What is your true Occupation? [Archive]

scubber

10-22-2003, 09:39 PM

Let's see. . . 6 years in retailing, the past 25 years in ag & commercial finance with a part time Muzzleloading Gun business in my basement
( past 20 yrs.) I was fortunate enough to get gas & maintenance money for the cub by "pick'en & grin'en" on weekends. Did that for 30+ yrs. Stoped as couldn't stay out all night & fly early in the morning anymore. It must be that over 50 thing.

zane

10-22-2003, 09:41 PM

Software developer...though it sucks to be indoors all day, so I'm seeking out new livelyhood. I'm considering either ninja or jedi.

10-22-2003, 09:45 PM

5 years electronics hardware designer
7 years software designer
14 years Iron and Steel foundry manager / owner

narov

10-22-2003, 11:45 PM

Avionics Engineer

Bret

10-22-2003, 11:49 PM

I'm one of those high-level computer geeks right now but I am seriously entertaining the idea of getting my A&P and working on cubs and other taildraggers at some point in the future.

Bret

Rookie

10-23-2003, 12:03 AM

Professional Crackpot (software QA specialist in databases)

Sgt. Rock

10-23-2003, 12:23 AM

Swill Merchant

Gunny

10-23-2003, 12:36 AM

removed

10-23-2003, 02:59 AM

87-89 Alumni Relations Flunky
89-92 Grad Student
92-96 Lawyer (defense)
96-97 Aviation Consultant and Recovering Lawyer
98-P Full-time Daddy Dictator and Domestic/International Air Service Development Analyst and Marketing Dude

Cub Kid

10-23-2003, 03:37 AM

Gold Miner (fourth generation)
College student (Remote Geologic Resource Development, graduate 05/04)
EMT
Bum

CrossedControls

10-23-2003, 07:50 AM

Apprentice Engineer with an aerospace company.
Freelance Electronic Design Engineer for a good few years.
For the last 16 or so years I have been a partner in an electronic design and manufacturing company. I started off as a design engineer, now I hire smarter people than me to do that job. Currently do mainly Waffle and Twaddle (sometimes called marketing and business development). With periods of looking out of the window, and coming up with good excuses to go flying.

Pete

Jerry Gaston

10-23-2003, 09:03 AM

Owner of an Enginnering Consulting Firm in Civil Eng.
Motto "It may be your **** but it is our bread and butter"

hottshot

10-23-2003, 09:15 AM

A Childhood of Auto Body ans Paint (Dad owned business)
4 years of Wild Life management (Managed a 17k acres wild life refuge with 2 other techs)
3 years of Trasportation and coustmer service (Valet at a casino)
Asositet Degree in Diesel Auto Mechanics
3 years Dodge Diesel Tech
3 years with Les Schwabs
Head Squeege sharpener at AK Bushwheel.
Future.......... UNKNOWN

Wup :crazyeyes:

Clay Hammond

10-23-2003, 09:26 AM

Aircraft sales

www.sepiper.com

don d

10-23-2003, 09:52 AM

Got my pilot ratings in the 60's after highschool.

Flight Instructed and worked as a carpenter to keep the wolf away.

Flew Piper Pawnees and Cessna Agtrucks in the 70's.

Operated my own construction company late 70,s earley 80's.

Operated a big game hunting outfitting business for 10 years, hunting elk in central Idaho. (this was great but tried to make a small fortune out of a larger one.)

Now I am a building inspector doing code compliance inspections.

Like to design, build and fly airplanes both big and little. I have an experimental version of an Alaska Bushmaster that I built and fly. Also enjoy the models.

Aviator

10-23-2003, 10:13 AM

I don't want to sound like a patronizing SOB, but you guys might want to racall that anything you reveal about yourselves in an open forum makes you that much more vulnerable. And, yes, I am pathalogically paranoid. But keep in mind that you're not just posting for decent SC fans: Anyone with internet access can read what you write here.

Just a caring reality check, mates. Take it for what's it's worth.

S.F.
Nick

Ken Grindlay

10-23-2003, 10:25 AM

In school, I was a lifeguard on the beach. Basically a babysitter.
Later in school, I babysat flyfishermen.
Now I'm a dentist. I babysit the girls, who do 90% of the actual work.
Ken

FlipFlop

10-23-2003, 11:35 AM

Professional Beachcomber...

Formerly a Counterfitter in a bra factory...

S2D

10-23-2003, 01:51 PM

Cropduster

floats

10-23-2003, 02:27 PM

I operate an RV Resort / Seaplane Base - and grow Oranges
We're one of the oldest licensed seaplane bases in Florida

Greg Smith

10-23-2003, 02:30 PM

Full time Paramedic and part time A&P Student. My time is in 152's, 172's and a Decathlon, but I have admired the Super Cub from afar for years. I knew it was love when I walked into the hangar at the A&P school and saw that poor neglected ex-Italian Air Force PA-18 135. Don't tell anyone, but sometimes I sneak away from the classroom, climb inside it and make airplane noises. :D

flagold

10-23-2003, 03:31 PM

removed

Marc Olson

10-23-2003, 07:26 PM

Computer Software:

6 years in Software Test/Test Management
2 years General Management (hated it...)
7 years Design Management (currently Group Design Manager for Microsoft Outlook)

Marc

Matt L

10-23-2003, 09:46 PM

International Man of Mystery 8)

bearsnack

10-23-2003, 10:11 PM

remote region aviation access specialist 8)

Cub Kid

10-23-2003, 10:54 PM

International Man of Mystery 8)

In hinesville GA?

Torch

10-23-2003, 11:22 PM

Air traffic control specialist.

j3jm

10-24-2003, 02:49 AM

737 manipulator

jeffpa12

10-24-2003, 07:55 AM

Airport Bum, mostly

But the airplane stuff is funded by Telecommunications/Network engineering

Sandhills Jim

10-24-2003, 09:09 AM

Trapper, fisher, hunter, blue rock addict as a kid in the sixties. Fur buyer and founder of mail order shooting supply business(Lock Stock and Barrel) in the seventies. County Commissioner for a couple terms.Rancher(cow/calf) for past twenty plus and currently do private land conservation work with the www.SandhillsTaskForce.org. I use my old PA18A for ranch and STF travel around the Sandhills of Nebraska.

Steve's Aircraft (Steve)

10-24-2003, 09:23 AM

Through high school to 1967, either flaggen for my crop dusting pop, or forest fire figthing, aircraft wrench twister since.
Steve

85Mike

10-24-2003, 09:39 AM

10 years, land surveyor-logging engineer, 2 years forest road construction, 27 years spotted owl killer ( logging, road construction contractor) 32 years recreational pilot, 42 years elk hunter. Let's see that makes me about 113 years old which is about how I feel!! " Nearly every part of my body hurts and what don't hurt don't work anyway!! " LOL
85Mike

Anne

10-24-2003, 12:12 PM

What I get paid to do: engine development

What I like to do: photography, flying

Anne.

RedBaron

10-24-2003, 02:42 PM

Big Game Harvesting Facilitator and Student Cub Pilot.

StPat

10-24-2003, 06:04 PM

Retired energetic materials design engineer.

bobnall

10-24-2003, 07:27 PM

Glassblower.

CubLite

10-24-2003, 09:24 PM

opportunist

murph

10-24-2003, 11:56 PM

Cropduster

Brain surgeon

Rocket Scientist

Cub junkie

10-25-2003, 01:50 AM

Boeing 757 driver for a major, cub driver by choice. Im amazed at the guys I fly with that forget about general aviation. I fly the big ones for money and I spend money to fly cubs. I was taxing in St.Peterburg FL a while back and was directed by ATC to hold short for crossing traffic which was a cub and my co pilot acted like we should have gone first, I didnt have a lecture prepared for him so I just let it go, if he was into the kind of a/c we are he would have said. I was just glad to see a cub.

westwind

10-25-2003, 09:30 AM

emt, personal trainer........ ex- mtn guide

aviation and mtn bike enthusiast........

JOHN NAGY

10-25-2003, 10:22 AM

Bus Driver. Airbus A-330, UsAirways. Former Metro bus driver, Washington, DC. Part time rocket surgeon and mercanery.

howieb38

10-25-2003, 03:56 PM

Worked my butt of in the television post production most of my adult life. Started my own company in NYC 15yrs ago and sold it 9 yrs ago. Retired at the age of 55 and started flying at the age of 63. Flew 675 hours in two yrs and am having a 1960 SC refurbished to be ready in Aug. 04. Can't wait.

10-25-2003, 05:25 PM

After a stint in Chippendales, I went on to become a short order cook, carpenter, musician, janitor, cabinet maker, car wash manager, and then eventually a computer guy...

sj

mmr

10-25-2003, 06:29 PM

-- A professional student pilot
Mark

Fortysix12

10-25-2003, 11:06 PM

howdy

K.S.

10-25-2003, 11:08 PM

Finding oil for the free world!

PA12driver

10-25-2003, 11:58 PM

Meat packer and chief bottle washer for Big Game guide in Alaska (my Dad)
25yrs in Commercial Construction
14yrs in Private Franchise Development
Unemployable!
Love God, Love My Wife, My Country and Flying as much as I can (all of those items mentioned done to extreme and still going strong at 51!

drew

10-26-2003, 12:10 AM

A&P mechanic, Avionics Tech, Army Reservist on active duty in Iraq

drew

10-26-2003, 12:11 AM

A&P mechanic, Avionics Tech, Army Reservist on active duty in Iraq

AkPA/18

10-26-2003, 12:12 AM

Interesting Idea for a thread cub 94

Not enough room to list all occupations over the years.

Recently drifting in and out of aviation related projects.

Prior---17 seasons Fish spotter. Or if you look in the fishereman's dictionary they call it f%$#ingpilot--yep---one word!

Air taxi pilot--Ak---7 seasons

North Idaho/Eastern Wash farmhand

Mark

PA12driver

10-26-2003, 09:28 AM

Thanks Drew! It's because of guys like you and those before you that we can do all that "we" do!

Tim

Anne

10-26-2003, 11:28 AM

The Chippendales part wasn't true? Darn, there goes one fantasy daydream.

Anne. :wink:

Todd C

10-26-2003, 02:56 PM

Mechanical designer, systems engineer and similar to my buddy Drew, an activated Army National Guardsman heading to Afghanistan. i aow kabele khordan as? (Dari for "Is the water safe to drink?) Yee-Haw!

PA12driver

10-26-2003, 03:42 PM

A heart filled thanks to you to Todd C.

Tim

Anne

10-26-2003, 04:41 PM

Drew, Todd, here's hoping you get back home soon, and in one piece.

Anne.

diggler

10-26-2003, 06:17 PM

delete

Jacob Papp

10-26-2003, 06:40 PM

Worked Line Service for Corporate Wings (KCGF)
Student @ The Kent State University,
full-time flight dispatcher for the Hawker 400XPs @ Flight Options (KCGF)

:drinking:

Dick Williams

10-27-2003, 12:06 AM

Scuba diver for Roto-Rooter.

Longwinglover

10-27-2003, 11:30 AM

Corporate pilot.

Currently between jobs.

Typed in Lears, Small Citations and 650 Citations.

Available immediately.

Worldwide experience.

John Scott

Plemmons

10-27-2003, 05:54 PM

Professional Surveyor

WindOnHisNose

10-27-2003, 09:08 PM

Reproductive endocrinologist (Infertility specialist)
Aviation medical examiner

Arturo

10-28-2003, 08:46 AM

Industrial mechanic (millright), pipe welder/fabricator, Certified welding inspector all at the same time for British Petroleum.

cubman

10-29-2003, 05:50 AM

Keep the computers, networks, email, phone systems and other assorted equipment running for financial services company.

belisle

10-29-2003, 07:48 AM

Since I am retired I manufacture wind generators for cabins, sailboats and remote fishing and hunting camps. So this way I can fly to the sites and help the buyers to install their wind machine for the price of the fuel to go to their camp. There, I can fish and hunt for free. The perfect business for a retired guy who still love to fly low and slow. Still flying my PA 12 on floats. Began to fly in 1959.

Yellsback

10-29-2003, 09:41 AM

Junior High through College - Stablehand

Last 2 years of College - Bartender and Lifeguard

Currently - Full-time student pilot (plugging away on the instrument rating right now) and work for Mansberger Aircraft, doing both financial duties and some light maintenance.

Cheers, Kate

Clyde G. Davis

10-29-2003, 10:33 AM

Electronics Engineer, Remote environmental data collection equipment, Airport weather stations (AWOS, ASOS), stream gauges, rain gauges, RAWS equipment, and other stuff like that. Sixty-nine years old, still working and flying. :D

koldham

10-29-2003, 06:23 PM

overwater MD-11 progress monitor (f/o)

Fortysix12

10-29-2003, 07:06 PM

PA-18

10-29-2003, 08:31 PM

Cotton farmer,archery nut,and fisherman.

The Bijou Boys

10-29-2003, 10:32 PM

Steve of the Bijou Boys started working on a survey crew in Alaska and now owns a propane distribution business in Colorado. He also ranches, owning just enough cattle to remind him why he doesn't ranch as a full-time occupation.

Tom of the Bijou Boys paid for college working as a CFI & air taxi pilot. Then was an aerospace engineer for 30 years. His current occupation is towing gliders with Super Cubs at the U.S. Air Force Academy.

AKCub

10-30-2003, 05:09 AM

Last time I checked, I was an on-demand catering/coffee consultant for a 121 cargo carrier.
Since I haven't checked my voice mail for a few days (days off and union/company "issues") I could be an unemployed cargo dude.... Which gives me way more time to be an enthusiastic cub guy!
Scott

cubdrvr

10-30-2003, 02:31 PM

Retired Crop Duster (oops, I mean aerial applicator).
Booze and Tobacco Peddler when I can't find anything better to do.... 8)

FlipFlop

10-30-2003, 02:48 PM

Geez, you guys and gals have such exciting jobs/lives!...

I'm just a laborer for my Uncle...

CRANMAN

10-30-2003, 07:36 PM

Cranberry Grower

dave

10-30-2003, 08:15 PM

Agriculture

D.CUB NUT

10-31-2003, 09:58 AM

BUSINESS OWNER ( TRUCKING & MOBILE CRANE RENTALS)

S2D

10-31-2003, 10:34 AM

I'm just a laborer for my Uncle...

That would be Uncle Sam perhaps??

FlipFlop

10-31-2003, 10:39 AM

I'm just a laborer for my Uncle...

That would be Uncle Sam perhaps??

Damn S2D, can't get anything by you, can I?...

strangeak

10-31-2003, 02:49 PM

Currently -
domestic engineer (read 3 kids, wife who runs in home daycare) and dog
Full time network administrator for a large mutli-modal trasportation co.
Run a small software/web development and network support company on the side,
amature/wingless SC pilot :( But working on fixing that asap.

Tbas

10-31-2003, 09:50 PM

Aircraft Mechanic

Currently working on crappy old C-130 Hercules waiting untill things get better in the airlines so I can go back to Boeing 737s

T.J.

10-31-2003, 10:11 PM

Airplane Mechanic, but don't tell my Mom , she thinks I'm a piano player in a cat house.

Fortysix12

11-02-2003, 07:44 PM

12's rule!

murph

11-02-2003, 10:51 PM

TJ:

Sometimes you just crack me up! :lol:

murph

jr.hammack

11-03-2003, 11:34 AM

sold welding supply after 25 yr's.large mental problem,bought a ranch 12 yr's ago,now unemployed because of drought.
j.d. is a professional 13 year old jv nose guard,elk guide,gun nut,student cub driver.

jr.&j.d.

Goodman

11-04-2003, 10:28 PM

Car Wash owner - Storage rentals -

mac

11-04-2003, 11:12 PM

Professional babysitter. :agrue:

kase

11-05-2003, 09:06 AM

I work for Cubys uncle.

cobblemaster

11-05-2003, 07:05 PM

pilot

HATIN11R

11-06-2003, 03:31 PM

20 YRS.W/HOUSTON FIRE DEPT.AS PARAMEDIC....GOOD PAY & GREAT PENSION.........MANAGE & FLY 2000 M7-MAULE FOR BUSINESSMAN.......PRICELESS!!!!!

HATIN11R

11-06-2003, 04:11 PM

HAD I READ ALL THE OTHER "CREATIVE"JOB DESCRIPTIONS PRIOR TO MY FIRST POST,IT WOULD GO SOMETHING LIKE THIS.....HIGH PRICED METAL POINTER,YOU CALL WE HAUL,"IT'S 3:30 IN THE MORNING AND YOU JUST WANT YOUR B/P CHECKED",THIS IS MY 26TH RUN ....PARAGOD. TRANSLATION:THE PARAMEDIC WHO DRIVES (WHICH IS ME)GET'S PAID MORE THAN THE ONE DOING PT.CARE,IT'S EASIER TO JUST TAKE EVERYONE THAN "DISCUSS WHAT AN EMERGENCY IS",NEXT 2 ARE OBVIOUS AND THE LAST IS A TONGUE & CHEEK TERM FOR THE RESPONSIBILITY PARAMEDICS HAVE. OH YEAH.....FLYING SOMEONE ELSES NEW AIRPLANE IS STIL PRICELESS!!!!

sekps

11-06-2003, 04:17 PM

Quality engineer, electronics (cell phones).

I see a lot of airports all over the world - but more lounges than Cubs...

irishfield

11-06-2003, 04:36 PM

"FLYING SOMEONE ELSES NEW AIRPLANE IS STIL PRICELESS!!!!"

Until you bend it!!! :o :bad-words:

Dupre

11-06-2003, 04:39 PM

Civil Engineer - fixing up bridges mainly.

Part time post-grad engineering student

Part time CPL student

Well, it keeps me off the streets!

Steve Pierce

11-06-2003, 05:05 PM

Taking someone elses wore out old airplane, disassembling it, throwing half of it in the dumpster and after many, many hours and lots of $ making it better than new. Oh yea, head floor sweeper, broken thing fixer and chief airplane question answerer. I'm also cheap entertainment for all the people who drop by and keep me from working to see what I've got spread all over the hanger floor today.

BritishCubBloke

11-06-2003, 05:21 PM

Physician. Seems like I'm the only one so far. I thought American doctors earned loads of money.

Ah yes, I guess they all fly Bonanzas.

BCB

Verdigris

11-07-2003, 10:12 AM

The day job is VP of Engineering for a natural gas company; the night job presently is tending to the endless details that an engineer just can't resist messing with when building a new house. In between, I fly the SuperCub.

Ruidoso Ron

11-07-2003, 12:41 PM

Fully retarded for the last two years. For 20 before, I owned 3 FAA-Certified Instument & Accessory Repair shops, specializing in turbine helicopter work. During the same period, flew commuter for a while, just for kicks (there certainly wasn't any profit in it!). Prior to that was the Regional Sales Mgr. for King Radio (in the Ed King days). Traveled 16 states, and 3 provinces for 4 years, calling on 175 avionics shops. Had a ball!

RPURCELL

11-07-2003, 03:26 PM

Professional bum/Retired Fire Chief. Fly and now rebuilding a my PA-14, interrupted by stints with FEMA at fire, earthquake, 9-11, Olympics, flood, etc. Have been flying since I was 15 and finally bought the plane 5 years ago after thinking about all the people who have said: I wish I had..., If only..., When I was younger I should have..., etc.

HATIN11R

11-07-2003, 03:38 PM

IRISHFILED......WHEN YOU BEND IT ,THE "PRICELESS"NOW BECOMES "PRICEY"!! BUT SERIOUSLY ,WE BOTH ARE ON THE INSURANCE AND I AM AVERAGING ABOUT 150 HRS.PER YRS.AND THE MAULE IS A GREAT A/C.(JUST LIKE THE SUPERCUB!)I RECENTLY FLEW TO UPSTATE N.Y. FROM THE HOUSTON AREA AND HAD A GREAT TIME.EVEN DID THE HUDSON RIVER/NYC/STATUE OF LIBERTY FLYING GIG.IF ANYONE IS INTERESTED IN THE DETAILS GO TO MAULEMODS.COM AND CLICK ON THE EXCITING DESTINATIONS HEADING....SO WHY IS A"MAULE MAN"ON THE SUPERCUB SITE? TRUTH IS I'M A "CLOSET CUBBY",BUT MY MOTHER THINKS I'M A PIANO PLAYER IN A WHOREHOUSE. SSHHHH,DON'T TELL.

FlipFlop

11-07-2003, 03:42 PM

TRUTH IS I'M A "CLOSET CUBBY.

I'm starting to get a little worried about this guy...

HATIN11R

11-07-2003, 03:49 PM

CUBY......I AGREE ABOUT YOU WORRYING ABOUT ME .COULD YOU PLEASE BRING A PA18 AND CHECK ON ME.I THINK ABOUT 10-15 HRS.AIR TIME WOULD DO ME WONDERS.THANKS FOR CARING.

Steve Pierce

11-07-2003, 03:51 PM

At least he isn't pedaling is airplane. Is that what you are doing in your Avitar Cuby?

FlipFlop

11-07-2003, 03:58 PM

At least he isn't pedaling is airplane. Is that what you are doing in your Avitar Cuby?

As fast as I can...

HATIN11R

11-07-2003, 04:02 PM

HEY STEVE.....HOW'S THINGS UP NORTH? WE'RE NICE & COOL IN BRENHAM.THE PLANE IS IN ANNUAL RIGHT NOW.SORRY I DIDN'T GET UP TO GRAHAM.THE OWNER NEEDED THE ANNUAL DONE ASAP DUE TO SOME UPCOMING FLIGHTS HE WILL BE DOING.HIS BUSINESS GETS PRETTY BUSY IN THE FALL AND THIS WAS HIS DECISION TO GET IT DONE RIGHT NOW....ANYWAY I WILL GET UP TO SEE YOU EVENTUALLY.SOUNDS LIKE YOU HAVE A FEW PROJECTS OF YOUR OWN.TAKE CARE.

Korb

11-09-2003, 01:44 AM

C-130 Loadmaster...presently having a blast flying over afganistan.

Fortysix12

11-09-2003, 06:59 AM

Korb,

How did you here about or find supercub.org over there? Great to have you on board.

drew

11-09-2003, 10:50 AM

Hey, Korb! You ever get over to Iraq? If so, stop by and say hi! at Balad Air Base. Oh, by the way, make sure you have your flares switched on, you'll need 'em!

Drew

drew

11-09-2003, 10:50 AM

Hey, Korb! You ever get over to Iraq? If so, stop by and say hi! at Balad Air Base. Oh, by the way, make sure you have your flares switched on, you'll need 'em!

Drew

Jacques

11-11-2003, 08:14 AM

Heavy road truck Mechanical teacher

Rick Papp

11-11-2003, 08:55 PM

Large animal and Small animal Veterinarian. Hobbies; Hunting, Fishing, Flying. (Sometimes I Kill, sometimes I cure.)
Rick

Korb

11-12-2003, 02:15 AM

yup drew, I'll be over in that part of the world again around January-ish for another 3 month deployment(doing two back to back) i was flying OIF missions went the war started..mar-may, then came home for 3 months. the start of the war was a lot of fun..long days but the flying we were doing those first two or three weeks was the best! 300-500 A, blacked out in the dead of night doing 280knots plus.

as far as how i found supercub....well it started i dunno like when i was 6. my dad was stationed at howard ab, panama. i watched a C-5 takeoff..it blew me away, ever since i've loved flying. almost got my PPL when i was 16 in Civil Air Patrol...but never put enough effort in to it. well i've been putting it off since it seemed expensive(i'm 21 now)...but i'm re-enlisting for 6 years this spring, getting a nice bonus..30k+ tax-free. so it made the couple grand to get my PPL seem not so expensive anymore. :D plus i've always loved "low and slow" flight...been flight simming for years and years, those jet fighter games just don't seem like fun. i spend hours just flying a J-3 around in FS2004....can't wait to get my hands on a SC in a few years. I'll have my truck paid off around next summer...plan on keeping it for a quite awhile(its a 2003) after that is done all my spare money is going to try and get a SC....I've looked at huskys, they seem like nice planes but a bit much for me.

so thats my story :) I'm studying(sp?) for my PPL right now...so when i get home i can take a few thousand and knock all the flying out fast..thinking it will take me about 2 months...don't want to go to fast..might burn myself out. so anyone know of some taildragger schools in Arkansas...I've checked the three closest schools i could find around my house(littlerock, North littlerock and seracy) doesn't look like they have any "real" planes. so any help in that regard would be great! :P

Wannabe Cubdriver

11-12-2003, 02:25 PM

Canadian Forces.

wilbur

11-12-2003, 05:37 PM

Korb,
Sometimes just looking for flight schools limits you. Spend some time bumming around some of the local airports. If you indicate you're interested in getting a ticket in a tail dragger, you never know what the old boys will turn up. You need to get off the beaten path a bit if you're headed in the taildragger direction. I know a bunch of good ol boys from Searcy, (50 miles NE of Little Rock) and see them at Osh Kosh every year, all grand champion taildragger rebuilders. PM me if you'd like.
Wilbur

Crash

11-12-2003, 10:10 PM

1975-77 Heavy Equipment Operator (Pipeline)
1977-81 IBM Technician
1981-03 Business Equipment Dealer (40 employees, 4 branches) also TIG welder, sheet metal wizard, avionics tech, painter, preacher, plumber, electrician and pilot. Like to have something to fall back on if this gig runs out. Crash

Also hunter, I like to kill all four legged creatures.

GirlCubPilot

11-13-2003, 08:47 AM

Fling Wing Systems Engineer,
Protector of all Four Legged Creatures, and
Full time Husband beater.

Anne

11-13-2003, 11:30 AM

Looks like we'll need to keep some distance between Crash and GirlCubPilot!

BTW, what's a Fling Wing Systems Engineer?

Anne.

Cub junkie

11-13-2003, 12:11 PM

Good post Crash, the majority of us neanderthals on this site LOVE four legged creatures,they are delicious.

GirlCubPilot

11-13-2003, 12:42 PM

Fling Wing Systems Engineer = OH58-D Helicopter = KIOWA WARRIOR

StewartB

11-13-2003, 01:42 PM

Don't Kiowa's kill 2-legged creatures? (Im a fan of the military, so no offense intended.)

Seriously, the most dedicated wildlife conservationists are hunters. To not manage wildlife populations would be disasterous to most of them, given the fact that human civilization has reduced wild habitat. I love to hunt, but I don't love to kill. We should argue this on another forum.

SB

11-13-2003, 02:28 PM

Stewart, I would sugguest the rant and rave area for that discussion, or possibly the PETA website.

sj

85Mike

11-13-2003, 07:51 PM

As the Alaska billboard said," There's room for all God's creatures, right next to the mashed potatoes and gravy !!!"
85 Mike

Wayne Mackey

11-13-2003, 11:38 PM

1953 to70 Growing up in AK hunt fish swim and camping
71-80 constuction and aircraft mec., hunting fishing flying
71-95 kids , boat const. planes ,anything for a dime
30 years playing with stol devises and still love it
always looking for new and better
Now a bow hunter, not many big bears down here
Wayne

Michael E. Butterfield

11-20-2003, 08:13 AM

Plain crazy, or was that plane crazy... oh well. A&P IA CFII Single and Multi land and sea. Love to sit in the back of a Top Cub and help a new owner get comfortable. It is a dirty job.mb

aceherks

11-20-2003, 09:26 PM

Mike :: To bad your not in upstate NY, lots of rear seat time available

HydroCub

11-20-2003, 09:50 PM

Water vapor manufacturer at FL410

tripleoption

11-21-2003, 04:32 AM

I do cold working/heat treating of filaments for cathode ends of X-ray tubes installed in CT machines. Tolerances are measured in tenths of a micron, so I work in a cleanroom with a bunnysuit, booties, latex gloves and hairnet with tyvek 'helmet'. This is all done under a microscope, between 10pm and 7am. I work alone, and unsupervised. I have no less than 7 people I report to on any given day, but they get here around 6am.

It's not as exciting as it sounds. I'd rather be flying.

12-06-2003, 11:04 PM

Just read through this entire post again. What a bunch of interesting, diverse, and extremely likeable people you all are!

MAN AM I LUCKY!

sj

P.S. I am being SERIOUS for once!

JoeW

12-07-2003, 03:28 PM

Helicopter Crewchief for 4 years Army
Registered Nurse for five years
FBI Agent for 7 years
Still airplaneless :cry:
but have hope

Fortysix12

12-07-2003, 06:57 PM

Helicopter Crewchief for 4 years Army
Registered Nurse for five years
FBI Agent for 7 years
Still airplaneless :cry:
but have hope

"Still airplaneless :cry:"

As your fellow American what can I do to help? Sounds like you got your priorities out of order, like eating and shelter, that kind of stuff.

JoeW

12-07-2003, 07:03 PM

Well, I do have food and shelter, and great family. BUT, I know of a guy I had visited his workshop, which was next to his log house. His workshop was larger. I guess his priorities were in line 8)

Dick Williams

12-12-2003, 06:20 PM

Well I guess I should fess up that I'm a smart aleck and not really a scuba diver for Roto-Rooter (although I've always wanted to be...)
I'm the chief pilot for a corporate department flying the Lear 45. Before that I was a commercial backcountry pilot for 20 years in Idaho (best job was flying a Twin Otter for 5 years), then did aerial fire-fighting for the DOI for 6 years. This job is hard to beat, but I miss the bush. Still have the cub I bought in 1981, completely restored 2 years ago with all the mods I always wanted.
I have a low member number with supercub.org, but have never ante-ed into the kitty. Guess it's time!
Tricky Dicky
Twatter Pilot (or so my OLD business card reads)

MarkG

12-13-2003, 12:08 AM

Kansas City (inner city) Cop.
Working toward my CFI and a Super Cub for now I hitch rides and fly spam cans.

Steve N

12-13-2003, 01:15 AM

Deforestation specialist for 20+ years,now oil/gas field on Kenai Penisula.
First Cub flight when I was 10 been hooked ever since.....
Steve

CubCouper

12-13-2003, 01:15 AM

Many years driving computer systems through the perilous roads of user antipathy on my way to riches and glory -- missed that left turn at Albuquerque, now run a wholesale air filter wholesaler business.

Wendy

12-13-2003, 06:25 AM

Work in accounting for a holding company (last 4 yrs); I've gotten trapped in the mortgage-job-commute vicious cycle. Before that I lived/worked in the Caribbean as a dive guide and underwater photographer (on Little Cayman, to be precise- wonderful place, where time stood still and I didn't have a care in the world). Got my PPL a year and a half ago, and now I work to fly. Anyone want to buy a house- my house in particular?

I need to get un-trapped.

SnowMan

12-13-2003, 10:29 AM

Been doing electronics work for an oilfield service company for about 25 years. Started in Kenai, AK where I grew up, went to Saudi in 1991. I keep the Cub on the family homestead and go home every summer to fly for 6 weeks.

Hope to become a full time SC pilot when I grow up.

Meanwhile, I'm helping pump all the oil out of the Middle East so we can all go home.

RedEye

12-13-2003, 10:52 AM

MINING; Operate a 36 cubic yard electric shovel for a TACONITE (what steel is made from) mining company here on MN's 'Iron Range'.

12-13-2003, 12:16 PM

Bus sales buisness owner 1981-now started rental eqyuipment buisness in 2000

Bart Grabhorn

Crash

12-15-2003, 06:04 PM

What a miss matched group, how'd we all end up here? Crash

FlipFlop

12-15-2003, 06:05 PM

What a miss matched group, how'd we all end up here? Crash

Geez Crash, think about it... Who else would take us?...

Lawn Dart

12-15-2003, 08:03 PM

What a miss matched group, how'd we all end up here? Crash

Yeah, but we could start a pretty good town :angel:

rrb

12-15-2003, 09:14 PM

I see crop dusters, engineers, lawyers, doctors, contractors, uncle sam's helpers, mechanics, computer guys; the list seems to be quite illustrious and I'm sure I left many gaps. I do not recall any actual farmers however in our listing so far. If so I hope I haven't overlooked you. I just figure they might be helpful to our town too. I guess we need to find a couple and recruit them. A town of several thousand with as many pilots. It would be phenomenal-- of course there'd be a ghost town on nice days and it would appear to be a large swarm of mosquitos overhead as we all took to the skies.

SuperCub MD

12-15-2003, 09:25 PM

I guess I'll have to jump in and be your farmer rrb, although there are more Cubs than cows in the barn. Also a FBO owner, and airport manager (8D1).

rrb

12-15-2003, 09:30 PM

whew... I was afraid we'd starve...

cpthazard

12-15-2003, 10:27 PM

Predator control Pilot, yes I get paid to do it in a Husky, on the weekends I fly my Cub for fun and adventure and in the summer I spray skeeters in an AgCat,

sodak

12-16-2003, 07:28 AM

full time farmer!

Randy

12-17-2003, 08:59 PM

Full time farmer here also.
Major crops are corn, cattle and kids.:)

Lawn Dart

12-17-2003, 09:32 PM

Specialist at procuring, storing and distributing dihydrogenoxide. Dang...that sounds impressive. I gotta remember that one :lol:

Ursa Major

12-18-2003, 12:04 AM

Specialist at procuring, storing and distributing dihydrogenoxide. Dang...that sounds impressive. I gotta remember that one :lol:

Dihydrogenoxide - water?

Lawn Dart

12-18-2003, 12:58 AM

Di-hydrogen-oxide:

Di, from the Greek, meaning= two (2)?Hydrogen, from the word hydrogen, meaning= hydrogen?Oxide, umm, meaning= oxygen. Chemical symbol?H2O

OK?I?ll come clean. I?m the Pumper for the City that I live in.

In other words, I take care of the water wells, reservoirs and pressure booster stations for the city?s water system. If you open the facet and water comes out?I did it?if it doesn?t, it was that damn construction department?again!

Damnit Mike, you blew my cover. :evil: