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Actually I am retired from a large school district in my area, 38 years there. My regular job now consist of lawn maintenance and everything from plumbing to electricity. I really don't know how I had time to go to work before I retired.lol
 

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Pipe welder, carbon, stainless, tubing, manual and automatic. I have been a Superintendent since 2008. I still get time under the hood though. I also teach and certify welders for the company when we need more pipe or structural welders. Also do rigging, millwright work, and general shop fabrication. Been with the company 20 years and counting and have never had a layoff. I tell the guys to make themselves useful in all that we do and you can be working while the guys that can only do one thing are struggling if that specialty is not currently needed at the time.
 

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OK, as I previously stated I'm a Tax Preparer, and I am busy as Hell for 2.5 months of the year, but I consider myself to be semi retired now.

I worked for the State of NY for 32.5 years and retired as an Audit Manager/Certified Fraud Examiner. I did audits all over the State, from Riverhead on Long Island to Glens Falls (Near the Adirondack Mtns) to Niagara Falls (Western part of the State) and caught both a Priest and a Rabbi with their hands in the cookie jar during my career.

But most of my time was spent in the finest parts of NYC ... Bed Stuy, South Bronx, Harlem and other places no sane person wanted to be. There were some locations they did not allow us to go to w/o police escort, but usually we were on our own, often in places just as bad. I identified enough different kinds of frauds that I could write a book. The biggest one was in Brooklyn and about $20 million/yr had been going south for several years, all paid for with fraudulent Medicaid Billings. I got to the bottom of it, working alone, in about two weeks. The IG's office had 8 people assigned to it for over 3 months and they had nothing! Their lead auditor requested that I train them, which did nothing but piss off their higher ups and my higher ups cause they were the ones that were supposed to have the expertise in this area.

I notice most of the people here have a main job plus a side job or two, as I always did also. No slackers here, part of what make this such a good site. Also, a lot of different backgrounds brings in a great pool of knowledge, great to see.
 

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I'm a heavy equipment operator that builds saws full time, I've cut timber and ran equipment and worked on saws my whole life, the operating and logging got slow in the early 2000's so I started building saws and ain't stopped.
Got cows and all that fun stuff to.
 
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