What is your occupation?
 

A few of the other forums I belong to had a thread like this and it was real fun. So,

What is your occupation?

I'll start.

I started an internet company about 8 year ago and it grew to 1300 employees. Then I started a Hummer limo company with 1 limo and its grown into a full time biz and all sorts of different limos. I still have the internet biz and do alot of stuff online that makes money, alot of it now has to do with SEO (search engine optimization), and some stocks on the side :D

So what is your occupation??

Sold dialup back in the day, then sold company and started traveling around the world investing in real estate.

Newest project is small Boutique Hotel in Colombia. Just today I put up temporary web-page to show my friends. I only spent 15 minutes making the page so it looks really bad and the photos were done in bad light, but here it is: http://www.LaCasaMedellin.com

Next project will probably be a ranch in Argentina.

I'm a GED teacher in a max security state women's prison. No kidding! I started out teaching part -time while I was in grad school working on a M.Ed. in Adult Education and things just evolved. Prior to this, I lived in South Korea teaching corporate and university English classes.

Landscaper

I have a DJ Entertainment company. We also do lighting rentals and plasma displays for corporate events and all that. www.agesevents.com

Granted it has been dormant someone else started this topic a long time ago:

What's Your Occupation?

;) (search is your friend)

In my day job I train manufacturing employees how to be more efficient / globally competitive through the use of LEAN tools and Six Sigma methodologies, however over the last year I've gotten involved in network marketing (which everyone said to stay away from) with great results and my wife and I are looking forward to retiring in the near future.

Dir. Ad Operations for mobile search company 4INFO.NET

Text your favorite sports team or ticker symbol to 44636 (4INFO) for information on your cell phone.

Pharmacist
moving to Chicago soon...............?

I have two jobs, during the week I am a safety-compliance electrical engineer (environmental police) and on the weekends I am a barber (a gig I picked up to pay for college). So I can cut your hair and tell you how you are going to be in trouble with OSHA. Haha!

engineer (I.E., M.E.).

my current job is negotiating defense contracts between a large corporation and the D.O.D.

Small animal veterinarian.

Thought about doing large animal work, but too many of the formerly large animal practitioners/now-instructors seemed to ambulate with pronounced limps. Seemed risky.

And yes, unless it gets out of hand, I'll try to answer questions about members' pooches and kitties.

Driver for th Porsche GT3 series race cars.... I wish ;)

QA analyst for Software development company
We make software which streamlines & lightens the work load for Recruitment firms.

Retired CPA. Worked for KPMG in my working days.

Tom

Perhaps one of the admins might see fit to merge this thread into the other Occupation thread?

http://986forum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11359&page=1&pp=20


Actually, no wait--that's not even the ORIGINAL Occupation thread. Three need to merge into one. :)

http://986forum.com/forums/showthread.php?p=99311#post99311

Hey Darkhamr, I am an operations engineer and a Six Sigma Greenbelt :cheers:

Nice, how are you enjoying it? Great stuff, but takes a lot of management support and courage. I actually find the teaching aspect the most rewarding.

Client Relationship Manager to the banking world with relevance to the electronic banking segment.

Six Sigma High-jack....Darkhamr

...was just about to begin my six sigma training while still employed by one of the nations largest banks a few years back...it seemed all the rage then...now that particular bank is my largest client and I do not hear any buzz about it anymore...
Do you think the method is losing steam or falling out of favor abit with large corps.?...shoot me a PM if you have a moment to chat. Thanks

Los Angeles Real Estate Appraiser.

Mike

I teach guys how to pick up chicks.

I work for Pioneer Hi-Bred as a Project Manager in the Facilities Development Department. I travel the US and Europe managing construction projects for our Research Operations.

Im a finance director for a big auto dealership. I take care of all the loans and aftersale. And yes i can answer any question you may have about the buying of new cars.

Dan,
What are your top few major tips on not getting ripped off by the dealer for everybody here. :)

Top tips...
1. go to a non highway dealer. stores like that tend to have bad buisness habits.
2. Do research on the car or truck to make sure its in you budget.
3. When you go to the dealer go to do buisness. Dealers thrive on that on the spot delivery and will give you a better deal that way.
4.be realistic, dont expect to get a $50000.00 car for 25k and be at 250 per month. A typical discount is between 10-14% off of sticker plus any rebates that are offered.( this may vary at model end due to manufacture support)
5.Many dealers will negoate monthly payment, do not get caught up in this, this is a very good way for us to make more money becouse it takes your focus off the price of the car. Stick to price, then go to payment.

Awesome. 14% off sticker sounds like alot, how often does 10-14% happen? What about on used cars, what a good % off as a buyer?

PM sent Boxter.

Preowned cars are harder to say. most of myine are marked up 3-5k. nut if you get a special car( real hard to find, clean etc) it can be more.

i.t. service for ge

Similar here, corporate hack pushing LEAN at a large company.

we still push 6S hard, but mostly because our customer likes the appearance of frequent discrete cost-cutting initiatives. maybe it's our corporation's management style, but most lean / 6S events lack follow-through and don't produce results. sometimes the process owner injects himself into the process to try to sway results, too. frustrating. a lot of people at our company are starting to think of lean events / kaizan / VSM as a waste of a week with a birthday party
on friday. again, though, the customer loves it.

i think sometimes american management corrupts the spirit of the japanese ideas.

I sell homes for palm harbor homes in AZ :dance:

Pharmacist, i make drugs haha :-) and i do some real estate on the side

HAHA! My colleagues are huddled around me and we are crying from laughing so hard at this!!! BTW what kind of cake do you use? We had to cut costs back to McCain's frozen ones. :D

Do you think? LOL
Can I nominate you for understatement of the year? :cheers:

Opm
 

Other People's Money.

Manager of Investment department at local bank.
We work with correspondent brokers in MIA and NY (in the US).

[QUOTE=Darkhamr]BTW what kind of cake do you use? We had to cut costs back to McCain's frozen ones. :D[quote]

i checked. aparently we've cut back on the cake, too. the logical result of a kaizen to cut the cost of kaizens......

self employed

I'm a statistician for a large financial services corporation.

Associate Principal at consulting structural engineering firm in downtown San Diego.

I design buildings and kiss architects asses for a living.

Licensed Civil and Structural Engineer in Cali and Structural Engineer in Hawaii.

I sell life insurance, does anyone want to buy any? :D

bronx,

Maybe you can tell me if this is a good deal...

I was just quoted :

$3077 for $300k variable

$1995 for $1M term

$1060 for $500k term

$568 fot $250k term

( Male Preferred Tobacco User Age 36 )

Nick