I've been a bicycle mechanic in a 35,000 sq foot bicycle store here in Texas for about 5 years (10 total). Worked as a dispatcher trainee for BNSF for about a year 4 years ago and found out is wasn't for me. Went back into the cycling industry since I'd been a mechanic before that. I really enjoy what I do and my three kids (2/5/7) with one on the way Aug 25th. Kinda wish the railroad thing would have worked out, but I'd not be able to spend as much time with my kids as I do now and so if I had to choose, I'd stick to what I do and the quality family time.
I had to do a double take when I saw the original dates at the start of the thread. I'm a telecom tech (really just an old telephone man) for a small telecom service company in southeastern PA. I've only been with them since last August, but I've been in the business for 30 years, 33 years if you count the military (US Army Signal Corps). I was with a large (international) telecom company for just shy of 21 years when I was laid off last June. It kinda sucked, but I got a good severance package, and feel I'm in a better situation with this company. I don't have as much time for model railroading as I'd like, much less for another hobby. I used to love fishing, but haven't gone in close to 15 years. Maybee one of these years.
I have 2 carreers. I'm the Service Parts Order Coordinator for an International Zero-Turn Turf Equipment company and a Financial Service Rep for a local Insurance, Loan, and Securities company. I'm a newcomer to the hobby, became invloved in the hobby in september 2006. Met lots of great folks in a short amount of time.
If I had to use a title I guess it would be Marina Technician. Just a fancy term for "fix whatever needs fixed". I've worked for a full service marina on the upper Mississippi river for a little over 13 years and was in general construction / carpentry for 17 years before that.
I am a service auditor for Coca Cola Ent and also a full time scuba instructor. Both jobs have me travel alot so I get to see trains from all over North America and central america as well. This week I was sent to the Yukon. Worked til 2 then went for a dive, the next day I was walking the White Pass line. It is a great life. I also was was in the armed forces, a nine mile gunner!
I've been a career soldier, a social worker, and a fisheries biologist. Disability forced an early retirement. Now I focus on history and writing--and of course trains.
Been in auto wreck repair & refinishing for about 35 years. Been at the same body shop now for over 20 years. Also got into all types boat fiberglass repairs & gellcoating. As well as outboard mechanics and anything a boat needed done. Always had a large shop garage at home where I used to restore antique cars as well as doing custom paint jobs on street rods. Sold all my personal street rods and now at home I just custom paint guitars, basses, drums, motorcycles, etc. Also restore old antique tin plate Ives & Lionel trains. Still like to do any type work on boats and small car wrecks as well. Ernie
I'm an archaeologist and own nd operate a private archaeological consulting firm. Doing what I have wanted to do since I was eight years old... John
Retired after 41 years of great fun as a computer systems engineer doing all sorts of neat stuff with space, robots, and ships. However, I'm really looking forward to moving into a new house, 25 miles away from the Gulf of Mexico, especially during hurricanes, with an 8x15 air conditioned room just for the Saucier Central, a (never owned) subsidiary of the B&M in N-Scale. What more could someone who refuses to grow up look forward to....?
Hey, I just realized I posted to this once already!! We work with clients such as the oil and gas industry who are looking to build well pads and pipelines on federal or state land. If there is fed or state land/money involved we have to do archaeology by law. We don't get to "dig stuff up" much, but we do locate archaeological sites, document them and try to find a place for our client's project that won't damage the sites. Although we are licensed and permitted by the government (BLM, State, Forest Service etc.) we are paid for our work by our clients. This leads to some sticky situations... John
at present moment (ie right now) I'm at Sutherland, but I have been at Clyde, parra Rd and Balmain Rd. Balmain is due to close on the 1st of July, Sutherland is set to go in 2009 and Clyde and Parra, not sure what year but saw the new track diagram fro Lidcombe to Westmead a couple of weeks ago so once that is done goodbye to those boxes.
I'm a clinical laboratory technologist, and have been for 27 years in hospitals large & small. I perform analysis on blood & body fluids, the results of which go to the physician to aid in his or her diagnosis and treatment of the patient.Until two weeks from the time of this posting, I was employed in a traveling healthcare firm performing contract work for client hospitals, from sea to shining sea and all points in between. I am now in the process of starting a new job back home in Sherman, which will 1)greatly reduce my commute time, 2)keep me at home, 3) allow me to keep an eye on and help raise my two teenage sons, both of whom need a steady hand, and 4) allow me to finally start work on a new layout I figure I have 15-16 years more in the healthcare industry before I retire.
Writer/producer/photographer/designer, mostly in defense and nuclear industries. Also strategic planning.
Im a railroad conductor of 18 years and a cleveland indians fan, not sure which of the two is the hardest tho! paul
Curretnly temping. What I want to do is find a position where I can apply my advanced software skills to make this world a better place to live in.
Wow this thread is over 5 years old. I case I missed it, I wonder what Craig Martyn decided to do and does he enjoy it? As for me, I am documentary film maker which I absolutely love. My second love (and hobby) is horses and I have been riding and training with my wife for 30 years now.
I went to Cal State Fullerton in California where I recieved a degree in Music Education, ("Band Teacher") After student-teaching for one semester at the junior high level, I quit to find a less dangerous job. I'm now a firefighter for the Costa Mesa Fire Department in Orange County. I belong to the Short Track Railroad in Vista CA. Incidently, some of my work can be seen on Tony Burzio's post "Pictures at an Exhibition"
