What do you do or did you do to earn a living?

[blocker]

After high school spent 4 years in us air farce. That gave me background for 28 years in us state department as communicator/travelling technician. Moved on to Boeing corp for another 20 years as communications technician, retired for second time and now restoring my first gen camaro!

[bruce]

Have been a minister in local pastoral ministry since December of 1979. Moving to a new appointment in June. Fully expect I will retire from full-time ministry and then continue working with churches that cannot afford full-time pastoral ministry. Sincerely. bruce.

[S.A. Boggs]

Have been a minister in local pastoral ministry since December of 1979. Moving to a new appointment in June. Fully expect I will retire from full-time ministry and then continue working with churches that cannot afford full-time pastoral ministry. Sincerely. bruce.

Brother Bruce, I have a 90 year old friend who is a "retired" pastor and an 80 YO one. Pastors never retire being "called" as far as our church is concerned. My friends seem as busy as ever doing God's work. I am happy that I never got the call, have a hard time turning the other check!
Sam

[1563621]

Grad. HS 1972, went to college 1.5 years. Worked nights as a union stagehand. Liked it so stayed. Worked with Ali, mickey Rooney, Dustin Hoffman, danced with Ann Miller, Went to dinner with julie Newmar. Later after 30 years worked rock concerts, rod stewart, kid rock, springsteen. Got hurt on job in 08. had to retire disabled.

[bruce]

Brother Bruce, I have a 90 year old friend who is a "retired" pastor and an 80 YO one. Pastors never retire being "called" as far as our church is concerned. My friends seem as busy as ever doing God's work. I am happy that I never got the call, have a hard time turning the other check!
Sam

Turning the other cheek is not so hard. It's when you run out of cheeks to turn that things get touchie! Sincerely. bruce.

[rayg]

Army, factory worker, machinist, Police Chief, then a City/County Police & fire consolidated support services director. Ray

[Dick Hosmer]

Graduated HS 1955 - 1.5 years college - architectural draftsman - project manager in specialty door design/manufacture - retired 2001 - antique store owner - plan to retire for good this year - researcher/author.

[pcox]

Thirty-five years as a Boilermaker.

[sid]

Reply to a question from S.A. Boggs

"What was your practice centered on, mine was chemical dependence with the criminal background individuals.
Sam"

After getting my doctorate from Temple University I went to work for the Devereux Foundation. There I became Director Of The Psychological Clinic and ran one of the biggest programs of it's kind in the country. During this time I also trained as a psychoanalyst. Much of my study was under a former faculty member of the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute who had moved to New York City. Eventually I also published 2 textbooks on psychoanalysis. In my private practice I treated children and adults with very serious emotional problems. Of course I saw many people with addiction problems during this time, but only for evaluation. These patients were referred out to other people who specialized in this sort of thing.

In addition to my practice I also engaged in other professional activities over the years. I worked as a consultant to schools, clinics and about 2 dozen police departments. The latter involved administering tests to screen out candidates who would not do well as law enforcement officers. We eliminated those who were deficient in intelligence, reading and math skills, or who had really serious mental health issues.

Lastly, for a time I was also a consultant in selection of player personnel for the Philadelphia Eagles, Denver Broncos, and Los Angeles Rams. This was a very long time ago but one of the most enjoyable activities in my professional career.

[jim-d]

After discharge from the Navy in 1969, worked as a collector for Beneficial Finance for 6 months (really bad job), then spent my career as a journeyman splicer for the local telephone company. Retired, full pension, in 1997

[S.A. Boggs]

Reply to a question from S.A. Boggs

"What was your practice centered on, mine was chemical dependence with the criminal background individuals.
Sam"

After getting my doctorate from Temple University I went to work for the Devereux Foundation. There I became Director Of The Psychological Clinic and ran one of the biggest programs of it's kind in the country. During this time I also trained as a psychoanalyst. Much of my study was under a former faculty member of the Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute who had moved to New York City. Eventually I also published 2 textbooks on psychoanalysis. In my private practice I treated children and adults with very serious emotional problems. Of course I saw many people with addiction problems during this time, but only for evaluation. These patients were referred out to other people who specialized in this sort of thing.

In addition to my practice I also engaged in other professional activities over the years. I worked as a consultant to schools, clinics and about 2 dozen police departments. The latter involved administering tests to screen out candidates who would not do well as law enforcement officers. We eliminated those who were deficient in intelligence, reading and math skills, or who had really serious mental health issues.

Lastly, for a time I was also a consultant in selection of player personnel for the Philadelphia Eagles, Denver Broncos, and Los Angeles Rams. This was a very long time ago but one of the most enjoyable activities in my professional career.

My hat is off to you, I like working with anti-socials with a chemical addiction. What irritated me most was having to justify TX to bureaucrats who had no inkling to what needed to be done, just never enough time to do it. 90 days is just a start with the 12 step program which is continual.
Sam

[Dan in NH]

Still employed as an electrical/mechanical assembler. Mostly building machines that make game boards or book covers. Also was a volunteer firefighter for 27 years doing everything from interior attack to operating pumper and ladder trucks.

[DarylBruce]

I was a high school teacher and Dean of discipline

[barretcreek]

Had the usual kid jobs, worked in a warehouse right out of HS. Got a B.S.Mar.Eng. and studied Soil Microbiology for my master's. Just finished auditing a course on coding (Python). Going to school with the kiddies was interesting.
Currently Unemployable due to Attitude; gonna have to put the coding to work on various schemes.

[Dolt]

Built a business out of white washing mouse turds and selling it for rice. Then I diversified and created a machine that could separate fly crap from pepper. I am a millionaire by the way.