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Objectively Reasonable |
If the first two letters of both your last name and last work location are the same, then yes. Good to "see" you! | |||
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I enjoy my job. I am an Independent Insurance Agent in a small town in the South Plains of Texas. Started working here just over 48 years ago with my father-in-law who died in the early 90's. I will never get rich but the business has allowed to raise a daughter and watch her and her husband raise 3 sons. I have had the time to enjoy my wife of nearly 52 years. It has also allowed me the opportunity and time to give back my community by becoming an EMT and working with the local EMS and VFD. _________ Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right. Henry Ford | |||
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Pushing 30 years of various sides of IT infrastructure. Last 4 or 5 have been building things in AWS. I like working in the environment as I like to build things and it scratches that itch. I have old cars and wood tools to scratch that itch physically. -- I always prefer reality when I can figure out what it is. JALLEN 10/18/18 https://sigforum.com/eve/forum...610094844#7610094844 | |||
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Certified Plane Pusher |
I’m an Air Traffic Controller at a VFR tower. 100% love my job. I get paid to watch airplanes all day. Situation awareness is defined as a continuous extraction of environmental information, integration of this information with previous knowledge to form a coherent mental picture in directing further perception and anticipating future events. Simply put, situational awareness mean knowing what is going on around you. | |||
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I'm an unusual case. I have had one full time job my entire life. I have loved it the entire time until about 5 years ago we got bought out and then it became just a job. I am one of the few who actually prefers to go into the office. About 10 years ago we did an amazing 10 million dollar restoration on an old downtown building and it turned out amazing creating an awesome work environment. Once Covid hit and everyone worked from home it took the remaining fun away from the job so I retired at 57. No matter how much I loved my job through the years I like retirement better. When you're at home all day and your spouse is working it kind of hits you harder how much of the day you are actually giving to your company in exchange for that paycheck. They have asked me back 3 times now with fantastic offers but the desire is gone. | |||
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Sigforum K9 handler |
I do. I never wanted to be in law enforcement. Hated the idea of ever wearing a uniform again. By happenstance, I went on a ride along. Few months later, I got on as a reserve. Then part time, and eventually full time. I got on a part time regional tactical team in 2008, and rose through the ranks to be in a team leaders slot. Still love my boys and the work. Sadly, I’m afraid I’m on a short list for a command slot. Really don’t want it, and want to stay with my boys instead. My day job is on a task force. The work is rewarding and sometimes I really get to make a difference. Corny as hell that I put it that way, but the job allows me to do things that most cops never get to do. | |||
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Leaving the Army and staying with a company for 45 years doing technical work in the rock industry. Lots of Federal, State and Local regulations. Loved my customers but my management changed frequently causing conflicts. I liked the job but glad to retire. | |||
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Fighting the good fight |
Is that like a ride along, but you heckle the officer the entire time? | |||
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That’s exactly what it was. He was the department chaplain after all. Fixed | |||
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Legalize the Constitution |
Now I do whatever I want to do, as long as it doesn’t piss off my wife too much, but yeah, I loved my career in the Forest Service. I started it later than most, but I loved what I did before I started my professional career too. Not too many guys got to write “cowboy” in the box for employment. My wife’s hoping I’ll become a mahtour guy sometime before I die. _______________________________________________________ despite them | |||
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I’m in logistics. Have been in it ever since graduating college back in 1992. Have changed jobs several times but my present position let’s me run a small trucking company with someone else’s money. Company is family owned, great culture, and debt free. It’s a folding carton company, (we turn big rolls of paper into a cake box, food tray, etc). Love what I get to do and the people I get to work with. | |||
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As the username suggests, I was a C-130 navigator for a number of years. I loved the job but hated management's focus on everything except fighting and winning our nation's wars. Retired from that, and in my son's first year of high school, 2/3 of the math department died in a 3-day period (1 to cancer, and 1 to vehicular manslaughter). Having loved my instructor days and possessing an ability to do math in public, I offered my services to the principal. Without ever having substituted a day in my life, I became a high school math teacher. That was 5 years ago. I have since moved to science, and I am starting an aviation program next year. There's good and bad, but the good is REALLY good and (so far) more than makes up for the bad. | |||
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| Fighting the good fight |
Frankly, I'm surprised you didn't burst into flames, get struck by lightning, or turn into a pillar of salt. | |||
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I absolutely love my job! I test military munitions, weapons systems, vehicles, armor, body armor etc. using explosives and ordnance items. It’s probably one of the most rewarding jobs I have ever had. The work we do directly impacts the lives of our soldiers by protecting them and also making them more lethal to our enemies. I also have skin in the game because my son is currently serving as an 11B. Former military, with an EOD background is how I qualified for the position. | |||
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| Banned for showing his ass |
I was an LEO for a large city from 1979 to 2017. Hired on at 23 yrs old and retired at 61 years old ... and love every minute of it. Retirement since 2017 has been fantastic ! | |||
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Probably on a trip |
I get paid a stupid amount of money to fly airplanes and I get a ton of time off so...YES. This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears above ground he is a protector. Plato | |||
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posting without pants |
Police Officer. Sergeant in fact, I didn't say anything about it, but 1 year ago, I was promoted to Sgt. I've done this for 13 years now. Overall, I love it, but certain days, I'd tell you I hate it. I've seen this career go from (when I started) where literally hundreds of people would apply, test, and go through background checks for 1 job. It took me 3 years of application/testing/backgrounds at department after department only to find out that out of 300 applicants I scored second or third place, only to find out there was only one opening and that I didn't get it. Now, we can't find any qualified applicants. We have signing bonuses, we have lowered standards (It used to require a bachelors degree/active duty military for 6 years at any dept worth it, now we will take a GED) Every time I regret it, be it low pay, long hours, days away from family, the idiot politician who decide WE are the problem as opposed to the criminals who prey on others, working 63 days in a row at least 12 hour shifts in riots, or ANY of the general bullshit we deal with from the public... I just look at my wall. I have a wall with 12 frames on it. Each framed certificate for an award for saving a life, or helping someone in their worst hour. And that gets me through it. I realize that's why i do it. Cause SOMEONE has to, so I guess I will. Not many others seem to be stepping up to do it these days. Kevin Strive to live your life so when you wake up in the morning and your feet hit the floor, the devil says "Oh crap, he's up." | |||
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Your first part was EXACTLY what I was talking about with one of my guys the other day, while looking back at the start of our careers. It used to be, every two weeks when the paycheck came in... "You mean we get a paycheck too?!?!?! You PAY us to have this type of fun????" Now, every 14 days it seems like the band-aid that keeps us going. Strive to live your life so when you wake up in the morning and your feet hit the floor, the devil says "Oh crap, he's up." | |||
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I'm also a LEO- 32 years this year. Worked for 22 for a city department. Retired (If you call staying home for a week retiring) and then came to work for the Sheriff's Office. 57 yoa and a road patrol deputy on midnite shift- it's 0421 hours as I'm typing this. Still love the job and could not imagine doing anything else. It's not the same job it was between the politics and public opinion, but it's still the most fun you can have with your clothes on. Even at this age I still enjoy the physical aspect and do my best to keep in shape so I can do 2 more years- that's the plan for now. | |||
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| Banned for showing his ass |
The same in my earlier years on the street ... police work was fun. I started as a young cop working in a black community. Always felt welcomed ... shooting some hoops with kids, helping fix bicycles (even bringing in spare parts I had from home), flagged over to join in on the summertime front yard bbqs, at a nearby call and invited in Thanksgiving Day for a meal and dessert ... the list goes on. Over time, things slowly changed. We would even hang out both on and off duty with firemen ... meals in the fire station together to shooting/hunting trips and celebrating family birthdays together. As old timers we stayed in touch, but the younger troops showed no interest in developing professional nor community relationships. Not sure what happened over the years, decades. | |||
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