powerfin64
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Ok.. my turn..
Im a Hairdresser of 21 yrs..
suprised huh!
Im a Hairdresser of 21 yrs..
suprised huh!
Working 9 to 5
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Help Support :
You seeing a pattern here?
If not, lemme put out what I do to keep Hamburger Helper on the table and pay the ISP bill:
Until last month, Information Systems Coordinator administering a point of sale system installed in a large chain of haircare salons. The Company got bought out, I got laid off, and now I do contract work as a PC Support Tech.
How many appliance repairmen we have here? Cmon: REPRESENT!
If not, lemme put out what I do to keep Hamburger Helper on the table and pay the ISP bill:
Until last month, Information Systems Coordinator administering a point of sale system installed in a large chain of haircare salons. The Company got bought out, I got laid off, and now I do contract work as a PC Support Tech.
How many appliance repairmen we have here? Cmon: REPRESENT!
My personal favorite: This goes back a bit. I was a software trainer back in the days when Windows 3.1 was first starting to become the desktop standard (told you I was old). I was training WordPefect 6.0 which I think was the first fully GUI version. Anyway, we had posted the prereqs for the class which was a basic understanding of Windows and using the mouse, etc. So I would assume everyone at least can get themselves around the Windows environment. I am just starting the class, we've all done our introductions and I say "OK, let's get started!." Move your mouse to.....and this guy in the front row literally picks up the mouse off of the desk and places it on the monitor to try to move the cursor. I gave my assistant the look of "DAMN, this is going to be a long day!" and it was.
kenmore1978
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Looing for work, but as Frank Sinatra once sang, I've been "a puppet, a pirate, a pawn, and a king"
Over the years:
mainframe tape librarian (twice)
paint, hardware, shoe salesman (Montgomery Ward)
Mail/fileroom supervisor
receptionist/personal assistant
Internet customer service
magazine/book publisher circulation clerk
various temp jobs
Basically, been there, done that stuff
Looing for work, but as Frank Sinatra once sang, I've been "a puppet, a pirate, a pawn, and a king"
Over the years:
mainframe tape librarian (twice)
paint, hardware, shoe salesman (Montgomery Ward)
Mail/fileroom supervisor
receptionist/personal assistant
Internet customer service
magazine/book publisher circulation clerk
various temp jobs
Basically, been there, done that stuff
jasonl
New member
All the geeks in the house say
Well, considering I really don't know Linux....
I'm also in IT. I'm a desktop PC technician working on becoming an admin and hopefully a systems engineer.
A job and location change is gonna happen soon so I can be with Bri.
I feel a big collection coming.
I'll start a home for wayward Kenmores :-D
Well, considering I really don't know Linux....
I'm also in IT. I'm a desktop PC technician working on becoming an admin and hopefully a systems engineer.
A job and location change is gonna happen soon so I can be with Bri.
I feel a big collection coming.
I'll start a home for wayward Kenmores :-D
O.K. I'll bite!!
Chosen profession was accounting/bookeeping, but am now a self-employed appliance REPAIRMAN! Finding this group was like dying and going to heaven! At least doing it for a living made my fascination seem "normal" lol!
Chosen profession was accounting/bookeeping, but am now a self-employed appliance REPAIRMAN! Finding this group was like dying and going to heaven! At least doing it for a living made my fascination seem "normal" lol!
I am an audiovisual technician that maintains equipment for several of the local colleges in the area. My job involves designing, installing, and maintaining audio visual equipment in the classrooms, TV studios, and auditoriums. You could say my job is "hooking up stereos" but if you see some of the stereos I deal with, the work can get pretty involved!
A/V has always been a lifelong interest of me, so I really enjoy the job. As a young child, I was always wanting to look up in the sound room of the auditorium after a show to see "where the magic happened", and I've always been enthralled with big racks of equipment with lights, buttons, switches gauges and the like, so this job is a real dream come true for me!
I started out heading in the A/V direction, but didn't really think there was much money to be made in it, but that was before home theater, and LCD projectors and other technology really started to make it big.
Well, My career shifted into the I.T. world for about 5 years back in the late 90's when the computer industry was making money. I got tired of dealing with Microsoft related problems and went back to the audiovisual world. I preferred to repair electronics with a soldering iron and a multi-meter versus a mouse and a floppy disc, and with the folks at Redmond cranking out more and more unreliable junk and squeezing out the competition, things didn't look like they would improve.
After moving back to the audiovisual world, I found out that companies that build A/V electronics actually answer the phone, provide useful information and own up to malfunctions....not to mention the job security was much better!!!
Still, I am interested in anything that consumes or produces energy, has moving parts, etc. I imagine I I really had to fall back on something, I could become an appliance tech, or an auto mechanic without any problem
A/V has always been a lifelong interest of me, so I really enjoy the job. As a young child, I was always wanting to look up in the sound room of the auditorium after a show to see "where the magic happened", and I've always been enthralled with big racks of equipment with lights, buttons, switches gauges and the like, so this job is a real dream come true for me!
I started out heading in the A/V direction, but didn't really think there was much money to be made in it, but that was before home theater, and LCD projectors and other technology really started to make it big.
Well, My career shifted into the I.T. world for about 5 years back in the late 90's when the computer industry was making money. I got tired of dealing with Microsoft related problems and went back to the audiovisual world. I preferred to repair electronics with a soldering iron and a multi-meter versus a mouse and a floppy disc, and with the folks at Redmond cranking out more and more unreliable junk and squeezing out the competition, things didn't look like they would improve.
After moving back to the audiovisual world, I found out that companies that build A/V electronics actually answer the phone, provide useful information and own up to malfunctions....not to mention the job security was much better!!!
Still, I am interested in anything that consumes or produces energy, has moving parts, etc. I imagine I I really had to fall back on something, I could become an appliance tech, or an auto mechanic without any problem
QA Analyst for the mainframe reservation system of a major hotel chain, and 2x laundromat owner.
customline
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Job?
I am currently a 40 year old college student that is finishing up an Associates degree in Advertising Graphics and hope to get work in this field soon.
I am currently a 40 year old college student that is finishing up an Associates degree in Advertising Graphics and hope to get work in this field soon.
joe_in_philly
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During the day, I am a federal financial systems consultant. I help design and develop financial managment systems for federal governmental agencies. Oooh, exciting! ;-)
At night, when I am not fighting crime, I am a volunteer Peer Counselor at the William Way GLBT Community Center in Philadelphia. www.waygay.org
Joe
At night, when I am not fighting crime, I am a volunteer Peer Counselor at the William Way GLBT Community Center in Philadelphia. www.waygay.org
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frontaloadotmy
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LIVELIHOOD(S) CONTINUED
I worked for a "major" telecommunications company
named Pacific Telephone and Telegraph at the time.
One could still order "rubber finger tip" paper sorters
and desktop "Snuf-a-dor Ashtrays" from the internal office
supply "depots". It went through some changes! When I retired
in 1995 I had either a "3" or "486" desktop, I don't recall.
A few years after I left it was "gobbled up" in a hostile "take over" by SBC!!
I worked for a "major" telecommunications company
named Pacific Telephone and Telegraph at the time.
One could still order "rubber finger tip" paper sorters
and desktop "Snuf-a-dor Ashtrays" from the internal office
supply "depots". It went through some changes! When I retired
in 1995 I had either a "3" or "486" desktop, I don't recall.
A few years after I left it was "gobbled up" in a hostile "take over" by SBC!!
This has been a good thread. I've always wondered if anybody here worked in the appliance industry to earn a living selling, servicing, or manufacturing, or if appliances was just a hobby for them. Appliances could probably be a good thing to fall back on if I needed to for a living
partscounterman
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How I became the Partscounterman
When I was young I did a lot of boring things for money. You really don't wanna know... I really didn't get off on the endlessly boring going to skool thing either.
Sometime before my 30th birthday I decided to somehow get involved with the appliance industry. In 01/1994 I took a job with Dey Distributing in Vadnais Hts, Mn. All I was doing was boxing up appliance parts for shipment but had fun just being around things that were appliance related. My head began to fill up with part numbers...
I only stayed at Dey about a year and a half before I walked hard! They were kinda cheep to work for and that gets old real quick. Not too long after that I took a job at Allied Appliance Parts in North St. Paul, MN. I was put right to work at the partscounter. We would still look up parts on filmcards then-no computers. Also, Allied was an independant parts dealer who sold mostly aftermarket (non-genuine) parts.
Dey had sold mostly OEM (genuine) parts, so now I had even more part numbers to remember!
Allied Appliance Parts was located upstairs of a Roofing Company. The morning after easter something went wrong and some actelyne blew up downstairs. So Allied was shut down for a few days-then moved to a smaller nearby location. Not too long after that, Allied (and local competitor Appliance Parts Co.) were bought out by Sundberg Co. of Chicago. I was soon promoted to being Manager of the North St. Paul Sundberg Location.
After a few years of that I got tired of the same old same old, so I took a sales position with Plaza TV and Appliances. I cut back my hours a little and was working with a great group of people. My parts knowledge came in real handy for them and I learned about another facet of the industry. Plaza was also a servicing dealers, so I also got to dabble in that aspect. I sure loved working there!
When we moved ova hea, I took a job selling laundry and refrigeration at Sears. Sure couldn't take Sears BS too long, so I took some night classes at the Maui Community college. I took basic electricity, appliance repair and got my refrigeration license. I sort of already knew some of this stuff, but the classes helped fill in the blanks.
When I could take no more of Sears I quit, scraped some money together and opened my shop "Appliance Garage". Got the doors open just after my 40th birthday last fall. I sell parts here, I do in shop repairs (I hate driving around). Been also dealing in used appliances and refrigerant recovery.
Would also like to expand into selling NEW appliances and finding some one who would go do in home repairs. Any one want to partner with me? I sure do have big dreams....
When I was young I did a lot of boring things for money. You really don't wanna know... I really didn't get off on the endlessly boring going to skool thing either.
Sometime before my 30th birthday I decided to somehow get involved with the appliance industry. In 01/1994 I took a job with Dey Distributing in Vadnais Hts, Mn. All I was doing was boxing up appliance parts for shipment but had fun just being around things that were appliance related. My head began to fill up with part numbers...
I only stayed at Dey about a year and a half before I walked hard! They were kinda cheep to work for and that gets old real quick. Not too long after that I took a job at Allied Appliance Parts in North St. Paul, MN. I was put right to work at the partscounter. We would still look up parts on filmcards then-no computers. Also, Allied was an independant parts dealer who sold mostly aftermarket (non-genuine) parts.
Dey had sold mostly OEM (genuine) parts, so now I had even more part numbers to remember!
Allied Appliance Parts was located upstairs of a Roofing Company. The morning after easter something went wrong and some actelyne blew up downstairs. So Allied was shut down for a few days-then moved to a smaller nearby location. Not too long after that, Allied (and local competitor Appliance Parts Co.) were bought out by Sundberg Co. of Chicago. I was soon promoted to being Manager of the North St. Paul Sundberg Location.
After a few years of that I got tired of the same old same old, so I took a sales position with Plaza TV and Appliances. I cut back my hours a little and was working with a great group of people. My parts knowledge came in real handy for them and I learned about another facet of the industry. Plaza was also a servicing dealers, so I also got to dabble in that aspect. I sure loved working there!
When we moved ova hea, I took a job selling laundry and refrigeration at Sears. Sure couldn't take Sears BS too long, so I took some night classes at the Maui Community college. I took basic electricity, appliance repair and got my refrigeration license. I sort of already knew some of this stuff, but the classes helped fill in the blanks.
When I could take no more of Sears I quit, scraped some money together and opened my shop "Appliance Garage". Got the doors open just after my 40th birthday last fall. I sell parts here, I do in shop repairs (I hate driving around). Been also dealing in used appliances and refrigerant recovery.
Would also like to expand into selling NEW appliances and finding some one who would go do in home repairs. Any one want to partner with me? I sure do have big dreams....
Wow, we do have quite a few computer nerds around here. Me to! I'm a computer programmer, I program in SAP-ABAP, Visual Basic and obviously I do web programming (our little site here) using Perl, Javascript and HTML.
Hmmmm, makes me think there are a lot more of us vintage washer people out there in the world who are not internet savvy and haven't found us yet.
Hmmmm, makes me think there are a lot more of us vintage washer people out there in the world who are not internet savvy and haven't found us yet.
I guess I'm the only truckdriver! I drive an 18 wheeler for Patrick Industries.We make aluminum extrusions,mostly used in the recreational vehicle industry,but also sell to window mfrs.,boat builders,and a lot of other industries.
Oh,and I run a used appliance store on the side.......
kennyGF
Oh,and I run a used appliance store on the side.......
kennyGF
Lots of this and that-
First paying job was cleaning offices. People are less reserved at the office than at home.
Then, I committed some journalism.
For a few years I was a private caterer. I'd help design the menu, do the shopping, prep and serve and clean up. Not enough money at the time.
Then, I worked as a Crisis Intervention Specialist on a mental health/drug abuse hotline. Five years of psycho co-workers, truly ill bosses, and fascinating, exasperating callers.
Went back to college, got my B.A. in Humanities/Arts.
I started on a M.A. in English, but Ma started to get ill, and I left that program, and started to care for her full time. She eventually developed Multi-Infarct Dementia.
Since she left (I know it's stupid, but I can't say "d___") in 2001, I've been doing this and that again. Some freelance writing and editing, maybe a party tray or two. I have very little money, and my internet connection is my single great extravagance.
I wouldn't object to a full time job, but a lot of the entry level positions I have applied for don't have health coverage, and as a person with several chronic conditions, health coverage is crucial.
Thought of getting my finances in order (a true challenge) and going to seminary and becoming an ordained minister. Time and God will tell.
I contribute to a humor website, and am very active in my church.
I usually have a fairly good time.
There have been times when I've desperately wanted to work for Maytag or Whirlpool, in Product Development, but I am far from an engineering type.
Love and Laughter,
Lawrence/Maytabear
First paying job was cleaning offices. People are less reserved at the office than at home.
Then, I committed some journalism.
For a few years I was a private caterer. I'd help design the menu, do the shopping, prep and serve and clean up. Not enough money at the time.
Then, I worked as a Crisis Intervention Specialist on a mental health/drug abuse hotline. Five years of psycho co-workers, truly ill bosses, and fascinating, exasperating callers.
Went back to college, got my B.A. in Humanities/Arts.
I started on a M.A. in English, but Ma started to get ill, and I left that program, and started to care for her full time. She eventually developed Multi-Infarct Dementia.
Since she left (I know it's stupid, but I can't say "d___") in 2001, I've been doing this and that again. Some freelance writing and editing, maybe a party tray or two. I have very little money, and my internet connection is my single great extravagance.
I wouldn't object to a full time job, but a lot of the entry level positions I have applied for don't have health coverage, and as a person with several chronic conditions, health coverage is crucial.
Thought of getting my finances in order (a true challenge) and going to seminary and becoming an ordained minister. Time and God will tell.
I contribute to a humor website, and am very active in my church.
I usually have a fairly good time.
There have been times when I've desperately wanted to work for Maytag or Whirlpool, in Product Development, but I am far from an engineering type.
Love and Laughter,
Lawrence/Maytabear
richm
New member
a change of pace
I guess I'll chime in with something different. I am a Human Resources Manager for the last 12+ years (and currently in job search mode following a major reorg at my last company!) Formerly a Supermarket Operations Manager for many years....
Rich
I guess I'll chime in with something different. I am a Human Resources Manager for the last 12+ years (and currently in job search mode following a major reorg at my last company!) Formerly a Supermarket Operations Manager for many years....
Rich
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