Where do you work and what do you do?

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i995impalass
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Where do you work and what do you do?

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I work at Sleep Doctor Marttress Stores, I am the WH assistant manager, and when its real busy i do what i got hired in to do 3 years ago. Drive a Kenworth T- 300 and do delivers. Chris

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Eric Berger
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Secretary/Bookkeeper for a church.

Mostly clerical duties, a little bit of everything.
"From a really tall tower, in the middle of a really big field..."

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Scooterb
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DPW Water Systems Operator, (Sometimes Turd herder). Oh you said work.. I dont work,...............I play.
I fill out State Reports, do installation inspections, (residential and Main line inspections) Flush Fire Hydrants ( O YEAH). Take State water samples. Turn on and off water services. Stake water and sewer utilities for Miss Dig, repair broken water mains, another big ( O YEAH). Put new water mains in sevice. Monitor water usage, chemical usage, finished water production, general maitance on all our stations as needed.
26 sewer lift stations.
750 sewer tanks for pressure sewer systems.
9 well fields, 16 1,000 gpm pumps
4 water towers 1-100,000 gal, 2-750,000 gal, 1-1 million gallon getting permits for another 1-million gallon tank.
195 miles of water main.
4'' - 20'' water main.
129 miles of sewer lines.
and the list goes on and on never a dull moment.

GreatLakesRailfan
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Student. I go to class and complete assignments to be turned in. Studying business administration. Fun stuff. When I make money instead of spend it, I work in my school's dining hall, washing dishes and taking care of the salad bar (stocking it, cutting fruit, etc.). Someday I hope to graduate and make more money than I spend...theoretically (what with the rising cost of model railroading equipment and all...)

RailCanon
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-Junior at East Lansing High School.
-Have a small summer job as a lawn mower for some of my neighbors.
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Hogger1225
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Locomotive Engineer for NS. First started out with Penn Central, then Conrail, now NS. One of the Engineer's on PM1225. Currently work out of Lansing.
I used to get paid for doing what all of you like to watch!

Bluewaterfan
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Job

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I work at huckleberry railroad as a maintance worker
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AARR
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Sell building maintenance service (janitorial, lawn care, snow removal, etc.) for a regional company headquartered in southeastern Michigan. I get to travel a little bit and work with some people who directly or indirectly handle transportation services for their companies.
PatC created a monster, 'cause nobody wants to see Don Simon no more they want AARR I'm chopped liver, well if you want AARR this is what I'll give ya, bad humor mixed with irrelevant info that'll make you roll your eyes quicker than a ~Z~ banhammer...

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R Bedell
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I am self employed as a HVAC/R Mechanical Contractor. Servicing Residential and Commercial equipment in the Thumb Area as well as Saginaw & Bay City.

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markvz
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Aerospace Engineer.

I work for Gulfstream Aerospace. I deal primarily with the design and analysis of aircraft structures. If you're not familiar with Gulfstream, we design and manufacture high quality business aircraft.

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SousaKerry
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Quality Technician for Dowding Industries in Eaton Rapids

I repair all the gages that the operators break, calibrate all kinds of really boring stuff with funny names (profilometers refractometers... ) I also do first piece inspection and final inspection as well as whatever my boss says.


Oh yeah and I also participate in plant gossip and political strugles.(not by choice)


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tsby_fan
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Elementary school teacher (5th grade) in Saginaw.
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CAT345C
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High School Senior

Owner and sole operator of M&T Landscaping out of South Lyon Michigan.
Operate a Kabota bachoe loader, and tillers, and old school style with Shovels.

And gerneral once in a while worker for Smokin' Bone's Bar B Que
Making the railroad all Catywompus since 2008

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tsinoms
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Middle School student. I do lots of stuff. Like Algebra!
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i995impalass
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Re: Where do you work and what do you do?

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A1 RailFan wrote:
i995impalass wrote:Drive a Kenworth T- 300 and do delivers. Chris
AHH sounds great to me. Dat thing has a manual right? Didn't think Kennworth went below the T-600 or T-2000.
yea its manual, yup T-300, no sleeper, no fancy gizmos, no CB, (i bring my own), not bad for a straight truck, we had a T-300 for our semi, but when we went against the wind with an empty load you wouldent do more than 50 down hill, so we up graded to a T-800 for the semi, its like a warm knife cutting butter. Michigan Kenworth and PAC lease has been good to us tho when we get break downs. Really nice guys over there.Imagepics of the trucks

nssd70
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I drive trucks for Midwest Motor Express in Des Moines,Iowa.

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rob
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i work for csx as a conductor/engineer right now i work from grand rapids to detroit

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Justin
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Going to ITT Tech for electonics right now.
My train pictures can now be found at:
http://trainman86.rrpicturearchives.net

And my train videos at:
http://www.youtube.com/trainman1986

My website, dedicated to my layout, "The Fast Lane" (still under construction)
www.trainman86.webs.com

Bluewaterfan
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just bumping this to the top. Does anyone work for Amtrak?
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leo28150
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Yes

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