what is your trade /diy/? im a carpenter I inspect wooden

NEET

>>1016443
Plasterer by trade but I do all kinds of stuff.

>>1016443

Electrical engineer, i build automated telescopes

>>1016443
schoolteacher - awesome pic OP and sounds like a very specialised line of work.

>>1016443
Then get your ass down to Florida and get Gwazi going again.

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>>1016456
the ones I manage are a year round job to maintain its a lot of work keeping these old beast running
pic related changing a ledger and leg

>>1016458
>>1016443
Am I in a time loop?
I remember this exact thread with the exact posts in it

Electrician, maintaing machines, sensors, plc, engines and all that stuff at a german mining company.

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>>1016461
because they are pictures I took

heres the leg that caused the son of the beast to loose its loop

>>1016461
I have a theory

>only like a dozen people here have jobs

>tr/diy/ade


>hey guise will a butt joint be OK for a bracket that is going to hold up 3 grams?
>HURRR if you don't do a mitered-triple-dovetails-biscuits-withglue using $4,000 worth of milwaukee/makita tools you are better off hiring because normal people can't work in such specialist fields.

They really need to make a /trade/ board to contain some of you

>>1016471
That would be nice minus the tool shills.

>>1016443
That's an oddly specific job. Have you ever looked over the exalibur at fun town?

>>1016443
I used to build Home Theaters till the market dried up, now I do building maintenance.

>>1016443
Is that a roller coaster in Kings Dominion?

EE Student, I work as a Manufacturing Technician at a startup based around commercial HVAC equipment integrated with IoT shit. We're small enough that I have to assemble a lot of the product, mostly just putting parts together, but I've hand soldered several lines of boards for certain things. I also help test things and build test/calibration rigs.

>>1016471
I remember you.
You are the fag that complains when anyone in any trade posts on here.

>>1016464

oh shit cincinnati! yeah that ride was dangerous. largest wooden rollercoaster right?

>>1016443
Fourth year apprentice carpenter here.

Is it your responsibility to make all the decisions or is there an engineer there to tell you if and how things should be repaired?

Machinist.
Also have a lot of technician crap in the background. Mass ink printing/collation, plastic injection molding, blow molding, cnc operation. Right now I cut classes. It's clean but I'm paid like a field nigger.

I thought about carpentry. What do you guys make?

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>>1016652
cut *glasses. I'm also retarded. I can't decide on a trade, so I just keep sinking 2-3 years into one at a time.

>>1016443
Industrial pipefitter, I usually work in refineries, but currently working at an LNG export terminal.

I sell scientific equipment.

I'm the Facilities Director for a school district.

My job is basically keeping the operations end of the school district running and then explaining to the Director of Operations why I had to hire a contractor to fix an elevator because we are required to have a working one or something equally obvious to anyone who has ever worked a day in their life.

>>1016443
Milling machine operator.

Went to school for machining technology (a 2 year associates), did an internship during it at a big aerospace company, got hired on at said aerospace company, and recently got accepted into their machinist apprenticeship program there so I can grow up and be a real machinist.

I'm a welder.

I fix fences right now. Apprentice life.

>>1016443
im a hobo

>>1016443
Race car mechanic
It's a very diy field, depending on what cars you are working with.

You'd be surprised how many race cars are held together by zipties and coloured duct tape.

is crafting shitposts a trade because I mostly just do that

Plumber. Love it

>>1016464
Haha, I reaconized the first picture from King's Island. Thanks for doing great work to keep those beautiful coasters going, OP.

>>1016709
RIP topsoil.

Welding student, I'm almost finished.
Gonna specialize in TIG.

>>1016443
Lurker: Work for a builders Merchant dealing with "trades" who operate like DIY'ers..

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I'm a software engineer and sysadmin, but this place is so much nicer than /g/

>>1016602

I don't mind tradefags in general but all too often you get fags like previously described. And for a /diy/ forum this place is full of tradefags

>>1016471
Yeah as long as they keep the diy board to contain the plebeians who think doing a shit job is acceptable since it's diy.

>>1016767
/g/ is strictly for discussing consumer electronics and comparing pc specs

>>1016773
Don't forget the watch generals.
They're just super.

>>1016443
I used to be a carpenter, now i'm a engineer who designs concrete structures

>>1016443
Electrician Apprentice (non-union)
Currently work for a fire alarm service and installation company.

>>1016471
To be fair, it is often true that it is better to pay someone that has the proper tools for the job than to try and half ass it yourself.

>>1016563
I feel like everyone that built themselves a huge house during the real estate bubble added a home theater.

>>1016443
>wooden roller coaster

That combination of words makes me want to huddle down on the ground, gripping onto the grass for anchorage.

>>1016461
Kek. I remember this anon too

>>1016443
school

my dad tought me

>>1016808
This. I remember going on one where just a few weeks earlier someone had gotten their hand ripped off by a low hanging support truss that had come loose.
The whole thing sounded like a thousand angry mousetraps, but it was actually vretty fun, cept for the fat circus lady two cars up that couldn't hold in the last hour's BIG SLURP and corn dog intake

>>1016709
NO TILL FUCKER !!! REEEEEEEE

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>>1016703
What are some of the types of cars you've worked on? Pics too if possible. I'm going to Limerock in July and it's great fun walking through the pits.

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>>1016838
At the moment I'm working with LMP2s, Formula4, and the european NASCARs, I also work occasionally with GTs both for endurance and sprint racing.

You guys have it way better over there in the US, every time I come over there for a race I am amazed at how much more passionate Americans are when they go to see racecars, also the way they organise races or even how they set up the paddocks so tourists can see everything is something that is almost absent here in yurop.
Try to go to Austin this September, they race both the WEC and the IMSA Tudor series, there is some serious action that weekend, you'd be missing out if you don't come.

>>1016443
Porn star. It's a tough job.

>>1016464
Am I seeing it correctly that some sort of ring makes the joint and the bolt doesn't have any lateral forces applied to it? I may be wrong but if not what is that joint called?

>>1016890
its called a split ring the sob used them extensively

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>>1016824
Can't afford those planters. Most for sale are also fuck huge things off lease and would be overkill for my 300 acres. More weed control issues too

>>1016729
damn right

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Commercial/industrial Electrician
Love my job.

>>1016464
Wow, I hadn't realized sob lost its loop and then was demolished. I remember it being a rough ride the year it opened but most wooden coasters are rough rides.

>>1016443
Manual machinist with 21 years experience 11 of which in the power generation field. 6 of those years were bearing repair, and some new manufacture. It was common to run tolerances as close as +.0005/-0 on a bore with around 6-46 inch bore over a 10-50 inch length. On 75 year old equipment in some cases. The closest I've ran is +/-.0002. Now I'm at a different shop that is all new manufacture. I just finished up two heat sinks for Siemens.

>>1016927
Ehh ya they are fuckin huge the ones ive seen. Whatcha got in there? It's fucking dry in my area but slowly getting a little moister, corn is doing well

>>1016443
Operator of a pneumatic hammer in solar plant construction.

>>1016767
that picture is cringeworthy

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I build cool rooms in Australia this is the one we are doing now main freezer is 90x50m by 12m high not including loading docks blast freezers and other cool rooms off the side

>>1017101
For scale that's a manitou or telehandler in bottom left

chef at wendys. my dad works at nintendo

>>1016443
OP have you ever kept the wood you replace to make anything? I know it's not structurally sound but a coffee table or something similar would make a good conversation piece. Probably sell well too.

>>1017101
could you elaborate? not sure what you mean by cool rooms in relation to the picture. that looks like a warehouse

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>>1017105

>>1017116
literally cool, as in cold

>>1017116
Those white panels around the wall and the yellow looking bits hanging from the ceiling are our foam n sheet metal panels it's going to be a huge freezer for a wholesale food company

>>1017137
Jesus christ kek

>>1017221
It wasnt that funny, anon
It wasnt funny at all, he was explaining the meaning of a word he used

>>1017234
Lollll ayyy this guy lmao
nice kek m8
sides in orbitbruh

>>1017268
this is not /b/

pls go

>>1016847
Elaborate?

>>1017085
Why, because you can't comprehend a strong, empowered womyn doing a "man's" job? It's [current year], you bigot.

>>1017101
imp panels, still find it crazy how it's a basically a drop ceiling held up by 3/8 all tread you walk on and shit.

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>>1016443
My job description says "electromechanic", but that's DHL Parcel being retards.

I just keep their terminals, Ravas iForks and bar code scanners working together and repair any damage the forklift drivers to to them.
Also maintnence on other terminals, scanners and priters they have around, but mostly fork-lift shit.

That's not even my trade, too. I'm just the only person in a 20 mile radius that isn't a screw up, apparently, since I just needed basic skills an a licence to work under 1kV to get hired.

>>1017287
That appears to be a man,
>inb4 HMOOFFF GENDER POLICE

>>1017303
We use wire on the ceilings with a big ass bolt with a mushroom head on it to hold the ceilings up I'm not huge on getting up there till all the walls and ceilings are in. Once it's all built it locks it self in. Before that you can make the whole roof swing tho one of the guys had the first ceiling panel swinging something crazy

Assistant technician in the art department of the local college, atm I just recycle clay, stack kilns, organize the tools and glazes, and tidy up.
It's pretty chill, plus I also get to fuck around making pottery in my spare time.

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Electronician, mainly mixed-signal ASIC designer, but also test bench and embedded systems, for high energy physics experiment ar CERN.

>>1017763
I've done a few jobs with that and they only have half the ceiling up. Had to start my cable tray but it made me nervous as hell. When ever someone walks it all sakes and I'm being held up by 4 inches of foam and thin metal?

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>>1016458
Cosy wallpaper

>>1016443
coffee roaster/importer

>>1016443
That's fucking sick!

I'm a general contractor. I got licensed as a home inspector last year, but getting work for that is slow. I do mostly remodels on homes, top to bottom, even the driveway. I do some contract painting for a realty company that manages apartments and condos. I make little crappy wooden decorations and shelves to sell to people who's homes I work on. I landscape every summer because I enjoy it. Basically I just never say no to a job. I explain to the customer that I'm not an expert if I'm not, they're usually ok with a discount over an expert. Being a contractor isn't hard, anons. Go to bars, talk to people, tell them you're a contractor, hand them your card, ask what they're thinking of working on in their home (people are always unhappy with SOME aspect of their home), tell them 'i can do that!', 20% of the time they'll call you to look at it (if you're not a complete autist), go check out the job, guesstimate how many hours it will take you and multiply by $45, add that number to the cost of supplies, make a nice estimate document with your logo on top and legalese on bottom, hand deliver the estimate, when they accept get your 30% to begin and buy supplies and any tools you may need, watch YouTube videos on project, hire neighborhood kid to be your gopher for $50/day, do work, be honest with the customer always, make it quality, get paid, put sign with your logo and number in front yard, tell them to tell their friends, go back to the bar, get more work. Do this, anons, you will live a happy life.

>>1016443
Industrial pipe fitter easiest job in the world.

>>1019384
till you work in the steam tunnels

>>1019387
we don't do that. we mostly do landfill sites the hardest thing we do is put in Vapour–liquid separators.

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Class A contractor so anything in regards from jacking up houses to finishing touches, but bread and butter for me is flooring. Wood, ceramic, carpet and vinyl.

I deliver and install restaurant equipment. Want to become a large scale hvacr tech, but i gotta learn the small stuff first. Done some residential ac installs too

I used to be a mechanic, then 4 years in the army. Now I'm in college majoring in chemistry.

Out of work structural engineer

Currently a roofer. I was legitimately a carpenter with the UBC for 6 years, I've also done electrical, plumbing, fences, concrete etc. etc. in various jobs over the years. And I have to say, roofing fucking sucks.
I've been thinking of starting a fencing company, to get away from the roofing.
We've got a couple of guys that we sub gutter-work out to, that have gotten me motivated. These are two dudes, mid 20's. They met a guy that wanted out of gutter work, he gave them his truck and gutter machine, and basically said, "get work, pay me when you can". They put up signs around town, they did a good job, word spread, and they now have work booked out for months .They've gotten to a point where they usually hit it hard 4 days a week, take 3 day weekends, and aren't exactly hurting for money. If that's not motivational anons, I don't know what is.

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I push bootan.

>>1017816
that looks reasonably expensive... what is it exactly?

I'm a farm hand currently, but I am studying plant science and will hopefully be working for Monsanto in a few years. If that fails I am fairly certain that I can get a job managing a local park, which is surprisingly /diy/.

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Finish carpenter, moonlight as a printmaker

Got this done yesterday. I built it about 6 1/2 feet off the ground and it took another 7 dudes besides myself to lift it up another 10 feet.

Looks neat. I would rather build it on the ceiling next time, shit was heavy as fuck. Boss' decision not mine.

>>1019606
CNC operator?

>>1019606
Two "f's" in "off".

Also, man, never even heard of that controller.

>>1019601
why did you stop being union?

>>1019771
Yup. Plastic injection and carbon fiber molds.
>>1019771
It's said 'of' for like 15 years, I guess nobody ever cared enough to change it. Most of the older guys here didn't even graduate high school, so you see a lot of that.
The machine itself is an Anayak. It's Spanish, and every time they come here to do upkeep, they slap their goddamn logo on every flat surface. The controller is actually a Heidenhain.

>>1019308
Is it really worth it to buy that premium roasted shit for like 3 bucks extra?

Sincerely,
Bill

>>1016767

why the fuck is there a security light bulb laying in a disassembled power supply case that he's holding next to the

what the fuck even

why

>AT LEAST HES WEARING A FUCKING GROUNDING BRACELET, THAT WILL SAVE HIM WHEN HE SHORTS OUT A CAPACITOR INTO HIS FACE

>>1016955

AJ!

>>1019946
Negative not not me.

>>1016443
Do the roots from all those trees compromise the integrity of the wooden planks underground?

>>1020224
theres no underground wood it all sits on concrete footers

Residential electrician here

I'd like to get into linework

>>1020277
Aren't those completely different studies?
At least that's how it is here IIRC

I don't have a trade. :(

But with an ounce of luck and a pound of skill and about a thousand tons of will, I might become a mate on a ship in like five years time. Dunno if I wanna do it forever and work my way up to captain, or if I just wanna find some mate job and use the money to actually do the DIY things I CONSTANTLY dream I could afford.

>>1019945
Looks more like one of those rubber fashion bracelets that took off around when "livestrong" was cool to wear.

He is also about to use a multi clipper on eight wires. It's a brilliant stock photo. Looks like something serious to muggles, but looks absolutely bonkers otherwise.

>>1020278

Yes, but Im only 23 and I think being a lineman would be an awesome job

>you get to live up to the responsibility of the work
>you get to travel
>you get to do cool shit

>>1016456
I actually worked on gwazi for a few months, looking for the pictures I have right now. It was about 6-7 years ago, we were replacing the layers of boards the track lays on. It was fucking hard work. We never wore harnesses.

>>1020290
I have done a lot of track rebuilding
its a lot of nailing my crew would go through 2 and a half 50lb boxes of nails every 8 hours

>>1020293
Tons of nails. But first we had to chip off the wood with the backside of the hammer, that felt endless. Still had tons of fun there

>>1020299
a sharp chisel works way better for that

also I do daily inspections and maintenance on the track
I wear a harness on my walks but I almost never tie off to anything its more looks
the only real times im tied off is when im doing structure work in the winter and thats only when im on the picks
I free climb to get there though

>>1020304
Way to be a liability. I'd fire you immediately.

>>1020711
our rules are if you are moving you dont have to be tied off

its the way the coaster world works

there is no feasible way to be tied off 100% of the time and do the inspection in my time window as im constantly jumping across the tracks to look at and fix things

you would have to fire my entire crew for it too and none of the rides would be inspected

>>1020711
Nah it's exhilarating. That was my favorite part of that job

>>1016571
Not OP but, it looks like The Beast at Kings Island in Mason OH

I'm a farmer. Spend 90% of the year jerking off, the other 10% busting my ass.

>>1016955
Is it true that all Electricians call tool bags "tool sacks"?

>>1020945
No I have a tool bag and a ball sack though.

It's probably a trade/region thing
>pop/soda
>extension cord/drop cord
>splice/joint
>potato/patoto

>>1016803
how do you like it? i was just accepted into the union at my shop. do they offer schooling? just wondering if i should have gone the non union route

>>1020277
new construction or service?

>>1021331
There are many non-union schools, but a lot of them are very sketchy. For example, a coworker of mine went to school that got caught telling employers that the students had a clean record even though many were felons. I'm also being told that I could get away with not going to school since I already have the job and could just ride the experience. I'm not taking their word for it, though. Another thing I'm told is that union apprentices do mostly clean up and dirty work whereas non-union apprentices are put into things they can learn and practice right away. This is all just hearsay, though. I'm probably just as clueless as you.

>>1021342
ahh cool man. good luck out there anon!

>>1019377
>I'm a general contracor
That's interesting. Where I live you have to have a bachelor's degree in a related field, 3 years experience and be able to pass a difficult test as well as be insured, bonded etc to get your GC license.

You are what we call a hack, not a general contractor.

>>1019743
Always wanted to go to Finland. You guys are funny as hell.

>>1016982
Bravo man. That takes some serious skill.

>>1020277
>>1016955
what did it take for you guys to become electricians?

>>1016767
i am student of engeenering in informatics, codding is the best profesion!

>>1016443
I'm an engineer (degree qualified)
My company (as in; who I work for) build machines for Automated Aircraft Assembly - I'm currently rebuilding an approx. 20 axis cnc machine for wing panel assembly - Drills, Shaves, Bolts, Rivets etc stringers onto panels.

Other machines in the company wind Carbon fibre, drill and bolt Carbon fibre wings together (as complete boxes), fasten parts in wings, fuselages, nacelles etc. Even had contracts with SpaceX.

Primarily do mechanical installation (drilling, tapping, fixing etc) and basic mechanical design (brackets, covers etc)

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>>1016443
I'm in college for poultry science.

I count chickenry as a trade.

I'm a computer programmer. I program computers so I can buy tools and raw materials and pretend to be a real man.

>>1021488
proof?

>>1020720
>no feasible way to be tied off
It's as if you think no other tradesman has encountered this problem before

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Data analyst for a hospital laundry, also do some production management and awful hr stuff

Pic semi related, we have two washers like this each washing 20x 50kg loads every hour. They could do a lot more if we turned the cycle time down.

Hardly a trade, but thats what I do.

>>1017118
Went to shit after snes

>>1019781
Because unions are for faggots

>>1021875
Bloody rags?

>>1021437
Depends on where you live and such, I just followed my dad's footsteps and it kinda felling place. Best bet is to call a local company and ask if hiring for helper/appreciate or you know, Google?

>>1021910
Blood, and a bit of shit too, the other day someone threw a bloody rag into another person's face kek

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my baby

>>1021910
Hospitals are gross as fuck. Blood is just the beginning. Some people throw up shit, actual feces, they're so sick.

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I'm just a regular old construction fucker. Working on a crew building a resort right now. I usually work with steel if they have shit for me to do but half the time I'm framing or screwing shit to other shit.

>>1016443
plate welder, stick, flux core, and bare wire. Gonna be trying for a certification in pipe this fall.

Is it unwise to move into a skilled trade if i am gay (not effeminate just gay)

Thinking of applying with the ibew48 for commerical/industrial apprenticeship.

Pretty thick skinned and there are probably no klansmen in oregon just wondering if it's a bad idea.

>>1022517
You're gonna run into bigots no matter where you go you fucking faggot. I can't speak for Oregon, but where I live it's pretty much only middle aged men who have a problem with fags. Young people, and surprisingly elderly people are past it, even at my church.

>>1022517
>probably no klansmen in oregon
Uhh I dunno about the klan, but the Pacific Northwest definitely has some pockets of white supremacists. Nobody cares if you're gay though.

>>1022517
Err, never heard about Grant's Pass huh?

The rest of the state is probably fine. Like the other anon said though, you'll run into prejudice everywhere, and frankly, the typical demographics of blue collar trades probably won't help. But if you are interested, you should just do it anyway. Just be skillful and hardworking and don't give anyone a reason to complain. If they know you are a stand up guy, they won't try and go after you.

>>1022522
>>1022526
>>1022524
Thanks for the encouragement

>>1022517
If you're gay and don't talk about it, chances are no one will fucking care. Someone might call you a fag but long as you come back with something about them wanting to suck your dick, you'll be good.

If you say hey guise I'm gay lol! Then all the Mexicans, old guys period, and white trash will literally make your life hell.

>>1022517
I work in a metal shop. There's a 30ish, flsmboyantly gay black man who works here.
Nobody gives him shit because he gets his jobs done.

>>1022517
I work with a couple gay guys. No one gives a fuck unless you're flamboyant or hyper-proud.

One of my good friends is a lesbian union pipefitter. Everyone fucking loves her at work. There have been a couple of guys who have tried to give her a hard time for being either a woman or a lesbian. They are quickly put in their place by her.

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>>1022517
Northeast and northwest are pretty tolerant parts of the country. I'm from Massachusetts and some of the guys I ran boilers with were gay and everyone pretty much liked them and gave them relentless good-natured shit about it. Where im forced to live now, in southern Missouri, your life would be hell and no likely pay rate would be enough to endure the complete savagery you'd encounter. You should be totally fine but just go into it expecting some abrasive shitheads. Just work hard and don't be a pussy.

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>>1022836
Do you think dave hodo was IBEW?

>>1016847
>it's a tough job
not
>it's a hard job

You will never get that missed opportunity back.

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I was a commercial floor installer. Now I'm a mental health tech at a state asylum.

I'm thinking about switching to their maintenance department, but I fell like I'd miss working with the patients.

>>1016443
OP love these old coasters.
Thanks for keeping them alive.
Unfortunately none of the old ones from my youth are left around here (New England)

>>1022244
What is it? A spectrometer of some flavor?

>>1023359
ancient arc melter flavor. they used to do a lot of thorium work in it.

>>1022965
What did they rip down the Cyclone at six flags. That was an old left over one from when it was riverside. I haven't been there in like 7 years but it was there

>>1017101
that does look pretty cool

since heat rises, have you considered building them lower down?

we can split the novel prize bro

>>1019377
thanks bro, saved

>>1023622
the cold air stays at the bottom where everything needs to be cool and the hot air goes to the top be removed and cooled

>>1022517
no, you should work with kids

>>1022517
depending on how big the company they may just keep you around because you are gay

one time my boss gave me 50$ cash to say I was gay on this paper they sent to the government

im not even gay
it was pretty funny when he was asking everyone on the job then started offering more and more money

I'm in carpentry estimating. Look through blueprints and give a price to complete the carpentry labor (and sometimes material) for the job.

See the details for a lot of stuff before it gets built. Very rarely any cool hidden stuff sadly. Hidden bookshelf room once though, that was cool to see.

>>1016443
I fuck a carpenter's wife while he's at work. I drill her hard while she tries to vent her frustrations to me. Some shit about an unsatisfying husband or something going nowhere in life, inspecting wooden rollercoasters all day. She thinks he'll never climb the latter to inspecting real, metal roller coasters.

>>1023804
I'm a ghost. I died from shock when I walked in on my daughter-in-law being pounded at a nine on the richter scale by someone who wasn't my fuccboi son. I'm currently haunting his faggy house trying to push him towards suicide.

>>1023829
I'm a "professional" ghost hunter. I'm working on a case for a faggot whose father died in his house from shock after witnessing his daughter-in-law taking it from a big nig's rig while the woman's faggy husband was at work trying to work his way up to a real, metal roller coaster inspector.

>>1016652
Cut glasses? You mean like optical lenses? Do you ever cut trivex?

>>1016443
exterior painter for the summer going to art school.

I'm a full time engineering student, but I also own a 3D printing LLC that does printing and design work for small local corporations and just average joes.

It's a far cry from a living wage, but it really sprangles my dangles when companies say "can I speak with your professional 3d printer operator or technician" and I have to say, "sure let me get him", put down the phone for a few seconds, and awnser with another fake accent.

I fucking love it.

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>>1016443
Guess the job

>>1024949
Shift sparky

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>>1024957
more yob

>>1024961
Some kind of power plant job?

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>>1024961
>>1024966
Behind me in this photo

>>1024969
I thought that for a moment, but figured it looked more like a steam plant.

>>1024961
why the random blocks of concrete?

>>1024969
That's TRIUMF right? I used to work down the street from you. A Gamma ray CAT scanner for plants that used your radioisotopes.

I'm a watchmaker.

>>1024986
Reconfigurable shielding perhaps?

>>1016443
CAD Designer for Machines and Metal Fabricator by trade but i do car bodywork and carpentry ...
Fml

>>1016767
What is happening in that picture

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>>1025020
Shit like this...

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>>1025020
And this...

>>1024987
Yep, the photos are from between the meson hall and the cyclotron vault.

>>1024986
Behind the big wall of shielding is the cyclotron (Largest in the world) and the rest are over the beamlines that go to all of the experiments.

>>1025026

interdasting. what's that shit between the wood planks?

I'm a physician's assistant. Been doing that for almost 3 years. I was a paramedic/flight paramedic for 7 years before that. Big difference in scenery, being in the office and the hospital vs in the field, but I enjoy it. I'm working with an orthopedic practice. See patients in the office or get called into the ER on occasion. Also assist during surgeries, do follow ups in the hospital afterwards.

>>1025026
>>1025143
Nice, but yea what's that shit?

Loading dock and warehouse equipment. Dock plates, bumpers, overhead doors, rolling steel doors, high speed fabric and aluminum doors (skookum shit from Germany), and whatever else the salemen feel like pushing. Service and installation, occasionally we'll get thrown a curveball to fabricate shit then we have to DIY an industrial strength solution or rig up shit to work until parts arrive. It's fun work, we run our own electric up to 120v, though most of the equipment we install runs 3ph. We're like millwrights, but with smaller machines and less pay and no union.

>>1022517
>is it unwise to move into a skilled trade if I am gay
It might be. Construction sites are a tough crowd and...
>thinking of applying with the IBEW
You'll fit right in.

>>1022517
I know its literally impossible to do and the thought wouldn't have crossed your mind but as long as you don't tell people your a poofter then how would they know?
I know its hard but if you avoid saying things like 'im gay' or 'phwoar look at his butt in those jeans' and as long as you don't come into work in a dress or have a banana for lunch and eat it one go without chewing it and you don't close your eyes when your boss kisses you then nobody will know.
You say you aren't camp so what's the issue? Most people don't realise they are ok with benders until they discover a friend is gay and actually its not a big deal because they don't fucking harp on about it all the time

>>1025271
Not him, but I literally just got back from the local UPS store and holy shit, the cashier there was an OP-tier effeminate faggot. Like imaging the steriotypical black gay, and you are dead on. Like, I'm talking the single earring, fuzzy hair, "gay accent", and even that weirdo dainty way of moving his hands.

I'm not really a homophobe and I don't care; they got my package out (no homo), but holy shit, it must be hard to weld or machine something when you are to busy doing your nails.

>>1025143
>>1025183
Black epoxy resin

Apprentice Engineer in a hotel/casino. Learning how to repair, replace and build all sorts of cool stuff...but also less glamorous things, like snaking drains and plunging toilets

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>>1025335
Engineer=/=Maintenance man
Can't stand how dumb ass titles miss lead job descriptions so people feel important.

>>1025389
My favorite job title that I've had is 'Buried service wire technician'

... Literally digging ditches.

I'm a state microbiologist. I just started but they hired me to develop molecular assays for hospitals/ public health labs to run to identify infectious agents, namely bacteria....I kinda hate it I get paid dogs but for what I do ($40k) and I really just want to save up some money and start a business. I wanna open a gun range. Wat do?

>>1025399
Start it in your spare time

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>>1025258

>using the word skookum

I like you.

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>>1016443
>tfw working on steel coasters
>B&M over engineer everything
>chain motor fails
>whole thing totally fucked
>need to replace it
>forced to order a new one directly from B&M because the shaft on it has been machined in in a way to work with that coasters specific mechanism and nothing else
>not allowed to machine our own
I envy anyone working on woodies because you guys are allowed to fix problems yourself and in your own way, where we have no flexibility.
Even Intamin is shitty because they didn't even give us advice on what type of tire to use for friction wheels.
The ones they gave us ripped themselves apart after a month, and even the ones we use now last for about three.

>>1025421
where is the 'force override' button that you press to crash two cars into each other and means a girl loses her legs?

>>1025445
It's a key that you plug into the top left corner under the main power key. It puts the ride into manual mode where it allows you to individually control each block segment without the computer fighting against it.
I don't work at Alton Towers though, moved to another park in 2014.

>>1016767
is this how you build a PC?

>>1025419
>i binge watched too much AvE now my vocabumalary is chooched

>>1016768
Hmm sounds like you don't want to be able to refer back to people who do, what you are attempting for the first time, every single day.

>>1019687
It is an automated test bench for ASIC.

I do property maintenance for a 40+ acre property. Basically I'm an outdoor janitor.

>>1025446
ok cool then you just give the key to anyone right you don't try to keep it in the hands of people who know what they are doing or anything right

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>>1016443
Park Ranger here
I keep one of Floridas top park going

My job is not how you think it is....it fucking sucks
Lots of people that have cable issues because they are fucking retarded

>>1016443
Most of the time I'm an engineer (elec) that does transmission design for telco networks, primarily contractor and I've also done a bit of project management stuff too. Part time farmer, own a beef cattle and sheep farm with my sister and brother in law, ideally if it paid a bit better I'd do that but it might take a few years yet before the books balance. Also licensed to do some feral animal destruction, so once a month or so I service a few contracts with national parks and private properties to kill off any nasties running around- good fun, like getting outdoors but not much money in it.

>>1016449 I take it you KNOW who Edward R Byers is?

Landscaping/woodworking

I grind mirrors/optics for telescopes for a hobby

>>1016458
Ever see the rollercoaster at the PNE in Vancouver BC?

>>1026630
no I stay in the ohio area

>>1016658
got any welding porn?

>>1016927
my uncle farmed 7 1/2 sections in Arnaud Manitoba. Learned how to use pesticides, safely use a PTO and drive a grain truck

>>1022522
Im a 50 year old middle aged man and dont have a problem with gay/lesbian/transgendered/bi. I dislike faggots, but they exist outside of sexuality.

>>1024969
I did my physics paper on getting a PET scan there back in the late 80's

The guts of the machine where interesting esp the crystals and the detection modules. You had to clean them with alcohol as the crystal were some kind of grown salt

>>1024986
The beams can cause radiation hazards.

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>>1026631
Thing of beauty.

As a related topic, I want to take a timberframing course with that guild.

Every time I want to tough, I'm working or unavailable.

The old ones are from my grandfather on my mothers side and he started me onto woodworking

>>1016729
Plumber as well.
Nothing I would rather do.

>>1019771
>Using an apostrophe for pluralisation

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>>1016443
TIG Welder / fabricator. Exhausts and HVAC equipment like expansion joints.

>>1021342

I guess it depends on the union. I was barely at the shop for two days with my first company and sent directly into the job site with my current one. I've rarely done that much dirty work/clean up. Some job sites do have dedicated clean up crews since the major data centers do create alot of garbage.

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Electrical Engineer.

I design electronics for a robotics startup that is trying to build a autonomous package delivery robot. It is doomed to fail/ be superseded by autonomous delivery vans, but i'm learning a lot just working on the 'tronix for it. I just signed my first NDA with On Semi to get info on their Image Sensors. 8)

I also help run a solar vehicle race team. I design electronics for the car too.
here's a Solar Cell MPPT I designed recently. so cute :)

Is 24 years old too late to start learning a trade? I'm a talentless neet

General tech building Hyperloop coolest job I've had so far

>>1027551
>Is 24 years old too late to start learning a trade?
No.

>neet
Oh, so you're just gonna look for another excuse to not get off your ass then. Nevermind.

>>1027264
>I just signed my first NDA with On Semi to get info on their Image Sensors. 8)
Uh, anon.

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I repair home appliances. Washers, dryers, microwaves, refrigerators, ovens etc.
Mostly samsung stuff because my company is one of the few that is certified in the region.

>>1027661
>unclear on the concept dept.

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>>1016443
Welder

Welder/fabricator here.

Currently working building above ground storm shelters/safe rooms.

>>1027665
how is it? I'm doing a pre-apprenticeship in electrical/HVAC&R and might end up doing what you're doing. Fuck any MILFs?

Based neet. Might apply at a stair or truss manufacturer later

Apprentice in furniture making. Fun little job with plenty of details to remember.

>>1020290
>We never wore harnesses

Did you have ANY fall protection?

>>1027920
the fall protection on coaster work is dont fall

its a rush free climbing up 100+ feet without ladders just climbing the braces

>>1027870
It's honest work. Pretty handy too. The only thing I don't like at this point is my company.
If you're lucky you won't have to touch any sealed system or HVAC stuff. Most companies are opting out of doing sealed system work. It's just a big hassle.
Also no, not yet. I'm sure I'll have the opportunity someday, but I just started this year. But there are plenty of lonely milfs out there. Almost hooked up with QT Russian lady. Probably would have if her husband wasn't home.

>>1028024
that is an easy way to get your employer a $7000+ fine

>>1025389
Amen

>>1028060
Have you ever even ridden on a wood coaster? The service ramp usually looks like you could step through it, and the "safety" rail usually looks like it would fall off if you look at it the wrong way, much less touch it. My guess is that climbing the cribbing would be at leas 60% safer, but what do I know? I just ride them. Other anon repairs them. Although if I did that kind of work, I'd want a 2 point harness.

I have a concrete grinding and polishing company. Not really making it bro's about to go work for somebody else to be able to pay bills

>>1016463
Same, except I work in the paper milling industry.

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Working in Hell's crawlspace as an Electrician.

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>>1025421
Of course it's Smiler, that fucking thing breaks down every 30 mins like a goddamn RCT coaster.

The ride itself is super cool though. Nemesis slightly better.

>>1028884
thats not even that bad of a crawl space

try steam tunnels if you want hell

are there critters?

could u die of haunta virus?

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>>1016443
I am a dickfarmer. Pick related.

>>1024689
Please contact me. I legitimatly need some plastic dicks made.

[email protected]

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>>1026744
How is plumbing so much fun for u guys. Im all the time under my house cursing the man that invented copper and polyvinyl chloride.

>>1027264
Right on bro. Currently working on a long range drown. I wanna set up solar charging platforms and waypoints so it can puddle jumo and deliver long distances. Im talking like a fucking dji phantom flying accross the country.

Any tips?

Or can contact me at [email protected]

Id really like to follow your progress

>>1027665
My freezer works but not the fridge. For 2 years now. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH IT ANON? WHY???? WHY CAN I NOT KEEP CONDIMENTS AT WORK. PLAAAASE. HALP.

>>1030006
FFA says nope

read the drone regulations especially the ones that go into effect in august

Trade background:
Mechanic

Current career:
Automotive Crash testing

>No pics, Non Disclosure Agreements

>>1016443
I'm neet

>>1021381
You are just a fucking hater. Go back to fucking Mass., or wherever the fuck you are from. People need money where I am from. You are probably a fucking Richboy son of some motherfucker.

>>1027551
My mom is 49 and will start studying economy at uni next month, coming from a background of manual welding and robot programming. Not exactly a DIY trade, but I think it'll serve for an age example.

You're nowhere near as old as you feel. Society at large just has a really messed up idea of how life should be. But it'll get harder the longer you put it off. You don't really have the perspective to know what you want to do, or the ability to choose, so start with whatever you can get by. You can change later.

If your situation is utterly hopeless, start going to church and get to know people. Not kidding. Someone will need extra help with something, or simply take pity and hook you up.

>>1030983
wouldn't people think its weird that im at least 10 years older than others there?

>>1019600

Plenty of work for them in the northwest United States.

Assuming you have 10+ years' experience.

>>1016443
Do you do Megafobia at Oakwood Park?

>>1031025

Who Fucking cares ya fucking faggot...go to school...don't worry what anyone else thinks...

>>1023622
They have massive evaporators to cool the place down and couldn't make it smaller they want 11 meter high racking all through it

currently a diesel mechanic working in an underground coal mine on a longwall in Aus, have been working underground now for about 8years. also currently studying mechanical engineering at uni

>>1025271
>phwoar
>dont close your eyes

kekd pretty hard

currently the last mason in Idaho that isn't a damn mexican

Nuclear scientist turned stay at home mom and now I follow the board for house maintenance and what not. This past week y'all helped me with a dish washer and now I'm slowly replacing all the water inlet valves in the house. I've done a few things like install cabinets, crown mounding and minor plumbing and electricity here and there. My goal is by the end of the year to get enough /diy/ under my belt to open up the empty space under my stairs and add it to my laundry room.

>>1032270
Wow that is amazing

>>1031025
Giving a shit about other people's pointless opinions is bad for you.

>>1016443
I used to operate a CNC router for a custom cabinet making place but now I masturbate to cute anime girls all day

>>1026644
Youths on /diy/ probably think 50 is elderly.

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im a software/hardware intern

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Is carpentry still a good field to get into?

I like building things, architecture, and hands on work but can't find any apprenticeships and I'm worried that dropping out of college may be a bad decision.

Plus one day I'd love to get into house flipping and it seems doing something like carpentry and being a owner of a team would be beneficial.

>>1032425
You don't own a team, you employ them.
Fucking asshole.

>>1032425
contact your local of the untied brotherhood of carpenters and they will hook you up
the summer is the busiest time of the year so they are always looking for people

dont work non union its a shit show full of Mexicans and retards

also you get a pension, insurance of all kinds and my most favorite part you never apply for jobs the jobs apply for you
you just put your name on the out of work list and company's will start contacting you and you just show up and start working no applications or interview bullshit

>>1032426

Yea it sounded weird. Couldn't think of correct wording.

>>1032427

Thanks, I'll look into this right away.

>>1016443
Is that the Beast in Ohio?

wanted to be a rollercoaster designer...

I am but a humble electronics engineer now.

>>1020938
My thoughts exactly. I have been on it so many times.

>>1032425
Carpenters make very little money. Like $26/hour is the union wage where im from.

I would advice you to stay in school and complete your degree if you went there on a loan.

You can still enroll in the apprenticeship after if you want to.

>>1031233
Whats the starting pay around there for an equipment operator. I have 5 uears mining experience and considering a long trip to austrailia. However long they will let me work before i come hone. I need a break from here.

>>1032251
Goog luck to you essay. Fucking beaners taking all our jobs. Please please! Let trump win

Civil engineer :)

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>>1032270
Good work anon. Way to be.

>>1032426
Lol, DO NOT get into flipping. Please anon. You WILL absolutley lose your ass. With your skills you should buy budget properties in appreciating areas and fix them up to rent or sell on a lease option (rent to own) you can find a property management company and never even talk to your tennants or deal with a clogged toilet. They take like 6%-8%. If you would like to sell them. Keep them rented and then list them for sale. But ONLY after 1 year and 1 day after the closing of the property or uncle sam will straight throat rape you on taxes. You have a great skill anon. Fixing up houses that need tlc to improve rents is forcing appreciation. Add that to the hopes u purchased appreciant property and the tax rightoffs real estate gives you. ...anon you can run 10 teams. I highly suggest you read a book called rich dad poor dad and then a few on reak estate investing.

web security analyst (malware cleaner) for a big security company. client base is 75% wordpress sites. people get very superstitious when it comes to malware. One lady thought her site was infected when outlook displayed a wrong password popup on her desktop. another favorite is bluehost reporting "Silence is golden" as malware...

>>1032456

Yea I know, but I'm willing to look past that if it's something that I enjoy and I was under the impression that the money can actually be huge if you become a manager and/or have your own team and decide to get into the house flipping business. Cause my end goal is to have rental properties and probably do some house flipping as it looks really interesting. At least on hgtv... But it does also seem to have some aspects that I like. Hands on work, money, house design, etc.

>>1032464

I think your reply was meant for me, but I'm not currently in the industry. But like I told the other guy, I'd probably do a combination of both.

>>1032456

And it's kind of hard to stay motivated to finish the degree when you're always wondering if it's a waste of time because it's not your "passion" or you're not passionate about it. Doesn't help that people commonly say that if you don't love it and do it in your sleep you'll amount to nothing, seeing as there will be programmers who programmed out the womb and IT people that study in all their freetime.

>>1032770
>team
The only way to make money flipping is to do damn near all the work yourself, and get as much of your supplies secondhand.

>>1032777

Yea you could do that, but assuming you were doing multiple flips a year wouldn't you be better off with your own renovation team? It'd be cheaper than hiring it out to someone else, and quicker/less work than doing it all by yourself.

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>>1021437
Union electrician here. I'd highly recommend joining a union. Besides the better pay and benefits, the education is top notch and much more varied. Its a five year program for most commercial/industrial apprenticeships and every year they rotate you to a new company so you get more experience/connection in the trade. Also most really big fun work (medium voltage, industrial motor controls &PLC's, big gear-rooms in huge buildings) goes to union contractors bc of their generally higher quality of work.

Joining is just googling your local IBEW chapter and applying to become an apprentice, though that can take like 8 months to get through the process, or asking if the union hall can get you a job as a CW (construction wireman, like the labors of union electricians) and help you get your foot in the door.

>>1019781
>>1021885
The only people who leave Unions are people get kicked out/fired so many times they leave. Mostly because they don't follow rules. The fucking basic kind of rules like

>don't show up to work so fucking hungover you're still drunk
>no you can't take three weeks off work until you can get your license back from your dui
>no you cant order an extra 60ft of wire on every run and then take home the "scraps"
>actually it is your fault the job ran over the bid. You took off early every day and ordered the wrong material several times and only seem to have a basic understanding of reading prints.

For the most part they're just a bunch of fuck-offs who can't stand being told that their incorrect way of "getting the job done" is either unsafe or pants-on-head retarded. I've met plenty of skilled tradesmen who've never been in a union, but never met anyone other than a complete shit head who's left one.

>>1016443
weird I saw this exact post like maybe a month ago. can't even change the wording?

>>1033125
it makes for a good thread

>>1025391
same as what I do but with pipes and welding.

>>1016658
Same but I work on landfills mostly.

>>1031025
I went to tradeschool at 20, and we had a couple of guys who were 35, 40, 45. No one gave a shit, everyone hung out and broed.

>>1027551
No I'm 24 and I learn a new job every few years.

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>>1016443
I'm a commercial glazier. I built this curtain wall, and all the interior ornamental metal.

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I'm a Australian furniture designer/maker. Hard work but i get so much satisfaction making unique finishes.

Drywaller

>>1033178
Holy fuck is that supposed to look like the ugliest fucking thing ever? Is this what the fucking hipsters pay for?

>>1033178
It's like a wizard turned a bear into a chair but stopped concentrating right at the end

>>1032770
Good. Just don't bet all your horses on a flip and make sure you are cool with renting it and u be fine. U scared me anon.

Manufacturing engineer for an aerospace forging company. Mostly work with the 2,000ton open die press.

>>1033711
alcoa split good or bad?

>>1033711
how much do you get paid?

>>1033711
wow

Oil rigs, (well not just oil rigs but any rigs, geothermal, gas etc). Due to the recent downturn im back on the tools running tubes. Killer 12 hr shifts again. Used to be involved in drilling but theres no exploration work so had to take what I can.
Made my money though, bought my own home outright and have no debts.
Would like to get out of this game altogether and buy a house in the countryside, with fruit tree's and a few animals and be self sustainable and live in the peace and quiet.
Probably the decision will be made for me as more lay-offs look likely.
Live on the beach atm, so cant complain.

>>1016443

Aerospace engineer