Business operator and driver, I spend about 60 hours a week driving and another 15/20 doing the office stuff
Business operator and driver, I spend about 60 hours a week driving and another 15/20 doing the office stuff
I sell the carbide tooling that is used to machine many parts for automotive applications......and a bunch of other heavy industries.
I build and maintain munitions(bombs,missiles and bullets)for the USAF
I.Y.A.A.Y.A.S. LOL
I'm a gynecologist.
Let the jokes commence...
Graduate student. I accumulate student debt for a living. Also I'm an archaeologist (grad program is anthropology, archaeology is a subfield, so it's related), so I dig holes in the woods and tooth brush dirt off of broken plates. I guess I have to wait until I get the Ph.D. before they give me a whip and trust me to fight off mummies and nazis...
I've barely turned a wrench since graduating college, just maintenance or repairs if I have the tools to do it, though honestly most of that has just been removing unnecessary parts that start rusting/falling off of my van. The money I have budgeted for car related stuff currently covers gas and insurance, nothing extra for fun stuff. Any extra will probably go to autox entrance fees and an upcoming tire purchase for my balding-tire clad RX8.
Im an ASE master certified tech with a degree in automotive technology and another degree in occupational education to teach automotive technology, but i work as an estimator for a major auto auction. I write up estimates for 14 techs in a shop that deals with, in some way or another, 400+ cars a week.
I am still inching towards teaching it for a living, but right now i'm not pushing on that very hard. I'm enjoying what i'm doing for the time being.
Spoolpigeon wrote: Been selling auto parts for the last 10 years. . . Being in the parts biz has been a good mid point for being around cars yet not getting burned out.
To those guys that work in parts, what exactly is your job description? I'm guessing it isn't parts counter at Autozone, or is it?
I'm currently a student in college. Biomedical engineering major and pre-med too. I don't know where it is going to take me as I'm just not passionate enough about medicine.
Auto insurance damage appraiser. I drive around looking at wrecked cars all day. That part is fun. All the corporate BS that I have to put up with isn't, though my current employer is pretty good (I've worked for 4 different insurers and two independent appraisal companies in my career).
I previously worked as a parts person for stealerships and NAPA type stores. Neither pays particularly well, and car dealers are always managed by former salespeople, which makes them horribly inept at dealing with parts and service people. I have no desire to ever go back to that.
Dream job? High performance driving instructor and/or successful novelist. Currently doing both for free; we'll see where it leads.
my work includes making people get all sweaty for money in a hot room, sometimes just the two of us, sometimes more, I usually get to work when I feel like it and the people I work with are generally sore for the following two days once I'm done with them. they also need go through certain physical assessments before I can work with them and have to alter my work accordingly to their health
I am a Personal Trainer/Fitness Instructor
JThw8 wrote: I play with computers and refuse to document anything so no one really knows what I do and they are afraid to get rid of me. The checks keep cashing :)
I clean up the messes people like this leave behind, among other computery stuff. I admit it's not nearly as profitable as being the dude who made the mess.
I sell nerd stuff (comic books, action figures, miniatures, board games, etc) on ebay for a small business. It's not glamorous but it is a ton of fun.
Schedule and life have been too hectic for cars lately, hopefully I can fix that soon.
I sell hoses and rubber products for a living - recently I became the "railroad" guy and sell to a large locomotive manufacturer along with all the sub-contractors and all the Class 1 railroads.
Avionics/Electrical engineer. Trying to break into the world of engine control; would like to be in automotive but would take other areas if possible.
Retired from the OEM autoparts industry, where there are surprisingly few car people. Before that I was in the explosives industry. That was more fun.
Stay at home dad. Not a whole lot of car stuff directly involved in my job, but my wife has decided that she likes the 911 as a daily driver so I'm expected to be a part time Porsche mechanic. I love my job and wouldn't trade it for anything.
Business owner. Sales, service and installation of automatic and manual, commercial pedestrian doors. I mostly do the service and install along with all the invoicing. I have a business partner that does the sales, estimating and all the other paperwork.
Most of our business is medical, industrial and pharmaceutical with enough retail and office thrown in to fill the dead time.
The only contact we have with the automotive industry is the work we do for Bosch. We handle all of their clean rooms and automatic doors. It's a very cool place to walk through. We also do most of the door repairs for Boeing Charleston. Also a cool place.
Computer support here.
Master plumber, but I dabble in almost all of the building trades. Many people want me to open a car restoration, classic car repair place, but I fear that if I turn my hobby into a career, I won't enjoy it anymore. For now I work on peoples cars for free just for the fun of it and the camaraderie. Most Summer weekends, there are a bunch of guys over here hanging, drinking beer, welding roll cages, bending sheet metal, painting cars, engine swaps, you name it and it's going on. Besides, I like being a plumber. I get to make people happy every day. Heading out for a no heat call now.
Semi retired now, but still doing car restorations, race car fab, ceramic coatings. Last 10 years I worked for the TSA as a Screening Supervisor. Not as much fun as my shop, but it gives me a small retirement along with my time in the Marines. Also a part time musician (sax,guitar, flute and vocals with a small variety band).
In reply to Rad_Capz:
I've always between curious how you got started doing that. Care to enlighten us?
As for me, I 9-5 (more like 8-whenever) as a satellite installer but hope that in the next couple of years I'll move away from the frozen tundra of Indiana and start making money off my car addiction.
Drive an 18 wheeler hauling railroad cars from warehouses to rail yards and vice versa. Put about 2,000 miles a week on the pavement.
I went back to school to be an Auto Tech at 33yrs old, after several different careers and one BA in US History. Now, I work as a Mechanic on our local School Buses, I also teach a night class in Automotive Systems at the local Tech School. I think working on trucks and buses for a living has impacted how much I work on cars for fun. I have the skill and the tools but no longer have the time, money or motivation. That needs to change.
retired 
worked in dozens of different jobs/fields … AAS degree in Civil Eng. and AAS degree in Electronics Tech. …
surveyed, built houses, dug ditches, waited tables/bartended, bench tech for a paging company, when I retired I was working in a plant where I made air valve actuators for Boeing commercial aircraft
I run an outpatient internal medicine clinic inside a cancer hospital (palliative care, symptom management and survivorship).
I used to be in the classic car restoration industry, but now I am a cable guy trying to get back into the classic car restoration industry. 
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