What does everyone do for their "real" job?

here we go round the mulberry bush, the mulberry bush, the mulberry bush
 
^ you two, i dunno!!

Myself, i'm perpetually unemployed. I seem to languish from one shit kicking labour hire casual job to the next which would be fine for me as i'm a pretty casual guy, but i just hate the casual lack of income that accompanies the casually unemployed downturn in casual work. As you can probably tell i'm a tad bitter about being between casual shit kicker jobs right now.
 
ha ha, right, this is a job thread... so I'm in the federal fire service. Pretty chill, lots of travel, and great views. Downside... busy summer = limited riding time. :-[
 
Im a commercial photographer in the Baltimore/Washington area. Food, people, architectural, product, mostly business-to-business and work for magazines.

My website, if you have nothing better to do: http://www.directiononeinc.com
 
jamartin0519 said:
Im a nurse......yes male nurse. I work in the NICU. Premature babies. The patients are fine its the parents and the 300 women that I work with that are the biggest headache
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I've got nipples Focker.......can you milk me?
 
Really nice work Vince. I like the fact that you seem to capture the image with the camera and don't use alot of computer manipulation. I like your food stills and all your other work but the black and whites hit a cord with me. The Pic of the kid living with the missing power meter is powerful. You've also photographed some very famous people. Very cool stuff.

Years ago I worked as a photographer for a small news paper. People features were always my favorite although I did alot of sports. That was my favorite photography job. I then worked doing crime scene photography for our local police department. That developed into work for the coroner's office. Got old real quick. All of those jobs were before digital and before everyone did their own photography. My last real photography job was with Racer x mag before it got big. Then the epoch of digital age hit. I sold almost all of my equipment including a good bit of medium format equipment and my 35mm bodies. Then decided to get out of the business. It wasn't until a couple of years ago I was offered a spot with racer again (racer x mag's main office is just 20 minutes from my house). Anyhow I hastily purchased a 300 2.8 then decided I didn't want to do all the traveling involved. Long story short I have a brand new 300 2.8 in my closet that I should sell.
 
Stumbled across some pictures from my past profession, I think these were from 2008? Interlagos Brazil, penultimate round of the F1 season. Used to be a professional Race Mechanic.

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^ Now that kicks ass, all our jobs just suck compaired to that! I have a friend who used to work for porshce in the GT circuit, now he works for Subaru in the WRC. I have not talked to him in years though, except on FB!
 
tWistedWheelz said:
^ Now that kicks ass, all our jobs just suck compaired to that! I have a friend who used to work for porshce in the GT circuit, now he works for Subaru in the WRC. I have not talked to him in years though, except on FB!
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It's not quite as glamorous as you'd hope lol. That trip was though. My driver finished P2 and another one of our drivers won, so they kept the cars at the winners circle. The pits for our series were so far from the main straight that I got to drive the car back, down the front straight in front of 100K screaming Brazilian fans....Brazil is a great place to get into trouble (or killed...) :-X ;D

It's a ton of work for minimal coin, but the free travel is good and you get free access to all the top events.
 
I was a machininst for years, and have a mechanical eng. degree, so that helps. Basically you just need to be real mechanically savvy, and more than anything, have impeccable attention to detail. If you have bad ADD it's probably not the job for you. If you forget minor details it can cost you a race or end up causing thousands in damage. Or if you really overlook something, someones life. Every race I sit there and pray that the car just hangs together, especially if you're drivers out front. To cost someone who's been driving their heart out a win because you screwed up is not a good feeling.

Example: Maybe around 2001 I was working at a vintage race shop. I did a motor change on a guys Chevron race car. There was a plate that surrounded the Webber carbs that the air filter bolted to. Lap 2 of the race he was coming down the front straight and all of a sudden a huge plume of smoke came out the exhaust. After we got it to the pits, it was apparent that one of the nuts holding the plate to the carbs was missing, and had obviously come loose and gotten sucked through one of the carb inlets. All of the nuts were mounted with lock washers (which are useless, shame on me, should have used nylocks) and one vibrated loose. So tiny details like putting a nut on a screw can make things pear shaped in a hurry.
 
JRK5892 said:
ha hahaha i love when people get called out! awesome!
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Amen. It's really not a secret when the only thing left out is the blatant admission of union....HAHA!
 
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