What's your "day" job?

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Advertising account executive. I also work P/T in a record store on weekends.
 
Push pull stroke said:
I am a lineman for the county
And I drive the main road

Actually it’s not the county, it’s a major phone company
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I like the line in "Wichita Lineman" where he says he's driving around looking for overloads ha ha.

Let me guess...you don't drive around looking for overloads. My guess is no one does. What does an overload look like, melting copper?

That's why we invented overcurrent protection for the copper wires duh.

Maybe Glen should have done just a smidge of research
 
larryace said:
I like the line in "Wichita Lineman" where he says he's driving around looking for overloads ha ha.

Let me guess...you don't drive around looking for overloads. My guess is no one does. What does an overload look like, melting copper?

That's why we invented overcurrent protection for the copper wires duh.

Maybe Glen should have done just a smidge of research
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Well, Jimmy Webb should have done the research, Glen just sang a great song.
The image in that song is its a lonely job, but I think I'd like that.
 
larryace said:
I like the line in "Wichita Lineman" where he says he's driving around looking for overloads ha ha.

Let me guess...you don't drive around looking for overloads. My guess is no one does. What does an overload look like, melting copper?

That's why we invented overcurrent protection for the copper wires duh.

Maybe Glen should have done just a smidge of research
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I have no idea what an overload would even be. Every once in a while the power guys hold their high-voltage stuff too close to the phone lines, and the induced current will blow out a surge protector or modem. But you can’t see that. The damage is all internal.
 
Larry said:
I like the line in "Wichita Lineman" where he says he's driving around looking for overloads ha ha.

Let me guess...you don't drive around looking for overloads. My guess is no one does. What does an overload look like, melting copper?

That's why we invented overcurrent protection for the copper wires duh.

Maybe Glen should have done just a smidge of research
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Maybe he was singing about fused cutouts that had dropped. Hopefully he went out looking only after outages were being reported. Otherwise that would be quite a time suck
 
Ransan said:
I am a staff accountant, 3rd year in the profession, for one of the local hospitals where I live in Colorado. Summers are tense as our fiscal year ends in June. So it is crunch time as well as auditor season for year in review. During work I do shell up by listening to a lot of music via earphones, eases my mind.
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Update - as of May I am now a Financial Controller, not to be confused with Comptroller.
 
Retired Army sergeant.

Retired metrologist.

Active servant for she who must be obeyed. ;)

Life is good!
 
I'm retired, but spent 30 years as a college professor and anthropologist.
 
I’m retired now which gives me the time to play in two blues bands and be a regular participant in local blues jams. But my career was a real estate asset manager and advisor to ultra high net worth individuals.
 
Part 135 Charter Pilot & Flight Instructor for 10 years. Quit that career path, electronics experience led to a 25 year career at Ma Bell.
Retired now so I just goof around with drums and recording gear all day and take orders from my wife.
 
I'm a self-employed bricklayer and hard landscaper with my own little business that I started last year which is going well. I've recently (last week) retired from live sound engineering, hopefully forever, having had that as my main source of income before I got into construction about 16 years ago.

I play drums for money as a weekend job instead now and I'll likely only be doing 3 or 4 gigs a month as opposed to the 7 or 8 I was doing on sound. I'm in my mid 40s now and I just can't keep up 7 work shifts per week over 6 days any more, especially when my "day off" is usually spent pricing jobs and maintaining equipment as well as being a loving father to 2 kids and a husband. I've still managed to average around 16 hours per week practicing or playing drums in the last year as well. I don't sleep a lot.
 
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