What do you do for a living?

[swoop1156]

15 year Air Force vet and now 7 years with US Postal Service (USPS)

Are you perhaps OSI from your USAF days and now a USPS inspector/agent?

 

[ajtx00]

Are you perhaps OSI from your USAF days and now a USPS inspector/agent?

helllll no

 

[Roadhawk]

Are you perhaps OSI from your USAF days and now a USPS inspector/agent?

At one point for several years early in my career I worked as an investigator on behalf of various Congressional committees. At one point in the mid 1980s I worked with postal inspectors (and later with EPA federal enforcement folks) where I could stop cargo planes at the airport as they were readying for takeoff and have them unload their entire cargo (magazines on pallets) so I could count what they were shipping vs paying postage for etc. The pilots and crew hated me....lol. And in the end nobody was shorting the USPS (it was mostly an honor system) as they paid postage on more items then they shipped so they could bump their circulation figures for advertisers...

 

[Stiletto]

Retired Navy after 20 years ( you can guess the rank by looking at my avatar ). Started off as a maintenance guy (CTM) for SIGINT gear, but spent most of my career doing IT and offensive cyber (CTN). Now I advise the government (not that they listen) at a Big 4 company.

 

[Stiletto]

I did just over 20 in the Navy as two (cross-rated from O to N to avoid IT, actually) of the CT flavors. Did Comms, then some 7th Fleet deployments, two NIOCs, a tour with JSOC, and retired out of NCIS.

Worked for a year at a local area establishment as an insider threat/security operations/digital forensic guy, then played with the remote gig stuff, and now I'm just done.

Ahh, the ol' CTO to IT merger. Then they created CTN and tried to kill CTM.

Good times...good times.

 

[ZoomieZoom55]

I’m a doctor of feelings. I also know why you’re all so fucked up and what your mothers did to you. No Daddy will not be saying he’s proud of you. I’m the forum’s favorite psychoanalyst.

 

[FLYARMY]

I'm an old Army guy. I don't really know what rank that is. Were you an anchor with a starfish on your head ? LOL !!

 

[swoop1156]

Ahh, the ol' CTO to IT merger. Then they created CTN and tried to kill CTM.

Good times...good times.

Hmm, CT's is pretty small brother/sis. Wonder if we know each other.

 

[Stiletto]

Pretty much, yeah.

Anchor = E-7 (Chief Petty Officer)
Anchor with star = E-8 (Senior ChiefPettyOfficer)
Anchor with two stars = E-9 (Master Chief Petty Officer)

I'm an old Army guy. I don't really know what rank that is. Were you an anchor with a starfish on your head ? LOL!

 

[ngoni]

Pretty much, yeah.

Anchor = E-7 (Chief Petty Officer)
Anchor with star = E-8 (Senior ChiefPettyOfficer)
Anchor with two stars = E-9 (Master Chief Petty Officer)

So as another old Army guy I read that as E-7: no starfish, E-8: one starfish, and E-9: two starfish. Don't get me started on how to decode the random morse code on naval officer uniforms.

 

[Stiletto]

So as another old Army guy I read that as E-7: no starfish, E-8: one starfish, and E-9: two starfish. Don't get me started on how to decode the random morse code on naval officer uniforms.

Nailed it!

Go Navy, beat Army!!

 

[Roadhawk]

Pretty much, yeah.

Anchor = E-7 (Chief Petty Officer)
Anchor with star = E-8 (Senior ChiefPettyOfficer)
Anchor with two stars = E-9 (Master Chief Petty Officer)

Thats a very commendable and impressive rank. I know it often sounds cliche but I thank you for your service. Most folks outside the military probably don't appreciate what a big deal that is and what a superstar you were and are. I get it because of a special experience I had in my career working with folks of your rank - mostly Army....but I did have a female retired (reservist at the time) Senior Chief working for me and I got to attend her Senior Chief ceremony (very special and great fun) which was held at Camp David where she worked while serving in her reserve duty.

I had the honor of having a number of active duty Army Senior Master Sergeants (E-8s) working for me during the last 10+ years of my civilian career even though my rank didn't warent such support. For many years I had been putting in a request for senior enlisted support (thinking E-5 to E7 maybe) as a sister program to mine had two of these guys (AF & Army) and they were always rock stars and I needed the talents that these guys could bring.

When I finally was assigned a series of Army E-8s (I got a new one every 1-2 years) it was because the Army was looking at avenues to retire their "made" guys out of DC for the locality bonus they got and someone in personnel came across my request. I can't underestimate how useful these guys were to me - often just to open up doors for me just because of who they knew and who owed them favors etc and they could vouch for me....and I made some great friends. All were great outstanding people. It was particularly fun to sometimes host their retirement parties at my house.

 

[G.Newt]

32, Software engineer here. 4BW was one of my last hoorahs of stupidly spending my money before I got a house. I wfh so I barely drive either of my cars (daily is a '23 A4). How I ended up with 2 sedans is beyond me. Did I mention I stupidly spend my money?

 

[Tuna]

You should put in links to your work so that we can buy and leave you five stars...

I retired after 40+ years in I/T not because I wanted to retire but because I just couldn't deal with the corporate b.s. any longer. My wife says that I am much nicer to her now and don't appear nearly as stressed. I'm also sleeping better now, and just generally feel better.

That lasted about a week. I have to keep busy, so I'm now working in retail car sales at a highline import dealership. This is something that I've always wanted to do, and I was surprised at the amount of training that I got (7 days) for sales, and how much training I've received on the lines that I sell (zero). Most of our traffic is pre-owned, so I have to fall back on my general knowledge, which can be difficult with car lines that I care nothing about (Kia, etc.).

It's interesting to see this business from the other side. It's also incredibly frustrating and a lot of hours just waiting around for something to happen.

I also write for a national car club magazine, and I've written some fiction (available on Amazon) with about the same result as Tuna got. I do have a royalty check coming in this month, but I suspect that it will be, as is typical, barely worth the bother to deposit it.

The b.s. at the FAA started to get in the way of enjoying work also. Why I quit.
My mystery novels are on Amazon at Amazon.com : Alton Tuna Dobbins
I wonder if this link will work?

 

[dribs15]

I’m a doctor of feelings. I also know why you’re all so fucked up and what your mothers did to you. No Daddy will not be saying he’s proud of you. I’m the forum’s favorite psychoanalyst.

Do you have group rates?!
... asking for a friend

 

[ZoomieZoom55]

Do you have group rates?!
... asking for a friend

 

[dribs15]

I'm having an issue with size alright!
What happened to Dr/patient confidentiality?!
This is sooooo embarrassing!

 

[1Evil55]

HIPAA died a few years ago.

 

[dribs15]

HIPAA died a few years ago.

But I thought I was protected!

 

[ZoomieZoom55]

But I thought I was protected!