Hey guys,just curious on how we make the paper$ to get our elky's to look the way they do! Iam currently a plant manager for Cal Edison and have been for 10 years. Before i was a on call Electrician for Dept of water and power DWP. So guys what and how hard are ya workin out there?

I work in a coal & Nat. gas fired boiler plant for Pfizer. But, all my Elky $$$ came from bustin' my butt on the side!

Well I'm a Gov't Contractor at Grissom Air Reserve Base in IN, Warehouse Specialist. We replaced the civil service people and now do the job with 1/2 the people, 1/2 (not quite) the pay, and 1/2 the benni's.

Chris

I'm a retired Naval Reservist (Command Senior Chief), and also retired from the Tennessee Valley Authority as a software development manager.

Currently, I'm a computer consultant doing mainframe data conversions. With today's computers I can do about 2/3s of the work out of my home and the other 1/3 on-site.

Life is great!

Body shop owner and car lover. Currently building a 1933 Ford Vicky street rod. (LT1 power). Someone is wanting it badly, so I'll probably sell it when finished and build something else.

Getting there is half the fun.

As little as possible! So far I've been pretty successful :P

Actually I work for Kaiser Permanente here in Atlanta as a Sr. Health Data Consultant (nice title eh?) Mostly it's utilization analysis and Data warehouse management.

I work at a liberal arts college here in the North East called The College of the Holy Cross. Kinda tough being one of the few "conservatives" here, but I do enjoy the atmosphere and the "scenery" here is better than the ECC Daily Babes!

I work in the Information Technology department and my main responsibility is network management using network monitoring software. I have it configured to watch my router, servers, applications, etc. And when something goes wrong, it emails me, pages me, and even talks to me.

Way to geeky, but it works for me and pays for my Elky hobby.

I'm currently a student at Western Carolina University, and I also own Stereo Integrity. This semester will definately be my last one up here - this University has screwed me over big-time with classes/requirements. After that, it's off to working part-time somewhere and trying to get my business off the ground. :)

Ummm, let's see. I'm an auto mechanic that studied journalism at the University of Houston. For the past ten years I have owned and operated an automotive a/c and electrical specialty shop in Round Rock, Texas.
In my spare time I play with elkies, keep elcaminocentral.com up and running and melt glass with my wife.

...and melt glass with my wife. Artistically or otherwise? :lol:

...and melt glass with my wife.

If love could only remain at that intensity...

...and melt glass with my wife. Artistically or otherwise? :lol:

Both!

I run a DR site for the Microsoft platform for The Northern Trust Co in Chicago Burbs, and design worldwide server deployment stratigies.
Another Geek...

USN (Retired) and currently crew foreman (Transportation Dept) for Union Pacific Railroad. I just might be the guy your swearing at just as you pull up to that R/R crossing and those red flashers come on and the gates go down. So please don't flash me your IQ as we go by. Remember even your Elky was shipped by train at some point...maybe one day I'll bring you something else you'll like! :)

I am currently the head model photographer for the Victoria Secrets lingerie catalogs….Well not really. :P

Oh this is a tuff question for me at the moment. Currently looking for work in a new career.

But in brief and a little about myself… I was a UPS driver in San Francisco for over 14 years. After an injury and my love for art I became a graphic artist. Moved up and became the production manager of the biggest automotive classified ad paper in our area. After a company buy-out I lost my position like a lot of us here in the Bay Area. :evil: Currently working with a new home builder and working hard on getting my Real Estate license. It’s all who you know around here these days.

I have also had a mobile detailing service on the side for many years specializing in classic, exotic and collector’s cars. Retired from that now but still help out with a few special collectors now and then.

Biggest car I have ever waxed on waxed off…’36 Packard limo 12 cylinder. Oddest and smallest, this one will KILL YOU, I was hired to detail… Yugo's for Yugo of America ad campaign in the 80’s as these cars were to be ready for Road & Track and Car & Driver! But that’s another story!

My wife says my passion and love for cars is almost obsessive at times.

Anyone want to see my resume? :roll:

Help :!:

I'm a Claims Manager for a huge, privately owned bus company in NJ.

Buses do a LOT of damage when they hit stuff, believe me.

Nothing fancy here blue collar all the way.(REDNECK) I have worked as a machinist for Halliburton for the last 31 years... Now i have an ELKY and all is right in the world!

I am a warranty analyst at Ford Motor Co.

Assembled heavy metal finishing equipment for a company for over 20 years until they moved away and gave me a buy-out. I finished up my working career as a Ford car/truck salesperson for about 12 years and when my wife received an Ameritech buy-out, we both retired and bought a 36 foot motorhome.

Wonder how a Ford salesperson could possibly own an Elky. My dad and two brothers retired from GM. I cut teeth on my older brothers Chevys. About 10 years ago, two of my brothers and myself all owned elkys. We all lived at least a couple of hundred miles apart and didn't know the others had elkys. How's that for an eerie elky story. Turn 59 tomorrow but since buying my 85 Elky SS a month ago, never felt younger.

I am a warranty analyst at Ford Motor Co. So, is that why you drive a GM? :thumbsup:

70ELCO, good luck with the job/career hunt!

Well... Since I'm only 16, and don't have a "Career" really I guess all I can tell you is... I worked at a Cold Stone Creamery for 1 Year and 4 months, until I got hired at Stratum Laser Tag (http://www.stratumhq.com)-- The world's largest technotainment and laser tag arena in the world, or so the owner says :) ... And I have been at Stratum for about 2 months and have loved every minute of it... Well.. That is where I get my money from, to pay my Elky utilities...

87 SS

Its like this. Ford pays me good money to put in my Caballero. If Ford ever build a vehicle as good as the Caballero/El Camino I would have bought one. To make them happy at work I did buy a F150 super crew. And yes I do drive my GM to work on occasion just to rub it in. Don't see many Rancheros still on the road do you!!!!

I am a Real Estate Contract Negotiator in the Site Developement Division for Verizon------- I cover Upstae NY----as well as Ct--Rhode Island--Mass--Maine-- VT--and New Hampshire--------

well I'm only 17. Ive been working at good o'l ACE Hardware for a year and 3/4. I make very little. My elky is a slow but steady project to perfection.

I am currently a "Munitions Journeyman" in the air force. I have been stationed at Barksdale AFB, Louisiana a little over a month now after returning From Kadena AB, Okinawa, Japan. As soon as my enlistment runs out I will be heading to MMI to get a Harley Davidson certification and do something I actually enjoy.
As far as the money for the Elky, I'm trying to figure out where I can pinch pennies for it because the military sure isn't giving up enough money for me to support my hobbies...The wife says I just have too many hobbies...but whats she know.....can never have enough toys!!!

I grew up in the construction business(Dads) and also in a Deli (Moms).I'd work after school at the Deli and Nights and weekends on houses.We repaired all our own equiptment,from saws to bulldozers.I worked as a dealer mechanic while attending college.I graduated just in time for construction to die in NY.I went back to work as a mechanic,took training for Bosch electronics and went to work for independant repair shops,I opened my own business repairing imports while still loveing American muscle cars.I sold my business because of health problems and retired to south central Georgia.Great place to live!
I now dabble with freinds muscle cars and my own Elky as much as my health allows.It's GOOD to be alive!
8) Shane

I am a Real Estate Contract Negotiator in the Site Developement Division for Verizon Interesting...Does than mean you buy land to put up cell towers?

I work for CBS Studios and CBS Television. I install, maintain, and repair their access control systems (card readers etc.), various alarms (perimeter, panic, etc), CCTV systems, fire systems, that kind of stuff. I'm a one man department that takes care of both sites. They're about 15 minutes apart. One of the best jobs I've had.

You ever get to hang out with Barker's Beauties???

Hey SS------no I locate ---- and then either purchase or lease the buildings we use for the Verizon Retail Stores----and for their direct and indirect sales channels.

You ever get to hang out with Barker's Beauties???

Don't get to hang out with them (wish I did). But do get to see major beauties all day at both sites. Some well known, some not.

Man thats too bad, course you probably wouldn't get too much done if you were around them. The Price is Right is the official lunchtime show where i work.

Chris

You ever get to hang out with Barker's Beauties??? The Price is Right is the official lunchtime show where i work.
That has always been one of my favorite shows since I was a kid. When I went on vacation in CA a few years ago,my mother in law has some sort of hook up at CBS. She was able to get me passes for the second row right behind the contestents. I went in through the "talent entrance" and was escorted through the back stage area where I met the beauties :D.
They sat me down next to some freaky lady who was kinda mad that I didn't sleep in the parking lot overnight with the rest of the hardcore PIR people. All the people in the first few front rows were freaky. They had home made PIR tshirts and posters and have been to the show 200 times,ect.

Anyways,I might be hanging myself here by saying what I do,but I'm a parts manager for a Chevy dealer. I've been with GM for 12 years. Before that I was with Jaguar/Rolls Royce.

I'm retired from the U.S Air Force, as is my wife. I'm currently working for the County, as a social worker. I work with the elderly and disabled, ensuring they are safe and not being abused or neglected, and helping them remain independent. Not a far stretch from what I did in the AF -- except for the age of my clients! :lol:

I currently work for TI in software development for the educational & productivity solutions business. My official title is "Help Desk Coordinator", but I'm really the entire help desk (note to self: talk to program manager about getting an appropriate job title). I am basically like tech support for 3rd party software developers, but my fingers are in a lot of pies there. I'm the main test person for our development tools and I occasionally put on training sessions for 3rd party developers to teach them how to program on our devices. It's a nice job, I can work from home, get to travel (they've sent me to Europe twice so far), etc., but I've been thinking about getting a second job lately.

I work for BP Amoco as a computer orperator

I work checking Software. My Title is Sr. Software QA. and have worked for the same place for 19 plus years. That will change shortly, our company division is for sale. So far that has kept my expensive habit alive. :)

17 Years of working offshore on oil rigs in the Gulf Of Mexico. The work sux, but the pay is good for white trash like me :D, and the days off are great.

Well, by training I am a nuclear engineer. During my abortive grad school career (ran out of $$) I was a reactor operator for a research reactor, did a lot of the design and installation of a new digital instrumentation suite for said reactor, and was a certified nuclear instructor for classes we taught for prospective reactor operators at civilian power plants.

Then, while I was 'in transition' (having half a grad degree can be a real problem - overeducated and undereducated all at the same time) I started at IBM as a 2nd shift supplemental assembly operator. One thing led to another, and with a lot of work and some lucky breaks I made it to Manufacturing Engineering Tech, then Test Engineer, and ultimately to where I am now, WW Manufacturing Project Manager for certain ThinkPad products.

And of course there's my other career, the 20-year-and-counting restoration / re-restoration / re-re-restoration... :D of my El Camino!

hi
i own and operate woodbury mobil for the last 17 yrs,I am a ASE master tech and a pt local constable. I have a daughter in the air force and a second daughter in college i have been a car nut 4ever and have built many street rods and custom's i am building a 35 ford pick up street rod now (chevy powered nova subframe)

Hi im a longshoreman and i operate container handling equipment to load and unload container ships at ceres corp at the port of Halifax in Nova Scotia Canada.

I own and operate Hanna Woodworks...we build decks and fences as well as bookcases, entertainment centers and we also hang doors and install trim inside and out.

I spent the formative years learning this trade, then bolted to the restaurant business in the 80's when jobs in construction were lean here...spent a few years bartending, managing and almost owning, then got smart and got back into a saner line of work. In the mid 90's I filed my DBA and bought some new tools....life is great now!

This topic shouldn't die, it's pretty interesting.
I spent several years in the Oil Patch slowly killing myself. Decided that I wanted to have life so I got a job in manufacturing. Injection Moulding Technician and Operator. Pretty good gig until they went into receivership. Fortunately, I fell in with a great company, a homebuilder that has won Builder of the year for 2001 and 2002 in Calgary. after a couple of years in the field, I now reside in the warranty department trying to make people happy. This is the promotion that brought me my Diablo...the best is yeat to come 8)

I am a active duty Master Sergeant for the NC Air National Guard. I just returned from a deployment in Germany. I have 16 years in & have been all over the world many times. I am part the the propulsion section working on T-56A-15 jet engines on the C-130H-3 aircraft.

Hello newbie here, im a sophmore first car 77 el camino classic, i go to school for 8 hours then baseball practice till about 6 then go home and sleep then wake up and do it all over agian.. ah aint school life great

Hi, I'm Josh...and I'm a state worker. :cry: It's been over 6 months since I've worked in the private sector. :P No, really I do work with the state. I'm an Engineering Tech. 3 with LADOTD (Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development). I work with the Road Design section and have been here since March 3, of this year. I, also, design websites on the side with my father's company www.albritink.com. We just recently started doing this and haven't done a lot of websites yet, however we've had a church, a Dentist, a gym, and few other websites so far. I enjoy doing that on weekends.

This weekend, I'm bringing my Elky home. For those of you who haven't heard, I was given a 1980 El Camino SS from my in-laws. It's been sitting under there carport since 1995 without being driven OR started. So, I'm finally getting to start working on it. :cool: I'm pumped...can't wait to start!!!

I'm the last and only guy left at what used to be a production facility. So where I once was the production supervisor, now I'm the combination manager/watchmen/janitor for a 4 acre facility.

8O I'm a newbie to the site, but i've been in love with Elky's since high school. I'm an optometrist in southern Kentucky, and I've been in practice for 10 years. Currently I'm restoring my 1982 Conquista, and i've gota as far as a 350 crate motor, Holley 4 bbl carb(made in Bowling Green, KY), headers, interior parts, bedliner, etc,. I've really enjoyed all the jokes, camaraderie, and tips I've picked up on this site. You folks are a lot of fun. My son is 16, and I'm working on getting him involved in restoration :) he seems to enjoy all the nick-nack work involved in these beauties. I hope to post pics of my latest vehicle improvements next week.

right now i don't do much. i start going to perry technical january 5th. to study graphic arts.

I'm straight west of Chicago a little over an hour, in Saint Charles, IL. (Where are you located harddrive6?)

I have been a jeweler for 20 years. Owned a shop for a while, became allergic to the gold (allergic to work ;), but had to give up bench work for Sales. Also a Graduate Gemologist. I'm now working in Geneva, IL at State Street Jewelers (.com if you want to look). I love the new job. I still do design work. Working on a side job as a web developer ( see www.dyber.net ) Just fiinshed some school on it.

I am taking donations for the elky project, since life has taken away my play money.

Thanks!
JC

Hey guys and gals,

I am a commodity relocation expert (truck driver) I drive for Crete Carrier Corp. Been driving a truck for almost 20 years and it's starting to take a toll on me. But the money's good :-D. Whem I'm home on the weekend I drive my 71 GMC around town. I always get compliments on it, in fact last weekend a woman came up to me and asked if I wanted to sell it and I told her everybody has a price. She asked me how much I was selling it for and I asked her what she thought it was worth. She never gave me a price and I never gave her one either. But we did exchange ph #'s. Well enough blabbing gotta leave outta here in the afternoon and go to Greensboro, NC for a Monday morning delivery.

Brian

I work for Sony Electroincs in Farmington Hills, MI repairing all your kiddies Playstation 2's and their car stereos, amplifiers, cd changers for OEM and aftermarket. Been here 6 years, bought my Elky almost 2yrs ago now, put money in it when I can (when my wife says I can, lol) and use it for a daily driver. Looking for a new job soon, closer to home. We bought a house about 65 miles from my work last year and the commute is starting to get to me. I wish we made more money so I could get the Elky in for a paint job and new interior... Oh well.. Gotta get back to writing out more bills, lol. See ya later - 77Elky, 1977 El Camino Classic

Hi.
I am a Chemical Engineer by trade, but grew up wrenching in my Dad's shop. In my spare time I take drivable El Caminos and turn them into undrivable parts of El Caminos that fill up my garage. Hopefully by spring the parts will morph back into a drivable 79 Royal Knight clone!

I am an Automotive Electronics tech. Mostly working on newer junk,
fuel injection, computer controls, body controls, basicly anything that will require a big bottle of asprin when you are done with it. I enjoy helping my brother and my dad with our car collecting hobbie that is getting out of control. At least 300+ cars at last count, mostly parts cars and restorables, ranging from the late 20s to early 70s. It's a beautiful thing. :D

I suppose all 300 are getting new, fuel injected power plants <G> Lots of Asprin....

Dike Iowa is where my mother was born. She grew up in Oelwein. There was a Brant Funeral home started by my Great Grandfather in Oelwein. Small world! I would love to browse through 300 collectable cars. Just to see that would be fun. And I thought MY project will never get done.....

JC

300 car collection! Wow. First time I've heard a number that I consider almost enough. :-D

I am only a junior in high school, working fast food. I actually dont spend much money on it now because I just got a brand new 305 put in. Also, my brother is taking auto body in college, so all my body work is done for the price of the supplies. :)

I am only a junior in high school, working fast food. Don't knock it, that's what I did in 1975. Doh! I'm dating myself :cool:

a junior in high school, working fast-food, those were the days. i had finished my 1st project car. a 77 firebird i bought for $200. this was a rusty POS, it wasnt even a firebird. it was a skybird. sky blue with 305 and no spoiler. my dad made me feel bad enough, so we did all of the body work, rebuilt a 350 pontiac and painted it black cherry. it ran and looked great, but i kept thinking about all of the fiberglass and filler in the rear 1/4s, it bummed me out and i sold it :-(

I can't believe that I haven't gotten in on this forum question yet. If for no other reason to show off the avatar.
I work for the man. My official title is "industrial drone" I am a cog in the wheel of corporate America. I may last 30 more years to retirement, or, depending on the will of the man, be out on my unemployment check tomorrow...
For all of my shortcomings though, I will be that grain of rice that gets stuck in the man's teeth, and cannot ,without great trouble, be removed.

I will be that grain of rice that gets stuck in the man's teeth, and cannot ,without great trouble, be removed.

Ok, I'll take a guess...Umm...sanitation engineer?

lol 87, I just want to thank everyone here for posting there jobs,its nice to know that we are all hard working guys/gals,that care about what we do and enjoy the better things in life like our elky's when we get the chance to get to them. Its so much bad news and hard times we here in the news to even keep a "job" or our dream cars alive ,but it just goes to show you the spirit and drive for what we love and the bond that we all share. Iam very proud to be a part of this great site! Thanks again all! 8)

It's great to read that people from all walks of life share the passion/insanity . . . . .

I own a small scenic and exhibit design firm in central NJ.

I grew up working in my Dad's Auto Body Shop, so luckily the 'car thing' is deep rooted in me. He is retired now and the shop is gone, but I remember being 6 years old and hearing his drag race car start up (36 Chevy coupe with a Chrysler 396 Hemi) - I think that's when I got the bug. From about 10 years old to the early 90's, I had the pleasure of learning and working dad's trade and eventually using it to put myself through college for Industrial Design.

I currently work with a lot of corporate weenies in nice their nice offices, but one of the greatest feelings in the world is still to roll up the sleeves and dive under the hood of anything and get to work. Dirty, greasy, sweaty and a bloody knuckle or two - it's the simple pleasures in life that make it worth living . . . . . .

Past rides:
1978 El Camino - 305/4 speed
1982 El Camino - 350/thm350

Current ride:
2000 GMC Sierra - stepside 2WD

Current project:
1960 El Camino - 454

I'm an analytical chemist for a specialty chemical manufacturer.

:PI'm Disabled now...was & still do alittle to keep in practice...a Sign Painter :) ...I started when I was 7 working after school with my Dad (R.I.P.), had alot of other job's but alway's worked with my Dad in between job's & eventually taking over the business after my Dad died. I do Lettering (by Hand), Pinstriping, Airbrushing, Graphic's & CARTOON'S! I don't do as much as I like due to the nerve damage in my spine (neck & lower back)...but I do what I can! Nowaday's I mostly play with my 59' Elky & my 75' Honda CB 750 with Coffin Side Hack, watch HORROR MOVIE'S & take pain pill's! :P

I'm a tool and die maker in the GM Oshawa truck plant. Then I go home and play with the old cars.

I'm a union journeyman floorlayer. Anything that goes on a floor I can install. The hours stink but the pay is crappy. :-D

I`m a retired Union Ironworker,Worked as high as 26 floors erecting steel beams. Fell 2 floors and lived to tell about it. It wasn`t the fall that hurt but that sudden stop. 5:30 EST

Retired from the first career after 20 years with the Coast Guard and thought I had it made..... now I'm the maintenance man for the Best Western Inn in Marble Falls, TX. Trying to get back to getting my 66 El Camino back to where it looks good.

I decided to bring this one back so us old timers don't have to post our jobs again. Is where any way to link this one to the other?

USAF civilian, maintenance controller.

After 24 years in Army aviation I retired and went to work for civilian contractor doing the same thing as before. Currently Quality Control/ISO9001-2000 manager over seeing Apache, Blackhawk tech inspectors and test pilots.
Almost ready to retire again after 18 years on this job.

Tommy's bringing back the good ones! I'm wondering if there is a way new members get directed straight to them. sort of a fun sign in sheet about what they do, and their online name and do they prefer Coke or Pepsi?
Or would that be to much like forcing people to participate?

oh well just a thought..

do they prefer Coke or Pepsi? Dr. Pepper :P

:-D Dr. Pepper Rules!!!!!

I am a Remote Control Operator for LS scale trains (lifesize scale) Actually this is new technology using GPS. I can move up to a 6,000 ft intermodal freightrain with a Remote Control Transmitter (RCT) which I wear strapped to my chest while standing on the ground. Talk about a toy train set. I prefer Pepsi in a can...but will settle for any softdrink you offer me as long as there's something in it besides ice (stirred not shaken). My measurements are...oops wrong website, nevermind. :lol:

I retired from the Army after 25 1/2 years, couldn't stand another short tour! Chilled out for about 6 months, drove mama crazy, so went back to work for the Army as a GS employee. Instructor in the only Army Aviation Safety Officer Course here at Ft. Rucker, and ocassionally may get sent out on an Army Accident Investigation.

I'm currently restoring a 74 Elky for my Grandson, not sure when it'll be done, but have plenty of time, the Grandson won't be able to drive for about, hmmmm, 12-14 years :-D

Im a journyman electrican with local #25

I'm a Production Supervisor for a Cargill facility.

I was a part-time analyst for Columbia Analytical Services for two years, thats what paid for the motor thats in my car now. Right now I'm a Junior at the University of Idaho studying Mechanical Engineering. Gonna graduate Dec '05.

DoD Civilian, Security Specialist