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Nice work. It is difficult to determine the specific polarizing coefficient tensor for the aligning vectors. I am duly impressed.
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Last Saturday was my last night as a police officer. I’d been so employed since 1968.
Spent 10 years with the local county police, and over 40 with the campus police at a major university here in St. Louis. Mind, I’m not exactly retired; I took the “service officer” position as a sort of retirement job. The service officer does car starts, lockouts, door alarms...All sorts of mundane jobs so that the police officers don’t get tied up doing them. No gun.... I just carry a can of pepper spray and my radio.... So I feel a lot lighter now. I think it’s been a pretty good ride. Never shot anyone, no “brutality” complaints, no scandals. |
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no “brutality” complaints, no scandals.
Sorry you felt like you had to say that and thanks for being a police officer... stay safe in your semi-retirement -Mike |
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30+ years as a manufacturing engineer, making auto parts, speakers, motorcycle parts, turbos, guns, tools.....it's been a good time. Teaching part time at the community college now too.
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Great thread!
Current: VP of Sales for a diagnostic imaging company. Prior years, of which there have been many : Tennis Instructor Sales (Industrial) Sales (Healthcare) Sales Trainer (Healthcare) Sales Manager (Healthcare) Caregiver (mom and dad) Business Owner (real estate) It’s been a road...some better than others, but hands down the very best (and hardest) were the years I took care of my folks.
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I am a jack of all trades and master of none. It started by joining the Navy out of high school and doing odd jobs during and after college:
Roadie (the job that ruined me off of becoming a professional musician) Custodian (sweeping, mopping, polishing, plumbing) Security Guard (everybody stands watch and it's usually extremely boring, especially during the overnights) Maintenance Man (cleaning and maintaining firefighting equipment) Professional Painter (usually dangling from a harness with an industrial strength spray rig) Firefighter (with aviation crash and salvage training) Aviation ground crew (chock and chain detail) Landscaper Busboy Light Industrial Worker (assembly line/shipping & receiving) Records Warehouse Auditor for Social Security (summer employment where we basically purged the files of dead people but it still required a civil service examination) Blood Plasma Donor (don't judge, I was putting myself through college and needed money for groceries and automobile expenses - and yes, social spending and alcohol. The GI Bill and grants took care of my student expenses.) Freelance Graphic Artist (3D Illustration with a focus on architectural renderings and interior design; sort of an extended internship that grew directly from my senior thesis in digital media in advertising and marketing. This predated social media for self promotion and high speed Internet access for more efficient delivery of services so when I moved for economic reasons work dried up) Data Entry clerk in billing, accounts receivable, loan processing (various temp jobs I held when my first freelance efforts proved fruitless) Desktop Publisher/Digital Typesetter (a temporary but very technical position that went permanent but I eventually lost that job to a corporate merger and subsequent downsizing) Mortgage Loan Processing clerk and coordinator (sort of a go-between been the bank underwriters, property appraisers and government insurance agencies such as HUD/FHA and the VA. It provided me with the opportunity to learn all the ins and outs of MicroSoft Office and enroll in an MS certification program for website design and administration.) Freelance Graphic Designer (brochure and flyer design but job went uncompensated due to an ethically challenged client that subsequently soured me on doing freelance work without some sort of advocacy and legal represenation) Web Designer (I also maintained a web site for the same ethically challenged client) Website and email Administrator (even after the same ethically challenged client hired another designer who wouldn't pester him to pay his bills he strung me along because technically *my* name and billing information was on the service contract with the ISP. "The Art of the Deal," as it were.) Though I worked a lot of jobs I would say that none lasted longer than 3 years so they never became a career. Now I'm a stay at home dad and homemaker (which needs to be called something else entirely, though my interpretation of it does also include carpentry, plumbing, and light electrical.) Since my eldest has a developmental delay, I was also his nurse/caretaker (sometimes more than 20 hours each day with some parent training in ABA as well as using my former clerical experience to advocate for him with various government agencies, charities, schools, institutions and sometimes even law enforcement. So yeah, when people look at me and ask "what do you do?" I usually brush it off as an attempt for people to talk down on me. Most couldn't walk a mile in my shoes. I suppose I could blame myself for being a "ship without a rudder" but I count myself lucky that I married up. My wife's career has been steady and she just broke into the executive level with over 25 years of experience in IT. |
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I worked as a teenager in two marinas. The first stint was the dirty work (washing boats, cutting grass, painting boat bottoms, etc.). The second was working for a Bertram Yacht dealer rigging 28’-58’ sport fishing boats. That was fun for the most part and I got to run the boats, pretty cool for someone 19-21 years old. Graduated with a BSME and worked for Chevron in a plant that manufactured lube oil and gasoline additives. Was the primary mechanical engineer for the unit that manufactured the Chevron’s very effective gasoline additive that (dirty secret) the other oil companies bought and used in their gasoline blends. Broke out from that to become a manufacturer’s representative for companies making dry bulk solids processing equipment. It’s one of the best small business models you can have since the overhead/operating costs are low. If you work hard, you can do well financially and it always seems fun. 31 years later, I’m an owner/partner, looking to retire in 6-8 years.
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Hey Dru; Thanks for the welcome back. You made me smile with your comment regarding detecting deception. In the profession it became easy to identify who was most likely the one hiding factual information while interviewing them. Likewise when just hanging out with others in a casual environment, it is sometimes best to try to ignore some things. haha... I will say though that I gained a lot of satisfaction being able to conduct polygraph examinations in law enforcement as well as privately. It is always a great feeling knowing that you played a part in seeing justice served for both, the innocent and the guilty. Have a good day my friend.
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Like just about everyone here, I did all sorts of odd jobs as a kid -- life guarding, lawn cutting. As an engineering student I did a lot of drafting and surveying work. I got a mechanical engineering degree in 1970. I first worked in aerospace for 3 years, then worked with the nuclear navy for 5 years for one of the main reactor plant prime contractors, including going through nuclear power school. At some point when I was working at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard I got an offer to work as chief engineer for a very small pump manufacturer in Washington state. So I gave that a try and ended up retiring from full time work from that company (now considerably larger) in 2016. I still work part time for that company remotely an average of 7-10 hours per week. I am so invested in that company after working with them for 42 years and I enjoy the work.
Being a "chief engineer" for a small manufacturing company involves work in just about every field there is: not just engineering, but advertising, sales, training, some finance work, and a fair amount of legal work with attorneys. (I have a fair number of patents.) I did a great deal of technical writing and wrote all our manuals. I had an interesting career. I do enjoy having a lot more time available for music these days now that I am retired from full time work. But I do miss the intensity and excitement of so much of the work I retired from. But... nothing lasts forever. Somewhere in the middle of my engineering career my wife and I started our own music business. She worked at this full time while I held my engineering job. Our family performed about 30 community concerts and school programs across the Pacific Northwest over about 7 years. Our 3 children were part of the show. I have enjoyed reading through this entire thread! It's interesting to read about the careers of so many people I know here from their forum names. - Glenn
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I was 33 years in law enforcement myself, with the largest sheriff's office in Nebraska (which wasn't really all that big...). I knew it was time to go when I had the best job on the department but just didn't much care anymore. Luckily, my pension was there for me and I was able to retire and turn my job over to my excellent sergeant, who got himself promoted and took over for me. It was a good ride and I could write a book about it. But I've been happily retired for 10 years now.
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