What's your day job?

[adina]

Airplane driver and airplane mechanic contracting for the BLM in wildland firefighting.

So you get to drive airplanes over wildland fires? How awesome would that be!?!? Not the fact that, you know, it's a big fire. But since the fire is there SOMEONE has to fly that plane...

Got any pics?

[EOSThree]

So you get to drive airplanes over wildland fires? How awesome would that be!?!? Not the fact that, you know, it's a big fire. But since the fire is there SOMEONE has to fly that plane...

Got any pics?

Lots, here's a few:

[gracie_r]

Bummer Jimmy. I hope that you are able to find something soon.

[jetrim]

Commercial Construction Superintendent for smaller (under $1mil) ground-ups and build outs. My last 2 jobs:

[Skyman]

I think my official title is dogsbody, aka communications assistant - although I don't actually assist anyone. I work for the head office of a large religious order that specialises in education and welfare. I film and edit their videos, I take their photographs, I manage their website, Maintain their computer systems and servers and pretty much anything else to do with technology that they might need.

[Jimmy B]

Thanks Gracie R
JB

[walterick]

Bum.

And PR.com troll

[Frog]

Hey, JB! Bummer about the job. I would think that auto shops would being doing well in an economy where no one wants to buy a new car. But what do I know!

[dizzy]

Spent last 12 years in the british Army. Currently working with an RAF Sqn that's flying the MQ-9 reaper. http://www.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?fsID=6405

[Canuck935]

Spent last 12 years in the british Army. Currently working with an RAF Sqn that's flying the MQ-9 reaper. http://www.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?fsID=6405

Awesome! My best friend builds them!

[retroactiv]

I'm currently a utility tech at the largest snack food manufacturing plant in the world. I work at Frito Lay's Frankfort East Plant. Where I put bags of chips in boxes for transport all over the world.

It's like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory but with Chips.

[AnthonyH]

Director of Automotive Finance

[adina]

It's like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory but with Chips.

Complete with Oompa Loompas?

[adina]

Cool photos!

[retroactiv]

Complete with Oompa Loompas?

Yes, I am one. We just don't sing, and wear fruity clothes.

[susaan]

Generalist....

1-Mum to two teenagers. :cornut:

2-Traveling with and documenting my family world music band. :23:
Includes taking photos. :blush2:

Since my daughter babysits for band members,while waiting to start her design course and my son shoots video ,it all combines quite well,at present. :sleep: :sleep:

3-Small export biz of Indonesian products,sarongs,etc,to support 1 & 2,
which are NOT paid jobs,yet....::cryin:


EOSThree...are you one of the heroes I have to thank for saving our home during the Hondo Fire in New Mexico,May 1996 ?

[Frog]

Every Wednesday I take the trash can out and every other Wednesday I also take out the recycling bin.

[OldClicker]

Retired! I don't know how I possibly had time to work. - TF

[EOSThree]

EOSThree...are you one of the heroes I have to thank for saving our home during the Hondo Fire in New Mexico,May 1996 ?

I was in Alaska in 1996, but I probably know some of the firefighters that worked to save your home. They are an awesome group and I consider it a great a privilege to work with them.

[susaan]

That makes you a hero in my family's eyes...Grandma had just joined us,a little confused by age and illness,losing the house would have been a disaster.

We were evac'd late at night,returning in the morning with no info as to conditions on our road,(next to the Kit Carson Nat, Forest)-house was smelly,black everywhere,but standing !

-the planes kept our kids,(and Grandma ! ) happy all the next day ,swooping in,dropping water and fire retardant,while we cleaned up.

[brmill26]

I'm a third year law student at Cumberland School of Law; I'll finally graduate in May. After the Bar, hopefully I'll be a gainfully employed lawyer somewhere. For the time being, I also work part time at a class action law firm doing just about anything, and am a "semi-pro" photographer, with most of my work coming from the Alabama regional SCCA. They're using my photobooks as their trophies this year, 30 of them total. Gotta get working on that...

Jimmy, there aren't many people out there with skills like yours. You'll be in demand sooner rather than later.

[JETA]

Day job is coming to an end, the automotive machine shop I work in is closing at the end of the month.I have been there 8 years and the shop has been in business for 20 years. I still have my nascar inspector job part time. It has been a ruff couple of weeks for me tearing down the shop and wondering what next? all the shops in our area are beyond slow.
Trying to hang in there, Jimmy B.

I'm so sorry to hear about the rough patch Jimmy.

I'll be thinking of you and your family and hope something comes along soon for you.

[JETA]

First and foremost I'm the Mom to four wonderful kids. 20, 19, 10 & 8. Now that they are getting older I'm finding more time on my hands. I work full time about 6 months out of the year shooting high school and youth league football.

[Wild Wassa]

Adina, G'day.

"Now THAT sounds like an awesome job. Jealous!"

It gives the impression of being a good job, hey?

There are about 13 hours of preping, repairing, modifying and tuning boats and keeping fit ... for every hour spent on the water. It is amazing how dirty and smelly being a racing sailor is with all that clean water around.

Stripping keels, repeated acid washes to hulls, applying toxic direct to metal primers, being covered in super toxic cyanates every time paint is sprayed, grinding and drilling composite materials and fibreglass, and huge amounts of time spent cutting and polishing hulls, just to shave off an elusine 1/10th of a second everytime a string is pulled or a spinnaker is hoisted and searching for a not achievable .0018 of a knot increase in boat speed every time you touch a boat, that is my day job. Then there is getting washed off a boat. I'm a bowman mostly. I know all about being washed off boats and how long it takes to recover me. I do the navigation in the longer races and dream of longer passage races. Being cold and wet, is what boat racing it is all about ... just so we can beat other extremely agressive people on the water and hear them swearing at us.

We have had 3 major collisions from out of control boats driven by an overly agressive helms persons since mid November. All of which have been bad news for me to repair and have kept us off the water while the repairs have been done.

I'm jealous of people with clean, responsible and stable 9-5 jobs.

I'd like to be one of those humanitarians who walk around the streets just picking up papers with a spike on a stick or planting native trees on land care projects ... they make our communities look nice.

Being a visual person as you are, I'm sure that you would like this aspect of boating? ... finding the wind and travelling (in that order only though). There is a lot to see at sea when there is nothing at all to see, and whoever sees it first at sea... kicks boat.

I'll take some shots at work today and post them later in the evening, if anything interesting happens. The images will be far from being attractive examples of pictorialism and I hope my reply hasn't changed your view of the glamour associated with yachting.

The Spirit of Yachting ... is wet sanding and this is what yachting is really all about.





The finished work makes it all worth while though. I specialize in producing working surfaces on fast boats. I don't do workboat finishes on boats and I'd give the game away if I was reduced to that.





When the racing programme is wound down to basically club racing in mid April, I'm going to restore a Magic 25 called 'Rum N' Rac'n. There is no water in the lakes where she normally sails so she has been sold and brought to my neck of the woods. She will be my 25th restored yacht and my 2nd Magic restoration when I complete her. A Magic 25 looks like a Melges 24 (an active class in the US) but Magics are really Mac trucks with their accelerator stuck flat to the floor. These two shots of 'Rum N' Rac'n that I surveyed, earlier today ... sum up the Magic 25 culture very well.









Mild alcohol abuse? ... There is no such thing as mild alcohol abuse when it comes to Australian racing sailors.



Warren.

[GB1]

I'm a full-time software engineer, working for a medium sized company in support of the Department of Defense (mostly the US Navy) here in San Diego. I do photography and art stuff for fun and to keep me sane . My day job's OK though, and I've heard that doing photography for a living can take a lot of the fun out of it depending on what type of jobs you do (seems like that's true with most everything).

G