Reefers! What is Your Profession?!

[JohnD4g]

Retired Spacecraft Design Engineer.

 

[ISpeakForTheSeas]

YA/NA Fantasy author.

It helps me because it (surprisingly) involves a lot of researching on random topics, so it's helped me get a lot better researching reef-related stuff.

 

[1112-425XL]

Retired Telephone man. 35 years on poles and in manholes...

 

[biecacka]

Spaghetti warehouse Columbus Ohio of course.

Lol

Glad it’s back open! I haven’t been t since it reopened.


Corey

 

[BeanAnimal]

I did. I worked in Manhattan for about 46 years as a commercial construction electrician and started counting down about 44 days before I retired. I used to take the Long Island Rail Road every day and you normally sit on the same train on the same car every day so you get to know the people.

The last two years before I retired, every time I got on the train, all the people would yell out: "HOW MANY DAYS?"

Also while I was in Viet Nam we all had what was called a Short Time calendar. It had 365 places on it to color in and every day you filled in one. I think I still have it. I spent my life counting down. Now that I retired, I won.

Paul I would love to see your Short Time Calendar. Was it makeshift or a traditional drawing?

 

[HudsonReefer2.0]

The jobs dried up near me, but I was a furniture maker for like 8 months, and now I am a 20 year old with no job.

Appreciate that. I enjoyed working in the shop crafting custom cabinetry when in college

 

[RocketEngineer]

Retired Spacecraft Design Engineer.

Oh? Any you care to share with the audience?

 

[CBonito]

I'm a Bar/Restaurant Owner. But I worked in the tech industry for 26 years before that...which is why I do what I do now.

 

[Not_Erick]

Truck driver, lucky to be home everyday to enjoy my tank

 

[TattooedReef27]

I work in the oilfield and own a tattoo studio

 

[Floyd-]

Construction project manager working on air force bases

 

[Gumbies R Us]

I've been a CNA, had an EMT license but didn't do anything with it, and had nursing school experience but realized it wasn't for me. Now I do advertisement/marketing. Pretty vastly different career paths but I enjoy this more than what I did at the hospitals I worked at

 

[Doctorgori]

Retired Spacecraft Design Engineer.

If you have “organ donor” marked on your DL, I got 1st dibs on the brain
P.S. did you guys learn anything at all from Roswell or all we still basically lighting fires to reach the moon ?

 

[Curly11]

Multi-speciality Outpatient Clinic Executive. Having a tank has helped me learn to quarantine and manage the cohabitation of differing physicians in one tank building.

 

[Quintin]

Senior Software Solutions Architect, designing, implementing and integrating to real-time financial payment systems worldwide.

Moved to the US in 2019 and due to extensive travel for work, have not had a tank since 2016 but back in the game again.

Having the tank stops me from purely dreaming in code and gives me a bit of time to get my hands wet and dirty.

Love the technology aspect of it and gives me a bit of time to also integrate my own apps and code to try and automate the heck out of the tank.

Also an avid reader and love building up knowledge, so gives me a bit of time to research, read up and apply what I’ve learnt on the creatures and critters in our small part of the ocean.

 

[Tcook]

I'm a Bar/Restaurant Owner. But I worked in the tech industry for 26 years before that...which is why I do what I do now.

Is that IOMG or Dravit?

 

[CBonito]

Is that IOMG or Dravit?

haha It's Dravit! I love it. Looks like shark skin. Gray with a bronze sheen in the sun.

 

[Tuna Melt]

I work at a diversified investment manager, the type of place people colloquially refer to as a “hedge fund”. I specialize in private equity and credit investments in energy companies.

 

[Tcook]

haha It's Dravit! I love it. Looks like shark skin. Gray with a bronze sheen in the sun.

I’m at EOL and waiting for MY25 allocation.

 

[Quintin]

I work at a diversified investment manager, the type of place people colloquially refer to as a “hedge fund”. I specialize in private equity and credit investments in energy companies.

You guys must have made a killing since 2022.