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Old Oct 3, 2013 | 02:02 PM
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Previously owned small business's, sold the last one 5-6 years ago and retired.
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Old Oct 3, 2013 | 02:08 PM
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Previously owned small business's, sold the last one 5-6 years ago and retired.
Was good seeing you and Mr Bill last month!!

(...currently furloughed) Wildland Aerial Firefighter and Airtanker Base Manager for the U.S. Forest Service.

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Old Oct 3, 2013 | 02:51 PM
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Originally Posted by FormerlyFiero
10 years retired after 27 years as a maintenance millwright at a large waste water treatment plant. Anything from fractional HP pumps to 1500 HP air compressors
"It may be s##t to you but it's my bread and butter"
I designed WWTP's for 20yr, then moved to doing HVAC and plumbing design for the labs and out buildings. Loved the incoming grit chambers and all the weird stuff coming down the channels !!
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Old Oct 3, 2013 | 03:03 PM
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Old Oct 3, 2013 | 03:21 PM
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I'm a CNC machinist and programmer. And, in my spare time, I empty beer cans when I'm not driving my vette
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Old Oct 3, 2013 | 03:43 PM
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Old Oct 3, 2013 | 03:54 PM
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27 years and counting with Boeing. Started in '85 with Rockwell International and Reagan's Star War's programs. (my first clearance) Moved to C-17, wrote first installation paper, took a detour to Boeing Everett as an ME, back to Long Beach as a Contract ME, rolled to salary, then many years in Change/Config Management. Saw the writing on the wall, took a job up in the PNW for our Advanced Developmental Composites group - creating processes. 25yrs C17, 2yrs other stuff. Plan on retiring in 5yrs or so...
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Old Oct 3, 2013 | 04:02 PM
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Old Oct 3, 2013 | 04:27 PM
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Originally Posted by JETninja
27 years and counting with Boeing. Started in '85 with Rockwell International and Reagan's Star War's programs.
Were you in Anaheim originally? We had a chunk of that stuff early on.
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Old Oct 3, 2013 | 05:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Lee DeRaud
Were you in Anaheim originally? We had a chunk of that stuff early on.
Seal Beach, I was a Electro-Optics Laser Tech, highest Union position. When the contracts dried up, We were (3 of us, I had 1yr seniority, other two had 20+ ) laying ethernet lines for awhile. Got offered a job in Anaheim, but figured C-17 was the better option.
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Old Oct 3, 2013 | 06:04 PM
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Lots of 'speed' people in the plant including 2 that I know of in the Guiness Book of Records for various classes of land speed. They are go to guys for me when any type of question comes up that I don't know about my car.
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Old Oct 3, 2013 | 06:30 PM
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Old Oct 3, 2013 | 06:33 PM
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Originally Posted by JETninja
Got offered a job in Anaheim, but figured C-17 was the better option.
Probably so, as long as you weren't commuting in from Norco or something. You would have ended up in LB/SB/HB anyway when they closed Anaheim a couple years back.
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Old Oct 3, 2013 | 06:46 PM
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Originally Posted by jdsaengine
I designed WWTP's for 20yr, then moved to doing HVAC and plumbing design for the labs and out buildings. Loved the incoming grit chambers and all the weird stuff coming down the channels !!
Anything that would fit down a manhole and some you just had to wonder Weirdest was a boogie board, no sign of the surfer though.
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Old Oct 3, 2013 | 07:52 PM
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chemical operator inside a refinery in Lima Ohio, no retirement insight , lol
Husky?

Nothing exciting here. Administrative Director at a hospital. Before that 13 years in the Air Force.... Medical Logistics.... Thus my login name.
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Old Oct 3, 2013 | 07:58 PM
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Old Oct 3, 2013 | 08:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Lee DeRaud
Probably so, as long as you weren't commuting in from Norco or something. You would have ended up in LB/SB/HB anyway when they closed Anaheim a couple years back.

Actually, our first house was in Southridge (south of Fontana) and it was a long commute. Only there 5yrs though, moved to Mission Viejo after a brief stay in HB. Just sold that house last year to move up here.
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Old Oct 3, 2013 | 10:10 PM
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Old Oct 3, 2013 | 10:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Lee DeRaud
Were you in Anaheim originally? We had a chunk of that stuff early on.
I was at Rockwell Anaheim during '89 - '91
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Old Oct 3, 2013 | 11:24 PM
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For the last 25 years, worked as an engineer, manager, and director in several manufacturing companies including an auto manufacturer and several tier one automotive parts suppliers.

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