I'm sure that question has been asked before, but not having been around here terribly long I sometimes wonder what sort of jobs all these car guys have.

Me, I'm a maritime archaeologist and historian (yeah, they pay people to do that). I spend most of my time on a boat surveying or diving on old sunken boats.

Andy

Mechanical Designer doing HVAC and Plumbing Design mostly for schools, churches, hospitals, etc. :)

I have a shop that sells truck,car,atv,motorcycle,snowmobile accessories along with some speed equipment. I am also a authorized goodmark resto parts center.

Nothing-retired.:)

I'm sure that question has been asked before, but not having been around here terribly long I sometimes wonder what sort of jobs all these car guys have.

Me, I'm a maritime archaeologist and historian (yeah, they pay people to do that). I spend most of my time on a boat surveying or diving on old sunken boats.

Andy
Wish I could get a job like that. It's like getting paid to be on vacation.

I'm a draftsperson and a student working on getting my BSME.

I'm a general contractor, we do mostly residential (single and multi-family) and some commercial projects as well.

Jeff

Carp peddler.

I am a Civil Engineer...

Me, I'm a maritime archaeologist and historian (yeah, they pay people to do that). I spend most of my time on a boat surveying or diving on old sunken boats.

Andy

You find alot of old sunken boats in Tennessee? :confused:

Mercedes Benz tech.

WHO ME WORK?

http://www.chevelles.com/forums/showthread.php?t=79261

I wish I could get paid to surf the internet like so many people now days.

Firmware engineer

(get lots of blank stares when I tell people that, so I tell them I write software that touches hardware, then they give up trying to understand) :)

Web designer, graphics designer. Work from home!!

I'm in the 2% that feeds you - growing 1500 holstein heifers that one day
will cream your coffee...

I'm sure that question has been asked before, but not having been around here terribly long I sometimes wonder what sort of jobs all these car guys have.

Me, I'm a maritime archaeologist and historian (yeah, they pay people to do that). I spend most of my time on a boat surveying or diving on old sunken boats.

Andy

i am a quality assurance manager for a company that makes fuel systems for gas turbine engines, aerospace and power generation applications. now what is REALLY interesting is that i have a friend here in charleston that does exactly the same thing YOU do. as a matter of fact he is the diver that found the CSS Hunley. are you familiar with that?

TV broadcast engineer at a New York television station.

I own a hardwood floor business here in washington state. My second job is raising 3 kids who love sports. Gets kind of expensive, but they are fun to watch.

I am in social engineering and sanitation;)

Drill for gas and oil (liquid gold) :).
Jeff

Pharmaceuticals. I live in Jersey. We have lots of Pharma companies here. I help save and prolong peoples lives. I'm quite passionate about what I do...

i am a quality assurance manager for a company that makes fuel systems for gas turbine engines, aerospace and power generation applications. now what is REALLY interesting is that i have a friend here in charleston that does exactly the same thing YOU do. as a matter of fact he is the diver that found the CSS Hunley. are you familiar with that?

Tell Harry I said hello....

(this is a very small field....)

Tell Harry I said hello....

(this is a very small field....)

LOL i will do that! should i just say andy from tn says howdy?

LOL i will do that! should i just say andy from tn says howdy?

Tell him Andy and Mike from Panamerican say howdy

I save lives for a living. Well, at least that's what I tell myself sometimes.

MoDNR, Air Pollution Control Program, Environmental Engineer, Air Rules Author.

Started out as a "Gandy-Dancer" and then became a "Tamper Machine Operator" on the Norfolk/Western RR.

Quit August, '68 and then went back to school and became a Grad. ME.

Graduated and went to work as a Manufacturing Engineer and a Tooling Engineer, two different places.

Next a Sales Engineer/Draftsman and Construction Worker/Supervisor, once all together-(Industrial/Commercial).

Then to the Old AP Green Firebrick Company for over 18 years, last as a Refractory Product Installation Specialist. (I am still a WORLD CLASS Refractory Plastic Gunning and Refractory Castable Pumping Expert and been out of it more than ten years!)...

BUT now there aren't many job's for an old man so I am very happy to be doing what I do now, helping clean the air we all breath!

pdq67

PS., but you know, I would still love to make "widgits" again AND am darn good at it!! BUT we don't make many here anymore... They are made over in China, India and other places nowadays..

Work for a state Prison as an Electrician (glorified lightbulb changer) self titled Illumination Specialist. Charlie Manson, Sirhan Sirhan are here. All of California's finest people.

I am a Civil Engineer...



You find alot of old sunken boats in Tennessee? :confused:


We work all over, with a lot on the east coast. We do find sunken boats in Tennessee though. Ever heard of the Battle of Johnsonville on the Tennessee River? Four union gunboats sunk by Nathan Bedford Forrest's men.

(I am still a WORLD CLASS Refractory Plastic Gunning and Refractory Castable Pumping Expert and been out of it more than ten years!)...

well, dangit! I had some refractory plastic that needed pumping just last week... :D

Me, I'm a maritime archaeologist and historian (yeah, they pay people to do that). I spend most of my time on a boat surveying or diving on old sunken boats.

Andy

You ever work with NUMA?

I'm an analyst for the State of WI. I spend 90% of my time playing with numbers, making them fit whatever the crisis of the day is or finding out where the latest f'up is.

Andy,

I'm glad you know what I am talking about b/c I'm very Proud of it!

I bet there aren't ten people in the whole WORLD that can shoot Phosphate-Bonded refractory plastic in an industrial furnace!! Truck-load after truck-load!! Around the clock!!

Best plastic gunning installation I ever did was over 100 tons in 24 hours!! (GREENGUN JADE product, 550 tons+ total job)..

APGreen had the best gunning plastic there was and I made it happen for them!!

I miss the old Firebrick Plant.................

pdq67

Journeyman Web Offset Pressman. I work for a large printing company. We print sale flyers for major retailers. I started there when I turned 18.
25 years later, I'm ready to do something else, but the pay is very good, and has financed my many hobbies very nicely.

Summer intern for Boeing Integrated Defense Systems.....hoping for a job out of college. :)

I'm a marine biologist............ i sell real estate........... I am the assistant to the travel manager for the new york yankees....... i am unemployed and i live with my parents.......i'm a saleman for Vandalay industries..........but i've always wanted to be an architect.

I'm an operations manager for an industrial cleaning company. We clean process equipment in power plants, refineries, chemical plants, steel mills etc.We use high pressure water, chemicals, and/or industrial vacuum trucks. It's a dirty nasty job, but somebody's got to do it.

Journeyman sheet fed offset pressman......I print Hallmark cards.

Steel sales, Aluminum Sales.

'bear

godless commie here..

hehe.

matt

Then to the Old AP Green Firebrick Company for over 18 years, last as a Refractory Product Installation Specialist. (I am still a WORLD CLASS Refractory Plastic Gunning and Refractory Castable Pumping Expert and been out of it more than ten years!)...


Might have met you without knowing it :eek: Have you even been to an aluminum recycling plant in Waverly, TN? Used to work there as plant engineer, used AP Green products quite often.

I am in social engineering and sanitation;)
LOL. First time I've heard it put that way. I work by the hour, agree upon the price before hand, and get screwed all the time.

I'm an elevator mechanic. I install and repair elevators.


Rocky

i work stock at a pool store part time, and part time working at my buddies restoring cars and doing anything mechanical. im also still in school. will be a SR in highschool this coming year.


aaron

man in blue..whatcha gonna do when I come for you?

Nothing-retired.:)

Hey- Me too! :beers:

student, ski patroller, paintball ref, driver for car parts all of these.

Senior in high school now. And cook at a retirement home.

I stalk insurgents and terrorists as a US Army Infantry First Sergeant. Unfortunately, hunting and business has been pretty good lately.......

I am a Master Motorcycle Mechanic. Own a Harley Shop. Do complete restorations, build customs, build lots of engines and transmissions, sell a few parts. Also a Journeyman Plumber. Plumb a house every now and then, some service work for friends and family.

Saddle stitcher operator in the printing industry. Get to produce magazines for a living.

I just made some dental veneers for Richie Blackmore, ()smoke on the water fame , DP, Rainbow ,,

I am an airframe fabrication specialist, currently fixing battle damaged A-10 aircraft in afganistan. killing terrorists (indirectly through my actions), and more importantly helping to protect the brave souls who are out there on foot doing it. and defending the freedom of the american nation. :thumbsup:

Firmware engineer

(get lots of blank stares when I tell people that, so I tell them I write software that touches hardware, then they give up trying to understand) :)

If it's any consolation, I know what firmware is. I also double as the company network guy (I'd say "network administrator" but I have no formal training - I'm just a guy...)

Mechanical Engineer by education and now Centrifugal Product Manager for PennBarry. We build commercial HVAC equipment from small "fart" fans to fans that are twice as tall as me (heck, I am almost 6 foot tall...). The title sounds cool (I think) but I fight fires daily and help with the creation of new product and make sure we make the right amount of money on the current product.

When I grow up I want to be a race car driver, independently wealthy, owner of any dang car I want, etc, etc, Oh yeah, and a cowboy too! :thumbsup:
Frank

I've always wanted to be that preverbial piano player in the whore house, but had to settle on an automotive career. (Mainly, because I can't play the piano.)

Started out with 15 years at a GMC truck dealership, 21 years now as a vehicle maintenance supervisor with USPS. We service and take care of a little more than 1500 vehicles out of our facility. Looking forward to the college of retirement.

cement finisher for 25 yrs. specializing in coming in late and leaving early at least during cruiseing season

I find money so the "social engineering and sanitation" guys can afford donuts.

a microbiologist.. so be nice or I might sick a bug on you..:-)

Squirrel cop, twig pig, Mr. Park Ranger, Sir. :D
I'm a U.S. Forest Service Law Enforcement Officer.

I get to play with trains....Lots of them. I repair trains for NY City Transit.

Turn trees into paper.

Make the reagents,and various different equipment for Fann Instrument Co./Halliburton

I sit in front of a computer and make a ridiculously rich man richer.

Lazy, drunk, overpaid auto worker that never shows up on Monday's :rolleyes:

Ready to retire in less than 2 years so I can join Von in doing nothing.
Ron

Maintenance Tech - Soft Gel Encapsulation..........We make paintballs

Maintenance Tech - Soft Gel Encapsulation..........We make paintballs
Any discounts,guys at the fire station use those up playing by the box.Have some family lives in Dora.Could have sworn I saw a chevelle in a shed that looked to have been there awhile there,just down the road from there firestation.To far off the road to get a good look.

Self employed contractor, I do tub, sink and tile refinishing....and as another facet of my business, I contract with 2 supermarket chains and a restaurant chain in the northeast to do many of their repairs....not electrical or plumbing, but pretty much everything else...painting, sheetrock, installing signs and posts, floor tiles, ceiling tiles, etc....always something different. I drive a lot, but wouldnt trade this for anything. I previously worked at Fedex for 14 years, just grew tired of it. John

I manage a store selling Appliance and HVAC parts all day , so I get to surf between customers and read posts here and at ck5.com :D

Olle,

Not that Alcoa Plant, but I have worked in:

Alcoa, Bauxite, Arkansas,
Alcoa, Alcoa/Marysville, TN, (North Plant and Can Rec. Plant),
Alcoa, Lafayette, IN,
Alcoa, Rockdale, TX,
Alcoa, Davenport, IA,
Alcoa, Massena, NY

As well as Suralco, Suriname, SA.

pdq67

I work for Verizon now as a Zone Tech. I used to be an aircraft mechanic at Delta, that is, until they farmed out my job to a company that hires all the people who were rejected by the airlines.

I'd like to get back into aviation maintenance someday, but the jobs just aren't out there right now, unless you want to work for one of the third party contractors for wages that are pure crap and no benefits.

Move dirt.

Mechanic by trade, U.T.I. grad '83, Honda to International Harvester, Several years at a frame shop, chassis/suspension/align. Hobby stockers, dwarfs, Winston West, etc...
10 years ago I helped my mom's boyfriend with his fledgeling production rental company, renting toilet trailers. He was a bum, I did all the work.
6 years ago I took over the company, still have (1) 3 stall trailer, but evolved into (2) Star Trailers , Hair/make-up/Wardrobe Trailers, (4) Custom Motorhomes. I babysit primadona's. Nothing like personally transporting Victoria Secret Models for 10 days at a time.
Beats the hell out of greasy fingernails.

I'm an Illustrator/Artist mostly in the horror genre. I draw comic books and do a little movie conceptual work and every once and awhile I take on advertising or clothing design work. I've worked with guys like Rob Zombie, Tobe Hooper and Todd Mcfarlane. It's fun work, a little fast paced and deadlines are very intense but I get to play "rockstar" sometimes and sign autographs and get invited to cool parties. Now if I can just figure out how to make better money I can get all of my cars going.

I work as a private military contractor in Iraq.

As BIGSARGE said, hunting is good and profitable.

I am a farmer #1 own a truck and haul grain for other farmers #2 and own a old D8 and push dirt build waterways bury junk and push trees.

Commercial Appliance Service Tech for Southern Cal. Gas Co. Mostly sit in restaurants and eat free food. Never pay for breakfast or lunch.....(no food no service) :cool:

Retired now.

Tool and Die maker.

I do American tech support for hp PRINTER DIVISION

i deal with stupid people every day that dont know how to operate a printer

I'm a maintenance tech and fabricator. I help keep the equipment running in a cheese plant so you guys can have cheese on your pizzas and subs.:beers:

http://www.chevelles.com/showroom/obseSSed

I've been an aircraft mechanic for 25 years, never had the same day twice. The airport is a 24/7 living, breathing soap opera. I've worked at five different places in Ontario, 2 went bust. Right now, I'm working for the best place yet, great money, 4 days on, 4 days off. Lots of time for family, and the Chevelle, it just seems I'm always working when family functions are going on. Daren

GM partsman

I have worked the occasional weekend in traveling displays for GM Restoration, GM Performance Parts, and Chevy racing at shows like NHRA Nationals, World of Wheels-several cities, and the Back to the '50s show (10,000 + pre 1964 vehicles.

Our shop is getting out of it now, but at one pont, we stocked over $200,000 in resto parts and performance parts-we could completely replace the outside of a '69 camaro from stock, also most of a 70 chevelle too. We got the first ZZ-430 (4,5,6,62,63) engines available to the public and sold more than a dozen of the 430 made. We even were one of the first dealers to start building our own engines. We built marine 502 blocks into 509s and used the iron heads to make 609hp.

those days are gone now, but fun to have been a part of....

I am the V.P. & one of the owners of our family floorcovering store..

John Holmes' stunt double. ;)

HP-UX System Admin for a Credit Union.

I am an Operations Foreman in a large Midwest Oil Refinery. I make gasoline for a living. I figured you all would be thrilled to know that. Oh yea, I have to pay the same price that you guys do !

Rick
"MrSS396"
1969 SS Chevelle
T.C. #1249

Prove it shorty?hehe not what your wife told me, lolJohn Holmes' stunt double. ;)

I do American tech support for hp PRINTER DIVISION

i deal with stupid people every day that dont know how to operate a printer

lol.....Did you know HP doesnt and hasnt made printers?

Farmed out to some folks in Thailand or something that also makes the Xbox (just owned by Microsoft, but Microsoftdoes not and has never built one) These guys build all this stuff, put the companies badge on it and ship it out to customers.

I found that interesting. that the biggest printer manufacturer or seller, doesnt even manufacturer printers.


I work in the IT field and hate EVERY DAMN DAY of it. I cannot stand computers, networks, wireless, servers....any of it. Just an absolute boring job from end to end. I have these geeks around me thumbing through PC Tech mags and ooing and aaawing over the newest gadgets for fat lazy people to chat with other fat lazy people using their laptops on their fat lazy people couches.......And I am over here trying to figure out how to pro-charge my big block on a relatively sound budget.

IT work is just crap, IMO. Always has been, always will be. Thats why I am getting out of IT all together and going into something different.

John Holmes' stunt double. ;)

I think I saw you in one of his movies. That extender they gave you was pretty fakey looking.... :D

Thats why I am getting out of IT all together and going into something different.

Will there be midgets involved?

Will there be midgets involved?

lol....only if they break the law. For once, I wont be hancuffing them for fun...well, maybe, but it will also be because its required to hall them off to the klink. It would be purely a job perk. :)

lol....only if they break the law. For once, I wont be hancuffing them for fun...well, maybe, but it will also be because its required to hall them off to the klink. It would be purely a job perk. :)
You in law enforcement, could be interesting. I'll be sure to check the SF paper's headlines on the web to see what comes of that!

You in law enforcement, could be interesting. I'll be sure to check the SF paper's headlines on the web to see what comes of that!

Would not work in SF if my life depended on it. I'd lose it too easily with all the hippies, commies, socialists and anarchists. I'll be out where normal law breaking type folk live. I couldnt break up a lesbian fight. Probably get in trouble for rooting it on. :D

Would not work in SF if my life depended on it. I'd lose it too easily with all the hippies, commies, socialists and anarchists.

The lure of clubbing and/or shooting those people is the only reason why I would ever consider going into law enforcement :D ...so I'd be able to go home every day knowing I made the world a better place. ;)

John Holmes' stunt double. ;)
John Holmes Double is DEAD too, what's your excuse Bill ??? And don't tell me your 540 made you say it :cool:

Wow, MM..

I know what you mean about unhappy with work..

But that ended over 10 years ago! Good luck with your next line of work..

pdq67

Pres/ceo of a Commercial Swimming pool company. which means that when you yankees move to florida chances are you will need a swimming pool to keep you cool. Because we all know you cant take the heat and humidity here in Hot Florida.:waving:

GM partsman

I have worked the occasional weekend in traveling displays for GM Restoration, GM Performance Parts, and Chevy racing at shows like NHRA Nationals, World of Wheels-several cities, and the Back to the '50s show (10,000 + pre 1964 vehicles.

Our shop is getting out of it now, but at one pont, we stocked over $200,000 in resto parts and performance parts-we could completely replace the outside of a '69 camaro from stock, also most of a 70 chevelle too. We got the first ZZ-430 (4,5,6,62,63) engines available to the public and sold more than a dozen of the 430 made. We even were one of the first dealers to start building our own engines. We built marine 502 blocks into 509s and used the iron heads to make 609hp.

those days are gone now, but fun to have been a part of....


Fridley, MN? say "hey" to jason - from GMPP guy

Steelworker......and hatin every day of it......26 years now!!!! :mad:

John Holmes Double is DEAD too, what's your excuse Bill ??? And don't tell me your 540 made you say it :cool:

:confused:
Your point is ??

Freight train Engineer for Canadian Pacific Railway...former SOO Line RR.

Fridley, MN? say "hey" to jason - from GMPP guy

will do. small world huh?

http://www.chevelles.com/showroom/70_Malibu/78ofredgarvin1.jpg

Retired! :(

John Holmes' stunt double. ;)

I applied for that job but wasn't qualified:sad: :D

I work in the IT field and hate EVERY DAMN DAY of it. I cannot stand computers, networks, wireless, servers....any of it. Just an absolute boring job from end to end. I have these geeks around me thumbing through PC Tech mags and ooing and aaawing over the newest gadgets for fat lazy people to chat with other fat lazy people using their laptops on their fat lazy people couches.......And I am over here trying to figure out how to pro-charge my big block on a relatively sound budget.

IT work is just crap, IMO. Always has been, always will be. Thats why I am getting out of IT all together and going into something different.

Amen brother! I'm with you 100%...I'm looking to get out too, just need to find a new career that pays what IT does.

Amen brother! I'm with you 100%...I'm looking to get out too, just need to find a new career that pays what IT does.

I will take a pay cut initially but its worth it to me. Nothing is going to stop me from shaking this field. I can move back up through the ranks in whatever I do next as I am a pretty driven guy in that respect. You just gotta take the leap and go for it.

Hell, out here BART train operators make more than most IT folks (excluding management)

Maybe i'll drive BART trains. Heck, the median salary for these guys is around 65K and after bennies, sick time, all that they're JUST BARELY under 100K......to make a commuter trian stop and go and open the doors. :sad:

IT is going to get worse and worse and job opportunity and pay is going to decline with outsourcing and the flood of technical skilled folks hitting the market. Crime never goes away. People will always get sick. People will always drink coffee and people will always watch porn.

Open a coffee shop, get into the medical field, law enforcement or porn and you've got a pretty damn solid gig. :D

Maybe i'll drive BART trains. Heck, the median salary for these guys is around 65K and after bennies, sick time, all that they're JUST BARELY under 100K......to make a commuter trian stop and go and open the doors. :sad:

The highest paid City of Madison Employee is a City Bus Driver. (Thanks to creative union contracts and overtime)

The highest paid City of Madison Employee is a City Bus Driver. (Thanks to creative union contracts and overtime)

Same with BART employees. Union has a stranglehold.

They're (BART) in a huge deficit, been raising fares, still waaaaay deep in the whole.....and the Union, with killer pay and bennies already, is pushing for more and currently threatening to strike. If and when they do strike, the public is going to get REAL nasty toward that union and BART employees and it will not subside for a very long time. I remember the last strike. I think it was almost two years later before the hundreds of middle fingers stopped greating all the train operators.

:confused:
Your point is ??
You had to be there!!!!

Drill for gas and oil (liquid gold) :).
Jeff
There's not much Oil field trash on here is there?

gm technician

Collision repair tech:(

I applied for that job but wasn't qualified:sad: :D

Hmmm. They told ME I was overqualified... :D :D :D :D :D

I'm a retired mobile Radar and Laser operator.... Now I'm a stay at home Dad....

Operations shift supervisor in a power plant.

Train Dispatcher Choo Choo

Bert Balch I am a retired Locksmith. Not by choice, I was in a car accident.

Gee, can you guess?

Freight train Engineer for Canadian Pacific Railway...former SOO Line RR.
WOW....I'm from the "SOO".....

I do American tech support for hp PRINTER DIVISION

i deal with stupid people every day that dont know how to operate a printer

You must be from India then.....

Airborne Operations Manager (Terrestrial Division) for laser mapping manufacturer
www.optech.ca

Mike S.

I'm one of The Few The Proud...A United States Marine!!

Thanks for asking