Canopy So, what's your daytime job?

[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