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What's your day job?

I'm a moldmaker. I build molds for plastic and die cast metal parts. A sample of work: vending machine parts (the dispensing arrangment and the front cover...that's a big mold), spray paint can nozzles, hardware for the windows in your house (latch, cam, lock, base, pivot, etc), the little trim piece around the keyless entry keypad on Ford vehicles, Honda oil cap, VW something or other, Cummins diesel engine emissions stuff, the top to a container of edible cannabis, and many more. Shops like ours make the tools that enable mass-production of plastic goods in society.
 
Ranch hand. Well, technically I'm the ranch manager, but since I'm the only full-time employee that makes it a bit irrelevant. Also I drive snowplow for the DOT in the winter, but that's strictly an on-call situation, so it all depends on when the blizzards roll through. Oh yeah, I also write science fiction, but you can't call that a job, more of an obsession.
Spare time??? Who needs it anyway!
 
Retired engineering geologist and civil/geotechnical engineer. Senior executive for the last ten years of my career. I retired nine years ago. Now I play in a couple bands but spend most of my time taking pictures of birds. Here are a few. These are from the last couple weeks.

Bald Eagle in the local mountains
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Acorn Woodpecker
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Belted Kingfisher
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Light-footed Ridgway's Rail - rare and endangered
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