What do you do for a living (career)?

[ATTAKK]

Morning!

It's usually one of the first questions you're asked when you meet someone... "Hey Scott, nice to meet you. So, what do you do for a living?".

There's a wide career spectrum in the firearm enthusiast community. You never know when you might run into another brother or sister of the gun!

I'm a commercial underwriter & broker for a national insurance wholesaler. We offer property & liability insurance for hard to place risks. Our clients are the retail agents that sell coverage to the end-user, you and me. So I don't actually sell insurance, I'm the middle-man.

So, what do you do for a living?

[hardluk1]

Was a blue collar worker started running a a/c duct work install crew in '73 .Moved to a custom builder in '76 and learned the trade. Built homes on the side in the '80s with a friend & co-worker for other blue collar types and work up thru the builder I worked for . Moved to NC 17 years ago to build custom homes with a friend here . Now I'm about useless and to broke down to be worth much and had to retired a couple years early . I shoot , hunt a little, reload and peck on this key board and be a general pain in the butt for my wife of 38 years . Ha And have two girls the CC and two grandkids to teach to shoot and hunt when they get older, hopefully.

Life is good.

[berettabone]

Nothing.......................

[CPO15]

Trophy Husband.

[CJB]

I compress 'problems' until they vanish.

[jocko]

Morning!

It's usually one of the first questions you're asked when you meet someone... "Hey Scott, nice to meet you. So, what do you do for a living?".

There's a wide career spectrum in the firearm enthusiast community. You never know when you might run into another brother or sister of the gun!

I'm a commercial underwriter & broker for a national insurance wholesaler. We offer property & liability insurance for hard to place risks. Our clients are the retail agents that sell coverage to the end-user, you and me. So I don't actually sell insurance, I'm the middle-man.

So, what do you do for a living?

Yes I have had that skame problem when asked what I do for a living, I tell them I breed sheep and they come back and say oh u must have some nice Rams in the herd and then I hve to say NO RAMS, I breed sheep. Conversation usualy ends then..

[muggsy]

I'm a soldier of fortune. I make a fortune. I lose a fortune. At the moment I'm between fortunes. :)

[marshal kane]

I'm retired so I buy reloading components, shoot, clean guns, reload then the cycle begins all over again broken only when I have to stop and cast ingots from wheel weights to cast, size and lube bullets. Oh yes, I also have a "Honey, do" list that I try to avoid whenever possible.

[muggsy]

When you're retired every day is Saturday. :)

[berettabone]

I love Saturdays................

[340pd]

RSO, Pistol Instructor, and professional ammunition disassembler.

[deadeye]

I work very hard at being retired. Done a great job so far. Haven't even taken a vacation in 15 years. Pure dedication I calls it!

[GLOCKROCKER]

I'm a Commercial Refrigeration Contractor, but Ive been thinking about becoming a professional bikini waxer!:madgrin: All I need to do is convince Mrs. Glockrocker that it's a good career move.

[cobrasjp]

I'm an engineer and a college math instructor.

When I grow up [emoji3] , I want to be retired. But for now, I've got a kid in medical school and don't see retirement in my near future.

[jeepster09]

Professional model.....:cool:

[Armybrat]

Retired from teaching (secondary) 18 years ago.

Every day since has been Saturday.

[b4uqzme]

Sell stuff...

[TheTman]

I own a custom computer consulting, design, building, and installation, and repair, business, geared for small businesses with specific needs, or customers that want a unique computer, built to their specs.

[Bawanna]

Retired from teaching (secondary) 18 years ago.

Every day since has been Saturday.

Secondary? That's what comes after grammar school right? Think they call it high skool now days. I don't know much about that.

[GROTMAN]

I too am a part time model. http://www.jimmyjoenascar.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/38813_1554895197684_1394336755_31521597_8053437_n. jpg
When I'm not modeling I'm an occupational therapist. Where the ot comes in on Grotman :)

[Bawanna]

I was a victim of occupational therapist for quite a spell.

Bleach is not enough to get that image out of my mind. Switching to Scotch.

[Harrylee]

I hit my thumb with a hammer

[ltxi]

Mostly retired for the last year...and as of 3 Jan 15 I'll be 99.7% retired. Then returning to an earlier, mid-career period job I enjoyed as a retirement hobby/avocation....have suppressed .22 Hi Standard will travel professional assassin. Pro Bono available for violet afflicted needy.

[Bawanna]

God Bless you Itxi. I worship the ground you hover above.

[JohnR]

I keep the local building plans examiners amused. 26 years practicing as an architect, I'll probably never get it right.

[DeaconKC]

I track sex offenders and parolees violent enough to be on satellite tracking as a Parole Agent.

[Barth]

Oil Well Firefighter
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Actually - Software Engineer

[AJBert]

As long as I can breath in and then exhale the same breath I get paid on the first of every month.

[muggsy]

Prior to retirement I worked for the Cleveland Zoo. It was my job was to circumcise the elephants. The pay wasn't very good, but the tips were terrific! :)

[b4uqzme]

For a while I was a diamond cutter......... I mowed the lawn at the ballpark.

[skiflydive]

I own a manufacturing company. We make weightlessness. Seriously.

[Armybrat]

As long as I can breath in and then exhale the same breath I get paid on the first of every month.

We oughta form a union! lol

[Armybrat]

I own a manufacturing company. We make weightlessness. Seriously.

We have one of those indoor "skydiving" places in Austin. Pretty popular from what I hear.

[Alfonse]

Anything I want to.

[pwilson]

full time bank teller... dropping my hours to part time in dec to be a stay at home daddy!

[b4uqzme]

full time bank teller... dropping my hours to part time in dec to be a stay at home daddy!

Are congratulations in order?

[GROTMAN]

I've heard little Johnny's name mentioned on this forum before.. this is what his dad does..

One day a fourth-grade teacher asked the children what their fathers did for a living.

All the typical answers came up -- fireman, mechanic, businessman, salesman, doctor, lawyer, and so forth.


But little Johnny was being uncharacteristically quiet, so when the teacher prodded him about his father, he replied, "My father's an exotic dancer in a gay cabaret and takes off his clothes in front of other men and they put money in his underwear. Sometimes, if the offer is really good, he will go home with some guy."



The teacher, obviously shaken by this statement, hurriedly set the other children to work on some exercises and then took little Johnny aside to ask him, "Is that really true about your father?"

"No," the boy said, "He works for the Democratic National Committee and is helping to secure the nomination of Hillary Clinton in 2016, but I was too embarrassed to say that in front of the other kids."

[ppsnatcher]

Do you have any idea who your dealing with? Really! do you know who I am?...

I get paid hundreds of dollars!

I'm a med tech/student

[pwilson]

Are congratulations in order?

he is two months old.. figure me cutting my hours would be cheaper then hiring a sitter. lol

[muggsy]

Little Muggsy. When I was in first grade my father worked at Ford as a tool and die maker and my my mother worked at World Publishing as a book binder. I told the class that my father worked for Ford and that my mother was a bookie. True story. :)

[Bawanna]

Plus the odds of him turning out to be a fine upstanding citizen are 1000 times more likely if you raise him yourself.

My wife quit work until ours were in school and then gradually went back to work to match those hours. No sitters ever.

My daughter thinks she has to go back to work so now my wife is cutting back one of her 3 jobs and will babysit while she works 5 hours a day. Again no sitters.

[cobrasjp]

I own a manufacturing company. We make weightlessness. Seriously.

Do you own a drop zone?

[leftysixty]

I'm retired, and sick and tired of being retired. I'm look'n to be a "seasoned worker".

For those of you that may not know, that is an "old fart" that has "some" smarts and a good work ethic. Which seems to be a failing in a lot of the younger "workers".

Who'd a thunk?? :crazy::biggrin1:

[TheLastDaze]

Real Estate Investor/Contractor

[Longitude Zero]

Human garbage collector.

[Planedude]

I build jets...

[JohnR]

I built a plane once. Part of one, at least. J-3 replica in spruce. Got the fuselage on the landing gear and, like most homebuilders, kinda ran out of steam. Plus we had another daughter, and I moved my office into the garage where the plane was.

[AnthonyC]

Let's see. I've been a desk clerk at a local parish. I climbed the corporate ladder my the college food services starting as a dish washer, then pot washer, finally a breakfast short order cook. I have worked on the grounds crew at a campground for kids with disabilities. I have even been a superhero. Okay, I performed at kids parties wearing costumes: Mickey Mouse, Ninjas Turtles, even Barney the Dinosaur.
Right now I am pediatrician in a small town but my true aspiration is to become a librarian. I mean, what sort of emergency can happen in library? An overdue video? A misshelved book? Riff raff talking excessively loud?

[AnthonyC]

I build jets...

That is so freakin' cool!

[RevRay]

I'll give you 3 guesses ... and the first 2 don't count.

[JohnR]

I'll give you 3 guesses ... and the first 2 don't count.
Revolutionary? :)

[tony k]

Archaeologist. About one third of my time is spent finding cool sites. The rest of the time I sit my fat a$$ behind a desk writing boring reports about said cool sites. I get pretty nerdy about broken rocks, broken glass bottle fragments, rusty pieces of metal, and soils.

Favorite thing I've ever found? A complete set of dentures stuffed in an old can at a 1920's era mining site in Colorado. You figure that one out. I'm leaning toward drunken miner accidentally pitched his choppers.

[Antarius]

Another human garbage collector here...

[ReManG]

Another human garbage collector here...

You guys shouldn't down yourselves with your occupation so much, after all every human makes garbage, so your collections must be vast.....Just be glad your not an elephant garbage collector, empty beer vats and lots of chewed and digested vegetable matter.... it is a LOT of work as elephants walk a long distance each day..... :cool:

[Antarius]

Hahahaha awesome. Well played!

[yqtszhj]

Another human garbage collector here...

I have a LEO cousin and if you ask him what he does he says "I deal with peoples problems they refuse to deal with their self."

As for what i do for a living, I do what my wife says and she lets me keep living.

[Antarius]

A more accurate description would be: "I'm a writer."

1 minute of fun is about 1 hour of writing.

[dirtengineer]

Dirt Engineer!

[grandpa1466]

Retired 9 years after 33 years of teaching high school band. Loved the kids and the music. Learned to hate the "school" part. School (at least in Texas) isn't about kids any more. It's about politics, money, football, and the TEST, which has dumbed down our kids. I repair computers, teach a few private music students, raise cows on the family farm, play with the grandkids, and do a lot of shooting and reloading. Otherwise, I don't do much.