Occupation...

Gunsmith/Dealer -well just about sold out/ most inventory traded now(for cues :) .) too old now and eyes too bad for equipt custom shop work anymore (or longshots)

Retired FLE 22 years+ DOD(8 years) ACT and civilian

NCID assitant on request/retired

STS teacher 7 years part time on and off

4 check cashing stores 1/4 silent owner

Part time K9 MIU training/Facility 1/6 silent owner I just own the property

Private Investigation (new to me civilian only 2 years 1/4 owner-operator)
Skip trace and recovery (new to me only 2 years 1/4 owner-operator) No reposessions that do not have a heart beat.Thinking of starting a civilian bonding business myself with 4 friends but federal recovery for now unless a good paying sheet/ticket

AZ billiards reader (from day 1 of the site)*********Mostly read and learn

Snowball stand owner with family 1/6 owner (net is supprising)

Fishing Bait dist 1/3 silent owner

Flea market owner 1/3 silent ownership

Hunting camp owner in PA used for some hunting and mostly Gov contracts in winter at very low profit.Have 4 cabins rented to low income retired Military lifers on it and then they have some trailers as temp .25s.Thinking of converting it into a paintaball type facility full time but the mess is bad enough from what they do now we had to complain 3 times already.

Sold my Bar holding to my partner and did well-Fair deal

Looking to get into the Resturant Business for my Kids and Grandchildren

Looking to buy a huge hobby shop in the tri state for grandchildren to include production

Plastic product inventor-molded by plastics company sold at hobby shops.Also import Italian RC motor parts and dist them to the same places

Want to buy/Make a huge billiards room in Florida/Resturaunt (no Bar) with super nice tables etc but cost is huge compaired to what I thought for a very nice place (to do it right).Those whom own a nice classy clean one already did some hard work and invested more than most think.Alot of hidden costs

Writing an advanced custom handgun gunsmithing book for tactical upgrades and also military light rifle arms (M series-Hk-AR etc)

Community Historical Society lecturer

Building the Titanic full deatail out of wood in a Huge glass waterbottle with no seam I found at the flea market.Did not think about the size of the coffie table I would need for it.4 years now into it 1/4 the way done

So I am busy but love pool .The more I retire from things the more I get fiddle till I find a thing to occupy my time.I sharpened the blades on the lawnmower 3 times last month just to do something.I can not get involved in the companies I am silent in as I would slow things down.I tried and understood that on paper.I make more to stay away from my own businesses

Karl
 
Dead Money said:
I have a small painting company that only does move-out move-in type make ready painting for rental property owners and I also work full time taking care of a small string of self-serve car washes. Did you know that a lot of people mistake self-serve car washes for the dump?:eek:
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Yup. I owned a car wash briefly and I have had enough cleaning deer guts, horse manure, and baby diapers out of car wash bays to last me forever. Or getting up on a sixteen foot ladder in the middle of winter to fix a busted line is always fun. Or when jerkoffs steal the guns because they think it will fit on their home pressure washer - (it won't). I sat there one time and watched a guy pull his semi into the bay just barely scraping the assembly. When he was ready to go he pulls forward and snags it. Stops, looks out pulls forward a little more, hears the scraping, stops looks and then just pulls out and rips my hose off at the top.

I was dumbfounded - and then he acted like I damaged his truck. I guess the clearance height I had posted on the bay coupled with the loud scraping as he tried to pull out forward weren't enough to WARN him.

All in all the car wash was fairly low maintenance comparatively but it's a sorry job. My sympathies buddy.

JB
 
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Bridge Design Engineer/Certified Bridge Inspector...And no, I did not inspect the collapsed bridge in Minnesota.
 
gutshot said:
Bridge Design Engineer/Certified Bridge Inspector...And no, I did not inspect the collapsed bridge in Minnesota.
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Come check out the Huey P. Long Bridge over the Mississippi River (in New Orleans, LA). In addition to VERY narrow lanes, TRAINS also pass over the river along-side the regular motor vehicle traffic. If that isn't enough, the bridge is kind of long in the tooth and is constantly being repainted. How much sandblasting can a steel bridge be subjected to before the steel is compromised?

Someone once told me that the Huey P. Long Bridge is the only motor vehicle bridge in the U.S. that also has a train trestle carrying trains across the Mississippi River. Just wondered if that was true. it ounds a bit odd.

No need for poker or a high stakes pool game adrenalin rush, just take a ride across the Huey P. Long bridge where bridge travelers will pass 18 wheelers on the very narrow bridge as if they are trying to imitate driving a Bugatti Veyron.
JoeyA
 
JoeyA said:
Come check out the Huey P. Long Bridge over the Mississippi River (in New Orleans, LA). In addition to VERY narrow lanes, TRAINS also pass over the river along-side the regular motor vehicle traffic. If that isn't enough, the bridge is kind of long in the tooth and is constantly being repainted. How much sandblasting can a steel bridge be subjected to before the steel is compromised?

Someone once told me that the Huey P. Long Bridge is the only motor vehicle bridge in the U.S. that also has a train trestle carrying trains across the Mississippi River. Just wondered if that was true. it ounds a bit odd.

No need for poker or a high stakes pool game adrenalin rush, just take a ride across the Huey P. Long bridge where bridge travelers will pass 18 wheelers on the very narrow bridge as if they are trying to imitate driving a Bugatti Veyron.
JoeyA
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I was 7 years old in 1955 when my sadistic parents first took me across that damned bridge, Joey. I've been scared of it ever since. I did get over my fear a couple of times in the late 60s when I was so stoned I almost enjoyed crossing it.

The new bridge they built after the Destrahan-Luling ferry disaster scares me too. The arch on that bridge looks like the arch in St. Louis, it is so high. No, I am not partial to being that high, on the natural.
 
I'm in the Air Force now as a Computer Programmer but next year I get out of the force and I'm going to culinary arts school to pursue my passion for cooking and become a chef. :)
 
im an electrician. 3rd generation. Company has been here for over 50 years. My grandpa has the 7th electrical contractors license in the state of sd.
 
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