What do you or did you do for a living?

[benjamin2099]

Currently serving in the US Army as a Logistician. Got 10 years under my belt with 10 to go.

My lovely wife is a nurse and an expert in nutrition.

Ben

[Road-King]

Me - Retired Air Traffic Controller with the FAA. Went back to work for Raytheon teaching Air Traffic until I was laid off. Anyone who works/worked for the Feds know how those government contracts work or don't work as it were. Now I'm just retired...
DW - RN was with hospice... Now on disability (She was very sick last year) hopes to go back there when she can go back to work...

[wyo700]

I am a natural gas compressor operator. Been doing it for 6 years probably be doing it for another 30.

[Cajun Po-Boy]

Me-Landscape Architect ( primarily operations/ Branch Mgmt work for Contractors)...currently on hiatus to be a soccer DAD for our two young kids!

Wife-Deputy Project Leader for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

[BlakeB]

My wife and I are both in outside sales for pipe supply company. We sell HDPE pipe, valves, fittings, McElroy fusion machines, and Geosynthetics. It is used for Geothermal, Landfill leachate collection systems, gas to energy, watermains, sewermains, etc... We are replacing ductile iron! hehe

We split the Illinois Terrirtory and I recently picked up Missouri

[timarti]

DH had to take early retirement at 59 due to deteriorating vision. He was a high rise construction project manager and it got too dangerous being 30 stories up and not seeing too well!

I did retire for a year after a long career in nursing, doctor's offices and hospitals but wanted some extra money for travel and toys! Started working part time from home 2 years ago as a Medical Transcriptionist. I'm in Ontario, but work for the Vancouver Island Hospital Association!

It is something I could do "on the road" if we ever decided to spend more time travelling. Right now we are enjoying the country property we retired to after so many years in Toronto. Life is very good.

I think our generation was so fortunate. Jobs were everywhere, anyone that wanted to work had no trouble doing so. Today it is a lot harder.

[TheEdge]

I've been a full time photographer for 8 years and my wife is our graphic designer, we work together in our own company photographing mostly events. We also have the ability to provide photo booths and aerial photography. Also we can do 3-D videography and photography. We are fortunate to have a good name in a saturated industry. Before that worked in IT and Computers in Cardiology. Wife was an RN in Germany.

[DnD]

Firstly I would like to thank all the military folks for their service.

I was a software engineer for 15 years till my VP discovered I spoke both English and Tech. Since then I have been an IT Project Manager. I have been managing software development projects for a large healthcare company for over 12 years.

My fiancee has been in healthcare for 25 years and currently manages provider data systems for another large healthcare company.

We are still 10+ years away from retirement but are blessed with almost 6 weeks a year of vacation time. So lots of time for extended camping trips.

[Blademaker]

I used to own a scrap metal business.
In the 'hood.
Got tired of getting shot at, sold it, and retired.

Now, I'm a landlord, dog washer, chef, groundskeeper, PaPa to my granddaughter, and a full time knifemaker.

[Idle_Idylist]

Me - Comcast
DW - AT&T

[jerry1946]

I am a retired from the U S Postal service.
My wife retired from the state mental health department.
She now looks after me

[Mountainmanbob]

Originally Posted by jerry1946

My wife retired from the state mental health department.
She now looks after me

does that pay as well ??



just kidding
respectable

Mountainman

[bornerdm]

Keeping it short, twenty years slot tech. for Oregon Lottery. Looking foward to retire this year and possibly move to Virginia.

[Broadway Joe]

42+ years working in aircraft maintenance, 5 years with Lockheed and 37 years with American Airlines,last 20 years as Aircraft Maintenance Production Manager. Retired five years ago and my golf game still hasn't improved, also do small cabinet building. Now take care of the DW who broke her leg, Which is only fair since she took care of me for 47 years.

[49 34]

I work for our county 911 center as a dispatcher for fire, ems and law enforcement. We serve 23 fire departments, 3 ems services, and 10 police agencies. I also work as a full-paid on call firefighter for my local public safety department serving a mid size city and two townships.

DW did work as a pharmacy tech but they closed last year. She now takes care of our two children......three if you count me full time.

[WannaBcamping]

I am a Senior Emergency Medical Dispatcher for a large urban city EMS service. We're both looking at early retirement next year if all works out. DH is a Paramedic for same service. New 5er on order to make good use of our time off!

[showtime0022]

Originally Posted by jerry1946

I am a retired from the U S Postal service.
My wife retired from the state mental health department.
She now looks after me

So your wife still working mental health.... Lol

[wmtire]

Self-employed (I was dropped on my head a lot as a baby) in mostly retail passenger/light truck tire sales and service.

However, between dealing with customers and employees. I believe my official job title is "Crisis Management".

[CypressNova]

I work at a chemical plant as an Instrument and Electrical Technician, my main responsibility is high voltage systems and rectifiers. The plant has a 450 Mega Watt (MW) Cogeneration plant, the chemical plant uses about 250 MW and the rest goes to the grid. Most of the 250 MW the plant uses is for rectification, 138,000 volts is transformed and rectified down to 400 volts DC The 400 VDC at 130,000 amps goes through 140 cells (car sized batteries) called cell lines, there are 4 of them, where Brine (saltwater) is put into the cells and chlorine, cell liquor (weak caustic) and Hydrogen are produced and sent on for further processing. Sorry for being long winded but i find it interesting that our process starts with salt water.
The final product is VCM which is used to make PVC pipe and is also used a lot by the auto manufacturing industry. I've been working for this company for 14 yrs, i can retire in 10 but plan on staying 20, i work 4 10 hour day weeks so i'm off Friday, Saturday, Sunday and get lots of vacation so DW and I have plenty of time and money to camp.
Dw stayed home and raised our daughter who has given us a 4 yr old grandson and a 1 yr old granddaughter, grandkids are the best! Now DW main responsibility is telling me how to drive and what not to eat, she's really good at her job :-).

[pwrstroke2012]

Been puttin' the wet stuff on the red stuff for 31 yrs. (firefighter) Plan to retire in 5 yrs.