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What is your Trade?

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Telephone Lineman. 1800s- early 1900s.
 
Electrical eEnginner of 20 years. Fuck knows how i got through college i cant really remember much about it! Im a mixed up person. Im a bit of a nerd with computers and phones, technology etc, got a decent job but im a raging amphetamine lover or any other stims i can get hold of. My life is kinda "stuck in a loop" at the moment. Doing the same over and over .....
 
I'm an agricultural student with my dream being to own my own farm.

I work mostly with sheep, but have some experience working with cattle, poultry and swine.

I have driven a range of tractors with a variety of implements. From shit as simple as rollers to fertiliser spreaders.

And I have a keen interest I'm mycology. (I think there's money in it too).
 
Truck/lorry driver taxi driver /Catering business
Do Punjabi catering for weddings and parties would have loved to study Political History but my addiction to drugs got me kicked out of 2 high schools and a continuation school. Started driving truck at 18 because of age could only stay within CAat 21 i could drive 48 and did addiction led me to UK where until i could move up the licenses to a HGV lorry driver i drove a taxi. Passed my Heavy Goods Vehicle license and started driving a lorry. Some coke talk with cousin led me to Wedding catering. The former has given me financial stability would have loved to get an education but i was a straight F student only classes i passed was small engine repair a C World History an A US history an A and US govermant an A at continuation school we only had to go school 3 hours a day we did our own work and could earn with hard work Upto 5 credits a week I earned 10 in 2 years. Nothing makes you feel stupid like when you wife is out and your daughter who was 11 at the time wants help with algebra and you ain't got a fucking clue.I was not stupid just how much work you going to get done if you were out all night snorting crank sneak back in have a shower and only go to the classes i enjoyed.
 
Was told that Power Lineman can make $70,000 in 1 month doing storm work (working hurricane damage etc).
Holy fuck
 
In trades I am a CNC Machine OP.

I went to a private career college after I already had two years experience from working in a surgical scalpel blade grinding department ii b a medical manufacturing plant between 2013-2015. It was a new area, new machines. No more ordering blades in but now we grind our own! This experience gave me the rundown on CNC up to a setup operator level and some maintenance, supervision, I had company email, etc. Pay sucked but the experience got me into the college program as a shoe in. It was a youth job training program which led me to a CNC mill / lathe / broach (I ran multiple operations) operator job which paid fairly well. I worked that job for 1.5-2 years. I've had a few odd gigs in machining otherwise.

That's my trade if I ever go back into trades.
 
i am a logger! definitely a recovering addicts playground. you get hooked on the adrenaline, fast paced dangerous nature of the work. being way out in the forest all day. you really can't get out of it once it gets into your blood.
 
seedee said:
i am a logger! definitely a recovering addicts playground. you get hooked on the adrenaline, fast paced dangerous nature of the work. being way out in the forest all day. you really can't get out of it once it gets into your blood.
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Hell yeah brother. That's the shit. I bet you make bank doing so.
We cut tree's on the side. We will get farmers ask us to cut tree's, and why not?
Private 'tree removal' pays $1,500-$10,000 , per tree. Depending if we need cranes, chippers, laborers. Factors, in having a "side business" when you are working your day job lol..
Wish I took pics, my belt has a rope safety, tree climber safety. Climbed a tree with my safety all the way out, I was just climbing the tree to get to the utility lines, still, it's fun to run around the tree .

Something like that.
 
seedee said:
i am a logger! definitely a recovering addicts playground. you get hooked on the adrenaline, fast paced dangerous nature of the work. being way out in the forest all day. you really can't get out of it once it gets into your blood.
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Yo @seedee, give this song a listen. It may be right up your alley.

 
Snafu in the Void said:
I've been looking into various apprenticeships, electricians looked promising, but a lot of them seemed to require a bit of experience or at least college related electrical theory knowledge

still looking into it tho, might be going back to college here soon
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Read my post mate. Once u have a trade your sorted
 
I never went to formal training for anything, but I've done everything from kitchen work to corporate administration so I guess I'm a jack of all trades.

I've also played in rock bands for years (writing, singing, keyboards, guitar and drums).

I'll never be a nuclear physicist, but I never really wanted to anyway. Sounds boring.
 
Worked as a pharmacy technician for a small local chain for a couple years before transisitioning to the largest chain in the country with displeasure. I worked pharmacy for five years and couldn't deal with the people anymore, even my coworkers were getting on my nerves plus company politics always changing. I quit pharmacy earlier this year and switched to a field that I am more interested in. Technology, working as a cable technician is hopefully just the beginning. :)
 
Skwidox said:
From pharmacy technician to a cable technician, that's a tech-savvy leap! It's totally understandable that dealing with people and company politics in the pharmacy world can get a bit overwhelming.
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It has definitely been a leap. Used to working inside with AC and heat. Now I am outside working in rain and snow, through heat waves and 20F degree days.
Went from a supervisor/manager being a handful of feet away to a supervisor that I may see once a week. Went from working with other technicians and pharmacists to doing every job solo. I worked 1:00PM to 9:00PM when I worked pharmacy. The only times I worked past 9:00PM were when we were super behind which only occurred a handful of times when our pharmacy transferred ownership. We couldn't order any scheduled prescriptions for like two months it was terrible that coupled with working with a completely different computer system and POS system. Fun times.

When I first started my current job it was 12:00PM to 9:00PM, the only caveat being that you don't leave until the job is complete. Back in November I switched teams and schedules. So my new schedule was 10:00AM to 7:00PM with a new supervisor. That brings us to last night.

I arrived at 5:45PM. The rain and snow was finally beginning to stop, but the temperatures remained in the 20s. One tech previously out in the last 90 days that referred the job over to our maintenance department. I check their modem's signal levels and they are trash they also had two STBs (cable boxes). It's already pitch black out so I turn my strobes on and grab my 28" ladder and head for the pole. Their drop (cable running from the house to the tap) was trash. Had both electrical and radio ingress/interference. So had to run a new aerial drop to the house. And of course, the previous drop utilized a mid-span, so I had too as well. So had to take my ladder down off the pole where it was secured. Then move it to the area in-between the two poles and where I have no tie off. I can't pull the new drop over the tree branches without a struggle. My ladder is being pulled back towards the pole/tap on the slick mainline strand. Finally, I finesse the cable over the branches and head for the house. Take the ladder down and set it back up on the house.

The interference was gone, but the customers node (the node is organizationally the next level beyond taps and normally encompasses multiple neighborhoods/areas) was in pieces and they had a reverse tilt of 9dBmV tilt at the tap. (Ideally you want your levels/channels/frequencies to have minimal variation between each other. The "tilt" is the range between the highest and lowest levels. A "reverse tilt" means that the lower frequencies are higher than the upper frequencies.) The higher frequencies are primarily responsible for internet traffic. So the customers TVs that utilize the lower frequency weren't having issues, but there internet was. Not fun. Finished all that around 10:00PM.

Was my previous job easier? Without a doubt, yes. Was it as rewarding? Absolutely not. As good as it feels to save your patients some money by switching from their paid for insurance to a discount card it doesn't feel quite as rewarding as fixing someones intermittent internet connection, TV pixelation/tiling, no dial-tone.
 
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