Show us your day job!

[PMWhalen]

Hi Gang! I'm a new VAF member today! I've been following awhile and finally joined. I'm a little over a 1 year pilot . I work for a "Major" defense contractor (one that used to make a lot of very dark colored planes). Like many others here, pictures are verboten. I install equipment for, support and troubleshoot video teleconferences. I basically help to allow participants to be on TV! I love my job and look forward to building my -7A!

[iwannarv]

No real pictures, but I'm in a training program to be a regional chemical business manager for our chemical brand (top), which is a product of a subsidiary company (middle), owned directly by the butter people (bottom).

[Caummisar]

My latest job is working for the Federal Government as an Industrial Safety Engineer here: http://www.pantex.com or http://nnsa.energy.gov/aboutus/ourlo...s/pantex-plant



Pantex is just the latest job my safety career has taken me. Other work was here: http://www.huntingtoningalls.com/nns/ were I was assigned to safety inspections of Los Angeles SSN688 Class Fast Attack subs and Carl Vinson class aircraft carriers during their construction. Saw several subs slide down the ways and splash into the James River. Was there when they laid the keel for the USS George Washington. Enjoyed watching them test the steam catapults when they launched dummy loads into the James River.



Somewhere along the way I worked in/on several commercial nuclear plants, Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station, Turkey Point Power Plant, and Plant Vogtle when it was just a hole in the ground. Did some time working oil refinery turnarounds in most any oil company you can mention. TEXACO, BP, EXXON, MOBILE (before it was EXXON-MOBILE), SHELL.
Oh yeah, almost forgot, baby-sat some radioactive waste in Idaho for 6 years before they started shipping it to Carlsbad, NM

[GusBiz]

Originally Posted by sjhurlbut

Steve H
Cold Lake, Alberta
RV7A #70015 - built - sold
RV7A #71629 - built - sold and flew across Atlantic
RV7 #70215 - flying - sold
RV8 #82842 - building slowly
RV7 #70703 - flying + undergoing panel overhaul

Steve there are 12 step programes for people like you.

How did you get the time to do all of that considering your job comitments which are sizeable? I know what I was offcier for the Australia Army I didn't have time to scratch myself.

[sjhurlbut]

Originally Posted by GusBiz

Steve there are 12 step programes for people like you.

How did you get the time to do all of that considering your job comitments which are sizeable? I know what I was offcier for the Australia Army I didn't have time to scratch myself.

Ha - that is funny - I've learned to multi task and I have a very understanding spouse that supports aviation addiction.

[johnny stick]

That is me 10 years ago. That TRMM instrument gives these pictures to the weather guys. It has lasted way longer than anyone expected and keeps on ticking. Can't wait to stop innovating for someone else and start on my RV.

Johnny Stick

[Mike S]

Originally Posted by PMWhalen

Hi Gang! I'm a new VAF member today!

Patrick Welcome to the best place on the entire web for things RVish

Good to have you aboard.

[Craig23]

I was going to be a Naval Aviator until Crohn's Disease took me out of flight school. Luckily I found a pretty cool fall-back to spend the last 19+ years occupying my time. This picture is of me (on the left) with my boss at my promotion to Lieutenant. My wife thought it was funny that it took me 20 years after graduating from USNA to make Lieutenant.

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The second picture was me back in the glory days. I'm the shorter one in front trying to rescue a kid who ended up in a rain swollen creek in the winter of 2000.

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[Larry Motley]

But life hasn't always been this hard.

I spent five years Army as a Psychology Specialist then NCOIC psychiatry in Okinawa. After going back to school and studying Industrial Psychology with emphasis on statistics and man - computer interactions, I became a headhunter and started a small consulting business in electronics, countermeasures and spread spectrum secure communications. Ten years later, I accepted a couple of impossible assignments back to back, regrouped by heading back to school to add a nursing degree. I've spent the last 12 years or so as a psychiatric nursing supervisor for adolescent acute inpatient care at a University of California teaching hospital. A few months ago I was retired, so considered going back to school in yet another futile attempt to get educated.

My wife has stipulated the we live somewhere quiet with lots of trees, be within easy distance of amenities and have no planes within earshot, so my plans are to sell this house, buy in an air park, learn to fly and build a 12. Even better would be the challenge to modify a 12 to run on rechargeable batteries and take off from the back yard .

I'd be happy to develop a 12 step program for repeat offenders.

[MLock]

President, engineer, salesman and accountant for PowerTech, Inc. My very small electrical contracting company specializing in the design and installation of power and control systems for large commercial HVAC retrofits.

Last day at this will be 12/31/2013. Then it's nothin' but RVs from there on out.