Alright, I searched for a topic that already existed but found none so here it is. I was just wondering where everybody in the Socom community worked and what their job consisted of. Post a description of where you work and what you do exactly and pictures relating to such.
I work at Voith Paper in West Monroe, Louisiana. It's a company that repairs, refininishes, and recovers paper machine rolls. It's basically devided into two parts, the machine shop (anything doing to do with assembly work, machining work, and dissassembly work). And the second part is the rubber shop which consists of recovering rolls with a rubber/polyeurothane (sp) compound depending on the roll. It's a pretty complicated business but once you get used to the work it's not that hard.
My job is called a Millwright. I disassemble and assemble the actual paper machine rolls. Lots of gear wrenching. I get to work with cranes that are rated for picking up 60 tons a piece (there are 8 of them). During the summer when I'm not in college, I'm on the field service crew which goes out to the actual paper mills to work on emergency work when it would take too long to take them out of the mill on an 18-wheeler. It's the most fun because you'll drive/fly work a whole day at a time and get paid more for sitting than working in the shop. And the company pays for everything you want/need including food and hotel rooms.
I thought about quiting school and going to work full-time year round for a while and go back to school but my dad said that he would fire me (it sucks when the guy that runs the whole show is your dad). But anyways, it's a good gig that pays well. I averaged about 66 hours a week last year with pay checks around 900-1200 a week when i'm on field service. But it's definetly not a job that I would like to have the rest of my life like the guys in there that are stuck there without a college degree.
Sorry about the rambling. Here's a picture of a paper machine if you don't know what one looks like (they're huge). So when you wipe your but with the nice smooth 2-ply, thank me.
Where do you work???
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