Whats everyone do for a living?!?

[milligjg]

Well, I think I read all the prior posts and looks like I am the only accountant so far.

Spent 5 years as an public auditor and the next 30 years with 2 Fortune 100 companies.

My wife is much more interesting being the owner/operator of a tennis club.

MoKelly

Is that the Ralls County Tennis and Polo Club? :laughing:

Just kidding

 

[Capricious]

Well, I think I read all the prior posts and looks like I am the only accountant so far.

Spent 5 years as an public auditor and the next 30 years with 2 Fortune 100 companies.

My wife is much more interesting being the owner/operator of a tennis club.


MoKelly

You didn't "audit" the posts closely-enough- check out my post, #138.


Passed the CPA back in 1988, but never worked in public accounting. The "big eight" wouldn't hire me because I was too old, like 29 at the time.

Seems to be a preponderance of engineers & electricians in here.

 

[techman]

I head an R&D Dept for one of the largest hydraulics companies. Been there 39 years, most were engineering related sales. In my spare time I have a small HVAC business, about 2 installs a month plus the random repair. I enjoy it so I keep doing it, but in general I refuse to work outdoors in the winter or in attics in the summer. I also have a small machine shop at hone just to make stuff.

paul

 

[crackerjack222]

"Wow what year was that...my first full time job paid $56 for a 40 hr week."

DFB, the first year was 1956. The alternative was driving a tractor at 50 cents an hour or picking cotton.....

No, I never picked cotton....
I never "chopped" cotton....
But I did pick broom corn one summer. And I flagged for a crop duster, dug a hole and trench for a septic system.....Raised pigs.....milked a cow twice a day for about 4 years....

 

[MoKelly]

You didn't "audit" the posts closely-enough- check out my post, #138.


Passed the CPA back in 1988, but never worked in public accounting. The "big eight" wouldn't hire me because I was too old, like 29 at the time.

Seems to be a preponderance of engineers & electricians in here.

Yep. I seem to have lost my audit skills a few years back.

I passed the exam in 1978 when we couldn't even take a calculator into the place. The test was at the Ramada in Jeff City.

Looking back, however, it is good memories.

MoKelly

 

[MoKelly]

Is that the Ralls County Tennis and Polo Club? :laughing:

Just kidding

Steel Shop Tennis Club in historic St. Charles, Mo. Maybe a mile from where Lewis & Clark began their journey.

Its in a long ago abandoned American Car & Foundry (ACF) steel shop plant built in 1910. This plant built most of ACF's passenger cars for Wabash, Missouri Pacific and KATY.

The history of railroads in Missouri is also fascinating.

MoKelly

 

[milligjg]

Steel Shop Tennis Club in historic St. Charles, Mo. Maybe a mile from where Lewis & Clark began their journey.

Its in a long ago abandoned American Car & Foundry (ACF) steel shop plant built in 1910. This plant built most of ACF's passenger cars for Wabash, Missouri Pacific and KATY.

The history of railroads in Missouri is also fascinating.

MoKelly

Yes sir. There are some cool pictures of Perry years & years ago. They used to have a turn style here

 

[Capricious]

Steel Shop Tennis Club in historic St. Charles, Mo. Maybe a mile from where Lewis & Clark began their journey.

Its in a long ago abandoned American Car & Foundry (ACF) steel shop plant built in 1910. This plant built most of ACF's passenger cars for Wabash, Missouri Pacific and KATY.

The history of railroads in Missouri is also fascinating.

MoKelly

Used to drive by that complex all the time, back when the old "rock road" bridge across the Missouri was still there.

Took the CPA in the basement of Kiel Auditorium.

 

[little k]

Telephone Technician for 35 years, complex business stuff, no residential.

I was raised on a farm. Farmed for
.several yrs after high school. Carried mail as a sub & farmed, worked for a chimney sweep part time.Did some construction work. Now a full time mail carrier.Hope to make it 3- 4 more yrs.

 

[k0ua]

I'm moving

Come on down, we will teach you to shoot guns, and be a conservative. :thumbsup: There are just some places that are easier to live in than others. Now don't get me wrong, there are plenty of places in our country, and even some in my state that are more like where you live, but I don't live there!

 

[grsthegreat]

Come on down, we will teach you to shoot guns, and be a conservative. :thumbsup: There are just some places that are easier to live in than others. Now don't get me wrong, there are plenty of places in our country, and even some in my state that are more like where you live, but I don't live there!

he could move to california..and he'd never know he moved haha

 

[Scrambler82]

30 years Quality Assurance Engineering/Incoming Inspection Supervisor

That is why I can get a little pushy about how to do something and doing it right the first time.

 

[TomSeller]

Sometimes I think I read TBN for a living.

 

[Underdog57]

Sometimes I think I read TBN for a living.

I think I do too...........only in the winter months tho!

 

[k0ua]

he could move to california..and he'd never know he moved haha

Sadly, you are correct.

 

[PILOON]

It's province by province, but yes, Ontario is bad. I've done a lot of research, belong to a landlord forum and learn a lot there (just like the education I received about tractors from TBN) and I'm careful. There are a lot of speculators who never bother to really understand all the rules and are victimized by professional tenants looking to score their next year of free accommodations. I can't guaranty I'll never have a problem, but if having stringent screening makes a crook to move on, it doesn't have to be perfect.

Montreal has a rental board also.
You file, takes like 2-3 months for a hearing and then tenant comes up with $50. so judge rules in his favor claiming he shows good faith.
Then you get the guy that rents top facility with 3 months paid up front and it takes U 1 year to evict him but he skips costing you 9 months.
Have seen apartments trashed because tenant was PO'd that you evicted him.
Takes all kinds and status and areas make no difference. There simply are pro deadbeats out there.

 

[TomSeller]

Montreal has a rental board also.
You file, takes like 2-3 months for a hearing and then tenant comes up with $50. so judge rules in his favor claiming he shows good faith.
Then you get the guy that rents top facility with 3 months paid up front and it takes U 1 year to evict him but he skips costing you 9 months.
Have seen apartments trashed because tenant was PO'd that you evicted him.
Takes all kinds and status and areas make no difference. There simply are pro deadbeats out there.

Wow! That is totally backwards.

 

[71bronco]

I've been a bricklayer for 34 yrs, in the union for the last 11 yrs. Only 9 more years and I'll be eligible to retire. I'll be 64 and hopefully still be able to pick up block.

Jeff

 

[kiotiken]

Wow! That is totally backwards.

Haha, what's even more backwards is in Ontario, you can't take pre-paid rent!!! At least he got something!

 

[PILOON]

I think I do too...........only in the winter months tho!

AKA seasonal employment.
Are you a migrant worker or a snowbird.