What you do for a living (work, job)?

President and Co-Owner of a Transportation and Warehousing company.

Nothing like parenting 125 grown ups! LOL!

Jealous of all the cool jobs - that’s for sure! Wish I drove a dozer every day

 

i work for Shell Oil at a refinery. I work in a control center and handle Oil movements from rail, pipeline, tanker truck, and Wharf (ships and barges).
its a job i learned in the Air Force. after my honorable discharge, i went straight to work in the pipeline and oil industry and have been doing it ever since. going on 19 years- 23 including military service doing basically the same thing lol.
I also am on the fire crew at Shell as another part of my job.
Its been a blessing, and never thought it would be what id do as a grown up. funny how that works

 

Chemist at a chemical company though my degree is in Physics

 

Rare footage of @Professional Hand Model

 

When @Professional Hand Model says he's really, really ridiculously good looking I'm assuming he's walking around with his hands over his face.

 

20 years ago, there was an instructor at Lucent that did hand modeling. He seemed to "protect" his right hand a good bit.
Another instructor, who knew what kind of character that I was, prompted me to say the line that I used earlier.

 

Which Shell refinery? I know there is a big one close by in Deer Park, TX.

 

Registered Nurse. Currently working in a surgical office seeing pre-op and post-op patients, as well as small procedures in office.

 

Being a Network Engineer and trying to move up for the past 7 years, finally As of Today Became an IT Supervisor for the local government.

 

Congrats!

 

Medical device development -- the company I work for designs and manufactures products that other companies own

 

Congrats!

 

Survey Equipment technical support for 1 more week - then it's back out into the field being a surveyor. For some reason I much prefer being outside in -30 C weather than being in a warm office

 

So his right hand was the money maker! Hope he had his in a hyperbaric shield.

 

Senior medical device manufacturing engineer; specifically working with pacemaker, neuromodulator, and cardiac monitoring device batteries. I spend a lot of time in <0.2% RH environments due to all the lithium we use and I'm still surprised at the lack of bloody noses lol

 

Have any of these?

 

Ha! what device did that come out of? I don't have any, I deal with titanium cased medium-rate discharge batteries as opposed to the Li-Ion rechargeable. The Li-Ion mfg. line is in the same room as mine, but not that model... that one is made by a contract supplier, iTech.

 

My remote/charger for my spinal cord stimulator.

 

Is there a forever pace maker? I want one for my papa

 

Kinda...it signals the heart to beat when it beats below a certain number per minute. Once placed, generally they are in for life unless the battery needs replaced.

 

Awesome!

I can't recommend one, for obvious reasons, but several last in the 10-15 year range. Fairly easy out-patient procedure to swap a new one in after that. Or there are ones that literally get placed directly into the heart; trans-catheter that have sort of a mini grappling hook and another one goes in if the first dies. Pretty cool!

There are so many variables as to how the pacemaker is programmed for an individual, but yes this is one way. The batteries are welded into the pacemaker case, which is the only reason the whole pacemaker needs replacement. Unless you are referring to really old pacemakers with external leads but I'd be surprised if anyone is still sporting those.

 

So you probably have devices like this all over the place? Maybe not this brand.
I install, program and integrate this and many other systems in the medical industry. The company I work for has its fingers in everything from door access/ security systems to full data communication/phone systems.
Guess Im lucky though because I truly love what I do. Just hate it when other people cant put the same amount of effort into their work thats expected of me.

 

Yes i know....my grandfather has one. I don't want him going any where is all.

 

My internal battery has to be replaced in 9 years.

 

Yes, although some of them we are removing the device and leaving the leads and placing new ones. Our vascular surgeon assists our cardiologist with these from time to time. We are rural so the really complex ones get sent out for removal/replacements. I wish I knew more about them, but just the basic functions of them.

 

My grandfather has had one for years and has had the battery replaced (yes it's old). He's 97yo...and had had a pace maker since in his late 70s

 

I have a few around here for emergency calls in like bathrooms and what not, but most are in the hospital setting.

That's cool you install these. Do you go all over or just a certain region for installs?

 

My company has a specific region in Canada. We cover Northern Alberta, Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut. Actually before my time at this company we had jobs in Russia.
I really enjoy the work we do in hospitals. We've done some work in a few world renowned facilities, I love that its always a rush and you have to be on top of your surroundings. Keeps the day moving forward.
Glad to see that you dont despise the idea for these systems.
I can see it being a pain if all you heard all day long was the call bell system. I like that it feels like I really do give back to the community at the end of day. Some people really do rely on these systems and they are actually meant to aid the workers that would respond to the calls.
I see you guys in action all day and seriously respect what you do and have to deal with.

 

Electrician, only an apprentice right now but hope to be a Journeyman before im 25. (Im 17 right now)