I was a _________ before trucking....

Hey, where did you get my picture?

 

just a printer? did you ever aspire to be more? like a fax machine and copier too??

No....after 26yrs of it...I decided to retire at the age of 45. A fax machine just does what hes told to do all day and a copier does the same thing over and over again. But I have been busy during my retirement ..... I now can write.

 

Washed cars door-to-door (12 YO)
Mowed lawns (13-15 YO)
Package boy/Clerk/Stock boy (16-17 YO)
Butcher's Apprentice (17 YO)
Computer Tech (USAF)

post college (GI Bill):

Communications Eng
Oilfield Electronics Co. Eng/Owner
Industrial Fountains Electronics Owner/Manuf
Aerospace Eng (Gen Aviation/Commercial/Mil/NASA)

post Aerospace industry layoffs (90's): casualty of the 'cold war' being over!!

AOL Tech Support
Cable TV Construction/Maint/Installer
Underground Utilities Locator ('blue staker') for Gas, Telephone, Fiber, Electric utilites
Truck Driver (OTR & Local daycab)

 

US Navy.... post high school...Electronics/Sonar Technician...15 years...in other words, jack of all trades.

Frito Lay...Production line mechanic/Electronic tech...I worked on the lines that made Fritos/Doritos

Solar Turbines...Electrician...wiring control boxes on Gas turbine compressors and oil field pumps.

Truck driver as a primary way to earn a dollar since then.

I did learn to be a fairly decent machinist(manual Lathes and mills) along the way. I do bolt action center fire rifle work on the side...mostly for myself.

 

Dish washer/bus boy

Combat Engineer/US ARMY

Assembly/ we manufactured the the machines that make toilet paper, paper towels and napkins/layedoff after 9/11/01

Truss Assembler/ but now everyone is loosing their homes not building new ones, so I will be starting truck diveing school in January and I can't wait

 

my current occ. is lawn maint. / owner
i have had other bus. as well from

sheet metal fab. shop
pre-fab fireplace installer/sales

 

I owned my own retail Boot/Western wear business for 25 years.
Have been working for the home depot for the last 2 years, doing outside sales , Roofing ,Windows, Siding

 

I was a Mortgage Banker for over twenty nine years, before that I was in the USMC for nine years. Should have never left the Corps.

 

pizza fliper(pizza hut and little ceasers)
car detailer
84 lumber yard hand
yard jockey
now truck driver

 

well 8 years ago i was a construction worker.. now i drive otr or just in the southern states , and i have a construction business that my wife runs for the past 5 years.... i got a business mind but i did not want nothing to do with the construction anymore.. had a love for 18 wheelers, as my grandfather and father were both O/O for long periods of time..