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What does the average Guzzist do for a living?

Ex sailor, changed careers about 12 years ago and became a firefighter.

Beemer
1200Sport

Melbourne, Australia
 
Hello everyone, since I'm lucky enough to own more than one bike, I need more than one job to help pay for it all! My fulltime job is Director of Environmental Compliance for a small independent petroleum distirbutor. About a year ago I started Oxon Investment Group, L.L.C. which is involved in residential rental properties. Finally, my favorite job is teaching others to ride as I am a Motorcycle Safety Instructor (Rider Coach) during the warmer months.

Add it all together and it is hard to get bored!

Charlie
1200 Sport (red)
 
Im a self employed aircraft airframe/engine mech,but would much prefer to be working on bikes 24/7 B) after 31 years in this game i've really had enough :S .
 
The romance of flying has rubbed off? ;)

At the start of this thread, my first thought was "is there such thing as an average Guzzist, please define" ... still not sure, but we are getting a picture of an interesting spread and a leitmotiv which can be described as not your average blue/white collar job :)
 
I was a boiler operator in the US Navy, then power plants till my ears still ring, now BLM near Moab , Been growing Chardonnay and Cabernet For 16 years make wine ,life is good love my boyfriend and my bike
 
janders wrote:
I was a boiler operator in the US Navy, then power plants till my ears still ring, now BLM near Moab , Been growing Chardonnay and Cabernet For 16 years make wine ,life is good love my boyfriend and my bike
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Hey J,

Did you do boilers on any ships? I'm a retired Chief Gunner's Mate, 1/3 active, 2/3 reserves (1969-1994).

Did you ever make any of the Panguitch rallies?

We do ride up to St. George, and Zion occasionally, if you ever wanted to hook-up for lunch.
 
Hello;

I work for a large global company that Sponsors the Champion World Super Bike Team for Ducati! (Oh yes we make some printing and copying equipment as well)...... We have an X at each end of our name...
 
sbaker wrote:
Hello;

I work for a large global company that Sponsors the Champion World Super Bike Team for Ducati! (Oh yes we make some printing and copying equipment as well)...... We have an X at each end of our name...
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Most girls working in an office are named after your company...... aren't they? :P
 
I've been happily working inside the evil military industrial complex for 26 years after completing 8 years in the Marine Corps as an avionics tech (F4J, RF4B, & EA6A) and 5 years in the Navy as an in flight tech on a P3. My current program has me working on a defensive laser system that keeps our troops from getting blown out of the sky by those nasty heat seeking shoulder fired rocket launchers and missiles. I like what I do and don't even think about retirement. B)
 
Never been in this lounge before, thought I'd take alook. Somehow for the last 20 years I've been paid to be a helicopter mechanic. Spent 14 years overhauling and rebuilding them at a Bell helicopter service center, andvfor the last 6 years i've been a supervisory engineer (we're called aircraft maintenance engineers up here in Canada) for the air ambulance service in Ontario working on Sikorsky S-76A helicopters. As for retirement I'm on that special aviation package it's called...Freedom 85!
 
Went from Santa Monica HS straight into the Navy because I joined the reserves at 17 1/2 before anyone new what Vietnam was. It did however, help me avoid being drafted into cannon fodder in some jungle somewhere. It was afterwards we learned what Vietnam was. But it got me away from my crazy family. Left active duty two years later as an Machinist Mate E3 on the USS Eldorado which took me all over the place in the Pacific but mostly to Subic Bay, PI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Eldorado_(AGC-11). See also the Lane Victory a close resemblance in San Pedro, CA http://www.lanevictory.org/ Spent 41 years with General Telephone. GTE, Verizon as first a telephone installer, working mostly BelAir, Brentwood, Santa Monica then went into the switchroom in an era where I got to see telecommunications grow from tin cans and strings, to by step switching, to fiber optics.
Things started to get sucky, I got older, and I got tired of doing more with less, and working with know nothings.
It seems to me that there are many companies that are chasing off their key employees by doing more with less these days. The talent is going to the dogs.
Just my opinion.

I am now retired here in Cathedral City where today I get to paint the entire interior of the house. Something that I fear will take forever.

I also take on the occasional sexual therapist job that may involve circus clowns, dwarfs, rubber sheets, large family pets, small farm animals, stunt double in porn flicks, etc.
Viva Viagra!
 
After apprenticeship and tech college, I gained experience and did 27 years as a project engineer, part of a team that designed and built special equipment for the front end of mainly big lift trucks to handle large and awkward loads. Plenty of job satisfaction when it all came together...:)

Took early retirement at 58 after having a bit of a heart attack.

Never intended to stop working completely so am currently working part-time for the Nat. Health Service as a Porter/Handyman at a Child Development Centre.
Get spoiled by the nice ladies there and I get to drill a few holes and fix some stuff.....:laugh:
And its great to see the kids slowly getting better....:cheer:

Eric B)
 
30 years producing software, last 28 with the same company. StormShearon may test some of my stuff indirectly ;-)
only another 13 years to go until I can afford to retire now that the pension schemes are going tits up.

Anyone want to buy an unused BSc Hons Chemistry?
 
erix2..........good on ya man, great job, let me know when your retiring so I can take over.

janders, you a redhead? send pic's,lol

Paper trade, 30 years, converting and now corrugating, (those brown boxes you pick up in the superstores).
 
Formerly a stonemason ( but still get my hands dusty) and now a works supervisor for the war graves commission. I travel the uk repairing restoring war memorials. After 20 odd years working on castles and stately homes mostly work in cemeteries. Classed as the second oldest profession in the world. Chipper
 
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