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Location: Wind lake, Wi | what is your normal job consist of? I am a carpenter in the Milw. area. I've been at this company for the past four years. I mostly do commercial jobs, the job consists of framing walls (steel studs) drywall,suspended ceilings, vct floor tile, hanging doors and putting all the hardware on them, cabinets/countertops and many other smaller misc. items to boot.
Before this company, I was a rough/finish carpenter for another local company for seven years. I've worked on high-end homes and many 8-56 family condo projects. I think I enjoyed this line of work better than the commercial projects I'm currently on, just for the fact that it was outside work and I like working/being outdoors. I was a foreman for 3 years before leaving this company and always think to myself "why did I leave".
If anyone has any questions for a carpenter just let me know and I'll see if I can help you out. So, what do you guys do for a normal job? |
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Location: Lincoln Park, Mi | I'm generally a paint formulator and master color technician. Unfortunately, due to our economic conditions, I'm doing whatever it takes to pay the bills. Currently, I'm working for a paint applicator redoing shutdown auto plants. Pretty cool job and I'm finally getting over my fear of heights by working off of lifts all day. And it pays better!
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Location: blue mounds,wisc | im a drywall contractor. i work on custom built homes in and around madison. i have done homes for some very important people. in the past i have had contracts on homes that were in the millions of dollars.i recently completed the third home for football coach barry alverez. this business has helped me to be able to travel the country in pursuit of walleye.i allways say its a dirty job but somebody has to do it,and i do it well |
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Location: Essexville, MI./Saginaw Bay. | Retired GM foundry worker.
25 years of Pouring/Stacking Grey/Nodular Iron V-8 V-6 L-4 engine blocks, transmissions carriers, crankshafts, steering knuckles, water pumps, yokes, break discs, heads to all motor types, camshafts, manifiolds and a 100 jobs and parts I forgot in-between. If you own a GM car/truck older than 1996, odds are good I had a hand somewhere in making it's motor or drive train. Retired when I was 43.
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Location: Manitowoc, WI | I am the glowboy, a.k.a. nuclear physicist at everyone's favorite power plant, Point Beach Nuclear. I've been doing this for 21 years, the first 8 as a contractor for Westinghouse Nuclear, the next 8 years for ComEd at Zion, IL and the last 5 1/2 years at Point Beach. The job offers enough challenges from day to day to make it enjoyable, but I sure would like to win some major cash in the walleye game and retire!!! |
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Location: Byron, IL | I am a Second Shift Technical Repair Team and Shipping Department Manager at Motorola in Rockford, Illinois. We will be moving to Elgin, Illinois in a couple of weeks where, I found out today, that I will be taking a different department. At least I will be on First Shift... |
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| Larry said:
"i allways say its a dirty job but somebody has to do it,and i do it well"
You were talking about fishing, or the dry wall work?!!LOL LOL LOL
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Location: Annandale, MN | Mechanical design engineer...I have my own design company, going on 4 years. A brief example of my handy-work, a number of the products on Otter Outdoors website were designed by me. Fun stuff....:D Jon
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| I work for a major automotive parts maker as a test engineer and research technician. |
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Location: Cupar, Saskatchewan, Canada | Still in high school and working at a boat dealership. |
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| I was originally trained in formal french dining, both here in the U.S. and in France. I was Maitre'D of Le`Cafe Royale, in the L`Hotel Sofitel, which is the formal dinning room in the first French hotel built in America. During the 17 years I was a manager, I had the opportunity to serve many famous people including the President of the U.S.A., Princess Grace of Monaco, Sofia Loren, The King and Queen of Norway, as well as a number of other celebrities from the entertainment industry. I walked away from that line of work because the little time I did have to fish was not enough, so I said....to hell with it, I'm going fishing till the day I die. Now I own and operate my own small guide service and during the winter months I wait tables in a suburban upscale yet casual restaurant. Every year about mid April the owner, who has been a friend of mine for a number of years says he'll keep my position open for me till I get back from fishing. I hope to expand my guiding work to include the Florida Gulf coast during the winter months in a couple years.
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Location: blue mounds,wisc | jack, you should start a thread on french cooking. start it off with a walleye suffley. recomend what color of wine to have with different types of fish. and then put up some receipes for some desserts. and yes i do fish well,and have a dirty but successfull company... friend!!! |
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| Welcome perchjerker! I just realized you were here. Great to see you found your way over for a bit. Glad to have you. |
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I read "One Minute Manager". So now I go fishing. |
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Location: Bay City, MI | Mechanical Design Engineer here. Started my career in Michigan, moved south to Tennessee for a number of years, moved back when I realized just how bad the ice fishing was ;). |
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| I manufacture fishing tackle, full time fishing guide and plow snow. Good thing for the tackle business because the snow plowing down here this year wasn't much. Hutch |
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Location: Upper Sandusky Ohio | My primary job is as a Production Supervisor in an Injection, and Blow Molding facility in Tiffin Ohio. As side interests I Charter fishing trips, and train Coonhounds.
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| I was in the trucking and warehousing business in Hartland Wi. but for financial reasons, I no longer work there :). I keep thinking that fishing is my life, but I now find myself working as a Business Broker with Metropolitan Business Brokers. We have a good office that will provide service to our customers and still get me in the boat.
Take care,
Jim O
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Location: Wind lake, Wi | Hey jim O. how have you been? I thought you would of stayed on the retirement scene!! When we getting out with the ole' kiss again? Can we catch the big ones this time? hehehe!! He knows where they are!! Take care!! |
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Location: Lincoln Park, Mi | I noticed in one of your e-mails that you were near Findlay. I used to do tech service and formulate paint products for what is probably your competition. Ohio Plastics? |
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Location: Rhinelander | I am a Sales manager, do some guiding, work a few shows, and do some consulting. Fishing and the fishing industry has been my living in one way or another since 1979. |
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Location: Upper Sandusky Ohio | Did you ever do anything for Worthington Industries, what is known now as Blackhawk Automotive?? I worked with them for about 12 years.
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Location: princeton Il. | I,m an operating engineer, fancy word for heavy equipment operator in a silicon carbide plant.I work outside year round. Been there for 25 years and I am only 43. Still alot of years to go till retirement. I am also a partime caretaker-maintanance man at a 150 acre church camp just down the road from my house. |
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Location: Sth/side Chicago | Communications Electrician, IBEW local 134. |
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Location: princeton Il. | For got,I am also the designer and owner of the boat trailer step at www.ezeestep.com |
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Location: Lincoln Park, Mi | Sounds familiar but I don't recall doing any work for them. |
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| eyefever,
One of the things I love about ole Kiss is that he is always positve that we will catch fish, no matter how badly they beat us up. And, of course there is the constant entertainment value (diving competition at the last website outing, and actually coming up with those keys... unbelievable)
Take care,
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Location: Berlin | My family owns J Stadler Machine Inc on 20th just past the pepsi plant in Oshkosh. My dad, brother and I run it and we currently have around 35 employees. It is because of this buisness that I was able to give tournament fishing a go. If any of you are in the nieghborhood, stop in and say hi. |
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besides fishing.........