Its really more of having a job of interest instead of being a worker drone. I could never just sit around growing old, fishing, playing golf, would drive me insane. In my off season in Alaska while at home for about 3-4 months in the winter I keep myself busy, I build models of tanks, motorcycles, planes or trains, one year I designed an efficient and compact LED flashlight and sold hundreds over the internet, I even sold some to the UK. I am a fabricator and a mechanical geniusso I crave exciting jobs of a challenging nature. Like what I am currently doing in Alaska I have been designing a concrete batching plant, we could buy a complete plant but the costs would triple just shipping it up here, so we pretty much build from scratch. So I must set up older worn equipment like 480 volt 125 horsepower electric motors with all the wiring, motor controls and integrate this into modern computer controlled systems. Just in the last couple of days I am having to rebuild some 60 year old equipment that makes concrete block, and yesterday one of our bigger bucket loaders had a disatrous event just after I completely rebuilt the huge engine, the owners son overrevved the engine and it appears to have broken a connection rod or cylinder liner, now I am taking it out again to see what the damage is, working in Alaska is a real challenge in so many ways, often we must rebuild over and over the same equipment, parts are expensive or hard to find.
The type of work I really crave is problematic designing or engineering, I fixed problems and got a sound dampening wall made from recycled ground up tires used along our highways years ago at one job, often I move on only because I get bored. Only interest of working in Orlando would be if I could be on a team building new rides or attractions, looks like it would be a good challenge.
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