Beckerhead Job title and description

TwinStick said:
I have been a "Gentleman of leisure " since June of 2016. Before that, God had me working with the worst people on the planet. Evil, is alive and well & all it takes is for good people to do nothing for it to flourish. I always wondered when I was little if there really was a Heaven and Hell, Angels and Demons & Guardian Angels. But not anymore, no sir. I definitely believe in all those things now, after having that job for almost 30 years. I planned on doing 30, to pay off some more bills but one day I just had enough and that was it. I get a pension and am grateful for that, & am able to pay my bills but I do have to watch every dollar. I also earned every penny of my pension. It should be better once I turn 62 & start collecting Social Security.
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You gonna make us guess?
Military? Or seminary? Haha
 
coolbreezy37 said:
DOT road work and machine excavation operator.
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I'm kind of an "environmentalist" by nature.... But as a kid, I lived in the sandbox, and now I'm kinda jealous of guys who get to drive bulldozers around scooping up large piles of Earth all day

I love watching YouTube videos of old fashion steam shovels and tractors/etc.
 
High school mathematics teacher with a background of many other things, including but not limited to: growing up on a cattle/grain farm, concrete construction, large construction equipment operator, steakhouse cook, phlebotomist, and quality assurance, also throw in some sports, trap shooting and robotics coaching as well. Jack of many trades…
 
frolic with javascript, break things, make things go again more better, bitch about tools, fight the system (still losing but eh)...
 
I am not officially a BeckerHead, but certainly enjoy this part of the forum a bunch.

I left a comfortable corporate position five years ago to launch a custom farm service here in Hawaii.

I serve many private companies, along with institutions and universities around the globe.

An example of the work I do; I had a project that needed 600 different varieties of sorghum seed replenished to be stored in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in case of global catastrophe.

Another example, is a project for a researcher that found a few pedigrees of maize in a rain forest that was cultivated by the indigenous community that can utilize nitrogen from the air, rather than the soil.
 
Jonny1280 said:
More like Meter MF Man!! Haha
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Jonny1280 said:
You gonna make us guess?
Military? Or seminary? Haha
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I was a NYS Corrections Officer. Don't even get me started. I really loved my job when I started. But after 28.3 years I really hated my job and said that's it. Being called racial slurs 30x per day, constantly being accused of things I did not do, by the worst people on the planet and then having to defend yourself and do mountains of paper work.

The people in charge wanted us to do our job, but if you doing your job meant a Supervisor had to do any paperwork, then all the Supervisors would gang up on you & retaliate. We had cameras and audio everywhere but if you wanted to use the video to prove yourself innocent, you had to get a lawyer and file a FOIA request which = $$$$. But if an inmate is proven to be lying, nothing happens to them and they will use video in a heartbeat if the officer made a mistake, intentionally or not. You would think that the Supervisors would want to help prove their officer is innocent but nope, not anymore. They make it as difficult as possible. We were guilty until proven innocent. It didn't have to be that way, they made it that way.
 
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Jonny1280 said:
What is your job title?
Describe your duties.
This could be fun.

I’m a Glass Furnace Specialist.
I make sure that the glass furnace that holds 3,000,000 lbs. of glass melts out like it should.
I do everything from changing, and or adjusting (22) burners (about 140 mmbtu), changing burner blocks, patch any stingers in the refractory, make sure our the emissions stay in check, and just general maintenance. That’s the jist of my job.
Doing three peoples job though, starting up and running a reclaim water treatment plant and then doing the duties in our wet lab, which are many and varied.
I need a vacation….
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Gentlemen farmer
 
applied for a "new" job today -- would be doing similar, just for a federal agency instead of state and getting paid an extra $12k to commute an extra 60 miles each way -- but would be able to work remote 4 days a week instead of 2, so no particular change in fuel usage. after a year, if I pass probation, another $12k raise.

upside - more $$.
downside - it would add several years before I could retire and I'd lose my 1400 hour bank of sick leave.

if I wait 3 years, I can retire from the state and cash out 1/3 of my sick leave - but those 3 years = a $50k difference in pay, so it's probably not worth it.

maybe I'll get lucky and they'll lose my application again like they did 4 years ago when I applied for the last round.
 
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