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txav8r

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Been flying for a living for going on 38 years, 3 years as an flight instructor and charter flying, 10 years flying private company jets and turboprops, and 25 years now with American. 7 to go if I can make it that long without some medical thing taking me out of the game.
 

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Lead Industrial Engineer for multiple WMS's (Warehouse Management System).

Specialize in IT systems and Web Development but work directly with ERP and Enterprise shipping systems as well.
 

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Process Engineer for a major oil company. Chemical Engineer by education.

I've worked on a lot of different process units in a few different refineries making gasoline, jet, diesel, and chemical stocks. Now I mostly work on refinery wide optimization between products and keeping track of yields.
 

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Work on ATM’s and other cash handling machines for major banks
 

mrlanemeyer

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Principal Systems Admin for a large online travel site.
 

6wheeldiesel

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Been flying for a living for going on 38 years, 3 years as an flight instructor and charter flying, 10 years flying private company jets and turboprops, and 25 years now with American. 7 to go if I can make it that long without some medical thing taking me out of the game.
I have had the dream of becoming a pilot since a young age. I retire at 49 (only 13 more years, haha) and, at that point want to fly for fun! My wife thinks im crazy but oh well. I spend alot of time over at our Air Operations unit at work cause I'm nosey. Is that too late in life to become a pilot?
 

txav8r

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Never too late! But it is one if those skills that must be maintained because like the sea, aviation is terribly unforgiving of complacency or mistakes. So if you choose to learn, plan on budgeting how you plan to remain proficient from the beginning. And them keep on flying!
 

6wheeldiesel

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Never too late! But it is one if those skills that must be maintained because like the sea, aviation is terribly unforgiving of complacency or mistakes. So if you choose to learn, plan on budgeting how you plan to remain proficient from the beginning. And them keep on flying!
Sounds good. I will start lessons next January (6 kids going 10 different directions so have to plan ahead!) and go on from there.... Thanks for the advice.
 

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Power Trader for local utility. I buy/sell electricity between utilities and energy marketing companies.
 

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I help manage people's money. I do all the investment analysis, modeling, trading, and support for multiple financial planners, totaling over $100 million in assets.
If I made that kind of money, I would own a big ass cabin cruiser and wakeboard boat :)
 

waterboy

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Industrial water treatment industry, work in sales... thus the name waterboy :)
 

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Flying bus driver. Currently at a regional (only flying for 14 years so far) but my application is in with Mel's airline. I'm hoping this is the year!!

Hey Mel I'll buy you a case of beer if you know anyone in the HR department... Haha jk!
 

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Director of Receiving & Mail Operations for 1 of the NY State University since 97'. And my wife is the Director of Budget for the same university. We were married before we found ourselves working at the same place.
It's been an incredibly great gig. 12 years to go!
 

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Supervisor of an engineering group for a NASA contractor. Used to be Shift Supervisor of a crew operating a nuclear power plant.
 

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I sell grass.......

No, really.....I sell grass. Family turfgrass farm.
 

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Director of Software Development, Business Intelligence, and Enterprise Collaboration

In plain english, my team works on developing custom applications that automate manual processes, build consolidated data warehouse and reporting/ dashboards, and oversee our global SharePoint implementation. We have team members in several US locations, Costa Rica, and India.
 
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