I’ve worked for a cable tv company for 36 years started when I was 20 years old having done everything you can imagine started out installing done areal and under ground construction bin up many poles and to the top of 300ft towers worked in the freezing cold and hot weather out many late nights and early mornings but every day is a new adventure always a problem to fix

Retired almost 5 years ago,, after 40 years in the Steelworkers Union.

Ranger at Baxter State Park.My eighth year coming up.

Retired Ranger Lake George and Adirondack Park.

I didn't think you were that old.

I'm a women's shoe salesman by day. 17 years. Also part time bouncer at a strip joint.

Maintenance and backup locksmith at a local college for 33 1/3 years. Retired coming up on 11 years now. Before that worked 1 year in a printing plant bindery.

Metal manufacturing company. Right now 150 ton stamping press setup. 27 years at this company.

Georgia Wildlife Services, since 2010.

Chief cook and bottlewasher and I set a trap occasionally.

Is that you, Al Bundy...?!

Environmental consulting, 31 years.

Environmental Engineer, 11 years

Been a gigilo for 32 years. I keep trying to retire but they just keep calling. It's not like me to let them down. Soooo. WTH

No Ma'am. Lol

A couple years working cattle ranches,and 47 years as a mason.
But i got to work outside my whole life.

I have worked for mining companies for 27 years now.
From underground mining to Hot metals, and now in recycling of perious metals.
It's been a adventure, and good money with a excellent work schedule.

Retired 11/30/23 35 years plus Anheuser Busch

Line clearance tree trimmer, cell tower builder/ bulb changer, Union Iron worker 6 years, the last 18 years in June at an aluminum plant several different jobs during that time mostly operating heavy equipment.

My Hero!

Retired from USAF after 24 years then trapped beavers for the timber company for 30 years. Now semi-retired with just a beaver/nutria control contract with my local city. I've had that contract for 33 years plu there's Dob ins Products that I've had for 27 years. it's been a fun ride I've never had a job I didn't love.

Worked for the power company for 5 yrs right out of high school. Quit that an Been self employed in the concrete business since.

Retired from UPS as a heavy duty truck (semi) mechanic. Been retired almost 2 years.

Built and maintained power lines for 43 years

Arborist for 42 years, retired for 5.

Now my time is divided between fishing or shooting.

WS

40 years in ag irrigation (service , sales, and design) - currently self employed doing all of the above. I am looking forward to getting out of the irrigation business and concentrating on the hay farm and sheep.

Cattle farmer entire life and apartment maintenance in free time

Pharmaceutical manufacturing. (If you’ve ever taken Mucinex or Robitussin, you’ve taken one of the active ingredients we’ve made). Started in Operations, now I’m the Training Manager for the site. 26 years all together.

Fingers crossed to be able to retire in 11 years when I hit 60.

Professional Land Surveyor for 44 years. Technology has sure changed over that time.

Zim

Auto Body repair by trade. I drifted into Fiberglass/aluminum boat repair that led to managing fiberglass manufacturing facilities.

Left the rat race of the Metropolis and moved to our Cabin. I pulled levers on Caterpillar’s for another 20 years before retiring. Now I trap just enough Beaver to keep gas in my motorcycles !

Spent 20 some years makin paper. Shut down 3 different mills. Spent the last dozen years at a steel mill makin iron at the blast furnace.

Customer service representative for the DNR. Started in 2013, took a few years off to work for a hunting magazine, been back with the DNR since 2021.

Retired 12 years ago at the age of 56 from Four Roses Distillery.

Was a timber faller for 12 years. Went to flight school and flew for 31 years before retirement

Trapper my whole working life .
Worked seasonal jobs during the of season until 4 years ago.
My wife and I bought an acreage 4 years ago now a hobby homesteader and trapping till I cant.

Building Maintenance at a local Convent/Motherhouse of retired Nuns. 42 years in Maintenance Dept. Retired on 1-31-23.

I went into the building trades early on, carpentry and hanging drywall for 16 years. I moved away from that and into HFC cable installation, maintenance, and fiber/coax construction for the last 18 years.

22 years USN 10 years as packer for outfitter, 8 years long haul driver

celebrity influencer....

comms tech 26 years only 20 more to go

tech has changed a bit

Ahh -- so your the one responsible for al the hollywood bs.

Retired. 37 years as a product design engineer (Harley-Davidson, Kohler Power Products, Pierce Fire), and facilities layout and equipment designer (paper/tissue industry). 7 years as hospital patient transportation assistant. 18 years volunteer firefighter/EMT/rescue tech.

I year as Plant Manager at a Painting job shop. I was in paint shop at a boat factory for 24 years prior.

IBEW journeyman wireman and journeyman power lineman. I take the winters off to trap, unless there’s a winter $torm

Installer of electrical apparatus for the last 36yrs.

I was an electrician but got in a nasty car wreck 40 years ago and was almost killed. I was told that they gave me Last Rights in the hospital. I fooled them and lived. After a two year recovery, I couldn’t go back to being an electrician because of the injuries so I got a factory job. I worked in maintenance. Did electrical, carpentry, mill wright, painting, snow shoveling, welding, maintaining the car fleet, about anything in the plant that needed done. It was a job that was never boring. Retired 11 years ago when I was 62.

Been welding for almost 34 years. Started as a UMWA iron worker, been welding fork lift chassis for the last 24 years. Hopefully 11 years until retirement.

Banker for 34 years.
Jim

Yep, that explains all the nut jobs out there.

Nuclear contractor. I wear a few different hats in the nuclear field. Mostly, I test safety valves/systems and work with engineering to troubleshoot and fix valve related issues. I'm coming up on the 20 year mark in that field.

Retired as a damage control trapper for 30 yrs. Now I work more retired on my small acreage caring for my 10 yr old...cutting and splitting wood and caring for animals. Snare building in quantities and trap modifications along with hobbies of shooting trap and long range predator hunting. Im 65 and busier than most. Single parent home.

Powerlineman with Manitoba Hydro. 20 years. Just got out of a 1 year temp office job, now back in the field scoping out trapping areas where I belong. Guys ask why I don’t take a nice office job, Eng technician or something, higher pay grade. I tell them that I can’t afford the $70000 pay cut….no OT. I tell the engineers that I can always “fall back” to Eng tech if my body gives out…they don’t like that..hahaha

Worked in the Winnebago Motorhome factory for a few years, then trapped full time for a few years. Delivered new motorhomes to dealers all across the US and Canada. Worked on a commercial Fishing boat in Alaska. Started writing and publishing in 1990. Wrote more than 1000 magazine articles and 17 books which took me all over North American hunting and fishing. Started and ran the largest walleye tournament circuit in North America from 1994 to 2006. Now I do YouTube, bear hunting guide, Run a large fundraising fishing tournament and am starting a bear hunting sports show. At 65 I am not slowing down much, although I have cut way back on the writing. The life of an entrepreneur is ever changing. I have lost track of the number of small businesses I have started and ran. Some made quite a bit of money, some failed. Some I sold for a nice profit. I plan to slow down and take it easy when I am 70. Maybe raise a garden which is something I enjoy but have not been able to do since I travel so much.

Electrical contractor for over 40 years , retired now …

so, YOU'RE the guy stealing all the catalytic convertors!

worked in a deep underground limestone mine right out of highschool for 13 1/2 years. 7 yrs as mechanic, 3 yrs as high scaler and 3 1/2 yrs as electrician. been working for 3M since 2006 as a mechanical tech. We make post-it notes and packaging tape

20 years tool and die , plastic injection tooling ,, made enough money to start farming full time 22 years ago been at that full time since old enough now my son will take over we work together daily now ,,, sometimes i think it too bad just getting to the good stuff

Spent the last 30 years in the Millwrights
I have 580 work hours left until I can retire
Also have a 16 year old daughter that I'd like to get through high school before I retire.
But I don't know if my back is going to let me have that option

25yrs with a communications company. Started a little late in life, but I’ll have 30yrs service when I turn 60. May or may not retire then. Took a new title 4 years ago and nothing I do is physical or requires me to work in the elements. I joke and tell people I get paid for what I know and not what I do.
For the last 7-8yrs I’ve had a “side job” removing unwanted guests from rich landowners properties. That keeps me outdoors and I make enough to buy toys and pay for trips. It also gives me hunting and fishing opportunities.

19 years doing residential remodels.7 of those under my B license. Some commercial and govt jobs in the mix. Moved states so in the process of acquiring my license again. Got another 20 years ahead of me before I quit.

I repair other people's mistakes

Been at my craft for 48 straight years...and still at it !

Worked for Kelly springfield/goodyear tire company then titan tire when they bought the plant.started on my 18th birthday in Oct of 1978.just retired last summer 44 years and 9 months.

Thats a good run, there...

I've been a paramedic for the last 18 years. I plan on working for a few more years at it. Prior to that I worked in the agricultural supply field - certified pesticide applicator, propane delivery and system setup, refined fuel delivery and general truck driving.

Wildlife control for the last 14 years coming up In June.
Before that I worked for a utility company through Ibew for a
Couple years.

Part of the year I’m a towboat pilot
Part of the year people pay me to kill coyotes
Husband and dad every chance I get

God is good!!

I had 37 years in underground coal mining. Started as a general laborer in 1976, retired as the general manager in 2013. It was a great job.

Wife moocher, almost 19 years.

Retired 11 years after 37 years of teaching agriculture and farm business management. plus 2 years as a soldier and 2 years as a herdsperson on a dairy farm.

Bryce

Worked maintenance for a defense plant for 5 year. 26 years as state pest control inspector. Last 8 years as sate Ag inspector.

Field wildlife biologist. Both research and management. Mainly large predator work. Idaho 1970-1980. Alaska 1981-2008. Idaho again 2011-2022. Wildlife projects in Russia and Mongolia. Now retired; writing books. Always outside.

Jack

I'm the lead merchandiser for the garden department at Lowe's. Been with Lowe's about 5 years now. It's my job to take care of the flowers and make them look pretty.

For 22 years I worked as a union boilermaker and it was good in the early years before the demontats started this green new deal! and coal is bad. We have put SCR ON boilers to take the heavy meatel out before its goes out the stack. There not 90% but I would say 80 to 85% cleaner then the 60 or 70s.

Work in a paper mill. Had several positions over the last 18 years there.

Retired 3 yrs ago from a local govt. Now working Full/part time at an auction co. What a great job, every day is differant.

I yank around mainly paving equipment with some quarry and dirt equipment mixed in. Been at it 13 years with the same company, started at 20 years old. Work 8.5-9 months out of the year, and when paving operations shut down around the beginning of December I get laid off till March, so 3 months straight to spend hunting, trapping, and with the family!

3 years as a MP with the 82nd at Ft. Bragg, two years
Working construction and 32 years in civilian LE
Retired 10 years. Trap a little bit each fall, spring beaver
Along with a little nuisance beaver trapping. Use to trap
a lot of pocket gophers for farmer in the area

Logged from 14-22 with brother, ran parents clothing store, worked relief staff at juvenile delinquent group home. Wife and had a group home for 6 years had 8 juvenile delinquent boys living with us 24-7-365. Earned our bachelors degree in social sciences, taught for 29 years. Athletic director for 13 years. Been coaching for 44 years. Retired two years ago from teaching still head coach girls softball team.

Equipment operator. Started in the logging industry in the early 80s. Been a concrete pump operator for the last 23. Just Two more trips around the sun.

General manager of a golf course the last 10 years (have plenty of time to trap). Worked in the Texas oilfields prior to that.

28 years labor union, been doing heavy highway from the beginning got 2 to go and I'm out

Farmer.

Went to school at WVU, graduated with a wildlife and fisheries resources degree. Went to TX worked on a ranch for a year after that. Moved back home and my uncle needed help on my families grain farm, grandad retired and I decided I’d farm. Been here 14 years and really enjoy it. We grow 800 acres corn and soybeans.

Tool and Die Maker.
Just got my 30 yrs in March. Have 4 or 5 more to go before I retire.

retired 4/22, heavy equipment operator for National Grid 24 years & local town highway Dept 6 yrs. miss the quite nights plowing roads.

32 years in manufacturing, 8 yrs with Maytag, 8 years with Unilever, and just celebrated 16 yrs with the current company. First 5 yrs I was a production worker, the last 27 in management. My current job has me overseeing 19 professionals doing post order management on accounts totally a billion dollars annually.

I really enjoy my job and it allows me to travel to customers when I want to pretty much wherever I want as we ship globally.

Logger in WA and a little bit in SE AK for about 35 years, Hooktender for probably 30 years of that. Did a little construction for a few years when I got too stove up to log, built road and small stuff like septic systems. Built a baseball field for the local school. Been fully retired for about 10 years.
Not sure where the time goes but it seems like I am busier now then when I had a job.

37 years as insurance adjuster/manager. Retiring this July can't wait to spend more time with the grandkids, cows, boat, and hunting/trapping as long as my knees hold out.

Cowboy started at mom and dads, then day work and ranch jobs. Been with the federal government in the wild horse program 24 years 6 to go

I hauled heavy loads to the landfill for 33 years, not missing the early mornings. now I trap nuisance wildlife full time. Nice working for myself.

Western Wildlife Services

Towboat engineer mostly on the Mississippi River for 41 years.

Started in the insurance business as an agent in 1967. Said I wouldn't work much past 80. Retired almost 2 years ago.

House framer for a couple of my early years, then on to all sorts of stuff, many irons in the fire at the same time. Commercial fisherman, longshoreman (not proud of that job, about three years), fur buyer, US Forest Service contractor, timberland investment, rental houses, hunting guide, to name a few. I have no plans to stop doing what I'm doing.

Next December I will be 66 and 8 months old, I will then qualify for my maximum Social Security benefits. At that time I will join the "Gun-a-Month" club. But I will continue "working".

I’m working at Van Diest Supply as warehouse manager. Be there 17 years. Hopefully retire in 6 years.

I worked at Winnebago till the gas crunches ended that worked for some farmers then 42 years under a welding helmet building camper lift systems and recycling balers and such retired do to health reasons in 2021.

Shhhhhh