What do you do for work?

[phrogpilot73]

Retired Marine, current Government Civil Servant (waiting to find out if I'm getting furloughed or not). Hobbies are BBQ'in, photography, videography, building computers, etc, etc, etc.

[lonnie mac]

Aerospace manufacturing my whole career with NASA. Current design engineer for Boeing. BBQ, guitars, brewing, acoustic luthier. Rod I was just up at the Mesa plant. Love your weather man.

[CandySueQ]

Pellet pusher (sales), customer relations, HR person, product development, chief cook & dishwasher, sometimes janitor, phone answerer, tech department, procurer of supplies. More but that's what I've done today.

[USMC Recon]

70 & Retired - and smoking pork products a hobby!

[Rpfahl]

Retired firefighter/paramedic. Waiting for Cleveland golf season to begin. Any month now🏌🏻

[MarkSimmers]

Office manager for a local construction company. My biggest hobbies outside of BBQ are SCUBA (I'm an instructor if anyone else wants to get certified, just cover the cost of my trip somewhere tropical and I won't charge you a dime for my services!) and trying to keep playing sports as long as I can, mostly basketball, soccer, and flag football.

[Spinaker]

I work with my father and brother. We trade chemicals and agricultural products for various industries.

Moderator for AmazingRibs.com.

My favorite hobby is SCUBA diving. If I could do one thing for the rest of my life, it would be diving. There is nothing else I would rather do. (Good thing I live in Minnesota.) One day, I hope to own a small place in the Caribbean. I try to take one diving trip per year, either solo or with one of my brothers.

I also love to fish. Walleye, Esox and Smallies are my favorites around home. Up north, I love to hit the laker trout and deep water walleyes. I take one big fishing trip per year, either to Canada or Alaska.

BBQ, of course.

[Steve B]

34yrs as an auto mechanic/technician. The first 10yrs was managing a quick lube. The 2yrs prior to that I polished optics for lasers for the government.

Hobbies hmmmm. I see several here enjoy brewing their own beer. This is something I should get into. Instead of just drinking it. 🤫😉
I also like cooking in general and eating what I make.

[Barry Friesen]

I'm a maintenance manager for a school district and have been a volunteer firefighter for 27 years. I teach some technical rescue courses for departments around the province of Manitoba. Hobbies include fishing (like Spinaker above), camping, golfing brewing wine.

[Pirate Scott]

Life long Mechanic. Cars, Transport Refrigeration, Diesel Truck Mechanic. Currently an HVAC&R Technician, Specializing in Supermarket Refrigeration and Controls. My Hobbies are Fishing, Making Fishing Rods and Tackle, Woodworking, Guitar( But I am terrible), and some gardening.

[wrgilb]

Back in the late 60's I was a meat cutter. I worked for some chains and independents as well. Also worked in a slaughter house for my dad. I came from a family of butchers, my dad, uncle and my grandpa & grandma, who were butchers during WWII. Went into the hardware and lumber business with my in-laws in the early 70's. We became Ace dealers and built it up into 6 stores and 1 garden center. Retired from the day to day business back in 2000 and now our nieces and nephew run them. I handle the property management for the commercial property we own as a family.

Hobbies are landscaping and golf and watching 6 grand kids grow up.

[EdF]

Me, I build software machine tools (for building software, much of which is safety and security critical). Lots of ways to carry on heritage (my Dad was one of the first machine tool programmers). Though I've been as much of a salesman, marketing and manager guy as a software developer. Happens with enough years at it.

My hobby is learning enough to satisfy myself and execute on whatever serial obsession happens to have come to my attention. Those have included meditation, woodworking, astrology, BBQ, cooking in general, saxophone, cryptocurrency, cheap but effective audio, music, various trends in software development. Well, I guess I'm a bit of a dilettante, except that those things being serial obsessions, I go deep. And they recur.

Did I say hanging out and discussing life and partying with people?

[BourBonQ]

24 years mechanical engineer, I design and sell commercial and industrial cooling/heating/controls systems for a large HVAC manufacturer.

Hobbies/interests in no particular order...
Family boating, travel, BBQ, bourbon, guitarist, Clemson football/tailgating, fishing, shooting sports, tennis, golf, certified SCUBA.

[vandy]

This is a great thread, I love finding out what everyone does as an occupation.

[FishTalesNC]

Software Quality Engineer, 24 years at the same company. Hobbies... played guitar for many years, but haven’t picked up my Taylor much in a decade, ugh. Fishing any chance I get. Grew up chasing smallies on the rivers in VA, spent a decade in San Diego fishing the bays and surf, and now hit the NC surf whenever I can. And my daughter... anything I do with her is the best.