Employment Status of Typical Charger Owner / Enthusiast

[Magnumcharger]

Currently Military....for another week...then officially unemployed!

Unfortunately, my trade skills are such that I've been headhunted by several firms. I'm starting contract work at a Nuclear Power plant shortly. Then it's off to a Coal-fired generation plant after that, then maybe a stint at the Tar Sands in northern Alberta.

Geez...this ain't much of a retirement!!

[nvrbdn]

you will be busier being retired.

[Back N Black]

Military.

[69rtse4spd]

Tool & die maker since 79, been with G.M. going on 27 years, funds the MOPAR addiction, still love the trade. Thinking of thinning the heard.   

[69bronzeT5]

Car detailer at a Mazda dealership.... $12 an hr....

[Tilar]

Genius by birth, flunky by choice. lol

I'm a mechanic by trade and like cooter I work on everything and now and then fix a few.    Spent most of my younger days working on underground construction equipment.  Now days I work part time at the local school district keeping a fleet of 27 buses on the road and the rest of the time I spend on the farm or here. 

[Fitz73Chrgr]

Today is my last day as a white collar Mechanical Engineer for a manufacturing company.  I've been IRR for the past year and will be reporting to Marine Corps TBS in a week and a half.

[tommymac]

Plumbing and Heating contractor,Owner 1 Truck

[squeakfinder]

    Refrigeration operator. Anhydrous Ammonia. And, got a small farm.

[bookedbydano]

Corn and soybean farmer here.  The best job ever!!!

[Dino]

I did bodywork from '91 to '06, anything from collision to full restos and customs.  Left all that behind and started working for the University of Michigan health system.  I'm now a certified orthotic fitter and continue to go to school to get my masters degree in prosthetics.

[68blue]

Retired industrial paint chemist, now rehired as a consultant.

[Silver R/T]

I'm so poor that I can't afford a blue collar, I don't wear a collar to work. I'm just a painter for local manufacturing company.

[Tilar]

Corn and soybean farmer here.  The best job ever!!!

You're nuts!      Been there, done that, had all that fun I care to have. 

[Patronus]

I have lots of tools. 

[hemi68charger]

Civilian job: Microseismic Geophysicists - Hydraulic Fracture Monitoring

Military job: U.S. Airforce - Aircraft Armament Systems Specialist (basically load bombs and missiles :B-52, F-16 and MQ-1 Predator). Now in Quality Assurance (QA)

[Inked_Ghandi]

Argh armament

[SG1022]

I have lots of tools. 

What exactly do you do?

I'm a lube tech at a corporate quick lube shop.

[PocketThunder]

Corn and soybean farmer here.  The best job ever!!!

You're nuts!     Been there, done that, had all that fun I care to have.  

I watched some show on channel two one night about the soy bean farmers who were trying to re use their own plants seeds so they wouldnt have to buy seeds from the seed manufacturers.  The seed manuf. were going after small farmers who were trying to use their own plants seeds.   i'll see if i can find the article and make myself look somewhat knowledgeable on what i'm trying to say.

Hey i found it:  http://www.organicconsumers.org/Monsanto/farmerssued.cfm

[Paul G]

I need to check off two circles. I am retired and working. 31 years as an industrial electrician for an integrated steel producer in the midwest, had enough of the upper midwest winters so I retired and got out of there. Landed a job in Arizona as an instrument and electrical technician for a water utility. Basically the same thing I did at the mill, just with better surroundings and no snow!

[BrianShaughnessy]

29+ years at HAL.   Another round of US layoffs today...   meanwhile they keep expanding in Singapore, China, India, etc.   I'm still OK but who knows anymore. 

The empty promise of lifetime employment sounded great years ago...  but they lied.  Seen many friends tapped on the shoulder over the years.  Feels like those of us that are left just circling the drain.  Not to mention they stole my so called pension. 

Been a bad day.  Not real happy.  Not really proud of my so called company today.   

[Tilar]

Corn and soybean farmer here.  The best job ever!!!

You're nuts!     Been there, done that, had all that fun I care to have.  

I watched some show on channel two one night about the soy bean farmers who were trying to re use their own plants seeds so they wouldnt have to buy seeds from the seed manufacturers.  The seed manuf. were going after small farmers who were trying to use their own plants seeds.   i'll see if i can find the article and make myself look somewhat knowledgeable on what i'm trying to say.

Hey i found it:  http://www.organicconsumers.org/Monsanto/farmerssued.cfm

Monsanto is the devil in disguise.

[rt green]

auto mechanic 6 days a week. used to be a part time beer drinker, but now thats just a hobby

[bobs66440]

Graphic Designer. Owned a sign company for 18 years...got sick of the BS. Sold out. Now I work for a union shop with good benefits and they take good care of the old man  but business is slow. Time to start looking again...

[bookedbydano]

There is nothing hard about this job...Drive $200,000 tractors that pretty much drive themselves...run big equipment gets the job done quick!!! pivot irrigation .  On my own time schedule..NO ALARM CLOCKS!!!  No one nagging at you, nice and peaceful.  Take 3 to 4 months off and do whatever I want.  $6 to $7 corn is awesome.  Farming about 1800 acres and owning about 700 of that with land prices at $11,000 to $12,000 an acre....all I can say is cha ching$$$$$$$$$$  Life is good!!!  Granted years ago growing up it was harder work not having all the advances we have today,  now a days way easier in my opinion...  And yes you can use your own soybean seed my father did it when he was farming its done all the time it is cheaper but kind of a pain because you have to clean it real good and store it...which is really all the manufacture does to the soybean seed.