What do you do for work?

[Willy]

Retired and loving it! I can't fathom those folks who fear there'll be nothing to do once retired. I was an aerospace engineer in the solid propellant business. I enjoy Q, cooking in general, baking bread, gardening, and travel. I read a lot--all non-fiction--and I am involved on the very outer periphery of the pro-science, skeptic "movement", which is to say I am not an activist.

[Randomchaoz]

flooring/finishing contractor

[MrMisunderstood]

I'm an Electrical Engineer. Been with the same company for the last 10 years. We manufacture / design automotive safety components and high end electronic sensors.
In my spare time I enjoy gardening, woodworking, hunting and fishing. I was doing some outdoor writing for ScentBlocker about a year ago. I really love taking my kids ice fishing. It's one of the things they enjoy doing with me the most.
I've found myself becoming more interested in doing things myself or making things from scratch. I'd much rather come up with a way to make something at home vs buying it in the store.

[HouseHomey]

Wow! Great thread!!! It's amazing to read all of this. Nothing like this thread to make me feel completely insecure and like I've done nothing.

"so HH what do you do?"
Me: "well sir, I eat a lot and take naps, how about you?"

[Chuck in Charlotte]

I currently work for a large bank, in the corporate communications area. I manage digital signage screens both in the branches and in production areas. My first career was as a photographer/editor for 4 different local news stations, then I did 18 years as a freelance director of photography. @KWeekly, I did about 8 years of NASCAR myself, then about 4 covering the NHRA with ESPN. You get to do a lot of things with the camera that you'd never get to do as a spectator.

Hobbies are cooking protein and bread, some woodworking and reading. Really enjoying this thread, this is a very interesting group of people.

[bbqoaf]

I work in corporate finance for a real estate developer. My family, skiing, snowboarding, hiking, running, fitness, and BBQ are what I do when I'm not working.

[tRidiot]

Emergency Medicine here. Spent a few years as a paramedic, then went back to school hoping to make a difference - now I just can't wait to win the lotto and get out. lol. Unfortunately, debt issues have me locked in for now. Student loans, you know. I work way way more than I want to.

Hobbies - well, I like to shoot. I like to build my own AR15 rifles. Not so much "build," as assemble, that's all there is to it, unless you're milling your own receivers, but I don't have a shop - yet. But I like the research and purchasing, then putting it all together. I really really enjoy building them. Also same thing with computers, although I've fallen out of that the last few years, as I got more into firearms. Car audio, as well. I'm still "that kid" with the loud stereos, but I commute 1.5hrs each way to work, 12 hour shifts. So I figure I need the pumping music to keep me awake on those long, lonely stretches of highway. lol. I'm glad these days I can afford good equipment instead of trying to cobble it together like I did in my teens and twenties. lol

Getting more involved with service organizations - here's a promo video we shot a couple weeks ago for an event we have upcoming:

Oh, and whiskey. Single malt Scotch, for the most part, but the cost of consumption in volume has led me to switch over mostly to bourbon the last year or so. It's ok, I guess. I can choke it down.

Also love scuba, travel - wife was born and raised in the Caribbean, so we teach a West Indian cooking class at the local Vo-Tech a couple times a year. I also usually do an AR15 building class for forum members on a gun forum each January, but this year I skipped it - got too much going on.

[carolts]

Engineering Programs and Operations Manager for an internet company. Basically, I herd cats and we keep the internet from breaking. Help support my BBQ lifestyle by streaming video of the Superbowl and Olympics.

For hobbies, I roast coffee, snowboard, and sail my Nonsuch 30 Ultra catboat. I have a BBQ grill for the boat, too. I have not, as Spinaker suggested, mounted my KBQ on the stern rail -- yet.

[JonnyB]

I retired from the Army in 2014 after 21.5 years, the last 16 in the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment as an MH-6 Little Bird crew chief/platoon sergeant. Worked for Lockheed Martin as a civilian mechanic on the same aircraft for the Regiment and now I work for FLIR Systems as a Field Service Engineer, supporting the same unit and helicopter, and the thermal imaging system that is installed on it. Also teach classes to National Guard MEDEVAC units who are getting new FLIRs on their Blackhawks. As I type this, Im in O'hare Airport headed home after giving a class in Kankakee, IL. Working for FLIR has its benefits. Ill soon be incorporating the FLIR One phone attachment into some of my cooks to help monitor temps and look for cool spots. What better way to use thermal imaging technology? So obviously, bbq is my main hobby, but I also like to find ways to make my C5 Z06 faster. I have also started designing BBQ themed apparel, and several Pit Members have supported me and purchased items from my storefront. Thank you for that!

[wdean10514]

I work as a costing mgr for a manufactured housing company for 24 years, enjoy travels with my wife, spenting time with my children and their children, home mainetance and cooking on my grills.

[Greatplainsbrewer]

I teach American History and manage the family farm. Managing means I don't get to do the fun stuff but rather the "pay the bills" and cut brush, build fence stuff.

[nickgutnick]

Maintenance manger for an airline.
Hobbies-traveling, camping, going out to the woods once a year dressed up like a creamsicle chasing the mythical whitetail deer. Due to lack of success my wife is convinced that all I am really doing is perfecting my other hobbies of drinking Beer and bourbon. And of course, cooking, grilling, smoking. Starting to get into bread making.

[texastweeter]

Personally I am in the sales management for a large telecommunications company. Family as a whole is in the oil, timber, and farming business (dad was a Methodist minister until he retired as well, now he is a farmer...whoodathunk)

[Psinderson]

Awesome thread! I’ve been distracted as of late and will be spending some time trying to see what my pit friends do for a living!

Myself, I am a Proposal Manager/Technical Writer for a large distributor.....I spend a lot of time in a cubicle.

Hobbies- I am a certified beverage geek and enjoy good beer, whiskey, wine, tea, coffee. I used to be a fantical homebrewer but the kids killed the time a bit but I long to break out the equipment again. Of course, I now also feed my grilling and BBQ obsession thanks to the motivation of you all.

Keep it coming everyone! Great way to learn about our beloved pit members.

[Mosca]

I help manage an Alfa Romeo/Maserati dealership.

I blow through hobbies every few years. High end audio, old airplanes (visiting, not owning), Miatas, casino gambling, photography. Those have been the most prominent.

Steady through my whole life has been reading, writing, and cooking. I dropped out of school three times before becoming self taught at things.