What do you/did you do for a living?

[jazzereh]

Broker, as in stocks, and financial planner [CFP]. Been retired for many years

[raysachs]

Land Use and Transportation Planner for my whole career. Some private, some public sector. Been retired for a few years now.

-Ray

[hubcapsc]

I was the Unix system administrator at Clemson University back in the 80s, I
worked there with Unix and Linux for 35 years. In the end I worked on a team
that got a kernel module upstream in Linux, and now I work part-time as the
maintainer of that module...

-Mike

[Jack852]

Divorce Lawyer.

[offkey]

I have been a commercial beekeeper for 40 years this last summer. Producing honey in Minnesota in the summer and pollinating almonds in California come winter/spring. I will sell my bees in a month and then I can help my two sons work their bees.

[hairpuller]

School teacher.

scott

[Ozzy the dog]

Originally Posted by offkey

I have been a commercial beekeeper for 40 years this last summer. Producing honey in Minnesota in the summer and pollinating almonds in California come winter/spring. I will sell my bees in a month and then I can help my two sons work their bees.

That's got to be one of the best jobs in the world.

[Nymuso]

Comes up from time to time.

Retired CRNA. Recently got the RN portion of my license back, but must await COVID vaccination before I can jump back in.

[srick]

Dentist .

[birdsong]

Museum curator of ornithology ("we're the dead bird people"). I do research, studying live birds. I do a lot of education and mentoring. We're encouraged to affiliate with universities. I co-advised grad students in the past past; undergrads and teens the last 10 years. We're a very public state institution and birds are popular so I also give a lot of public programs.

I've been fortunate to either do research or co-lead tours in 9 other countries.

33 years. We have a decent defined pension and I could retire but with some ongoing medical/dental I'm holding on a bit until things are "stable" and I am closer to Medicare. Maybe 2 more to help with what's coming on the dental front (our medical insurance is still pretty decent).

For 10 of those 33 years, I was also a part-time skydiving instructor. Mostly as a "tandem" instructor.

So for my adult life I've been paid fairly well to do my hobbies. It always drove my Mom crazy ...... she always wanted me to learn a real skill. We always got a good laugh when I would call her.

John

[ifret]

Retired CPA, State Auditor.
In retirement, producer of Michigan Pure Maple Syrup.

[Lauren_WarEagle]

Children’s librarian, going on 7 years now. It’s a fun gig!

[buddyhu]

Retired psychologist. Great career! Very gratifying to spend many years helping people of all types. But demanding, and intermittently pretty stressful. Being retired is quite pleasant, and not stressful.

[dougdnh]

Computer analyst/programmer for 25 years, part time musician.

[Mr. Jelly]

I managed two plants for GELITA a international gelatin manufacture for 32 years. Then I semi retired and worked for a city art center. I fully retired and I'm still trying to figure out what I'm supposed to do.