What’s your Profession

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Sloughfoot

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Might be to personal for some and that’s ok, I just thought it be a fun topic.

I’m a career Tow boat man. Since 1998 nearly 25 years now. My first 15 years was spent on deck as a lead Tankerman loading and discharging oil and gasoline barges. And the last ten as pilot and worked my way up to captain. Until this year I worked in the commercial/ private boat industry and March of this year I landed the pilot roll on the M/V Lawson for the Army Corp of Engineers. (Wish I for the Corp 20 years ago) I have transited every mile of commercial waters from Miami Florida to Brownsville Texas and all inland rivers east of the Rockies except the Arkansas as far up as Chicago to Lake Michigan
 

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Glaciers

Glaciers

Alaska Land of the Midnight Sun
That’s an awesome life style for making a buck. I ran smaller vessels in Prince William Sound from 1989 till 2013. Love the Sound prettiest place I’ve ever been and being able to make a living 6 months a year on the water was wonderful. Worked PWS and the near coastal waters with 3 different trips bring vessels up from Seattle through Canadian and US waters was an interesting experience. My experience was as an owner operator. 100 ton license class.
 
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Sloughfoot

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Prince William sound. If it’s anything like the Mississippi sounds it’s probably rough! Had my share of bad days in the Mississippi sound
 
glassparman

glassparman

"OK, OK, I'm going as fast as I don't want to go!"
I'm a Network Engineer. I used to be a Sheetmetal fabricator in the Aerospace industry but converted my computer hobby to a career back in early '93. I haven't looked back since. The IT industry has been good to me. I have worked for Northrop Grumman for the last 10 years but the last 20 on Govt networks.

I'm 60 now and can't wait to retire!

Mike
 
glassparman

glassparman

"OK, OK, I'm going as fast as I don't want to go!"
Waco, do you ever get to star in those videos we see on YouTube where they hit something and an entire warehouse of racks comes tumbling down? That is like playing dominos! Sounds fun!
 
Glaciers

Glaciers

Alaska Land of the Midnight Sun
It can certainly blow up. I got to know 2/3’s of the bays and bites a guy could drop a hook. There’s more coast line in PWS than the coast of the lower 48.
Twin engines vessels, on one trip I broke a strut which obviously put me down to one shaft, but also cracked the hull in the forward lower part of the bow. That time it was a close one getting back inside the Sound and out of the Gulf.
 
smokeywolf

smokeywolf

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Very impressive pictures sir.

While I spent some of my working years in law enforcement and later as a purchasing manager, spent most of 35 years as a mechanical engineer and machinist. Some of my law enforcement and all the rest was in the motion picture industry.
 
Glaciers

Glaciers

Alaska Land of the Midnight Sun
Had friends that ran tow boats for Yutana Barge Lines working out of Nenana on the Tanana and Yukon Rivers. They been shut down now for 20 years but pretty wild stories.
I ran rivers with jet power boats in the 80’s and early 90’s. Pretty wild stuff.
 
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dale2242

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I`m a retired heavy equipment operator.
I've spent most of my life building logging road with a D8K.
I put over 20K hours on that machine and 10K hours on a D7G.
The rest of the time I spent on front end loaders handling logs in the log yard of the sawmill.
Operated a 988B unloading log trucks and a 966 D sorting logs.
 
Glaciers

Glaciers

Alaska Land of the Midnight Sun
Sloughfoot said:
I want to run the Yukon
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The Yukon is mild but scenic from just up river of the Village of Tanana down to St Mary’s and a slew of other small Villages at Norton Sound and the Bering Sea.
I’ve been as far as Kaltag, Nulato and Koyukuk. Always wanted to go up the Koyukuk River with a 4 and 6 inch dredging the bars. Another life maybe.
The Tanana is ugly and dangerous. Don’t want to lose power, lots of big sweepers.

Not near as much traffic as you have to run on the Mississippi.
 
Hawk

Hawk

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I'm a Registered Public Surveyor. I ran the survey department for a large civil engineering firm for 44 years.
We only did commercial work. Hospitals, shopping malls, corporate headquarters, college campuses, large-scale developments.
Retired seven years ago.
I still get together once a month for beers with 9 or 10 guys that worked for me.
 
Rick

Rick

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I take my current profession extremely seriously and work vigorously at it . . . Retired.

Before that I worked 34 years in the motion picture/TV industry in the Teamsters union, mostly hauling sets, equipment and people to the locations of the days filming.
 
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