Who is self employed and what do you do?

[jimjet]

I work as a Licenced Aircraft Maintenance Engineer and have my own company, basicly prostituteing my signature and my experience to mostly European carriers who pay me to look after the airworthiness of their aircraft.

I also work for a Major European Airline.
I make sure you get to your destination safely and live to tell about it.

so please dont tell me to use ANY old fuse in a system that was engineered to use a proper specialized part.i dont care if its not going to 49000 feet.

i also dont care if your T.V. or Inflight Entertainment dosnt work.

BE HAPPY THE ENGINES DO.

im anal retentive and obsessive compulsive
if you cant do it right dont do it at all.please.

i make less than a L.R. tech
so show some respect please.

 

[Chris-St Louis]

Jim is right about making less then a LR tech.

I was working at the airport maintaning the ground equipment, and they were talking to me about getting my A&P (Airframe and powerplant).

4 More years of school.

If the guy makes a lawndart out of the aircraft that I just serviced. Guess who they crawl up.....


And, Legal Liability like you cannot believe...

And, for ALL that, I coudl make LESS money then I was fixing the truck that fueled the plane, or the APU that jump started it.


No thanks. Jim, you can have it!

 

[Leslie]

Geologist. Not self employed yet. I work for the state coal mine regulatory authority. Lion's share of work is in reviewing coal mine permits (ie, being a critic of people's bad environmental planning). Also conduct mining-related complaint investigations. Do a lot of data review for water quality issues, improvements of our spatial databases, and cover back-up for our Electronic Permitting systems.
I also catch a lot of side projects, such as doing AML design work (ie, plan a portal closure, stabilize a land slide, etc.); have just been drug into a watershed quality enhancement on an impaired river: locating/identifying AMD discharges, assisting the USACOE in reclaiming some, then NRCS in hitting others, then finishing off the rest in-house. I travel a bit, to teach short-courses related to mining: I'll be in Pittsburgh teaching a GPS class in June, in Wilkes-Barre teaching a dangerous openings class in August. Today, I spent the day with the Soil and Water Conservation District's people at a "groundwater festival" for 6th graders (running a 20-min learning station on mining and groundwater, for fourteen different groups of kids); do a lot of public education assistance along those lines, such as leading geology bike rides on the Creeper Trail or hikes at Mt Rogers.

I really like my job, but sometimes thing about doing my own consulting on the side. There's a lot of career-related interests I don't get into at work. Would like to do more mapping, would like to expand from coal into oil and gas onshore small-field exploration. DOT-related slope stability contract work.

 

[ptschram]

Before I sold out to the man, I owned a Rover shop.

I can tell you how to make a small fortune fixing Rovers (hint, it helps if you start out with a large fortune).

As much as I liked being self-employed, I like a paycheck even more!

PT

 

[kennith]

This month I am an environmental consultant.

Not sure what I'll do next month. I like this a lot, I might stay a while.

Cheers,

Kennith

 

[ptschram]

This month I am an environmental consultant.

Not sure what I'll do next month. I like this a lot, I might stay a while.

Cheers,

Kennith

I did that for almost twenty years. Rovers are a whole lot more fun!

 

[skippy3k]

I am a professional ballet dancer. During the week I dance in a stage adaptation of Quentin Tarantino's "Reservior Dogs" which is receiving rave reviews. On the weekends, I wheel the hell out of my RR. (If only that was true...)

Actually, I went to school to become a music teacher, ended up with an economics degree, but have worked entirely in the computer field running IT departments for companies that make stuff no one cares about. I still don't know how I got this career, and I still don't know if I like it or not.

However, more to the point of this thread, my wife and I are taking that first step of being self-employed; we are opening up a clothing store in July, which we hope will one day give us the time and flexibility to enjoy life more. So if any of you are looking for expensive women's clothing, you now know who to ask.

 

[jimjet]

This month I am an environmental consultant.

Not sure what I'll do next month. I like this a lot, I might stay a while.

Cheers,

Kennith

sure you get to off road and get paid for it.
do they give you an allowance for mods and upgrades so you can delve deeper into the environment.

cheers kennith

jimatriot:

 

[RVRSRVC]

After a lifetime in the family auto business specialising in British and Italian stuff, I opted to renovate my barn into a 2 bay Rover shop attending to the needs of the enthusiast and rover clubs. Also, I can do it while taking care of the kids 17 months and 13 years.
Been self-employed for two weeks now!
Trevor

 

[Alexa]

Off premise and remote location caterer- we do events ranging from 5 to our largest of 25K. unfortunately I work when every one else gets to go wheeling but there is no way I could work for some one else.

 

[kennith]

I did that for almost twenty years. Rovers are a whole lot more fun!

Yeah,

But I also get to use the Rover every single day blazing trails on pieces of land nobody else can ride on, by the owner's request. I hopped 5 logs today in the Rover, drove through lots of mud, hiked several miles, got a great workout with the auger punching a couple hundered holes, pushed buttons on a GPS that is worth half as much as my Disco is now, went back and used Autocad, and I got paid for it.:victory:

Last week, I was swinging across gullies and sliding down tree trunks to land on the other side.

I still can't believe people tend to dislike this job. It feels like I'm being paid to play.

On the side, I'm starting to get into selling some land, and I'm almost go for the hard work on my interior and starting my small time custom shop. I've been having a lot of fun lately.

Cheers,

Kennith

 

[C Ross]

Group life and health insurance agent for a large international broker. No really it's much more interesting than it seems...

I grew up in residential construction from the GC to the sales side. I decided I wanted weekends off and that was not the biz for that.

It's kind of nice to not worry if you can make payroll and still pay yourself.

C Ross

 

[kennith]

sure you get to off road and get paid for it.
do they give you an allowance for mods and upgrades so you can delve deeper into the environment.

cheers kennith

jimatriot:

Nope.

But the term "deduction" comes to mind.:reddevil:

Cheers,

Kennith

 

[Leslie]

But I also get to use the Rover every single day blazing trails on pieces of land nobody else can ride on, by the owner's request. I hopped 5 logs today in the Rover, drove through lots of mud, hiked several miles, got a great workout with the auger punching a couple hundered holes, pushed buttons on a GPS that is worth half as much as my Disco is now, went back and used Autocad, and I got paid for it. Last week, I was swinging across gullies and sliding down tree trunks to land on the other side. I still can't believe people tend to dislike this job. It feels like I'm being paid to play.

Not every day, but I do regularly get to take a Jeep from motor pool and go rambling across old strip mines.... and come to think of it, the GPS I normally use costs more than the wife's Disco is worth... and one of the other ones that I use sometimes costs more than her Disco did new.... :ack: AutoCAD and ArcGIS are my bread-n-butter....

 

[ID_Disco_II]

skippy3k: great friggin post...:smilelol:

I have spent some time on the "dark side" of the software engineering on various design and development projects. I got to work on some pretty interesting projects in some pretty interesting places. I never thought I would be working with nuclear waste in Idaho...

 

[KEJ]

Trust fund baby. In my off hours I watch my stock portfolio plummet, but since it's all found money I don't tend to care much. You can't see it from my tanning booth! Oh damn, I think I just broke a naaaaaail!

KJ, yeah, right!

 

[rangerhughes]

After the start of the war I developed and opened a company: “Polish Land Mine Detection” As of today, I own it, manage it and the only employee: all from the comfort of my wheelchair, cant figure out where I went wrong!
Simple Idea hands over ears, right foot stomping to the front, left foot drags to the rear.

Proven concept I found the Land Mine!!!
Anyone need a job?

 

[Steve]

Myself and two other partners have a Federal contracting firm. I was strictly internet applications and development prior to that and until the bubble burst, worked as the Senior Developer and CTO of two of the manliest web sites a guy could have on his resume. Before that I was an international rock star but that was just my cover working for MI-5.

 

[clayatem]

Auto Glass for the pass 2.5 years and thing are starting to go really good.

 

[LR3invancouver]

I help private companies get financing ($500,000 to $10M) and take them public. Anyone with a great growth company with some sort of market protection (ie. patents, exclusive technology etc) is welcome to contact me as long as they have a proper business plan, proforma financial projections and a detailed use of proceeds. I will treat your info as strictly confidential. :twocents: