what do you do for a living

i have been meeting a lot of members in person and getting to know them and a lot of them have very interesting jobs and i was just wondering what other members do.

a lot think i just buy and sell cars

i do selective structural demolition

Not trying to stop this thread, but there are some great stories in this one from last year:

http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/off-topic-discussion/what-do-you-do-and-how-did-you-end-up-there/46380/page6/

I suppose that since I started it I should update where I ended up.

I get paid to go to car shows: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSxxxq_g08U"

And drive other people's cars: http://www.autotraderclassics.com/car-article/Classic+Reviews+_+2011+Infiniti+FX35-191548.xhtml

And interview rock stars: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9aXY5BMkvk

But most of the time I sit behind a desk doing all the planning that makes all the above possible.

I work scurrity.

My boss won't let me have a Seguey because he thinks I'll try to put an LS1 in it.

I do graphic design and web development.

Here's a couple of sites.

http://www.worddoc.net/

http://excelovation.com/

Industrial Supply dealing in CNC milling, abrasives, coolants, sawblades, precision measuring, etc.

I do that roughly 35hrs a week, then after that, in the spring and fall, I play with things like this helping dad on the 1100acres of homestead.

On that note, John Deere is the choice of a Bob Costas

Business technology strategy; electronic communications & collaboration management for a financial services corporation

I run internal medicine and survivorship clinics in a cancer hospital, help the surgical department with research and do a little consulting on the side for small businesses - marketing strategy and support.

I've read somewhere that demolition gigs have the highest job satisfaction ratings of about any employment. Getting paid to wreck stuff - sign me up.

Export CCTV stuff to exotic islands in the Caribbean. They occasionally pay their bills. ( Now waiting for arrival of a large wire transfer from our biggest client that was supposed to have been sent out last month)

oldtin wrote: I've read somewhere that demolition gigs have the highest job satisfaction ratings of about any employment. Getting paid to wreck stuff - sign me up.

Yeah, I'd love that job.

Edit: I change tires at a nice tire shop. Simple, pretty stress-free, and pays better than my old warehouse manager job. It's paying the bills until I move on.

I'm a service advisor at a Ford dealership. I get paid to take ass chewings all day long.

Can you tell what kinda day I'm having?

i used to design trains... now I design microwave transmitters.

trains was more fun.. microwave transmitters pays better.

I'm a grad student studying archeology. I acquire student loan debt for a living.

By day I surf the internet and inventory, organize, and sell used auto parts at http://triple-a-autoparts.com/. For supplemental income I also work on cars (mostly VW, BMW, and Porsche), sell parts, flip cars, play in a band ( https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dang-Heathens/143007883086 ), and sculpt. I recently built this guy for http://www.tinmanbrewing.com/

In reply to 16vCorey:

You didn't happen to go through the artistic welding courses at USI did you? I only ask because there were impressive things by the engineering classrooms.

I did not, but have a few friends that did, and I did get to hang out there a few times. There was almost always some cool stuff going on there.

ISO 18436-3 certified vibration analyst.

I tell squiggly lines what to do.

I basically run half an IT department single-handedly. Web development, database admin/dev, Linux sysadmin, photo editing, you name it. Where I'm from, gearheads with that kind of job browse GRM instead of LotusTalk

deathmatch GRM: cutter vs corey!

N Sperlo wrote: I work scurrity. My boss won't let me have a Seguey because he thinks I'll try to put an LS1 in it.

Totally unrelated, but that movie was shot at the mall near me.

I write database SQL code all day. And review other people's code. And save the world. And...

I'm a produce manager in a grocery store. My goal is to make people happy through fruits and vegetables.

Mitchell wrote: I'm a produce manager in a grocery store. My goal is to make people happy through fruits and vegetables.

Would you say that you please people with vegetables?

akamcfly wrote: ISO 18436-3 certified vibration analyst. I tell squiggly lines what to do.

see you guys have cool jobs. i never knew there was such a job as a certified vibration analyst....how does one become one

Online marketing strategist dealing with automotive clients mainly.