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Re: Whats is (or) was your occupation.
By: AhBuaya Date: July 1, 2016, 5:21 am
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After hearing some of your stories, I've got a suspicion that
you have the most fun out of all of us! Slightly green here.
:rolf:
[quote author=Mtnponygirl link=topic=3583.msg58807#msg58807
date=1467355133]
I have a short time before I'm back out on the fireline fighting
wildland fires in Montana. I work as a fire officer running a
Engine for a city fire department, spend most of my summer
deployed for wildland fires nation wide. I spent 16 yrs combined
in the Navy, Army and Coast Guard with my last 4 yrs as a rescue
swimmer, bootcamp three times is fun. After the military i
completed my RN and decided that was work, took a job as a
backcountry mtn guide in Montana and Colorado.Then fell into
this fire job, I have been doing this the last 12 yrs. life is
all about playing and having fun, still have not worked a day in
my life. Still a Kid
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Re: Whats is (or) was your occupation.
By: Mtnponygirl Date: July 1, 2016, 9:42 am
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Life is to short to spend it all working, I would rather get
payed to play for a living.
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Re: Whats is (or) was your occupation.
By: IceMaiden74 Date: July 1, 2016, 11:04 am
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After reading everyone else's not sure if I should tell about
mine. It's definitely not as glamorous but some have been
rewarding.
Starting working for my parents at their bakery while going to
high school. After my parents sold the business I started
working for their accountant. After a few years and no
advancement/raise went to a local boat factory and worked in the
upholstery dept. When one of the secretaries went out on
maternity leave I was moved into the office until she returned.
Then we moved to Florida.
Did a bunch of Temp work until I found Shands HomeCare where I
worked in the office moved around from Medical Records to
Receptionist/PoC Specialist to Coordinator's Assistant where I
scheduled the RN's, LPN's, PT, OT and CNA's with clients. After
they sold out to another company it went belly up. I got out
just in time too. Started working at a Senior Independent
Apartment complex as a receptionist and later became the
Administrator's Assistant where I processed federal housing aid
for those that lived there and qualified.
Got married and moved, tried a couple different jobs where the
company wasn't stable so I moved on. I found Marion Senior
Services and started as a Site manager then later moved into the
Meals department office where I oversaw 60 Volunteers and 10
Paid drivers with the Meals on Wheels Program here in Marion
County.
Currently I am a Mary Kay Consultant as well as my director's
personal assistant. We just finished our year yesterday as one
of the top 20 units in our division and one of the top 100 of
the company :girl:
#Post#: 58859--------------------------------------------------
Re: Whats is (or) was your occupation.
By: guest565 Date: July 1, 2016, 11:07 am
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I'm a marketing and broker support manager for a Medicare
approved sales office. In my spare time I play tanks and
handcraft light sabers, I'm saving my money for a new lathe, not
cheap and has me restless with no hobby other than gaming right
now.
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Re: Whats is (or) was your occupation.
By: Knight of Annwn Date: July 1, 2016, 2:17 pm
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[quote author=ta2dflip link=topic=3583.msg58859#msg58859
date=1467389233]
I'm a marketing and broker support manager for a Medicare
approved sales office. In my spare time I play tanks and
handcraft light sabers, I'm saving my money for a new lathe, not
cheap and has me restless with no hobby other than gaming right
now.
[/quote]
Ohhh one of my favourite items I have a couple of the original
Hasbro ones... what kind of Light Sabers do you make...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIDeOYSmQ1w
HTML http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIDeOYSmQ1w
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Re: Whats is (or) was your occupation.
By: guest355 Date: July 2, 2016, 1:52 am
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" what kind of Light Sabers do you make...? " I was wondering
about that myself. What type of lathe? manual or CNC ?
I currently just fitted my Quick turn mini lathe ( 9" x 14" @
$500.00 ) with a controller and CNC conversion kit ($500.00 ),
turning my manual mini into a table top 9" x 14" CNC lathe for
about $1200.00, and it works very well.
I also added to All 3 CNC routers I have, a stepper rotatory
head allowing for Mill, Drill, and turning all in-one machine.
The 3 heads can be set up on just 1 CNC router for gang cutting.
I have a job coming up I plan to use this set up on, to reduce
my time and cost by machining 3 bars at a time. I am half way
with building my mounts to hold all 3 router heads on the
machine. Basically converting a CNC router into a tracer mill
with rotatory capabilities or (3) A-axis on one machine, each
with its own router head per A-axis. This is just the test faze
to prove it out.
If this works then I have enough room for 6 A-axis and 6 router
heads on each machine. Each bar would have 50 parts, @ 6 bars
would be 300 parts per 9 minute machine cycle. Roughly 1900 +
parts an hour. My goal is no less then 12,000 parts a day, with
3 CNC router set up the same, about 38,000 + parts total for 6.5
hours a day. Each order is for 500K pieces, there are 10
variations of this part that work together in assembly, roughly
5 million parts a year. It would take less than 100 working days
( or 650 hours ) to complete 5 million parts. Best part, each of
the 10 parts would use the same set-up and tools, only part
program would change.
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Re: Whats is (or) was your occupation.
By: Maddog STS Date: July 2, 2016, 2:19 pm
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Wow, Ken2, I wished you lived closer! I'd have work for you.
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Re: Whats is (or) was your occupation.
By: AhBuaya Date: July 2, 2016, 4:20 pm
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Yeah! I need an new custom muzzle brake for my shotgun.
[quote author=Maddog STS link=topic=3583.msg58957#msg58957
date=1467487152]
Wow, Ken2, I wished you lived closer! I'd have work for you.
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Re: Whats is (or) was your occupation.
By: guest355 Date: July 3, 2016, 3:56 pm
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Sorry, had not been back on since that post. Maddog STS you
need something, send be drawing and such, let me know what you
need. I live just outside of Pittsburgh PA. but I do work for
people from cost to cost. Most of my jobs are from the steal
mills in the Pitt-Ohio area. I do contract work for PCC corp,
Richards Group corp, and II-VI corp. No projects are to small. I
still do costume bike builds, fab work, and support costume
parts from Jr. drags to dirt track racing. I am aware of your
work, If you need help let me know. If I can help contact me at
kentechnology@aol.com.
Over the years I have collected a lot of equipment with the
intent of my own shop. Due to health problems over the past 2
years, it has basically forced me out of my trade as an employee
( They frown on you toting around oxygen tanks in the shops, and
long visits to the hospitals ). One week I was working 80 hours
a week next thing I knew I was never going to work again.
So the best thing I know to do, use my knowledge and skills to
supplement my lose of income due to being disabled, turning on
it with my middle finger in the air, kick the system in the
balls, and just do my own thing. I hate being on disability, it
sucks!!! Max income on disability I can make is $17,800. "
WTF!!! ". How can anyone live on that these days. I made more
then that my senor year in high school.
So 3 of my five kids have become journeymen machinist, so I am
doing this as much for them then for myself. My wife works with
me, running and operating my machines as I need, bless her
heart. She was a certified automotive mechanic for more then 30
yrs. and raised the kids at her dads shop. At 51 she still
cranks the wrenches! I have never quit on anything, I do not
plan on starting now. Just deal with the adversities of life as
they come.
Recently the way we have been working is, I take on the jobs,
develop the process and setup ; tooling, programs, quality
control, FEAM report, part development with customer engineers,
and such. I start out the jobs and let the kids follow me up
feeding of my knowledge, as well as understanding the business
end, so one day when I am not around they will take over. They
watch out for me making sure I do not over do it, yet allow me
to continue my passions .
#Post#: 59012--------------------------------------------------
Re: Whats is (or) was your occupation.
By: Maddog STS Date: July 3, 2016, 8:48 pm
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PM sent :grin:
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