WHat do you do?

[SAJ]

was wondering what everyone here does for a living? what type of schooling you took and maybe where ya went? trying to get ideas here. Thanks alot guys. and any recomendations on jobs with good outlooks in the next 5-7 years would be helpful as well. thanks

[Brett]

Well, for me, I work for Discover Finacial Services (Discover Card) Right now, it's just a job. Trying to just work my way up the ladder a bit. I am not sure about long term career with them yet or not, but you never know. Theoretically, I can make a lot with them, but that just all depends. Start small, aim big.

[K85k03]

Iam a RuffNeck. I work on a drilling rig. It doesn't take any schooling, but the pay is good and there is room for advancement, maybe someday I will be able to make 400 a day. I would suggest going to school to find something that you enjoy. maybe you can job shadow somebody in a few of the careers your interested in?

[SAJ]

maybe you can job shadow somebody in a few of the careers your interested in?


exactally what im planning on doing. just have to find something i like doing and someone to shadow. keep um coming guys. thanks

[Caleb]

Iam a RuffNeck. I work on a drilling rig. It doesn't take any schooling, but the pay is good and there is room for advancement, maybe someday I will be able to make 400 a day. I would suggest going to school to find something that you enjoy. maybe you can job shadow somebody in a few of the careers your interested in?


well, after having a few jobs that paid very well, I am at the point (and I am still very young) that I have decided I want to ENJOY going to work. If I happen to make crappy money or good money, well so be it. While shrimping I was making $350 a day plus bonus (which had the potential of being as much as $10K-$15K)...this was all with zero schooling...I did kinda luck into the position, but I advanced quickly (I was a captain by the second year there, normally you are a deckhand for years, I never was a deckhand). I also worked at Discover Card, again making decent money for having no schooling. The atmosphere was very negative there, which brought everyone down. I dreaded going to work, and got bored with that work rather quickly. I was promoted about every 3-6 months and was never in a position longer than 6 months. For what the job was, it paid well and some people really did enjoy the work.

Currently I am working at a Digital Print shop (Rastar Digital Marketing (http://www.rastar.com)). We are currently the largest variable printer in the world, we work hand and hand with HP in developing new technologies, and every time they come into our shop they are amazed at the stuff we are doing. Right now I keep paper ordered and I also deliver. My position right now is just an entry level position, but the shop manager has been wanting to pull me onto a press for the last week or so, I would rather go into sales than jump onto a press but being a pressman is a very hard job to get so I may do it just for the pay raise:D and the experience. I enjoy the company I work for, and I look forward to going to work each day. I have attended a little bit a schooling, but nothing major. Mostly technical schooling (computer related), with a few classes at the community college, one thing is for sure though I really want to get back to school (missed out on getting right into school cause I was making killer money out of high school and didn't have a real reason at that time for school, DON'T MAKE THAT MISTAKE!!!)

[Spork]

i'm serving time in a 8'x8' padded cell... (currently doing phone support for Novell)

I've had better jobs and this won't be my last one. Pay and benefits are good but the job itself sucks. Seems like the jobs i've enjoyed don't pay enough and the jobs that don't pay I've enjoyed... Hoping one day to find a job I like and that I can pay the bills...
I've done admin for Windows, Unix, Linux, Netware and I'll even admit to some VMS.

[ace]

I'm making about 60k driving a brown truck. It didn't take any schooling, but it did take 6 years of part time work, and I have to work alot of overtime to get what I make. Good pay, but they suck the life right out. My wife has a masters degree from the UofU and makes less than half of what I get :ugh: :eek2: (teacher :p )

[Jeremy]

i run extrusion equipment for a PVC pipe company. the pay is great, the benifits suck, long hours, but i never work more than 3 days in a row, and i get fri,sat,and sun off every other week.


you do what you have to do to take care of the kids, pay the mortgage and suport the wifes education.

maybe when she is done with school and making a BILLION dollars a year, then i will look into an education..... maybe golf or bowling :D

[Jeremy]

Four years of learning how to make my bed, aim gun, pull trigger, keep head down, and salute.
Then little less than a year of running, listen to some guy tell me what laws are, and how people brake them.
Another four years driving around giving tickets to the turds of the world, and hauling trailer trash to jail.
Two years of school to tell me how to do my job better, and get a cool paper after it was all done.
Know I sit in a car with tinted windows and a bounch of cool guns in the trunk and other cool toys to use to bust people with.
In five years, just five years closer to retirement :D

Law enforcement is got to be the best job out there. There has never been a day that I have had the same thing over and over again. The best thing to do is keep going to school and get all the training you need and want. I got more than what people said I needed, now I tell then how to do things.

As we like to say: **** rolls down hill. :eek:


i bet you now where all the best donuts are sold... :rofl:

just kidding. you do a great service to the comunity(whatever comunity it happens to be) and i thank you.

[Cody]

I have 2 B.S. degrees in Marketing and Organizational Communication. I have a small photography company that I'm trying to build, I work for Circuit City in the car audio department, I do some entrepreneurship, team building, goal setting etc. training for a company called Tri Leadership, and a drink a lot.

Cody

[JeeperG]

and a drink a lot.

Cody

:rofl: :rofl: Whats a "a drink a lot" :confused: :D

[Chiksic]

I work for overstock.com doing customer service. Decent pay for my age/schooling (none)/ and experience +bonuses. I love my job.

One thing I've learned is that your happiness with a job is not a function of what you do completely. It's all about your attitude. I choose everyday to love my job, and I do. It's an easy job to hate, and most of my collegues hate it, but I love it because I choose to. That's the biggest thing you can do for yourself: choose to love your job, whatever it is. Whether you're planning on being there for 3 months or the rest of your life, love it while you're there.

[iwakunijeeper]

Right now I am finishing up the last part of a five year enlistment in the Marine Corps. The whole time I have served as an Air Traffic Controller, and that is what I plan on doing when I get out here in January. There are several options and the job outlook is very good. I am hoping to get into the FAA as they are supposed to be hiring a thousand controllers a year for the next little while. As far as schooling goes I went through the military but there are several civilian schools. The civilian schools are spendy but they are worth it, the average salary of an air traffic controller is right around 80k some a little lower some a little or a lot higher.

[phillippi]

Know I sit in a car with tinted windows and a bounch of cool guns in the trunk and other cool toys to use to bust people with.
In five years, just five years closer to retirement :D

Law enforcement is got to be the best job out there.

Me too! The guns/special duties are what make this job great. I have some college and lots of training from work. I have just under 9 yrs until I can retire :D . So far cop life is good.

[TRNDRVR]

Seems like the jobs i've enjoyed don't pay enough and the jobs that don't pay I've enjoyed... Huh??? http://www.jeepsunlimited.com/forums/images/smilies/thinking.gif



Me personally, I'm an engineer with a major transportation company. ;)

[jamesgeologist]

Oil field jobs are plentiful from Farmington, NM to Cody, WY. Roughnecking is okay, but it sucks when it gets cold. You could go the route of a wellsight geologist or a mud engineer. These types of service hands collect good money and work strange, but flexible hours depending on the company. Pay can be anywhere from $36K to $65K if you work in the field. $55K to $100K+ if you find work indoors. Do your duty to Rock Gods and your country, support domestic oil and gas!! :D

[Medsker]

I went to school for nine years to get my four year degree in Mechanical Engineering Technology. Now I sell tires part time and work at Redi-Check (find errors in blueprints to save companies money before they build and find the mistakes) part time. I am hoping that the Redi-check goes full time and the Tires goes away.

Medsker

[PierCed_3]

I work in Manufacturing Information Systems (computers), I keep hardware running, support software/programs, 1 of 2 Network "engineers" on site. Not exactly an engineer but I am in charge of all changes to the Network. I prefer Networking but there isn't a large job base for Network Engineers. If I find one I am not going to let it go! I also am in charge of Windows desktop policies and currently the Novell Admin on site for the MIS. Too bad we are getting rid of Novell :-\ . Here comes Active Directory! Currently working on CCNA, and Microsoft AD training. I surf the web a lot too... :p

:D

Oh yeah... Associates degree in Network administration and Computer Technology.

[gksspot]

Interesting thread, I will be graduating in 6 months from the Y in business, should start looking now for a job... would like to work in N. Utah for 5 years or so then jump ship (from San Jose CA, but most likely wont be able to afford living near the coast anymore)
I studied business because I never was able to pinpoint what I wanted/want to do, thats why I picked something vague and very open.
Keep the advice coming...

[SAJ]

Interesting thread, I will be graduating in 6 months from the Y in business, should start looking now for a job... would like to work in N. Utah for 5 years or so then jump ship (from San Jose CA, but most likely wont be able to afford living near the coast anymore)
I studied business because I never was able to pinpoint what I wanted/want to do, thats why I picked something vague and very open.
Keep the advice coming...


good advice w/ the business. i know what ya mean about CA, getting to be a zoo over here. im in union city and well, im planning on moving to Utah or CO. well see how it all pans out though.

[grinch]

Lets see 4 years of teck school at night and 8000 job hours will let you become a dirty commercial plumber such as myself... Its not the greatest but on avrage a journyman makes about 43,000 a year pluse whatever side work you can drum up and there is usually more than you care to do after busting your butt for 40-45 hours a week.....

[RockMonkey]

One thing I've learned is that your happiness with a job is not a function of what you do completely. It's all about your attitude. I choose everyday to love my job, and I do. It's an easy job to hate, and most of my collegues hate it, but I love it because I choose to. That's the biggest thing you can do for yourself: choose to love your job, whatever it is. Whether you're planning on being there for 3 months or the rest of your life, love it while you're there.
Seriously wise words there. Thanks. ;)

Oh yeah. I work for Verizon in Sales. Pay is good, benefits are awesome, and the hours are strange. I'm a year(ish) away from a BS in Business Management myself, let me know how yours turns out.

[Herzog]

<- Graphics & Media bum. :D

[RWH]

I'm a Psych major, Don't have a job but i'd like one some day.....
gonna be a Ph.D psychologist and either teach or start a practice.

if anyone needs someone who can weld like a madman let me know ;)

[Zukimog]

http://www.murlin.com/~webfx/cops/pdcar4.gif

[rockdog]

Me too! The guns/special duties are what make this job great. I have some college and lots of training from work. I have just under 9 yrs until I can retire :D . So far cop life is good.

I have two nephews that are cops in n/utah county. I,ll bet you know em.
As for myself, lets see. Did concrete work with my dad, then framed houses for ten years. Loved it , couldn't make a living do'in it. Went to work at a steel mill for twelve years. Made good money and never been more unhappy and miserable in my life. Went to work for the local school district as a custodian!! Im a head custodian, have my own school. Get to fix things. Push snow, clean up puke!! I've never been happier in my life. Kids for the most part are great! Don't make alot of money, but in my old age I've found that isn't the key to happiness. Plus if i can hang in here long enough, I can still pull a twenty year state retirement.

[onetuff76]

I'm a professional college student. Studying math, aviation, and physics. The way I see it is if I stay in school forever they can't collect on the loans :D I also work construction to pay for the non-moving heap in my driveway.

[mesha]

I am in school for my teaching degree. It will take me twice the time as normal to complete it because I only go half time. I am short on time and working 10-15 hours a day making zero money at it :( I own a furniture factory and store. We just went through a major expansion. So, I am poor while trying to get all of the loans paid off that allowed my buisness to grow. Our factory is in mexico. A lot of work, but as we grow the less I work. I have a partner, but he is frequently gone to mexico to keep things running down there. If you go into buisness with someone else make sure you know and trust them. Money makes people crazy. (In the past I have been screwed out of a lot of money by people I thought were my friends.) We have just been doing wholesale for the past 2 years and have recently (6 months) been retailing. Both are rewarding, but are different games all together. It has been very hard to keep up with the orders as our orders have doubled, but production has only slightly increased (need more employees) It is a fun job and I am my own boss. However, only I can be blamed and there is no one to cover for me when I get sick. Working for someone else is usually more stuctured and less stressful. I guess it is up to the person and what makes them happy. Do what makes you happy. Money will mean less if you love what you do.

[cruiseroutfit]

Mechanical Engineering student at the University of Utah in the mornings, and a small business in the afternoons. Despite my busy school schedule and involved play schedule, I am hanging in there. This year will mark another huge increase in earnings for my company, nearly doubling the first few years... :D

[cowmilker]

I have done Autoparts, no money (except they give you $.50hr raise when you put in two weeks notice because you just got hired at the "other parts store") the hours suck, people are rude (this is the other job where you can deal with the scum of the earth all day). But it is fast paced and I learned a lot of what I know about cars from working there, I cried all the way home when I quit.
I was a COP for 5 1/2 months, but became one of those guys they tell you about on your first day of the academy, "he got fired because he was badge heavy" (this is not the truth about me but if you heard my story you would think so). My certification is expired so I milk the clock down at the Dairy,(high school required only) it makes me $40k+ a year, enough to pay the house payment, and put gas in the truck that is almost as old as I am.

[Paudrhound]

school teacher, 6 years to retirement! love it, money no good, bene's ok, best part JUNE, JULY, AUGUST off. one Masters degree, getting second right now.
You should look into your school for a class called work based learning. I taught it for a couple years. I put students out on internships in every field, they learned quickly if that was what they really wanted to get into.
good luck.

"Find a job you love to do and you will never go to work a day in your life"

[Skylinerider]

Lets see I just finished my associates degree from Snow College, and am going to SLCC in January for some prerequisites in order to get into the U's architecture program. I have worked as a Park Ranger aid, a greenskeeper, and I have designed a few homes on the side. Right now I am just waiting to get into SLCC and I will find a job to work around my class schedule (I hope).

[jmaxj]

me i just trim trees for the power company no special classes or schooling just learn how to freeze or sweat.

[CJJ92yj]

I am a detailer for a local plate steel fabrication shop. I love working with steel. Benefits aren't so great, and pay isn't either, but I love the discounts I get on things. But I'm young and got tons to learn yet. Am starting to get tired fo drawing the same thing day after day though. Every once in a while you get a challenging contract to work on.

[GR4x4]

<- Graphics & Media bum. :D

I'm with Herzog. 2 years of graphic design school and 4 years experience. I worked alot of different jobs before/during schooling, never liked working hard for someone else that didn't work much at all, so started my own business. Never been happier or more poor in my life, but I enjoy my life and that is what matters the most.

Find something that you enjoy doing. Then find out how to make $ doing it.

[mbryson]

Network admin at a local marketing firm (lots of Novell here--haven't worked with that for a few years). I've been in tech support for about 10 years now.....much better than the automotive work I've done before.....

[RamToy]

South Valley Motorsports (http://www.svmotorsports.com)


Im in Sales. Ive worked here for 4 years started in parts dept then worked my way up.

[kruzr69]

I am a mechanic for the national guard on weekends and I am a mechanic for them during the week, but that is a federal govt. job. It pays good, and the benefits are pretty good too.

[chicky]

Very cool to hear what everyone does. I have been interior designing for the last 7 years. I work for a company called Majestic Floors and Design. I do the full design package from flooring to furniture and work a lot with builders. :)

[Hickey]

I drive a truck for Frito Lay. Best company I have ever worked for. Pay and benefits are excellent.

[Greg]

I work in the Engineering Dept. for the Union Pacific Railroad. Sounds all fancy, but it's hard work and it's outdoors. Basically, I maintain & repair the railroad tracks. Can be pretty crappy this time of year when it gets cold. But we get to play with some neat tools & vehicles, travel quite a bit and work around trains. Plus, I get to drive a crewcab Freightliner that can go down the tracks! It pays decent, and there's a chance to take a job with the RR any direction.

My current position didn't take much in the way of education. Getting my job had alot to do with my experience working with cars & metal in this hobby, I think. Currently I'm working on transfering departments and doing what TRNDRVR does... drive trains. :)

Actually, I have been considering becoming a Special Agent for the RR, basically a RR Cop :eek2: . Pay is great, but I need to go thru the Police Academy and get 3 yrs of job experience first. Special Agents do all kinds of intresting work, the best of which is beating up Bums! :rofl:

Over all, I like the job and the places where I spend my time. I'm getting used to being outside all the time. This job is 10,000,000x better than my last job. ;)

[wrangler]

Oil Refinery slave (pump mechanic) Pay is good benefits o.k.

[mbryson]

What happened to Roosevelt? Did not work out?


It was working out fine (kind of a boring position with little future, though). I had something kind of fall in my lap here in SLC, everything's worked out pretty good.

[Mopar_magic]

I am a Design Engineer for a gun Company. I got my 4-year Engineering degree in about 6 years from Weber State University. Love my job. Where else can you go to play with guns all day long!

[shrubeck]

Finishing up my Bachelors in Accounting. Then I'll go on to get a masters and a CPA. Then after I save up some money and depending on how the market is, I may go to flight school. My wife is a teacher and working on her masters.

[toad7382]

teller for a credit union. average "no experience, entry level" pay. benefeits are very good. we are kinda connected to a school district so we get the same benefeits as the teachers.

my husband is taking the p.o.s.t. test next week. we'll see where that goes.

[Mr.Chevy]

I am a High Speed Scanner Repair Technician for a company called DoxTek.
I did not take any schooling for the job. I just started as an intern and they trained me and got me certified on Canons High Speed Scanners. Started out at minimum mage and then after 3 months got promoted to part-time at a higher pay.

I love my job. It is a lot of fun and I have some very cool co-workers. I fix and repair high speed scanners and take customer support calls. My job has some good things that go with it like the company has breakfast every Monday and every other Friday they have lunch and they always have drinks and snacks for us to have. It is kind of in the computer field and that is a very good place to be if you can stand to have a desk job.
:D

[DaveB]

I graduated from the U of U in electrical engineering. I design computer graphics hardware used for flight simulators. At night I am a middle aged Jeep nut.
Dave B
84 CJ8, 85 K30 tow rig, 86/92 mixed up XJ, 87 MJ

[BroncoMama]

I am a super lucky girl who gets to stay home with our two kiddos and work from home. We own a ditch digging business so I take care of all the phone calls, paperwork, and I'm the trencher rescue unit when needed! ;) I also homeschool our kindergartener which is definitely one of the coolest things I've done.

[shrubeck]

DaveB, who do you work for and I don't suppose you know Gary Crum?

[DaveB]

DaveB, who do you work for and I don't suppose you know Gary Crum?

I work for Evans and Sutherland, and yes I know Gary.
Dave

[Zukimog]

Actually, I have been considering becoming a Special Agent for the RR, basically a RR Cop :eek2:
Since you were banned from here in the past, that's on your record. You'll never get a cop job with that on your record :rofl:
http://www.murlin.com/~webfx/cops/flashca.gif

[Herzog]

Since you were banned from here in the past, that's on your record. You'll never get a cop job with that on your record :rofl:
http://www.murlin.com/~webfx/cops/flashca.gif

Actually, Greg is the 'banner' not the 'bannee'. :p :D

[Brad]

I'm the systems engineer and co-network engineer for Park City. I develop and manage the city's fiber optic and wide area wireless networks and take care of our Unix and Alpha servers. I also dabble in PBX, IP telephony and GIS. Pay is good, benefits are outstanding and I get to play with the city's Unimogs from time to time. :cool:

[Shawn]

I do stuff..........

[ALF]

I'm purchasing for kennecott now.

[Badcop]

Four years of learning how to make my bed, aim gun, pull trigger, keep head down, and salute.
Then little less than a year of running, listen to some guy tell me what laws are, and how people brake them.
Another four years driving around giving tickets to the turds of the world, and hauling trailer trash to jail.
Two years of school to tell me how to do my job better, and get a cool paper after it was all done.
Know I sit in a car with tinted windows and a bounch of cool guns in the trunk and other cool toys to use to bust people with.
In five years, just five years closer to retirement :D

Law enforcement is got to be the best job out there. There has never been a day that I have had the same thing over and over again. The best thing to do is keep going to school and get all the training you need and want. I got more than what people said I needed, now I tell then how to do things.

As we like to say: **** rolls down hill. :eek:


Ill second the motion, but only 10yrs into it.

[cruiseroutfit]

I am a Design Engineer for a gun Company. I got my 4-year Engineering degree in about 6 years from Weber State University. Love my job. Where else can you go to play with guns all day long!

Do tell more... Did you go through the ME program? Hiring?

[BronkoRob]

Right now i am a locksmith. before that ive done a lot of everything else. year at mcdonalds, few months papa murphys, 6 momths at discover card...yeah i hated it just as much as everyone else, year and a half at discount tire, good job as long as you like th crew you work with, been a mechanic/paint prep ***** before for about a year, warehouse loader for coca-cola, horrible hours, and before the locksmith i loaded planes at SLC airport full of those little bags of peanuts and pretzels. got outta high school...barely. went to SLCC and got my EMT-B certification and LOVED IT!! since i cant afford working on my junk and school im working on my truck. i have recently enlisted in the united states navy and waiting til june to get shipped out and start my career and a hospital corpsman. figured i got no big plans for the next few years....what the hell

[chevtech]

Spent ten years as a mechanic working mainly for Larry Miller Chevrolet. Some schooling but I didn't finish (the on the job training was better). You can make pretty awesome money if you are willing to work hard/fast, lots of techs down there making well over 70K a year with good benefits, cheap cars, and the best work schedule ever (4 on 3 off with a 5 day weekend once every 6 weeks). But it can get old and there is little room for advancement (that is appealing anyway). Ultimately was forced to make a career change after demolishing both of my wrists, I'll let you know when I figure out what that new career is (that's a fancy way to say unemployed). Seriously though I'm trying to get my own business started, I need to be my own boss.....



:)

[Freelancer]

I'm making about 60k driving a brown truck. It didn't take any schooling, but it did take 6 years of part time work, and I have to work alot of overtime to get what I make. Good pay, but they suck the life right out. My wife has a masters degree from the UofU and makes less than half of what I get :ugh: :eek2: (teacher :p )

In my job I have dealt with the Brown for over a year and a half!!! Just promise me one thing, Ace, don't get injured on the job while with UPS!!! When it comes to work injuries UPS is the worst! They treat their employees like sh*t and always treat you like your lying about your injury when you could legitimately be injured. I have also come to know many of the Brown employees and so far I am not impressed at all, but keep in mind this is California we are talking about, they sing to their own tune out here. :ugh: I'm sure Brown employees in Utah are very different. Seriously, though, I have never dealt with a more shady bunch of people in my entire life than with the Brown here in California. These guys are so damn dirty and disonest. :mad2: They commit the most blatant insurance fraud in the world! It is so obvious, but they hide behind their damn attorney's and ruin the entire system for the rest of us driving our taxes and healthcare costs through the roof!!! :mad2: In my opinion, UPS stands for U Punks Suck. :p Don't take what I've said personally though, Ace, because I don't know anywhere else you can get paid 65-70k/year with great benefits and not have a college education and you seem like a hard worker. This is just my own experience. One thing is for sure, you are definitely going to end up with a totally beat up and banged up spine and body by the time you retire with them! :( But look on the bright side, you're making great money in Utah and are able to provide a great life for your family and that is all that matters. :D

[Hickey]

I don't know anywhere else you can get paid 65-70k/year with great benefits and not have a college education There are plenty of places like that in Utah, you just have to make yourself that valuable. ;)

[Freelancer]

If anyone is interested in moving out to Sacramento, CA and working in a great paying job with great benefits and a awesome 401k program and a plethora of other job opportunities to move upward or into other positions within the company, just let me know. The requirements are to have a 4 year college degree in anything, they don't care and they will train you by flying you out to home office in Boston, Mass. for 2weeks. If anyone is interested, just PM me and I'll give you more details.

[Freelancer]

There are plenty of places like that in Utah, you just have to make yourself that valuable. ;)

Where? FedEx? :rofl:

[Hickey]

Where? FedEx? :rofl:
Frito Lay. USF Reddaway. Plenty of places.

[Freelancer]

Frito Lay. USF Reddaway. Plenty of places.

It was a joke Hicks my man. I have nothing against Utah, I was born and bred in Utah, I'm just jealous of ya'll living there. Man do I miss it there. California is not what it's all cracked up to be. But hey, fellas, I live near the Rubicon Trail! If ya'll ever want to hook up out here I'd love to go with any of you. We need to get Greg to organize a RME jeep trip down here to the Rubicon Trail. :D

[TRNDRVR]

Don't take what I've said personally though, Ace, because I don't know anywhere else you can get paid 65-70k/year with great benefits and not have a college education http://www.naxja.org/forum/images/smilies/gbye.gifOh, pick me, pick me!!!

[WayneXJ]

There are plenty of places like that in Utah, you just have to make yourself that valuable. ;)



Where I work.... :)

[Tacoma]

currently self-employed as a pressure washer, cleaning buildings, signs, and sidewalks. Pays ok but lot of hassle for the money, and travelling sucks.
I paint pictures that no one buys and make the frames for them, and my wife and I are at the moment attempting to break free of the pressure washing, or start getting contracts out here. Making some furniture too, we'll see how that goes.

formerly employed as rock climbing instructor in my former home of NY state, head chef, coursesetter at Rockreation for a while, tree trimmer for Salt Lake City, Olympic rentacop(gun included!), and marble/granite countertop fabricator/installer.

also doing long-term stint as unpaid Jeep dismantler/assembler heheh

[Vonski]

4x4 shop lacky and full time insomniac. :)

[BlackSheep]

I work my life away for a major tire manufacturer. It's not a terrible job, and I do have some great bennies, but I spend a lot of time away from home. Pay isn't bad, but If I would have stayed at the research center, I would be home every night and I would be making the same money. However, I would be living in South Carolina. I much prefer Utah to SC (although upstate SC is actually a nice place).

oh yeah, I have a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering.

[richpblaze]

Very cool to hear what everyone does. I have been interior designing for the last 7 years. I work for a company called Majestic Floors and Design. I do the full design package from flooring to furniture and work a lot with builders. :)

The name of my company Is Majestic LLC. I'm a Contactor, I do alot of remodeling, painting, finish carpentry, whatever pays the bills

[Tacoma]

oh! how much does contacting pay? does it vary according to intensity? heheh :redneck:

[Mopar_magic]

Do tell more... Did you go through the ME program? Hiring?

I actually graduated from the manufacturing. Browning originally hired me to be a machinish in the Archery division, then I moved to the gun division. My boss recognized my talents with guns and put me to work as an engineer before I even graduated. Once I graduated, the pay got better.

Sorry, we are not hiring. People tend to stay here for a long time!

[Tacoma]

I think they just need to make more, newer guns, thereby requiring a corresponding increase in employed gun makers.

That's a pretty cool job, man.

[BBowski82]

I have my AAS from General Motors ASEP program, my BS in Automotive Technology from WSU, and am currently working on my MBA. I am 22yo and work for Ford MoCo in Dearborn, MI. I am a service engineer--I provide support to engineers in the field and dealers. I also act as a liason between the plants and engineering to those in the field. I love my job!

[queenofmoab]

I am a supervisor over four men with disabilities. The pay isnt great and neither are the benefits, but i get to help people and that is really awesome. It seems that a lot of the important jobs like teaching or home care get paid the least. Too bad. :( But I really love what I do so I guess that is why I stay in the field. :)

[tiny2085]

Well I move, install and assemble office furniture, no education required, not even a high school diploma, no chance for advancement, no benefits, and waaaay good hours and somewhat of a lot of driving. I"m only 19 so I don't care, but I am applying for a job to service fleet vehichles at vehicare. Pay is a lot better and I get to drive semi's all over the lots.

[V-DAWG]

I myself, like several others, work as a police officer. I have been in law enforcement for 4 years, and I have loved every minute of it. Nearly every agency in the state participates in a 20 year retirement and provides a take home vehicle. Like stated before, no two days are alike.

I am two classes away from receiving my B.A. degree in criminal justice, so obviously college is not a requirement to get started. A degree can help in promotions, and there is extra incentive to having a degree at the department I work for because they pay a set dollar amount each month if you have one.

Of course there are downsides also. You will work shift work, meaning nights and weekends, and there is no such thing as a holiday. This can be a benefit as well, because my days off are generally during a time others are working, so the campsites are always available. Also my department works 4, 10 hour shifts, so I have 3 day weekends every week.

I would recommend the job to any and every one. I love it, and I have no regrets. I make about 40K a year, and although it is not much, it pays the bills.