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[Travisfab]

I work at Fiberwerx. I absolutely love my job.

I have an associates degree in real estate, and I had a contractors license at one point. I had all kinds of opportunities in those fields, but I decided to follow my heart. I am involved with off road vehicles, honestly 60+ hours a week, consistently.

I am not the norm when it comes to working in this industry. I knew the right people, and at the right time, and things just fell into place for me. Thankfully I have freedom with my time, tasks, and creativity. Entry level positions in the off road world are honestly horrible. If you have a passion, and you can work your way up to the top, the quality of life is hard to beat.

[robertcrav]

I'm a Systems Administrator/Database Analyst specializing in Salesforce.com ie...Desk Jockey

I work for the 2nd largest kidney care company in the nation and manage our database of Hospitals, Dialysis Centers, Physicians. I support approximately 415 users, in 19 different strategic teams. I've been a Salesforce.com Admin for almost 10yrs now, 4 1/2 with my current company.

I enjoy most of my job, including the project planning and project management aspects and meeting with potential users and learning about their business process, and inefficiencies and then figuring out how to replicate that process in an organized system, designing and building it and then training them on how to use it.

I don't enjoy some of the day to day maintenance that is tedious and repititive.

I sincerely wish I worked somewhere in the industry, but bills have to be paid right ...

[Rmc]

It's kinda crazy that people from so many different walks of life share the same passion for broncos, the great outdoors and offroading in my opinion.

[bajascott]

I have sat in bar marimar,and found out that the guys I was doing shots with were lawyers,doctors,and in another occasion a congressman..... We come from all walks of life......

[ebroten]

I'm a Land Surveyor, I travel all over California , Arizona , and Nevada.. breaking down boundaries, townships, and section lines. The company I work for, is in charge of building Edison's sub stations, Edison Redesign of power poles and towers, and Gas company Pipelines . I love my job! It's never the same day to day!.

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I've always been interested in this field. Any advice on how to get started or good companies to apply to? I've been an electrician for going on 11 years and it's starting to get old. Maybe its the company I'm at but I'm always open to new opportunities.

[Silverslk]

I'm a Calibration Technician (actually lead) at Baxter Bioscience. My group makes sure all the instruments (pressure, temperature, torque, pH, Conductivity, flow, etc) used to make the drugs are reading correctly and accurately. It pays pretty well (especially for no degree) and is VERY stable. Economy sucks and we're in middle of 3 construction projects in excess of $500 million...

[crisis88]

I'm a maintenance tech/ maintenance manager in the food/dairy industry. I spend most of my day welding stainless steel (mainly because its fun), and fixing equipment. One thing about the food/dairy industry is regardless of the economy we are never slow. (People have to eat). Money has always been real good. With as much overtime as I can take.

If you have the right skill set you can write your own ticket. This job is a constant learning environment. I've learned to tig weld, and stick weld. (Mig I already knew). I've learned how to braze and silver solder. I am proficient at electricity up to 480v 3phase. Plumbing, refrigeration, troubleshooting, rebuilding electric motors and gearboxes.

A lot of guys like to say we are a jack of all, and a master of none. Eh I don't know maybe.

[retroblazer]

I have been a stockbroker for 28 years. I am a specialist in community and regional banks. I had no plans to do this work. Like many, I too wanted to work in racing. I worked for Deist Safety Equipment my freshman year in college. I was in Baja doing contingency for Deist during the 1000 known as the Wet and Wild One. This job cemented my interest in working in racing and I transferred to the School of Engineering at the University of Kansas. I was a distracted student at best at KU, so after three years, I went back to Chicago and enrolled in DePaul University and studied business while I worked during the day. During this time I sold my Dad's boss on the idea of racing in Baja. I was able to get $7k from him and another $7k from his buddy. I bought a used Class 2 buggy and converted it to a 2-1600. They drove the buggy off a cliff along the coast in the 1980 Baja 500. I had joined a pit team for the race called TERRA, formerly know at FART-Fast Ass Race Team. We recovered the car and I ran the HDRA Fire Cracker before heading home. One of the guys from TERRA was making the glass outer shields that were siliconed on the outside of a plastic visor for Stan Parnell at Parker Pumper. This guy approached me about another idea that he had to add a self contained fan and filter to a helmet without having to cut a hole in the side of the helmet. The original product didn't work as planned, my partner flaked out, but I carried on and developed it until it did. I led a split life for years, working during the day at my brokerage job, then nights and weekends at Fresh Air Systems. In 1990, after building self contained systems primarily for dirt modified drivers in the East, I had a driver complain to me about the fumes that were affecting him in his dirt late model. I knew that my self contained unit would take the air around his helmet, so that wouldn't work, so I hit upon the idea of isolating the air intake to avoid pumping contaminated air into the helmet, or a Remote intake system. It worked, then I found a picture of Richard Petty wearing a fighter pilot oxygen mask hooked up to a gas mask canister. I could tell it looked like B.S., so I called. I spoke with Dale Inman, Richard's brother-in-law. I explained my background and was invited to visit. Richard was the first, followed by Morgan Shepard and Geoff Bodine. By July of 1992 I had 38 of the 43 starters at Daytona in my gear. By the mid 90's I developed a supplied air system for the Funny car drivers. John Force used it for every run for three years and the entire FC field had adopted it.
I spent lots of time and money developing my gear, I had five credit card lines maxed and I had tapped my equity line more than a couple of times. In 1995, Glen Harris, then a well known off road racer, sold a Baja 1000 race package to some Japanese and had me chase for them. I did this for a couple of years, then SCORE announced that the 1998 race would run to La Paz. It motivated me to find something to race and thus my Blazer. I ran the race, but didn't get very far, 200+ miles. I came back from the race and lost my job. As I regrouped, I decided that I would rather race myself than build gear, and sold my interest in the company after 18 years.

[cs_drums]

Im currently in the Navy and in the hiring process for law enforcement but I am not sure if that is the route I want to go now. I am a big family man and that is one of the main reasons for leaving the Navy. I want a more stable life for my kids, I know law enforcement will be more stable but it doesnt seem like it will be to condusive to family time. I have wanted to be a Mechincal engineer most of my life but am a little nervous of the transition and having to go from full time work to fulltime student partime work.

Alot of your jobs seem really cool and rewarding, many I havent even heard about. I am leaning towardgetting an education and a good 9-5 but I have alot invested in the law enforcement venture. Oh well I guess Ill just have to make a decision and hope I dont regret it.

Any LE officers or Engineers hate there job?

[bajascott]

I have a good friend that is a crime scene investigator,specializing in ballistics. He works for the Eugene,or police dept.and as much as he jokes he loves his job ,home everyday,with his family.

[bajascott]

He used to be a cop......

[funinthesun95]

Hello all I work in Athletics at San Diego State University. I handle the academic side for the Student- Athletes…… I fell into this after my playing days …..It has been fun.

We have a great Veteran Program here at SDSU by the way. Almost all College and Universities have a funded program for Veterans that is degree based or technical training. I get this only can happen if Federal Aid pays enough to support your life style or Family.


If I can help PM me

[ChaseTruck754]

Any LE officers or Engineers hate there job?

I wanted to be ME too. That was until I looked at the math requirement & effort it would take to get the degree. I'm too lazy and was honest with myself about it. My dad actually helped sway me that way (away from ME) too. He graduated Electrical E. and practices as a Civil. He's actually the one that steered me towards Landscape Arch.

Anyway, I also have 2 brothers that are practicing engineers. 1 was a Aerospace/ME dual major with a math or business minor. He's currently getting his masters in systems engineering and working for Northrop guiding satellites or some nonsense. He doesn't mind his job but doesn't love it either. He ended up on the space side of things when he really wanted to work with jets/planes. He spends much of his time behind a computer.

My other brother started ME and transferred to MFE (manufacturing E.). He likes his current job trying to streamline production of parts for a company that makes agricultural irrigation stuff & some ship parts.
He dumped out of ME because he said he didn't want to spend his life behind a computer screen. It seems ME's now a days are all just designers & run stress calcs, etc. on designs = a desk job. Not what he wanted and not what I would have wanted if I went ME. He goes back and forth between the computer & the shop/production line so he isn't overly bored.

1 more thing to keep in mind, touching on my original point about me being honest with myself & being too lazy. Both of these brothers worked their ASSES off through school. They'd sit at a desk for 4-6+ hours after school everyday doing homework. Sometimes those hours would be spent on ONE math problem! No way I could deal with that! 1 brother barely worked through school & the other couldn't due to time commitment at school. Not very conducive to doing while having a family either.

So yeah, if you have a great desire/drive to be an engineer & ok with working your ass off for 4-5+ years to make it happen then I'd say go for it. Just take a realistic look at what you are signing on for before you jump in though.

[Andy Jones]

I'm a Land Surveyor, I travel all over California , Arizona , and Nevada.. breaking down boundaries, townships, and section lines. The company I work for, is in charge of building Edison's sub stations, Edison Redesign of power poles and towers, and Gas company Pipelines . I love my job! It's never the same day to day!.

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I've always been interested in this field. Any advice on how to get started or good companies to apply to? I've been an electrician for going on 11 years and it's starting to get old. Maybe its the company I'm at but I'm always open to new opportunities.

School !! Lots of school !


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[Andy Jones]

The one pic looks like whirl wind sub...right?

Red Bluff, in desert center.


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[Phoenix0783]

I am a programmer. The company I currently work for specializes in full stack web applications (database, application logic, server side code, client side code and design). We have a lot of competition here in Portland, but we honestly do a better job than most everyone else. I get to come in and go home pretty much whenever I like, take a day off whenever, or work from home once in a while, which is fairly common in this industry. I work with 7 other people. It's nice knowing everyone in the company and most of us go out to lunch together every day.

[323bronco]

LADWP . I love my job, outdoors everyday.

[323bronco]

Reg station.

[guard]

I'm a district manager for a contract food service company based in Pennsylvania. I oversee west coast operations and we partner with skilled nursing, assisted living and private schools. I have a fair amount of flexibility in my job (boss is 2k miles away) and I can't complain too much about the pay. However, I'm overdue for a job or career change. Most days I want to run over my boss with my truck, truth be told,,,

[Gregsbronco13]

The one pic looks like whirl wind sub...right?

Red Bluff, in desert center.


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Ah man Blythe !!! I was out that way last year when the tornado touched down ..115' with 90% it was nasty weather!!!