"What does your daddy do..."

[tackb]

Currently a surface coal miner, running the trucks 240 ton and 320 ton class, motor graders from the antique 16g to the 24M, have also ran D11T and rubber tire dozer 834k. former as you would say HVG driver, former rail car repairman, a bit of time in the oil patch roustabout. My start in life was the USMC 16 years of service.

D11T uses about 400 gallons of diesel a shift - those polar bears are not going to kill themselves !

 

[bobo]

Trained as a toolmaker many years ago.
Now:
Works with the composition of metal alloys and precision forming of sheet metal in various metal alloys.
Mostly for things that are either heavily pressurized or fly.

 

[75]

I'm sort of between roles to be honest. I still have a job but they don't know quite what to do with me at the minute! I'm just off the back of a couple of years supporting an integration at a big US based multinational defence and energy contractor so plenty of trips to the US (got a BA Gold card and enough air miles for a free business class flight to the US which took the sting out of this year's family hols!). I've been here 15 years so have seen a few different roles (mainly UK nuclear industry tbh) so it will be interesting to see where I land this time (hopefully not with a P45).

 

[Mike1979]

I'm sort of between roles to be honest. I still have a job but they don't know quite what to do with me at the minute! I'm just off the back of a couple of years supporting an integration at a big US based multinational defence and energy contractor so plenty of trips to the US (got a BA Gold card and enough air miles for a free business class flight to the US which took the sting out of this year's family hols!). I've been here 15 years so have seen a few different roles (mainly UK nuclear industry tbh) so it will be interesting to see where I land this time (hopefully not with a P45).

Interesting ... and here was us thinking you just shot deer for a living

 

[Tim.243]

Trained as a toolmaker many years ago.
Now:
Works with the composition of metal alloys and precision forming of sheet metal in various metal alloys.
Mostly for things that are either heavily pressurized or fly.

Started on a manual Bridgeport .200" lead screw no dro/power feed lol in 77, went to the Drager facility where they took a cylinder way past the test pressure with it failing around 500 bar lol

 

[tackb]

Trained as a toolmaker many years ago.
Now:
Works with the composition of metal alloys and precision forming of sheet metal in various metal alloys.
Mostly for things that are either heavily pressurized or fly.

is your son prime minister?

 

[75]

Interesting ... and here was us thinking you just shot deer for a living

Haha, nope - “real” job pays the bills.

 

[Mike1979]

Haha, nope - “real” job pays the bills.

So very true .... alas.

 

[andy R204]

Retired worked for military intelligence

2 words combined that can't make sense

 

[The Singing Stalker]

It will be interesting to see if the claims with Sodium Ion are actually true in the real world...lithium has had close to 40 years of development. Lots of other technology out there...just the usual cost, cycle life, depth of discharge etc etc.

Good job all the AI data centres we will need don't use much power...or water

Sodium has been around since the 70's, there main issues were, if I remember correctly, heat, they generated lots of it, and storage, as they are about 25% less storage kg for kg.
However, they don’t appear to explode or go into thermal overload, and they would also be very good in applications needing cold usage, think coldstores and Norway in the winter as they are a lot less affected by the temperature.

 

[kenbro]

I'm a wood butcher.
A talented one, so I'm told

What’s knot to like?

 

[ion]

I took the **** for most of my working life! More properly known as sampling racehorses as a member of the equine forensic unit.

 

[ion]

Guess the word! Join together the letters P I S and S

 

[Tugmanade]

Retired Merchant Navy, started off deep sea then on to coasters before starting on tugs in 1987, ended up as skipper then training master. Very lucky as it never felt like a job, just playing with big boys toys for the most part.

 

[Bo Diddley]

What’s knot to like?

I see what you did there Kenbro... a play on words , sharp as a razor me

 

[bobo]

Started on a manual Bridgeport .200" lead screw no dro/power feed lol in 77, went to the Drager facility where they took a cylinder way past the test pressure with it failing around 500 bar lol

Those were the times, the young people today are surprised when they see what we could do with manual machines and a file.

Actually working, among other things, on a Dräger project right now.
Dräger has several huge orders for the German military's rearmament, we are one of the companies they have chosen to get help from.

 

[mammoth200]

I'm a quality engineer. I find other people's mistakes for a living - which, frankly, is the only field where being annoyingly pedantic is considered a core competency. Sometimes I even go as far as fixing those mistakes.

Has somehow enabled me to travel the world though, which I can't complain about!

 

[Scotty99]

I’m retired now, 11 years retired in fact. I used to be an IT Executive for American IT Serviced Companies.

 

[HonestJohn]

My wife is a consultant in delivering high end stone supply solutions to luxury developments and skyscrapers. The girls used to say her job was ‘digging up the road’, as she needs to wear a hard hat and viz vest in the quarries bless them

 

[NP435]

Those were the times, the young people today are surprised when they see what we could do with manual machines and a file.

Actually working, among other things, on a Dräger project right now.
Dräger has several huge orders for the German military's rearmament, we are one of the companies they have chosen to get help from.

In my youth I made from octagonal bar stock two chisels shaped entirely with a file.