Lots of great knowledgeable people on this forum. What do you do for a living?

Hey Tom - any way to make this thread a "stiky"

It's great, we finally get to introduce ourselves ( if we want to).

Rick Kempf
Gold Canyon AZ- where there is no gold

jmaryt Wrote:
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> triplehooked Wrote:
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> > A psychiatric nurse with the State of Michigan
> at
> > both a maximum security prison and more
> recently,
> > Kalamazoo Psychiatric hospital for the
> criminally
> > insane. I was the nurse with the needle when
> > things got bad. They ARE coming to take you
> away,
> > ha ha...
> >
> > Currently back working in the maintenance field
> as
> > a lift truck technician (primarily ac electric)
> in
> > order to have a life with my kids, i.e.. home
> > nights and weekends.
> >
> > Great thread!
>
>
> you must be a very strong person mentally!
> "spooky sh*t!"
>
> (h.h.!)
> j.t.

Nah, mentally, I'm bat fish crazy....Lol. It does take a certain frame of mind to handle these folks. I will say the prison was much safer, they get to use rifles and tazers.. I do have allot of good stories tho..

TH, my older sister retired from a state mental hospital, worked as a nurses aid for 25 years. She use to record sessions with the patients. Well, when I was a partying teen, I took her recorder to a party and played it to get some laughs......it actually had the opposite effect....no one saw humor in the thinking/communications of the mentally insane, even as teens...serious stuff.
My sister found out and was very angry at me. She also had stories without smiles.

triplehooked Wrote:
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> jmaryt Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > triplehooked Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > A psychiatric nurse with the State of
> Michigan
> > at
> > > both a maximum security prison and more
> > recently,
> > > Kalamazoo Psychiatric hospital for the
> > criminally
> > > insane. I was the nurse with the needle when
> > > things got bad. They ARE coming to take you
> > away,
> > > ha ha...
> > >
> > > Currently back working in the maintenance
> field
> > as
> > > a lift truck technician (primarily ac
> electric)
> > in
> > > order to have a life with my kids, i.e.. home
> > > nights and weekends.
> > >
> > > Great thread!
> >
> >
> > you must be a very strong person mentally!
> > "spooky sh*t!"
> >
> > (h.h.!)
> > j.t.
>
> Nah, mentally, I'm bat fish crazy....Lol. It does
> take a certain frame of mind to handle these
> folks. I will say the prison was much safer, they
> get to use rifles and tazers.. I do have allot of
> good stories tho..


yeah! i'll bet!....not sure if i could handle that kind of stuff!
i'm kinda " screwed" myself! ..being in that environment wouldn't do anything for me!
i'm just sayin'

(h.h.!)
j.t.

I'm a cnc machinist. I program and machine tooling using cad/cam. Manual machinist also Fabricator and welder. Basically my job discription is called "Masterbuilder"

I work 7 days a week,plus run beef cattle on our family farm here in the Buckeye state so I have 2 full time jobs lol.

My grandad got me into detecting back in 1982 I think. Iam 46 now so have been detecting for a good while. I have just recently start restoring antique furniture and I bought a 2006 mustang gt that iam modding for street racing oops I mean legal drag racing I got to hide my NOS system in the trunk lol
I love digging history and much of the fall winter and spring you will find me out in the fields and or woods
Corey

Thanks everyone for sharing! Fascinating stuff!

I am a scientist (meteorologist); have been for the past 22 years (since graduating from college). Johnnyanglo -- I see you are/were a met. as well; funny that there's another of us on here!

I grew up in western PA, and moved to start a career after graduation; I'm now living in Oklahoma with my wife and daughter. In addition to detecting and coin collecting, church/faith and family are very important to me. I also enjoy most outdoors-type activities (hunting, fishing, shooting, camping, etc.), golfing, and watching sports (particularly ice hockey), and I am a runner as well (usually 4-6 miles, 3-4 times a week).

Similar to docbars, in a way, my grandfather got me into detecting (though he didn't know it!) He had an old blue-box White's Goldmaster sitting in his basement, that I found back in the early 80's, and tried to use (until the batteries died and I couldn't afford to get any more!) While that ignited the passion, it lied somewhat dormant until I got my first machine probably 15 years ago, which I used a few times but with little success. Finally, about 5 years ago, I really dove into the hobby, and have been dedicated to becoming the best detectorist I can be, ever since.

Cool thread!

Steve



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For the last 27 years I've been treating drinking water for one of the largest water systems in the State of Georgia..

I hold a Class 1 license for the State of Georgia as a certified Water Treatment Operator....

I have to keep my Continuing education points up as the license renews every 2 years...

For the 27 years Ive worked 12 Hours shifts 4 days on 4 days off...It gives me alot of detecting time in my life...

Used to I worked from 6 in the morning till 6 in the evening ..So I detected everyday after work and off days...Now I work Noon To Midnight so I only detect on my off time only.....

Hope to retire and get back to my everyday hunts within a few years....Or maybe they will change our work time back to the old hours..Either way though I get alot of detecting time in right now...

Keith

“I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own”
-Nikola Tesla



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Work for a John Deere Ag dealership and sell metal detectors.

steveg Wrote:
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> Thanks everyone for sharing! Fascinating stuff!
>
> I am a scientist (meteorologist); have been for
> the past 22 years (since graduating from college).
> Johnnyanglo -- I see you are/were a met. as well;
> funny that there's another of us on here!
>
>
> Steve

Meteorology was my major. Sadly I only completed 2 years. Started a family way too young. Was smart with IT so that opened a career path that didn't require finishing school. Plus it paid more.
Back when the weather channel was actually weather I'd watch at least a full hour every day.

detectingMO -- wow, another member with meteorology background! I am surprised!

I hear you on the family; still, you made it work out with a good career, and you can still dabble in weather, if that's still something you enjoy, given all the weather info/data online now. I hear you too, on the salary. It's hard to make much money in the field, unless you are a TV met, with a big name, in a big market. Otherwise, if you take the more scientific, behind-the-scenes approach, it can be tough. I always wanted to be a meteorologist, but actually was dissuaded from pursuing the career by my high-school counselor, due to few jobs and low pay. So I started college pursuing a degree in Electrical Engineering -- but ran into a met. student who introduced me to his college advisor, who convinced me that I'd do OK career-wise, if I switched majors and stuck it out for a few years of very little salary. It worked out for me; sounds like it did for you, as well!

Steve

detectingMO Wrote:
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> Meteorology was my major. Sadly I only completed
> 2 years. Started a family way too young. Was
> smart with IT so that opened a career path that
> didn't require finishing school. Plus it paid
> more.
> Back when the weather channel was actually weather
> I'd watch at least a full hour every day.

Class 1 water plant operator for the past 26 years in ohio. Hopefully 4 more years and I'm out. Before that was a coal miner.

23 years as a union stagehand in theater and film. Before that I ran an aquarium busines for five years that I sold.

I manage a group of mechanical/industrial engineers at the BMW manufacturing plant in SC and travel around the country fixing problems at Tier-1 parts supplier production sites, always trying to increase production volume at no cost. Lots of travel means little time for detecting these days. Overseas travel kills detecting for weeks at a time.



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Hvac and electrical.. General overall flunkie, but I love to metal detect!!!

I used to be an offset printing pressman then went into management. 27 years of that. Always enjoyed building/repairing computers so after that went to work for Hewlett Packard. Then I started up my own IT business.
Been TRYING to retire for 3 years now but people keep bringing me their PCs and calling me to work on their networks. When relatives and friends find out you work on/build PCs/networks they come out of the woodwork!
Seems I always have 4 or 5 computers to fix for somebody even though I gave up all my commercial accounts a couple years ago. All I hear now is 'Dad, can you take a look at my laptop/PC' or from a friend
'Hey... how ya been? Ya think you could come over and see what my computer is doing (or not doing) when you get a chance? I don't know how to say NO

Lipservice --

My mom just told me a couple of days ago that her laptop just went on the fritz; she's in PA and I'm in Oklahoma right now, so I can't help her much. Think you could swing by and have a look? LOL!!

Steve

steveg Wrote:
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> Lipservice --
>
> My mom just told me a couple of days ago that her
> laptop just went on the fritz; she's in PA and I'm
> in Oklahoma right now, so I can't help her much.
> Think you could swing by and have a look? LOL!!
>
>
> Steve

LOL.... I hear ya! Best one (yet): My wife's aunt, 93 years old, wanted to to come over and put more memory in her (ancient) computer. I live near Omaha, Nebraska and she lives in Laramie, Wyoming!
So I am gonna drive 1,500 miles to put in 10 bucks worth of old DDR memory. NOT! I called a PC repair shop in Laramie and paid to have them go do it.

Johnnyanglo -- I see you are/were a met. as well; funny that there's another of us on here!

That is weird ... plus one other. But then, meteorology is somewhat of a loner science. In my experience it is not unusual for opinionated arguments to brew over weather forecasts. We tend to eat our own. Perhaps the isolation of detecting satisfies the loner part and the theory of electro-magnetic fields completes the science requirement. Then there's the hope of a recovery worthy of the effort that provides the mystery.

I don't think detecting is a good fit for the gregarious sorts who need constant company to entertain and amuse them. Or for those who lack the stickwithitness to endure the hardship of repeated failure. More for solitary wishful thinkers and electronic hounds who know how to set the time on their VCRs. Those brave souls willing to do something frowned upon by the more genteel of society.

It's a tough and expensive gig, but someone's gotta do it.

Brilliant Johnny A! You nailed it!

Rick Kempf
Gold Canyon AZ- where there is no gold

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Daniel Tn
I hate having to sit in a room in meetings and explaining to upper mgt why my lines did not meet production for the shift. They come down hard on me...and it quickly rolls down hill from there.

Damn, I'm the fella that would go into your president's office, shut the door and beat the hell out of him. Then he'd rip into your production manager who would subsequently take it out on you.

Yup... it runs down hill...

So you'd be the guy dead on the floor huh? The president of my company has 6 armed guards around him at all times. His net worth is in the millions. I seriously doubt you have enough rank to pull getting within 50 yards of him. When I was there 10 yrs and they gave all us 10 yr folks a big bonus and another week vacation. We got to have our pics taken with the president and thats as close to him as we can get. Even though you seem to think highly of yourself. You probably wouldn't even make it as a temp janitor at our place. Lol Our place isn't that big but is growing. It employees over 2000 people, and made over 6 billion (with a profit this past fiscal yr. But here is my experience: If you have to continually tell people how important you are...you're not important.

So, Lipservice, I guess -- in a way -- you DID "fix" her computer for her!

I'm not sure my mom's will be as easy as that...hers isn't a memory issue; she came home, saw that there had been a power outage (surge), and her computer wasn't hooked up to a surge protector. It won't boot into Windows, and is asking her (according to her) all kinds of weird questions about drives, etc. etc. -- like it's in some kind of "safe mode" or something...doesn't sound good to me. May be time to just buy a new one -- though she'd like to save some of the pictures/files on the old one, if possible. Not sure if that's gonna happen.

Anyway...

I can see how your services would be in huge demand!!

Steve

Johnny --

You are pretty much spot on, I think!

I am much more extroverted than 99% of the people I work with -- most are very solid introverts; I'm a slight extrovert (per Myers Briggs), which is probably why I prefer detecting with a partner, and checking each others' targets/signals, etc. But with that said, I'm good with hours detecting on my own, by myself, and I really do get into a zone where I'm concentrating to the machine, what it's doing, why it's doing it -- the techie, numbers, geeky part of my nature. I think you have to be just a bit off to be a detectorist -- and most scientists are, indeed, just a bit off! It's a good fit, this hobby! LOL!

Steve

You work for one of the largest automotive parts companies in the world and your President has six armed guards around him at all times? What kind of president is that? I've been to hundreds of Tier-1 automotive plants, including those in China, and have never seen escorts surrounding a Plant Manager, a General Manager, a North American Operations Manager, a Global Production Manager, an Executive VP or a Presisident. Ever - That includes companies like Magna, Continental, Bosch, Benteler, Faurecia, ZF, Lear...

Your plant isn't that large. We employ over 8000 workers at our plant and our President has no armed guard. In fact, he has an open door policy. Anyone can walk into his office if they want. Some do.

What kind of President do you have?

If your plant repeatedly misses shipments to our plant, eventually someone from my team will pay you a visit. Continue to short-ship us and make no doubt about it... I'll make your President very uncomfortable. But maybe he doesn't care about his customers??? In that case your plant will have a very short life.

What kind of President do you have?



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I guess I've been busy.
Since moving here in 1980;
1. Owned company that built electronic test equipment for homebuild and ultralight aircraft.
2. Mechanical engineer for mfg of automotive test equipment.
3. Senior software engineer for (at that time) world's largest dynamometer mfg.
4. Marketing/advertising photographer and graphics designer.

Now semi-retired (read that as; laid off with the other 60% last year).

The somewhat frustrating part is this;
Now that I have the time to get out and detect/camp/ride, Colorado has decided it's a tropical island during hurricane season...as far as weather goes.

mike

I said our local plant was small compared to the bigger ones. World wide, they employee 146,714. Never had a layoff since it was est in 1949. So no worries on not lasting long All Japanese CEOs, President, Vice President, etc. Based on what you describe your "team" and job...your "dealing" with missed shipments and such would be much lower on the ladder rung than what passes by the President or Vice President. You probably wouldn't even get a meeting with him, and in worse case scenario, you might make it to a slide on a powerpoint presentation to him. What your describing is more like production or shipping manager material that they handle. None of those have guards. They sent the President here a few months ago to tour our plant to see the new direct injection lines for the Ford EcoBoost engines and we had trucks waiting on parts to come off the line to fulfill shipments that were running tight..and they shut us all down to clean. That's how important the president visit was. They said his guards and posse in tow came through so fast that their jacket tails didnt even touch their rear ends.

Daniel was asked"what kind of president do you have".
I would guess that he's the type that doesn't want his time wasted by a self ascribed MR. BIG.

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Daniel Tn
Based on what you describe your "team" and job...your "dealing" with missed shipments and such would be much lower on the ladder rung than what passes by the President or Vice President. You probably wouldn't even get a meeting with him, and in worse case scenario, you might make it to a slide on a powerpoint presentation to him.

This thread asks what we all do for a job. I described that accurately. All your large customers have similar people doing the same thing I do be it Ford, Toyota, Honda, etc. It sounds like you've never been on the sharp end of a pointy stick being wielded by an irate customer.

Missed shipments are a big deal for any OEM and should be a big deal for any good supplier. It sounds like your company is not "customer focused", but I doubt that; maybe it is just you.

Any supplier who shields their upper management from customer complaints is in trouble. In fact, their engagement is mandatory within the TS19649 automotive quality standard that I'm sure your company has attained.

I work for BMW. What company do you work for?

Your words, not mine.

I'll take that as a compliment.

Wow Daniel,I guess you will have to be the messenger who tells your President that he is doing everything wrong and that the company is DOOMED. Hope he's not the type that shoots the messenger.