ttoks

What do you do for a living?

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Something that I always find interesting about LEGO, is that it seems to bring people from all walk's of life together, I often wonder what other's on here do to pay for this fantastic hobby of ours, so i thought to start this topic.

So I am 24 year's old and married with one beautiful daughter (13 months old) living in the state of Victoria in Australia, I've just recently gotten back into lego after about 12-13 year's.

I'm a Boilermaker by trade, I started my apprenticeship at age 15, and completed iit just after my 18th birthday, around the same time i met my now wife.

from that start I've progressed through to working as a coded pipe welder in the oil and gas industry, so far it's taken me far around my country, I make a good wage to support my family, but I often work very long hours in extremely unpleasant conditions, in fact in January of next year I will be starting a job near Onslow Western Australia (if anyone is familiar, it is HOT there) working a 4 to 1 fly in fly out roster, so I will spend 4 weeks living in a company supplied camp in the middle of no where, then 1 week at home with my family.

Here's a few photo's of what i do for a living, some of them are of my father, as we often work together (we are both pipe welders)

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so what do you do for a living?

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Right now a horticulture tech (working in garden/greenhouses), but it's not much of a living. I'm trained as a Geoscientist, however the oil+gas and minerals industries are garbage right now. I'm applying to do another master's degree, this time in Public Administration, so that I can get a government job in a year and start getting paid well. *sigh*.

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I'm actually driving things like this

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and this

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Now take a guess what I do for a living :tongue:

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I'm actually driving things like this

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and this

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Now take a guess what I do for a living :tongue:

I'm guessing train driver!

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I'm disabled. Before that, I was a debt collector on a government contract. I studied philosophy, literature and politics in college and graduated 6th in my class with a 3.956 GPA. I also enjoy science.

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I'm an IT Programme Manager. I decided to re-ignite my interest in Lego so as to give me something completely different to do away from computer screens, tablets, phones, etc.

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@ttoks,

That is awesome,. Nice clean smooth welds,.. always something i envy!

@connyx, Cool :D

ok, my turn,.

for a living i drive one of these,.

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but i am also busy getting my license to drive one of these,.

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Soo,. In my spare time i can keep driving this,.

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Yep yep,.. they pay me to drive haha!

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33 year old IT manager here. Engaged, no children (ever). I also build and race fast Japanese compact cars.

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33 year old IT manager here. Engaged, no children (ever). I also build and race fast Japanese compact cars.

This i want to see! Do you have a thread about it somewhere? Are you a Kcar racer,.. or should i think EG6, b16,.. or b18? Sr20det? No? :P

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This i want to see! Do you have a thread about it somewhere? Are you a Kcar racer,.. or should i think EG6, b16,.. or b18? Sr20det? No? :P

Haha, yes, I've owned many of those engines. My current car is an FG2 Civic, K20 2 liter with a big supercharger on it. Finished up this project over the summer. Hit 340whp, now I've got traction problems and need more tires :-) I'll post up some photos here soon.

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I'm currently going to university studying physics, which doesn't give me much spare time for building now :/

for a living i drive one of these,.

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but i am also busy getting my license to drive one of these,.

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So you live in Zwolle too?

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Haha, yes, I've owned many of those engines. My current car is an FG2 Civic, K20 2 liter with a big supercharger on it. Finished up this project over the summer. Hit 340whp, now I've got traction problems and need more tires :-) I'll post up some photos here soon.

Awesome! 340 whp on the frontwheels,... insane haha! Please do show the beast haha. I only swapped my 1.2 for a old cast iron 2.0 which make an insane 90hp now lol. (60 hp before) but after installing LeJetronic injection i should have a whopping 110hp,.. of which some should find its way to the wheels haha.

So you live in Zwolle too?

What gave it away? Haha.

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What gave it away? Haha.

The fact that the van says TCZ (Taxi Centrale Zwolle) which made it pretty obvious, especially when the other coach says AA-landen.

Met vriendelijke groet,

een mede Blauwvinger

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I'm a video game writer and text designer - a weird creature that, great many times, does not belong. Without going into too much detail, I treat game dev as an abusive girlfriend - she hurts me, yet I still come back. :laugh:

I'm also a worldbuilder by heart and an aspiring writer, trying to create his own retro-futuristic SF universe. But that's not "for living", at least - not yet. And that's my goal! :sweet:

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I am a Shipwright by trade, did many years as an Marine Engineer in the Navy, now I am a Facilities and Projects Officer.

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I'm an Assistant Manager at one of the biggest grocery chains.

Means I'm able to build with super-sized beer filled blocks each day... :tongue::laugh:

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I'm automation engineer. Programming the paper machines. I was playing very long LEGO, but later I found RC so there was no time/money for LEGO. Last year I return to my old hobby, after I saw 42009 in the LEGO store :classic:

No i'm trying to combine LEGO and RC, there are so much advantages when using RC compare to LEGO PF IR :wink:

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