What do you do for a living?

[Limited GM]

6 years ago I was employed. Support Manager over 29 stores in three states. 5 weeks now, I've been laid off.

[cableguy11]

Manage and monitor the Western interconnection...6 years ago did the same thing but in the Eastern interconnection.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Interconnection

[Snowman78]

I need to update this thread with my exciting new job. We're looking for a good guy and I want to make the job sound as attractive as possible.

I would love to hear all the new details about your new gig, sounds pretty good!

[Lars]

I'm a crane operator for a large crane rental company in town. When I'm in the shop I do all of their welding and Fab work. Last year I started my own welding business on the side.

[Irving]

I would love to hear all the new details about your new gig, sounds pretty good!

When this thread started, I had recently been...forcefully resigned from Allied Nationwide as a liability auto adjuster. Long story, you've all heard it. In 2009 I believe I was an insurance agent at the time, and looking to get into a different career. That was when I briefly attempted to be a police officer. I'm glad I blew all the interviews because I would not have been a good police officer. Then I went to work for AAA and Papa John's (I worked 7 days a week for a year straight). I got back into adjusting and went to Allstate as an auto liability adjuster, then switched over to a field property adjuster. After interacting with the great guys who did the ladder assists, I decided to leave the corporate insurance job with salary, benefits, pension, 401k, health insurance, blah, blah, blah and become a ladder assist.

Now my job is very simple. I meet adjusters at properties and bring a taller ladder than the ones they have so I can get them up onto higher portions of the roof. Or, even when the roof isn't high, but is steeper than they are allowed on (8/12) or feel comfortable with, then I go up with their camera and take all the pictures and write down how many box vents, pipe jacks, etc. Sometimes a roof isn't steep, but just tall. Sometimes the roof is both steep and tall. Either way, it's the same thing. Show up, count layers, check for drip edge and ice and water shield, count protrusions, measure the slope, draw 10'x10' test squares on all directions of slopes, circle damage, and take pictures of everything. Occasionally I'll have to diagram and/or measure the roof as well. Sometimes I get to explain to contractors why I don't think a blister or a manufacture defect is hail. I drive all over the metro area doing this every day. So far, it's paying a lot better (gross) than any job I've previously held, but at the same time, I'm responsible for every expense from my shoes to gas to health insurance and work comp.

We're looking for another guy.

[Brian]

Like a lot of you I do more than one thing.

My day job shifts a bit every 6 months or so like any corporate job, but is basically tech management and/or system architecture for a big financial company. I joke that I get paid to imagine and draw pretty pictures of technology and then explain them to people on the phone all day. I still own a tech. consulting company on the side too - mostly a couple core small business customers, but that's been sitting on the side for a while due to being so busy with other stuff.

Our family also owns a wedding dress / gown / prom store, and even though I don't work there on a scheduled basis, it does seem to take up a lot of my time. Sometimes I get paid, more often not so much... lol. Started out in a tiny strip mall 15ish years ago, and now I think we're now the biggest store in this part of the country. (My wife is pretty awesome). You'd be surprised the stuff you see in a bridal store though - girls are crazy. More than once I've heard "oh, it's ok - it's nothing you haven't seen before, I'm sure"

Finally, I've had my FFL Mfr. / SOT license for a while. I tried stocking guns and doing gun shows 4+ years ago and ran away quickly from that. Mostly I buy/sell/transfer suppressors and other NFA stuff at this point, which honestly is what I enjoy the most. Wish I had more trigger time though and less "work" time - that's the downside to treating firearms as a business. I keep telling my wife I'm ready to set up a counter at the bridal store. I've proposed we rename the store to "Shotgun Weddings" and sell package deals, but so far she's not going for it.

[encorehunter]

After 13 years, I am still doing a job I love, being a firefighter. I kind of fell into it after a few years working on a wahmbulance. I had no interest in being a firefighter at the time, but now I can't imagine doing anything else. Six years ago, I was also working full time as mortician. After having my first son, I decided I needed to stay home more. Now my part time job is a construction laborer.

[BPTactical]

Pimp here.
Them Flamingos keep me busy.....

[SA Friday]

Pimp here.
Them Flamingos keep me busy.....

Maybe a gay gigolo pimp.

You sold your soul to a corporate gun company...

[BPTactical]

Maybe a gay gigolo pimp.

You sold your soul to a corporate gun company...

LOL, you actually thought I had a soul....









P.S. The Flamingos do the "normal" stuff. The Pelicans are the hard pipe hitters.