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Pier Pressure 03-06-2008 05:03 PM

My brother is also a sanitation engineer for the City. He is a foreman in recycling.

michika 03-06-2008 05:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BMW Rider (Post 307652)
Full time firefighter for the City of Calgary.

Best job description I heard was: we're there to un-F*** somebody else's F*** up.

My brother is a firefighter too, small world!

SeaShell 03-06-2008 07:06 PM

I am an overpaid Government worker too......

I'm an Environmental Protection Officer for the Province.

I conduct inspections of approved and registered facilities in the Edmonton area and also travel north as far as Athabasca and east to the border. I ensure compliance with the Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act and it's Regulations and Codes of Practice as they relate to facilities like refineries, foundries, cement plants, asphalt plants, gas plants, and on and on and on....

I also conduct inspections of unapproved operations like maintenance garages, drycleaners, etc to ensure compliance with the Act in regard to hazardous waste disposal and hazardous recyclable disposal and their storage.

We follow up on public complaints regarding odour, haz waste disposal, and you name it... if it's environment, I'm pretty much on it......

Delphinus 03-06-2008 07:11 PM

I'm a technical specialist for a software engineering firm that specializes in realtime-IT for infrastructure (think electrical transmission, oil/gas pipelines, and water pipelines). (I'm not actually allowed to publicly name the company I work for.) Our customers include most of North America's municipal drinking water and most pipelines in North America and some international. We do things like control, monitoring, leak detection, and flow measurement. If we were to screw something up, it's CNN. We try hard not to. :)

PS. Oh yeah, we're getting into weather for realtime highway updates. Those little weather stations you see on the side of the QE2? Those are ours. :)

Pescador 03-06-2008 07:45 PM

I'm a Locomotive Engineer with 30 years in now. Also working as a Traffic Coordinator which is sorta the railway equivalent of an Air Traffic Controller.
Someone wanted more pics so here's a few I've collected over the years.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y12...4-0455_IMG.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y12...4-0463_IMG.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y12...ain-Jan-91.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y12...in/mirror3.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y12.../Rosebud07.jpg

Any other rails on the board?

digital-audiophile 03-06-2008 07:48 PM

All I know is waiting for a rail car to be docked at a siding and demurage charges drive me crazy! :p

BC564 03-06-2008 07:52 PM

I am an Electrical, Instrumentation and Controls engineer.
Specialize in PLC, programming, scada, VFD's and anything else automation.
Spec. out the instruments and communication
We do water and waste water plants for municipalities.

Pescador 03-06-2008 07:55 PM

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Originally Posted by digital-audiophile (Post 307718)
All I know is waiting for a rail car to be docked at a siding and demurage charges drive me crazy! :p

What's your track # I'll put you on the top of the list.:biggrin:

Ephraim 03-06-2008 08:00 PM

I work in a pet store and sell fish all day

UnderWorldAquatics 03-06-2008 08:43 PM

I havent worked for about 3 years, so right now Im a profesional bum...
Gona start up a water feature business in Vancouver/Whistler within the year. Also Im an Ornamental Marine Enviroment Consultant(I design and build very expensive, very fancy aquariums for discerning(rich)customers...) I really dont work much, I go for alot of walks with Zeus(my great dane) along the lake/ocean, I camp, fish, dirtbike, longboard, snowboard(used to be my job),hot rodz,race cars, take pain-killers and watch alot of movies. I have the "old lady disease" Fibromyalgia, so it dictates wether I work or not most of the time. Me and my bed are best friends!!!


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