What does everyone do for a living?

[solarshooter]

Aerospace engineer. First few years in stress analysis and structural design, then the last 7 in structural loads and dynamics. It's a cool field but the job eats up a lot of time and can be quite stressful.

 

[Tahoe1305]

2.5 weeks moving to the unemployed sector after 20 years with the gov.

 

[MNess]

Forester

 

[HighUintas]

Aerospace engineer. First few years in stress analysis and structural design, then the last 7 in structural loads and dynamics. It's a cool field but the job eats up a lot of time and can be quite stressful.

Sounds like I made a good call. I really wanted to go into this for a college degree and career out of high school, but talked myself out of it thinking about the stress and likelihood of OT work.

 

[LightFoot]

Curious.... How many of you guys use your love of expensive hunting trips and expensive hunting gear to fuel your motivation for work and achieving a high paying job to support it?

If I could receive a decent wage, retirement, PTO and health benefits for digging holes in the ground all day.... And I mean that literally... I would rather do that than nearly anything I can think of that I'm qualified for.

Unfortunately, I like expensive hobbies and I need great health insurance. So I keep the career I have.

>>>——JAKE——>

 

[Sbird2019]

Project Manager for a refining company that also makes Renewable Diesel & Sustainable Aviation fuel out of waste animal fat, tallow, used cooking oil, and assorted vegetable oils

 

[Yaremkiv]

Run an interior carpentry business out of South Central Alaska.

 

[Quigly13]

Project Manager Electrical Contractor

 

[Elkhntr6]

I’m an electrical apprentice out of northern Idaho. Have another 2 years or so until I get my J card.

 

[Customweld]

I’m an electrical apprentice out of northern Idaho. Have another 2 years or so until I get my J card.

My middle daughter is an EA in Boise, she should get her journeyman card in August.

 

[Quigly13]

I’m an electrical apprentice out of northern Idaho. Have another 2 years or so until I get my J card.

I’m in Spokane. Small world.

 

[HMM]

Civil engineer for the US Forest Service. Favorite project was a trail bridge in the Wind River Range in Wyoming.

 

[HighUintas]

Civil engineer for the US Forest Service. Favorite project was a trail bridge in the Wind River Range in Wyoming.

I'm pretty sure I hung out on that bridge for a bit and watched some salmon swim by

 

[Reburn]

Salmon?

Kokanee salmon are landlocked sockeye salmon.
Wyoming Game and Fish actively manage Kokanee populations, stocking over 1.6 million fish annually in various reservoirs.

 

[hoooogan]

Software Development Engineer II at a major video streaming company.

Starting as a very green Operations Support Tech 8+ years ago. Joined the current Software Engineering team just about four years ago, with minimal coding experience. No previous education (formal or recreational) in computer science or software development. 99% on the job training.

 

[HighUintas]

Of course but where in the wind rivers?

*edit*. Looked it up. Didn’t know they had them at Fremont lake!

I didn't know it at the time either, so I was also surprised. They were Kokanee

 

[wh0cansay]

3D artist

 

[TheGDog]

Software Development Engineer II at a major video streaming company.

Starting as a very green Operations Support Tech 8+ years ago. Joined the current Software Engineering team just about four years ago, with minimal coding experience. No previous education (formal or recreational) in computer science or software development. 99% on the job training.

There you Go! Keep At It Mang! That's pretty much how I started as well. Support on the phones.

So if you put in the work, pick the right tech stacks to learn and choose wisely... you'll get to those six figures eventually. Probably sooner than you'd think to, since you're starting now in today's age.

Was 23yo, just starting to begin knocking-out Community College courses... when my Employer offered to bump me up to Software Engineer up from Tech Support, where THEY DIRECTLY would be my mentors.

In hindsight a TOTAL win-win for them. As they could then "mold me" properly. And they didn't have to pay me what they'd be paying someone with a degree, and they got MUCH BETTER product from it anyway since it was me, so they made out like bandits.

So, since my spouse (of the time) was in the Dental Hygiene program, the game plan was, I'd stop CC, focus on this... she'd continue on in that, then later on I'd go back for schooling/degree. (Never ended up going back, we got divorce, and I really didn't need it, anyway.)

Lotta people that graduate with a degree in Computer Science? Wow.. Just.. Wow.... I HAVE to wonder who the HEYELL... is handing out those pieces of paper (the degree) to 'em. SMDH. (Certainly not all of them, but you'd be surprised how many!)

As a test, he had me write a Cost Recovery Module piece for the Legal Time/Billing software they were making a the time. Law firm's have these devices on machines like copiers and such, and whenever they goto make copies, they'd have to punch-in whose case it's about, so they can track and make Cost charges on that clients bill.

Well, this lil piece would read-in the data files that device makes, and make batch entries out of them which could then be posted into our Billing software.

Worked great. So then they had me tackle an A/R piece-part where when they'd entered payments on our side, this module could reach over into Great Plains Accounting Software and make an Accounts Receivable entry into their side from it. Reducing work and possibly hand-entry errors.

And OMG!!... just before moving up into Coding.. we were going to begin selling Great Plains Accounting software as well... Prez walks over... and set a stack of manuals about 9" tall onto my desk! F...M...L...!!!

It's a special kinda Hell taking a 23yo and now making them have to support/explain to somebody how to set up a Chart of Accounts for their organization. WHOO!! Talk about crash-course in accounting principles.. Eek!!!

But eventually they sold-off that Time/Billing software and focused on the Docket/Calendaring side, and we turned it into the #1 product in that space. Still is today.

 

[Nwihunter]

Union carpenter in Chicago.

 

[W8n4rut]

Diesel tech