What do you do for work/living?

[sbgrimm]

For the last 37 years: Optometrist in private practice

For the next 37: Free spirit & Sportsmobile relaxation specialist!

[macmcintire]

Originally Posted by 86Scotty

Met too! Dang Mac, take a vacation!

Yeah. I know. I've been reading the Alaska 2014 discussion stream and thinking I would love to see everything. But then my Type A personality kicks in and I realize I would go crazy taking that much time off from work. Thank goodness I enjoy my job. Maybe some day I will learn to relax.

[cellularSTEVE]

Wow Mac. I knew some of this but not the full extent. This is fascinating. Let's do Alaska next year. Strategize now, enjoy next summer.

steve

[macmcintire]

Originally Posted by cellularSTEVE

Wow Mac. I knew some of this but not the full extent. This is fascinating. Let's do Alaska next year. Strategize now, enjoy next summer.

steve

Good to see you are still on here Steve. Sounds like something to consider. I need to turn the dream into reality.

[TallGuy]

I'm an accountant for a grocery store chain in southwest Michigan. As soon as I need 4x readers I'm retiring, don't want the numbers to make me completely blind. Once I do pull the plug on retirement I'm looking forward to going on trips returning home whenever I darn well please. My wife and I enjoy travelling simply and Sportsmobiles look like a great option!

[LenS]

Originally Posted by boywonder

My first engineering job was at the Hamtramck (Pol-town) plant.........in 1985....

Worked on the 1979 E/K cars (1975-1979) that went into that plant when it was first built. Worked a lot with Fisher and GMAD paint, sealing and reliability people reviewing the plant painting system design and vehicle materials for the three BOC divisions using the plant.

[chromisdesigns]

Retired 11 years ago. Second part-time career as a jeweler and gem trader. Prior to that I was a senior IT executive for the state of Maryland for 22 years, worked for a Beltway Bandit contractor doing stuff I can't tell you about, statistician and education finance analyst for a public sector association, programmer, one of the first-ever software tech support people, production expediter for a company that made aircraft radios, and a computer maintenance tech at NORAD for the Air Farce.

I also worked as a keypunch operator for a while right after I got out of the service, which has to go down as the single most mind-numbing job I ever had!

Did you know Philco made computers for a while? Their machines ran the ballistic missile defense system and the orbital object tracking system (aka BMEWS and SPACETRACK). There were three of them at Cheyenne Mountain, which was about 30% of all that were ever made.

The CPU was nearly the size of a Sportsmobile! (finally, some on-forum content ) On a Ford chassis, too...I think Ford still owned Philco at that point, not entirely certain.

Where I went to work every day while some of you other lucky slobs were taking your leisure in scenic SE Asia...



My duty station, all too often...computers didn't stay up for months and years on end back then!

[taylorvon]

I'm a commercial property claims adjuster for a major multiline insurer. When businesses go down from water, fire, sewer, suicide, death, vehicle impact, etc.. (about anything bad you can think of happening in a commercial structure) I inspect, document, estimate, and manage the financials. Other then the expected corporate red tape, its a pretty fun career where I get to spend a lot of time in the field and work from home for my administrative duties. My territory is all of Oregon and SW Washington which lends itself nicely to my passion for Salmon, Trout, and Steelhead fishing.

[bshillam]

I started out my first career on the front lines hourly answering phones working my way up. By the time I switched careers I had 84 employees and about $60+ million in responsibilities. It was then I decided a change was needed. So I moved and dropped all supervision duties and sold cars for a few years (before the economy dumped). Then worked a short stint supervising a few people in a credit union which ended when my son was born. I then started a tool company from scratch and shut that down and became a stay at home father. Anyone that stays homes knows those challenges. Some of the hardest and some of the best days of our lives can come from that, my sons first steps caught on video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2ElecsKtsU

After about three years of helping to raise my son I decided to put my love of wood and water together and built my first boat. Which led me to my current line of work,
pnwboatworks.com
I am building a 20.5 Bartender in the next month (+/-) I should be flipping the hull to begin finishing the superstructure. My next build, even lower horse power and more economy - 24/28 feet and about 30 horse.

[chromisdesigns]

Originally Posted by bshillam

I am building a 20.5 Bartender in the next month (+/-) I should be flipping the hull to begin finishing the superstructure. My next build, even lower horse power and more economy - 24/28 feet and about 30 horse.

Fabulous! I am **SO** jealous, I always wanted to shuck IT work and build boats, but never could figure out a way to do it and still live in the US. SWMBO and I once had world-cruise ambitions and a Nicholson 39 to go with them that we lived on for 8 years while paying her off and building the cruise kitty; but some medical issues came up that convinced us it was probably a real bad idea to go off alone across the seas. Sold the Nic and moved ashore. If we had gone, working on boats and boat systems is probably how I would have made money. Had done one small boat from scratch, major refurbs on a couple others, and most of the cruising outfitting and refit after we bought the Nic out of charter.