What do you do?

[Jason]

We had a pretty cool post asking where everyone is from not long ago.  How about what do you do for a living?  I know what a lot of people do just from talking to you, but others may find it really interesting how diverse our backgrounds are.  I could spill some of the beans but I'm going to leave it to you.  Some people have jobs that would (or have) landed them on Discovery channel.

The coolest thing is that our passion for being outdoors, fishing and making baits brings us together. 

So, what do you do for a living?

[Jason]

My career has always been in technology.  In the Navy I fixed computers and air traffic control equipment on a Destroyer, and for a short stint in the middle east.  From a corporate perspective I've worked for GE, PWC, ePunctuate! and SAP.  I started on the hardware side (telephony, networks and servers) and ended on the software side (ERP / CRM).  Somewhere in the middle I spent some time doing business process re-engineering.

Caney Creek is now home.  Our entire family is involved in some capacity.  My only chance of making it on the Discovery channel is if they wanted to make a G rated outdoors version of OCC.   

Tight lines!

Jason

[pieterbez]

I am lucky enough to be involved in the fishing community.
I own a Fly Tying Factory as well as a Fly Tying Material distribution company called Hooked on Flies which I started in 1996.
I just started making Soft Plastic Baits. My first customer order $3000.00 worth of plastics.
The only reason I can do this job is because the wife is a partner in a Chartered accounting firm and earns about $17000.00 per month of which we get out about $9000.00. The rest goes to taxes which is quite high in South Africa. 40% Tax + 14% VAT

The most I fished in one year was 225 days

I am one lucky bastard. Sorry she does not have any sisters

[nbarnych]

I am a career firefighter. I work in the city of Middletown,ct which is about 10 miles south of Hartford. It's a pretty rough area but than it has it's nice spots outside of downtown. The only way anybody has probably heard of it is because last year we had a giant power plant explosion in which numerous people were killed. Actually, it turned out to be the largest natural gas explosion in the U.S. Anyway, I can talk for days on all the interesting/unique/unfortunate calls we go on everyday, and if there are any other firefighters here I'm sure it's the same for them. Its the best job in the world!

What's nice is the hours we work in our department. 24hrs on and 72hrs off. It's usually a long and tough shift, but the days off are worth it. Time off can be spent working other jobs, making baits, or fishing. I usually choose the latter two. Anyway, I love what I do and am very fortunate to be doing it!

[mikolay87]

I repair musical instruments. I went to school for repair and now I work in an overhaul shop and rebuild band instruments. I also have a shop at home and do work with the schools

[bhorlings]

I am the IT department for the company I work for. I do everything from tech support to our ERP package also. I'm also involved in continuous improvement of our business processes.

[Vince D]

I am a Tunnel Inspector. I travel all over the US from one job to the next. Currently I am working on the East Side Access project in NYC. The total dollar amount for the 13 projects is a little over 7 billion. I lead a team of inspectors that work on two different project valued at just over 800 million.

One project has 4 - 22.5' tunnel going under the busiest railroad interlock in the united states. Roughly 800 trains use this interlock in any given day.

The other project in the most expensive tunnel per liner foot in the world at this time. The tunnel is 123' long and 90 million dollars. This tunnel goes under 4 existing subway lines, 5 lanes of roadway and two elevated trains.   

[ghostbaits]

I am the Chief Information Officer at a hospital. My big project for this year just brought in 2 checks totalling 1.2 million. I didn't even get a soda!! Least my bait customers say thanks!!!       

Jim

[Vodkaman]

Originally and aircraft structural designer, projects: BAe 125 executive jet, BAe 146, Nimrod, Hawk, EFA (typhoon) and Shorts/Bombardier. I transferred to automotive design in 1995, projects: SAAB 9000, Porsche Boxter, Proton, Chrysler Jeep, Volvo and Lotus. Mainly body design, involved in solving crash test problems.

Dave

[Frank]

I work in an Autobody repair shop and have for 30 yrs. And like Dave I solve crash problems just in a differant way. I love to make things and dont get to go fishing much, have to spend alot of time at home. Life is good, Frank

[Jason]

Being from the technology field I can relate.  Not being hounded is all the thanks you will ever get...

With all the specialties it just amazes me the amount of knowledge we collectively have.  With just those who have posted, we could build a really hi-tech (safe) vehicle that could possibly fly or dig tunnels, and when we wreck it Frank can fix it, because it won't be burnt up in the crash.

Sorry, It's Friday 

[Wojo]

I am a police sergeant in Huntington Beach California which is located in Orange County. It is just south of Los Angeles.

I got in to bass fishing as a stress reduction and then got into plastic pouring to help with the stress of NOT catching fish  .

Wojo

[Soonyee]

Hey Wojo,

I am a Long Beach Police Officer.   You asked me before where I lived in So. Cal.  We should hook up some time and wet a line. 

Bo...

[Muskygary]

I work in South Bend, Indiana (Notre Dame) where I have been a city bus driver for thirty nine years. I drive fifty miles each way to work (live in Warsaw, IN because my wife is a hospital administrator) Get to retire in January 2012!! and spend all my time making lures and fishing and hunting. (Come on christmas!)

[Wojo]

Soonyee that sounds great, I will send to a PM and we will work it out.

Wojo