What do you all do for work?

[Gibby]

Originally Posted by joshuaream

This is a small world... I used to do business with Jorge Colon (the Wendy's franchisee in Puerto Rico.) Do you work for a company with a long name that starts with W?

I actually used to work and still do on occasion hand in hand with the guys from Wasserstrom. I work for S & G Manufacturing. The company I work for now, the people who started it all used to work at Wasserstrom. The company kind of split up and they started this company. I have always been in the restaurant industry. I am 28 now. I used to work for Lancaster Restaurant Supply. Pretty much the same type business as Wasserstrom and S & G but alot smaller scale. But yea, we are the ones who ship the containers down there. Wasserstrom is our main competition. It is funny if we have demand we can not handle we will send the work to them and vice versa. That is cool. It is a very small world.

[dfwphotoguy]

Originally Posted by joshuaream

This is a small world... I used to do business with Jorge Colon (the Wendy's franchisee in Puerto Rico.) Do you work for a company with a long name that starts with W?

Wait for it guys....Im looking for my photo of me standing outside a wendys....

IN COSTA RICA! hahahaha

But seriously, I am looking for that photo.

Edit, this is the only one I can find right now, It was a Burger King, Papa Johns, Oil/Car Repair Facility, Tire Shop all in one.



Damn you said Wendys...this is Burger King. Never Mind. No crazy connection. Ha.

[Kat]

I've had a lot of jobs through the years. I grew up on a farm and worked in our dairy and in tobacco and at our local animal shelter until I left home. After our son came along I worked as a bottle washer cleaning the outside of returned suntan lotion bottles for Hawaiian Tropic. That job sucked. After we moved back to the farm I worked as a supervisor for a cleaning company, a cook in an international restaurant and grocery and at Papa John's, my husband and I ran our own hot dog cart for a couple of years and had a small retail place - the economic crash ended that. Currently I take care of pets and livestock (mainly horses and dogs) for people when they go on vacation and raise enormous gardens and preserve our food and sell the excess on an honor system from my front yard. You could call that charity work I suppose - since I sell almost everything for $1.00 per pound. I also sell eggs. I've sold produce from our yard for more than a decade now. Until this year I just had planks on sawhorses for a table, but my dad built me a nice little shack for this year. We're going to paint it after the season is over.

I think mom is the hardest job I've had...but by far the most rewarding.
Kat

[dfwphotoguy]

Kat, thats damn cool. Seriously you got my respect their.

[kirby]

Originally Posted by dfwphotoguy

Kat, thats damn cool. Seriously you got my respect their.

Ditto on that!

[Gibby]

Very cool DFW and Kat.

[joshuaream]

Originally Posted by dfwphotoguy

Damn you said Wendys...this is Burger King. Never Mind. No crazy connection. Ha.

Liberia... I opened that Papa John's, so the crazy connection still stands.

[mootsman]

Originally Posted by Gibby

You can really tell that pic is from 1985 Moots. That suit is pimp. Really has a Hawaii 50 look to it. Book em Danno.

I am just teasing Moots.

Yeah, got the porno star moustache thing going too

[dfwphotoguy]

Originally Posted by mootsman

Yeah, got the porno star moustache thing going too

MootsMagnum PI!

[Kat]

Originally Posted by rokdok

I am a general ,cardiothoracic and vascular surgeon. I have had 3 seizures this year, the last one last week, and can't drive or do surgical cases for 6 months , maybe forever. Looks like 11 years of post-college training down the drain.

Rokdok- my son had to have thoracic surgery to repair a spontaneous pneumothorax in January this year. You have my respect, that is a long arduous education process and my sympathy, I'm sorry you are having problems. My mother would always tell me that the universe is as it should be and things happen for a reason. I believe her now that I'm older. It doesn't necessarily make finding a new path any easier, but I have often found it comforting when dealing with those changes in direction that life presents.

You guys were probably not looking for a work history. It just got me thinking of all the jobs I've had...and Thank You...the produce thing started as a way to pay for my seeds and canning and freezing supplies and has become a fixture for the many retirees in my area. It certainly won't make me rich! I have a policy - if you are over 90 you get stuff for 1/2 price, over 95 and you get it for free . Sometimes I find that there are just pennies in my lock-box, especially at the end of the month . Right now it's free turnip time. My dad plants an acre of turnips and anyone who wants can come and pick greens and turnips for free.

My husband worked for Papa John's for years and years. He works at a university bookstore now as the shipping manager.
Kat