Canopy So, what's your daytime job?

[jveretto]

School teacher long enough to retire this year but having too much fun!

 

[heviduty]

Electrical engineering tech. at a tier one automotive supplier of variable valve timing components for Ford, GM, Chrysler and Audi. I do plc's, cnc's, robots, and anything else to do with automation, and love it.

 

[MAN IN BLACK]

Full time professional egg farmer of third generation and woodlot owner.
Black

 

[CJONE]

The paying job is Hydraulics with the oilfields and industrial customers. That includes drilling rigs with topdrives and powerswivels. Also a lot of truck systems basically anything that has to do with fluid power and power units. The partially paying jobs are electrical, tree removal, and welding. Still do a lot of mechanical work for friends and such but will not do it for the public anymore, just too many headaches. CJ

 

[fordmantpw]

I'm a software consultant specializing in web apps built on Microsoft technologies. Been with the same company since graduating college in '98. The best part of my job is the fact that I get to work from home. With 3 small kids at home, my tractor work is reserved for weekends since my evening are taken up with kids and kid stuff.

 

[HereticWild]

Unix Administrator.

I have the benefit of working from home the past 2 years and love it.

 

[DrRick]

I am a Dental Surgeon

 

[Tor Arne]

5 Years as a sawmill operator, 3 years in the logging, one year as a welder at full time with welding truck frames and 3 years as a self-employed doing all types of odd jobs

 

[Nigelw]

Currently I am a horse groom and yard handy man these last 6yrs, prior to that I had 11yrs heavy plant and construction, driving Cat 345s, D8s and D9s, 637s and a few hours on a CAT16.

Hobbies are Land Rovers and welding/inventing.

 

[farmeratheart]

I'm still trying to decide what I want to do when I grow up ... In the meantime, I've spent the last 32 years working as an analytical chemist in the pharmaceutical industry.

 

[Complete Turf Care]

For the past 12 years I own a small business. I have 2 mowing crews and 1 landscape crew. I also specialize in athletic turf maintenance.

I work mostly with high schools on their athletic fields. I apply fertilizers and insecticides and do some seeding. I also do renovations, where I kill a field, till it and then laser grade it, and replant it and grow it in. I call this my version of farming.

So....my tractors are part of my business and my work.

 

[bajabum]

10 years in the Navy, as a Fire Control Tech, Guns and Missiles.
36 years tracking Satellites for the US Air Force, and DoD.
7 months until 'play time' (Retirement) !

 

[Panik]

I'm still trying to decide what I want to do when I grow up ...

Ah heck, I'm hoping not to grow up. :thumbsup:

Started out all starry eyed in environmental remediation out of college and quickly realized heavy metal and petro-chemical cleanup were not for me. Something about spending large amounts of time in S. Florida's sugar cane fields cleaning up arsenic just didn't appeal to me. Spent some time getting a graduate degree in environmental policy and spent around 16 years bouncing between government biologist/ecologist positions and working as a zoo keeper.

When my wife and I realized that being zoo keepers was slowly wrecking our physical health we decided to make some changes. Currently I wrangle 3 kids on the autism spectrum and handle things at home while the wife is going back to school to get a master's in occupational therapy.

 

[motownbrowne]

I'm a small-scale vegetable farmer. My wife and I work with my Dad, who's been at it since 1974. We make maple syrup, raise some poultry, and grow more veggies on an acre than most people think is possible.

By night I am a venom collector. I remove yellow-jacket and hornet nests free of charge (I ask for gas money if people are more than 20 minutes away). Then I freeze the insects and provide them to labs that use them for allergy therapy. It's a good side gig and lots of fun.

In the winter I cut firewood, run my sawmill, and cross country ski. By the time one season ends i'm ready for the next one.

 

[CobyRupert]

I'm a identity thief that collects personal histories off the internet.

 

[Avondale]

Retired Canadian Navy (Subs), now a Defence Contractor working on sub electrical & mechanical engineering problems.

 

[grnspot110]

Firefighter in a town of around 6000, retired for nearly nine years now. ~~ Lowell

 

[aginn]

I paint cars to boats and anything in between. When that isn't enough to keep me busy I will do bodywork as well.
My real job is fixer for the wife. She has a honey-do list that that will make you go blind trying to read it all. But she did get me my last tractor so I can get the quality therapy that I need.

 

[EHR]

Climbed poles for New England Telephone, Cobol Programmer for Nynex, Lan Admin, Building Communication manager, Firewall Admin, RN.

 

[firemanmike69]

I work at a heavy equipment dealership as a mechanic