I coordinate the opening of investment and trust accounts for one of the top three private banks in the country. Although I'm based in Florida, I support the New York City market.
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10 years in the Navy as a Helicopter Rescue Swimmer then Airborn Comms. Now a Systems Flight Test Engineer on military aircraft and commercial VIP aircraft.
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Allen's Offroad, Wnigs on the Wind Farm (organic produce, alpacas, and chickens), Wings on the Wind Retail (from farm, alpacas, all natural soaps, teas, jams, herbal holistic salves, body creams, etc...), TAK Computer Services (home and business networking and implementation).
Allen's Offroad, Wnigs on the Wind Farm (organic produce, alpacas, and chickens), Wings on the Wind Retail (from farm, alpacas, all natural soaps, teas, jams, herbal holistic salves, body creams, etc...), TAK Computer Services (home and business networking and implementation).
Frankf
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Am semi Retired now after 30 yrs as General Contractor building custom homes on the Coast in Mendocino County, CA. Drive a school bus now for Lyon County, Nevada and am a Nevada Resident now, jeeping, fishing, motorcycle riding and having fun.
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Mechanical engineer. The other type: design, manufacturing and operation of machines and mechanical devices.
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Zhillslady
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I'm diverse. Certified veterinary technician but no longer in the field. Certified paralegal and currently work for a tax and investment firm.
Retired now: 23 years in the US Army. Started as an artillery fire direction specialist, then went to OCS and then flight school.
Lots of assignments in both fields over the years.
Next up was the Salt Lake County Sheriffs office. Started as a street deputy, then became a helicopter pilot for them and ended my career as a sergeant supervising the Sex Crimes Unit. Ya SVU.
In 1984 I became a volunteer ski patroller and EMT and did that for 20+ years in the States and Germany. When I retired from the SO I went full time patrolling at Brighton Utah. A bad back finally forced me to give up my avocation.
Now I am just retired. Don't really know what that means. I am far busier now that when I was working. In fact looking back on it I have no clue how I ever had time to work.
Lots of assignments in both fields over the years.
Next up was the Salt Lake County Sheriffs office. Started as a street deputy, then became a helicopter pilot for them and ended my career as a sergeant supervising the Sex Crimes Unit. Ya SVU.
In 1984 I became a volunteer ski patroller and EMT and did that for 20+ years in the States and Germany. When I retired from the SO I went full time patrolling at Brighton Utah. A bad back finally forced me to give up my avocation.
Now I am just retired. Don't really know what that means. I am far busier now that when I was working. In fact looking back on it I have no clue how I ever had time to work.
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I'm a union sheet metal worker. Make nestle cans and soup cans.
Did six years in the Navy. Went to school for Mechanical Engineering and found out that I would suck as an engineer. Journeyman Shipbuilder for Lockheed and heavy metal fabrication (Hey Chris, you know the KGON radio tower? Ya, that's mine) Business Systems Analyst as a contractor and employee. Got tired of feeding the beast (taxes) and went to work in a warehouse as a material handler. Lots of other odds and ends along the way. I do miss shipbuilding...
Where is the KGON tower? Tell me the location and I'm sure I know it!
It's that big red and white tripod up in the west hills of Portland. Up on pill hill? 673' tall. I did all of the layout work, fitting and most of the setup for welding the parts together. Didn't do the erection though. They brought in a specialized crew to put it up in the air as there is a lot of houses under it. Gotta brag a little, because it was one of my better efforts. I was off 3/32" in 673' on one leg, and 1/16" on another. I hit the third leg right on, at least as close as they could measure it. I went to Engineering school with one of the engineers that designed the thing. We had a total blast doing it, because it was all new technology at the time. He went on to build another one down in Nevada some place that was a little taller than the one in Portland. I didn't work on that one.
OH YES, of course I know that one! My grandma lives 100 feet away from it right up there on Council Crest.
Funny because I know a guy who was high on acid and jumped the fence and climbed that tower! This was back in the 70s (he's a friend of my Dad's) but it's a true story!
Impressive tower, and if you ask me it's one of those Portland monuments in my mind.
I had some surgery done right after it was finished, a vasectomy, and the Dr. who was performing the surgery lived right under it. He hated it and fought it going in. We were having a casual chat while he was performing the surgery and the tower came up. Talk about awkward moments... The guy is taking a knife to my private parts and is telling me how much he hates the tower AFTER me telling him that I was one of the guys that built it and how proud I was of having done so. One of those teachable moments when I was learning to keep my mouth shut.
Haha, yep, that's one of those moments you'd have been best to keep your mouth shut!
I have to deal with those people hating on towers all of the time. But then they complain about how bad their cell service is....lol
Yup, ya gotta have the infrastructure to have the service. People bitch about a lot of stuff that they depend on daily. I especially love the folks that complain about all the stuff made overseas because it takes jobs away from folks here, while buying imported products. The examples are endless. You want a prison or a garbage dump? Well, you got to build it somewhere. Don't get me started on the folks complaining about how much pollution my Jeep creates and how much environmental damage it causes while driving an electric or hybrid car. Uh, have they ever looked into what it takes to build those batteries or generate the electricity to charge those batteries? What it takes to create all of the plastic and exotic metals to support their green lifestyle? Just cracks me up.
I would think everyone would be wise about this by now. Anyone who walks around touting that their Prius or electric car is more environmentally friendly is simply a uninformed idiot.
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I started out I the Industrial rental equipment business for 12 Years, & realized I am in & out of those Plants & Refineries so much I may as well work for them. So started at Lyondell Houston Refining in 1995 as a process operator, working in a Paraxylene recovery unit freezing oil at -75deg in crystallizers using Centerfuges to separate xylenes . Then heated oil in the aromatics recovery unit using distillation to separate Benzene,Toluene,Orthoxylene until emissions shutdown these units it wasn't cost effective to revamp so we shutdown & air gapped those. Since 2006 I've been working in HDS units removing sulfur from Kerosene,Jet fuel ,Diesel & Naphtha using reactors. This year I moved to the Utilities of the Refinery I was ready for a change.