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Posted: 4/7/2015 4:01:59 PM EDT

I see these threads about some guys here that just seem to have bottomless pockets. Just curious what everyone here does for work. Also feel like it would be a good way to see just how diverse this forum really is.

Myself, i am an aircraft mechanic for my main job. Security officer 2 nights a week for my toy fund.

Posted: 4/7/2015 4:03:06 PM EDT

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I work security, if I want something I have to save for it.

Posted: 4/7/2015 4:04:37 PM EDT

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Small business owner. My company originally did general architecture and architectural visualizations, now we design curtain wall systems. We are hoping to expand into fabricating curtain wall systems shortly.

Edit: I can usually buy common stuff under a grand on a whim. Expensive stuff ($2K+) I usually have to pool my mad money for. My current firearms related projects are an 870 SBS (pending a form 1), a Benelli M4 (pending a form 3), A Surefire SOCOM 556 can (pending form 4), a CZ Skorpion (pending form 1) and a few other odds and ends. I'm debating buying more optics, but there is nothing that really catches my fancy right now.

Edit: I should probably footnote the above with 'I have no kids, my car is 8 years old and paid for, my house is small and my wife works (and makes) just as much as I do'. Firearms are my only "hobby" outside of video games (which are comparatively cheap).

Posted: 4/7/2015 4:05:25 PM EDT

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Male RN.

Posted: 4/7/2015 4:06:41 PM EDT

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buy low / sell high (fasteners)

Posted: 4/7/2015 4:07:08 PM EDT

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Male RN as well, work from home for insurance company

Posted: 4/7/2015 4:07:17 PM EDT

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CNC programmer, operator

Working on A Tesla stamping die right now.

Posted: 4/7/2015 4:08:14 PM EDT

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this.

Posted: 4/7/2015 4:08:14 PM EDT

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When not surfing the Arfcom...
I fix stuff.

Posted: 4/7/2015 4:08:16 PM EDT

[#9]

Obama is my sugar daddy.

Posted: 4/7/2015 4:08:29 PM EDT

[#10]

Insurance but I can't seem to get my kids off my payroll.

Posted: 4/7/2015 4:08:40 PM EDT

[#11]

Retired military and currently working in the IT field. Also have an interest in a large rice farming operation.

Posted: 4/7/2015 4:09:11 PM EDT

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Desk jockey. I don't actually do very much, but I make it look like I do.

Posted: 4/7/2015 4:10:27 PM EDT

[#13]

Department of Energy contractor teaching safety courses.

Posted: 4/7/2015 4:11:08 PM EDT

[#14]

Corporate network admin. I don't do firewalls and proxies, and I just noticed that the proxy is not blocking Arfcom anymore for some reason. Sitting at my desk on AR15.com right now!

Posted: 4/7/2015 4:11:29 PM EDT

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Facilities maintenance manager and ammonia refrigeration plant operator.
My pockets are really shallow.

Posted: 4/7/2015 4:12:41 PM EDT

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Me too. I'm a lawyer.

Posted: 4/7/2015 4:14:00 PM EDT

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Explosive stem bolts?

ETA: Facilities Manager for an IT facility.

Posted: 4/7/2015 4:15:45 PM EDT

[#18]

Freelance gynecologist

Posted: 4/7/2015 4:16:39 PM EDT

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Explosive stem bolts?

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buy low / sell high (fasteners)

Explosive stem bolts?

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nope, mostly just stainless machine screws.

Posted: 4/7/2015 4:17:17 PM EDT

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Openstack Deployment Engineer.

Posted: 4/7/2015 4:17:23 PM EDT

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Commercial HVAC service technician. Recently divorced. Don't have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of. If it weren't for my best friend I don't know where I'd be living.

Posted: 4/7/2015 4:17:34 PM EDT

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Systems Administrator at a university.

Posted: 4/7/2015 4:18:45 PM EDT

[#23]

I drive trains. (Locomotive engineer)

Posted: 4/7/2015 4:20:20 PM EDT

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Posted: 4/7/2015 4:21:04 PM EDT

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I see these threads about some guys here that just seem to have bottomless pockets. Just curious what everyone here does for work. Also feel like it would be a good way to see just how diverse this forum really is.

Myself, i am an aircraft mechanic for my main job. Security officer 2 nights a week for my toy fund.

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Pimpin'. Ain't easy, but I gets mah duckets.

Posted: 4/7/2015 4:22:32 PM EDT

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Paramedic for the full-time job. On my days off I'm part-time/paid on-call paramedic/firefighter. My pockets are as shallow as a puddle of rain in the Arizona summer.

Posted: 4/7/2015 4:23:36 PM EDT

[#27]

Twist wires together.

Posted: 4/7/2015 4:23:55 PM EDT

[#28]

Mechanical Engineer.

Posted: 4/7/2015 4:24:53 PM EDT

[#29]

Assembly supervisor
I have to save for what I want as well. Yeah I could throw it on the CC but I quit that stuff. If we didn't just drain the savings for 3 rounds of unsuccessful IUI I would have a couple more toys

Posted: 4/7/2015 4:25:07 PM EDT

[#30]

Billionaire playboy. Just like most of Arfcom. You watching the next Monaco GP from your yacht?

Posted: 4/7/2015 4:26:03 PM EDT

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Word.

Posted: 4/7/2015 4:26:04 PM EDT

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nope, mostly just stainless machine screws.

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buy low / sell high (fasteners)

Explosive stem bolts?

ETA: Facilities Manager for an IT facility.

nope, mostly just stainless machine screws.

Hmmm, disappointing.

Posted: 4/7/2015 4:27:39 PM EDT

[#33]

I'm an importer-exporter.

Posted: 4/7/2015 4:28:24 PM EDT

[#34]

Equipment mechanic

Posted: 4/7/2015 4:28:31 PM EDT

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Sorry to hear that man. At least you're in a good industry and got at least one good friend. Only way to go is up.

Posted: 4/7/2015 4:29:18 PM EDT

[#36]

Fix heavy equipment

Posted: 4/7/2015 4:29:33 PM EDT

[#37]

Art director/graphic designer in the motorsports industry.

Posted: 4/7/2015 4:29:54 PM EDT

[#38]

Concrete contractor.

Some months I can buy whatever I want, other months I have to eat rice and beans....this month is the latter.

Posted: 4/7/2015 4:29:56 PM EDT

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Manage a medium-sized pool service company in central Texas (see busy year-round). I do okay, but my toys are usually a combination of saving my allowance for months, birthday, anniversary, father's day & Christmas all rolled into one. The only thing I have on credit is my house and I'd like to keep it that way.

Posted: 4/7/2015 4:30:21 PM EDT

[#40]

sql server rapist

Posted: 4/7/2015 4:31:37 PM EDT

[#41]

Director of Operations for a light manufacturing and distribution company.

I also play security guard a couple times a month for ammo money!

Posted: 4/7/2015 4:33:41 PM EDT

[#42]

Construction - Project Manager and Estimator

Posted: 4/7/2015 4:35:01 PM EDT

[#43]

I am a Marine.

Posted: 4/7/2015 4:35:38 PM EDT

[#44]

IT. I used to do Cisco voice/routing/switching.

Now I just do voice.

Posted: 4/7/2015 4:35:38 PM EDT

[#45]

Infrastructure & Ops (IT) - work in the gaming industry. My wife works as well (PM), but we have 5 kids, so....

Posted: 4/7/2015 4:38:23 PM EDT

[#46]

Retired.

Posted: 4/7/2015 4:39:02 PM EDT

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Thank you.

Posted: 4/7/2015 4:39:34 PM EDT

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You too.

Posted: 4/7/2015 4:40:24 PM EDT

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A retried Marine currently sentenced to purgatory as a Power Plant Assistant Unit Operator. (not my dream job but it pays well and supports my BRD problem)
Tried teaching HS for a year but they wouldn't let me carry weapons or beat the parents.

Posted: 4/7/2015 4:41:52 PM EDT

[#50]

I work as a marketing guy in the aviation field full time and own 10% of an Italian restaurant that I work nights at.

Both family businesses.

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