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Old 11-08-2002, 12:06 AM   #1
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Just woundering what People do for living. Im meter mechanic fo r a utilties company more for the money and the benifits. Im a boat mechanic by trade. Just didn't pay enough and I didn't want to move. That why I love working on my truck to use some of my education and learn more about the coolest truck an the roads.
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Old 11-08-2002, 12:09 AM   #2
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Old 11-08-2002, 12:11 AM   #3
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Old 11-08-2002, 12:20 AM   #4
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Electronics Technician at Boeing. When Im not out fixing machinery here at the wing plant, I'm on this darn message board making a list of all the Boss stuff you guy's and Gal's are doing on your trucks, that I must now do......
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Old 11-08-2002, 12:21 AM   #5
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Old 11-08-2002, 12:22 AM   #6
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Renovator for a meduim sized car lot 40-70 cars and trucks in our inventory....sigh it doesn't leave me much time to work on my own truck but i get some new parts at wholesale prices
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Old 11-08-2002, 12:24 AM   #7
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I'm the lead Packaging Machine Specialist for Seattles Best Coffee Co. I work on Italian made packaging machines. Lots of low voltage electrical work , PLC work and I do a lot of troubleshooting of weird electrical problems and tuning of packaging machines. Also a lot of operator training. I also spend about 1-3 hours a day doing conventional machine work. Its easier for me to make parts then spend 3 months waiting for replacements from Italy. I'm at the top of our pay scale and I get a good amount of overtime. I average 50 hours a week total. Its good work if you can get it.
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Old 11-08-2002, 12:53 AM   #8
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Old 11-08-2002, 12:57 AM   #9
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I'm a traffic engineer for KDOT for now. Have a degree in mechanical engineering, but working in the civil field. Will be moving into the mechanical field when my wife graduates (she's in civil engineering) next Dec.
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Old 11-08-2002, 01:02 AM   #10
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Old 11-08-2002, 01:28 AM   #11
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I'm the lead Packaging Machine Specialist for Seattles Best Coffee Co. I work on Italian made packaging machines.
Aaaah, the aroma of a fellow Bean Head !!
And a tip of the cup and slurp of the spoon to ya!

I am the 2nd shift grinder (and back up roaster) for a large coffe roaster on the East Coast. I grind 30+ million (six zeros) pounds of coffe a year and growing. Mike, I started out as a packer on one of those "I-tallian" machines, glad to be the grinder and roaster. Hopefully I'll make it to the cupping room sooner or later.

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Old 11-08-2002, 01:46 AM   #12
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Might I add that about 99% of the problems that I have to fix are shorts between the keyboard and the chair. 8-)
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Old 11-08-2002, 01:49 AM   #13
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Old 11-08-2002, 01:54 AM   #14
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Route driver for greenhouse supply store. Pays the bills, Sometimes I find good deals on trucks. Bought my wifes 71 c10 lwb 2wd for $500.00. "From the original owner" Put a little into it, new moter, ect. Runs like a champ. Transmission still stock not rebuild or nothin, still running strong. Found a few free bee's out there also. So that would be my jobs perks.
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Old 11-08-2002, 01:57 AM   #15
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Old 11-08-2002, 02:16 AM   #16
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Old 11-08-2002, 02:49 AM   #17
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Old 11-08-2002, 03:14 AM   #18
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Old 11-08-2002, 03:41 AM   #19
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Old 11-08-2002, 04:26 AM   #20
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Well, at the moment, I'm a "transportation engineer" (fancy name for the guy that cleans and fixes the golf carts/fixes the landscaping machinery) at a local golf course. But, by the end of the month, I'll be in beautiful, sunny, warm Tampa, Florida, to start a new job, being a grunt for my brother-in-law, who is a Boreman (installs underground fiber optic cable). I'm so disappointed that I'm going to miss the Illinois winter this year

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Old 11-08-2002, 04:32 AM   #21
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hey, imdarren what Company do ya work for if ya don't mind me asking? I work for Texas Instruments (yeah, we make more than calculators :p ) I started to think I was the only one on the board in this industry, I guess there would be more if the market wasn't so crappy right now!

68 stepside, learn all you can down there. There is a lot of money to be made in the fibre optic industry!
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Old 11-08-2002, 04:33 AM   #22
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Alot of people on here have something to do with drafting,design or something to do with cars
I just Graduated for Cad Drafter
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Old 11-08-2002, 05:02 AM   #23
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Old 11-08-2002, 06:06 AM   #24
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Old 11-08-2002, 06:24 AM   #25
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Currently kinda between careers, after ten years in the IT industry, including five years at Microsoft I am now split between setting up in business as (and learning how to be) a Blacksmith, hitting red hot bits of metal is much more fun than selling software! The rest of my time is I guess spent as a house husband. Making sure dinner is on the table when my nearest and dearest gets home from work, cleaning the house, polishing the cat, etc etc blah blah blah.... the joys of being a kept man!!

Oh and trying to finish renovating our 99 year old ex Methodist Church Manse which had stood empty for 12 years before we bought it, no hot water, bare plaster, bare floorboards, no curtains, no kitchen and a green 1960's bathroom suite when we moved in five years ago. Currently halfway through replacing the bathroom, might be finished by Christmas. Eight rooms down 3 1/2 to go!
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