Festool Hobbyists....What is your day job or business?

General Surgeon is my skilled trade.  Fishing, hunting, renovating a 110 year-old-house and maintenance on a rental property are my part time diversions.  I used to do a lot of woodworking and am revisiting the passion now that the first grandchild arrived. 
 
I help fix satellites when something goes wrong for a well-known Space Agency in Europe (clue: it's not NASA) ! In my earlier years I used to fly fighters, now I just fly the desk and computer........
 
erock said:
So I'm gonna bring up an old thread. I was working the other day and decided to bust out the old cell phone and record a little something.

I'm a shop tech and work on Limitorque actuators.  ....    I know most guys have no clue what I'm talking about.....so I'll let the video show you...... [wink]

Eric
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I do. Worked on all makes of pneumatic actuators for many years in power plants and refineries. Fisher, Copes-Vulcan, Masoneilan, Century, you name it. But very little Limitorque, though the places I have worked have hundreds of them mounted on valves up to 120" diameter.
 
I'm a software engineer.  Been doing it for 10 years and recently got into woodworking and home reno-lite projects. 
 
JBag09 said:
Wanted to add to this thread after we came across some BIG wood during our latest shipment. This was a piece of Mahogany that got delivered today. It has got to be 15 years since we've gotten pieces this size, we always use 10/4 & 12/4 for our guitar necks, in general the boards come in 12"-20" in width, length is normally 10'-15' So today, in comes this monster, 14' in length, 38" in width 12/4, so that comes out to 133 board feet, almost perfectly flat sawn all the way across.
So just how big is this tree if this is only a piece of it [emoji15]
Just so happened, I asked someone in purchasing what we pay for Mahogany these days, she told me $8 bf [emoji15][emoji15]
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It just doesn't seem right to chop that up into guitar necks. It deserves a better future.
 
Another Police Officer here - 14 years in the Job and a couple in the British Army before that.

I am currently a Custody Sergeant, which involves overseeing the 24 hours that most people can spend under arrest before we need to charge or release them. I am also a trained Evidence Recovery Manager for mass casualty incidents - owing a scene until all victims and property have been documented and recovered.

I'd like to reduce my hours at work and take on some paid carpentry work before too long - but a house renovation and extension keep getting in the way!
 
Job???  What is this job thing of which you speak?  Oh yes, now I remember...about 8 years ago I retired from a 40 year stint as an automotive engineer.
 
Since I posted before, I've gone back to driving a concrete mixer, which I like a lot better. Week and a half on the job and it's like I belong there.
 
I was a Test & Measurement software engineer.  I retired in January.  Mostly, sort-of.  I still consult back with my former employer part time.  But it does mean that I have more time for the shop.
 
General builder, qualified carpenter joiner, and qualified plasterer, can hold my own with brickwork. I'm comfortable with plumbing but, no expert. I know a bit about electricity but, it still frightens me. [blink]
Nowadays, as I'm past my prime, my main activity is instructing my workforce, which is easier on the bones  ;)
 
Formally trained as a graphic designer, mostly I do small-scale woodworking, and use a pair of small CNC machines (which is why I picked up the Festool CT Midi which brought me here).
 
Licensed Architect here, I love combining woodworking with welding and 3d printing to figure out the details on current or future projects.

This forum has been an invaluable tool in my learning process.
 
Chiropractor by day. Wannabe hobbyist who loves finely made tools.  My great great grandfather and his brothers were woodworkers by trade. Unfortunately I didn’t inherit any of their skills. I’m Best known for the extraordinary number of prototypes(mistakes and failures) I create
 
Retired Energy Engineer, always loved working with wood...
everything from cabinets, picture frames, built ins, closets...
I do a lot of experimenting with hand tools, not sure why, a curiousity I guess...
Love working with tools.... good way to stay active as u age, without hitting the gym... workshop hours add up fast and its a lot of lifting, bending, standing, grabbing, etc. 
 
Computer Infa Engineer... always loved putting things together since I’ve been young, especially LEGO (still love LEGO at 47).
 
I recently retired from a mid sized full time municipal fire department after 39 1/2 years, the last 7 as the Fire Chief.  I learned many of my woodworking skills from my Dad.  Now that I have some spare time, I have been replacing some of my older power tools with Festools, hence my affiliation here.  I am in the midst of my winter project, an extendable cherry dining room table, and enjoy using both power and hand tools.

I have learned a lot from all of the great craftsmen here at the FOG.
 
Cool thread!
Me; educated in marketing/economy. Technical interest at early age. Learned that Know-how and skill sells, still there. Most memorable jobs; Started with sales in diapers and sanitation things for the ladies  [scared] (Competing with Pampers and Always  [wink]) ...Sooo [embarassed] furter: Buyer/logistics/sales in photo industry, aftermarket man./technical Boston Whaler, Sea Ray and With boats. Technical sales wood burning domestic fireplaces as ie.: Brunner, Germany as well as steel chimneys. INT. technical sales including purchasing and production/fabricating pneumatic Ex/ATEX approved wipers for oil rigs/heli decks. + Too much more to mention.
Today I’m in estate management (techical of course [smile])
One of my all favourite interest and hobbies have been working with wood, it is so fascinating turning wood into whatever you’ll like. The right tools to do the job have always followed me, but at age just over 50, I bought my first Festools. But then again I now have the need and time to enjoy both the tools and the work I do with them.
 
Raised on a dairy farm, after graduating from high school worked building farm silos for two seasons.Worked in two underground coal mines for approximately 10 years. After their closure worked in a sawmill for two years then got a job in a coal fired power plant as a stationary engineer operating high pressure boiler. After its closer was hired in a lithograph plant printing sheets of metal operating a computerized printing press for 23 years then retired. Now helping my brother and son farm.
 
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