What we do for a living

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Smoke Wagon
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What we do for a living

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I've wondered what other members on here do for a living.

I'll start with a picture of me a few weeks ago harnessed up to a davit crane that lowered me 40 feet into a tube that led to an underground water pump station room. It was to do a condition report for the municipality (owner) on the MO/KAN border.

It isn't what I do all the time. Much more interesting was doing levee inspections for USACE in Montana.

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Been a retired plumber for 20 years 62 days and working on staying alive :D
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[attachment=0]IMG_1270.jpg[/attachment]Anesthesiologist for close to forty years.Photo of me on a mission trip to the Dominican Republic anesthetizing a child for surgery while the surgeon Michael Irish, MD is placing an intravenous.
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I am a shift supervisor for the Tallahassee-Leon County Consolidated Dispatch Agency. We handle 911 and dispatch for the Tallahassee PD, Leon County SO, Tallahassee FD and Leon County EMS. I am on my 30th year
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I am a shift supervisor for the Tallahassee-Leon County Consolidated Dispatch Agency. We handle 911 and dispatch for the Tallahassee PD, Leon County SO, Tallahassee FD and Leon County EMS. I am on my 30th year
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kenny s
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Factory Sales Rep for years. loved it.
GIA gemologist

now retired in FL.
Big Brother for 15 years. (Big Bro of the year 95 , in MA )
Hospice Volunteer now
Nam Vet,
50 yr. marriage to childhood sweetheart.

just another 'gun nut'
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sandhillcowboy1
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Retired professional Buffalo Hunter (runner).
Writing about some of the hunts for "The American Sharps Shooters" and like Kurt, working on staying alive :)


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GrumpyBear
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Retired Reactor operator,after 35 years in the industry. Just getting started in the BPCR game, now have two shoots under my belt, lots of work and fun ahead, with God's Graces.
James
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Appears I couldn't hold a job! First adult job to retirement: TNT handler, air traffic controller, welder, rail road pipe fitter, gunsmith, custom rifle smith for C. Sharps, tool maker, production cnc machinist and manual machinist job shop. A few other short time jobs.
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journeyman millwright.... work for Dupont as a maintenance tech. We make culture for foods/probiotics.
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firefighter1990
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This is an interesting thread cuz I've always wondered what we all do or have done. Bpcr sports arent cheap and its time consuming to make it all work for a match or even a hunt. Today time and money arent usually found together; or at least ive always struggled to obtain both.

I'm a wildland firefighter for the BLM/ USFS and got into it when I was 18. Its my 12th season now and its starting to wear on me. I love the sense of adventure and the pride of accomplishment but I'm always alway from home, away from family, and away from my guns during prime shooting season. Something new will come along or I'll be lucky enough to retire someday though.

Happy shooting to all!
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VBull
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I'm finally retired and home every night. Traveled for the last 20 years as a field service engineer that set up industrial printers that printed medical and food packages all over the world. 100% travel to job sites. The prior 20 years was work on industrial automation manufacturing medical devices, miniature alkaline batteries, disposable diapers and bottling booze. I just planted 100+ wine and table grapes to keep me busy now.
My shooting days are not over but I've cut my travel to matches and have my own range now so just playing at home. FM
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OLReliable
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Retired: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Army Map Service/Topographic Command - Topo Engineer; U.S.G.S. Special Projects Office - "Suit". Schoolmarm'd for a while thereafter. Otherwise, avoiding work and responsibility since 2006.
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RD4570
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Underground Limestone Mine Supervisor in Southern Indiana, been there for 25 years and it keeps me busy( reason I haven’t made it to a shoot this year). We are dimensional so we cut everything instead of blast.
Gamerancher
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Started out wrangling horses, been a farrier, linesman, done more than 5 million miles truckin' around Australia, studied for a bachelor of science degree, worked as a welder, mechanic, pipe-layer, worked in an underground copper mine as a machinery maintenance technician, now just semi-retired tryin' to make a livin' off our farm and working our trucks at harvest time. ( If it ever rains again ) :wink:
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