If you LOVE your job...

[BlkWater_brewer]

Can't complain about my job. My wife allowed me to take an early retirement. ok, real early, and now I watch my my granddaughter and come June her little brother. Grand Daddy Daycare only one boss and she's 3. Before that IT Manager for State of Mass, talk about sucking......

 

[T_Baggins]

I'm a Control room operator at a power plant. Started off as a mechanic then became an electrician then I moved into operations. I couldn't imagine any other job I'd enjoy more, we'll besides owning my own brewery..

D'oh!!!

 

[T_Baggins]

I love my job. I work for a University in their High Voltage Lab, the largest owned my a University in the USA.

We do testing and verification for industry. Occasionally we have some research projects. I work with 1 million VAC and 3 Million VDC impulse.

My Dad worked for the Naval Surface Warfare Center in MD, he was a chemical engineer specializing in explosives (we had great 4th's.) But he dabbled i other "mad scientist" sh!t at home (with stuff procured from gov't "waste")

He made a lightning machine in the garage. I'm not sure how much power it used but he had capacitors that must have weighed 200lbs, and transformers like the ones on power poles. It would make a FAT spark jump a 6' gap. Sounded like a damn cannon goin off!

 

[redwing_al]

Can't complain about my job. My wife allowed me to take an early retirement. ok, real early, and now I watch my my granddaughter and come June her little brother. Grand Daddy Daycare only one boss and she's 3. Before that IT Manager for State of Mass, talk about sucking......

I'm an IT manager... My wife says I can take an early out. How young were you when you had enough? I'm 48 and need an encore career when I decide to leave.

 

[Komocabo]

My Dad worked for the Naval Surface Warfare Center in MD, he was a chemical engineer specializing in explosives (we had great 4th's.) But he dabbled i other "mad scientist" sh!t at home (with stuff procured from gov't "waste")

He made a lightning machine in the garage. I'm not sure how much power it used but he had capacitors that must have weighed 200lbs, and transformers like the ones on power poles. It would make a FAT spark jump a 6' gap. Sounded like a damn cannon goin off!

Was it a teslacoil by chance? I had a friend in high school that made one. Super smart kid (ended up at MIT, go figure). My son wants to make one someday.

 

[BlkWater_brewer]

I'm an IT manager... My wife says I can take an early out. How young were you when you had enough? I'm 48 and need an encore career when I decide to leave.

Think it was 53, IT was my encore career. Originally I owned a Marketing and Commercial Printing Company. Fortunately I got a pension and health insurance with the early out. When I had enough actually was about 5 years before I left. My wife only let me leave so I could take care of my granddaughter and soon a grandson. All I can say is I'm much to young to feel this damn old.

 

[DU99]

I work in Facility management,in a building in australia,we are responsible for the maintence services and upkeep of the building's air conditioning control/gas/water/electricial services.building in 364 days of the year,when i joined there ago 25 years i was just a trades assistant..we get to see the performances in the venue's,and meet the people involved in the show's.previous to that playing with big boy trains

 

[Tevin223]

Only at Walmart!

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[n240sxguy]

Only at Walmart!

Theres a tractor supply in a town not far from me that has a hitching post at the end of the parking lot under some trees. There's a lot of Amish close to there.

 

[Tevin223]

Awesome we have some mennonites but not a lot here

 

[redwing_al]

Think it was 53, IT was my encore career. Originally I owned a Marketing and Commercial Printing Company. Fortunately I got a pension and health insurance with the early out. When I had enough actually was about 5 years before I left. My wife only let me leave so I could take care of my granddaughter and soon a grandson. All I can say is I'm much to young to feel this damn old.

Funny, we have similar paths! I've been in the printing business for over 20 years, lead me to IT management. My time was spent managing internal print organizations (in-plant) and outsourced operations when I was at a company that starts with X.

 

[podz]

In my old age, I've quit the management jobs in the mega-corporations and went back into doing what I really love: hacking.

I'm working in a small company now coding python - django for telecom business support systems (BSS). The PyCharm integrated development environment is my tool of choice.

This screenshot is not mine, as I don't want to provide details of my project, rather one I found from the company that produces PyCharm. It looks pretty similar to my own environment, though - I even run it on my MacBook Air ;-)

 

[olotti]

how long should I see bubbles in my airlock?

That gotta b a barley wine or ris with that blowoff. Good to see the bigger boys still use the tube in a bucket ploy. I can't imagine the amount of yeast pitched into that monster to cause that blowoff.

 

[olotti]

I'm a ff/paramedic and work for one of the busiest depts in my state and while stressful and exhausting there is nothing else I would do. Plus it gives me the days off to spend with my two very young kids and brew. I would love to open a brewery someday though something small would do well.

 

[markvale5]

I do environmental work for a tribe. I love it.

*Image removed per request - Mod

 

[Billy-Klubb]

I do environmental work for a tribe. I love it.

which tribe?

 

[Tevin223]

Witch tribe

 

[Billy-Klubb]

do they have a doctor?

 

[markvale5]

I can't really specify

 

[Komocabo]

Oooh! Secret tribe!

 

[1977Brewer]

A Tribe Called Quest(ion)

 

[markvale5]

After thinking about it the tribe probably wouldn't want me posting stuff about them. Like to be private and I should respect that.

 

[Psylocide]

It's that tribal knowledge.

 

[n240sxguy]

After thinking about it the tribe probably wouldn't want me posting stuff about them. Like to be private and I should respect that.

How about more info on the work.

 

[Hamaki]

I've seen environmental consultants in big demand by tribes where a casino is being proposed. Much less so otherwise. These kind of projects can be highly political and litigious; the less said by markvale5 the better for his client.

 

[FastAndy]

That gotta b a barley wine or ris with that blowoff. Good to see the bigger boys still use the tube in a bucket ploy. I can't imagine the amount of yeast pitched into that monster to cause that blowoff.

100bbls of our IPA. We pitch cone to cone so an exact volume on the pitch is hard to tell. We mostly base it off of yeast generation and what beer it is going into, its a bit more complicated than that. Since most breweries even at a large scale are not recapturing CO2, I assume the blow off bucket is the norm.

 

[liquiditynerd]

Finished trimming out one room, 13,000 sqft of wood floors, walls, and ceiling.

Started finishing out a fake timber frame, kind of an insult, I could've framed it out instead and the beams would add to the structure instead of add to the load.

 

[n240sxguy]

That last pic is bad ass! I don't know if all of that will be exposed, but it looks like a cool puzzle as it is.

 

[bottlebomber]

Freaking gorgeous woodwork, mate.

 

[liquiditynerd]

Those projects were from our crew. So only 1/3 is me.