Reefers! What is Your Profession?!

[Reefer Matt]

What’s up Reefers!
We can’t all be Marine Biologists or Oceanographers, our lives take us on different paths sometimes. I’m a Journeyman Millwright of 20 years, basically an industrial mechanic. My super power is the ability to look at mechanical things that fail or need servicing, and figure out how to do so.

This ability and training allows me to diagnose and rectify many mechanical issues with reef tanks. I am also conditioned to perform regular maintenance routines on my tanks as well.

So my question to you is, what is YOUR profession, and how does it help you with reefing?

 

[Doctorgori]

Retired: Military, Goverment & Auto
edit: forgot to add: being retired helps because of the extra time between doing nothing and Sportscenter

 

[Daveph68]

Retired, Defense Contractor, Electrical Engineer

 

[ShakeyGizzard]

Similar here, I work maintenance at an auto manufacturing plant . I work in what we call the weld shop, where the metal body is put together . I repair Kawasaki Robotics, hydraulic controls for metal press , electrical, and pneumatic controls along with Alan Bradly PLC programing.

 

[OutColdCRNA]

I’m a nurse anesthesiologist (CRNA). I think I love reefing because it allows me to think and make micro adjustments to make my tank look and run better. Same nature as keeping someone stable during surgery. Micro adjustments and tweaking.

 

[DDenny]

Welding/Agriculture Teacher at a High School

 

[driciladr]

Regional Vice President of food services global company: prior owned my own restaurant management co for 15+ years. I also sew kids clothes with my little side biz ya know in the free time I don’t have.

I also travel for work so the tank is just a 15 nano on near auto pilot with a little help from hubby when I’m gone.

Have a 4 year old and 16 year old , chickens and four other tanks all mine too. 55 goldfish tank, four big guys. Guppy madness 10gal. Sons 2.5 glo and my 5 gallon neo Carolinas shrimp tank.

 

[ShakeyGizzard]

Forgot to add how I think it helps in Reefing. Well, problem solving is my job and putting my tanks together with needed components is part of the enjoyment itself. I am heavy in the DIY part so it helps with costs of the hobby.

 

[ErikVR]

Business owner / software developer in the Microsoft ERP software field.

 

[Chris Spaulding]

25 + years as a commercial electrician / project management / Forman. Left the construction field in 2010 and opened up a independent Fishing Tackle store.

 

[littlebigreef]

Web development, mostly front end centered around building and maintaining WP sites. I’ve also done a lot of interactive pieces over the years so it’s a good amount of researching, tinkering, building then figuring out how to do it better the next time. Can’t imagine how that’d be helpful in reefing ;-)

My grad school work was in Library-Information Sciences so again, researching and figuring organization and the relationship between things. That’s served me well in my main area if interest in reefing- zoa collecting.

 

[ColorMeGone]

Retired but own mountain air custom air guns and work/build custom air guns to keep me busy. (although I have a Blue Shrimp tank and desk bowl, Tetra tank, and a Koi Pond) Nano reef tank is in the on-hold stage since I am selling my house to build a bigger Koi Pond. Will have plenty of time to make Reefing one of my hobbies once I get started up. I really want to get started now but don't want to have to tear it down when moving. Will have enough on my plate. 

 

[mfinn]

I am a retired construction worker. I worked for 45 years as a union heat and frost insulator.
That covered most every type of insulation except house insulation.
My specific trade really didn't help much in this hobby, but it did give me the confidence to work with my hands and build many things. Stands, canopies, tanks, skimmers, and problem solve.

 

[MariahP]

Marine biologist. I discovered a new species of shark in grad school https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squalus_clarkae

Now I work in the Senate doing ocean policy.

 

[DJF]

Software Engineer. Enjoy the tech side of reefing as much as the symbiosis.

 

[albano]

Retired 3rd generation auto dealer…



Had reef tanks in each store since 1973…many new people became interested in SW and reefs!

 

[Pvtgloss]

Window cleaner

 

[ThaBeast]

I’m just a carpet cleaner…

 

[smalta87]

What’s up Reefers!
We can’t all be Marine Biologists or Oceanographers, our lives take us on different paths sometimes. I’m a Journeyman Millwright of 20 years, basically an industrial mechanic. My super power is the ability to look at mechanical things that fail or need servicing, and figure out how to do so.

This ability and training allows me to diagnose and rectify many mechanical issues with reef tanks. I am also conditioned to perform regular maintenance routines on my tanks as well.

So my question to you is, what is YOUR profession, and how does it help you with reefing?

I’m an Environmental Specialist for County Natural Resources Dept. Being in the sciences, water testing helps me a great deal with water chemistry, Biology, and all that fun stuff going on in our tanks. I’m always fascinated to still learn new things every day!

 

[Gregg @ ADP]

Career #1A: high school IB biology and Enviro Sci teacher. This is my 5th year of teaching.

Career #1B: reef aquarium design, installation, and management company owner. 20 yrs in business, 30 yrs of work experience.

I haven’t had my own tank for over 20 yrs, but set up a 180 mixed reef in my classroom this year. It’s been fun. My work experience helps me because I have probably seen every possible thing that could ever happen in a reef tank, and have probably seen them at least 100 times.