repechage

Very cool, quite a bit of new planking and what look like new frames being inserted. Operating that boat is not cheap.

YouthxCrew

I work in catering, started off as a prep cook and now I mainly do pastry work. Didn't go to school for it, I just lucked out on getting a lot of experience quickly and being available to fill positions that people needed filled immediately:








I've thought about doing my own company, but I hardly have time to test my own recipes and work in the menu. If I went to culinary school I could probably do well, but I've decided to be the family disappointment and go to music school instead. Choral composition/directing and classical music are what I really want to get a career in. It won't pay as much, but I like it.

shipwreck

Funny. There are several dentists on Tarmacks and Serrotahs that show up for rides, and every once in a while I have to explain what non areo brake levers and downtube shifters are. Also friction. If they weren't faster than me I would make fun of them.

Phloom

I have spent the last 6 years building applications so the users can analyze the data from Edmonton's emergency departments. About a half million patient visits a year.

rjhammett

Hi to a fellow RBC employee. I wrote the requirements for the client facing (Connect) website for Wealth Management. Currently I am creating the requirements for the new WM mobile app.

rjhammett

My dream job. Lucky you.

Ed.

Oh, oh, oh... Would you work for just room and board?

likebike23

I am a dental hygienist, not a dentist, so no carbon bikes for me. In the past I've been an electro-mechanical tech fixing copiers, a hotel desk clerk/asst. manager, and a house painter.

My daughter had a tough first year, so I have been a stay at home dad for the last few years. I must say, caring for her has been really rewarding, she's a great little kid and we have a really close relationship that I wouldn't trade for anything. If I had to describe what it's like taking care of a kid, I would say it's like being a butler who also has to wipe boogers.

bici_mania

I am an IT professional, nothing interesting or impressive but since being laid off after 11 years at my last job I wound up working in 'simulation'.

The institution that I work now has invested heavily in manikins that simulate real patients. Under their latex like skin and plastic body are gears and levers similar to a printer. They bleed, cry, choke and just about everything else a real patients does but unlike people you can reboot them or turn them off. They run on a modified version of Windows XP so of course they break a lot which is good because that is what gives me a job.



Numerous real conditions can be generated by using pre-programmed scenarios that simulate real life. While they look like manikins, when they 'die' or are in the process of dying it can get very tense and emotional. This is an emerging field in healthcare and I feel like I have won the lottery getting in on it now. It makes my work interesting again.

horatio 

Former newspaper reporter turned assignment editor/assistant news director for small-market TV station. Left the "media" for allied health, where I have worked for 25 years now. Looking forward to retirement so I can ride (and fly) when the mood strikes.

bicyclelove

Thanks. I like to keep a clean shop. Plus our customers can be particular as you may imagine. One if the other guys there, Dan, has a beautiful 52 XK120. Black with biscuit and red interior.
If I had not started working there back in 1990 I would probably tried to work as a bike mechanic. I'm told now by people that I should just start a bike shop. I might if we didn't already have 5 major players already in town

bicyclelove

That is one of the best perks of my job. How else could I drive a car worth more than my house!? I have one customer who bought a Viper. I came back from a test drive on another car and saw it in front of the shop. When I walked in he tossed me the keys and said "go for a drive, and make sure you get on it some". I was happy to do just that! (A brutally fast car BTW). My favorite has to be a Nissan GTR. That is one amazing car.

geontemt

Retired Paramedic, now RN in PICU. I get to ride my bike to work everyday!

kylarr

No, its not cheap. Even routine maintenance is pretty crazy and this is far beyond that. When we finished, all the frames and planks in the hull were less than six years old.

Heh, with the right location anything is possible. Say Fiji or the like.

The Thin Man 

I have the good fortune of being the Transportation Coordinator at Nike World Headquarters in Oregon. I am personally responsible for our pedestrian, skateboard, bicycle and digital commuter tracking initiatives. We launched a corporate bike share program of 250 bikes this last year and so far, the ridership results have been incredibly positive. I am certainly one of the lucky individuals that not only lives and breathes bicycles but also gets paid to do so.

bikor 

Interesting group.

Designer / web developer for a wholesale wall-decor publisher (read: posters) here, so if I'm not spending hours in Photoshop spiffing up images, then I'm reprogramming our web site, scripting InDesign and automating other image processing tasks, or monkeying around in the databases required to support the above. I also teach Photoshop workshops at a local printmaking arts nonprofit.

agmetal

Guitar repair tech for a large musical instrument retail chain

NJgreyhead

After getting thru a local state college while working part-time as a grocery-store clerk, I became a longhair carpenter for twelve years, with a couple years of auto-body repair and regular unemployment mixed in. Then a family member offered to take me on as an accounting trainee in my mid-thirties, so, thinking I might not get another such shot at a regular gig, I came in from the cold.

In due course I became the three-letter variety of accountant. I think I am more suited to work with words, but numbers, tho I labor at them at times, have paid the bills.
But after thirteen years of it, and resorting to SSRIs to get thru the boom-bust work cycles, I realized public accounting was not for me, and I found my way into business-casual corporate accounting, and that is a better fit. I am not much of a button-down guy.

After going thru a couple stints followed by downsizings in the topsy-turvy computer tech industry, I was sent by a temp agency to a nearby (bike-commutable) automobile-related company. Before my temp year was up, a permanent accounting position came open, and being a known quantity at that point, I was hired.

The company is a stable one that is doing well and treats its people well.
After ten years there as a foot soldier (non-manager), I am sixty-five and retirement is on the near horizon.
I consider myself fortunate to have wound up in this position, in good health and having bikes to play with now and in the years ahead.

Knees to the breeze, ride safe, watch your six.

curbtender

Welcome to the Forums neighbor, nice pile-o-bikes. Have any vintage bike posters on your walls?
(Edit; I see you don't post much...)

Pompiere

I am a volunteer firefighter, will be 20 years in February. In a small town, along with what you said, you often know the people you are helping. That can make it harder for us, but it can help them to see a familiar face in a tough situation. Stay safe.

Sixty Fiver

My office...



Formerly I was; a machinist, am a certified rehabilitation practitioner, and worked in the service industry for a decade before that.

Currently partnering with Arvon Cycles (frame building), serve as the Special Projects Director for a local charity that provides adaptive bicycles for children with disabilities, and the lead instructor at the bicycle co-op, and run and manage my own shop which has a strong focus on classic and vintage bicycles but as a certifiable technician I work on everything.

Since winter is slower I might start restoring and servicing and restoring classic and vintage sewing machines which is something I do for myself because I am intrigued by the engineering and also love to sew... this little beauty came home with me last night.

It was my mom's.

rootboy 

Nice, 65'er. The old sewing machines really are a marvel of simple yet robust engineering. I restored this one last year.
Which you've probably seen. Have yet to really use it.

bikor 

Thanks and thanks. I do have some vintage posters, but no bike posters as yet. And yeah, I'm a longtime lurker, must work on contributing!

iab

If you want to move here, I can guarantee you absolutely , and I mean absolutely, no competition. We are a land of the crappy chain food. It depresses me to no end.

From your images alone i can tell you that you will have the best food in town.

Please come here, I'm begging you.

iab

I like to say "Juki".