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What do you do?

I am an engineer and worked for 34 years for a major comsumer products company in Manufacturing, Project and Construction Management in the midwest. My wife was in education for 28 years starting in Jr & Sr High and retired as a full professor at a regional university in Southeast Missouri. We raised five daughters and now have 7 grandchildren and one great grandson. We have been retired 5+ years and enjoying it. Relocated from Missouri to Tennessee and keeping busy with our timeshares, cruises and visiting family - when did we ever have time to work!
 
Mods, I'd like to resurrect this old thread so that some of the newer TUGgers can fill us in on what they do, if desired.

Thanks!
 
I'm a retired US Army Combat Medic. I have been around the world a few times and shot at numerous times :eek: I know there is this thing about women in combat but don't believe it for a minute. I went to Iraq during Desert Storm and then again (3 times) for Operation Iraqi Freedom. I have been on peace keeping missions in Kosovo and other places. As a medic I have helped give vaccines to children in many third world countries. We helped build schools, etc. The army isn't always about blowing stuff up. I loved the army and miss many things about the service. We don't live too far from post so the helicopters still fly over. There are times I wish they would drop a rope down :) .

Now, I'm a special ed teacher. I teach kids with severe disabilties such as autism. It is challenging and I'm rarely bored. Now, I see where our education system has gone wrong. People want to blame the teachers but the biggest problem lies at home. Parents need to actually parent. That's as much as I'm going to say about that subject. Love the kids, hate the paperwork.
 
Always busier after retirement

I taught first grade, worked at a department store, then bcame a "domestic goddess" [Roseanne Barr quote]. That's right, a homemaker never retires. Husband worked for an oil company for 35 years--"Born married and working for Shell." His goal is to collect his pension for another 35 years.
 
I missed this cool thread back in September, thanks for bringing it up, I enjoyed reading it.

I am 34 and I have been in school till age 29. I work as senior budget and policy analyst for the local county government. PHD in political science. I lived in five different countries in the past ten years with graduate scholarships, but thank God I am out of school, settled, and a productive member of society. :D
 
It's interesting to see what all our fellow tuggers do or did for a living.
 
I own a Promotional Products company in Boston. I can put a logo on anything you might want. Fun business. I have been doing it for 18 years - I cannot believe it!
 
Bookmaker

Well for 36 years I was a bookmaker, then I figured I would get out while the getting was good.:cool: Actually the plant closed and I went to computer school. Got a job at a major insurance company as a service tech. did that up to retirement in 2005. Now I do seasonal tax work for the Block people, working from Dec to mid April. Maybe go back to bookmaking again huh?:ponder:
Inflation proof for sure. IMHO Try to do my timesharing from May to November.:whoopie:
 
Arnie said:
Well for 36 years I was a bookmaker . . .
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I'm glad I read the rest of your post - I had visions of someone hanging around the track all day - LOL.

But sounds like you're a person of many talents.

Bev
 
Wow, missed this while dealing with my F.I.L. who finally lost his battle.

I'm a 'Maytag' repairman for full-motion flight sims. When people ask me how long I've worked here I tell them, "about 6 months." The other 15+ years I've just collected my pay. :p
 
I'm a full-time IT Consultant for a Fortune 50 company and a part-time TS rental agent.
 
Another IT Geek here...

I worked my way thru school as a waitress (started my senior year in high school.) I enjoyed it so much I worked the dinner shift after I started my career...that lasted about a month.

For the past 18 yrs I've worked in IT for a national newspaper (thankfully the company has expanded to digital...since newspapers seem to be going the way of the dinosaur, or maybe just the bald eagle? :( ) Prior to that, I was a programmer for a non-profit org for about 7 yrs. About 15 yrs ago I did a stint in retail (sales associate) during the Christmas holiday to earn some holiday spending money.

Thru all this, I've raised three kids... now that they're grown, I'm "raising" my mother. :) I think she waited for the kids to move out so she could move in!!

Now that the kids don't need me as much, it seems my part-time (unpaid) job is TUG'ing. But spending time here keeps me away from the idiot box.

BTW - thanks for bumping this thread... I recently discovered the "New Posts" link at the top of the main page, and now that's the first thing I check on the site. Previously, I limited myself to a few sub-forums...now I get exposed to much more fun. I also enjoyed the thread where people posted pictures of themselves and their families... I stumbled upon that a few months back.
 
I'm 47 and an Inventory Control Manager for Baraboo SYSCO, a foodservice distributing
company. Been there 27 years last April. DW is 52 and is a Infant Teacher at a daycare
at our local hospital. I always tell her I wouldn't make
it 5 minutes in her job taking care of 3 to 5 baby's under 2 years old.
How she does it I don't know.
 
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