Whats your career??

[Texas Stalker]

Roofing contractor


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[Howdy]

Environmental, Health, and Safety Specialist for a small chemical plant in Houston.

[Gulfcoastin]

Refinery Operator, Deer Park, TX.

[Hunteraudit]

With DV status, assuming, and wanting a 9-5 job, you should consider going federal. Just about any job you can think of is available. Usajobs.gov

[Geezy Rider]

Spent 40 years as an aircraft mechanic. I enjoyed my job. The pay was great and the benefits were great but the industry is doing away with those benefits these days. It was physically demanding and wore me out but it gave me a very good life. I’m retired now. The money isn’t as good but the benefits are outstanding.

[SabreKiller]

Texas Highway Patrol for 25 years and currently with the Kerr County Sheriff's Department.

[txbowhunter08]

OP, what did you do in the Army?

And what was it in the Army you liked most and miss?

Might be what you need to asses, so you can look at careers that fit those molds.

13b field artillery!! I miss the camaraderie, getting to go to different places, any getting paid to work out was pretty nice!!

[hgiles]

Regional Safety Manager for a company that many of you (or your wives) probably order from

[AtTheWall]

Retired Military 2000 / 1980 - 2000
Technology background = analog to digital conversions then - Unix administrator - Telecommunications (HF UHF VHF SATCOM) Commercial Maritime and US DOD systems pre Internet ( SIPERNet - the Internets Network routing beginnings - Classified Info system used for then Classified GOVN data). Pre and post Internet

Hired by a .com startup in Austin 2000 - started TBH - after moving to Texas from Seattle as a civilian

IT Director for Charles Schwab - 600 million buck acquisition of Cybercorp.com to CyberTrader.com to Charles Schwab Street Trader Pro

NASDAQ Day traders - created in 1993 - Internet launched 1995 - I hired with this start-up and rode it to the bank. 2005 - moved on to Dell and Toshiba & Phillips Medical support contracts - tying radiology systems into Japan via VPN secure tunnels - Dell pre-virtualization scoping and implementations late 2000s which was the core to today's

CLOUD COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE

Joined a company in San Antonio in 2010 = still here

Then 10 million income and 3000 TEXAS ONLY CUSTOMERS - pre PREMISE CLOUD

Today nearly 30 million - 8000 - 10000 Customers and we haven't moved into DFW yet....Houston was last year and we need to add 4 more locations to cover the load

Not retired = work from home and the CIO for the firm that has blown up 12 million plus, with me at the IT Helm

I will get a check from multiple sources till I can't breath

I've worked IT for 38 or 39 years non-stop. 1983 to now - uniform and office to remote and perpetually = nothing has changed except for the decades of Technical evolution - CISCO HP DELL MICROSOFT VMWARE - dedicated point to point fiber circuits = dedicated to support each region - private public cloud with about 80 fleet vans and service folks - taking care of COOKING IN TEXAS.

Working with Tesla - SpaceEx - AT&T - Spurs - Six Flags - 5 Star Restaurants - HEB - Whataburger et al - we keep them cooking and I'm the glue that ties eCommerce = Mobile Networks for service personnel - call center and dispatch ops - servers - network - VoIP Cisco phone and routing, Database, Cyber Security - firewalls routers dns - the entire SOB


Busy and always connected but - I have a system with support co-workers - and each of them are learning from me as we push along and fight these GD HACKS that are on a full scale assault against USA interests.

The Connected INET world needs leadership and POLICY NOW! Many of us are fighting WWIII on the INET Backbone, as American's fight with one another over Politics and Covid with a wide open BORDER

And with these failing policies and cyber criminal enforcement against known bad actors - who all have to connect to the continental usa via transoceanic fiber cable - firewall these clowns before they hit our networks in LA and SEATTLE from ASIA & RUSSIA

I'm still fighting = and not many drink from a FIREHOSE DIRECTLY CONNECTED THE INTERNET'S BACKBONE

My Cisco ASA firewalls working with a Cisco Firepower Virtual Machine - tied into VLan segmentation network routes filtered for 3389 port access inbound.

In layman's terms - the Chinese connections = ALL US CHICOM CYBER SOLDIERS ATTACKING USA BUSINESSES - This is my core network and our prescence on the www via AT&T's initlal ICANN Public IP registrations - CLASS A SUBNET - big fish on the wire from a technical perspective because we've been registered from the INET beginning

SPAM - RANSOMWARE = FIREWALL Management - I've filed 6 separate FBI level hack reports with hackers who are one step from getting payroll routing EXTORTED to BS hack accounts masquerading as inside employees et al etc


So the knowledge of known traffic patterns in conjunction to the WILD WILD WEST world of the INET - funding hackers via BITCOIN accounts to those who get extorted .

It's not a pretty world on the wire and cyber crime pays - if you live in MOSCOW etc etc etc

[Jon B]

been a cop for last 13 years..

Go to the fire side. Get on with a big suburb fd and enjoy the next 20 years.

Just shy of 13 years as a LEO myself. Really funny that my response is.....go to fire academy!

[rut-ro]

unlicensed pharmaceuticals sales is a profitable business. can be high risk for high reward

[rtjh]

Keeping the lights on.

[brutus]

Railyard and Trucking Transportation Terminal Manager. In trucking for 42 years now

[redtailz]

Spent 28 years in the industrial construction industry all the time having side gigs. Always loved real estate and the outdoors so I made my business based around both. Farming, hunting, boiling crawfish and providing people with a great place to gather. So I say get you enough passive income to cover all your needs and do what ever you want!

[bakin7005]

First career....electrician. Youngest journeyman in Dallas at 19 in 1982.

Second career.....31 years aviation maintenance @AA (so far) with 11 year side hustle as general contractor (gave that up 9 years ago).

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