What do you do for a living?

[michika]

Originally Posted by BMW Rider

Full time firefighter for the City of Calgary.

Best job description I heard was: we're there to un-F*** somebody else's F*** up.

My brother is a firefighter too, small world!

[SeaShell]

I am an overpaid Government worker too......

I'm an Environmental Protection Officer for the Province.

I conduct inspections of approved and registered facilities in the Edmonton area and also travel north as far as Athabasca and east to the border. I ensure compliance with the Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act and it's Regulations and Codes of Practice as they relate to facilities like refineries, foundries, cement plants, asphalt plants, gas plants, and on and on and on....

I also conduct inspections of unapproved operations like maintenance garages, drycleaners, etc to ensure compliance with the Act in regard to hazardous waste disposal and hazardous recyclable disposal and their storage.

We follow up on public complaints regarding odour, haz waste disposal, and you name it... if it's environment, I'm pretty much on it......

[Delphinus]

I'm a technical specialist for a software engineering firm that specializes in realtime-IT for infrastructure (think electrical transmission, oil/gas pipelines, and water pipelines). (I'm not actually allowed to publicly name the company I work for.) Our customers include most of North America's municipal drinking water and most pipelines in North America and some international. We do things like control, monitoring, leak detection, and flow measurement. If we were to screw something up, it's CNN. We try hard not to.

PS. Oh yeah, we're getting into weather for realtime highway updates. Those little weather stations you see on the side of the QE2? Those are ours.

[Pescador]

I'm a Locomotive Engineer with 30 years in now. Also working as a Traffic Coordinator which is sorta the railway equivalent of an Air Traffic Controller.
Someone wanted more pics so here's a few I've collected over the years.











Any other rails on the board?

[digital-audiophile]

All I know is waiting for a rail car to be docked at a siding and demurage charges drive me crazy!

[Pescador]

Originally Posted by digital-audiophile

All I know is waiting for a rail car to be docked at a siding and demurage charges drive me crazy!

What's your track # I'll put you on the top of the list.

[Matt]

Originally Posted by Pescador

I'm a Locomotive Engineer with 30 years in now. Also working as a Traffic Coordinator which is sorta the railway equivalent of an Air Traffic Controller.
Someone wanted more pics so here's a few I've collected over the years.



Any other rails on the board?

I like this one. Parking on the tracks... what could possibly go wrong?

[Kabong]

I'm a service tech for Whites Mfg

[bigmac]

I'm a Salesperson for a large window/door renovation company/manufacturer here in Calgary.

[DanG]

I run the IT department at the MTS Centre in Winnipeg. It's a new arena and extremely busy (3rd busiest in Canada), we do around 250 events per year including 40 regular season Manitoba Moose (Canucks AHL affiliate) hockey games and concerts from everyone from Aerosmith, Cher, Justin Timberlake, Bon Jovi and Eric Clapton.
I do everything from supporting the 80 full time office, managing the computers that run the scoreclock and power ring, plus the VoIP phone system, network and the tills in the concession stands. On show day I have to set up phones and network connections for the production staff and help out with the back of house management.