What do you do (for work) when you're not riding?

I work with R&D for a large energy utility, mainly concerning how to produce electricity in new, environmentsl ok ways.

I work for the Keystone Automotive plating facility here in Minnesota. I've been there for just a little over 14 years. My main responsibility is sales in the aftermarket department. We specialize in truck bumpers, by my area is focused on plated show chrome for 55-7 Chevy bumpers. We do other GM stuff as well.
By the way, show chrome (copper, nickel, chrome) looks great on a bike.

My paycheck comes from a major US railroad (initials UPRR) where I work as a Senior Electronics Tech. It's not too much electronics these days but communications systems work. There's everything from grunt work to high level thought involved. Mostly we (there are two of us here) do maintenance, repair/replace, and install new communications equipment that keeps the trains rolling.

Off the railroad clock I help out with our cow/calf and farming operation.

BTW, I set this topic sticky to protect it from the grim reaper.

Great post! No wonder why all you guys are so smart, your all engineers!!
I drive a taxi/cab in a seasonal/resort area of the NJ shore, long beach island. Been doing it for 12 years, night shift, drive the rich drunk preppy kids from bar to bar. Ever see taxicab confessions on HBO? It is really like that, people really do get in and unleash their life stories on us!
Used to be a great living, but these days the cost of gas is eating me out of house and home, and the winters have been getting steadily slower and slower. Thinking about moving my butt to Florida, hate the cold in my old (36) age..
I went to AMI (American Motorcycle Institute) and graduated as a motorcycle mechanic when i was 16, but wasnt a very good one at all, and at that age had, um, other things to do.. Im trying to re-learn, maybe open a shop in the future that just sells vintage bikes that i restore myself.

I started as a machinist at Pratt and Whitney and then off to inspection now currently the lead person of my area.We inspect parts for the JSF,F22,C17,GTF,JT9D's,JT8,GP7200
This year will be 29yrs for me and I still have a long way to go,started when I was 18 now I'm 47

Lawyer - primarily a criminal practice, but I do a fair amount of other litigation and solicitor's work as well.

Before that I was a professional photographer, doing, among other things, church directory portraits. Before that I was a painter (houses, not art), a casegood furniture installer, a bartender and restaurant manager. My real work is at home with our four incredible little people.

My wife explained to me about the time we were married that it was my lifelong desire to be a lawyer - so here I am.

I have a company that does installed sales of windows and doors. I also have a fair reputation as a water infiltration problem solver. I have offices in Bend, Oregon and Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

I've been doing pretty much the same thing since 1994 so my company predates that DUMBSHIT TV show. My handle comes from my interest in KZ's and the initials of my company.

Kzcsi

Post edited by: KZCSI, at: 2007/12/11 20:01

I wear a few hats at North Georgia College and State University, a military school situated in the foot hills of the Appalachians, 60miles north of Atlanta. The job I most enjoy at university is doing planetarium shows primarily for school groups after hours, and for John Q Public almost every Friday night. Then off to the observatory where we give guided tours of the universe. I have just been 'officially' assigned to the campus post office in the student center, even though that is what I have been doing almost exclusively since our manager retired in April. I am involved with our local astronomy club as a charter member. We mostly like to help newbies (folks with telescopes who don't know which end to look through). We also have "Star-B-Ques at my place, MilkyWay Farm where I have basically a petting zoo with real and miniature horses, African Pygmy Goats and chickens.

I've been an auto mechanic for twelve years, ASE Master Tech and Advanced Engine Performance Specialist. Worked at a really nice shop for a really good boss from 2000-2005, then he had to give it up and close the shop. After a couple years working at another shop down the road, my old boss, who'd become a trainer for Central Power Systems (Detroit Diesel and Mercedes-Benz), talked me into applying there to start fixing the big trucks instead of cars. The pay is hourly, which is nice and dependable, unlike flag-hours this time of year, I make more after deductions for insurance and 401K than I did with no such deductions and paying for insurance directly (more out-of-pocket for less coverage) and the benefits are way better than working for the typical independent shop. I'm learning to deal with working on things I have no interest in driving (one of the perks of being a mechanic was always test-driving the occasional hotrod or sports-car in between all the minivans and clapped-out pickups) and the fact that, compared to cars, fixing big diesels is generally much more physical than mental. I have to keep reminding myself that it's worth-it to have insurance, paid vacation, 401K and profit-sharing and deal with heavy, filthy work and silly big-company rules (like no smoking allowed in a building that's often FULL of smoke from much bigger and nastier sources than a dang cigarette). I started there a year ago (just had my first review, hoping for a good raise and bonus), and to coordinate with Kim's schedule (bartending) I volunteered for second-shift, which has its own ups and downs: nobody around most of the shift to enforce the smoking policy and less people to share shop-tools, air-hoses and drain-pans, but missing a lot of things due to the odd hours.

I develop software on mainframe computers. At my current job I work on the software that decides whether to approve your credit card transaction when you swipe the card. There's about a 50% chance that your bank uses us.

I make money the ol fashioned way.......I screw people.:laugh:

arai60 wrote:

I make money the ol fashioned way.......I screw people.:laugh:

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