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My main duties consist of tasting beer, talking about beer, and drinking beer with people.

There are some minor administrative and managerial tasks associated.

For 3 summers my weekend job was Bat Tour guide.
I led tour groups from the clothing optional hot springs up the mountain each evening to watch about 250,000 bats emerge from an old mine.

I had the days free to scout elk in the mountains or lay around the hot springs.

I couldn't believe I was actually getting paid for it.

First career was tool and die maker....loved it.

Second career in education, retired as an administrator...it had it's moments....lots of frustration if you give a schit about things.

Looking to get back to work in some capacity now, had it with retirement....looking at tool and die work, problem is, they don't pay any more than I was making when I left the trade in the '80's...a lot less, adjusted for inflation.

Several people are asking how old and in shape I am. I'm 30 and i was in decent shape up until about a year ago. I seem to have tweaked my back somehow. I'm not really sure how bad it is so I want to try something else for a bit. They say that truck drivers sometimes have back pain. I'm just trying to find out if the problem is my back or the job that I have.

I'm sure this has down days but - probably not too bad.

As someone who's gone through 2 basic certification courses and one advanced - the material isn't brutal hard and I think teaching it is probably easier than teaching at say Caltech or something.

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Find something you like and you are good at, no matter that it is. You will like it because you're good at it and will be good at it because you like it. Doesn't matter how prestigious or cool the job is or if it pays 10 million a year, if you dread going to work each day life will suck.

At 30 you still have your whole life ahead of you. I didn't find my niche until I was 29.

Maybe get online and take some of those "what do you want to be when you grow up" and "what are you good at" tests. Pay for some decent ones, maybe, instead of taking the pop ones on fluff sites. Some people know what they want to do all their lives when they're ten years old and some don't, no shame in being part of the latter.

It might surprise you to see what might interest you, or to look at your real skills without thinking of any particular job. Like, do you love talking to people or can't stand them, like working with your hands, artistic right brain work or rational thought left brain work, those kinds of things. I sure never pictured myself doing what I do, in fact 5 years before I would have sworn it was the last thing I'd ever think about doing, now I love doing it.

Good luck, though. As the saying goes, if you do what you really like you'll never "work" a day in your life.

Have you thought about checking with the Hillary Clinton Campaign for a position as the Office Gigolo?


Guarantee you the job is open.

I always thought being a bra fitter at Victoria's Secrets might be a pretty fun job.

I read machinist....

I'm a 30 year Injection Mold Maker.....the machining trade is currently in Asia or in a port city for an Asian toolshop

Yes there is tooling jobs inside the lower 48 but far fewer than 20 years ago

The medical industry is the most recession resistant industry

Those of us that started our careers this way find pretty much anything else underwhelming. I did this for 10 years active duty then went reserve and did the same thing that last 10 while also being an engineer working on significantly hard electrical engineering problems for the country. That would bore a lot of people but I enjoy it.

Well, today they crammed 15 minutes of content into 2 hours of meeting but other than that.

This, of course, brings up the case of the "diesel fitter".

I monitor air pollution. Cool job, but it took a hard science degree and the amount I can make depends on government regulations. So, four year degree and significant loans for a poor white boy like me.

My wife got her LPN license in half the time, it was almost free, and she makes almost what I do. If she were male, she'd make more. If she took a week long certificate course for a specialty or two, she'd make a lot more. I think travel nurses do alright, too.

Today I rebuilt a pump, changed out and rebuilt the drive wheels of a DoAll saw, and fabbed up brackets to hang an area heater.

Yesterday I welded out eight 4" pipe joints, and fabbed up several hanger brackets for same. More pipe on order to finish job.

Tomorrow is anybody's guess, but one of the mills is having an outage and was already trolling for extra help today. They'll be flying work rolls out of and back into the mill progression.

Machine shop always ends up with guys
building guns or gun parts in their spare time.

heard about a guy named Jake that had an odd job on Saturday nights. He was a horse holder at Madame Orr's House.

You can have my job. This week I hung drywall and started taping today. Should be done my Wednesday and then, prime , do some sort of texture on the walls and maybe even paint. Then I trim and finish the recroom. It is nice to have work in January and February, especially inside. After this job , , I might do a bathroom.

Been a self employed boat builder for most of my 72 years. Before that a career in design engineering. Ran a Northwest diesel shovel in my teens.

I changed my mind. I want to do this.

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Oil and Gas. I deploy an electromagnetic cable into oil and gas wells. Some days I run instruments that take readings of the quality of a cement job, while simultaneously taking readings of the geology and radiological resistivity of different formations in the ground. Other days I deploy multiple shots of high explosives into the wellbore and set them off at pre determined depths to allow the flow of hydrocarbons to the surface. Some might consider that a cool job.

Switched from Forestry to IT in college because it paid better, after 40 years in IT I wish I had stayed in Forestry school.