Dr Death » Tue Jan 30, 2024 5:12 pm
I'm a Cabinetmaker. Been at it since 1978... 46 years. Started in a company that built pipe organs (Schantz Organ). I served 4 years apprenticeship there. Moved on after 6.5 years and hooked up with a kitchen cabinet/furniture maker for the next 8.5 years. Moved on to a trade show exhibit company for the next 28 years. CV19 took my job. I'm currently doing antique furniture restoration and every day furniture refinishing and repair.vtraider » Tue Jan 30, 2024 5:51 pm
Similar but not exactly the same. I'm retired military that currently supplements by doing wood working. Mostly outdoors stuff. Grill enclosure. Picnic tables. Wishing wells and planter boxes. But also do some furniture refinishingDr Death wrote Tue Jan 30, 2024 5:12 pm:I'm a Cabinetmaker. Been at it since 1978... 46 years. Started in a company that built pipe organs (Schantz Organ). I served 4 years apprenticeship there. Moved on after 6.5 years and hooked up with a kitchen cabinet/furniture maker for the next 8.5 years. Moved on to a trade show exhibit company for the next 28 years. CV19 took my job. I'm currently doing antique furniture restoration and every day furniture refinishing and repair.
Xramfan » Tue Jan 30, 2024 10:04 pm
Firefighter/Paramedic (retired)Attyla » Wed Jan 31, 2024 7:34 am
I work in the medical arena. At one point I was doing Fraud Waste and Abuse investigations for a Medicare Advantage Plan. Most of my background revolves around Pharma. The degree is in Chemistry hence my profession.Xramfan » Wed Jan 31, 2024 9:02 am
Funny, After my neck dissection a few years back I was enjoying an opioid salad of sorts including oxy. It was all well and good until the pipes stopped moving even with all the softeners and prune juice in the world. Nothing moved. I quit the meds immediately just to get things moving again. Took a day or two but I was moon walking in the bathroom after the gates opened again.Attyla wrote Wed Jan 31, 2024 7:34 am:I work in the medical arena. At one point I was doing Fraud Waste and Abuse investigations for a Medicare Advantage Plan. Most of my background revolves around Pharma. The degree is in Chemistry hence my profession.
As a FWandA investigator, I was policing script mills, mostly opioid mills but they also push benzos so that was very interesting. You get hooked on opioids, add in benzos to sleep and then you end up with constipation meds because the opioids screw up your digestive system. I worked alongside doctors and nurse practitioners mostly. Good folk and we put some really bad doctors (one got a 25 year sentence when we were able to tie his script mill to a number of deaths.) Most the script mills have been shut down but places like Florida still have some where they refused to tighten up regulations. I probably saved the taxpayers around 50 million dollars due to our investigations.
I still do some random investigations to this day, mostly doctor/pharmacy hoppers and mostly small time stuff. But now I do that PRN as a secondary job. I am now mostly working the finance part of the job.
Attyla » Wed Jan 31, 2024 9:59 am
The drugs have their purpose, but there is a cost. The addiction to them is real and very hard to master. There are new drugs in the pipeline to address pain with the hopes that they reduce abuse but it has been a slow process. The profitability (always a driving force in business) is more tied to maintenance drugs rather than short term drugs hence you don't see new antibiotics being introduced even though the need is there.Xramfan wrote Wed Jan 31, 2024 9:02 am:Funny, After my neck dissection a few years back I was enjoying an opioid salad of sorts including oxy. It was all well and good until the pipes stopped moving even with all the softeners and prune juice in the world. Nothing moved. I quit the meds immediately just to get things moving again. Took a day or two but I was moon walking in the bathroom after the gates opened again.
OK.....TMI but oh well
vtraider » Wed Jan 31, 2024 11:23 am
After my back surgery they had me on so much stuff I can't remember a year and a half. Finally went to the DR and told them I couldn't live like that anymore. Oxy, gabapentin, soma, Flexeril and a few other things. My memory is now shit.Sold My Soul » Wed Jan 31, 2024 7:29 pm
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I hear woodworking and construction contractors in general are a dying breed.Dr Death wrote Tue Jan 30, 2024 5:12 pm:I'm a Cabinetmaker. Been at it since 1978... 46 years. Started in a company that built pipe organs (Schantz Organ). I served 4 years apprenticeship there. Moved on after 6.5 years and hooked up with a kitchen cabinet/furniture maker for the next 8.5 years. Moved on to a trade show exhibit company for the next 28 years. CV19 took my job. I'm currently doing antique furniture restoration and every day furniture refinishing and repair.
Sold My Soul » Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:05 pm
Can you restore a '73 model to say......A '25 model?Dr Death wrote Tue Jan 30, 2024 5:12 pm:I'm a Cabinetmaker. Been at it since 1978... 46 years. Started in a company that built pipe organs (Schantz Organ). I served 4 years apprenticeship there. Moved on after 6.5 years and hooked up with a kitchen cabinet/furniture maker for the next 8.5 years. Moved on to a trade show exhibit company for the next 28 years. CV19 took my job. I'm currently doing antique furniture restoration and every day furniture refinishing and repair.
Coach Pappy » Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:10 pm
This is my 31st year in educationAttyla » Thu Feb 01, 2024 3:39 am
When I am on vacation and on those rare times when I do a tour or in other situations where someone tries to engage me and I am not interested in talking to them, and the question of what I do for a living comes up, my go to answer is:Dr Death » Thu Feb 01, 2024 3:48 am
As they say... anything is possible... for the right price.Sold My Soul wrote Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:05 pm:Can you restore a '73 model to say......A '25 model?
Please say yes.
Sold My Soul » Sun Feb 04, 2024 8:02 pm
HA!!!!Dr Death wrote Thu Feb 01, 2024 3:48 am:As they say... anything is possible... for the right price.