What do you do for a living?

[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.

[blaster]

i work for weyerhaeuser in the engineered lumber division

[Palster]

Originally Posted by BMW Rider

Full time firefighter for the City of Calgary. Currently working toward my Company Officer exam at the end of this month so I can make even more money for sleeping (that trumps getting paid for doing nothing).

Although when we do have to work, it can be all out with no breaks until the job is done no matter what time of day, holidays included. It's kind of an all or nothing job. More than once I've stood out in the cold in a foot of water, half soaked, caked in ice, manning a hoseline in the wee hours of the morning (even on one memorable Christmas eve). Or the other extreme, wearing sixty pounds of fully insulated gear and working my butt off on the hottest summer day. But I love it, and wouldn't want to be doing anything else.

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

I'm a full time firefighter/training officer for the city of Kelowna. Actually I strictly train existing members of my department as well as new recruit firefighters. When I get called out to fires, rescues and haz-mat incidents now it is as a safety officer and not as a firefighter.

I completed my Fire Officer I course last year. Good luck with yours and make sure you study! It's not that hard but you do have to be prepared.

I know what you mean about loving your job. I couldn't imagine doing anything else. Some days I can't believe they are actually paying me for rappelling from the side of a building or taking new recruit firefighters into a burn building or flash over simulator.


Here is a picture from inside my office. This is what it looks like inside a flash over simulator and yes it is hot in there. If you look closely you can actually see a fire demon on the right hand side in the flames.

[jasond]

I am an advisor for an independent Investment/mutual fund company. Last couple of months have been great

[Der_Iron_Chef]

Wow. Canreef could rule the world!! Look at all of our mad skillz.

[Keri]

Originally Posted by Der_Iron_Chef

Wow. Canreef could rule the world!! Look at all of our mad skillz.

They forgot saltwater skillz.

[Der_Iron_Chef]

Heh! Nice one. But you forgot "working with prostitutes skills..."