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ashdigger

Lifer
Jul 30, 2016
11,378
70,055
60
Vegas Baby!!!
I’m a private fire investigator.

When I give lectures I always open with “Welcome to Death and Destruction 101”

I have seen things I didn’t know possible and have smelled things I didn’t think occurred in nature.

I have also been lied to more than my Ex wife while interviewing people.

Like Mike Rowe says, “It’s a Dirty Job, BUT Someone’s Gotta Do It”.
 

sablebrush52

The Bard Of Barlings
Jun 15, 2013
19,621
44,832
Southern Oregon
jrs457.wixsite.com
Let's see...I've worked with a talking dog who's part of a team of investigators, a wascally wabbit, a devious duck, a tweety bird, a wily coyote, a couple of cats and mice, and am currently working with a psychopathic killer and her bestie, an eco warrior super villain. I've visited the Hilton Hotel on Mars, the Earth's Core, a lunar Colony, Dark's Carnival, and an Electronic World amongst many other locations and eras.

Pretty average stuff.
 

jpberg

Lifer
Aug 30, 2011
2,904
6,540
Let's see...I've worked with a talking dog who's part of a team of investigators, a wascally wabbit, a devious duck, a tweety bird, a wily coyote, a couple of cats and mice, and am currently working with a psychopathic killer and her bestie, an eco warrior super villain. I've visited the Hilton Hotel on Mars, the Earth's Core, a lunar Colony, Dark's Carnival, and an Electronic World amongst many other locations and eras.

Pretty average stuff.
Professional acid ingestor, amiright?
 

kurtbob

Lifer
Jul 9, 2019
2,131
12,748
57
SE Georgia
Jack of all trades and master of none. Everything from F-16 mech, welder/fabricator, heavy truck diesel mech, information systems specialist to unmanned aircraft operations. Currently as a fleet tech for a world wide beverage/food distribution company.
 
Dec 10, 2013
2,316
2,942
Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Let's see...I've worked with a talking dog who's part of a team of investigators, a wascally wabbit, a devious duck, a tweety bird, a wily coyote, a couple of cats and mice, and am currently working with a psychopathic killer and her bestie, an eco warrior super villain. I've visited the Hilton Hotel on Mars, the Earth's Core, a lunar Colony, Dark's Carnival, and an Electronic World amongst many other locations and eras.

Pretty average stuff.
Compared to you Jack Vance's galactic explorations were dull as dirt :)
 

Elric

Lifer
Sep 19, 2019
2,185
9,826
Liplapper Lane (Michigan)
tobaccocellar.com
Let's see...I've worked with a talking dog who's part of a team of investigators, a wascally wabbit, a devious duck, a tweety bird, a wily coyote, a couple of cats and mice, and am currently working with a psychopathic killer and her bestie, an eco warrior super villain. I've visited the Hilton Hotel on Mars, the Earth's Core, a lunar Colony, Dark's Carnival, and an Electronic World amongst many other locations and eras.

Pretty average stuff.
I think it's safe to say that few, if any, of us can aspire to this level of cool!
 

mso489

Lifer
Feb 21, 2013
41,210
60,433
Various preliminary jobs such as student grader for book reviewing, script writing for an audio visual outfit, minesweeper radioman in the Navy and later a Navy journalist, along with mess duty and deck swabbing. I was a Veterans Admin. benefits counselor for several years. Finally put my journalism and writing degrees to work as a writer and editor with three or four different job titles for an environmental health science research institute where I stayed for about 35 years. All the while, I published my own literary work, a book, and a children's book for the institute at my day job. For the institute, I did a wide variety of tasks, mostly writing and editing, but also presentations, working with media foreign and domestic, photography, tours, meetings, exhibit design, slide and film scripts, and so on. The variety made it easy to stay around for a few decades. I had some travel, but not overmuch, to many U.S. cities and Toronto. When I traveled, I made a point of using my off time to see the city, not sit in a hotel bar. I have a lot of good memories of those off-hour ramblings.
 

Pipeoff

Part of the Furniture Now
Jun 22, 2021
813
1,417
Western New York
I spent all of my full time working life as a State Trooper 35 years in various ranks. I would think hard and long about taking the job now under the present climate ie fired for minor violations of using force, personal civil law suits, judges giving no long term lockup, little respect, no bail and double the $ is not an incentive. Present members must protective vests, chest camera, taser, extra ammo, flash light and more, I would have needed one of the I have fallen and I can’t get up units .