Blue Bird School buses mainly, with GSA people movers throw in here and there. Along with fiberglass body cut away vehicles also.
Design engineer for 26 years Everything from automotive tooling and special machines, to aerospace, to commercial and municipal pump infrastructure. Some of my work below, but I'm not there anymore. 1200 parts/min .556 brass inspection tooling for Lake City. Helo transmission test stands for the DoD. That's the rear trans for the Chinook in the test stand. That stand will also test the Blackhawk, and Apache.
I'm a Jeff Foxworthy impersonator. For nearly 33 years I was an IT guy for Fruit of the Loom. I was a COBOL programmer to start. I was accused of writing programs too complex to be maintained by anyone else. If you know anything about COBOL, it is literally in English. If you want to add the number of oranges to the number of apples, you write: ADD ORANGES TO APPLES GIVING TOTAL-FRUIT. From there I spent the next several years running the mainframe communications network and later the IP network for global operations. I had the second IP address in the worldwide company. My first router had the first IP address. I shepherded that network from mostly domestic US to world-wide connectivity with voice and data. I also picked up the LAN infrastructure and handled the core routers and switches. Sadly, the decision that all of IT could be done remotely from India was made on May 22, 2019. I was one of the last to go with my last day March 31st, 2020. I semi-retired at 57. I received a nice severance package with a retention bonus for sticking it out until the end. I still have 90 days of that and health insurance left. I'm technically still looking for work but Bowling Green, KY doesn't have many lead/senior network engineer jobs and folks that left in September 2019 and December 2019 got them if they existed. I thought I had a shot at some WFH jobs since all networking is remote once you leave the building. I worked in China, Germany, Vietnam, Honduras and Haiti before lunch and never left my desk. Now, I do what I want, when I want.. if my wife says I can. LOL
Although I'm retired now for 12 years, I'm a former Railroad Conductor /Brakeman for Penn Central and Conrail
Systems admin for a college in Western Mass. Currently 'Working from home' at my camper up in the White mountains in New Hampshire. Best office view I've had in a long time
Knucklebusted, We used that name for bad engineers running a train who would get a "knuckle" in a 150 car train in the middle of winter! OY talk about a pain carrying a 20 lb knuckle to repair the busted knuckle out in no man's land Pa. or Ohio at three in the morning! great job overall...loved it it could be dangerous at times!
Mechanic at a collision center specializing in Porsche-Audi-Tesla. Carnage is fun, no two collisions are the same so it’s held my interest for 15 years. Plus the boss is cool if I roll a GS through the paint dept once in a while.
Guess I miss read the title of the post. Repair and install a/c systems. Just nuts and bolts with a bit of carpentry, plumbing , welding, sheet metal fab and electronics thrown in.
You didn't misread I changed it earlier. I figure I would do something different than the threads already up.
Machinist/engineer (microprocessors)/business owner retired. Now starting Buccaneer Bay Classic Cars.
