So like.....what do you guys do?

[rangermatt]

Every now and again I find my self at some sort of social gathering usually at the goading of my better and more attractive half, and I get asked
"What do you do for work?", "I'm a Park Ranger.", and then asked, "So like what what do you guys actually do?"

Over the years I've been very fortunate to have a career that I love and the chance to do some pretty cool things outdoors in some beautiful places, working for some great agencies, and along the way have been able to make a living at it and for that I am truly grateful.

On to some pictures of said nifty things

Patrolling some remote places on atvs and trucks in MA

Or sometimes on foot in NH

Doing some Trail work in ME

Playing with the tractor in NC

Some Environmental Education in NC

Search and rescue work... which sometimes involves a lot of hurry up and wait

Prescribed fire as a resource Mgmt. tool

And not so prescribed fire........

seeing some cool critters...I speak spotted owl..LOL

Thanks for watching!

 

[Hilldweller]

I'm the facility administrator in a GC/LC mass-spec training lab.
Stuff that figgers out what stuff is.
Probably not as much fun as rangering but I love the geekness of it. I work with the best and brightest in the world.

 

[rangermatt]

cool,
Im fascinated with what others do for a living, how folks spend their time, everybody has a story......

 

[Stuart]

I inspect flanges on Turbo Encabulators.

 

[Stuart]

Seriously though, I am an instructor at a couple of Community Colleges. CPR, First Responder, and EMT.

 

[Haggis]

I am a Log Home Restorer...I make older log homes purdy again.

I do corn-cob blasting, chinking, staining, caulking, rot and structural repair. I spend most of my day crawling up and down ladders and scaffolding like a log monkey as I fight off wasps, bees and bats.

What a house starts out as...

And how it looks when I'm done...

I enjoy the work, I'm not so wild about being in business these days.

 

[NC_IslandRunner]

I'm the facility administrator in a GC/LC mass-spec training lab.
Stuff that figgers out what stuff is.
Probably not as much fun as rangering but I love the geekness of it. I work with the best and brightest in the world.

I use some of those! But I make glue...Not the elmers kind, mostly for building supplies.

 

[Dean]

I am a full-time doctoral student and part-part-time semi-professional photographer.

The doctoral stuff isn't very glamourous. Much to the dismay of my waistline I spent 90% of my time in front of the computer scouring research databases for journal articles for various papers I am writing, checking in to our online course management system for my homework assignments, and hours upon hours of reading followed by hours upon hours of writing.

The photography stuff isn't much more glamourous, but I do end up with some cool photos every now and then. For anyone interested I have a facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/4lowdigital which has about four years worth of stuff on it. Few other non-offroad things on my personal page. Those I might post here via a different thread.

 

[Scott C]

I own a plumbing business. When you tell most people your a plumber, they have images of you being knee deep in poo, yet that has never happened to me yet!

 

[bob91yj]

Service advisor at a Buick/Cadillac/GMC dealership...typically I rank right up there with your tax man and dentist on the people you hate to see list!

I was an Allsion Transmission Field Service Tech prior to this gig, and did 13 years in Uncle Sam's Canoe Club (US Navy) prior to that!

 

[NC_IslandRunner]

Service advisor at a Buick/Cadillac/GMC dealership...typically I rank right up there with your tax man and dentist on the people you hate to see list!

I was an Allsion Transmission Field Service Tech prior to this gig, and did 13 years in Uncle Sam's Canoe Club (US Navy) prior to that!

Everyone hates the stealership, warranty work they try to drag out with half fixes until the warranty has expired.

 

[mtnbike28]

After over 25 years as a newspaper photographer, two years ago I started teaching at a community college.

 

[Hilldweller]

I use some of those! But I make glue...Not the elmers kind, mostly for building supplies.

Polymers?
We've got a slightly used demo GPC (hi temp) that I think they're looking to sell...
I love that thing. Big and stinky.

 

[bob91yj]

Everyone hates the stealership, warranty work they try to drag out with half fixes until the warranty has expired.

You're going to the wrong dealership! I get cars fixed that are out of warranty, under warranty, on a daily basis.

I don't get paid unless I'm getting cars fixed, don't particularly care who is paying the bill, factory or the customer.

 

[Mitch]

I build Specialty Vehicles and upfit cars for the police and government agencies

Everything from building cabinets for SRT teams and Fire Command Vehicles, to wiring and building surveillance vehicles.

I freakin' love my job!

 

[NC_IslandRunner]

You're going to the wrong dealership! I get cars fixed that are out of warranty, under warranty, on a daily basis.

I don't get paid unless I'm getting cars fixed, don't particularly care who is paying the bill, factory or the customer.

I've been to stealerships in NC and MI both with warranty and work I paidn for, absolute worst mechanics I've ever encountered. In MI I had to threatened not to pay if they didn't find the issue after my second trip and about $300 in, they found the issue in less than 15mins and it was a faulty stereo wiring harness, said they could fix it. I fixed it in the Wal-Mart parking lot for $9. Doesn't help they all act like pricks. If none of this was true, Why would you have put yourself with IRS agents and other hated people?

Parts guys have been pretty cool though.

 

[Trump]

I manage the young men and women that help keep these in the sky:

 

[Mr. Leary]

I am a supply chain consultant. Currently operating in the telecom industry. I do math and design decision support for some companies you may have heard about. ;-)

Update: I'm a six stigma black belt and now they call me an industrial engineer. Going for master black belt in 2015.

 

[bob91yj]

I've been to stealerships in NC and MI both with warranty and work I paidn for, absolute worst mechanics I've ever encountered. In MI I had to threatened not to pay if they didn't find the issue after my second trip and about $300 in, they found the issue in less than 15mins and it was a faulty stereo wiring harness, said they could fix it. I fixed it in the Wal-Mart parking lot for $9. Doesn't help they all act like pricks. If none of this was true, Why would you have put yourself with IRS agents and other hated people?

Parts guys have been pretty cool though.

Nobody EVER wants to take their car into ANY shop, for most it's a necessary evil.

I've got two of the best Dura Max guys on the west coast. More than one top trophy truck team has their chase trucks prepped by my guys. Put a customer supplied engine in Jessie James pre-runner, nothing cooler than hot lapping the auto park in a 600hp desert truck, passing the cops, and a "Pay up Sucka" logo on the side! You'd be amazed at the time we spend fixing problems that someone's "real mechanic fixed" for them.

Are their bad apples and crappy dealerships, yep, just like any business.

Me, I make my living on customers coming back to see me...you can shear a sheep many times, but you can only skin them once.

Parts guys suck in general... I never have what I need when I need it to get a customer car done on time!

Cannibal goes into the cannibal butcher shop...he sees Partsman's Brain are $20/lb, mechanic's brains are $2/lb, asks what the difference is...butcher responds with "you know how many partsmen it takes to get a pound of brains?" Sometimes I just kill me!

 

[Frenchie]

I have a exciting job, I pester the wife. In the last year and a half since she retired I found out how much easier work was. Full time retired in hard work.

Frenchie