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Old Jan 27, 2012 | 08:36 AM
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Originally Posted by Oilfield trash
Crane operator on a offshore drilling rig on the west coast of Africa.
I guess yours is a low-mileage truck then?

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Old Jan 27, 2012 | 08:53 AM
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I am a facilities manager for a large US company. But I come from a small town and prefer to work on my truck myself. The reward is better (and cheaper when you do it yourself.
 
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Old Jan 27, 2012 | 09:32 AM
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I really do feel so out of the awesome job loop. Are there any good job openings for a guy on long island?? Lol
 
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Old Jan 27, 2012 | 09:50 AM
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I am a weld-manufacturing engineer for these bad boys:

And I grew up with a Contractor, Auto Body Tech and diesel Tech in the family on the farm, learned almost everything there is to know about mechanical what-ch-ma-call-its
 

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Old Jan 27, 2012 | 11:16 AM
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Originally Posted by FrenicX
or you'd have spending money and wouldn't need a better job haha.

my add/adhd is so bad you have no idea, weed is the only thing to keep me calm, without my anxiety racing threw the roof, why do u think im in service? i cant sit still,i make good money, just not enough of it, maybe one day when i get my company off the ground, ill make the real bucks....

beats taking pills tho....
 
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Old Jan 28, 2012 | 07:26 AM
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You gotta do what works!
 
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Old Jan 31, 2012 | 12:26 PM
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I'm an Electrical Engineering Tech and do testing on things called Variable Frequency Drives.

Here's what they are:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable-frequency_drive

The ones I work on are the largest you can buy with some of them costing upwards of $2 million. To put the word large into perspective the largest ones we do are over 35,000 Horsepower and approach lengths of 70 feet and have input voltages of over 35,000 volts. I'm currently working on the largest one ever produced which is slighly over 36,000HP.
 
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Old Jan 31, 2012 | 04:42 PM
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currently a union carpentry apprentice in local 27. toronto, ontario canada.
 
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Old Jan 31, 2012 | 05:48 PM
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Originally Posted by DM_kota
I am a weld-manufacturing engineer for these bad boys:

And I grew up with a Contractor, Auto Body Tech and diesel Tech in the family on the farm, learned almost everything there is to know about mechanical what-ch-ma-call-its


JD is one of our main customers (locomotive mechanic for a railroad) up here in waterloo/cedarfalls we haul aloooot of tractors
 
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Old Feb 1, 2012 | 05:32 AM
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Originally Posted by kbond
currently a union carpentry apprentice in local 27. toronto, ontario canada.
How many more years you got until you get journeyman/red seal status?
 
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