. Now, after I can trust myself, I'll have a beer 'bout four or five times a year. It's a beautiful thing! One beer is GOLD when you bust your donkey all day & it's hot out. Never believed in moderation 'till then. Now, I embrace it.
 
Retired underground miner, supervisor. Did that for 43 years. Worked for a whole gaggle of mining contractors all over the USA and overseas.
Now, bad back, loss of hearing and severe arthritis in the hands due to using pneumatic drills for many years. Still do all the work around our place. No one to help.
 
Since I was 16, I've done a lot of stuff... Worked in a greenhouse, rode garbage trucks, worked in a auto shop, done rough carpentry, worked in a factory for a spell, farmed/help farm, help run drainage tile..

But for nearly the last 8 years, my main source of income has been spreading Bio-Solids (wastewater treatment byproduct) or the processsing of the byproduct. I started running a Terra-Gator 2505, then later moved onto a different project where we had a fleet of brand new JD 8430's that we pulled Knight 8150 spreader boxes and JD chisel plows, and a pair of 624J JD loaders.. Now, I run a 9430 JD pulling a Nuhn 13000 gallon manure applicator (pair of 7500 gallon tanks hooked together).. I posted pictures of the unit this spring, but have since got a new computer and don't have the pictures handy. There's been a lot of other "filler" equipment in there too.. Some pretty nice stuff, and some ragged out to no end.. and there's been a lot of "strange and unique" projects in there too..

The best part of the job is I go a lot of places, and have worked in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida.. The travel gets to be a lot sometimes, but the scenery changes, and sometimes I get to do different stuff and thats a good thing to me..

Brad
 
Breed, raise, train, guide and hunt Brittanys. Been doing it for the last 6 years. Before that I was a journeyman electrician, mostly wiring custom homes. Started out in 1980 in cable TV, and have worked about every job you can think of in a cable system. The dogs are a very rewarding endeavor, and I get to work at our home and 20 acres. Mark
 
Been repairing elevators for 32 years now and at age 50 I just dont know what I want to be when I grow up yet...
 
Park Worker for district in Twin Cities area. Event set up, grounds and facilties maintenance. Previously did forestry/nursery work for the district. Earlier in life was an auditor in commercial insurance industry and receiving / inventory lead for a retailer. Now if I could just figure out what I really want to do!
 
College student full time, Mechanic at a JD dealership part time. Hoping to get a job with Newholland or CaseIH R&D when i get out of here
 
i work for my paw , he helped build a parts store back in 72, i was born the same year,so this is all i know, auto parts, but it seems the bulk of our stuff is heavyduty, and logging equipment.
 
Active duty Air Force and farm family 60 acre grain and hay farm. Prior to this traditional guard vehicle mechanic and as a day job working for the big airplane company in Seattle. Prior to that active duty army for 10 years. Prior to that worked on the family farm and worked hauling hay for a local dairy during the summers.

Leonard
 
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