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• OT POLL: What job did you retire from? Also, if you were to start over, would you choose the same profession? *NM*
  • I use to design underground subdivisions for electric utility company, setting up contracts, designing, spec'g equipment, everything from A-Z except the physical labor. I loved that job *NM*
  • Paramedic with City of Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service..On street and answering 911 lines then after stroke asst.Manager of Light fleet vehicles for same service till retirement..Would do it in a heartbeat all over but would eat less greasy chicken and hamburgers and fries
    • Re:33 yrs as a FireFighter, the last 20 or so as an EMT/PM.....
  • 40 years of being a plastic process engineer. Made many many plastic parts over the years, but nothing fun. *NM*
  • Web developer, Sharepoint designer, Database Administratior. Retired in December 2017. *NM*
  • COBOL mainframe programmer analyst, later SQL developer at Pasadena City College REtired 6/30/2020 after almost 18 years there. I was in IT industry since 1973. *NM*
  • Retired twice--first as sheriff's deputy, then as license clinical professional counselor. After 48 years of dealing with people in crisis, I'm a happy hermit. *NM*
  • 20yrs as a Hobby Shop and Second Hand Book Shop Owner till 2016, enjoyed every minute, but was time to close. *NM*
  • Auto mechanic, retired 2 yrs ago, would not get into it now. technology left me behind! *NM*
  • General accounting, mostly as a manager, since 1976. The fun job was 12 yrs in a Ford dealership. Last job was 10yrs in accounting at the Dept of Defense Finance Service. Retired from there at the beginning of 2019. Would do it again, other then the seemingly endless
    • Oh?? A "bean counter" the bane of the engineering groups?
      • Nah, I was good with most everyone. I made sure the bills got paid, invoices were sent, commissions paid and the money was collected. *NM*
  • What is this retirement you speak of??? If I had it to do all over again, Id be born into money and be independently wealthy. *NM*
    • Re: Only in your dreams. LOL! *NM*
  • Hospital security. Yes, I would go back. (Retired due to disability)....... *NM*
  • IT/GIS Analyst for local gas/water/sewer utility - Retired June 2020 *NM*
    • Yeah, I'd do it again *NM*
  • I went to college for auto mechanics.....but worked....
    • Environmental test tech....which meant I set up, ran, and wrote the reports on many kinds of vibration, shock, and acceleration tests. For 35 years. I might do it again, but I'd rather be musician in a country or blue grass band. *NM*
  • Retired (disability) from Nexteer in Saginaw after 5 years....prior to that
  • Sold packaging materials for 38 years. It stopped being fun when business practices changed. I enjoyed helping people though. *NM*
  • After 32 years....
  • Retired from full time civil engineering and land surveying but continue to do consulting on a part time basis. I'd do it again. *NM*
  • I was the controller for a metal stamping company. Loved it. *NM*
  • Re: 35 + years in construction building AMERICA, and no I wouldn't do it again as it has caused me back problems, tinnitus, Pulmonary Fibrosis, etc. I really beat up my body. *NM*
  • 35 years, various City Departments - Engineering, Parks and Recreation, Planning, Building Inspection, and Facility Management (Supervise Maintenance of Municipal Facilities)
    • Are the buildings still standing without you to watch over them? 😀 *NM*
  • Technical college, student advising, testing proctor, and much more *NM*
  • A school teacher, Baseball and Wrestling coach, And yes I would do it again *NM*
  • Taught at local community college, loved every minute. Wouldn't go back, retirement is better--more time to build kits (well, actually start more kits) *NM*
    • Ken, what did you teach?? *NM*
      • Jim, I taught business stuff--accounting, management, marketing, MS Office, Quickbooks, Quicken, stats. *NM*
        • I got an AA (you know what that stands for) in middle management. What a mistake. I knew all the dumb things my bosses were doing. *NM*
          • Spent the majority of my career in middle management. Got quite proficient in resume writing. The last 10 at the DoD was refreshing - a plain old GS11 with no management responsibilites! *NM*
            • Amen to that, Bob!! *NM*
  • Um... I retired from a model car business called Hobby Heaven and later Spotlight Hobbies, and yes, of course I'd do it again. *NM*
    • Tom....before that, weren't you a sponsored "bracket" racer? *NM*
      • I raced in Stock, then Pure Stock, then Stock again with sponsored cars, then in brackets. But I always had a regular job too. *NM*
  • Consulting Engineer, technical accident investigations and safety system research. Mostly retired, but doing some occasional consulting *NM*
  • Retirement is that carrot dangling in front of me keeping this old horse moving. 25+ years in industrial maintenance, now management, mostly in injection molding. I probably should have stuck with trying to be a rock star. *NM*
    • Well, Ron Wood here did it. Oh, he's not THAT Ron Wood.....sorry. lol! *NM*
  • Product development for die-cast toy mfrs from 1982-2017; in early years my boss was Dave Fisher from Revell in the '60s; yes, I'd do it again! *NM*
  • Still emoyed as a Manufacturing Engineer doing 3d design in the gun industry. *NM*
  • Marketing (23 yrs, including 3 leading SVT performance brand) and Design (12 yrs); 35.5 total @ Ford. Last job: Director, Strategic Concepts Group, Ford Global Design, which included oversight of Ford's 3 Global Advanced Design Studios. And yes, I would do it again...TIM *NM*
  • Retired in 2014 as a police sergeant with small town department. Went to work at a small university campus police department two months later, and I'm still here. Second retirement coming this summer I hope, and I'll be hanging it up for good. *NM*
    • Forgot the second question, I'm not sure I would do it again, given today's political climate. All of my friends and family have always been surprised I didn't go into some kind of automotive field. *NM*
  • 49 years in grocery in business now on disabity would go back *NM*
  • Re: Fifteen years working for...
  • Twenty five years, Ill. Department of Corrections. Seventeen of those years, as a Firearms instructor. Questionable as to whether I'd do it again, as I look back. Was desperate for a job back in '83, is why I took it. Actually, wasn't that bad, but then again, wasn't the
  • International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local #58 Deroit. Inside Wireman...retired September 2020. Had a Helluva good time, built allota the Detroit area, every day wuz fun. wouldn't do nuthin different...cept maybe winnin the lotto *NM*
  • Christian ministry. And before that, clinical biochemistry.
  • Architect. Finished the internship years mainly in residential drafting then got my license. Mostly enjoyed it, but a frustrating mind-numbing year at a major engineering firm soured me on it. I went back to mainly custom residential firm work for a firm owned by a
  • I’m only 52 and thus still in the working world. All manner of dead end jobs that have added up to little. Wouldn’t do any of them again. There’s a much more involved answer but only if you ask for it. *NM*
  • Municipal water supply system process and compliance tech. Had a re-start at age 52 after layoff from management. Studied Mechanical Engineering and Product & Systems Design but never graduated either or things might have been different *NM*
  • What about you, Mike? *NM*
    • I'm not tried. That's about another 15 years from now. *NM*
  • 64, not quite retired yet. Did CNC programming and all sorts of manufacturing engineering for a small valve company for 17 years, went to work for Lockheed -Martin as a ME for 6 years (electro-mechanical parts for SR-71 and later F-22), went to a couple job shops for a
  • Logistics for worlds largest salty snack foods company for last 30 years, retiring in April. As for doing it all over again, the answer is different on any given day. : ) *NM*
  • sanitary/environmental engineer-Federal investigator *NM*
  • Nine more years, and then I say goodbye to Belgium
  • Retired as a first piece quality assurance inspector for a shop vacuum manufacturer in 2010. Started in 76 as painter and metal fabricator. Don't know if I'd do differently. *NM*
    • I got sa mechsanical engineering degree in 1975
  • Re: OT POLL: What job retired from? Over the road Independent owner/operator . Loved the freedom, but harder to get loads nowadays for independent truckers. Would do it again. *NM*
  • I mostly imported, uh, "things", followed by a few in HMP. *NM*
    • What is HMP? *NM*
  • Systems Software Engineer for the Federal Aviation Administration air traffic control system. Yes I would do it again. *NM*
    • Will they ever update the system from the old one with Honeywell Computers?
      • I worked in the En Route system and we have IBM mainframes. Believe the approach controls have Raytheon equipment now. Have been retired for 20 years. *NM*