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| Tweet Topic Started: Sep 8 2010, 06:14 PM (2,611 Views) | |
| Ryan | Sep 8 2010, 06:14 PM Post #1 |
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Curiousity: What do you guys do? Current or former mechanics? Business-oriented? Etc.? I know I'm being somewhat nosey, but whatever. I'm not judgmental in the least...and I seldom use "emoticons". |
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| GeoStalker | Sep 8 2010, 07:27 PM Post #2 |
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"Chicks dig me and guys think I'm cool."
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Business world of financial sales. I fell into it accidentally out of high school. My company paid for the majority of my college and subsequent designations. I like it, but I don't love it. If I could make $100k a year rehabbing and selling Metros, I'd rather do that. |
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| mjspiess | Sep 8 2010, 07:29 PM Post #3 |
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I'm a Certified Athletic Trainer for Manchester College covering mainly cross country, tennis, wrestling & softball. I chose this career after I got injured while in high school & did physical therapy with a physical therapist. Most PT's are couped up inside all day, so I went the AT route + Athletic Training is less school. However, I went ahead & earned a Master's degree as well so I could work at the collegiate or professional level. I didn't really want to mess around at the high school level. So far I'm happy with the career choice. I get my summers off...can't really complain about that
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| 3tech | Sep 8 2010, 08:02 PM Post #4 |
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I used to be an auto mechanic, but I worked in a corner garage, and got a lot of used car lot jobs. In the late 70's, that wasn't a nice job. I got out of that, and got my Millwright license, and machinist license. Now I work as a Maintenance supervisor in an auto parts plant that makes gears, sprockets, and clutch plates. You know what I do with my spare time. |
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| starscream5000 | Sep 8 2010, 08:08 PM Post #5 |
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Got 70 MPG?
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I'm a mortgage loan officer for one of the nation's top ten largest mortgage companies. I started out as a loss mitigation specialist and had no plans of becoming a loan officer. I got tired of my job and started looking around for other positions within the bank. I lucked out and landed the loan officer position. It ended up being a lot less stressfull and pays about three times what I made in my old position when business is up like it is right now. |
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| Johnny Mullet | Sep 8 2010, 08:11 PM Post #6 |
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Fear the Mullet
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I used to love tearing things apart to see how they worked when I was a kid and I always loved cars! I took up auto tech in Vo-Tech then went to diesel school after I graduated high school. Ever since then I been a mechanic. I have had many certifications, but those really mean nothing to me unless you really know what you are doing. There is "Book smarts" and then "Street smarts". I have both which have helped me stay in the game with cars, trucks, and heavy duty semi trucks with their ever changing and evolving complicated systems on 100+ year old internal combustion engine technology
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| Memphis metro | Sep 8 2010, 08:33 PM Post #7 |
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Your careers and why did you choose, Well when I was a kid, I looked up to my dad and my uncle. They could repair things and build things and I wanted to be like them. I went to the Airforce recruiter after high school and took an aptitude test and it pointed to the mechanical field. I chose a job in the US Airforce as a GSE mechanic. Ground support equipment. Every since then I been working on anything with a engine. Mostly have worked for fleet operations. I like Johnny have certifications from the Airforce as well as ASE certifications but its not the paper that matters, its what you know and have done. Most of what I know, I learned from others, a lot of whom were kind enough to show me something new and affective. No mechanic knows everything and a mechanic is always learning. Now I am in my 40s and I am ready for something new. I do not know what yet but being a mechanic is getting harder and harder physically with arthritis and poor eyesite as well as the demands of ever changing technology. I have been blessed with plenty from this past career. As for being a mechanic the only thing I would like to see is the engineers who design this stuff be made to put in two years of working and doing the repairs of the stuff they design and maybe then they would keep the mechanic in mind on their next designed automobile! Engineers should have a round table full of mechanics when they sit down to design a car. Not only build one for the drivers pleasure but keep the repair and maintaince in mind as well. |
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| woodman | Sep 8 2010, 09:32 PM Post #8 |
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I was born that way,,,creating, building,drawing,painting....I am a cabinet maker,,Thought I wanted to be an art teacher when back in high school....by the way got a glass Reunion coming up....Class of 71.................... |
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| billy508 | Sep 8 2010, 09:46 PM Post #9 |
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When I was in the Army Security Agency I used to work Crypto. I was offered a job when I got out but I did not want to do it any more. I went to work for the sheriffs dept as a mech.(mistake) Then I went to the City as a heavy equipment mech. Worked there about 5 years and a friend called me a said he was going to start building boats. We talked and I hired on. I quit a few times but always went back. Worked there over 30 years. Build about 50 boats during that time. Could have made more money working some where else but it was a real adventure. Three of us delivered a tug from Pensacola to Perioa Il . Took 12 days, quite a trip. My son worked with me for a couple of years and he learned how to weld and fit pipe. He is now a foreman for a company in Chicago that does work for refineries and such . It was damn sure hard work but the boss was fair and I worked with some great guys.
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| Bad Bent | Sep 8 2010, 09:52 PM Post #10 |
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Facetious Educated Donkey
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Oooo a loaded question for an old fart. Please bear with me. I had no idea what I wanted to be if I grew up. In high school, P/T concession stand helper, cashier, dishwasher, raced and repaired my own bicycles. Took advanced drafting and plastics classes. No college plans so I joined the Navy, tried for drafting but had to take Instrumentman; repair and calibrate pressure, temp and torque instruments. Discharged, traveled by bicycle, started Jr. College classes in Printed Circuit Board Design and stuff but got temp jobs drafting at $12-$15/hr. so I dropped out, and in, and out of school for a few years. In the '80s I worked for temp agencies in the Winter, traveled in the summer. Spring of '85 graduated Massage Therapy School. Strange profession, even doing sports massage, went back to drafting. I have a long list of jobs that I have gotten paid for including already mentioned Drafting (mechanical, electronic, architectural, electrical), Massage Therapy plus inventory clerk, bicycle messenger, chimney sweep, driver, mail-room manager, bicycle mechanic, painter, housekeeper, head housekeeper, Architectural Plans Examiner, Barista, small appliance repair, spot welding, dish washing, Mascot, Calligrapher, shagger for parachutists, flagger for motorcycle races, landscaping, food packaging, part inspector, newspaper stuffer/paperboy and drug study test dummy. Why? I was there, and it sounded like fun. I am currently a Graphic Artist for a newspaper having used my AutoCAD and computer skills to teach myself PageMaker, InDesign and Photoshop on a MAC. I have locally applied for P/T 'beer tap cleaner' (I don't drink) and have resumes out for drafting, maintenance, calibration, graphic artist and technical writer.
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| billy508 | Sep 8 2010, 10:00 PM Post #11 |
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Is the beer tap cleaner with Coors? One time I was looking at that job also. I quit drinking about 30 years ago. We build a Casino boat and were finishing up the bar and the owner said that after work we could open the bar. Couple of the guys started laughing and said "Looks like you quit too soon."
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| Memphis metro | Sep 8 2010, 10:05 PM Post #12 |
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Was talking with a friend last week and we were talking about a guy who retired from coors here in Memphis. He said the guy was given beer every day from coors at quiting time. Whether that is true or not I dont know. One of the perks I guess working for them. |
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| Potter | Sep 8 2010, 11:11 PM Post #13 |
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I like shiny things lol still don't know how I got into body work but it goes hand in hand with my other talents of mobile electronics and upholstery... eventualy id like to get into a position where I can do it all but just do it all. Kinda like wcc, and unique autosports... but that's much later in life.Ask anyone,,, I'm a total gear head... may not know everything but I'm willing to learn |
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| drdan52000 | Sep 8 2010, 11:47 PM Post #14 |
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Old guy story, are all ways interesting. Out of high school, I started with state forestry, fighting forest fires in the summer time and planting and cutting and falling trees in the winter time, and some logging here and there. When my first daughter was born, thought I had to get my act together, And I when to the local commity college and became a welder and work for a year and paid all the bill off and went back to school and got a two year degree in heavy equipment repair. The third job wrenching was with this bus company Laidlaw transit, That was in Dec 22, 1984. In six month I was floor lead man. In three years, I was asked to be the shop manager. And that is what I doing now. |
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| geojames | Sep 9 2010, 01:53 AM Post #15 |
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well when I went to the army they trained me to fix radio's and computers and I got in trouble a lot so I got KP a lot thats where I learned that I was a good cook I have been doing it ever since I cooked at a nursing home for five years and I would still be working there if Washington state had not slashed the health care budget but they did so I was laid off just got a job today at a restaurant as head cook |
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(I don't drink) and have resumes out for drafting, maintenance, calibration, graphic artist and technical writer.
lol still don't know how I got into body work but it goes hand in hand with my other talents of mobile electronics and upholstery... eventualy id like to get into a position where I can do it all but just do it all. Kinda like wcc, and unique autosports... but that's much later in life.


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