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27-04-13, 01:40
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Well, at the tender age of 42 how do I relate my experiences? Firstly, I must say that I have never been fired from a job, the uncertainties of todays world and youth employment dealt me a diverse range of oppprtunities.
In a nutshell, according to the government, I am qualified at nothing as I do not hold a recognized trade license. Realistically, I suppose I could call myself a millwright. I currently work for one of the largest electrical manufacturing and service industries in the world, ABB. I travel extensively servicing large power electrical transformers for power generation, utilities, mills, mines etc. I am not an electrician as many assume, but our work includes a lot of mechanical stuff. I studied industrial arts in high school (skool??/) specializing in metal machining, fabrication, welding and mechanics. After high school I have attended continuing ed programs of industrial nature on my own as well as employer sponsored. I began working in industrial and commercial sheet metal work, worked in home construction, plant maintenance, machine shop, industrial supply sales, truck driving, public works, factory assembly line work, lumber yard and transformer building, contruction and maintenance work. Phew. I have been accused of being a "Jack of All Trades" which is somewhat fitting. I am proud to say I am a survivor, I never go hungry, I always pay my bills and I ask no one for handouts. I always find a job and have done plenty of s**tty ones to make ends meet.
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3RD Echelon Wksp 1968 M274A5 Mule Baifield USMC 1966 M274A2 Mule BMY USMC 1966 M274A2 Mule BMY USMC 1958 M274 Mule Willys US Army 1970 M38A1 CDN3 70-08715 1 CSR 1943 Converto Airborne Trailer 1983 M1009 CUCV 1957 Triumph TRW 500cc RT-524, PRC-77s, and trucks and stuff and more stuff and and....... OMVA, MVPA, G503, Steel Soldiers 
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27-04-13, 05:02
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Vocation
My first paying gig was as a general labourer with the town of Sioux Lookout in Northern Ontario as a teen. It was there that I learned what hard work really was and determined that I would avoid it at all costs in the future. After university I worked as a bill collector in the wilds of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, where I got my combat experience. Eventually, I joined the Canadian Army and after a lengthy career of pissing off colonels, wifey number two and I retired in Ottawa, Ontario, where I became a project management (PM) consultant. After an initial contract in Montreal, Quebec, I worked with the army at national defence HQ to obtain modern equipment and clothing right up to the end of the Afghan war. While on "leave" or whenever "on the beach" (between contracts), I had the pleasure of touring China preaching the western version of PM. I also got a short visit to both Thailand and Tanzania to give some leadership and management training. My last contracts were with the military doing some not so exciting but very interesting policy work. While all of that was going on, I ran my consulting small business and will be opening another small business involving our hobby - once my lawyer sorts out some issues for me.
You would never peg me for a PM "expert" if you follow the Hammond Barn thread. I play with CMPs for the fun of it and am in no hurry to see the end of the neverending, continuously ongoing HUP project.
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RHC Why is it that when you have the $$, you don't have the time, and when you have the time you don't have the $$?
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27-04-13, 08:45
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Keep them coming.
It is interesting to read all the little things that have been done to keep an income coming in. In my first post I stuck to what I have had training in. Other small jobs that I have had to get through hard times have been. Leaf cutter selling stringhy bark leaf to chemical companies so they could extract blood cloting medicine from them, Eucolyptus distiller, shed hand, shearer, wool pressor, log feller and hauler, contract hay and silage bailer, contract weed sprayer, wood cutter, livestock carrier, short hall semi driver and contract station hand. I have only applied and interviewed for one job all the rest have been offered to me in times of need, I have been verry lucky that way.
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27-04-13, 11:22
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Mixed bunch - eh?
I started off in the engineering iron industry in central Scotland, but I found out about 30 years back that all the money was in oil, so got an additional house here in Aberdeen.
Never really learned anything, loads of trial and error. don't really have the time or facilities to do as much restoration as I'd like ( ask my trucks ... ) I've always been fascinated by vehicles that do tricks - drive and float, drive and crawl, crawl and float, run on rails and road, road and snow, etc. Used to have a pile of amphibians but didn't use them, not got a bunch of snow and rail stuff and don't use that instead. Gordon's LinkedIn Profile Gordon's Vehicle Page
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Gordon, in Scotland Last edited by gordon; 27-04-13 at 11:36.
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08-06-13, 05:34
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Well My Trade
I am an ex Sergeant British Military soldier living in Canada, Kenora Ontario and I have a wealth of experience regarding Post War Military Vehicles as I was in the R.E.M.E. for 22 years employed as a vehicle mechanic from 1975-1995 Vehicles that I worked on as follows Landrover Canam Motor Cycles Armstrong Motor Cycles Saracen Armd Vehs Humber Pigs HMLC Stalwart Ferret Armd Veh FV432 to FV438 series vehicles CVRT Armd Vehicles Chieftain Centurion AVLB Bridgelayers Warrior Challenger Bedford RL Bedford MK Powerpacks 11A 13A K60 430 series and many more equipments I have recently joined the forum so hello all and pleased to meet all the veterans of the forums and newbies alike Regards Phil
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08-06-13, 12:29
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Welcome to the forum Phil.
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09-06-13, 04:28
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Thank You Luke
Pleasure to be here
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