What do you do for work?

Work?

I was raised on the Sharon Springs,NY dairy farm that my Grandparents built starting from the Great Depression. I think Grandpa started with about 10 cows back then. By the time my Dad sold the farm in 1989 our barn held 105 milking cows plus all the youngstock. We were old school still doing baled hay and corn silage. Haymow held about 24,000 bales of hay and we emptied it every winter and refilled it every summer. I always wanted to partner with my Dad when I graduated high school. The auction was 1 month before my high school graduation. I took a job on our neighbors' farm for a few years while I pondered my future. It was also during this same time that I began dating a lovely creature that I now refer to as my wife. She was instrumental in persuading me to go to college, something I had never planned to do. I received an Associates Degree in Animal Sciences from SUNY Cobleskill before transferring to Cornell where I completed my Bachelors Degree, also in Animal Sciences. At that point, I was too sick of school to consider another 4 years of vet school so I took a job at an animal research facility where my girlfriend was already working after having completed her Bachelor degree before me. We were married a year later and started living the American Dream until she developed such severe animal allergies that she was forced to change her career altogether. Since I still liked her(LOL), we followed her family ties at the time to KY where we both then transitioned into medical laboratory science before our children started coming. My wife left the work force with the birth of our first and then we added 2 more. After 7 years, the lab closed leaving me unemployed for a total of 16 months. My wife started substitute teaching for the county school district which she still does now 8 years later. I just past 7 years with my current employer working in 1 of their hospital labs. I like all things AC but LOVE the 3 that my Grandfather bought and we used back on the farm. They are family and here to stay.

Started doing body and paint work right out of high school in '70. Nixon heard I could do bodywork so he kinda forced me to work on deuce and a 1/2's and 5 tons for a couple years in the seventies. LOL  Worked in a bearing factory for several years and raised tobacco and cattle on the side. Have worked at Froedge Machine & Supply Co. for the last 25 years doing fabrication and service work. We have an industrial parts store at the machine shop and I've been working in it the last few years while still raising cattle and I have never really given up body and paint work.  I have always liked AC tractors since I was a kid and I have a few of them I farm with.  Not really planning on retiring but I would like to rearrange my jobs a little though. LOL    

I wish there was a way we could add these bio's to our profile...

Edited by WF owner - 25 Sep 2016 at 10:40am

I am a GM diesel and automatic transmission specialist at a GM and Chrysler dealer. I have been a Powerstroke specialist until March of this year. I get to do that again since the owner of my dealership just bought a Ford dealership and they have nobody who knows/wants to work on them. I have held ASE Master with L1 and L2 Advanced gasoline and light duty diesel for many years, GM Master Technician, and Ford Gasoline and Diesel Engine Master, Chassis Master.

I'm a computer guy and work in information security but like to pretend I'm a farmer in my off time.