Who works where?

[David82]

Thought in might be interesting to know what everybody do here for their living.. ill start with myself
i work as a receptionist in a diving hotel in city of Eilat in the Red sea.....and you?.

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[Neonspeed]

I work at RC hobby shop


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[Neonspeed]

I work at RC hobby shop


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[David82]

Niceee... flying stuff on RC is a hit now)

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[ChelsB]

I work for a natural frozen foods company


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[James Hart]

I'm the Web/Social Media/IT/Sales/Research/Ordering/Reception/General Office Guy for a Corvette and Classic Car Restoration shop. We do everything from body off restorations on show cars to building custom, off the wall hot rods. I was out of work because a my previous employer went out of business... got hired to do a website and get their social media and search engine results up to date and just kind of stayed around making myself useful. Money isn't great, but it kicks too much .... to want to leave

 

[Completely Average]

I'm a systems administrator for a major commercial construction company.

We build things like this:

I make sure their corporate network system stays up and running.

 

[James Hart]

I make sure their corporate network system stays up and running.

Nice! I use to Systems and Network admin work for Telecom companies. I left to work of a "Green" company building information kiosks for Universities, Corporations, and Governments. I would interface with the building controls network, integrate over 100 data types into my database for display on a touch screen website. It was a wicked job... always something killer to figure out. Unfortunately management tanked it.

Now I make 1/3rd of the money I did... but have little stresses... AND I get to see views like this every day

 

[retired1]

AND I get to see views like this every day

That would be too stressful. Seeing all those toys would cause me to want to get back into muscle cars again. I don't need an expensive hobby, and that would pretty much guarantee bankruptcy.

 

[James Hart]

That would be too stressful. Seeing all those toys would cause me to want to get back into muscle cars again. I don't need an expensive hobby, and that would pretty much guarantee bankruptcy.

I've learned to balance it... the wife and I drive 20+ year old Chevy/GMC SUVs (I've got a 93 K1500 Blazer and the wife a K1500 Suburban), and I am restoring a pair of 2-stroke Yamaha motorcycles (1967 350cc street bike and a 1971 175cc Enduro). Purchase price + restoration on both will be cheaper than a typical engine rebuild on any car I've seen pass through the shop

 

[Completely Average]

That would be too stressful. Seeing all those toys would cause me to want to get back into muscle cars again. I don't need an expensive hobby, and that would pretty much guarantee bankruptcy.

I know all about that......

 

[retired1]

I know all about that......

Right? I thought I had my silly "go fast" days out of my system, but the sight of a nice classic still gets the blood warmed up. Nothing like slamming the pedal to the metal and getting slammed back into the seat as you launch.

**sigh**

 

[Falco78]

I was employed at an education software development company until speaking out against the 70+ hour weeks for years straight. I'm currently busy looking for new employment and working to fine tune some skills

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[Completely Average]

I was employed at an education software development company until speaking out against the 70+ hour weeks for years straight. I'm currently busy looking for new employment and working to fine tune some skills

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Where do you live?

Networking among your peers is a great way to find new jobs. Some of us here who work in the IT industry may be able to help you out. Help get you pointed in the right direction or get a foot in the door.

70+ hour work weeks is slavery IMO. I don't mind putting in a little overtime here and there when it's really necessary, the occasional overtime is part of the job when you're in IT. However, if it's a regular thing then the employer is running a slave trade as far as I'm concerned. A normal work week is 40 hours, if the employer makes a habit of requiring twice that then all they're really doing is trying to avoid paying the benefits for an additional employee.

My job requires travel once in a while which means 2-5 days away from home and my family once every other month or so, and every IT job requires the occasional overtime, but 70+ hours a week as a normal business practice should be illegal. That's not normal, that's what employers do when they want to minimize their benefits costs and are willing to abuse their employees in order to save a bit on healthcare and other benefits.

 

[Completely Average]

Right? I thought I had my silly "go fast" days out of my system, but the sight of a nice classic still gets the blood warmed up. Nothing like slamming the pedal to the metal and getting slammed back into the seat as you launch.

**sigh**

I hear you.

I've avoided the proverbial midlife crisis by never growing up. I'm almost 50 years old, still play video games all night long, and still love a good, fast car.

The picture above is my drag car. This is my weekend drive around and show-off car....

And this is my daily driver (And my avatar here)

Nothing quite like a 425 rear wheel horsepower procharged V6 to drive to and from work every day. Faster, lighter, and better handling than a V8, and gets better gas mileage as well.

When all is said and done I have more money invested in my cars than I do in my house.

 

[James Hart]

I've avoided the proverbial midlife crisis by never growing up. I'm almost 50 years old, still play video games all night long, and still love a good, fast car.

I'm 49 in March, the wife will be 42 in May... been together 21 years as of this past October. Never any kids... thought we couldn't since we'd stopped trying to 'not' get pregnant years ago. Well early 2014 we got the shock of a lifetime and in Jan 2015 we had our daughter (she'll be 2 on Tue).

We both drive early 90s SUV's... I've got a 1993 K1500 Blazer and she has a 1994 K1500 Suburban. Both slightly lifted, with cams and exhaust work... nothing worth comparing to your beauties, but both exactly what we were wanting.

Closest I have to a mid-life crisis is my motorcycles. With news of the kid corresponding a buddy from school posting to facebook about finally restoring his childhood dirt bike. So I caught the bug and bought a ghost of a 1971 Yamaha CT1-C (175cc 2-stroke) with plans of turning it into a backroad screamer (aftermarket high compression head, stage 2 porting, expansion chamber, close ratio trans, tuned for race gas, etc). Should have over 2x stock power when I'm done. Here is was the day I picked it up

I started out with the plan of having it on the road for spring 2017, I was on schedule until I got sidetracked I had always planned a Yamaha 2-stroke twin as my next project... and I am always on craigslist looking for interesting finds. I happened upon a 1967 Yamaha Grand Prix 350 YR1 in desperate need of saving... so it has come home too.

 

[Falco78]

Where do you live?

Networking among your peers is a great way to find new jobs. Some of us here who work in the IT industry may be able to help you out. Help get you pointed in the right direction or get a foot in the door.

70+ hour work weeks is slavery IMO. I don't mind putting in a little overtime here and there when it's really necessary, the occasional overtime is part of the job when you're in IT. However, if it's a regular thing then the employer is running a slave trade as far as I'm concerned. A normal work week is 40 hours, if the employer makes a habit of requiring twice that then all they're really doing is trying to avoid paying the benefits for an additional employee.

My job requires travel once in a while which means 2-5 days away from home and my family once every other month or so, and every IT job requires the occasional overtime, but 70+ hours a week as a normal business practice should be illegal. That's not normal, that's what employers do when they want to minimize their benefits costs and are willing to abuse their employees in order to save a bit on healthcare and other benefits.

I live in Virginia but have spent most of my career working in DC. Yes I agree about the hours being a slave trade and even though being unemployed is tough on the family finances me actually seeing my family is more important and I've really enjoyed getting to spend some time with them.

I heard from an ex coworker that they have had 5 people quit since I was let go and that's a lot for what was a company of 70 employees all working 70+ hours every single week.

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[petrotech]

I work as a service technician for retail and commercial fueling locations.

That sounds a lot better than just saying, "I fix gas pumps."

 

[David82]

Wow this subject got a little spinned off in terms of muscle cars and stuff. Its kinda good and a little offtopic but hey i still like it )

 

[Rickb119]

I was employed at an education software development company until speaking out against the 70+ hour weeks for years straight. I'm currently busy looking for new employment and working to fine tune some skills

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The squeaky wheel gets............................replaced.