I know what some of the members do for a living on this forum, so what kind of work do the rest of you do ?
Bob
Self employed concrete business here Bob. Mostly driveways, basement floors, polebarns and some decorative colored pours. Also do concrete overlays, giving existing concrete a new look.
In the winter I bring home the deer meat for food and shoot coyotes for the camera!!
JD
Im a printer I print meat and cheese packaging,like hotdog wrappers, lunch meat, cheese bags,bird bags all kinds of stuff. :biggrin:
Independant Contractor by trade; Wick buildings, ag buildings, free stalls, milking parlors, new homes. Been working construction since I was 15. Been self employed 13 years...took a year in the middle there and went to work for Cabela's...that didn't work.
And of course there's the tannery, been doing that for 12 years.
I own a small Tool & Die business. I've been in Tool and die since I graduated high school in 1982. I started my own shop in 1990 and have been self employed since.
My wife and I also started a self storage business two years ago on our property that the Tool & Die business is on. So far so good with that. We have two 4000 square foot storage buildings and plan on a third in the spring.
General contractor for homes and have a roofing,hardwood floors, and trim business
Is there as good money as people say in those storage buildings Lee?
I know thay are getting real popular.
I've contemplated throwing some figures together to put one up. Land would be a problem for me.
Jim,
If you are in a good location and the market is not saturated, it is a very good business to be in.
Right now the rental income pays the mortgage on the property, the orginal building and the two storage buildings. We're at 65% occupancy and should be near 90% by winter. At that point we will have additional cash flow to live off of. Any more buildings we add will generate more than twice what they add to the payment. We hope to have eight or possibly even more buildings on the property in the next ten years. The best part is the value of an income property when it's all done.
If the opportunity presents itself for you, by all means, do it.
I can give you some pointers on getting started and tell you some things we've learned if you do decide to try it at some point.
Definitely...and I appreciate it.
I run the Maint Dept And Changeover Dept for Pepsi Cola bottling plant here local. Been here for 13 years or so now.
I also manage and help my dad run a construction deal.
I started building turkey calls back in the early 90's and built a good business then sold out to a bigger company. I then started over in the Predator call end of the business. In the last couple years I have been building the company and expanded into video's, and other deals. I am trying to make a go of this now.
I also guide some in the hunting seasons.
Brent
Shift Supervisor in the "Adult Day Care" business for the state of Alaska. Signed on for the week on, week off schedule and the 20 year retirement, which means only eight years to go. Anything else with the job, to include pay, is a bonus to me.
My part time sometimes full time job is predator call collecting. :innocentwhistle:
I work on downhole oilwell pumps. Started when I was 16 and working summers. Got tired of working the hours and drawing a salary. Opened my own business doing the same in 93. My son just graduated and is working with me. That is probably the highlight of my career.
Tool pusher on a directional oil drilling rig. We go into existing straight holes and drill out the short radius laterals. They run anywhere from 1000 to 5000 ft.
It's a 24 hr operation. I'm out there for 7 days, then off for 7. I'm responsible for three 4 man crews and all the equipment.
The majority of the cash coming in is going to upgrades. This rig I work on is one of the first lateral rigs that went to work in the Williston Basin. Up untill a just recently, we've been getting by on the mostly the same old junk that was origionally pieced together for the beginning project. Now I have at my disposal not one, but two, brand new $500,000 pumps. Upgrades are continuous. The oil companies are continualy adding to their drilling budget with new holes weather it be a known formation or a wildcat explotation project. Hands are far and few between so the competition is outrageous, meaning wages are going up, meaning the average oil field worker is finally getting paid for his time and effort. That's just a tiny bit of what I see every day. I've been biting my tongue for quite some time on the ol gas price subject, this will be the last I have to say on it.
Brad
Engineering Tech here, I do mostly civil work on subdivisions and commercial property and every now and then I'll get a side job doing some structural work. So I have to take a beautiful piece of hunting ground and turn it into something to accomodate the masses, the only plus side is I now know so many of the developers that it is never a problem to get access to new hunting/fishing ground, but one day that will all be gone as well. :rolleye:
I've been in construction in one form or another for 30 years. I am a homebuilder and home inspector. Business has been good in the past years but things are slowing down due to the higher interest rates and increasing costs for about everything but profit. I have a partner in land development who is also a home builder and we are in our 4 th subdivision.
Bob
Retired Police detective here. My check is deposited in the bank electronically. Just yesterday I received notice of my yearly raise. I tell the wife it is a merit raise. :wink:
:eyebrownod: You got it made Cronk :wink:
cnc programmer. and machinist
I posted this before so I cut and pasted it here
I work with Geographical informational systems or GIS for short.I map power transmission lines,I drive around in a four wheel drive with a laptop,GPS and laser and mark every pole and meters position on a map.Only thing exciting is I get to climb a lot of hills and mud ride almost daily.I also see lots of wild life.
I just started in the GIS field I was a Plumber for 21 years prior
Hey ccp are they hirin I could use a job like that :biggrin:
Rick
As soon as cronk gets me hired on with him you can have my job. He dont even have to go to the mail box to get his check. :biggrin: :biggrin:
OK :biggrin:
I"m a retired Gov. worker. Worked thirty five years in a hydroelectric power house right here in Pierre, S.D. Worked my way up to electrical foreman. Now I market my Wiley One female Howlers and devote my time to coyote calling and fishing and doing whatever I want. Every day is a weekend and I love it. :highclap:
I work too many hours. Self-employed. Retirement is a long, long way off. Weekends and coyotes keep me sane. Kind of.
Nuclear Security here, but I am just starting a bowfishing guide buisness.
Ahh Do you glow in the dark Centerfire? :confused: :biggrin:
Rick, that would probably make night time bowfisihing a little easier, plus you'd never have to worry about the flash light batteries going dead. :roflmao:
Environmental remedition & industrial service work in West Michigan and Northern Michigan. Been at it for 23 yr. We do everything from tank removal, instillation, soil removal, oil rig work removing drilling mud, suppling air trailers, operate a fleet of tankers & vacuum trucks and do all forms of emergency response. Something different almost every day. I'm the division Manager for the West Michigan Office.
Bearle
Sounds interesting Bearle, Ah love big machinery :biggrin:
Welcome to the site.
Yes it would Basshole, lucky guy. :biggrin:
Hey welcome to the board Bearle. :yoyo:
Professional plumber/electrician for over 30 years. Service work is my expertise now, repairing what you guys “fix” keeps me in bullets and powder. :biggrin:
Quoterepairing what you guys "fix" keeps me in bullets and powder.
:hahaha: :roflmao: :eyebrownod: :yoyo:........ahem............... :shck: he's got a point guys.
I make what Rick probably prints onto. I work for Bemis PPD (Polyethelene Packaging Division), easier put, I make plastic. Tyson, Kellogs, General Mills, Curwood, Milprint, everything that comes in a plastic wrap. Our facility is the largest in the world and we now have an extruder that is the only one in the world. It is pretty neat :rolleye: and it pays the bills :roflmao:.
Yep you do Joe We dont buy from bemis though but the same stuff,we get our print film from Mitsubishi and in demoines Iowa we have our own extrushion physicality
that makes all our secondary and forming films.I work for alcan witch used too be pechiney plastics.Oh and curwood is our biggest competitor.
Rick
Yeah I know, Curwood is Bemis owned.
The way things go nowadays we always joke that someday we will be workin for bemis too weve been sold and bought three times in 8 years.
Rick
Wow that sucks, well don't keep your hopes up. The way Chinas polyethelene divison is growing they say they will own us within the next decade. Guess I will just collect unemployment and hunt for a living :highclap: Wait a sec, why ain't I doing that now? :shrug:
Darn. Bringing in the bacon. I knew I forgot something. I left IBM a couple years ago, sold my great big house and moved into a little cottage in the country. I've been puttering at a variety of stuff since....... Animal control, tanning, bird houses,carpentry, painting, caning, ...... basically whatever interests me when I get up in the morning. Living cheep, having fun, learning new stuff, and hoping the stock market continues to cover the shortfall till .....
Quote from: Posiedon on August 12, 2006, 11:56:47 PM
Guess I will just collect unemployment and hunt for a living :highclap: Wait a sec, why ain't I doing that now? :shrug:
Posiedon, looks like that's just what I'll be doing atleast for awhile, just found out Friday that the 15th of August is my last day of being employed. :rolleye: So, unemployment here I come, of course I'll have to do some side work because here in Missouri unemployment doesn't amount to much, but I should have plenty of time to hunt. :biggrin:
Sorry to hear that Bass, I wish you the best of luck
I'm a production supervisor over two departments at a Porcelain Tile Factory.
One of my departments makes the body of tile. Milling, color additives, and drying into powder.
The other department presses the powder into various shapes and sized tile.
I'm over all three shifts plus the weekends which keeps me on call 24/7.
Just finished a 31 hour shift at 3:00 p.m., so it's about time to hit the hay.
Service Technician at the Franklin County Jail. What fun! :yoyo:
Franklin County Jail!!
We got a place for you bud :innocentwhistle:
Welcome to the site :wink:
I'm a full time insurance agent. Part time dog trainer and part time writer.
What kinda stuff do you write Randy?
Most all lines. Life, health, fire, wind. I do a lot of farm insurance being in the small town I am but I'm slowly getting more and more into commercial prop and cas.