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What do/did you do for a living?

With the increasingly high priced items people own and are selling, I'm curious about the line of work people do or have done. I thought my $5k integrated was a massive investment, but seeing users searching for $100k speakers or $75k SET amplifiers has me curious about the varying lines of work people do to afford these items. 
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meiatflask
155 posts
 
Metallurgical/materials Engineer, retired 5 years. I spent most of my career determining the best material/metal/polymer to make things out of.  I get a chuckle from many of the materials related items in audio, especially tweaks, isolation, and of course, cables.  
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mantaman
37 posts
 
Small business owner (salvage work) govt. ins companies etc etc, never spent more than 10K on Audio past 50 years......
nitrobob
261 posts
 

Worked for Ralston Foods ( Previously Ralston Purina) for 36 years as a electrical maintenance man in a huge plant making breakfast cereal. The previous 8 years I worked as a forklift technician for United Technologies making electro-mechanical switches before it moved to Mexico. The last ten years at Ralston, I was also the Union President of UE Local 718 ( United Electrical Radio and Machine Workers of America )

43 years in a factory was enough for me. The Union had an early buyout that included free health coverage for myself and wife, so I exited a little early ...

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discnik
163 posts
 
Professional buyer of used audio equipment due to congenital condition that got out of control.
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brettmcee
218 posts
 
I have been pushing pixels around professionally since 1997. Some of my pixels I’m sure you have seen in the Auto Trader (back in the 90’s) and select games, films and animated features. 
I always buy second-hand.  :-) 
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