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By day I am a machinest for an aerospace company. (booooring)

But at home I am SMOKE-MAN!!!!
Faster than a creosote stain,
More powerful than a propane explosion,
Able to eat whole fatties in a single minute.
 
I work as an Instrument and Control technician in a relatively small coal fired power plant. I've been doing this for over 21 years. I started out when the automatic controls were all pneumatic, we didn't even have a computer on site then. Now I can't imagine trying to do my work without one! My on the job specialties include boiler controls, pressure and flow transmitters, and emissions monitoring equipment. I'll take the smell of burning hickory or mesquite over buring coal any day.
 
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I work as a salesman for a company that works on power plants; mainly boilers. We mainly work on all of the pressure parts, but we also service everything except the turbine.
 
33yrs in the Retail Tire business, now 100% disabled Veteran from Vietnam
and Social Security disability
 
i am/was a teddybear salesman, yes seriously thats what i do..lol

been doing it for about 10 years and am trying to get a career change.

trying to set up a concessions Q joint - first step - building smoker..lol
 
Beautiful picture there Flash!!! WOW

I'm from New Hampshire. Alot of scenes like that in the Fall. Where did you shoot it? No more messing with snow for me now in FLA.!!! I'll take the beach any time.
 
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But I do construction work for money.

Actually, I do mid to high end retail construction as everything from laborer to management depending on the project and what needs to be done. I swear that I hate it, but I wouldn't like anything else more. (well, I do still buy the occasional lottery ticket)
 
been a stay @ home dad for a year(home schooling & all). doing software sales online,consulting, & now starting the recording studio & bbq catering(again) & travelling festivals during the spring/summer/fall months.
 
Load and performance test engineer. Fancy title for a web site tester. I basically make sure the web sites handle the amount of traffic they're designed for. There's not a site I can't bring to its knees... I'm currently with a phone company (for the past 5 yrs last month), but am considering doing the consulting/traveling show again. Money is much better, but I'm never home to spend it.
 
Well, my business cards say "Senior Network Administrator". But basically I'm the single IT Geek for a company that makes industrial compressors. On the side, I have a professional photography and industrial programming busieness(s). I'm one of those ADHD types that always has to be busy (and always behind!)
 
I am a Project Manager and Computer Programmer with a 115 year old child welfare agency in Kansas. I basically schedule endless meetings and try to bridge the gap between technology and social work. Oil and water are better friends than those two. I have been doing this for just under 8 years now.

Before that I spent 10 years selling, building and servicing swimming pools. Hence the "poolman" part of my username.

Hey Stars, we recently added two new HP web servers and tested the load balancing capabilities of them. Both machines have 8 gigs of RAM and have dual quad core processors. (I think I am remembering that right, software not hardware is my speciality. might be quad dual core processors). We ran a full open T1 line to the servers and simulated 10,000 simultaneous users hitting the site (which is about 9,999 more simulateous users than we might normally see!) , doing full blown searches against a SQL2005 database, with pages with images that were 1.5 megs and higher.

The SQL server would occassionally spike to 60% CPU usage. The "load balancing" test never actually hit the load balancing stage since our first webserver didn't even hit 10% CPU usage! The ISA server never had to switch the load since the first web server handled it so well. Oh yeah, we ran this test for 15 full minutes before we pretty much came to the conclusion that either our webserver was a God and could handle any traffic, or that we were configured wrong and weren't possibly sending as much traffic to the server as we thought. I would be curious to know how you go about truly putting a heavy load on a server. We suspected that the ISA server was the bottleneck. We also wondered if a T1 was capable of sending enough traffic to bring the server to it's knees.
 
I work for Alcoa Fastening Systems. We make fasteners for the railroad, auto, airplane, 18-wheeler (tractor and trailer), and lawnmower industries. I work in the "heat treat" department. I take "parts", as we call them, and heat treat them to the right spec; ie. grade 3, 5, or 8. By parts, I am talking about what you would call a bolt (we call them pins) and collars. Collars are used to hold the pin in place, kinda like a nut. I work 2nd shift, 3-11, Mon-Fri. I am the leadman for heat treat on 2nd shift. I am over 5 other guys.
 
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