What does everyone do for a profession?

[calldoctoday]

@ndmike Amazing, truly amazing. I have been in the construction, design, building claims industry for about 45 years or so. Degreed as an Architect, but have done only building inspections (Commercial & Residential) for the past 20 years.

[Brianzipperdog123]

@ndmike my oldest daughter was born in the Great White North my son in NY my youngest daughter in TX. I’ve been a professor and research manager and now retired for 27 years in the Great White North. I’ve got my fingers crossed I can go to Alaska and fish for sockeyes now I’ve got my two Covid shots

[kyle]

Heavy equipment operator and foreman at a coal dock on lake superior

[Ken1261]

Retired Correctional Officer, 35 years Fl. DOC. Part time Instructor Basic LEO and Corr. Recruits.

[Chef]

mhighland69 Thanks for your service

[Chef]

Ken1261 I would guess you have many stories about that career

[Harkness]

@ndmike Retired teacher. I had more time to dive into my sausage-making hobby, and jumped into charcuterie as a fun way to eat well. I sub at a local Tech-Voc, often in baking and culinary courses. Learn some, teach some, have fun. In between those, I tinker with my boat and gadgets. Cheers, all, from Winnipeg.

[shoprat53]

Retired millwright worked at GM for 33 years. Now enjoy making sausages and flying my quad line kites.

[Ken1261]

Seen a lot. Hope I don’t have to go back. Will stick with training the Recruits. Hunting fishing and processing my kills.

[Jesser]

@ndmike I’m retired after 41 years at Goodyear tire plant radial truck department.

[wdaly]

Retired from the US Navy in 1997. Moved back to my hometown and owned a propane business. Served as Fire Chief until December 31st when I retired. Still maintain my EMT license but trying to cut down on number of calls. Great to see so much diversity on here. Glad I found Walton’s recently. Enjoy everyone’s comments/advice/recipes.

[Tex_77]

wdaly being in the propane business you should have choosen Hank Hill for your name on here!

[glen]

To all our veterans, you have my admiration, respect and thanks
Worked for 2 companies in a 48 year career.
Tech support, sales and management for installation and maintenance of fire alarm, telecom, datacom and fiber optic infrastructure.
Repaired equipment that had little or no local repair support ranging from employee punch clocks to commercial microwave ovens and once a CT Scanner arm a guy brought in and about everything in between LOL
My youth was spent on the family dairy farm

[twilliams]

@ndmike im an uneducated highschool drop out working as a maintenance technician at a semi trailer manufacturer. Dealing with 24-480 volts single and 3 phase, PLC, pneumatic and hydrualic tooling, 100TON-600TON presses, robotic welding systems as well as portable, epoxy primer and urethane electrostatic paint application systems and any other little stuff that comes up on a daily basis. Been there 27 years. Been in maintenance for 9 years. Started out painting and blasting, then when into production management but with the last slow period in 2007-2009 there were several that were let go and demoted. I was demoted back to paint and later promoted to maintenance…a definite win for me.

[twilliams]

wdaly i was on the local fire dept for 7 years, firefighter 1, 2 and MPO. As well as some other certifications. I miss it, life just got too busy having to have 2 jobs to make ends meet. I made the sacrifice to resign so someone else could give the time it takes for a position like that.

[jpurol]

Ken1261 I worked in the state prison in MI for 8 years as a CO before I changed careers. Thank you for your service! It’s definitely a world within a world.

[alanburkholder]

Got my degree in High School math education, didn’t teach, got into accounting (CPA), and Christian ministry as a pastor.

[JIM BBQ]

@ndmike retired HVAC installer

[Ken1261]

jpurol Thank you for your service and the rest. It takes all of us.

[dawg]

@ndmike . I am a career firefighter in Kansas and then farm and ranch on the side. Been at it for 20 plus years so far. It is nice having Walton’s right here in my back yard just a 30 minute drive.