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Offline LTZ C20

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Re: Whats everyone do for a living?
« Reply #30 on: July 20, 2016, 12:20:29 AM »
I work in a fabrication shop, building industrial concrete cutting equipment. Wolverine/Concut in Kent, Washington. When you see the circular rings in the concrete at a stop light (the magnetic ring that triggers the light), I'm the only guy in the country that assembles the tool to cut those circles.
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Whats everyone do for a living?
« Reply #31 on: July 20, 2016, 06:24:02 AM »
I know in our town theres now 3 gas stations two are bp the other is royal farms. There used to be two more that were owned by non American Indians. They passed the business through family for a few years then they up and left. No one ran The stations since and the tanks were pulled and one had to have the cargo trailer parked for a good bit of time. I always wondered who paid for that since the owners are no longer around.

One used to live behind my moms, nice people but they left a few years ago and for some reason they still haven't sold that house either
Most states require the station owner to have insurance for environmental issues

ING is the company that has most of that market

And most states offer a plan that owners can buy into based on how much fuel they sell
I do a lot of work for the state , either with stations participating in the state plan or at stations that are abandoned


If their home is abandoned too they might have disappeared to avoid prosecution for not maintaining the tanks and not having ins and not paying the IRS etc

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Re: Whats everyone do for a living?
« Reply #32 on: July 20, 2016, 06:25:04 AM »
I work in a fabrication shop, building industrial concrete cutting equipment. Wolverine/Concut in Kent, Washington. When you see the circular rings in the concrete at a stop light (the magnetic ring that triggers the light), I'm the only guy in the country that assembles the tool to cut those circles.
I need a raise....
Never seen circles
Where I live they cut rectangles with a wet saw and jam the wire in and glob some sealer on top


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Re: Whats everyone do for a living?
« Reply #33 on: July 21, 2016, 10:02:39 AM »
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Re: Whats everyone do for a living?
« Reply #34 on: July 21, 2016, 11:18:19 AM »
Combat Engineer Army Veteran, So on my own schedule or as I`m also told, Efficient on my own time  8)
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Re: Whats everyone do for a living?
« Reply #35 on: July 22, 2016, 09:31:47 PM »
Well let's just say I'm a government employed mechanic finishing up 13 yrs now and hopefully less than 6 til retirement!
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Re: Whats everyone do for a living?
« Reply #36 on: July 23, 2016, 07:49:27 PM »
Store Manager for an independent franchise of Giant Eagle (grocery store in the Pittsburgh/Cleveland area). Started as a cashier in high school, came back on breaks from college and while substitute teaching. Couldn't find a (decent) teaching job, so when this position opened up, I couldn't turn it down. Just passed 17 years in all.

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Re: Whats everyone do for a living?
« Reply #37 on: July 24, 2016, 08:43:00 PM »
I'm retired civil service with over 40 years in Alaska .  The early part of my career was spent examining Native land claims in bush Alaska.  Met wonderful people and got paid to do it!  lol
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Re: Whats everyone do for a living?
« Reply #38 on: July 30, 2016, 01:17:51 AM »
Definitely some unusual jobs on here....I'm an assistant store manager for O'Reilly Auto Parts. Hope to be in my own store in the next 18 months. Good company to work for if you dont mind low pay, mediocre insurance, but a very fair offering for retirement savings.
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Re: Whats everyone do for a living?
« Reply #39 on: July 30, 2016, 07:04:59 AM »
cant say autozone is any better with pay. i was a just a parts guy and i was getting paid more than a few managers at our store. learned to keep my mouth shut after i told one cause he did my taxes, he got pissed and left a month or two later lol. i kind of would of liked to be stuck in the parts store but they changed my hours from man-fri 7-4 to when they wanted to screw up my plans
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Re: Whats everyone do for a living?
« Reply #40 on: July 30, 2016, 12:11:13 PM »
I'm a material handling technician in large dealership in Phoenix Arizona. I drive to various customer locations throughout AZ and repair forklifts and industrial battery powered reach trucks, order pickers, and people movers. I've done it for almost 20 years for different dealers located in Cleveland OH and Austin TX also.

It's a living, no real complaints.  8)
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Re: Whats everyone do for a living?
« Reply #41 on: July 30, 2016, 12:50:52 PM »
I'm getting into driving tow trucks, right now i'm towing cars and small straight trucks. I still have too learn the flat bed and get my CDL so i can get trained on the big stuff too eventually
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Re: Whats everyone do for a living?
« Reply #42 on: July 30, 2016, 02:08:39 PM »
I'm a material handling technician in large dealership in Phoenix Arizona. I drive to various customer locations throughout AZ and repair forklifts and industrial battery powered reach trucks, order pickers, and people movers. I've done it for almost 20 years for different dealers located in Cleveland OH and Austin TX also.

It's a living, no real complaints.  8)

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Re: Whats everyone do for a living?
« Reply #43 on: July 30, 2016, 11:08:13 PM »
I install satellite dishes for DirecTV. I worked in investments before that but couldn't deal with all the thievery. I make less now, but I can look myself in the mirror so it's okay.
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Re: Whats everyone do for a living?
« Reply #44 on: August 01, 2016, 11:03:00 AM »
Okay...I am not much of a sharer on Social Media, but with all of you guys sharing, I'll bite...

I am a Project Engineer with Kenworth Truck Company.  Can't believe I have been with them for 18 years now, directly out of college.

I have spent most of my career in New Product Development and in the Outer Body group, so I have been responsible for Hoods and Headlamps as well as several projects in the Cab Structures group.  I have had the privilege of developing the Kenworth T660, North America's first HID headlamp in a Class-8 truck, T700, T680 Aero Advantage, 76" Mid-roof Sleeper and 40" Sleeper.
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