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What's your Career?

I became a volunteer firefighter at 20 while going to college. I should have just saved my money on the next 4 years of my college career as most of my time was spent partying and chasing girls. After 6 years of school and no where near close to being a doctor I settled for a BA in General Studies with a minor in history. After school I took a contract job with the National Science Foundation doing fire protection for McMurdo Station in Antarctica. I spent the next several years going back and forth from the States to the "Ice" and doing quite a bit of traveling around New Zealand and Australia. I then worked several jobs from retail to security at a casino to working as an EMT on an ambulance. I'm now doing what I love and working as a firefighter/EMT for the Columbia, MO Fire Department and getting ready to do my first CJ restoration! On a side note, for the last 3 years I've been dating a wonderful girl whose parents just happen to own and operate a full-time hot rod shop (he does body and paint and she does full custom interiors) so I'm hoping to get to use a corner of the shop for the Jeep! :D
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Cartographer.

(I make maps.)

Starting a company at the moment...CartoTracks.
Specializing in mapping for 4wd parks.

Golden Mountain OHV park in Sparta, Tn, site of SOA Nat'l Scramble next week is our first park.
 
I worked as a grunt in an electric motor shop while in college. Got a Mech. Eng. Tech. degree and moved to MN in 96. Spent a year doing CAD work, then 4 years overseeing an assembly line of electro-mechanical devices. Moved back to IN and worked on a masters degree followed by 2 years of teaching in the same department. When it was clear the position wouldn't be permanent, I moved out of the classroom and got a job as a systems engineer at a Bio-Med start-up company. I survived a year before they tacked on spontaneous field service travel and it became too much to manage with 2 kids at home and a wife with her own demanding career. I found a job as an application engineer and now work for a metal bellows company (flexible steel tubing). My primary focus is on thermal expansion joints and exhaust decouplers for diesel engines and heavy equipment.

So that occupies my days while the family, hobby farm and Jeep take up the rest of my time.
 
Architect - retail, government, residential. licensed all over the country, travel from coast to coast.
 
Shipped to boot-camp from San Antonio 90 days after high school graduation. Spent the next 11ish years as a Marine...started out as an avionics tech but wound up through happenstance in the IT career field. Separated from the military in 2002 and became a defense contractor doing IT security for a variety of agencies and a variety of locations. I now work for my uncle (Sam) doing more of the same in Washington D.C. Life is good...
Todd
 
Bump for an interesting thread. Come on and join in. We've got an interesting and diverse group here! :thumbsup:
 
I am a licensed water/wastewater treatment plant operator.
I Have been doing this for 12 years.
 
disclaimer: i'm a former (but future) scramber owner, presently a manical wheeler of the dreaded off brand:

I run strat ops for civilian deployment in Afgh and Iraq - on the Ag side. Spent the last beautful 13 mo in the former. Presently run about 90 fine folks in the two countries; and [shameless recruiting plug] am always looking for good farmboys and girls to support the cause. Hit me with a PM! [end shameless plug, apologies to mr. moderator]:usflag:
 
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doin what i love.

state employee....otherwise known as a State Trooper (Missouri Highway Patrol).
 
Graduated 4 years ago from U-Mass.Built/serviced bill breaker machines for casinos & gentleman clubs through college. One year in investments and now working as a Commercial insurance adjuster for 3 years.It pays the bills but I am getting burnt out, not sure where to go from here as the male escort business doesn't seem like a viable option at this point.....:popcorn:
 
Senior process engineer/ lean Six Sigma Blackbelt...Trying to figure out a way to fish for a living.
 
Okay. break out the popcorn. :popcorn:

My father was a rocket scientist in Huntsville, AL and I grew up in the heyday of the space program. Wanted to be an Aerospace engineer, got accepted at Auburn but my father counseled against a career in space, said there was no real vision beyond the moon program, so I switched to civil engineering. Co-oped through college working highway construction, married my 5th year, and moved to Virginia on wife's job with Philip Morris (masters in IE Computer Science). It was bad times in the construction industry so I took a job with the highway contractors' trade association as their Director of Engineering.

Traded associations in the early 80's and have represented the asphalt paving industry for the past 28 years, became an "asphalt expert" and do consulting on the side, mostly international.

All that makes me...old, tired and short on "Jeep time"! :rolleyes:
 
Grantshire said:
Okay. break out the popcorn. :popcorn:

My father was a rocket scientist in Huntsville, AL and I grew up in the heyday of the space program. Wanted to be an Aerospace engineer, got accepted at Auburn but my father counseled against a career in space, said there was no real vision beyond the moon program, so I switched to civil engineering. Co-oped through college working highway construction, married my 5th year, and moved to Virginia on wife's job with Philip Morris (masters in IE Computer Science). It was bad times in the construction industry so I took a job with the highway contractors' trade association as their Director of Engineering.

Traded associations in the early 80's and have represented the asphalt paving industry for the past 28 years, became an "asphalt expert" and do consulting on the side, mostly international.

All that makes me...old, tired and short on "Jeep time"! :rolleyes:
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Why do you tell them fibs?:rolleyes:Your job is traveling(which includes looking for Jeeps),playing golf,eating out,and taking asphalt people fishing.:D
 
Ted Wendel said:
Why do you tell them fibs?:rolleyes:Your job is traveling(which includes looking for Jeeps),playing golf,eating out,and taking asphalt people fishing.:D
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That all falls under "consulting". :D :D :D :D And you would be surprised at how much bad asphalt I find under old Jeeps. I think this is going to take further study! :thumbsup:
 
K-9 officer with the city of Columbus.

Grantshire,
After what I saw in Viginia last year I would love to see your work if you were long on "Jeep time".
 
I teach a combined group of 4/5th graders at a Spanish Immersion School. :shrug: Not sure why.... Oh wait, its sunny and should be a toasty 70+ degrees today. (Heat wave for us.) Gotta go outside now...:wave:
 
Wildlife biologist with an international nonprofit conservation organization. I manage our endangered species projects in Africa.
 
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