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Composer in residence, Sound Designer for a gaming company.
Around 90% of our product is sold in the greater Americas, and although we have 37 offices worldwide, they have allowed me to base myself in the beautiful Harbour city of Sydney...I am on holidays for a month, and on my return to work at the end of January, I move into a brand new studio, which is being fitted out as I write.

Producer, engineer, studio owner and steel guitarist...

Fishing Ghillie with Ballindalloch Castle on Speyside.

Techno-peasant (job title is developer analyst, yet I'm neither a developer nor analyst, but I digress...) for the Big Phone Co. dealing with SAP Security.

I'm a stay at home dad.

It's the best job I've ever had. The pay isn't exactly what you'd call "substantial", but the benefits are great!

Mechanical technician for a international company that designs, builds, installs and maintains Jet engine testing equipment. For engines from the little corporate jets to the latest jumbo. And some space craft engines and equipment.

General contractor for custom homes

I feel blessed to be able to play and teach steel for my living. JC

The past 17 years have seen me in the left seat of BIG Rig, 18-wheelers and more however the last two years I've been a FLEET ENGINEERING Test Driver. No loads, no customers, no schedules, brand new equipment with all of the accessories, and all of the fuel I can manage to pump through it, etc.
Did do 45 years as a private detective but got burned out on all of the rush-rush. For 15 years, I was a Professional Pilot and flight instructor but here in the Northwest, weather is a havoc to this line o'work.
I've retired three times but got awfully hungry.....

And you do this with professionalism, Jody! My friend, you are a wonderful instructor and a great guy to know. As for me, I am a rural appraiser for the county I live in. Keeps me out of the office and in the "country".

I am a certified paralegal and for the past 18 years a criminal investigator, now fighting social security for the past 8 months as my drs said NO MORE WORK! However, I had my own fishing and hunting outfitting business at one time for 7 years, owned and operated my own electronic business and was a journeyman carpenter, certified welder and diver as well working in heavy construction until 1986. Guess it all caught up to me some 30 years later. But hanging in there!


Dean from NY

Independent carpet installer. And like I tell people I can get pretty independent at times. Fred

I suspect a lot of people here can get pretty independent pretty quickly

Accounting Supervisor in the software industry.

Joe Alterio, CPA, MBA

Nice to read about what you all been doing or what you are doing to survive
During the 80ís I was playing steel! In the same time I went to school and became a massör and chiropractic. Did that untill 2000. Now Im a pest technician, killing rats, bugs and other unwanted creatures. Playing steel just for fun and to please my soul.
Uffe

Most of my time these days is spent doing corporate keynotes and seminars on professional ethics. (Sounds dull, I know, but my being able to make it fun for audiences as well as highly useful is why I'm able work more and more.) It's huge fun for me, involves generally enjoyable travel and it allows me to play music as a hobby which has always been a whole lot more fun to me than doing it for a living.

attorney in the television industry

Well I started in Police Work 20 years ago and stayed full time for 8 years. Been in the LTL industry full time for the last 12 years. But I still like doing this part time:

I'm a costruction manager for a privatly
held oil and gas co. I oversee the building and install of offshore oil
producing platforms in the gulf of mexico
and all land production facilities in tx.
Ok. and La. Thank the good lord for it all.

Frozen Food department manager for Schnucks Market,36 yrs in, 5 to go and I am outa here! jp

Joe Miraglia wrote:

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powered by two V-12 Detroit engines. You can get an idea how big it is compared to my truck.

Larry

Larry, Detroit Diesel engines! I'm retired from Cummins Engines,after building them for 22 years. The engine with that real tone . Joe
www.willowcreekband.com

Joe, up until this truck in the picture all my service rigs have been powered by Cummins!
This one is Cat powered.

Hoping to give it up this year and get a 40 hr. a week retirement job in a shop. Warm in the winter, cool in the summer!

Larry

Larry

I'm a truckdriver, run Il., MO., Ks. mostly. Gone a couple nights a week.

I sell and service small printing presses and related equipment all over south Texas. 38 years experience and self employed last 14 years.

I am a radar systems engineer specializing in long range missile and space surveillance radar systems.

Ricky...

Licensed Investigator. Specializing in missing children, Mo chairman for Grandparents for children's right's, Owner of Sho-Me Pallets/wood research center.

Larry, my oldest brother Jim use to weld on those big buckets. He worked mostly In the open coal mines in Wyoming but has welded all over the world. He died of Cancer a few years back.