Work?

Joined the Air Force as a young man and I spent the next 25 yrs flying for a living. I retired to a job that saw me move into military flight test (The FTE in my name is Flight Test Engineer). It was a great job but too much time from home - I had already done that gig and it is terribly hard on a family never mind the fact that they always managed to schedule flight test during hunting season.
So I took a position with DND to do project management for various Air Force fleets. Its not exciting but in a small way it helps to ensure young men and women get what they need to do the missions they are assigned.
So now I spend my days flying a desk, pining for the outdoors. My goal is to get to a point of semi-retirement so I can spend my days building out of wood when I am not hunting or fishing with my young fella.

I have a Certificate of Apprenticeship in Tool and Die, I worked almost 4 years at a tool and die/plastic extrusion shop as an apprentice before it closed down when SHTF in 2008 (just shy of my necessary hours to go write my COQ Test). We specialized in vacuum extrusion dies making plastic frames for windows, sliding doors, weather stripping.
Since 2010 I have been working at a place called Farmbro in Mississauga that does work vehicle upfitting. We install caps and tonneau covers, running boards, trailer hitches etc on pickup trucks, we also do the Canada Post transit delivery vans, Uhaul pickup trucks and cargo vans, Canadian Pacific Hi Rail trucks to drive on the train tracks and do inspections and maintenance. We even convert small buses and ambulances from up north to be 4x4.

Quite the diverse group of people we've got here. Well id like to say thanks to everyone from the men in the military and at the DND to the guys testing fresh air ;) The country runs on folks like you, stay golden :goodstuff:

Lab tech. Nothin' fancy. Pays the bills, good benefits, lots of holidays now after 17 years and keeps me in my hometown close to family and friends. My commute is a whopping 6 minutes. The only downside is shift work.

nurse lol not many of those on here lol

Every morning I get into my Prius,fight crazy traffic to serve up lattes to urban idiots at Starbucks.
NOT!
Retired,live in God's country.My job involves tracking weather patterns that may affect my fishing.

and just found out one of the guys who replied ( sent hima PM ) Is a tenant in one of our buildings we bought in recent years.

small world.

Market gardener and maple syrup producer.

Electronics Technician/Instrumentation by training. Also had a Gas Fitter and PC Repair Tech. Spent quite a bit of time as a student and recent college grad as a contract labourer in the mining service industry. I spent a year as an installation/service tech for a local consumer electronics company installing/servicing home theatre, satellite TV, and car audio until the company folded. Got on with a multi-national mining corporation 18 years ago. I spent 15 years in the converter aisle working with molten metal and now I am running a 60ton overhead crane moving 20-35 tons of molten metal around the building, working 12 hour shifts with 4&6 days off at a time.

My education has ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with my job aside from getting my foot in the door. Lots of time off for the outdoors.

If everything goes according to plan, 12 years from now, I will switch careers and become a fresh air inspector as well.

i also have a side career teaching my four girls, 11-19 years old as well as two nephews, 16 years and 14 months, to hunt and fish and camp and enjoy and respect the great outdoors. That is my most important career, IMHO.

Oh man i cant wait till i'm a fresh air inspector !