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What do people do when not egging...or what do you do for a living

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  • Bobby-Q,
    Going on 22 years of aircraft maintenance in the Air Force.

  • Chuck
    Chuck Posts: 812
    Bobby-Q,[p]I am an Electrical contractor, partners with two of my three brothers, in a business that my Great Grandfather started in 1906.

  • Pigasso
    Pigasso Posts: 111
    Bobby-Q,[p]Subcontracts manager for large corporation heavily involved with government contracts. I'd like to tell you who, but then I'd have to kill you (Thanks Mad Max for the path forward) and would then probably receive more bad press!
  • fishlessman,
    Sounds like you've got it figured out!

  • drbbq,
    If Max gets the first book, I want to be invited to the first TV Show.[p]CWM

  • Eggsellent,
    When did you graduate?? I finished in '88.

  • Bobby-Q,After trading stock options for 20 years I quit and opened up a BBQ store with my nephew. Now in addition to cooking on the BGE I sell them too.

  • Bobby-Q,
    Thiry years in the custom woodworking game...forestmillwork.com

  • Painter
    Painter Posts: 464
    Bobby-Q,
    As my handle implies, I'm an automotive painting technician.
    Started out 32 years ago. Owned my own with a partner for 19 years and someone made us an offer we couldnt refuse and sold out.
    I then went to work at my present location for another owner 5 years ago. Waiting for the day to tell them to take this place and shove it and relax on the back porch and play in my garden and answer to no one. (except the wify of course).
    Bob

  • Bobby-Q,
    Good question. I started in the family grocery business. Then into the Army in 1960 to learn a good trade (Morse Code). Then back to the family business. Then in the Navy to learn a good trade (teletype). Then to LSU on the GI Bill. Then to computer programming school in 1970. Then to Wells Fargo Armored Service as a district manager in Florida. Then a VP at a truck driver leasing company. Then to Ryder as a safety director in Daytona Beach. Then to another driver leasing company in Texas. Then as a consultant to transportation. Then a headhunter for a Houston company. Now I'm my own boss as a headhunter working from home about twenty feet from my large Egg. I can have Egged food for breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks. Life is gud. Also make wood model trucks ($1,000 each). Looking at getting a motor home and coming to see every one of you wonderful Eggheads.[p]Spring Chicken
    Spring Texas USA

  • Bobby-Q, just a lowly ole insurance man. the wife is the insurance woman around here. we're a team. mom & pop. all that good stuff. Anybody wana buy an agency?

  • Nature Boy,
    One of them Artistic types, heh?? ;)

  • Bobby-Q,
    My simple answer is, "anything I want to...." ;)
    My main source of income is the law firm I own, although I don't practice actively any more. The firm centers it's practice in the area of Workers' Compensation, representing only injured workers (We wear the white hats). Our firm is very technologically advanced for it's size, and we've spun off a computer consulting business where we do a good bit of perl and PHP code writing. We mess around with linux and VoIP, and try to look into anything new that comes down the pike. [p]In the past, I've owned a restaurant where I ran the kitchen on weekends, and my wife ran the front of the house. I have a quasi commercial kitchen at home, and still help out at a local high end restaurant when they're busy. I've also been the partner in a construction business and wasn't shy about swinging a hammer ;) So, like I said, anything I want to ;)

  • Bobby-Q,[p]actuary in the reinsurance biz
  • Nature Boy
    Nature Boy Posts: 8,687
    Dr_Redwine,
    Yup. Freaky really. Dad was an engineer, and Mom always has things in their place. I'm a right brainer all the way. It is a struggle for me to stay organized enough to try and run two businesses...one that I am learning about on the fly. Too many ideas, and not enough skills to implement them all. Havin fun though...mostly.[p]Environmental engineer sounds like something for a next life. You get outside a lot? :-)
    Chris

    DizzyPigBBQ.com
    Twitter: @dizzypigbbq
    Facebook: Dizzy Pig Seasonings
    Instagram: @DizzyPigBBQ
  • Toe 49
    Toe 49 Posts: 193
    Bobby-Q,
    I recently moved from the town I lived in all my life and moved in, with my wife, with my mother-in-law. She was in an accident in September of '03 so we made the move to help her out with daily activities/life etc. I figured leaving my job, my town and taking on additional requirements, I'd start my own business, Drew Drafting & Design. Ive been busy but also some struggling, and the boss is a JERK!!! So, here I am finally checking into the BGE website as I take a break from designing a 5 person, one family house!! I also love listening to Sonia Dada or the Allman Brothers when Egging.

  • Bobby-Q,
    I have been a construction worker all my life. I have constructed everything from elevators, nuclear power plants to what I have done for the past 23 years, building bridges. I built my first Harley-Davidson, into the radio control flying, and built a lot of furniture in my house.
    I love sex too. lol[p]Jerry

  • Dr_Redwine,
    '92 over here - WAR EAGLE!!!!

  • Toy Man
    Toy Man Posts: 416
    I used to work for a food manufacturer.[p]The food gets old quick, no matter how good it is.
    You tend to gobble it up at first and then never want to
    see/taste any again.[p]Toy Man

  • Bobby-Q,
    Programmer for slot machine and online poker software design company. We also dabble in resort management in Belize.[p]IT isn't so boring when you work in a casino in Guatemala City or a sports book in Juarez Mexico, or a resort in Belize, or...

  • Grumpa
    Grumpa Posts: 861
    Bobby-Q,[p]I count other people's money for a living and protect them from the the IRS who likes to take it away from them.[p]Just a senior bean counter.[p]Some day I want to be a nudist just like the naked whiz :~)

  • Toy Man
    Toy Man Posts: 416
    Been a full time computer type for over 30 years. Just soft of fell into it and have always loved it. Was an electron pusher before that. [p]Been The PC MAN since 1989. Just do 4 days a week and you have to know someone to find me.[p]My business card says Windows Witch Doctor and I make Windows work - well at least most of the time.[p]Toy Man
  • Toe 49,
    You New Englander's love Southern Rock..... The best Allman Brothers show i have ever seen was at Great Woods near Boston, and the only thing that made it better than others, was crowd enthusiasm... Go figure, us Southerners love Phish... what's up with that?

  • Eggsellent,
    Its GREAT to be an Auburn Tiger!!!

  • Nature Boy,
    Not a great deal, but some. Probably not enough for your taste!!! Clients are more demanding everyday and I don't blame them. I make way more than I'm worth. ;) I struggle at times with organization myself. Drawing is my God-given talent...so maybe I'm a little right-brained myself.
    Brian

  • djm5x9
    djm5x9 Posts: 1,342
    billy the pig:[p]That is some nice wood work . . .

  • For my "real" job, I'm a tropical fish farmer, and have been for 20 years... before that spent several years in the retail pet business.[p]Also have my own business (for the past 10 years) that makes model rocket kits and supplies, etc (http://www.asp-rocketry.com).[p]- Andy
  • PapaQ
    PapaQ Posts: 170
    Bobby-Q,[p]Spent a couple years in the Army, practiced law for ten years, was a trial court judge for twenty-three years, and raised twelve wonderful kids along the way. My wife did a lot of traveling in her work (director of and international child welfare agency for thirty-two years), so I did quite a bit of single parenting while the kids were home. I retired at the end of last year and now work sixty days a year as a substitute judge. The rest of the time is spent cooking, fishing, judging bbq contests and playing with my nineteen grandchildren. It's been great and is getting better.[p]Paul

  • wfd146
    wfd146 Posts: 36
    Protecting lives and property for the City of Wilmington, Delaware. I've been a career firefighter for almost 6 years, and currently assigned to Engine Company 1. I love my job!!![p]Mike
  • wfd146
    wfd146 Posts: 36
    Protecting lives and property for the City of Wilmington, Delaware. I've been a career firefighter for almost 6 years, and currently assigned to Engine Company 1. I love my job!!![p]Mike