What Do You Do?

[killerkx]

i just thought it would be interesting to see what kind of work evertyone here does (what do you do to afford your bike obsession).

i work for the largest land surveying company in florida, im a head draftsman at our south office.

 

[rmc_olderthandirt]

i work for the largest land surveying company in florida, im a head draftsman at our south office.

Wow, does that job give you any opportunities to ride in unusual places?

I am an electrical engineer. My claim to fame is that I am one of the engineers who invented TiVo. I sit behind a desk all week then go beat myself up on the weekends.

Rod

 

[killerkx]

unfortunaly i am an office rat mon-fri but when i do go out in the field, i get to find new places to ride.

 

[MikeT]

I am a Structural Engineer. I make sure the buildings you walk around in stay up and you are safe when you use them. Never any thanks but all the blame if anything ever goes wrong. So far I sleep well at night and nothing has EVER gone wrong.

 

[XRpredator]

for even more on this:

http://www.dirtrider.net/forums3/showthread.php?t=25932

and:

http://www.dirtrider.net/forums3/showthread.php?t=127439

 

[Mully]

I'm a Diesel Fitter

 

[SpeedyManiac]

I'm a soon to be Mechanical Engineer (I graduate at the end of April). I took a job doing Finite Element Analysis and mechanical design for a consulting firm. I'll mainly be designing stuff for heavy industrial equipment (hydroelectric dams and a lead smelter) but there's the odd cool job that comes up (air craft landing gear is a recent one).

 

[oldguy]

I am retired and live off my wife. Spider is a college student and practicing sponge

 

[XRpredator]

I want Dave's job. Or maybe Spider's.

 

[KavsgrlfrmCO]

Teacher so right now my gear comes from the spoiling of Mr. Wonderful Patrick.

 

[mxracer146]

paramedic here

 

[weimedog]

Retired Mechanical Engineer who spent 20 years in the Cad/Cam business doing everything from develping Software to International Sales, from being a programmer of CNC mills and lathes to being a product manager of a CAM product and C++ develpment environment designed to accelerate product development of other CAD/CAM products. Been around.... :coocoo:

Now I do this (And LIKE it!):

http://www.thequadbuilder.com/forums/uploads/1167337364/med_gallery_151_65_59275.jpg :yikes:

 

[sparkysakitas]

im just an average union electrican
work on comm and industrial projects (juice plants,power houses waste water treatment plants etc etc)

 

[Green Horn]

I don't want to give away proprietary information, but I do work for a company. This company does pay me to complete tasks for them in a timely manner. The company I work for makes a product that they in-turn sell to other companies. I have been employed by them for a little while now. :)

...Oh no, I think I've said too much.

 

[robwbright]

Attorney

 

[just_a_rider]

Geez, all these engineers, Attorneys, :whoa: doesn't any one have a normal job :) I drive around all day listening to music and a cb radio in a big rig, home every evening of coarse and no weekend work.

 

[whenfoxforks-ruled]

Plumber

 

[mxracer146]

hey just-a-rider, your job sounds great

 

[just_a_rider]

It's not bad, the hours are just long. I get home any where around 4 pm to 5 pm every evening but the down fall is I have to get up at 3:30 am every morning, 12 to 13 hours a day 4 to 5 days a week. My wife likes it, she doesn't have to work but for me it puts limitations on what I can do during the week like practice, and now that baseball and soccer season is back I'll be runin all week keeping up with my boy and girls sports, but I wouldn't have it any other way.

 

[TwinSpar]

My job title is Director of Line Dancing Technology.

 

[mxracer146]

I work 24 hr shifts then off for 72 hrs, so I only work about 7 days a month. I really enjoy my job. If it just paid more so I would have to work part-time too.

 

[Moparman1539]

Im a stay at home teen, bum money off my parents ;) :cool: .


Nah. Ive been trying to get a job since new years. but i have been struggling in school. So now that im cought up i got an application to work at GameStop, part time.

Besides that... I might work for my grand fater for money. (he has a tire buisness)

Retired Mechanical Engineer who spent 20 years in the Cad/Cam business doing everything from develping Software to International Sales, from being a programmer of CNC mills and lathes to being a product manager of a CAM product and C++ develpment environment designed to accelerate product development of other CAD/CAM products. Been around.... :coocoo:

Now I do this (And LIKE it!):

http://www.thequadbuilder.com/forums/uploads/1167337364/med_gallery_151_65_59275.jpg :yikes:

Man, ive been trying to learn C++ from a bunch of tuts on the internet. And just messin around with it, and whatnot. But i cant get the hang of it. Its just soo confusing. And i wanted to take a class for it, but the school got rid of it :yell: . so now im going to take 2 years of CAD... (i know how to do that alittle...)

 

[76GMC1500]

I work in the boathouse at my school. I do my best to keep the boats going. I only get paid $0.10 an hour over minumum wage which is dissapointing considering this is somewhat skilled labor (lots of welding and lathe work). This doesn't really pay enough to keep the bikes running so I do some handyman work for a few dollars every once in a while. Eventually, I'll be graduating with a mechanical engineering degree as well as a Coast Guard 3rd engineer's license. I'll be running the big engines. 2-strokes rule in commercial shipping.

 

[krumble]

work at a local screen printing and embroidery shop.

 

[vmf214]

Injury Research

I manage a research program (CIREN) dedicated to investigating injuries sustained in motor vehicle crashes.

Check it out -
http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/departments/nrd-50/ciren/CIREN.html