The Steel Guitar Forum

School teacher. The kids I teach come from all over the world. There parents are warfugitives or workseekers or gypsies or whatever you can think of , we have them on board.
I've been teaching for 32 years now and still enjoy this line of work.

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bike messenger.

a stupid job for stupid people

i worked for 20 yrs as a Training Director/Instructor in Asbestos removal and Haz-mat training courses for the construction Laborer's unions of North America.before that i made a living playing steel guitar. Now that i am retired i can play music for a living.

Almost 29 yrs in Law Enforcement in the Los Angeles area. Looking forward to retiring and playing more steel guitar.

I've been in the paint business for 30 years, mostly on the technical consulting and sales management side save a 3-year self-imposed retirement due to a downsizing a few years ago (luckily, I was on the committee and helped build my own "golden parachute". My specialty has always been in unique technical industrial/commercial coatings, robotic application systems (for field work), and trail-blazing...although I love finishing guitars and have done many, including some restoration jobs.

Now I'm VP of a painting & waterproofing contracting firm like no other; we do as much consulting and R&D work as application/installation. Our specialty is polyurea (the stuff some car bumpers/dashboards are made of, along with tugboat "fenders"), and we're probably the largest applicator in the country of sprayable versions, with 8 plural-component spray rigs.

A simple polyurea plural-component spray rig will run about $100k, is trailer-mounted in a race-car hauler, sprays A&B components out of drums heated to 175 degrees F, and needs a 45KW generator in the trailer. Most of the polyurea versions we use dry in 15-60 *seconds*. Parking decks and such are back in service in an hour max. Our clients are folks like Dodger Stadium, Universal Studios, Disney (we spent 18 months on the "Finding Nemo" sub ride conversion project alone), the University of Arizona etc.

In addition to project management, planning/scheduling, specification consulting, laboratory testing and running the safety program I take care of the website, and there's some cool video stuff on there, even if you're not all that interested in waterproofing...sheesh, I can keep that site running but still haven't unscrewed my personal one!! FWIW webmaster email DOES NOT go to me, so don't use it for contact please.

www.waterproofingcontractor.com

Also interesting - we are reportedly the only painting/waterproofing contractor in Orange County CA that generates zero hazardous waste. Almost every thing we use has no solvent, and even cleaning/flush materials are strained/reused and the inert solids legally disposable. NOTHING goes in a sink or especially storm drain. Hand tools are dried and disposed of as inert, not cleaned. Makes annual County and Fire inspections a breeze.

Electrical Contractor, but I mostly do estimating for a firm in Dallas. It's more flexible for my playing. I do work at home a lot.
Here's a project downtown I'm currently working on. It's a non-stop stream of pricing, since the original estimate. It's 28 story luxury condo high rise (on the right)

Carpenter /cabinet maker, before that a drywall taper for far too many years.Also used to be bartender/bouncer in the toughest part of my town.Made a lot of friends. Made a lot of enimies....till they sobered up!

Quotations Manager for one of the worlds leading manufacturers of commercial, industrial and residential lighting equipment.

Lic. Truck/Coach Mechanic and Lic. Heavy Equipment Mechanic. Worked Forestry and Underground Mining. Now work for the city I live in, easy to get time off for gigs. The guys in the band like having a mechanic with them.

I'm A Traffic Director!
I have The Intracoastal Waterway in my front yard.
I sit on my front poarch and wave at the boaters going to down to see Joe Casey in Florida in the fall
and in the spring I wave at the rejects when Joe Sends them Back North

Yes John, that is my second album that I recorded. It was recorded in 1970 just afer I moved to Nashville from Minneapolis, Mn.

I am a Station Commander in the New South Wales Fire Brigade. We do structure and bush fires, rescue, hazardous materials incidents, public education and more.

I love this job, you never know what you may be confronted with from one shift to the next. There can be a sense of satisfaction in knowing you have helped people in their time of need. On the downside, there are incidents we attend that are plain distressing.

Shiftwork can be very conducive to playing and family life if you have a good roster. I get to see a lot more of my kids, (and play steel guitar if I am lucky) than when I worked "regular" hours.

Happy New Year to you all.

I'm a third generation rancher.

....what this shows is that most members don't earn their livings playing music.

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Alan as soon as I get my paycheck I go home and throw it at my pedal steel as hard as I can. Then I go to the music store and throw the rest at the owner. Then my wife says she wants to go on a trip right after I get of tour... people make a living playing these things? for the love of God how?

I design gears & gearboxes for oil field and petrochemical applications.

Steve Norman wrote:Alan as soon as I get my paycheck I go home and throw it at my pedal steel as hard as I can. Then I go to the music store and throw the rest at the owner....

I throw my credit card at eBay. I guess it's similar

I'm a land based mud engineer. I used to be a golf pro, and for several years, was an insurance adjuster for State Farm and then as an independent. But, believe it or not, at one point in my life, I threw darts for a living. I want to be a hunting, fishing, and pack trip guide when I grow up.

Kenny, Yes I have run the GE dash 8 locomotives. BNSF has many in their fleet of locomotives.

Thanks for your interest. It is a fun job.

I use to work, at Ge .on the dash 8, train air conditioners..testing station, amtracks . that was fun. mostly when they had the converters,wired wrong. I would walk out of the building, when it was in testing.after the dust cleared, I would go back in,tell them ,i told you so. they were always hard of hearing. they got to belive me after that,Hum ..TK

25 years as an aircraft structural mechanic(with an Airframe license from the FAA).....just completed my first year working at the local Toyota assembly plant on the Tundra production line.

OK..I'll jump in ..I have been a fisherman for the past 40 years..Mostly for Lobster but I have fished for just about everything in the ocean..Except Right Whales...My father and his father and so on

Self employed my whole life.Now that I'm 53 I kind of wish that I had taken a REAL job years ago...Maybe I would have a retirement fund built up by now...OH Well ..you know what they say

Fisherman don't retire..they just die

Bob

I drove a London cab for thirty years here's me on the cab rank in Wembley a couple of years ago before I retired.

Hey James, I think your driving on the wrong side of the road. your steering wheel is on the wrong side of the car. nice car.Tk