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.
I worked as a manager at a Sam Goody before it was bought out by a bigger music company. It is the best job I have ever worked, seriously. It wasen't so much the actual job, but the employee's that I worked with and the shear stupidity of the customers.
Here are a few pics of one of our special nights that we came up with to have fun.
What it was, was a techno night. We literally BLASTED techno music over the sound system, turned off most of the lights, set up stobe lights everywhere (hard to see in the pictures) and the employee's working cracked some glowsticks and wore them on our name tags. Great night, great times. I miss the Goody.
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I do 2 things:
1. Im an architectural drafter who works part time from home.
2. At the moment I'm working at Home Depot. Really not a bad job and they pay decent. So good enough for now until Im out of school.
I work at a local lake and fix up boats and the old jet skis. I also teach sailing lessons...which is boring (until I capsize the boat when the kids aren't listening). It's a fun and laid back job...I can't wait to start up again.
I work for a small company out of Indianapolis, SDA Inc., we are contractors for the U.S. Govt.. What we do is build electronic cables for aircraft, personally the one I mainly work on is for the HH60H Seahawk. It is big transport heli.
I dont know if that link works just let me know if it doesn't. Other than that my job is pretty boring, just messing with wires and goofing off on the computer.
I work all over the show... 3 weeks ago I was in spain, last week latvia and now for the next 6 months sunny Ireland... basically UKSF are training the irish special forces up to levels of skill near to that of the SAS so they have a few dozen DS over there and every 2 weeks myself and the rest of my platoon for the opposing force in an exercise desgned to test the irish soldiers... my little unit are the best non-elite soldiers in europe so thats why we are the OPFOR for the irish and we were for the spanish and eastern europeans...
Of course, if war were to break out I would be one of the lucky chaps that get dropped wherever the **** is deepest with 2nd PARA batt.
Oh oh oh and the best bit:on the 12th of july, the most troublesome day in northern ireland each year, I am on riot policing duty... skull bashing time :)
Ye I dont work yet but I wish I did because am just sick of school and waking up so early.
So you think that work is going to be different? 40+ hour weeks and you either work early, or late at night. You can work while in school as a part-timer.
Where do you work??? 
