What's your Daytime Job.
 

Of course we all love racing or hot rods of some type, but what is your day job?
I've been in the equipment rental business for 15 years. Started as a road mechanic and worked up to Store Manager. The rental bus. pretty much sucks right now so I changed jobs in January and now work for a crane co. Southway Crane & Rigging. We rent anything from a small 15 ton to an 800ton crane. The 800ton is one of largest truck mounted cranes in the country and only a couple of them in the US.

i dont really have a day job. i have a 24hr job. my son and i own a custom shop at the house. we build ol skool hotrods andcustom build harleys. choppers to bobbers.we dont work on anything import, car or bike.1974 is cut off year for our shop. nothing after 74.( FOR THE CARS) we have the knowledge but not the desire to build anything newer.and we work all hours day or nite.we have no regular hrs. its hotrods and harleys at my house 24 hrs a day.

I started my own welding businsess about 5 years ago, at first i did alot of welding of stainless and aluminum when custom motorcycles were the big craze, backhalved cars, and so on. I quickly realized it was easier to make money in the construction field and started doing mostly commercial jobs, dont get me wrong, they are both really hard work.

Machine shop supervisor and cnc programmer. Been with the same company for 21 1/2 years now. We sell anything to test, measure or sample oil. 85 year old company third generation owned. I started as a manual machinist and took over the shop 5 years ago. Oh the company is W. L. Walker

Curtis

I set up tube benders. Not like at the local muffler shop. Big CNC benders that make multiple bends in each tube

Porn star

I am a Project Leader for Caterpillar Inc. My division is based out of Peoria, Illinois but I work in Champlin, Minnesota. My responsibilities of being a Project Leader are to wrench and write the Disassembly and Assembly Manuals for all of the Cat Paving Products, Cat work tools, Defense and Federal Products, and also manage our Mechanical Lab. Basically we take a new machine and tear it down and write the remove, disassemble, assemble, and install of all the serviceable components for all the Cat dealers and customers worldwide. I like my job because I am not sitting at my desk 8 hours a day or turning wrenches 8 hours a day. Truth be told.....I am spoiled with my hours which are 6:30 am - 3 pm, and I am home by 3:30 pm.

I am a power plant operator. Work 12 hour rotating shift. Before that I was in the Navy for 14 years.

Hey...CAT is our number one customer. :D We do a lot of the tubes for thme...all the way up to 7"

i just did some stainless tubing work for cat here in Texas on a diesel test engine

We bend a lot of 5" 304 SS for them. We make stuff all the way from 3/8 up to 7" but most of our large diameter cat stuff(large meaning over 3") is 5" 304 bent on a 5" radius

Auto/diesel tech dodge/chrysler/jeep dealership :!: :!:



''JUST MY TWO CENT'S WORTH''

O'Reilly Auto Parts for 10 yrs now, counterman & merchandiser. been in auto parts for 20 yrs and an auto mechanic for 25yrs before that. hoping to retire or go part-time this year.

Hopefully the slow economy is not hurting the suppliers and they can keep going. At Paving Products in Brooklyn Park, MN there are many lines that have been shut down since the beginning of the month. Most lines will come back to work 1 or 2 months for the rest of the year and thats it. :(
Cat has a competitive teardown project going on right now and I have had the chance to meet a lot of different suppliers over the past couple of weeks and more to come throughout the month of July and August.
Sadly enough the diesel emissions are going to hit everyone pretty hard over the next couple of years as Tier 4i emissions are going to be implemented on the machines, but for my job there is some security there because of all the redesigns that are being done to the machines and the manuals that need to be done for them.

We are currently on a two week shut down without pay because of something CAT has going on right now. Things have been very slow all year, but are starting to pick up a little because they are ordering ahead ..something about the new emissions standards in 2010.

Daytime job
 

Currently I am a calibration technician at Kennedy Space Center. We have seven more launches and then who knows what I'll be. Guess only time will tell. Don't think there will be much around here. They plan to rely on the Russians for support of the space station. Wait til the Russians have a monopoly on access to space and see what they charge for sending personnel and equipment up there. There, I feel better. :P

day job - baby sit my grand kids, night job - sign painter
week end - mechanic, and i love it :wink:
(my grand kids say i make the best pancakes)

Nothing wrong with raising future slaves.

Machinist for a comtractor at NASA in Houston.

We built this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c2jN0k0k68

FUNNY TALKING ABOUT CAT, I WORK FOR WAUKESHA ENGINE,(COMPETITOR) CNC MACHINIST FOR 10 OR SO YEARS, I RUN A WFL MILLTURN.ITS A STATE OF THE ART LATHE, IT CAN MILL THE DIAMETERS OF THE THROWS ON THE CRANKS. IT ONLY RUNS CRANKSHAFTS.

FUNNY ABOUT HOW OUR CHILDREN WILL TURN INTO SLAVES,SAD BUT TRUE!!!

We bend tubes for them too...not many, only a few jobs, but we do them...Cat, Cummins and Volvo are our biggest customers.

I am a sleeper by day, machine maintenance tech @ night, for a few more weeks anyway, then, who knows...

OIL AND PROPANE SALES. (HANK HILL)

new car dealership (Toyota, Scion, VW, Mazda, Kia, Hyundai and Mitsubishi) parts department director. 26 years in the business, 21 years with my current company as of last friday...

Auto tech 17 years,fixing stuff since I was 12

COOL! If you guys would let me put a BBC in it, it wouldn't take near as long to get it down the road!! :lol:

Retired fire fighter , erect steel buildings when someone can afford one , fish , cut grass , fish , race , fish , minor welding jobs in my shop , fish and when I find the time I FISH :!: :D :D

It is good to hear what all of us do for a living... good topic.

I work for Savage Arms & Bowtech (Archery). I am a in-house account manager/rep. Basically, I set up dealers in the US & abroad & keep them stocked with product. I never thought I would enjoy "jobs" much; but this career has been awesome!! Hunters & archery folks are all really good people to work with... like the fine folks here on RJ. I dabbled in the auto industry in parts & did R&R for a transmission shop here locally when I was younger... but that got old working on other peoples cars. Scoot

I work for a Company out of Waco Texas called RAM Aircraft. I run aircraft engines on a dyno and fix any leaks or replace any parts that are defective(hardly ever have to). I then help install the parts needed for the customers style airplane and get it in the crate for shipping.

I used to do a LOT of FLATHEAD catfishing in White River....after I quit drinking 10 years ago it wasn't nearly as easy to sit there from dusk til dawn anymore...so I started fishing for small mouth bass.

Maintenance dept at Gateway Intl Raceway. I make all their signs.

Owner of Crossbones Motorsports.

I started with NAPA 25 years ago as a driver. My boss also had a small farm in which I mowed hay in the summer and fed it to the cattle in the winter. Since then I've moved up to the counter and now the general manager of a 60,000 square foot warehouse with a 4000 square foot retail area (which is a pain to keep up with). It's the largest NAPA in WV.
It's fun for the most part, it keeps the bills paid and fuel in the race car!

TS1955

i have been workin nights in the parts dept. at Peterbilt of Eau Claire now for about a year. but ever sence i found this site im really getin paid to sit on race junk so i cant complaine. haha

Must be nice ''Newjack'' I see you are new welcome to the gang :!: I am Mark :!:


''JUST MY TWO CENT'S WORTH''

Night shift sucks. I work nights and hate it.During the day I complain to anyone that will listen about working nights.

I was on 3rd until about a month and a half ago...laid people off and canceled the third shift so I got stuck on 2nd.

Nights here too, I work for Fedex in Memphis as a sort sytems tech.

I dont mind 3rd to much, been doing it for almost 20 years so I'm kinda used to it.

I usally get home by 7am and every now & then I'm subject to be drinking a beer.

Sometimes I'll be sitting on the front porch and a neighbor will drive by who's headed into work - I smile, take a sip of my beer and wave at em - they just shake their head :shock:
Cp

2nd! Now that does suck.
Cp

I keep telling them that, but we would need 6 of them as each wheel is independitly powered.

Cooool, Starting to sound like a sled puller!!! :)