What Did You Work at Before You Were Elderly

Mike

Mike

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I asked this question yesterday at lounge where some of
my neighbours meet for coffee on a Wednesday morning,
there were 5 Ladies and me, I am an Engineer, long retired,
my official work description when I worked with the Bank of
America, was, Multi Skilled Engineer with an Electrical Bias!

The Ladies were 2 PAs, 1 Shop Assistant, 1 Teacher and a
Nurse who worked in a Maternity Hospital, I often wonder
about older people, who are classless in the eyes of the
young, but we all had a hand in making the World the place
that it is for the young to enjoy.

Mike.
 

Mike said:
I asked this question yesterday at lounge where some of
my neighbours meet for coffee on a Wednesday morning,
there were 5 Ladies and me, I am an Engineer, long retired,
my official work description when I worked with the Bank of
America, was, Multi Skilled Engineer with an Electrical Bias!

The Ladies were 2 PAs, 1 Shop Assistant, 1 Teacher and a
Nurse who worked in a Maternity Hospital, I often wonder
about older people, who are classless in the eyes of the
young, but we all had a hand in making the World the place
that it is for the young to enjoy.

Mike.
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A new version of "Whats your Line". All I want to know is why the number of School Teachers on forums is totally disproportional to all others.
 
My working life has been spent in logistics. That's a sort of buzz word to soften the aspect of the movement of freight and people. My title was that of manager, an all encompassing description, and to give it a bit of pomp, general manager.

The Hays company was a huge corporation, it still is, but it's logistical division has been broken up and sold off. So what's this logistics all about? Have you ever seen the truck delivering the stock when you shop at your supermarket? Have you ever given a second thought to all the planning and managing it takes to get that truck to it's destination so that the shelves are stocked when you go shopping? Of course you haven't, why on earth should you.

The movement of goods into the distribution centre, and out to the shops is known as logistics. It's all about people and pallets and fork lifts and trucks and trailers and lots of bad language and unbelievable adrenaline levels......................................and I miss it like crazy.

The Jewel in the crown of Hays' logistics division had to be The John Lewis Group and their supermarket company, Waitrose.
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There you go Mike, Waitrose distribution centre, do you think you could run it?
 

5 Years, 7 Months Student at the Naval Academy 1 Bachelor's Degree, 1 Masters Degree
30 Years Military before retiring as a Lt. Col. Never had any aspirations to go higher. (Best years of my life.)
5 Years Pentagon working in what used to be called the War Department, but now is the DOD.
Retirement finally at 61.

I tried out for the football team as an invitee, as they called it, but I broke my Achilles tendon during my Freshman year and my 5th practice. I was invited back during my Sophomore year, but I would have been placed on the practice squad, unless I could show some real ability. I knew there were 2 other men that were also trying out for my position that were better, so I dropped out. I had great speed, just no quickness. That's when I joined the Drum and Bugle Corps and I enjoyed doing that. We traveled a lot on weekends and played during football and other games. Our routines were voted second to Army in my senior year, which was a tough pill to swallow.

I have enjoyed a great life with the exception of no wife or having my own family, but I am still looking. I have no problem with adopting a young teenage son or daughter, maybe somewhere between 10-14. Religion or skin color doesn't matter to me, but if I were to get married, it would also depend on my wife's position. I would like 2-4 children.

Am I too old to be thinking about this? I still have a lot of pep and energy and could be a good father. I would really like to see this happen. I am dating a women now who seems like a "maybe" candidate. We have some of the same wants. She had 1 child that died prenatal (miscarriage) and 1 child that died with Ewing's Sarcoma at age 22. She seems to be still mourning his loss that happened about 20 years ago. She is OK with an adoption, but she has told me that she doesn't know if she could handle losing another child. I understand her concern completely.
 
I don't think I'm elderly yet. Just a senior citizen.šŸ˜‰
I was the Hearing Aid Lady.
I tested hearing, counseled on hearing loss, and fit hearing aids. I programmed, adjusted, cleaned, and repaired them.
I had years long relationships with my clients and built a good reputation. I helped a lot of people.
 
horseless carriage said:
My working life has been spent in logistics. That's a sort of buzz word to soften the aspect of the movement of freight and people. My title was that of manager, an all encompassing description, and to give it a bit of pomp, general manager.

The Hays company was a huge corporation, it still is, but it's logistical division has been broken up and sold off. So what's this logistics all about? Have you ever seen the truck delivering the stock when you shop at your supermarket? Have you ever given a second thought to all the planning and managing it takes to get that truck to it's destination so that the shelves are stocked when you go shopping? Of course you haven't, why on earth should you.

The movement of goods into the distribution centre, and out to the shops is known as logistics. It's all about people and pallets and fork lifts and trucks and trailers and lots of bad language and unbelievable adrenaline levels......................................and I miss it like crazy.

The Jewel in the crown of Hays' logistics division had to be The John Lewis Group and their supermarket company, Waitrose.
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There you go Mike, Waitrose distribution centre, do you think you could run it?
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Horseless. Did any of those deliveries go out side of the UK to the EU ? Here in Canada we deal with very long distance loads going to other points in our own country, or into the USA. For about 5 years in the middle 1990's, I was an owner /operator with an expedite freight company based here in Toronto, doing emergency door to door deliveries all over Canada and the USA. It was not unusual for me to pick up a shipment and drive it direct to the delivery point in my one ton Ford van.

Obviously shipments going from Canada into the USA required a Customs clearance at the border, and then it was full speed ahead to the customer's location. Driving 2 thousand miles with stops for fuel, meals and 3 hour sleep periods, paid very well. I was driving around 125,000 miles a year, back then. JimB.
 
My recollections of 50 years in Electronics.

I was never involved in any cutting edge discoveries, but I held a myriad of different types of jobs during my career. There has to be someone out there who is utilizing the technologies others developed.

During college, I worked at a company called Beta Electric, which made high voltage power supplies up to 250 KV. I also worked at Radio Engineering Laboratories on klystron transmitters for over the horizon communications.

After graduation, I worked for Hughes Aircraft on the MA-1 fire control system for the F-106 interceptor. The system used a magnetic drum memory and very small vacuum tubes for logic.

I then worked for ITT Federal Electric as a Field Engineer. This gave me a lot of real world experience in many places in the world. I worked on electronic navigational aids that are still in use today: TACAN, VOR, and ILS systems. I also worked on submarine antennas and had the experience of sailing on 2 Fleet Ballistic Missile Submarines.

My next job was with ITT Gilfillan working on the SPS-48 long range radar. My previous experience during summer jobs working with high voltage and high power came in very handy.

Following that I worked as for Electronic Specialty Project Engineer on the ALM-40 and ALM 60 Test Sets for the ALR-20 Countermeasures Receiver for the B-52. I was also Project on a dispensable radar jammer to be used in Vietnam.

After that I worked for Litton Industries on the radar and IFF systems for the DD963 class destroyer. When that assignment terminated, I moved to the Reliability and Maintainability group performing predictions and Maintainability demonstrations.

My previous field experience came in handy in running these demonstrations and interfacing with military maintenance personnel.

Following that I worked for Teledyne Electronics as Project Engineer on the Advanced IFF Interrogator/Transponder for the F-16 Aircraft.

The final company I worked for was Whittaker Electronic Systems. During my over 20 year tenure I held many positions, from Project Engineer to Cost Estimator, to Senior Contracts Administrator. The main benefit from my breadth of experience was I was flexible and could perform many different tasks, which assured my longevity in the company.

I am now thoroughly enjoying my retirement and volunteer with Civil Air Patrol, a Railroad Historical Society and flying missions for Angel Flight West . My wife and I also traveled extensively.
 
hearlady said:
I don't think I'm elderly yet. Just a senior citizen.šŸ˜‰
I was the Hearing Aid Lady.
I tested hearing, counseled on hearing loss, and fit hearing aids. I programmed, adjusted, cleaned, and repaired them.
I had years long relationships with my clients and built a good reputation. I helped a lot of people.
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I've often wondered about your screen name. Thanks for clearing that up!
 
Apparel industry - when working for other companies I was a production manager/purchasing agent. For the past 25+ years I've been working for DH & my small apparel company. As is typical of small business owners I've worn many hats over the years including (self-taught) IT manager, point-of-sale website design/maintenance, sales, customer service, sales, purchasing agent, and many more.

Mostly retired now.
 
I was part of the first generation of IT. Started doing tech support and moved into engineering, management, and ended as a Business Analyst.

I had a decent career, achieved many of my goals, saw a lot of the world, and met some great people. I was also lucky enough to give others their start, so that feels good. That said, there was nothing particularly honorable in my work. I was obsessed with the tech, the competition in that sector, and learning new things. It was fun, but I haven't changed the world. Toward the end, frankly, I had fallen out of love with it all.

For the record, though I may come across as an old grumpy man at times, I'm still of working age UK wise. I simply choose not to.
 
Up to my late twenties: fruit picker, window washer, food-store clerk, vanilla bottler, photographer, assistant builder (carpentry & masonry). Building-trades assistant overlapped with early freelance magazine/newspaper writing. That became a career... though freelancing can be a fluctuating form of income. Then I managed a business association in the progressive end of the forest-products industry... with occasional commissioned articles published on the side.
 

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