What does everyone on here do for a living?

[dlundblad]

Ex finance exec in high tech,

Failed early retiree,

Now part of leadership at a startup.

You sound like my ex boss.

...not that that’s a bad thing.

 

[wpod]

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Could be worse I guess. Bit boring.

Messerschmitt? [sp]

 

[partspro]

Retired, Engineer and British Navy Frogman

 

[53' Stude]

Mechanic and a blood platelet donor and volunteer at food bank helping prepare and serve meals to homeless, etc

 

[AandPDan]

Started as an aircraft mechanic and worked up to line maintenance. After several airlines went bankrupt though I got tired of all the moving around chasing jobs.

Now, I maintain the automation that produces medical products.

 

[Leo99]

Most people have absolutely no idea how large and secure some of these data centers are. They’re something you’d see in a science fiction movie.

Scott

That they are. I've been to visit a few as part of my inspections of companies that store my company's data. One was in a cave in, I think, Tennessee. Another was under a very tall building in San Francisco. I performed an inspection of J&J's data center at their request and inspected several BMS data centers at their request. It's very common for pharmaceutical companies to bring in an independent 3rd party to inspect their systems. A lot of pharmaceutical companies have moved away from this model and now store our data in the "cloud" using a lot of SaaS applications. The advantage that these applications are available via an Internet browser and data stored via AWS (Amazon) and the software is upgraded formally by the software company and we don't need to hire numerous experts in each software that we use.

 

[Delta]

Industrial Maintenance Technician. Basically belts and conveyor systems and the electrical and PLC that goes with it. Pays the bills...

 

[Sam_Julier]

Retired. Formerly a salesman for 30 years.

 

[madeej11]

Yacht captain.

Nice! Lucky guy.

 

[Astro14]

How heavy are you?

About 205...

 

[philipp10]

Mechanical Engineer since 1984. Worked for a lot of crappy little companies and two decent ones. Mainly a design and analysis guy.

 

[measureman]

I'm an estimator for a large flooring company that services new home builders.
I've been in the flooring business for 42 years now.

 

[Warlord]

Retired policeman. Now I mow lawns a few days a week.

 

[55hambone]

I'm an electrician that was drafted by his employer to become the safety manager. I'm at the age where getting away from the physical side of work is a blessing. The work can be boring at times, but you don't want excitement in this job.

 

[Lubener]

Railroad track maintenance for the last 7 years. Currently working as a welder helper.

Cool, I always wanted to work for the railroad.

 

[tblt44]

Machinist

 

[Justinp91]

Cool, I always wanted to work for the railroad.

Boil in the summer and freeze in the winter. I was on the road for the first 7 years, now for the last 3 months I'm finally home with the family every night.

 

[slo town]

Rows of 20 diesel generators, each the size of a small bedroom.

100's of thousands of gallons of diesel fuel.

All for crucially needed, instantaneous, massive amounts of power, in the event of power outages.

Does that sound right slo ?

That and more. Things like geographically separated, duplicate data centers. We had a product set where one data center could literally be blown to pieces, but the second data center would take over in a few seconds or less, not losing a single transaction or any part of the workload. The workload was “mirrored“ on both data centers and was fully up to date on both. Other than a momentary delay of only a very few seconds, say 5 or 6, the end user wouldn’t know anything happened.

Scott

 

[tnt_motorsports]

Manufacturing engineer. Hockey referee for a side gig.

 

[NitroM3]

I'm an estimator for a large flooring company that services new home builders.
I've been in the flooring business for 42 years now.

You may know my best friend ? He works for Stanton