How do you earn a living?

[Electric Miner]

Temps at work reached 115 today - outside.

I was working on the inside of a 4100A shovel, which is basically a big metal box. The temps in there reached 140. Even with a cool vest, which is an arc-rated vest lined with ice packs, it was "pull a bolt, sit in the air conditioning for awhile, pull a bolt, go get water, pull a bolt, go sit in the air conditioning...

[Miguel Loco]

Work for an automotive aftermarket parts company..... for almost 40 years, with a 8 year stint owning a store. Now I travel the western USA trying to convince repair shop owners to charge more for what they do..... and actually be able to get a small paycheck some weeks. It's not an easy business to be in these days.

[jaxenro]

I work in IT-business intelligence doing reporting and building databases. Been with the same company for 40 years and a few days. Started there unloading trucks and just sort of worked my way around and ended up teaching myself this.

They used to own a chain of women’s clothing stores now it owns Brooks Brothers which is the oldest men’s clothing retailer in the country founddd in 1818. So along with database design I actually know a fair bit about men’s clothing. Funny the things you just sort of drift into in life

[Pustic]

I'm retired. 

[Hawg]

I'm retired. 

Tell the truth Pustic, you won the damn lottery! 

[Hawg]

To update mine. They told me it would take five months to process my disability claim. Around here it usually takes a few years and a lawyer and a day in court. I had to jump thru all their hoops but five months to the day I was approved. I must be in worse shape than I thought I was. I know I don't drink and can't pass a field sobriety test.

[Pustic]

I'm retired. 

Tell the truth Pustic, you won the damn lottery! 

Shhhhhhh, don't tell no one, but I won the world wide lottery for a grand total of $999,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,010.01 

[mazo kid]

  And you are taking the payments at a hundred dollars a month?!

[Pustic]

And you are taking the payments at a hundred dollars a month?!

All at once. 

[G Dog]

I deal dope, fence stolen guns, support Democrats and am a majority stockholder in a local ho house.  When not in church I can most often be found down at the Ninth Circuit Federal Courthouse makin fat pockets bein gangsta an shit.           

[valforgettaboutit]

I deal dope, fence stolen guns, support Democrats and am a majority stockholder in a local ho house.  When not in church I can most often be found down at the Ninth Circuit Federal Courthouse makin fat pockets bein gangsta an shit.           

Leland Yee?

[G Dog]

Leland Yee?

Nah, Lee was a rank armature.  I'm more of the School of Willie Brown.  Our former globalist girlfriends come out of nowhere and are suddenly made US Senators.  Such a business!

[tljack]

Shy, huh?
OK, I'll start...
I maintain a Dassault Falcon 2000 for a corporate flight department. Been an A&P/IA for over 3 decades maintaining all kinds of GA aircraft and owned a maintenance business up until a year ago when I left for greener pastures due to the failing economy (Thanks, Obama!)

I have been retired for sometime now but was a fire fighter for 30 years. Ended up forced to retire on disability so went to school and learned to tune and repair pianos. Owned a business doing that for 9 years.

No I buy BP guns. Of course did that before. Seems like i make bad deals more often than not. 

[Captainkirk]

Guess it's time for an update...I now maintain TWO Falcon 2000's for the same corporate flight dept.

[Smokey]

Loser extraordinare:
Back in the late 80s and early 90s, I had a video store and a route servicing video stores from Virginia to Florida.
In 1993, I began work at the bottom with a company that made a polymer that can be used to grow crops anywhere, even the desert.
Presently the deceased owner's son and I carry on with the remnant of a once thriving business; a small microbial business with a handful of customers. I do the administrative stuff, he mixes the products. Looks like we will never resurrect the polymer operation.
So I am a  bus driver and substitute teacher at the local high school. We will be out of work after Thursday.
Looking to the future now in poor health. I plan to work on getting new customers, mostly hog farmers.
I would like to not have to go back to work with the school system in August, but I will do what I have to do.