My brain was running at 2am about the various jobs I have had during my stint here on earth.
Paper route, over 100 papers, road my bicycle and knocked on every door at the end of the week for pay.
Mow, rake, shovel, snow blow neighbor's yards.
Envelope stuffing.
Pacos Tacos at the local mall.
Repaired small engines and equipment at the local dealer.
Printing Company.
McDonalds 1.
McDonalds 2, the other side of town.
Factory work manufacturing blown in insulation.
Sheet metal and HVAC.
Maintenance Dept at Inn/Motel
Cafeteria at college.
Machine shop employee.
Machine shop owner. At the height there were 48 employees. (Considerable downsize after Y2K and closed after 9/11)
Operations manager
General Manager
Application Engineer for CNC distributor
Machine shop owner , round 2. Job shop work as well as buying older equipment and rebuilding and selling it. I would keep the better deals for my shop. Sold off to go to work for one of my customers.
Operations Manager
Forced Retirement ( short term )
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You have too many valuable skills to be retiring. If you were in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia, a ship yard would snap you up in a New York minute!!!
ReplyDeleteStill have my sign/truck lettering business since 1980. Went from 25 years of hand lettering to decals. Still working to keep busy. Great story BTW.
ReplyDeleteYes sir, I have a similar resume. Either we can't keep a job long, or we are good at too many things.
ReplyDeleteYou'll land on your feet. I don't doubt it at all. Chin up Mac.
Aint life funny? Ohio Guy
ReplyDeleteI work for Boeing as a training contractor in a group that helps machinists get new skills and upgrade their jobs. You, my friend, would be a prime candidate for a number of jobs here. Except that you're an old fart and might not go with the rising woke culture and such. I am out in a few months myself. Anyhow, keep frosty and eyes open. It will come along, you know, the thing.
ReplyDeleteYour early career is similar to mine. I only had 85 paper route customers. On My Black Schwinn Typhoon! Wanted to be a professional biologist. Had to work in lumber and plywood mills to pay for that edgumacation. After a long period of seasonal positions, and other work, in 2012, I officially became a Marine Biologist. Now I'm ready to retire. But now that I finally got the job I want, I don't want to retire . . . FUK . . .
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure I could even remember all the different jobs I've had over the years anymore.
ReplyDeleteWe could use you up here in the PNW. I fix those CNC's you run. We need more conservatives up here to drown out the libtards. Good luck in the future.
ReplyDeleteFirst paycheck job, T G & Y. Mowed lawns before that. Chemical sales, GMAC repo man, Mobile home repo man, Ended as purch. manager in manufacturing. They eliminated my job as well sort of.
ReplyDeleteWhat are you really good at?
ReplyDeleteWhat do you love to do?
Is there a good market for it?
DO IT.
I love vertical markets.
Unique products or services that only you (or a limited number if people) offer.
Run from home. Make a packet.
Me and you? We think alike. I've made those points for years and they are proven.
DeleteLike most good people you have worked hard all your life, as opportunities presented themselves. Best answer is "The Lord will provide." Will add you to prayer list.
ReplyDeleteI made donuts for a while and mobile homes for a while but I never picked cotton.
ReplyDeleteSmith and Wesson is building a new factory and HQ in EastTN. Southern Belle's, SEC, BBQ, tough to beat...
ReplyDeleteLet's see, I had a daily paper route with 65 customers, then went 130 when the route next to mine got no takers after a couple weeks. Sucked in the winter, as I had to carry the papers from the newspaper office about two miles to the route. Then a Sunday only route with 150 customers. First job was a dishwasher at a local restaurant at 14, mostly only worked weekends and parties. First job after HS was in a shoe shop on the lasting floor. After the Navy, I worked for number of years as an electronics tech for two different major international companies. Then worked in production control and purchasing for one of them. Got "downsized" out of both of those 5 and 23 years respectively.. Then worked as purchasing agent at a small local manufacturer that supplied equipment for gasoline stations. After 13 years that company was sold and the entire manufacturing operation was moved to the mid-West. Found a job as a purchasing agent at another manufacturing company almost immediately. That last one was an awful place to work. If you had tits, you could get away with a lot of screwing off and decisions weren't questioned. I was driving over an hour each way and working 55 hours a week, falling further behind each and every day and having to justify each and every P.O even if it was for $50.00 worth of screws. After ~5 months of that, I decided I'd had enough of killing myself for a paycheck. Gave notice and walked after the notice period. I looked for another job for about 6 months, but there was nothing much to be had in fields that I had expertise in. Filed for SS when I turned 62 and haven't looked back.
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I've owned a Precision Machine Shop for 35 years. Pre Obama made a ton of money. Pre Obama we employed 50 plus for at least 12 years. Obama wrecked that shit when sequestration was invoked. Now we are mom and pop. Trump was just bringing it back and now we get to enjoy Obama 2.0. It sucks bigly.
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