Reefers! What is Your Profession?!

[ScubaSkeets]

Retired Air Force. Current defense contractor

 

[CasperOe]

Master on board LNG gas tankers

 

[cjtabares]

I am a stay at home dad. Before that I helped manage the families coffee/donut shops, hated it, so left after 15 years. Lol. My youngest is now in daycare so looking for a job currently. Got a web developer certificate last December, but when I finished pretty much all companies put a freeze on hiring developers. So honestly, at the ripe old age of 38, I am not sure what I want to do now.

 

[tsharpe291]

30 year carpenter.

 

[RedEyeReefer]

Thanks for the thread. Some very talented professions listed so far. The amount of people in this hobby from the medical field is interesting to me.
I get billionaires up into their winter penthouses here in paradise(SWFL). I'm in the vertical transportation industry...elevators and escalators. Started in construction and now have a service/maintenance gig. Some days I'm a highly trained, highly skilled electrical/mechanical troubleshooter. But most days I'm just a high paid janitor for heavy equipment. A little wipe with a rag here, a little drop of oil there...
My profession helps me in this hobby because I make stupid amounts of green every year to keep up with these money pits in my living room. Our trade teaches us most building trades skills. I can frame, fabricate, plumb, do electrical installation/troubleshoot. Not much I can't do, and if I'm unsure, I'm not scared to teach myself and figure it out on my own. I'm very scheduled on my maintenance task at work on all the different equipment I maintain and that has made managing and just staying on top of the tank before issues pop up a breeze.

Added bonus: the rooftop views I get to see daily.

 

[Reefer Matt]

Retired Air Force. Current defense contractor

Thank you for your service!

 

[JJP9398]

Retired Air Force. Not a nonner.(If you know you know), HVAC installer now.

 

[Minifoot77]

7 years usmc so no retirement and now I'm a deisel mechanic. I'm a jack of all trades and a master of none

 

[TehBrainz]

Project Engineer (Program Manager) for a
specialty plastics company. Essentially a more technical PM than what is typical in the role. So I'm in charge of keeping projects in scope as well as providing engineering insight and designing DOEs and validations of equipment and processes. Been doing this and quality engineering for the last 15 years.

 

[tsharpe291]

thanks to all of you active duty and retired vets!

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

Dang. I never new that you do delivery. I got a long list of pharmaceuticals we could collaborate on?  Mostly recreations stuff, but occasionally I could use some antibiotics for the reef. THis is awesome!

lol

At the moment I’m working on pills in place of shots for poorly absorbed peptide drugs like some of the new obesity and diabetes products.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

my window to the world:

I almost cannot imagine something more frightening. Even the Seattle needle turned my legs to jelly.

 

[Johnd651]

Currently an Assistant Ops Director for an artist grade paint company. I was in quality and sanitation in two major yogurt companies prior, and semiconductor metrology (not meteorology) before that. My undergrad was in biochem and grad school was in biomedical engineering which helps with the chemistry part of keeping fish. In grad school I worked with Pacific Sand Castle worm adhesive for medical implants and coral restoration. It was cool getting salt by the pallet.

 

[Red_Beard]

I almost cannot imagine something more frightening. Even the Seattle needle turned my legs to jelly.

Our old division manager was like that, scared to climb past the third rung on a ladder. We used to tease him about needing a victim for tower rescue training
But really though, you would be surprised how many young people head into climbing full of confidence and lock up 30ft from the ground on their first climb. Then they actually do need rescued lol. You are not alone!

 

[BrokenReefer]

Owner of a commercial roofing company, owner of an architectural sheet metal company, and partners in a young start-up BBQ rub and spice company. (See avatar )

 

[Reefer Matt]

Retired Air Force. Not a nonner.(If you know you know), HVAC installer now.

7 years usmc so no retirement and now I'm a deisel mechanic. I'm a jack of all trades and a master of none

Thank you for your service!

 

[JoJosReef]

Immunologist, biostatistician, epidemiologist more or less in that order, specialized in infectious diseases, subspecialized in diseases of lower- and middle-income countries, sub- sub-specialized in proteomics-based target discovery. Current favorites are malaria, gonorrhea, meningitis, syphilis, and cryptosporidiosis. Also antimicrobial resistance problem bugs, e.g., Klebsiella. How does this help with the hobby? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I guess I know a bit about microbes :~)

 

[DIYreefer]

Operator at a crude oil storage and loading facility. We move a ridiculous volume of oil on a daily basis with destinations that span the globe. My job consists of making sure that it all goes smoothly, basically. Fortunately, it does. I can confidently say that we truly do hold ourselves to an even higher standard than what is required by law/regulations and we are VERY highly regulated (as we should be).

It pays well enough and I'm home alot. Great work/life balance and I get to grow a bunch of corals in my free time. I really can't complain.

 

[Harpo]

I design bolted joints for clamp load critical chassis applications for Chrysler

 

[wmgordon]

Retired Chemist / Hazardous Waste Disposal Manager