so what was your career path

[glenn57]

thats cool.....thanks guys.

BOAR and LEECH........................................

[Gunner55]

thats cool.....thanks guys.

BOAR and LEECH........................................

  Was thinkin about postin yday until we went sideways then I decided to sit & watch for a bit.  I'm afraid mine will turn into 1 like JB's so I don't think I have time now. Maybe later.  

[glenn57]

First job was as a paperboy, high school was at little caesers pizza and Kmart. After high school I worked in a forging mill for a year. Went to tech school and I got an associates degree in mechanical drafting and an associates degree in architecture drafting. First job after that was in the engineering department of a plastic injection company doing all the quoting and some design as well as training all the QC inspectors. I left there after 10 years and went to another plastics company doing prototyping and quoting. Left there after 10 years and got the coffee shop. This is probably the best thing I’ve done, going from having $20 million plus worth of projects and deadlines on my desk to would you like cream and sugar in your coffee. Yes there is stress in owning your own business but nothing like working for someone else and all there B.S.

Hey Coffee, where is this coffee shop of yours?  Just incase some of us are in the area and need a cup of joe.   

dont let that stop ya............i order from him about every 2-3 months!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[glenn57]

thats cool.....thanks guys.

BOAR and LEECH........................................

  Was thinkin about postin yday until we went sideways then I decided to sit & watch for a bit.  I'm afraid mine will turn into 1 like JB's so I don't think I have time now. Maybe later.  

how long can it take to type a slacker from iowa!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Gunner55]

There we go........................ again.

[Coffee118]

First job was as a paperboy, high school was at little caesers pizza and Kmart. After high school I worked in a forging mill for a year. Went to tech school and I got an associates degree in mechanical drafting and an associates degree in architecture drafting. First job after that was in the engineering department of a plastic injection company doing all the quoting and some design as well as training all the QC inspectors. I left there after 10 years and went to another plastics company doing prototyping and quoting. Left there after 10 years and got the coffee shop. This is probably the best thing I’ve done, going from having $20 million plus worth of projects and deadlines on my desk to would you like cream and sugar in your coffee. Yes there is stress in owning your own business but nothing like working for someone else and all there B.S.

Hey Coffee, where is this coffee shop of yours?  Just incase some of us are in the area and need a cup of joe.   

dont let that stop ya............i order from him about every 2-3 months!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’m about 25 miles north east of Pittsburgh PA so anytime you are going to be in this area of the country let me know.

[Leech~~]

First job was as a paperboy, high school was at little caesers pizza and Kmart. After high school I worked in a forging mill for a year. Went to tech school and I got an associates degree in mechanical drafting and an associates degree in architecture drafting. First job after that was in the engineering department of a plastic injection company doing all the quoting and some design as well as training all the QC inspectors. I left there after 10 years and went to another plastics company doing prototyping and quoting. Left there after 10 years and got the coffee shop. This is probably the best thing I’ve done, going from having $20 million plus worth of projects and deadlines on my desk to would you like cream and sugar in your coffee. Yes there is stress in owning your own business but nothing like working for someone else and all there B.S.

Hey Coffee, where is this coffee shop of yours?  Just incase some of us are in the area and need a cup of joe.   

dont let that stop ya............i order from him about every 2-3 months!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’m about 25 miles north east of Pittsburgh PA so anytime you are going to be in this area of the country let me know.

Darn, yeah that would be about a $600 dollar cup from here! 

[mike89]

did some bartending too..  forgot about that.......

[GrandpaTom]

did some bartending too..  forgot about that.......

Me too...near Anoka.  Got fired for refusing to serve another drink to the boss's wife's boyfriend.  And that place no longer exists either.  LOL!!!  Oh ya, and while going to business school bar tended at the JR Ranch in Hudson.

[HD]

Lets see….
First thing I did to make money….hhhhmmmm
I had a paper route.
Then, when spring clean up came around every year. I would go around with my bike and wagon and collected all the old lawn mowers people were throwing away. I rebuilt them and sold them.
Next, I had a friend that, his family had stands at the state fair...so I worked there.
Then, I worked at a trap shooting range pulling trap.
Oh, then I worked at Country Kitchen for a couple years.
Then I worked at a full service gas station, changing tires and filling up cars.
After that...I worked cleaning office buildings
Then I worked at a DieCasting outfit making bomb parts for the government during the day, and bouncing at a bar at night.
Then, the government contracts ran out….So, I found a job at a different DieCasting outfit. Making parts for recreational vehicles, lawn mowers, chainsaws, weed whips etc.
Started to go back to school while I was working, got a masters in tooling, and became a process engineer. I been working here for the last 25, some odd years.

[Boar]

I like hotdogs.

[delcecchi]

Mines just boring.....so I won't. 

I thought you had a job managing some sheik''s harem on the secret floor of the kahler while he was at Mayo getting his plumbing fixed or something.

[Rebel SS]

I did. Secret Suite at St. Marys and two other secret places, not Kahler. Sheikhs, kings, princesses, presidents, singers, movie stars, heads of state. Reba McIntire has a pretty cool  bedroom.

[delcecchi]

So, was it hard being harem master?   

[Boar]

ok ok ok...jeeeez.first job Hardees in highschool. was high all the time, made weird burgers, banged the manager, she was hot and 10 yers older fun.
second job was a turkey slaughter house. did a lot of coke on the job, even triped a couple time, little advise, dont trip acid in a slaughter house. 3rd job irrigation farm in SD, drank crap ton, slept with indian chicks and drank rattle snake venum at a powwow.
4th job was in witchita KS,  vinyl graphics co. roomate was a prostitute, she was fun, physco, but fun. 5 job was retail at pamida in trf, met my wife, ztole from the place and spent time in cnty jail doing coke again.broke up with GF/wife, went to college up in ely, drank a ton of whisky, got a job at a resort 22 mile up the echo trail, dock hand,  drank more, slept with clients wives while they whent fishing, then cleaned their fish.got back with GF/Wife, went to college in trf and work for DNR AT THIEF LAKE WMA, as a intern and partied with duck hunter and college interns, yeah you know what happend
Gf moved to montana i went on a harvest crew down to oklahoma, yea, did a whole lot of stuf on the job to, even in  the cab of a combine while harvesting. found out gf was prego, move her back, quite college, got a job at speedee delivery for 10 year fi  aly settled down, raised amber and nick, had halle, got a job at northwest man. for 11 yras, then co op for 2 now in prane and quite dri king. wow  that was a.fun ride!!

[Rebel SS]

  So, allow me to do Boars narrative/career visually.....     

           

[Gunner55]

Not sure I can compete with that 1 Boar but here's my story. First thing I did for $ was mowing neighbors yards while they went to the lake during the Summer. There was a short stint with a paper route, then I started working @ my uncle's grocery store which was only a block down the street from Hormel when I was 11. I started in the basement putting away freight, sortin pop bottles, & runnin the incinerator & gradually worked my way up to the checkout counter. Had enough of workin for family by my junior year & started being a early morning janitor at Red Owl while being a pump jockey at a buddies Clark station too. After graduation I migrated south to make Oliver/White tractors. Was still there as a machinist( grinders mostly) when they closed in 92-93. Was laid off a lot there so that's when I went to work for a fishin buddy at the local country club, spent the better part of at least 12-13 seasons doing that. From there, I ran a lawn care/snow removal business for a guy for 3 -4 years. Next in line was some time behind the bar for a couple more buddies. The last stop was where my brother worked for 27 years, Fort Dodge Animal Health, makin mostly farm animal vaccines. Pfizer bought them out not long after I started & turned it into Zoetis & wanting to move me to a job a where I would be gowned up in a lab all day. That's when, 11/18/11@ 56, I said see ya. Been spending 2/3 - 3/4 of my year here, tormenting glenn when I can    , since

[Boar]

yeah im just not afraid to talk about my past, it happened, had a ton of fun, my wife was a wild child too not to my extent tho, why were compatable I gusse, my life happened, lucky to be alive, put all the drugs and boozen behind me, I live in Christ, and for family and friends, I saw the dark side was on vacation ther for awhile. Now I live for others!

[mike89]

yeah im just not afraid to talk about my past, it happened, had a ton of fun, my wife was a wild child too not to my extent tho, why were compatable I gusse, my life happened, lucky to be alive, put all the drugs and boozen behind me, I live in Christ, and for family and friends, I saw the dark side was on vacation ther for awhile. Now I live for others!

yer a good man Boar!!!!!!!!!   

[delcecchi]

You guys got way more interesting stuff than I do.  Education,went to hs in. St Paul, and u f m in minneapolis degree in ee
Worked carry out at a local grocery, then mowed laws, lifeguarded. In college was a tech in the physical electronics lab. 
Then ibm.  Dogged the draft by enlisting.  Spent 3 in California making world safe for democracy.
Came back, spent rest of 39 years developing various stuff for ibm, until hanging it up a few years back

[Dotch]

Mine isn't as interesting as Boar's either but it's a lot longer, plus it's written in English! Built in employment growing up on a farm near Spring Valley. We had a flock of sheep, beef heifers, chickens, ducks, geese, guineas, bunnies, guinea pigs, horses and a milk cow named Bessie. Raised corn, soybeans, oats and alfalfa hay. Worked for other farmers too, doing fieldwork, building sheds, planting trees, baling hay and straw plus doing custom round baling. Also had rental housing properties to maintain. Attended U of M St. Paul campus starting fall of '76. Farmed weekends and summers thru '78. In '79 I took spring quarter off of school and worked the next 2 summers for U of M Soils Dept as a plot technician. We travelled all over MN working on soil fertility plots. About the only ag crop we didn't work with was wild rice. Double majored in Agronomy & Soil Science. Graduated spring of '81. Jobs were scarce. Was accepted for a job at the MN Veteran's Hospital. Day before I was to go in, got a call from Centrol/Cenex about a job in Rugby ND. Did the interview, got home, cracked a beer, phone rang, the guy wanted to hire me. Was up there 3 years. Outdoorsman's paradise. Got together with a fellow former Soils Dept technician buddy who lived in Devil's Lake so we hunted and fished a lot. Worked with farmers on soil fertility, weed & insect control. Crops were black oil & confection sunflowers, soybeans, HRS & durum wheat, malting & feed barley, oats, flax, dry edible beans, yellow & brown (Oriental) mustard and safflower. Even had a token field of corn. Dad died in June of '84. I'd done well and was groomed to start another Centrol office at St. James. Got married in Sept. of '84 just days before I started. Failed miserably at the job. 6 months later I quit. Got a job w/Huntting Elevator in New Richland MN. Was a sales agronomist selling seed, fertilizer & chemical. Also sold feed, loaded rail cars, delivered seed & fertilizer, worked the counter & the scale. Was hired by an independent crop consultant out of Waseca in the fall of '87. He was diagnosed with a brain tumor in '88 and died in '90 after selling me the business. Been doing that ever since. Working on an exit strategy now. I want to slow down, putz and travel, maybe even visit some of you yahoos!     

[delcecchi]

Interesting.  My daughter has a master's in soil science

[Bobberineyes]

My path really isn't that interesting,  like others paper route, then busing tables at Bridgemans ice cream parlor,  slid over to the grill at age 14 (go figure huh) . Well that was cutting into the hockey schedule so ended up down at the local lumber yard at 16, working mainly the plumbing and heating and electrical departments,  learning all kinds of stuff that still come into play today, chasing cashiers and having a blast for a few years. Just like GT my old man was at the same airline for 40 years, (we flew all over the country as kids) he wanted me to come on board in 91 but would have to work part time for a year or so but I wanted full time so ended up with a buddy at a building supplier the same year thinking short term, got my CDL, worked several different positions and 28 years later I'm still at it. Wont be long though, and I'll be pulling the full time pin for something more part time... Since we flew all over, were go to start driving the country side.

[Rebel SS]

Hokay....my rant. Long one... First job was a busboy at a city restaurant. 14 years old. Eighty cents an hour. Then worked all thru HS at my uncles Mexican Restaurant. Graduated from Vo-tech with a degree in communications technology and photography in '73. Nothing in that field, ended up bouncing around a lot, wasn't sure what I wanted to do, so tried a lot of things. Went to work for Ford as a used car mechanic/lot boy that Summer. Did some other odd jobs, built pole buildings for Menards all over the state for a Spring, worked at Marigold. Got hired by Mayo the next year as a Physical Therapy asst, did that for 4 years, quit and took a job as asst manager of Big Wheel auto until they closed. Worked as a machinist at a silo company until lay-offs in Fall. Then was hired to open the first Shopko as Automotive dept mgr. In '81, buddy suggested I take the police dept exam they were giving. Did it on a whim. Scored a 97%. Offered acceptance into the training program. Did the training while working, also my instructor suggested I try for my EC Instructor's license.(Emergency care/advanced first aid) Did that, got my Instructors license, and taught all the incoming recruits, which were required to have it. Finished my training in two years, took my state boards and become a Licensed Peace officer.  Sheriff's dept offered me a spot after playing cop for two years, and I took it. Was still working Shopko, Sheriff's dept...Was then also offered a full time position at St Marys as a Security Officer in '83. They only hired licensed cops or previous ones at that time. Pretty intense stuff for a med institution. Lotsa action, legal stuff, ER crazies, psychs, etc. (Later we became MAYO Security) Took more intensive training thru them, got certified in Radiation Safety and mess of other stuff. Was accepted and  trained with the Secret Service and Treasury Dept to obtain top security clearance for presidential and international details. Hoo boy, talk about background checks...they really DO know everything ya did!  There were ten of us that received that clearance and from then on worked with them whenever any big shot came to town. Continued to work Sheriffs dept on weekends, county patrol, the jail, cruising the lake in the Sheriff's boat on weekends, (tough job..hehe) etc. Did that for six more years until was unable to any more, as MAYO was now flipping us from 12 hr day shifts to 12 hr nite shifts, three months at a time. Was injured in the line of duty three times at MAYO, until they forced me out on a disability retirement some years back. Now I just hang out and read fun stuff from all you guys. Yer the best entertainment of all. 

[Boar]

awwww shuckies  rebby, u are kinda nice. 

[glenn57]

awwww shuckies  rebby, u are kinda nice. 

compared to what???? hyena???? badger????????

  morning reb!!!!!!!!!!

[Rebel SS]

Look here, you liddle....................oh, morning kiss Glenn!